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Meeple - Wikipedia

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A meeple is a small board-game piece, usually with a stylized star-shaped form.[1][2][3] They are usually made from wood and painted in bright colors. Meeples have been called an icon of German-style board games ("Eurogames").[4] The word is a contraction of "my people".[5][6] Meeples are more anthropomorphized than pawns. Whereas pawns have a stylized head and body, meeples have a more humanoid shape, with limbs.[3] They have replaced pawns in many modern games, making the latter a rarity outside classic games.[5] Some companies offer hand-painted, deluxe meeples, and meeples in some games are customized in various ways; for example, Tiny Epic Quest has customizable meeples that can hold various items such as weapons.[7] Some games, including expansions to Carcassonne, have wooden figurines shaped in non-humanoid forms that are sometimes called meeples; for example, Dixit has rabbit-shaped meeples.[5] Farm animal meeples are sometimes called "sheeples", monsters "creeples", and robots

Meeple - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Small wooden human-like board-game piece Meeples used in Carcassonne Different figurines used in more advanced variants of Carcassonne , including standard meeples and non-humanoid figurines such as Pig and Dragon A meeple is a small board-game piece in a star-like shape that depicts an abstracted human form. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are usually made from wood and painted in a single bright color. Meeples are a common component in German-style board games . [ 4 ] The word is a contraction of

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