Carcassonne (iPhone)

I played an entire multiplayer game of Carcassonne in one sitting last night. I lost, heavily. I thought it was because I’d been unlucky with the draw, but my opponent told me that I’d missed several opportunities to take the biggest castle for myself. I guess, then, that I’m just not very good. (I’m still

Yes, yes, I’m only posting about Carcassonne today because I won a game against a few people. You got a problem with that? It’s my blog, I can do what I want. Y’all don’t me! I can do what I want! I’m grown!

So, yeah, as you can see from that picture up there, Carcassonne has a leaderboard that shows how you rank against all your friends. I’m not doing too badly at all, though I have a feeling I’m going to drop down a lot when a couple of my current games finish.

Just like Words With Friends, I play Carcassonne every day but never seem to blog about it. It’s hard to find anything useful to say. It’s a bloody brilliant game design, it’s perfectly executed on the iPhone and even the teething troubles with Internet play against friends seem to have been ironed out now. Oh,

Tried the Solitaire mode of Carcassonne last night. Basically, you need to create cities and roads that increase in size. First up, you need to create roads and cities that cover two squares, then three and so on. Laying tiles loses you points – and the points you lose increase as the size of the