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Definition of a meeple
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Possibly the most overused word on here, what does it actually mean?

Well, to me, a meeple must be a chunky 2D shape that has a humanoid form. Hopefuly, these images will reinforce the idea...

Suggestions welcome, but try to stick to my definition please! (That means HUMANOID figures only, please. I'll make another list soon for animals...)
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1. Board Game: Carcassonne [Average Rating:7.48 Overall Rank:65]
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 Aah yes, the classic meeple...
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2. Board Game: Carcassonne - Inns & Cathedrals [Average Rating:7.60 Unranked] [Average Rating:7.60 Unranked]
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 ...and his big brother. I'm considering painting white heads on my large meeples, so that I can tell the difference during play.
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Wow! This is exactly what I've done to mine. I used... hmm, whatever it's called that you use if you wrote something wrong in ink.
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I know the stuff, but white paint is more resistant to normal usage. I still haven't painted mine yet, though...
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3. Board Game: Carcassonne - Traders & Builders [Average Rating:7.58 Unranked] [Average Rating:7.58 Unranked]
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 While the pig isn't strictly a meeple, this guy (known as Bob by our group) is, altough I'm not quite sure why he has 2 heads...
Spiel '10? Maybe ...
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Pig? Bob? Surely this is a hippopotamus standing next to a cactus plant?
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I call him "the geek", since he looks kinda pencil-necked.
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We call him the butt-head.:D
Erik Renberg
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Bob the Builder is known in Sweden too and has the name Byggare Bob. Nicked him likewise.
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I guess I always thought it was a chef's hat... although on second thought, why exactly wouuld he be wearing a chef's hat? :meeple:
4. Board Game: Carcassonne: The Castle [Average Rating:7.22 Overall Rank:157]
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 Looks like the castle has been invaded by the coneheads.
Greg Payne
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Meh. They're still coneheads...
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Naw, just wearing bascinets...
5. Board Game: Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers [Average Rating:7.23 Overall Rank:143]
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 Yep, look on the right. Different arms, and they look kinda cool.
6. Board Game: Carcassonne: The City [Average Rating:7.37 Overall Rank:121]
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 These almost fail to meet my definition, because they look almost clown shaped, and clowns aren't human...
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7. Board Game: Carcassonne - The Count of Carcassonne [Average Rating:6.06 Unranked] [Average Rating:6.06 Unranked]
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 Shame that they don't make more of these...
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One, AH AH AH AH! ONE MEEPLE!

This message brought to you by the letter A and the number 5.
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If it is Barney, he's really let himself go...
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This one looks like it's about to flash someone.
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That's evil, Anye...

Here, have a :meeple:
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Looks like a purple yoda to me.
8. Board Game: Carcassonne - The Princess & the Dragon [Average Rating:6.61 Unranked] [Average Rating:6.61 Unranked]
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 This is a borderline example, but it fits my criteria.
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This might be in extremely poor taste but that looks like a klansman riding some sort of grand dragon. Go ahead and shoot me now.

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LOL

I think tht you deserve a :meeple: for that...
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MGibster wrote:
This might be in extremely poor taste but that looks like a klansman riding some sort of grand dragon. Go ahead and shoot me now.

Marc


I'll never be able to look at it the same way again...:meeple:
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 I can't tell if these are different, but it looks like the arms are shorter.
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 And now for something completely different...

As meeples go, these look big.
11. Board Game: Europa 1945-2030 [Average Rating:5.97 Overall Rank:2504]
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 Male and female meeples, 10 of each. Could be useful for a games design kit, if you can find a copy. Sorry, no better picture of these...
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Meeples and Femeeples...?

Ok, shoot me too.
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Lemming wrote:
Meeples and Femeeples...?

Ok, shoot me too.


Shoot me also, but only because you used the term "femeeple." Are you one of those guys that takes any wood piece and throws "eeple" or "ple" at the end of it?

Sheeples
Shrimples
Shiples
Canoeples
Cameeples
Pengueeples

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Hey,"meeple and femeeples" implies that meeples are, by default, male. Sexism, say I! (And it means Stone Age is extraordinarily progressive, I would say.)

