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Carcassonne Amazonas
explore the jungle
Exploring the jungle along the Amazon river! Tiles show river side arms, villages and jungle as well as icons for animals, fruits and boats. 15 Amazon tiles featuring caimans and piranhas have special effects.
The starting board sits near the edge of the table, leaving room for two rows of, and you need about 1 m in front of the starting board. Each player has four meeples, two camps and a boat at the Amazonas source. The active placer draws a tile and adds it to the display, but only up to the same row as the front tile of the Amazon. If you add an Amazon tile, a new row is open for placement. On the newly added tile you either place a meeple or a camp or advance your boat on the Amazon by one step.
When you place your meeple on a side arm with a boat symbol, you advance your boat by one step for each boat symbol on the river. Then the tile is scored, if applicable: Completed river side arms and villages are scored like roads and cities of the basic game; fruits on river or village give you one point each.
If you expand the Amazon, sometimes by adding also a double tile, the Amazon is then scored: The boats in first and second place score points for caimans and Piranhas on the newly placed tile. Boats that did not score are then advanced by one step. When the last tile has been drawn, you score incomplete rivers and villages as usual, camps give you one point per animal in the jungle around the camp and boats score for positions One to Three on the Amazon river.
Whatever topic it features, Carcassonne is always good, challenging and constantly renewing itself, this time in the South American jungle, including a boat scoring, and again with a stunning graphic design.
Players: 2-5
Age: 8+
Time: 35+
Designer: Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Artist: Vicki Dalton
Price: ca. 20 Euro
Publisher: Hans im Glück 2016
Genre: Tile placement for points
Users: For families
Version: de
Rules: de en fr it nl
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Comments:
Series: Carcassonne Around the World
Placement restriction as in Carcassonne Mayflower
Nice variant of the core game
Compares to:
Carcassonne Mayflower and all other editions of Carcassonne
Other editions:
999 Games (nl), Filosofia (fr), Giochi Uniti (it), Z-Man (en)
Chance (pink): 2
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0