Carcassonne

Carcassonne

🎯 Strategy🗺️ Area Control👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family👔 Adults
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Players
2-5
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Playtime
30-45m
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Difficulty
Intermediate
Rating
8.0

About the Game

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

Publisher: Hans im Glück
Designer: Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Release Year: 2000

Reviews

Board Game Review Team
10/19/2025
8.0

Carcassonne

✓ Pros

  • Simple rules, accessible to anyone
  • Relaxing and fun tile-laying
  • Scales well from 2 to 5 players

✗ Cons

  • Luck of the draw can swing scores
  • Can become mean and competitive
  • Repetitive without expansions

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