These days the term meeple is a synonym for any board game figure representing the player in any game, including the other 12 unique player pieces found across Carcassonne’s various expansions. Yet even then it took many years before Carcassonne’s rules actually referred to the pieces as meeple, an expansion in terminology that was long overdue. It wasn’t until after Carcassonne’s release that American gamer Alison Hansel came up with the portmanteau word ‘meeple’ in November 2000, by combining the words ‘my’ and ‘people’*. The rules referred to them as ‘Followers’ (‘Gefolgsmann’ in German), which become highwaymen, knights, monks and farmers when placed on the game’s roads, cities, monasteries and fields. Seidenstücker designed the iconic player pieces. It was during the game’s rapid development that Bernd Brunnhofer (founder of Hans im Glück, Carcassonne’s publisher) and wood manufacturer and token-creator Mr. Yet meeple, both the name and the shape, didn’t exist before Carcassonne. Squat and colourful person-shaped playing pieces, they’ve appeared on everything from t-shirts to cushions, earrings to Christmas decorations, wedding cakes to café names and, of course, websites. Perhaps the most famous image of the modern tabletop hobby, meeple are an iconic and influential design. To celebrate this incredible game, Meeple Mountain is proud to present the 21 most important and influential moments from 21 years of Carcassonne. It’s no exaggeration to say that Carcassonne has changed the landscape of tabletop gaming forever. Published in 2000, Klaus-Jurgen Wrede’s board game behemoth has sold over 12 million copies, been officially translated into 22 languages and reached an all-time high of #2 in the rankings on BoardGameGeek. A game with every Big Box expansion takes approximately 2,5 hours! We love this because you can play a quick game or you can play the game all evening! Besides this Big Box there are a lot of expansions available.Join Meeple Mountain as we celebrate everything Carcassonne, including the 20th anniversary of Carcassonne winning the Spiel des Jahres prize.Ĭarcassonne is one of the classic modern board games. By adding expansions to the game you can lengthen the duration. The base game will take approximately 30 minutes. The vast amount of expansions make it easy to adjust the length of the game to your own likes. This way playing a game of Carcassonne stays a challenge for a long time! We started by playing the base game and then adding an expansion every next time. In this group you can ask questions and you almost always get an answer within a minute. For that reason we joined a Carcassonne community on Facebook. However, not all of the specific rules are in the rulebook. The rules are very easy to learn and good enough to play the basic game. We recommend buying this version of the game right away because you can quickly get bored of the base game. The Big Box contains the base game with 11 expansions. The contrary has been proven! The next day we ordered the Big Box right away! We doubted if tile placing would be challenging enough. Carcassonne didn't catch our attention earlier. At the moment of writing, Carcassonne is one of our favourite games! We played this game at friends and got excited.

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