Carcassonne
- Players
- 2 to 5
- Play time
- 45 minutes
- Designer
- Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
- Publishers
- Hans im Glück, 64 Ounce Games, 999 Games, Albi, Astrel Games, Bard Centrum Gier, Brain Games, cutia.ro, Devir, Enigma (Bergsala Enigma), Fantasmagoria, Feelindigo, Filosofia Éditions, Giochi Uniti, Grow Jogos e Brinquedos, Hobby World, Ísöld ehf., Kaissa Chess & Games, Korea Boardgames, Lanlalen, Lautapelit.fi, Midgaard Games, MINDOK, Möbius Games, Monkey Time, NeoTroy Games, Nordic Games ehf, Paper Iyagi, Piatnik, Ponva d.o.o., Rio Grande Games, Schmidt Spiele, Smart Ltd, Stupor Mundi, SuperHeated Neurons, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., Venice Connection, Ventura Games, Z-Man Games
- Year
- 2000
- Rating
- 7.41 (BGG average)
Mechanisms
- Area Majority / Influence
- Enclosure
- End Game Bonuses
- Kill Steal
- Map Addition
- Modular Board
- Pattern Building
- Square Grid
- Take That
- Tile Placement
- Variable Set-up
- Worker Placement
Categories
Families
- Category: Dized Tutorial
- Cities: Carcassonne (France)
- Components: Meeples
- Components: Map (Regional scale)
- Components: Wooden pieces & boards
- Containers: Tin/Metal Box
- Country: France
- Digital Implementations: Apple App Store
- Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena
- Digital Implementations: BrettspielWelt
- Digital Implementations: Google Play
- Digital Implementations: Steam
- Digital Implementations: VASSAL
- Game: Carcassonne
- Misc: BGG Hall of Fame
- Misc: Dice Tower Hall of Fame
- Misc: Watch It Played How To Videos
- Occupation: Farmer
- Region: Languedoc (France)
- Religious: Monks/Abbots & Monasteries/Abbeys
Description
Carcassonne is a tile placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape represented 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, et cetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples in one of the areas on it: in the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, in the cloister as a monk, or in the field 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, thus making it a harder for them to complete it 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.
First game in the Carcassonne series.