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2018 Ranked #3,055

Carcassonne: Safari

Safari tile game where explorers discover animals across bush, savannah, and watering holes. Followers and bonus locations create competing scoring paths, so every tile must reveal wildlife while placing helpers where they can complete useful features.

Family Games Animals City Building Tile Placement Continents: Africa

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

7+

Complexity

1.85/5

Rating

7.04

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.8/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.0/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In the standalone game Carcassonne: Safari, players go out on a safari and try to see as many animals as they can, despite these animals hiding in the bush, in the savannah, or near watering holes. Help your friends to dig out such holes and receive bonus points.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Tile Placement

Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
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In the standalone game Carcassonne: Safari, players go out on a safari and try to see as many animals as they can, despite these animals hiding in the bush, in the savannah, or near watering holes. Help your friends to dig out such holes and receive bonus points. Sometimes you will see animals while taking a nap under a big baobab. Carcassonne: Safari is the fourth title in the "Carcassonne Around the World" series. —description from the publisher

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

2
Animals City Building

Mechanism

1
Tile Placement

Family

4
Continents: Africa Game: Carcassonne Series: Carcassonne Around the World Theme: Safaris

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
35 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.9/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

Artists

1
Anne Heidsieck

Publishers

1
Hans im Glück

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