Carcassonne

Carcassonne delivers a similar experience, but more interesting. WOULD I RETRY: No.

This game is way easier to start playing and enjoying vs something like Catan, where new players need a 45min rule reading pow-wow before you begin playing, then 10-20mins of setting the board up, and then 2-3 playthroughs for most before everyone is comfortable with the rules and starts to form ide...

Carcassonne is good because he doesn’t have to keep an inventory of anything. Someone flips a tile for him and he tells them where to place it. Ticket to ride is good because the cards aren’t super detailed with text on them that have to be repeatedly reread to remember what they do. He can just see that he has 4 red, 3 blue, etc.

It's fun, but not as addictive/deep as board games like Catan. I think you can play this even if you are 50% drunk -- in fact, might be more fun then! === Pros === • Easy to learn -- there are 3-minute videos of the rules in YouTube • Relatively fast pace • A sufficient degree of competitiveness ===...

We actually won super easily because we rolled so well, and knew with 3 turns to go that our next 3 turns were a formality and we could just build the winning pieces. Apparently this game is extremely difficult to win, but we cruised because of a some lucky early turns.

It's fun, but not as addictive/deep as board games like Catan. I think you can play this even if you are 50% drunk -- in fact, might be more fun then! === Pros === • Easy to learn -- there are 3-minute videos of the rules in YouTube • Relatively fast pace • A sufficient degree of competitiveness ===...

I'm a huge Carcassonne fan, and I would have bought the big box of Alhambra as well, but every time I played it on BGA, the colors confused me. I kept wanting to by the green building with green money or the blue building with blue money! The fact that the same color means two different things makes this not as smooth as it could be. I know they tried to differentiate the shades a little, but it wasn't enough, at least from what I can tell.

I love this twist to the classic game of Carcassonne, this expansion is so much fun and allows for some huge points to be scored. The theming is really fun my wife and I always use this expansion when playing. Issues with Product My first complaint is with how the box arrived (see photo). As a board...

She lures you in with her serious looking components (hey, it doesn't look like Hungry Hungry Hippos or anything). You think, "ah this is going to be a really nice euro like El Grande, and I am going to enjoy strategizing and scheming to win for 90 minutes...and then you play it. You discover that the mechanics are thrown together in a slapdash manner, the theme is thin, and that you can go an entire game without rolling a single 9...and you realize that there are better ways to spend 90 minutes. All that being said, I rather adore Carcassonne and you hate it.

There has been a board game renaissance here lately, and I have missed out on it. So I thought hosting family for Christmas would be a good excuse to check out some of the new board games. After a trip to Barnes and Noble derailed by sticker shock and a certain misunderstanding between me and my wif...