Carcassonne

36.99 RRP 2–5 players 30–45 minutesAge 7+🧠 Medium complexity⚔️ Competitive

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StrategyFamilyAbstractCompetitivetile placementgateway

Best at: 2 or 3 players
First published: 2000
Complexity: 1.9 / 5

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Why you might love it

Draw a tile, place a tile, claim it with a meeple. Cities, roads, monasteries and fields all score differently, creating a quiet knife-fight over shared territory.

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