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Major Extensions

Mini Extensions

Game Mode

The Abbot

Placement rules

Retrieve the Abbot before the 3x3 tiles are placed for immediate points

Retrieval bonus

New figure: Abbot

Figures

Festival action

New tiles

The Festival

Festival follower retrieval action

{total, number} Festival tiles

Field scoring

How Fields work

When ordinary followers are placed on a field, they become farmers

No New Figure

This extension doesn't introduce any new tiles

No Tiles

Each completed city touching your field awards 3 points during final scoring

End-game scoring

Fields & Farmers

New Figure: Big Follower

Inn and Cathedral Bonus

Inns & Cathedrals

{total, number} Inns & Cathedrals tiles

Phantom can be deployed alongside another follower

Double placement

The Phantom

Tiles

New figure: Phantom

Tile count

The River

River placement rules

{total, number} River tiles

You can play a game with this extension enabled on TileLord.

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This extension adds the following tiles:

New Figure: Builder

Trader Goods

Traders & Builders

New Figures: Pig

{total, number} Traders & Builders tiles

Place the Abbot on a monastery or garden. You can remove it on your turn to score points equal to the tiles in its surrounding 3x3 area.

Abbot

{fieldsEnabled, select, true {The big follower can be placed on castle, road, or field. It counts as two ordinary followers for majority scoring.} other {The big follower can be placed on castle or road. It counts as two ordinary followers for majority scoring.}}

Big Follower

Place the Builder on a road or castle you control. Whenever you extend that feature, you immediately take another tile placement turn.

Builder

{fieldsEnabled, select, true {The base unit. Can be placed on castle, road, monastery, or field.} other {The base unit. Can be placed on castle, road, or monastery.}}

Follower

The Phantom lets you place a second follower in the same turn. It counts as a regular follower for scoring.

Phantom

Place the Pig on a field you control to gain 1 extra point for each completed castle touching that field.

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Hide tile owner dots

Show tile owner dots

Hide tile placed highlight

Show tile placed highlight

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Current action

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Scoreboard

Frequently asked questions

Experience Inns & Cathedrals and Traders & Builders expansions for deeper strategy.

Big Extensions

Customize timers, player colors, follower counts, and more for flexible gameplay.

Configurable Games

Play with The River, The Abbot, Fields & Farmers, and The Phantom - plus major expansions like Inns & Cathedrals and Traders & Builders.

Extensions

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Multiplayer Matches

Challenge clever AI opponents to practice your tile-placing strategy anytime.

Singleplayer Mode

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Waiting room - add bots or share link for others to join

Game Lobby

Kick player

Players

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Live Games

Available Games

You have a game in progress. Pick up where you left off.

Last Unfinished Game

Sometimes it's good to work together, especially if it's a player who's not winning. But be careful not to help them too much!

Three or More Players

Playing With Different Numbers of People

It's just you vs them. Every point you stop them from getting is same as getting a point yourself.

Two Players

Carcassonne base game has 72 tiles. Some tiles are rare, some are more common. Knowing tile distribution and tiles left in the deck helps you win.

If you know certain tiles are gone, you can safely give up on things that can't be finished. You can also block things that are impossible to complete.

Tile Counting

Advanced Carcassonne Strategy Guide

Cities

Fields

Monasteries

Roads

Carcassonne Strategy Tips: The Basics

Use these tricks and tactics in TileLord - the #1 Online Carcassonne Alternative. Play against AI Bots or challenge your friends.

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A simple but comprehensive guide to beating your friends at Carcassonne.

Carcassonne Strategy Guide

If you can't score points, mess up their plans. Put tiles that make it impossible for them to finish their cities or roads. This traps their followers and stops them from scoring.

Blocking Enemy Features

Followers are limited, you only get 7 of them. Use them wisely.

Follower Management

When someone builds a larger city, try to merge with it. This lets you share points (or even steal them).

Merging (Joining)

Use a 3-edge or 4-edge city tiles to sabotage an opponent's city, so it has more open edges.

Sabotaging

Intermediate Carcassonne Tips & Tactics

One step after blocking is trapping - making it impossible for them to finish their feature.

Trapping

All 15 tiles have been placed, and unfinished buildings are scored like this:

You won 🏆

Closed cities score 2 points per city tile.

Surround the monastery with tiles in a 3x3 area to score 9 points.

You gain points by owning and closing buildings.

Buildings

Start with an interactive tutorial to learn the basics of the Carcassonne board game—from drawing tiles to placing followers and scoring your first points.

Learn how to play Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a classic tile-laying board game where players build medieval landscapes of cities, roads, and monasteries to earn points and outsmart their opponents.

Carcassonne Tutorial

Learn how to rotate and place tiles to close a city for 6 points.

Complete Your First City

Check the strategy guide for additional Carcassonne tips.

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A few more things..

Followers decide control. The player with the most followers on a building scores when it closes.