Carcassonne: Markets and Bridges is an expansion for the popular board game created by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede. It features new types of tiles and wooden pieces to represent bridges that allow crossing rivers. This expansion, designed by the famous author of the entire Carcassonne universe, was released in 2010.
Markets and Bridges is the seventh expansion of Carcassonne, the classic tile-placement game. It introduces new territory tiles and three new rules: bridges, castles, and markets.
Bridges can be used to continue a road over a field tile, which is a significant change to the game, as it now allows placing road tiles next to a field, something that wasn't possible before. These incomplete roads can be finished later by adding bridges. Castle tokens are placed in two-tile cities and allow players to incorporate their meeples into the nearest field, road, or city. Markets are a new type of tile that lets players auction for victory points.
Markets and Bridges adds a lot of player interaction to Carcassonne, with tile auctions and the ability to build bridges between different fields to disrupt the actions of rival farmers.
Company
Devir is a Brazilian publishing group founded in 1987 and specialized in entertainment products: fantasy literature, comics, and games of all kinds, including role-playing games, board games, collectible card games, and more. The group has subsidiaries in eight different countries: Brazil, Portugal, Spain, the United States, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina.
Devir holds exclusive translation rights to Portuguese and Spanish for Wizards of the Coast products. The four most representative games in the company's catalog are the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and the board games Catan and Carcassonne, all of which feature international tournaments.