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Carcassonne: Winter Edition box art
2012 Ranked #1,317

Carcassonne: Winter Edition

Snowy tile-laying game where players build a medieval landscape and place followers on cities, roads, and fields. Shared features grow with every tile, so each claim must weigh immediate points against the risk of being outscored later.

Family Games City Building Medieval Area Majority / Influence Tile Placement

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.8/5

Rating

7.50

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

Carcassonne: Winter Edition brings snow to the familiar Carcassonne setting, with knights still patrolling the cities, farmers still trying to feed the nation, and highwaymen who even travel on roads behind the city walls.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Area Majority

Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Tile Placement

Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Read the full game description

Carcassonne: Winter Edition brings snow to the familiar Carcassonne setting, with knights still patrolling the cities, farmers still trying to feed the nation, and highwaymen who even travel on roads behind the city walls. Carcassonne: Winter Edition, which plays the same as the Carcassonne base game, includes the same 72 tiles as Carcassonne in addition to twelve new basic tiles. The Z-Man English edition includes the Gingerbread Man Expansion for the first print run only. The new print run of Carcassonne: Winter Edition from Hans im Glück (2020, germany only) includes now the expansion The River, which is not separately available .

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

2
City Building Medieval

Mechanism

2
Area Majority / Influence Tile Placement

Family

1
Game: Carcassonne

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
40 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

Artists

1
Anne Pätzke

Publishers

1
Hans im Glück

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