Carcassonne

Advantages: Endless joy and even more fun with the extensions
Disadvantages: It is addictive

...Scouts" supplies new tiles (for Carcassonne and Carcassonne "Hunter and Gatheres") that enable cities to be combined by bridges and bridges on road (rather than crossroads). The expansions make you score more points by building bigger cities and longer roads, make it more difficult to win thus make it more exciting. Summary ------------- The games is an endless joy even for grown-ups. When player properly it's the perfect strategy game and with ...
...friends have the same game we combine the tiles so the game gets more interesting and longer-lasting.In this way, more people can take part, too. The beauty of it is that you can play it with your (boy/girl) friend or with a group of friends. The scoring is really easy, once you played it but the strategy is differnt due to the numerous combinations that tiles can be placed. Since city tiles (squares) have sometimes only corners, wholy city, half ... Read review

Advantages: Enjoyable - and simple
Disadvantages: Not brilliant graphics

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Advantages: great family fun
Disadvantages: none

...positions to score points. Most of the mechanics are familiar from the original Carcassonne, but some new things are added to spice things up. So. That’s the gist of the game. We played it and this is what we thought. Adam aged 12: Really enjoyed it but hated losing when we added up the numbers at the end. You score points as the game progresses as well as totalling up objects (rivers, grasslands) at the end. Adam would often be leading only to be overtaken by one or two of us. The more we played the less this happened as he picked up the strategy better. Rebecca aged 9 (going on 19): Found this game the most enjoyable of several we’ve played together. For her, no one is shot of removed from the game (like in Risk for example), she enjoyed the fact we were playing with animals: deer, mammoths and aurochs roam the pastures along... Read review

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Advantages: Great fun
Disadvantages: additctive

...This is not just for history fans but for everyone who loves strategy games mixed with a bit of luck. The set-up is really easy and rules are easy to learn. basically start playing...or arther hunting or gathering. As the name implies we are catapulted back to the near ice age (historieans please do not take offence if I got that wrong) and we strive towards hunting and gathering. Like it's mother game "Carcassonne" it was nominated for "Spiel des Jahres" in Germany. The set-up is similar, so it's another tile-game. You are supplied with a number of diiferent tiles ranging from bonus tiles, forrest tiles, pasture tiles (with/without animals) to rivers and lake tiles. Each player, in turns, draws a tile and places it on the tiles already on the table. The first players need to place the drawn tile next to the "starting tile... Read review

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