Creating a Timeline of Social Board Games: Carcassonne

This is a game I played during time at university. It is a fun game played by up to 5 players. Each player gets a different set of coloured pieces that are shaped like people. The goal of the game is to gain points and travel furthest on the board. The players move based on points gained by placing tiles on the table and creating places like roads, castles, forts and farms. Players can take these places when they build them by placing one of their pieces on that place. The piece can be removed when the area object has been completed. For example, if the players create a fully complete castle, the players involved in it's creation gain the points for the castle. A new player can contribute to building and gain a share of the points for completing the building. At the end, the player who has built the most and gained the most points wins. The larger a building, the more points that are gained.

Players will usually act friendly to try and get large structures as others help build, making them as large as possible. Or they could be cold and get angry if any other person tries to take any points from their structures.

Here is what the finished game could look like.The brown areas are castles and the white areas are roads. Players would place pieces on places they own until they are finished.

Source: http://norvig.com/carcassonne.jpg