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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
卡卡頌 - 高塔擴充
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Description Edit | History

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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5 tower_tuckbox.pdf
A tuckbox with room for both the tower tiles and tower pieces.
2007-08-26
5 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
4 CarcassonneTheTower Dutch.doc
Rules in Dutch
2006-05-09
4 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: 1658
Average Rating: 6.58
Standard Deviation: 1.46
Num Views: 65181
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Users Owning: 3360
Users Wanting: 68
Users Trading: 49
Has Parts For Trade: 2
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