The game starts with a single terrain tile face up and 71 others shuffled face down for the players to draw from. The game board is a medieval landscape built by the players as the game progresses. The game has spawned many expansions and spin-offs, and several PC, console and mobile versions. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. It received the Spiel des Jahres and theDeutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001. Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games (until 2012) and Z-Man Games (currently) in English.
