Carcassonne Big Box 3

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, etc. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of his 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 his 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.

This new Big Box contains the base game, plus the most popular of the expansions: Inns & Cathedrals, Traders and Builders, Princess & Dragon, Abbey & Mayor, and Bridges, Castles, & Bazaars.

The table below indicates which expansions were included in the various compiled editions that have been available (✓ included; – not included):
NOTE 2013: The table below does not list all the expansion names, the 2012 box has 9 expansions.

Set	Limited	Big Box			10yr	Big Box
	2003	2006	2009	2010	2011	2012
Carcassonne	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
The River	✓	✓	–	–	–	—
The River II	–	–	✓	–	–	—
1. Inns & Cathedrals	✓	✓	✓	✓	–	✓
2. Traders & Builders	✓	✓	✓	✓	–	✓
3. Princess & Dragon	–	✓	✓	✓	–	—
4. The Tower	–	✓	–	–	–	—
5. Abbey & Mayor	–	–	✓	✓	–	—
6. Count, King, & Cult	–	–	✓	–	–	—
7. The Catapult	–	–	–	–	–	—
8. Bridges, Castles & Bazaars	–	–	–	✓	–	—
The Festival	–	–	–	–	✓	—
Minis including Corn Circles 2	–	–	–	–	—	✓

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