Reply: Carcassonne:: Rules:: Re: 'no u-turn' examples

by ColtsFan76

UnknownParkerBrother wrote:

Water flows downhill, so any coming "back" up is impossible. If the source is the highest point, then at most you can turn and go sideways for a while, but never back towards the source.

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X is the source, playing anything at Y would have been illegal.

Baloney. We have a 2d surface representing a 3d space. Rivers go back and forth all the time...when looking at it from a bird's eye view