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Carcassonne with River & Abbot

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Product Details

  • Players: 2-5
  • Playing Time: 30-45 minutes
  • Age: 8+
  • Mechanisms: Area Control / Area Influence, Tile Placement
  • Designer: Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
  • Contents: Rulebook, 72 Land Tiles, 40 Meeples, 12 River Tiles, 5 Abbots, 1 Scoreboard

Description

Inspired by the medieval fortress in southern France of the same name, Carcassonne is a tile-laying game in which players fill in the countryside around the fortified city. Players choose from tiles that depict cities, roads, monasteries, and fields; each new tile placed creates an ever-expanding board on which players can then add their followers. Players score points by having followers on features as they're completed. The player who makes the most strategic placements of tiles and followers will score the most points and win the game.

Followers can take many different roles in Carcassonne—knights, monks, farmers, or thieves—determined by the type of tile on which they're placed. Each role scores points differently, so you'll need careful planning to make the best use of your followers. For example, thieves are placed on roads and score one point for every tile making up that road. On the other hand, monks are placed in cloisters and score nine points—one for each tile surrounding the monastery—when the last of those nine tiles is placed. You have a limited number of followers and, once placed, you don't get them back until the feature they're on is completed. You'll need to consider whether to go for quick scores of low points that leave you with more available followers, or work toward higher points that commit your followers long-term.

As the map grows, so does the opportunity for players to disrupt each other’s plans. Everyone is adding to the same map and only one follower can be on any given feature at a time—so if you don’t place a follower on something, someone else probably will. Clever placement of tiles and followers can deny other players points—or even steal them away. Whether blocking a city's growth or connecting with your opponent’s road to share the points, Carcassonne provides plenty of ways to use your cunning and outsmart your opponents.
Plan Your Way to Victory

With its simple yet rich game mechanics and eighty-four tiles that can be configured into numerous combinations, Carcassonne appeals to beginners and veteran gamers alike. This edition is entirely redesigned and modernized, and includes two expansions: The River and The Abbot.

Customer Reviews

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Tom Ayre
A must have

This is a fantastic addition to any collection. Easy to learn, nice to play and it's only small.

Carcassonne encourages planning, spacial reasoning and an element or artistry in how you choose the location of your next piece. The game can be played easily with only two people involved and works well when played this way. It can be played competitively or as a more cooperative "map building" game without point scoring.

While there are many expansions available none "fix" broken aspects of the base game. They are all entirely optional, providing new map pieces or new mechanics which can be used or ignored as you wish.

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Lorrin Braddick
Brilliant game, brilliant service

LOVE THIS GAME. I lost my copy 😞 so needed a new one... ordered from a UK shop rather than Amazon, and couldn't have been happier: turned up quickly, bought the original game PLUS the cathedrals extension... even got a nice email from the owner of the shop! 100 happy, 5 stars, big love all round.

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Anth Rowell
Carcassone

Great game, bought it to boost my order for free delivery.
Very pleased.

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Chris Dicken
Great game for two people - probably even better with more

We were looking for a new game that will work with just the two of us, and Carcasonne worked great. Looking forward to introducing friends to it post lockdown!