Build faster than ever and score even more points with this Carcassonne expansion. Traders & Builders expands on the popular Carcassonne base game, adding new features and opening even more ways to outwit your opponents. With the new builder follower, you can speed up construction by placing another tile immediately after you add a Land tile to a road or city that your builder occupies. Further, the pig followers and Goods tokens give you more ways to score points. The pig enhances the value of any farmers you have in the same field, while completing cities with Goods icons on them awards Goods tokens; the player with the most gains bonus points at the end of the game. Along with new followers and Goods tokens, Traders & Builders adds even more variety to the base game. Twenty-four Land tiles feature new landscape elements that alter the way some basic features operate. Some roads now feature bridges that do not count as junctions, potentially extending a road even farther. Finally, Traders & Builders makes storing and drawing Land tiles even easier with the included linen bag. Entirely redesigned and modernized, Traders & Builders gives you everything you need to return to the world of Carcassonne. This product is an expansion: Carcassonne base game required to play.

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New pieces offer tremendous strategic flexibility in the fifth expansion for Carcassonne. Abbey tiles act as monasteries, but you can use them to plug holes in the board by filling spaces surrounded by tiles. Mayors help you control cities by using coats of arms to determine their strength. Outside the city walls, Barns synergize with farmers to enhance the value of fields, while wagons can be placed like followers but then moved from one feature to the next after scoring. Employ cunning new strategies to outwit your opponents! This product is an expansion: Carcassonne base game required to play.

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Connect blocked paths, transform small cities, and bid on tiles in the eighth expansion for Carcassonne! Dead ends are no longer a problem—with 12 new wooden bridge tokens, players can easily continue a blocked road with a bridge piece. Placing the new bazaar tile allows you to host an auction, giving you the chance to spend your earned points to buy advantageous tiles. Small cities will score you a few points, but the new castle tile can transform the city and give you a chance to score even more points. Will you take the gamble to score even more? This product is an expansion: Carcassonne base game required to play.

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Build sky scrapers and develop transport in the city that never sleeps. A game of New York City is played over 5 game rounds. First, players each draw 3 cards from the deck. Then deal out cards in sets of two cards equal to two times the number of players plus one additional. In turn order, players draft a pair of cards until they have a total of 7 cards in hand. Next comes the bidding round, where in turn order players will play cards to bid to determine the strength of their action, with the player who bids the highest getting a bonus. In order, the actions are: Press: Advance on the Press track to determine player and tie-breaking order. Money: Receive money to be used for special actions. Characters: Take a character with a special ability or scoring up to the value of cards played. Building plans: Take a number of skyscrapers from the general supply. Prestige: Receive points equal to your bidding value. I addition, the first and second place bidder gets to increase the value of a borough. Skyscrapers: Players place skyscrapers from their board into borough currently being visited by the mayor. The game is played over five rounds (there are six boroughs, one is randomly not visited each game). Each game, the value of boroughs is randomly assigned, and the player with the most skyscrapers in a a borough receives full value, and the next player receiving half, and so on. There is also a bonus for building in every borough. Points are also awarded for certain characters, and the player with the most points is the winner. Based on Rialto, a previously designed game by Stefan Feld.

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