Carcassonne: Gold Rush

Carcassonne: Gold Rush, from 2014, is the second title in the Carcassonne: Around the World series, taking the classic tile-laying game to the 19th-century American West. You still build the landscape tile by tile and score for features you create, but now cowboys drive cattle, trappers trade, the first railway routes appear and your henchmen, as explorers, dig for gold nuggets in mines. Where you place your tent decides whether you snatch a nugget from another explorer, though sometimes you end up holding fool's gold while someone else strikes a rich vein. Two to five players, around 35 minutes, from age 8.