Carcassonne Expansion 10: Under the Big Top

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The circus comes to Carcassonne with new meeple types and tiles.

The Greatest Show on Earth
The tent has been pitched outside of town and the performers are ready to thrillthe crowd with their death-defying stunts. A new world of excitement awaits inUnder the Big Top, the tenth expansion for award-winning tile-laying gameCarcassonne. Capturing the thrill of the circus, this expansion incorporatestwenty new Land tiles and two new follower types into the Carcassonne library.Players can use them to attract people from all over the countryside to viewtheir menagerie of animals or witness their feats of death-defying skill. Justlike the daring risks that circus performers take, Under the Big Top givesplayers plenty of opportunities to score big points—if they can draw in thecrowds!

Enter the Big Top
At the circus, the big top is the main attraction. That’s no exception inUnder the Big Top. Much of the expansion focuses on clustering groups offollowers around the new tiles with the hope of getting big points when theirfeatures are scored. Gather meeples on the Circus tile and its accompanying bigtop figure or the eight tiles surrounding it and you’ll be rewarded the nexttime a Circus tile is drawn. Additionally, the circus is so exciting that normalfollowers are inspired to leave their lives behind and join the show. Stack yourmeeples into a meeple-pyramid on the Acrobat tiles, impress your friends, andscore points once the show is over. Finally, ringmasters behave like normalfollowers until the circus shows up. When that happens, they score bonus pointsfor being adjacent to Circus and Acrobat tiles when the features they’re onare scored. Under the Big Top brings a whole new layer of excitement toCarcassonne. Who will put on the best show and draw the biggest crowd?

Contents
Rulebook, 20 Land Tiles, 12 Circus Tiles, 8 Acrobat Tiles, 16 Animal Tokens,1 Big Top Token, 6 Ringmaster Meeples