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Carcassonne Expansion 1: Inns & Cathedrals | 
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| Brand: Rio Grande Games
Category: Toy
Buy New: £9.98
New (12) from £6.69
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 362
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Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 2.8 x 7.5
MPN: 199
Model: 4098401
UPC: 492420655685
EAN: 0655132001991
ASIN: B00008URUN
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 A useful expansion. November 17, 2008
The addition of inns does serve to correct the bias in the game back towards using roads to score. The points tiles are really useful as there is a limit to the permutations you use to mover your man up the score track (right way up, on his side, upside down...)
 Greatly improves the Carcassonne experience March 11, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Inns and Cathedrals really is a superb addition to the basic Carcassonne set. It adds a lot more options for playing the game without overly complicating the rules or adding radically different elements to the game. Certainly an expansion for family play, it is a less ruthless than some of the later releases.
You have a large meeple who counts double; inn and cathedral tiles that score more points for completed roads and cities respectively, but only if they are finished before the game ends. There is also an extra set of meeples for a sixth player and tokens to denote 50 and 100 points scored.
Small additions that really add to the enjoyment of the game.
Essential Upgrade January 29, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you've played the basic game and enjoyed it, now is the time to add an expansion or two.
Several expansions are available and this one being the first of those I would add it as soon as possible after you are used to the basic game. Adds a few more tiles into the basic game, a couple of new rules, making it slightly more challenging. After this expasion I recommend Traders and Builders.
An essential upgrade December 31, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It seems that this expansion set is the result of customer feedback. It adds in features which improve the base set such as an extra piece per player (very useful if only 2 or 3 are playing), pieces for a 6th player; and tiles which increase your score only if the road/city is complete, as well as some interesting new tiles. You will find that you never play the game without this expansion set.
Hooked! January 21, 2007
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
After playing Carcassonne once I was instantly hooked. Briefly, the game consists of the following. Players pull a tile from the deck and place it against an already present tile. If you create a new object (a city, a road, a monastery, or a farm), you can claim ownership to it. Your score depends on the items you own, whether or not they have been completed and how developed they are.
To win the game you need good strategy and luck. The rules are easy to learn, and the game can be finished within the hour so you can play it more than once in one evening.
To play the game you will need Carcassonne, the original game. There are many expansions available that can only be played with the original game. There are also variants to the original game that cannot be played with the expansions. So read the description carefully before you purchase any additional items.
When purchasing the original Carcassonne I strongly recommend that you also buy at the least the first Expansion: Inns and Cathedrals, which makes the game more challenging and with higher risks.
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