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Year Published
2006
# of Players:
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 players
(9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
8 and up
User Suggested Ages
8
(1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(5 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Carcassonne - The Tower
Alternate Names
Carcassonne - 4. Erweiterung - Der Turm
Carcassonne - De Toren
Carcassonne - Der Turm
Carcassonne - La Torre
Carcassonne - La Tour
Carcassonne - Torni
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The Tower is the fourth major expansion for the Carcassonne game. Tower segments are added to the game, as well as some new actions. Instead of placing a Meeple as usual on their turns, players can now either place a tower segment on a tile with a space for a tower, add a tower segment to a tower already standing, or place a Meeple on top of a tower (which "finishes" it).

Placing a tower segment allows you to capture other players' Meeples, so long as they are in view of the tower in an orthogonal direction. If the tower is 1 piece high, they can capture Meeples that are within 1 tile of the tower; if the tower is 2 pieces high, they can capture Meeples within 2 tiles of the tower; etc. Not only do players lose whatever they may have scored with that Meeple, but they also have to pay 3 victory points if they want to free their Meeple.

Part of the Carcassonne series.

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2 tower_tuckbox.pdf
A tuckbox with room for both the tower tiles and tower pieces.
2007-08-26
4 Carc_Tower_Rules.pdf
Original RGG Tower Rules (permission granted by Rio Grande)
2007-06-23
4 TheTower.pdf
ADMIN: Remove old version. Rules, comment and tile distribution, updated from the Big Box. V1.2 (edits and new tile distribution list)
2007-03-11
3 TheTower.pdf
Rules, comment and tile distribution, updated from the Big Box. V1.3
2007-02-01
0 carca_derturm.pdf
Règle en français
2007-01-23
3 CarcassonneTheTower Dutch.doc
Rules in Dutch
2006-05-09
3 Reglas Carcassonne_La Torre.doc
Reglas en castellano de Carcassonne La Torre
2006-03-22
3 Tower Tiles.pdf
Tile Distribution (In same format those posted for other games in the series.)
2006-02-16
Statistics
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Num Ratings: 1491
Average Rating: 6.63
Standard Deviation: 1.44
Num Views: 59101
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Fans: 4
Personal Comments: 548
Users Owning: 3000
Users Wanting: 69
Users Trading: 38
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 1
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1014
Plays This Month: 1
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Carcassonne
Rank 57
Num Ratings 18462
Average Rating 7.52
Average Weight 1.94
Owned 19876
Prev. Owned 241
For Trade 346
Wanted in Trade 162
Wishlist 803
Comments 5728
Year Pub. 2000
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