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Flashback Friday - Carcassonne - Love It or Hate It?
Love it or hate it? Do you still play it?
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Legomancer wrote: Presents itself as a game of building stuff but the main strategy is to keep anything from ever happening, which is dull. Only own The Castle, which I like a lot and don't play any of the others anymore.
That's very insightful. I have not thought about it this way.
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If playing with expansions I prefer to limit the tiles to about 15/player, randomly chosen from all tiles you're playing with. This has two laudable effects:
1. It controls the time. Carc is a fine game at 45 minutes but excruciating at 90+.
2. It keeps people from counting tiles, figuring that they have an X% chance of drawing the tile they need and adjusting their play accordingly. That is way too much effort to win a casual family game. (Alternately, just don't play with those people.)
My favorite version is the Ark of the Covenant.
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ChristopherMD wrote: Carcassonne is my favorite popular game that nobody ever wants to play.
I'm surprised. It seems like a lot of people still play it. Do you think it has fallen by the wayside in general, or do you think it is just your crowd that doesn't want to play it?
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ubarose wrote:
ChristopherMD wrote: Carcassonne is my favorite popular game that nobody ever wants to play.
I'm surprised. It seems like a lot of people still play it. Do you think it has fallen by the wayside in general, or do you think it is just your crowd that doesn't want to play it?
I don't have a crowd anymore but back when I did the game sat on my shelf for years with no love. I suspect its similar to Catan in that a lot of people burned out on it early in their gaming careers or just moved on to newer stuff in general and never cared to looked back. I happen to find the game relaxing (although i do play cutthroat) and I do jigsaw puzzles as well so looking for where a piece goes is my cuppa tea.
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Gary Sax wrote: Oh man, yes to the counting tiles problem if you were playing this truly competitively.
My box has extra tiles in it and damn that pisses people off on occasion. Entertaining as hell.
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