Carcassonne is a tile-based strategy board game that sees players compete to build the best cities, roads and farms. It was designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and has spawned many expansions and spin-offs, and several PC, console and mobile versions. This board game is suitable for ages seven and above and can be played by 2 to 5 players. It is available to buy from Esdevium store finder or on Amazon.
Carcassonne is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. Inside the box, it comes with 72 Land tiles, 12 River tiles, 40 meeples, 5 abbots, scoreboard and instructions. The tiles are well made with thick cardboard and no sharp corners. The design on the tiles are beautifully printed. The meeples and abbots are made from small coloured wooden pieces. I love that inside the box, it comes with a printed background with slots for you to place your pieces and tiles neatly.
When we first opened up the game, we thought that this was going to be a very complicated game to play with young children. But it is not really. They all in fact enjoyed plotting their own cities and learned to incorporate some game strategy. There are a number of ways of playing this and we chose to play the simplified version as this was our first time.
It was very straightforward and planning couldn’t be much simpler! This game requires a large table to play as there are 84 tiles and you play them all. Each player gets their own chosen 8 meeples and 1 abbot (black, yellow, blue, red and green colour) coloured pieces. Then we placed the abbots on the scoreboard.
This game is all about strategy and planning with the tile that was drawn for you. If some of the routes are blocked by other players, you have to plot another route hoping to build your cities/road to score points. We love this game because it is fun and challenging. No wonder it has sold more than 10 million copies and expansions! I would definitely recommend it!
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Got to be King Arthur
King Arthur
King Arthur , as it was my dad’s name
King James I
King Arthur
King Arthur
Macbeth
Henry Vlll
Henry VIII
Richard III
Henry VIII – nice and colourful 🙂
King Arthur
King Henry 8th
King Rollo 🙂
Elvis
Henry VIII
Edward VII
William I ..hes my 38th Grandfather 🙂
Henry V
James Stuart the 1st /6th
Henry VIII
King Arthur
Henry Vlll
King Alfred, because I burn the cakes too
Henry VIII !
Mufassa!!! Long live the king!!!!
King Tutankhamun – I remember queuing to see the exhibition in London in 1972 when I was a child. Magnificent.
I missed out on British history at school so don’t have a favourite British King. However, I admire King Constantine 11 of Greece.
Henry VIII is the King I know most about; as a teaching assistant it’s my privilege to help the children my class to learn. I have to admit I learn as much as they do sometimes – It’s great!
King Arthur.
Henry VIII
King Arthur
Henry VIII
Henry Vlll
Henry VIII
King Kong – does he count?
Sure!
I don’t really know that many kings, i hated history at school. But my eldest son said he loved learning about Henry VIII
Henry V
Henry VIII
henry v111
William the Conqueror
Henry VIII
King Canute
For me, its Henry VIII
Diego Henry the v111
Has to be Henry VIII x
Alfred – the one who reputedly burnt the cakes!
Henry VIII is the only one I know, but you have to think that Thailands King Bhumibol was very loved by his people looking at the reaction of his people
Elvis :- The King of Rock and Roll Music.
King Solomon, as it is said that he was wise.
Henry VIII
Henry VIII 🙂
Henry VIII
Name one of your favourite kings. . . . . King Alfred . . . . .well he did try to do some baking ha ha
Henry the 8th
my daughter recently took part in a thetre production of Richard III, They did a lot of work about him at school so we learnt lots.
William the Conqueror
King Theoden (lord of the rings).
Richard III – was he framed by the Tudors.
Henry VIII, how many marriages
Henry VIII
George VI
king henry the eighth
henry VIII
I am fascinated by Henry VIII. Great game, thank you for the chance to win xx
Alexander the great
Canute
Henry V
Alexander the Great
I like Richard III because of his …um…. amusing nickname. Yeah, it’s childish, but it’s still funny.
It has to be Ethelred the Unready, the only reason is the name always makes me smile when I hear it.
Mine would have to be Henry VIII. Thanks for running this lovely giveaway.
henry Vlll
King Arthur!
Richard the Lionheart
Henry Vlll
Henry Vlll as its a interesting story!
Richard the Lionheart
Edward II, he was so terrible at being king but very interesting.
Henry Vlll such a colourful character
always be king henry the eighth x
Richard the Lionheart
Richard I of England ( known as Richard the Lionheart)
does Simba count from the Lion king? if not – Henry 8th
Alexander the Great
I am always fascinated by the story of Robert the Bruce, and the speculation as to whether he had leprosy or not.
Has to be the legendary Henry VIII
Henry VIII
King Henry VIII – he will always be rembered
Henry viii
Henry VIII because he’s so interesting
Besides making someone a King – King Richard the Lionheart – especially from the appearance at the end of Robin Hood
Henry II 🙂 loved the love story (or dynastic ambition) of his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine xx
king Kong, looks a bit like me!!
George VI
My heart instantly said elvis! But in all seriousness I used to have a fascination with George V
Henry the 8th he definately made his mark and I love that era
Harold, he actually went into battle to fight for our country, sadly the arrow in the eye meant we then got William, but at least he tried!
King henry 8th
None of them, I don’t believe in Monarchy, sorry. Probably not the answer you wanted, but I like to be honest.
i was always interested in henry the 8th when i was at school
My favourite king is Henry 8th, he seems as he was a king with
character, but was very strong minded and knew what he wanted
King George V
My favourite King is Edward the 4th
He’s not a good person but I’m always interested about the story of Henry the VIII. Richard Lionheart is another interesting one
Henry VIII was such a fascinating character
Charles The Second.
Tutankhamun
king henry 8th
King Kong
King Henry and king kong
King Kong! He was a loving big ape!
Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Looks great, I bet the kids will love this, albeit a little too young I think 🙂
Such a great game…