Not suitable for children under 36 months
Game Reviews
Marks are out of 10
This is a great Euro game in which you represent a Master Builder and his team of builders attempting to bring glory to the city of Caylus by building the king’s castle.
You use your builders to take actions that vary from building parts of the castle, to building stone or …
Caylus
The award winning game of building and strategy
1289. To strengthen the borders of the Kingdom of France, King Philip the Fair decided to have a new castle built. For the time being, Caylus is but a humble village but soon workers and craftsmen will be flocking by the cartload, attracted by the great prospects. Around the building site, a city is slowly rising up…
The players represent master builders. By building the King’s castle and developing the city around it, they earn prestige points and gain the King’s favour. When the castle is finished, the player who has earned the most prestige wins the game.
This is an unusual and challenging game which is finely balanced so that the outcome often hangs in the balance to the very end. And, as with all the best strategy games, there are different routes to victory. Should you concentrate on building the castle? Or, perhaps, aim to gain the most royal favours? Maybe the road to success lies in constructing the village buildings? But whatever you do, don’t get ahead of the Provost or you’ll have wasted all your efforts!
Box contains:
- 1 game board
- 1 bailiff cylinder
- 1 provost disk
- 40 cardboard coins
- 30 worker cylinders
- about 100 houses
- 35 marker disks
- about 140 resource cubes
- 40 building tiles
- rules booklet
If you’ve enjoyed this product, why not try Caylus Magna Carta?
