Carcassone

Carcassonne is a great game,if not the best game to introduce the tile placement mechanic becoming popular in games today. For 2-5 players this game allows you to build cities, farms, roads, and monasteries  one tile at a time with randomly drawn tiles. It's as competitive as you make it, so hardcore gamers or social wallflowers will all have something to take home. Is one player building a booming metropolis, that if finished will surely win them the game? Try to invade and get your Meeples inside the city and split the point value, or get more Meeples inside the walls, and even steal the points all for yourself. However you decide to play the game, I can promise you'll never ever play the same game twice.

 If you'd like to play with more than 5 players the Inns and Cathedrals expansion is a must have as it opens up the game and the rest of the other expansions with the silver pieces. This add on allows 2-6 players to enjoy the game in addition to it's added rules. Word of CAUTION, other expansions will deliberately say they're for 2-6 players directly on the box. This is only partially true, IF you've bought Inns and Cathedrals, then yes the other expansions allow for 2-6 players, but without Inns and Cathedrals the other expansions are only going to be for 2-5 players.

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