Carcassonne print-and-play demo

About Carcassonne

Carcassonne is Klaus-Jürgen Wrede’s tile-laying game, first published by Hans im Glück in 2000 and named after the walled city in southern France. Players take turns drawing a square land tile and adding it to a shared map of roads, cities, fields and monasteries. Asmodee offers a free English “Demo” file on its Print & Play site.

It is one of the best gateway games for families from age 7: one tile per turn, an obvious choice of where it fits, and a growing map that looks good on the table. The demo lets you test the rules before buying the box.

How to play in one minute

1. Place the start tile face up and shuffle the rest face down. Give each player their followers.
2. On your turn, draw a tile and place it so every edge matches its neighbours: road to road, city to city, field to field.
3. You may then put one of your followers on a feature of that tile, as long as no other follower already claims it.
4. When a road, city or monastery is completed, it scores at once and the followers on it come back.
5. When the tiles run out, score unfinished features and fields. The highest score wins.

What’s in the PDF

• One “Demo (English)” file listed under Games: land tiles to cut out and the demo rules. Asmodee does not state the tile count.
• Downloads open after you sign in with a free My asmodee account. We could not open the file, so the page count is not listed here.
• Print in colour on card stock so the tiles lie flat. Coloured buttons, beads or meeples from another game work as followers.