Have you figured out what it means yet? "Leave out houses"? "Leap over houses"?
My German is even worse than my English, but I'll give it a try:
In the German rules it says: "Es dürfen keine freien Niederlassungen übersprungen werden." The word "übersprungen" is past tense for "überspringen" and literally means "to jump over" or "to leap over".
The best translation in this context would be "skip", I guess: Do not skip [empty] houses.
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That more or less explains the word 'leap' in the English translation, but is still does not explain 'out'....
I can't understand why questions like this are posted on here and just left unanswered. I mean... isn't there someone (the designer... the publisher... a marketing person, etc.) who knows the answer to this question and cares enough about the game to follow the discussions here on BGG and jump in to offer clarifications?
This isn't an isolated incident - I see it everywhere and just don't understand it. If this were "my game" or "my product" I'd be all over it.
Funnily enough, this is perfectly understandaable for brazilians (that can read english, of course). WE use "leap" for "skip" quite frequently in contexts like these.
Funnily enough, this is perfectly understandaable for brazilians (that can read english, of course). WE use "leap" for "skip" quite frequently in contexts like these.
Interesting. In English it's more referring to a very forceful jump. Like in the children's game of "leap-frog," or someone who "leaps over a ravine" etc.
Fist, I think, that the shown phrase was in the first 2009 edition. I cannot find the passage in my 2010 edition (Argentum Verlag, Germany), which has German and English rules.
I thinks the spelling/tranlation was wrong.
"Don't leap out houses" probably meant "Don't leave out houses" (when placing pieces into offices, after establishing a trade route).
In my 2010 present rules, it seems clear to me: "... If the city is empty, he must start with the leftmost office. He must always take the next available office space, going left to right, ..."
This means, the player is not allowed to place his piece in the second, third or fourth Office-Space in a City, IF THERE IS ONE OFFICE-SPACE ("HOUSE") LEFT OUT (left empty, being "jumped" over, skipped...).
