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Carcassonne: The Discovery
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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Rio Grande Games
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Binding: Toy
Brand: Rio Grande Games
EAN: 0655132002745
Feature: 2-5 players; 30 minutes playing time; ages 8 and up
Label: Rio Grande Games
Manufacturer: Rio Grande Games
Model: RGG274
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Studio: Rio Grande Games
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Features
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2-5 players; 30 minutes playing time; ages 8 and up
Improvements to Carcassonne, the award-winning game!
84 landscape tiles; 1 scoring track; 25 wooden followers
5 summary cards; 1 rules booklet
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Discovery is a new stand-alone Carcassonne game.
The inhabitants of Carcassonne have discovered a new region far away from their homeland - one that consists of meadows, mountains and seas. The followers, of which each player only has four (with a fifth for the scoring track) get placed as robbers (in the mountains), seafarers (on the seas) or explorers (on the meadows). On a player's turn, he must place a tile and may then place a follower on it.
As in the original game, tiles may only be placed so that identical landscape types match up. A follower may only be placed when no other follower has been placed there yet. When the follower is removed, however, then the size of the region in which the follower is located brings points - regardless of whether the region has been closed off or not, although closed off regions score considerably more points. There's also an additional rule that lets mountainous regions increase in value, even if they've already been completed.
This is a distinctly simpler version of Carcassonne than the original. This was the goal during the development of the game. It should have simpler rules, but offer greater strategic depth. What is interesting about the game is that regions aren't scored automatically any more (when they are closed off), this is a decision left to the player (the removing of the follower). Since the regions can only get more valuable, this ensures many agonizing decisions.
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Long Live Carcassonne
Comment: I've played all of the current Carcassonne expansions, but Carcassonne: The Discovery is the least competitive of all of them. This game is much more family friendly because of it. The shapes and colors are easy to recognize and play with. The only problem I've had with this game is storage. The pictures on the tiles are glued on, so make sure to store in a dry place otherwise they'll peel off.
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Summary: Carcassonne with a twist
Comment: I'm a big fan of all Carcassonne games. This one is no exception. I played it with my parents (not gamers) and had a blast.
Carcassonne: The Discovery is a tile laying game with little wooden followers. During your turn, you draw a random tile, place it where it is legal to do so and generates you the biggest advantage, and either place or remove a wooden follower. The first part of that is the same as many other carcassonne games: tiles are squares with mountain, grass, and water on the edges, and tiles can only be placed next to tiles with the same type of edge. The second part (placing followers) is the same as other Carcassonne games: you place your follower on one type of terrain on the tile (different terrains have different scoring rules). The last part is what differs significantly from the other carcassonne games. In The Discovery, followers stay on completed features until removed (and the points for a feature may go up after completion, so there is strategy in determining when best to score).
One complaint about the original Carcassonne is that there is little player interaction: often called "multiplayer solitaire," without, for example, the Inns and Cathedrals, Tower, or Princess and Dragon expansions, which all increase player interaction. This isn't as much of a problem (if you view it as such) with The Discovery. The scoring rules for the discovery are not entirely local. This causes players to be more likely to place tiles near where other players are playing.
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