Shouldn't we call'em ethnic groups?

Closest thing I've seen to a white meeple is in TransAmerica, which has a white starting marker, and a white locomotive.

There are white meeples in Emerald

and don't forget the provost and bailiff - they're white

And the workers are all coloured? Sheesh!

Well, according to my observations it appears that the races fight each other on every occasion and using various rules to figure out the best race. They are quite creative in finding ways to determine the best race around.

Actually, I find meeples to be highly competitive little buggers. They're always racing around the edges of my various gameboards, fighting to be the lead meeple.

They'll gleefully crawl over each other in order to be the first ones in the boat in Cartagena; if that means other meeples can't fit into the boat, well, that's their tough noogies!

In Trias, I've seen meeples shove entire islands out from under each other during their fight for survival. It's not a pretty sight. Don't let the pretty colors and cute shapes fool you; these things are bloodthirsty little bastards.

When my son and I play Cartagena, his reward for getting all his pirates in the boat is to violently kick all the other pirates out: "But Dad, I have more pirates in there than you, so they're stronger!"

LOL! Brilliant.

How come some of the skulls are perfect squares?

Because those meeples were old-fashioned and had few vices--they didn't smoke, drink, gamble, or do drugs. They also preferred Lawrence Welk music over rock n' roll.

Ah, the squares.

they could never think outside the box...

As esteemed psychologist Lucy Van Pelt would tell you, those are blockheads. This demonstrates that there's an anthropological [meepthropological?] source for that term...

Specifically, he's a sous-chef, and this is his natural enemy:

i think this one is a vampire. anyone else noticed how much his hair looks like gary oldman's in the awful 1993 film of dracula? ("dear diary, i must kill heather, i mean, dracula. damn.") don't trust the "builder", he's really nosveratu.

I thought it was Squidward.

It's Devil Bunny, & he NEEDS a ham!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/185

Is it just me, or is the white guy wearing a baker's hat?

I ***love** to count...


von...bwah hah hah

two..vwah hah hah

three...three meeples..wah ha hah...

aka "Grimace"

hey, those look a lot like the count. Maybe, rather than having a single ruler they actually have a council of some sort made up of a single member of each ethnicity of meeple.

Apparently, and rumor abounds, these same individuals have long been suspected of trading in state secrets.

I'm thinking this is an example of the meeple drug trade.

Ahem, see #22. I'm not sure if this is gymnastics.

Gaah! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is after those meeples!

Oh, wait. It's just an octopus. Never mind.

Are you sure this isn't some complicated medical procedure?

Are you volunteering?

Ideal person, with a nickname like 'Spankey'!

Sounds kinky....

Ahh yes. And who doesn't enjoy a 'final tumbling operation' from time to time?

...some kind of Bar? .. or just LOTS and LOTS of alcohol ? .. :o)

Sometimes, the meeples practice bizarre and primitive religions. If you visit the Wallenstein site here at BGG, you can see cubes being fed to some sort of strange-looking volcano. Apparently, the meeples attach some significance to the relationships between which cubes they feed to the volcano, and which ones come out of the bottom of it.

I think this picture may also relate to romance, above.

**Music of 2001, a space odyssey** Apes start hitting rocks with bones... GRUNT GRUNT... player 1 rolls a seven... the monolyth disapears, the music stops the apes go back to sleep.

**Music of 2001, a space odyssey** Apes start hitting rocks with bones... GRUNT GRUNT... player 1 rolls a seven... the monolyth disapears, the music stops the apes go back to sleep.

I hereby nominate this for BGG post of the year.

/golf clap

Evidence seems to suggest that, whatever the black monolith is, it's undesirable:

First, economically advantageous production of any kind seems to grind to a halt in any region where the monolith appears.

Second, once the monolith appears in a region, the locals do nothing but complain about it until some cosmic event causes it to be moved.

And finally, when the monolith does finally move, the meeples who lived in its previous region always seem to make sure that it lands in a new region where they don't have any economic interest of any kind. They don't seem to care if it bothers their neighbors--just so long as it doesn't get built in their own back yard again.

Of course, further study is needed, but these points can be easily observed on any of the local islands in your area.

Well thank you Mike I appreciate you generosity, I shall try send you more comments of that sort

The monolith in realtiy is a Meeple place of worship and celebration. When it appears in the lands the meeples are assigned to work in, they are drawn, by a heretofore unknown mystic energy, to cease labor and stare slackjawed at the monolith, awaiting the inevitable departure of the struncture to another land.

Or perhaps they are awed by the phallic symbolism.

Those are meeple Starbucks locations

Also, note that the meeples are only allowed to place their new cubes in regions adjacent to that of the monolith. There must be some relationship between the monolith and the cubes. It's a delicate one, however, as the meeples never place the cubes in the same region as the monolith--only the one next door.

It's almost like the monolith needs the cubes for some purpose, but doesn't like having them too close...

We call them the Gay Cubelleros.