Games & Comics

Carcassonne
2 - 5 players
Ages 8 & up
Playing time: 60 minutes
Publisher Rio Grande
Author: Klaus-Juergenl Wrede
Illustrator: Doris Matthþus

Awards
Winner Spiel des Jahres 2001
Winner Deutscher SpielePre 2001
Finalist Best Family Game Games Magazine 2002
Finalist Best General Strategy Gamers Choice awards 2002

Players develop the area around Carcassonne by placing land tiles. Each turn the area becomes larger as the players expand and add roads, fields, cities, and cloisters. The players may also deploy their followers as thieves, farmers, knights, and monks to control and score points for the roads, farms, cities, and cloisters. As the players have only a few followers, the wise player will plan their moves carefully and deploy followers when and where they can earn the most points.

Carcassonne is a simple, clever tile laying game, that brings new challenges with every turn. First impressions of Carcassonne will probably be that it is largely a game of luck. And while the luck of drawing the right tiles is high, this is a game that does require skillful play.

Contents: 72 land tiles, 1 scoring track, 40 wooden followers in 5 colors, 1 rule booklet, all in a box approximately 28 x 17 x 7 cm