Z-Man Games Carcassonne Board Game

Having got back into board games this year, years after last being into them when our son was young, we've been buying some of the classics that have come about since then. This one is popular and routinely highly recommended. It's a game based around laying tiles to build a continuous connecting landscape and playing your "meeple" playing pieces to claim terrain features and score points. This comes in a nicely designed box with very solid components, made of of cardboard tiles and wooden "meeple" and feels like real quality. It feels like very good value for money. The instructions are clear and easy to follow, with good examples to get you started. We found ourselves getting out heads around it very quickly. It's a very enjoyable game, engaging yet very relaxing. The design is clever, simple yet with a decent amount of complexity within. This has become one of our most popular games, played between myself and my wife and with friends. We love it, this is one I'd recommend to anybody looking to collect modern classic board games.

An extremely easy game to pick up and learn the rules for. It's also very easy and quick to teach to other players. The game is simply to take a tile, place it down in a position where the artwork aligns, and place a meeple if you want to, provided you can. You can't place a meeple into a feature already occupied, but you can sneak more meeples into a feature but merging two existing incomplete features together - a fun bit of strategy that allows you to share or steal points from your opponent! The game stops when there are simply no more tiles to draw from, so it has a natural finishing point, and at that point, any remaining scoring is done. The game quality of the tiles feels really nice; however, a few of mine are misprinted, so the paths don't quite line up, unfortunately, but it's still clear which features are supposed to line up. There's many expansions for Carcassonne, and I will considering picking some up! Would recommend!

Brilliant board game suitable for the whole family. We have played it a number of times now and kids absolutely love it.

You know what it's like. The prospect of another Christmas family get-together where you either play Charades (uggggh) or Monopoly (and risk all that bitterness and in-fighting just because Grandma makes up her own rules as she goes along) has you searching for a board-game alternative with a bit of bite. I've had my eye on Carcassonne for quite a while before the price dropped enough to make it worth a go. I've got an 8 year old daughter so I figured this would be a good game for her to cut her proper board-gaming teeth on, but also a lot of fun too as we love anything involving building and territory a la Civilisation. Carcassonne is one of those games that's deceptively complicated looking at first glance, but is actually very simple and easy to play and pick up once you've established a few simple rules. Picking out the centre tile for your map, you then take it in turns to draw other map tiles, join them on, add a few meeples to establish your score, and progress around the score board. The real strategy comes from taking a gamble on whether to play all your meeples (and perhaps miss out on bigger city territories or longer roads to inhabit) or hold a few back hoping for bigger scores. The entire game can change from turn to turn, so it's fantastically exciting and strategic. The board quality is extremely high, all player pieces feel nicely crafted and made. Though the game time can be quite short, sometimes games can go on for longer than you expected as players all try to max out their scores to claw together the winning number of points. There are tons of guides on the internet on how to play and best strategies, and there are many expansions to add to the base game to make it even better. Brilliant stuff, and a better festive gaming treat than dratted Monopoly!

This is a great entry game into board gaming. Easy to pick up the rules and therefore a great family game. This game contains a couple of very basic expansions, which means that the game has longevity. My only very minor criticism (hence only 4 stars) is that this version isn’t quite of the quality of earlier ones, so tiles don’t necessarily align and I wonder how long a well-used game will survive for! This game rightly has a fantastic reputation - you won’t regret buying it!

I was introduced to this game a couple of years ago during a rare family reunion where my niece’s family played it fast & furiously competitively. As a newbie it didn’t take me too long to grasp the fundamentals and it was fun, although I had no chance against the cut-throat family. Returning home to the peace & tranquillity of Central France and my lovely wife, we decided to get the base game (which included the river expansion) and after a few play-throughs decided to get the ‘Inns and Cathedrals’ and the ‘Builders and Traders’ expansions to give it a bit more depth and extend the playing time. My wife and I usually play co-operative two-player games, of which we have a fair collection, and beyond the perennial good-natured cribbage tournament we do not compete. We play for the pleasure of playing and totting up the scores at the end is as competitive as it gets; none of the cut-throat muscling-in or sabotage of other players’ cities & roads, just amicable gameplay. We don’t bother with the farming thing as that is just another point-scoring device and adds nothing to our semi-co-op gameplay style. It may not be true to the intended spirit of the game, but it works for us. The rules are simple and easy to learn, the tiles are very well printed and surprisingly robust – after many plays there is no sign of wear and the cloth bag provided with the Inns and Cathedrals expansion (I think) keeps the game table tidy. The tiles provided with the expansion blend seamlessly with those of the base game. Being simple & quick to learn, it is a good introduction to board gaming for kids although with my niece’s boys it tended to get a bit boisterous and they tried to cheat all the time. It was very nice to see a family playing together rather than being glued to various devices. Like ‘Forbidden Island’ we often play Carcassone as a bit of light relief from our more complex grown-up two-player co-op games, but if we play it too much it can be a bit ‘samey’. The fully co-op ‘Mists over Carcassonne’ game has been ordered and some friends are bringing it over from the UK later in the month (since Brexit, delivery charges to France are crazy) and we’re greatly looking forward to its arrival. The inevitable review will follow after a few play-throughs. Rulebook: 10/10 Complexity: 2/10 Component quality: 10/10 Replayability: 8/10 Gameplay pace: 10/10

This game looks so, so dam good. I love the art and colours, it reminds me of better times. It looks good on the shelf and the table when playing. It's easy to teach new people play. Bigger tile numbers will probably lower down luck factor (my wife keep getting churches and it piss me off) I would buy a bigger version if I knew I would like it as much. Great value for money. I enjoy just looking at it. Be careful when removing the tiles from the mould, as I damaged one during this process. Take your time, as each tile looks beautiful, and it's a waste to break it due to rushing to play first game.

it is a well made game. the children loved playing with, It has kept them interested for hours.

Un clásico que sigue siendo grande, recomendado, fácil de aprender y con mucha rejugabilidad, si lo estás pensando, no lo dudes, recomendado!

Great quality! The game is fun and easy to play for even just two players. It also has several built in variations that keep it interesting across multiple plays? A definite must for family game night.

We love this game. Easy to learn how to play. Games can be pretty quick especially if there’s several people playing, but we enjoy it most with 2 players. Has different game plays and expansions that keep the game interesting. No two games are the same.

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Great game and great guys who sell it, I had a problem with delivery and they were very fast at responding and helping me! Now enjoying it already! Thank you!