Carcassonne Bridges, Castles & Bazaars (Expansion #8)

Players 2-5 (Best with 3)

Playing Time  60 Mins

Age 8+

Complexity  2/5

REQUIRES Carcassonne Base Game to play!

The eighth expansion for Carcassonne, Brücken, Burgen und Basare (English: Bridges, Castles & Bazaars) allows players three new options while playing:

Bridges may be used to continue a road over a field tile, thereby allowing an incomplete road to technically run into a field segment. They are otherwise treated and scored just like roads.

Castle tokens are placed atop 2-segment cities and allow players a chance to cash-in on the next completed adjacent feature.

Bazaars are a new type of tile that allows players to auction off tiles in exchange for points.

Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner.

During a game of Carcassonne, players are faced with decisions like: "Is it really worth putting my last meeple there?" or "Should I use this tile to expand my city, or should I place it near my opponent instead, giving him a hard time to complete their project and score points?" Since players place only one tile and have the option to place one meeple on it, turns proceed quickly even if it is a game full of options and possibilities.

First game in the Carcassonne series.

 

2012 Ludo Award Best Board Game Editor's Choice Winner
2004 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Winner
2004 Vuoden Peli Family Game of the Year Nominee
2004 Hra roku Nominee
2002 Årets Spel Best Family Game Winner
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2001 Spiel der Spiele Hit mit Freunden Recommended
2001 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee
2001 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
2001 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game Winner
2000 Meeples' Choice Award

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