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Product Information
| Item Weight | 399 g |
| Product Dimensions | 27.4 x 19 x 7.1 cm |
| Manufacturer recommended age: | 8 years and up |
| Item model number | RGG170 |
| Main Language(s) | English, English published |
| Number of Game Players | 5 |
| Number of Puzzle Pieces | 1 |
| Assembly Required | No |
| Batteries Required? | No |
| Batteries Included? | No |
| ASIN | B00005UNAX |
| Best Sellers Rank | 9,797 in Toys & Games (See top 100) |
| Shipping Weight | 499 g |
| Delivery Destinations: | Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered. |
| Date First Available | 1 Jan 2002 |
Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Features 72 land tiles,which picture city, road, and field segments and cloisters. Also features 40 followers in 5 colours. Each follower can be used as a knight, thief, farmer, or monk. One of each player's followers is the player's scoring marker.
Winner of the coveted Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) 2001.
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Customer Reviews
To win the game you need good strategy and luck. The rules are easy to learn, and the game can be finished within the hour so you can play it more than once in one evening.
To play the game you will need Carcassonne, the original game. There are many expansions available that can only be played with the original game. There are also variants to the original game that cannot be played with the expansions. So read the description carefully before you purchase any additional items.
When purchasing the original Carcassonne I strongly recommend that you also buy at the least the first Expansion: Inns and Cathedrals, which makes the game more challenging and with higher risks.
Typically a game lasts about an hour with 5 people, and I can't recommend it strongly enough. If you're considering buying any board game, you won't go far wrong with this one.
The box suggests it is suitable for age 10 and above but it certainly didn't bore any of the adults so there is no upper limit.
It can be played by 2-5 people. Playing with 4 we found it took about 45 minutes to complete a game.
The rules are simple but for once we found it was a game that the more we played it the more we enjoyed it. The fact that you turn over a tile so everyone can see it, and then decide where to place it, allows others to help or suggest alternative courses of play - so everyone can learn the game together as they play.
Wooden "people" markers can be placed on one of the four types of landscape (fields, cities, roads or cloisters) and these people become farmers, knights, thieves or monks respectively. Scoring is based on the size of city "owned" by your knight, length of road controlled by your thief and so on.
Our set included the "river expansion" which starts the same off with some additional tiles and makes the playing area less cramped, but you'll need to make plenty of space on the dining table once you get into it!
It wins perhaps the ultimate accolate in that it distracted us from the television for most of Christmas Day and everyone was keen to resume play on Boxing Day.
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