Nay, these are obviously hemeeples and shemeeples. (Can't be heeples and sheeples, for obvious reasons; we have enough guys on here confusing women and sheep.)
12. Board Game: Heimlich & Co. [Average Rating:6.37 Overall Rank:886]
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 Meeples in trenchcoats. I think that these could be a cool design if they were a bit smaller.
13. Board Game: O Zoo le Mio [Average Rating:6.75 Overall Rank:440]
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 Another large meeple.
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Actually, these guys are pretty small.
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And Treeples.
14. Board Game: Dos Rios [Average Rating:6.56 Overall Rank:776]
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 Meeples with hats - an interesting variant.
15. Board Game: Mare Nostrum [Average Rating:6.85 Overall Rank:381]
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 These are weird. Why are they shaped like that?
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Looks like a side view (profile) shot of meeples carrying backpacks.
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I thought they were shields.
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They're Grimaces. From MickyDs.
Joseph Bradshaw
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They are soldiers with shields definitely.
16. Board Game: Iglu Iglu [Average Rating:6.06 Overall Rank:3080]
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 Nice looking, and very detailed, but a little unstable, I'm guessing...
17. Board Game: Diamant [Average Rating:6.79 Overall Rank:344]
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 And yet more meeples that you only get 1 of each colour.
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Nice! You could putthose on display!
18. Board Game: Eureka [Average Rating:5.59 Overall Rank:4471]
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 Cowboys and a train. I used to have this game. Traded it for Bang!
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 Warriors, Catapults, and Dragons. Great game too.
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the dragons look like squirrels to me. Cute. :meeple:
20. Board Game: Odin's Ravens [Average Rating:6.75 Overall Rank:407]
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 Ravens.
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I said that they should be humanoid...
21. Board Game: A Game of Thrones [Average Rating:7.51 Overall Rank:72]
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Gabriel Swanson
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We refer to these as meeples. A bust of a meeple (A beeple? Horses are heeples? Ships are sheeples?)
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...this is the steeple open the doors and see all the meeple?
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OK, it is vaguely humanoid...
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Sheep meeples are Sheeples. Ship meeples are clearly Shipples.
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unixrevolution wrote:
Sheep meeples are Sheeples. Ship meeples are clearly Shipples.


If I am ever able to pronounce that correctly I could say that I spoked English. Until them I will just write ununderstandable gibberish in old GL that no one will ever see.
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abendoso wrote:
unixrevolution wrote:
Sheep meeples are Sheeples. Ship meeples are clearly Shipples.


If I am ever able to pronounce that correctly I could say that I spoked English. Until them I will just write ununderstandable gibberish in old GL that no one will ever see.


I wouldn't say no one...
22. Board Game: Dracula [Average Rating:6.29 Overall Rank:1105]
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Brad Weage
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2 player game, big lonely meeples, 1 per player - and they are at each other's throats.
23. Board Game: Duell [Average Rating:6.48 Overall Rank:1042]
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 Meeples with capes. Caaples?
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These look like they was inspired by the Sandeman logo or maybe VQ-2's logo (which was inspired by the Sandeman logo...)
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I thought these were just copies of the Count from Carcassonne. Totally different actually.
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I thought that these meeps were so odd for Duel. They make the game look like Duelling Draculas.
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We call one of these Count Chocula and they other Count Mochula... :meeple:
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 Some jolly pirate meeples...
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Pirate meeple. Does that make them peeple?

Imagine all the peeple, sharing all the rhum. Ho-ho-ho.
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Wow. My pirates are only little pawns, those are so much cooler. Must be a newer edition.
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Looks like it, T
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In purplesally's GL ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...) it was noted that these pirate people should be smeeples.
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 Meeples walking over the bazaar.
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You don't make friends with salad!
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Ooo. A reference I don't know?
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what it's not "you don't win friends with salad?"
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Morgan -- it's a Simpsons reference, from the episode when Lisa goes veggie and the family has a huge BBQ, complete with (flying) suckling pig.

I can, happily, report that the quite is wrong, however.
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It is? Ah, well. Someone knew where I was coming from. :)
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You can still view that geeklist on archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041022231546/http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=1816

The comment says to see a geeklist which changed since that comment was posted. However! You can once again see the version that was up at the time, assuming that the history given at the top is correct:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040113105308/http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=1041

Sadly, the bottom entry is Stage II, and doesn't mention meeples at all. Looking at the two other versions, I still only see meeples mentioned in connection with Carcassonne.

This appears to be a dead end.
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http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.games.board/msg/bfe5d3b...
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David Vander Ark wrote:
I think a Meeple is 3D, not 2D.
One surface is flat on a meeple
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To me, a meeple is a 2d image extruded to make a 3d miniature person or animal used as a playing piece.

Radial Symmetry figs are not meeples, they are pawns, IMO.

YMMV.

Oh, and Hugin and Munin are meeples IMO... after all, in the mythology, they're smarter than many people. (And essentially, are demi-gods.)
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