Carcassonne

Cosy inns line the roads and grand cathedrals tower over the cities, raising the rewards and the risks of every claim. A mighty large meeple counts double, tipping the balance in the race for points.

Carcassonne - Mists over Carcassonne: Essentials: No. of players: 1-5 Playing time: 35 minutes Age: 8+ Carcassonne - Mists over Carcassonne: - Rules of Play says: Mists Over Carcassonne is a co-operative version of the well-known tile-laying game Carcassonne. Working together, you place tiles and score points while trying to stop the spread of ghosts, contain haunted ground in cemeteries, and use haunted castles to your advantage. If too many ghosts are loose on the ground or you've collected too few points when the tiles run out, you lose the game. If you do manage to survive three days, you can adjust the difficulty level of the game to increase the challenge. Mists Over Carcassonne includes 45 meeples in two new types and 60 tiles that match the graphics of the 2021 edition of Carcassonne, and this game includes rules for how to incorporate material in a regular competitive game of Carcassonne.

A snow-dusted reskin of the classic tile-laying favourite. Knights still patrol freshly-built cities, farmers tend the frozen fields, and highwaymen slink behind city walls — now wrapped in a festive wintry landscape with twelve fresh tiles.

Carcassonne: Traders & Builders Essentials: No. of players: 2 - 6 Playing time: 60 minutes Age: 8 + Carcassonne: Traders & Builders - Rules of Play says: Carcassonne: Traders & Builders is the second major expansion to the original game and contains 24 tiles with new features such as Bridges and Cities. Some tiles also feature symbols for the goods Wine, Cloth and Wheat. Players collect one of these goods when the feature that has it on the tile is scored. Players with the most of each type of good gets bonus points at the end of the game. Also, and a lovely extra, Traders & Builders comes with a large cloth bag. Not only does this makes it easier to keep and handle the tiles, but it also removes the problem of having non-identical backsides. This is the new 2015 refresh version! Part of the popular and much-loved Carcassonne board game series. Carcassonne: Traders & Builders Review: Don't just take our word for it! Check out this review of Carcassonne: Traders & Builders.

Build soaring towers across the landscape that let you snatch up rival meeples and hold them for ransom, adding a sharp new tug-of-war to the tile-laying.

In this expansion for Carcassonne, you take part in the King's Tournament. Nominate your knights, travelers and farmers in the largest features and claim valuable prizes. If you win, a valuable statue with your emblem will be raised in your honor. Contents: 9x Land tiles 12x Prize tiles 1x Tournament tile 1x Crown 30x Emblems

In this expansion for Carcassonne, animals and vineyards enliven the landscape. Let your shepherd herd geese and grow his flock of sheep to push for points. But don't risk too much, because when a wolf appears, your sheep will make a run for it. Contents: 19x Land tiles 6x Shepherds 18x Tokens 1x Cloth bag

Imagine if Carcassonne took place during the Stone Age. Pictured it? You're thinking of Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers! This standalone game features the core Carcassonne mechanisms, but with its own twist. This is also a 2020 updated version of the original 2002 title, from Z-Man Games. If you've played Carcassonne before, you'll know some of the features here. Your turn consists of tile placement into a communal, ever-growing landscape. You can place one of your meeples onto that tile, with the aim to complete objectives to score it later. But Hunters and Gatherers takes place in a time before castles and monasteries. Instead, this is a land of forests, rivers, lakes and meadows - complete with wild animals! On your turn you add one square tile into the expanding map. Terrain types have to match, like in regular Carcassonne. When you place a meeple on that tile, it represents different type of neanderthal. This is dependent according to the terrain. It's a hunter when placed in the meadows, a gatherer if you put it in a forest, or a fisherman when in a river. This isn't a mere reskin of French countryside Carcassonne, though. Completed a forest that has gold in it? That lets you draw and immediately place a second tile - and it's one of twelve separate 'bonus' tiles. Completed meadows, meanwhile, score you points per wild animal in it. (This differs depending on animal type.) But careful if a tiger enters a meadow! Tigers are predators and cancel out any animals in that meadow... Rivers act a bit like roads (completed rivers score as many points as tiles they span). They differ though, because they also score points depending on how many fish sit within their lakes. And talking of lakes: players also have wooden huts, which they can place on rivers/lakes. They score you points according to fish at the end of the game. You don't need the Carcassonne base game to enjoy Hunters and Gatherers - you can play it on its own! Player Count: 2-5 Players Time: 35 minutes Age: 8+

