Carcassonne Traders & Builders Board Game EXPANSION - New Strategies Await! Medieval Tile-Laying Strategy Game for Kids and Adults, Ages 7+, 2-6 Players, 45 Minute Playtime, Made by Z-Man Games

I have played this game with both two and four players and it plays well with both. I have also added two expansions, Inns and Cathedrals and Traders and Builders. The base game itself is excellent and has a lot of replay value. It is among my more frequent go-to games. It is easy to teach to new people that are not familiar with gaming. The ability to add expansions is another great aspect of Carcassonne. Traders and Builders is an excellent expansion. It adds a few more twists to the game such as the potential to gain extra points at the end of the game by collecting resources gained throughout the game by helping your opponent complete a city. There is also and added meeple that provides an extra turn and a pig to add to your farmers. If you are looking to add one expansion and have narrowed it down to Traders and Builders and Inns and Cathedrals, I would go with Traders and Builders as it adds more of a twist to the game. Overall, both are good expansions.

We have been enjoying Carcassonne and were ready for an expansion. This one makes the game even more fun. One of the things I like the best about this expansion is the little bag that comes with it and holds all of the tiles. It just makes the game easier and more efficient. We find the game to be more interesting and more competitive with this expansion.My favorite part of this expansion is the builder. If you place your builder properly, you can change your game dramatically. But, if you place it the wrong way, then you end up being frustrated! The builder makes the game so much fun.Not as excited about the 'goods' aspect of it, but it does add a nice little twist to this fun game!

So far my favorite expansion. The tiles are great and line up like they are supposed to.

New additions are the city tiles with goods icons on them. Collect the most amount of goods scores you extra points at the end of the game. The builder is placed on an already claimed road or city. The next time you build on that feature, you can play another tile. The pig is placed after the farmer and gives you 4 points per completed city at the end of the game.

Love Carcassonne!! The bag is a great bonus! We put all of our meeples, trader tokens and accessories to our expansions in the original box and keep the tiles in the bag this way we don't have boxes and boxes on our game shelf. My husband and I always play with all expansion rules, but when I teach others how to play, we do the original game first, then explain all the different expansion options to pick a couple new rules to add each time. People really seem to like the trader tiles. I love that it encourages people to finish others cities. The builder is nice too, doesn't do a whole lot most of the time, but once and a while a player can really get going with that and pick tile after time, and that can be a rush! Overall, great expansion to a great game.

This review is only for the quality of the tiles. Tiles are very difficult to remove from their original board. They stick in and are impossible to remove without damaging them. Paper sticks to edges/corners and the back actually ripped slightly so the layers of paper separated. I ah entered had this happen on other Carcassonne games. Amazon is sending a replacement and I hope it doesn’t have the same problem.Update: Amazon sent replacement and it is fine! So I am changing rating to 4 stars.

Love this game!

I bought this without buying the first expansion, and it incorporates to the base game flawlessly. It adds many more tiles, builder meeples, and pig meeples. Builders let you take a second turn if you add onto a road or city your builder is on. Pigs increase the score of farmland you own. This is good, because farmland is how you win. That is the secret.Oddly, it included pink pieces... which the base game doesn't have. Maybe the first expansion comes with pink meeples to increase the player count? I'm not sure. Someone let me know.