Most groups can skip
- Our take
- Under the Big Top has fans, but it's hard to find and not essential. Skip it unless you spot it at a fair price.
- What you need first
- Just the base game
Carcassonne · Expansion
Under the Big Top
- What it adds
- 20 tiles, circus and acrobat tiles, animal tokens and ringmaster meeples.
- What it fixes
- Adds circus clustering bonuses; little core fix.
Sources
- meeplesherald.com (opens in a new tab)
- zmangames.com (opens in a new tab)
- en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
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