They say agriculture is the most noble employment of man, and Carcassonne: Over Hill and Dale wanted to offer players the gratifying feeling of providing for the people. In this new game, towns and castles make room for fields of fruits and vegetables. Collect them all, build stables to house animals, and walk down a hill to make even more points! Carcassonne: Over Hill and Dale, is standalone game in the Carcassonne series, allows players to be farmers who care for animals on their large farms and cultivate the fruits and vegetables in their fields. Ages 7+ 2-5 players 35 minutes playing time VIDEO

This expansion for Carcassonne adds new buildings that reshape the landscape, with cleverly placed bridges improving roads and castles courting knights by maidens, while farmers earn points in barns aside from the usual cities. New tile types create fresh scoring opportunities and strategic decisions for seasoned tile-placers.

Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals Essentials: No. of players: 2 - 6 Playing time: 60 minutes Age: 8 + Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals - Rules Of Play says: Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals is the first major expansion for Carcassonne and introduces a few new aspects to the game. There are a couple of completely new kinds of tiles - the inns and cathedrals. There are also new tiles that present cities, roads, and cloisters in new shapes. Additionally, each player gets a "big meeple" which counts as two regular meeples. Another whole set of meeples means 6 players can now enjoy the game. Finally, a set of scoring cards helps make score-keeping a little clearer. This is the new 2015 refresh version! Part of the popular and much-loved Carcassonne board game series. Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals Review: Don't just take our word for it! Check out this review of Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals.

In this expansion for Carcassonne, you build towers and place watchmen on them to protect your lands from theft. The towers are contested, but if your watchmen spot the thieves, you score points as a reward. Contents: 13x Land tiles 5 Tower tiles 20 Tower floors 1x Tile dispenser tower

Roll up, roll up: the Big Top is in town! And the town in question is, of course, Carcassonne. Carcassonne: Under the Big Top is an expansion for Klaus-Jürgen Wrede's classic. With Z-Man Games, these two continue to deliver new ways to play the tile-placement game. The core mechanisms of Carcassonne remain in Under the Big Top. You're still competing to place tiles into a communal area, placing meeples onto the ever-growing scene. Complete roads and cities, or surround monasteries with tiles for VPs. Whoever earns the most points - once the tiles run out - wins the bragging rights! So what do you get in Under the Big Top? It goes without saying that you get new tiles in the box, of a circus nature. You'll add these alongside your regular Carcassonne base game tiles. These feature recognisable roads and city shapes. But they also show tell-tale signs of a travelling circus. Some tiles, when placed, get the Big Top tent itself placed on it. A mystery circus animal chit gets placed underneath - the elephant being the most valuable! Elsewhere, you can place a meeple as an acrobat on different tiles. In a twist, up to three different players can place on the same tile, forming a meeple 'pyramid'! Each player also starts with a Ringmaster meeple (wearing a recognisable top hat). When he's in the vicinity of other acrobats and the Big Top, that's when he makes it rain victory points... Carcassonne: Under the Big Top is another 'large' expansion for Carcassonne. It's comparable to the likes of Inns & Cathedrals, for example. Please note that this is an expansion and not a standalone product. You'll need the base game of Carcassonne to enjoy Carcassonne: Under the Big Top. Player Count: 2-6 PlayersTime: 45 minutesAge: 7+

Adding two brand new tile features, and a new option for your roads, you can construct Carcassonne like never before. Expand your roads across obstructing features with the new bridge tokens, allowing you to connect across tiles to continue your roads. Convert your small cities into castles, losing out on your initial points to risk scoring a bigger reward in future. New Bazaar tiles create auctions, where players bid their points to try and claim control of valuable tiles. The risks and rewards have never been higher than in this expansion!

With a brand new tile type and three brand new pieces, expand your options with Carcassonne’s fifth expansion Abbey & Mayor. Abbey tiles act as monasteries, but can be placed to fill empty gaps left on the board. The new Mayor piece uses coats of arms to determine its strength, allowing you to take over cities. Barns allow you to enhance the value of fields, and the new wagons can change their position once they are scored. With so many new options available to evolve your game, you’ll have to devise the best ways to make the most of these bonus effects.

