Of course, the Big Box also contains the mini expansion "The Crop Circles" but also "The Abbot" and "The River". Very pleased with this wonderful box and the service from Sue; it's perfect for my carcassonne collection. Secondly, it’s just a really well-designed addition to the game, both in its minimalism and its overall impact. I can't recommend it enough for any gamer or non-gamer, seeing how easy, involved, entertaining and complex it can be at the same time. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

But, the kicker is: if you’ve begun a feature that includes an Inn or a Cathedral tile and that feature isn’t completed by the end of the game, then you will receive zero points for the feature. Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. This Carcassonne Big Box includes the base game of Carcassonne , the 2001 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year), along with 11 expansions. Where The Messengers knocked it out of the park, The Robbers swings for the fences and misses the ball entirely.

There are cases in which you won't mind a player also gaining points from a structure you started and worked on, and others where you will.

If that player controls the field at the end of the game, the pig makes the field more valuable, scoring four points per completed city as opposed to three. New ferries along these roads alter paths, providing new opportunities to any of your enterprising thieves. I also enjoyed how the Big Box provides all the materials for six players already, and not just five as the current basic game does. From then on, every time you place a tile that expands the road or city your builder is in, you get to immediately play another round. More ways to score; cunning insertion of meeples in places where they wouldn't have normally gone; more or less interaction; more or less tactics; more or less of anything!I was in a position where I not only wanted those early mini-expansions, but I also needed a better storage solution. I will not be discussing any of these expansions in this review because this review is focused on Big Box 7 (released in 2021). Sure, it looks a little awkward with the two different styles mixed up on the board, but until my fantasy becomes reality and Hans im Glück releases the “Doris Matthäus Abbot Expansion Mega Upgrade Pack”, it’ll just have to do. If an Inn is incorporated into a road that scores, then each tile in that road scores double the points.