A small figure used as a playing piece in certain board games, having a stylized human form.
‘each player is given eight wooden meeples’
‘you can't move a meeple over a bridge unless a meeple is on the bridge’
‘at least two big meeple were stuck in that city for almost the entire game’
‘You can place a tile, and then a meeple, so that you get in on his hard earned points just at the last second.’
‘While you can't place a meeple onto a city (or road) already claimed by another player, you can place a tile that links two claimed areas together.’
‘You don't get your lounging meeple back until the end of the game, when you get 3 points for every completed city connected by grassland to him.’
‘Other player's meeples can't be placed in grassland connected to your farmer's, but their meeple's grasslands can be connected with yours.’
‘There are cities, roads, fields, and other tiles, and you score by placing your "meeple" on them.’
‘As for the pieces, the cards look exactly as they do in with the board game, as do the tokens, meeple and money.’
‘At the table, each player receives a small dry erase board and a marker, plus two meeple: one large and one small.’
‘It has a fun mechanism where you pick up a group of meeples and drop off one on each tile you pass over and the last tile is triggered with the color you dropped there.’
‘Whenever an area is completed, any meeples on that road, city, or cloister are returned to their owners and points are distributed accordingly.’
‘When that area is complete, the player with the most meeples there gets the points.’
Origin
Early 21st century apparently a blend of my and a phonetic respelling of people and first used with reference to the board game Carcassonne.
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