The Under the Big Top expansion brings the circus to Carcassonne, complete with acrobats, animals and ringmasters! Collect an audience around the big top before it moves to its next show as it tours the region, construct meeple pyramids as acrobats show off to earn points, and use your ringmaster meeples to draw a crowd to witness the spectacle to earn big. It’s all the fun of the carnival in this expansion to the iconic tile-placement game!

A towering new feature arrives in the fourth expansion for the modern classic! This expansions adds new land tiles featuring foundation spaces, allowing players to construct towers across the map. Once a player claims a tower, they can capture an opposing piece, holding it for ransom and costing their opponents either victory points, or negotiating a return of their own captured pieces. Along with the 18 new tiles and 30 tower floors, this expansion also brings a new Tower Tile Holder to help keep your play area organised as you expand the map in your games.

In this expansion for Carcassonne, our beautiful homeland is under attack from besiegers. Invest meeples as defenders to strengthen the defense posts and score points. However, if you contribute too little to the defense, you might have to give up a feature. Contents: 18x Land tiles 2x Fortress tiles 3x Catapults 12x Standard meeples

The fifth major expansion to Carcassonne, Abbey & Mayor adds 3 new wooden piece types, 6 abbey tiles, and 12 landscape tiles. The Abbey tiles act as Cloisters but do not have to match adjacent tiles and they complete adjacent features when placed. Mayors can be placed only in cities, with their strength determined by the number of pennants in the city. Barns allow players to score fields during the game rather than just at the end. Wagons are placed on roads, cities, or cloisters, and can move to an adjacent open feature when their current feature is completed.Player Count: 2-6 Time: 30 MinutesAge: 8+

Carcassonne: The Tower Exp 4 Essentials: No. of players: 2 - 6 Playing time: 60 minutes Age: 8 + Carcassonne: The Tower Exp 4 - Rules of Play says: The Tower is the fourth major expansion for the Carcassonne game. Tower segments are added to the game, as well as some new actions. Instead of placing a Meeple as usual on their turns, players can now either place a tower segment on a tile with a space for a tower, add a tower segment to a tower already standing, or place a Meeple on top of a tower (which "finishes" it).

A pair of promo tiles for Carcassonne — one each for the classic and current editions — featuring a labyrinth that funnels up to four separate roads into a single connected street.

In this expansion for Carcassonne, a hungry dragon roams the countryside. Plan ahead to stay clear of the dragon's path, summon the fairy for protection or use the magic portal to regain lost features. Contents: 26x Land tiles 1x Double river source tile 1x Double river lake tile 1x Dragon 1x Fairy

The sixth Carcassonne expansion bundles four mini-expansions: the Count of Carcassonne, the cult shrines that challenge the monasteries, the King and Robber who reward the biggest city and longest road, and a new winding River II.

A hungry dragon roams the Carcassonne landscape devouring your followers, while the enchanted fairy offers protection — magical portals let you reclaim lost features as chaos and whimsy rewrite every strategy.

In this expansion for Carcassonne, a traveling circus visits the countryside. Let your meeples participate in the greatest spectacles and stack them as artists forming an impressive pyramid. If your ringmistress is nearby, you will score even more points. Contents: 20x Land tiles 1x Big top 16x Performance tokens 6x Ringmistresses 12x Standard meeples

The eighth Carcassonne expansion adds bridges that let roads cross open fields, castles built atop small cities, and bustling bazaars where players auction off the next tiles to be placed.

In this expansion for Carcassonne you enhance your roads and cities with inns and cathedrals to score even more points! The large meeple is a strong asset when it comes to majorities. Contents: 24 land tiles 6 score tiles 6 large meeples 8 standard meeples (pink) 1x Abbot (pink)

Merchants and craftsmen bring fresh goods to the cities, while a sneaky pig roots through the fields for bonus points. The builder lets you race ahead with an extra turn whenever you grow a road or city.

In this expansion for Carcassonne, you let your mayor compete for the favor of rival knights before duty calls him to a crisis meeting. Use your messenger and scarecrow wisely to extend your influence even further. Contents: 12x Land tiles 6x Town hall tiles 6x Mayors 6x Messengers 6x Scarecrows

In this expansion for Carcassonne, traders and builders arrive in the cities. Collect the most goods and send your pig to the fields for extra points. The builder speeds up the construction of your roads and cities. Contents: 24x Land tiles 6x Pigs 6x Builders 20x Goods tokens