<p>Simple answer: If the tile doesn't have a picture of a menhir, it doesn't contain a menhir.</p>
<p>I suspect the point of confusion here is differentiating between &quot;tiles with a menhir on them&quot; and &quot;menhir tiles&quot;. The menhir tiles are a special stack of tiles that you play from <em>after</em> you complete a forest with a menhir in it; these ones all have a special back and should not be shuffled in with the regular tiles:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/XUTms.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/XUTms.png" alt="Three different tile backs" /></a></p>
<p><sup>(note: other editions of the rulebook refer to the menhir tiles as &quot;bonus tiles&quot;, which is boring but also less ambiguous.)</sup></p>
<p><em>Those</em> menhir tiles are the ones listed in the instructions you quoted, to showcase their added value. This does not mean, nor is meant to mean, that the menhir tiles <em>also</em> contain a menhir.</p>

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<p>Does the second tile from the right in the extract from the rule book below contain a menhir?
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The rule book lists it under menhir tiles, but so does the one with the 2 lakes which obviously does not contain a menhir.</p>
<p><strike>It seems to be the only tile with an L-shaped forest that does not have the usual picture of a menhir.</strike> Other such menhir tiles are the one with a mammoth and an auroch, one with a pit trap and one with mushrooms.</p>

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Does the Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers tile with 3 fish, 2 rivers and 2 forests have a menhir?
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# Does the Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers tile with 3 fish, 2 rivers and 2 forests have a menhir?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-11)

Does the second tile from the right in the extract from the rule book below contain a menhir?
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/xBu8h.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/xBu8h.jpg)
The rule book lists it under menhir tiles, but so does the one with the 2 lakes which obviously does not contain a menhir.

It seems to be the only tile with an L-shaped forest that does not have the usual picture of a menhir. Other such menhir tiles are the one with a mammoth and an auroch, one with a pit trap and one with mushrooms.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-01-11. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

Simple answer: If the tile doesn't have a picture of a menhir, it doesn't contain a menhir.

I suspect the point of confusion here is differentiating between "tiles with a menhir on them" and "menhir tiles". The menhir tiles are a special stack of tiles that you play from *after* you complete a forest with a menhir in it; these ones all have a special back and should not be shuffled in with the regular tiles:

[![Three different tile backs](https://i.sstatic.net/XUTms.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/XUTms.png)

(note: other editions of the rulebook refer to the menhir tiles as "bonus tiles", which is boring but also less ambiguous.)

*Those* menhir tiles are the ones listed in the instructions you quoted, to showcase their added value. This does not mean, nor is meant to mean, that the menhir tiles *also* contain a menhir.


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