History TabletopGame / Carcassonne

A number of video game versions also exist, including versions for PC by Deep Silver, iOS devices by The Coding Monkeys, the UsefulNotes/XBox360 by Sierra Studios, and the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch by Asmodee Digital.

* DigitalTabletopGameAdaptation: The game has several digital adaptations including for PC by Deep Silver, iOS devices by The Coding Monkeys, the UsefulNotes/XBox360 by Sierra Studios, and the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch by Asmodee Digital.

* KingmakerScenario: Almost inevitable when played with more than 2 players. Players who fall significantly behind in score can still help or sabotage the winning players.

It takes place in the southern France medieval city of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne Carcassonne]], with each player representing the land developers responsible for the city's famous fortified architecture and layout.

* JuniorVariant: ''My First Carcassonne'' has larger tiles and meeples for smaller hands than its grown-up counterpart. Further, tiles have roads in all-directions, meaning they connect to all pre-existibg tiles, and scoring is simplified to "first to complete 8 roads".

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[[caption-width-right:349:The Big Box: the main game and the first four of ''many'' [[ExpansionPack expansions]].]]

* JuniorVariant: ''My First Carcassonne'' has larger tiles and meeples for smaller hands than its grown-up counterpart.

* ExtraTurn: The Builder piece added by the ''Traders and Builders'' Expansion allows this. You can place it on a claimed city and from that point on, until that area is completed, you get an extra turn whenever you add on to that property.
* HouseRules: As with any board game, most groups of players develop some of their own.
** Not playing with Farms is a common house rule. Farm scoring is one of the more confusing aspects to inexperienced players, so they are often left out.
** Playing from a "hand" of 3 tiles rather than always playing the tile you draw is another. It allows for a bit more strategy and downplays the luck elements slightly.

** One tile has a standard narrow city segment crossing from one end of the tile to the other -- and then a second one crossing ''over'' it by means of an enormous bridge of masonry held up by a pillar built in the middle of the first segment. Whether it ends up being two separate cities with one straddling over the other or one city crossing back over itself for some reason, it's a pretty weird architectural choice.
*** [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Gameplay and Theme segregation]] at play - this tile was originally added in an early mini-expansion of 6 tiles covering niche situations. In this case, trying to connect city tiles while blocking a "city steal" attempt.
* BoringButPractical: Roads. Most players groan when they draw a road tile, but roads are a decent secondary source of "now" points and can be used defensively to split your opponents' fields and disrupt their cities.
** Careful road placement can also split or join fields, which can have a large impact on end-game scoring.

* NiceHat: Every meeple in ''New World'' has a top hat.

* BoringButPractical: Roads. Most players groan when they draw a road tile, but roads are a decent secondary source of "now" points and can be used defensively to split your opponents' fields and disrupt their cities.

It takes place in the southern France medieval city of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne Carcassonne]], with each player representing the land developers responsible for the city's famous architecture and layout.

It takes place in the southern France medieval city of Carcassonne, with each player representing the land developers responsible for the city's famous architecture and layout.

* LoopholeAbuse: Players are not allowed to put a meeple on a feature if it already has one there. There is no rule, however, preventing you from putting them on different features and connecting them later. The rulebooks even explicitly mention how to score such situations (players tied for most meeples on the feature all score full points, but if one player has more meeples he scores the points and the others get nothing).
* KingmakerScenario: Very possible when playing with more than 2 players. If 2 evenly-matched players begin to run away with the game, the other players may decide to help one of them out or sabotage the other's cities, roads or farms.

* VolcanoLair: Whenever a volcano is placed, the dragonflies towards it.

Tile-based boardgame (and its numerous sequels) in which players compete to control and complete cities, roads and fields. Part of the EuroGame genre.

The gameplay has players drawing tiles with roads, cities, fields, and farms on them, and placing them on the table to match other tiles. When a player places a tile, they can put one of their "meeples" (small wooden pieces representing workers) on one of its features. When a given feature is completed (trails having two end points, cities being completely enclosed, etc.), the player with a meeple on it scores points and retrieves their meeple. The game ends when every tile has been placed, and the player with the most points is the winner.

A number of video game versions also exist, including versions for PC by Deep Silver, iOS devices by The Coding Monkeys, and the UsefulNotes/XBox360 by Sierra Studios.

** Despite tiles having to match previously placed ones (see PatchworkMap, below), the random nature of the game can lead to cities that have very strange shapes or roads that loop pointlessly or wind in odd ways. There is also no obligation to finish features, so dead end trails and cities with missing walls can show. Even more common in ''New World''.

* VolcanoLair: Whenever a volcano is placed, the dragon flies towards it.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Despite tiles having to match previously placed ones (see PatchworkMap, below), the random nature of the game can lead to cities that have very strange shapes or roads that loop pointlessly or wind in odd ways.
** There is also no obligation to finish features, so dead end trails and cities with missing walls can show. Even more common in ''New World''.

* PatchworkMap: Averted. The board is built from randomly-drawn tiles, but the features on each newly placed tile have to match the ones on the previously-played adjacent tiles.

* LoopholeAbuse: Players are not allowed to put a meeple on a feature if it already has one there. There is no rule, however, preventing you from putting them on different features and connecting them later for double points. The rulebooks even explicitly mention how to score such situations.

A number of video game versions also exist, including versions for PC by Deep Silver, iOS devices by The Coding Monkeys, and the XBox360 by Sierra Studios.

* ExtraTurn: The Builder piece added by the ''Traders and Builders'' Expansion allows this. You can place it on a claimed city/road/etc and from that point on, until that area is completed, you get an extra turn whenever you add on to that property.

* KingmakerScenario: Very possible when playing with more than 2 players. If 2 evenly-matched players begin to run away with the game, the other players may decide to help one of them out or sabotage the others cities.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''Carcassonne: Mayflower''--which takes place in freshly colonized America--was renamed ''New World: A Carcassonne Game'' when it was exported to the states.

** There is also no obligation to finish features, so dead end trails and cities with missing walls can show. Even more common in ''New World''

It takes place in the southern France medieval city of [[CaptainObvious Carcassonne]], with each player representing the land developers responsible for the city's famous architecture and layout.

* CherryTapping: Roads again. Your average road will likely get you about 3-4 points, but because you may only need to place one or two tiles to complete a road, it can be give you a small influx of "now" points which can add up over the course of a game.