This site is a community dedicated to the board game we love called Carcassonne, to all its expansions, variants, and spin-off games.  This is what you can expect:

• An active forum where you can ask questions about the game and share your ideas with fellow gamers
• Annotated rules for Carcassonne and its expansions
• FAQs (frequently asked questions) about the rules for Carcassonne and its expansions
• Strategy guides
• Occasional contests with Carcassonne-related goodies as prizes
• The Variant Registry, the most comprehensive listing of unofficial variants for Carcassonne
• News about new Carcassonne expansions and gaming events

When you register an account, you are signing up as a member of a community, your community!  The staff of Carcassonne Central (sometimes called Carc Central or even CC for short) are all volunteers, whose enjoyment of the Carcassonne series brings us together to share our enjoyment of the game.  Your friendly admins, Gantry and Matt, are not absentee owners - we play the games, interact with the community, and share in the fun.

Registering as a member is free, and it gives you access to downloads, occasional contests and access to our message boards.  Register your account today!

News:

22 May 2010.

Carc Central forums are now up and running. See News & Events post for detailed info.

13th March 2010.

Carcassonne Central has its own facebook group!  Feel free to join the group and discuss all things Carcassonne related on Facebook.

18th February 2010.

The 2010 mini-expansion has been revealed to be Die Kornkreise (translated as The Corncircle).  There is a page about it on Hans im Glück's site together with the rules in German.  This mini-expansion is currently included in the base game published by Hans im Glück.

11th February 2010.

The 8th expansion for Carcassonne has been announced to be Carcassonne: Brücken, Burgen und Basare (roughly translated as Carcassonne: Bridges, Castles and Bazaars) and will be published by Hans im Glück.  The expansion will come with 12 tiles, 12 city tokens and 12 bridge pieces.  The expansion allows a player to do three additional actions:

 

• Bridges allow roads to be continued over a field tile
  
• Castles are placed on 2-tile cities for extra points.
• Bazaar introduces auctions. 

Edit 18th February 2010: The game expansion page in German with the rules is now available on Hans im Glück's site.

 

9th January 2010.

There is a problem with one of the database files of the forums resulting in the forums being unaccessible. We apologize for any inconvienence caused.  We are trying to get this fixed as soon as possible.

 

5th December 2009.

Spielbox has finally published the rules for The Tunnel in English.  Discuss the expansion in the Carcassonne Central forum here.  Thanks to Joff for contributing to this.

3rd November 2009.

Hans im Glück has announced on their website that a new version of Carcassonne has been released for Nintendo DS.  Discuss about it here in the forums.

22nd October 2009.

The Spielbox October issue with the new 4-tile expansion "Der Tunnel" has been delivered.  Discuss the expansion in this forum thread and the translation of the rules to English here.

22nd October 2009.

The game page for Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune is now available at Rio Grande Games' website, and it includes the English version of the rules.  Discuss about the expansion in this forum thread.

22nd October 2009.

Cardcassonne is a new spin-off for the Carcassonne series and will for the first time, include cards in a Carcassonne game.  There is a game page at Rio Grande Games' website.  Discuss about the new spin-off in this forum thread.

22nd October 2009.

The River expansion is now available as a standalone expansion in English from Rio Grande Games.  There is a game page at Rio Grande Games' website.  Discuss about the expansion in this forum thread .