Carcassonne

1st Session, 3:00 pm:


John will try to out-meeple up to Four (4) others in Carcassonne!

Carcassonne is considered one of the gateway Eurogames that are often recommended to people new to the hobby. It's a tile placement game in which the map is created as you play. Every turn you pull a tile from the pool and place it against one of the previously played tiles. If you start a new object (city, road, farm or monastery), you can place one of your "meeples" to mark it.

As subsequent tiles are arrayed on the board, objects get bigger or even merge. When roads or cities are completed, or a monastery is surrounded, the meeple is returned to you and you score the points. However, farmers are not returned and will score points at the game end.

Therefore, it's possible to have all of your control markers locked on the board on incomplete objects, and not be able to convert them into farmers later in the game. You must balance the need to score points during the game, and the need to score farmer points at game end. Carcassonne won the 2001 German Spiel des Jahres.

The photo shows Carcassonne being played at Carcassonne.