Carcassone

[calzephyr]

Here's another game that Timban and Wolf really like, and there's really quite a lot of strategy involved as well as luck. Carcassone is kind of like a picturesque dominoes - it comes with a set of tiles that have matching ends and players pick from random piles. For example, certain road, field and castle pieces will match up. It was a little tricky to understand the scoring, and as well you want to not give your opponents too much advantage. I haven't played with the expansion, Inns and Cathedrels, yet. I'm tickled that they made this expansion, as the tourist trade would not exist without the European cathedral pilgrimage of yore. Yup, restaurants, inns, even souvenirs, sprang up to service the faithful :-)

Comments

[tooaquarius.livejournal.com]

Both this and Settlers of Catan are big favourites of mine :)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Yes, it seems that if you like one, you're sure to like the other :-) I joined a board games meet up group on Meetup...they have Wednesday and Saturday meetups...I'm going to one on May 10. I didn't know this, but there's a game store up by Value Village in the NE called Myth Games. They have open table nights and stuff! Maybe we can meet up halfway or something for a game some time.

[tooaquarius.livejournal.com]

Now that is sheer genius.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what comment you're replying to :-)

[risawn.livejournal.com]

This is an awesome game, I've got my entire family addicted to it.

I even splurged on the expansion packs, but we seem to not use them, only for the tiles so far.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Cool, it's more popular than I thought...but then I don't know too many people that play board games anymore :-)

[cmot-dribbler.livejournal.com]

"tis a fantastic board game!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to play with all the expansions. It's going to need a biiiiig table!

[cmot-dribbler.livejournal.com]

bah