Completing River and River 2?

[spunt]

Hi,

We are having a big discussion over here about the following:

Last time we played, we were placing the river tiles like it says in the rules: no immediate U-turns. We do allow non-immediate U-turns. We came to a point, where we had 2 options:

Lay the next rivertile and thus making it impossible to lay the next one and completing the river

or

decide to take that one tile out, so that we could move on. If the next tile has the same problem, taking that one out too, until we can place a river tile without any problem, of the lake tile if all others have been laid, or taken out.

Personally, I want the river to be completed, with lake. If river tiles are taken out, that's not a big deal.
How do you guys take care of this problem?

I'm interested to find out...

[Carcking]

We actually settle this problem by concensus. We all prefer the river branches to be closed with either a lake or a spring so we take a little license when placing the final tiles. I guess it's a matter of preference for the group though. Like any other feature it could remain unfinished, which would technically be the letter of the rule.

We usually start with the fork and mix another fork into the bag, along with a spring and a lake. We set a spring and a lake aside until all the river tiles are placed. Sometimes we have to subjectively relocate a tile or two to get the final lake and spring in place.

It's pretty informal but we're an informal bunch.

[ne0x]

I managed to get the Xbox version to a state where the lake couldn't be placed; it just skipped it and moved on with the game.

[Scott]

At my house we play no u-turns at all to prevent these problems from happening.