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Technical Details
- A simple, clever tile laying game that brings new challenges with every turn
- A classic euro-game
- Simple to learn, lots of strategy
- Average game length 60 minutes
- For 2 to 5 players
Product Specifications
| Main Language(s): | English unknown, English published |
| Model Number: | RGG170 |
| Number of Puzzle Pieces: | 1 |
| Assembly Required: | No |
| Batteries Required?: | No |
| Batteries Included?: | No |
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
A clever tile-laying game. The southern French city of Carcassonne is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters and in the fields. The skill of the players to develop the area will determine who is victorious.
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.
Box Contains
- 72 land tiles (including 1 starting tile with a different back)
- 40 followers in 5 colors
- 1 scoring track, used to track players' scores
- Rule booklet and summary sheet
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62 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hooked!,
By Sonia (Delft, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Carcassonne (Kitchen & Home)
After playing Carcassonne once I was instantly hooked. Briefly, the game consists of the following. Players pull a tile from the deck and place it against an already present tile. If you create a new object (a city, a road, a monastery, or a farm), you can claim ownership to it. Your score depends on the items you own, whether or not they have been completed and how developed they are.
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.
168 of 170 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You'll never ger bored of this board game,
= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Carcassonne (Kitchen & Home)
A friend of mine introduced me to Carcassone last year and it's spread like wildfire amongst my family & friends. The basic premise is that players take it in turn to pull map tiles out of a bag and place them like a jigsaw so that features such as roads, rivers, fields and cities grow. Any unclaimed feaure can be claimed by placing one of your characters on the tile, and you get points for each completed feature. There's a bit more strategy to it than that, but the basic game is very accessible, playable after 5 minutes rules, and the expansions really add to your options so that you can play as complex or as simple rules as you like (or as time allows).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.
130 of 132 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A worthwhile distraction,
By A Customer
= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Carcassonne (Kitchen & Home)
Carcassonne is a family strategy game in which you build up a landscape of roads, cities and cloisters from a set of printed tiles.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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