Under the Big Top rules

Under the Big Top is an expansion for Carcassonne.

How Under the Big Top changes play

Setup: shuffle the 20 new tiles in, shuffle the 16 Animal tokens into a face-down stack with the Big Top beside it, and add each player's ringmaster to their supply.
First circus: the first Circus tile placed gets an Animal token face down and the Big Top.
Circus tile: score any features it completed, then reveal the Animal token under the Big Top and score the circus: each player scores its value per meeple on the Big Top's tile and the 8 around it. Meeples stay put.
Next circus: put that token face up beside the scoreboard, put a new face-down token on the new circus space and move the Big Top there. Circus and acrobat spaces end roads and split fields; meeples never go on circus spaces.
Acrobats: after placing an Acrobat tile, you may put a meeple on one of its two acrobat spaces. Later, place a meeple as an acrobat on an Acrobat tile next to your new tile (diagonals too). A third meeple on top of two completes the pyramid. Colours may mix.
Pyramid: instead of placing a figure, score any completed pyramid: each acrobat scores its owner 5 and goes home. In final scoring, first score the Big Top's circus once more, then each acrobat scores 5.
Ringmaster: counts as a normal meeple but can't be an acrobat. When its feature scores, even if you lose it, you also score 2 per Circus and Acrobat tile it is on or next to.

Meeples You also have a ringmaster, which counts as a normal meeple but can't be an acrobat.
Final Scoring First score the circus where the Big Top stands one last time; then each acrobat scores 5, and ringmasters score their extra points.

Under the Big Top Expansion 10 adds 12 Circus tiles, 8 Acrobat tiles, 16 face-down Animal tokens, the Big Top and a ringmaster for each player.
Circus Tiles and the Big Top When the first Circus tile is placed, put the top Animal token face down on its circus space and the Big Top on it.
Scoring a Circus Reveal the Animal token beneath the Big Top.
Acrobats and Pyramids After placing an Acrobat tile you may put a meeple on one of its two acrobat spaces.
Scoring a Pyramid Instead of placing a meeple or other figure, you may score a completed pyramid, even one with none of your meeples in it.
Ringmaster The ringmaster counts as a normal meeple in every way, except that it can't be an acrobat.
Under the Big Top with Other Expansions Circus scoring counts normal meeples, the abbot, the large meeple, wagons, mayors and ringmasters, but not builders, pigs, barns or…