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Carcassonne: South Seas

Game ID: GID0059719
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2013
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Description

Carcassonne: South Seas keeps the familiar tile-laying gameplay of the original Carcassonne, with players adding a tile to the playing area each round and optionally placing a token on the tile to claim ownership of...something. Instead of the familiar cities, roads and farms, however, players in Carcassonne: South Seas use their meeples to gather bananas, shellfish and fish, then ship those goods to traders in exchange for points.

Carcassonne: South Seas is the first game of a new series titled "Carcassonne Around the World", which was later followed by Carcassonne: Gold Rush and Carcassonne: Amazonas.

Description

Carcassonne: South Seas keeps the familiar tile-laying gameplay of the original Carcassonne, with players adding a tile to the playing area each round and optionally placing a token on the tile to claim ownership of...something. Instead of the familiar cities, roads and farms, however, players in Carcassonne: South Seas use their meeples to gather bananas, shellfish and fish, then ship those goods to traders in exchange for points.

Carcassonne: South Seas is the first game of a new series titled "Carcassonne Around the World", which was later followed by Carcassonne: Gold Rush and Carcassonne: Amazonas.

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • beautiful visuals
  • interesting resource economy
  • favorite within the Carcasson world series
Cons
  • noted as having some luck factors in other variants; South Seas itself is praised for its design
Thematic elements
  • resources (bananas, shells, fish) and land/water interplay
  • islands, sea landscape
Comparison games
  • Carcasson (base game)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • island-building with resource contracts — close islands to gain resources; spend resources to buy contract tiles for points.
  • no points for features (optional) — you can choose to not score points in order to remove ghosts.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • There’s something very beautiful and wonderful about this.
  • It's Carcasson for two players designed by Rhina Kitia.
  • The cool twist here is you want to score specific amounts of points to get these bonus tiles that give you bonus scoring and some bonus actions.
  • It's tense. It's quite difficult.
  • The reason it's the best one is because I feel it does something that's interesting. It's very beautiful.
  • It's a great little card game.
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