My First Carcassonne (formerly known as ''The Kids of Carcassonne'') is a tile-laying

German-style board game A Eurogame, also called a German-style board game, German game, or Euro-style game, (generally just referred to as board games in Europe) is a class of tabletop games that generally has indirect player interaction and abstract physical componen ...

developed by

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. It is a game in the ''

Carcassonne Carcassonne (, also , , ; ; la, Carcaso) is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitanie. It is the prefecture of the department. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Carcassonne is located in the plain of the ...

'' series, published by

Hans im Glück Hans im Glück is a German board and card game publisher. Though many of their own games are language-independent they themselves publish only printings for the domestic market which include only German-language rules; English-language printings o ...

in Germany and

Z-Man Games Z-Man Games is an American board game company, incorporated in 1999. It was named after its founder, Zev Shlasinger. The company is known for their ''Pandemic'' series of board games, as well as being the sole publisher for the English editions of ...

in North America. ''My First Carcassonne'' is the third ''Carcassonne'' spin-off, following '' Carcassonne: The Castle'' and '' Carcassonne: The Discovery''. (Spin-offs are designed by someone other than series creator

Klaus-Jürgen Wrede Klaus-Jürgen Wrede (born 1963 in Meschede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German board game creator, the creator of the best-selling ''Carcassonne'' and ''Downfall of Pompeii''. Early life Born to music-teacher parents in Meschede, Germany, Wrede g ...

; ''My First Carcassonne'' is designed by Teubner, with both Teubner and Wrede credited on the box.) Based like the main game on the historical walled city of

, it centres on a group of children celebrating a national holiday by catching livestock.

Gameplay

The game consists of eight followers given each player and 36 large tiles. At the start of the game, one tile is randomly selected to be the starting tile. On each player's turn, that player takes one of the remaining tiles and places it adjacent to a tile already in play, ensuring the roads on each tile are contiguous. Each tile contains figures of various colors on the roads; when a road is completed, players place their followers on the figures of the corresponding color on the newly completed road. The winner is the player who first places all of their followers. In the case that all 36 tiles are played without anyone placing all eight followers, the winner is the player who has placed the most followers. {{DEFAULTSORT:My First Carcassonne Board games introduced in 2009 Carcassonne (board game)