Carcassonne

Construct cities, roads, and farms, vying for control and scoring points in this captivating medieval world-building adventure.

Themes
City Building     France     Medieval

Main Game Mechanics
Area Majority     Tile Placement

Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. During a game of Carcassonne, players are faced with decisions like: "Is it really worth putting my last meeple there?" or "Should I use this tile to expand my city, or should I place it near my opponent instead, giving him a hard time to complete their project and score points?" Since players place only one tile and have the option to place one meeple on it, turns proceed quickly even if it is a game full of options and possibilities.

(Description from BoardGameGeek)

Video Tutorial

Rodney Smith's Watch It Played Tutorial - About 14 Minutes Long - Watch on YouTube

Extras Included with Our Copy

Printed Solo Rules "Carc Island" by John Fiore
Printed Official Solo (and Team Variant) Rules
Mini Expansion - King & Robber (includes 7 optional extra tiles and rules for Carcassonne)

Notes On North Street Games Library Copy

Ours is the English 2002 edition that includes the River Expansion.
Our copy has seen a lot of love and the box lid is slightly dented with a split corner. This does not affect gameplay in any way.

Click here to read much more about the game on its BoardGameGeek page.

Year Released: 2000
Designer(s): Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Artist(s): Doris Matthäus, Anne Pätzke, Chris Quilliams, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

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