Entrepreneurs pay workers & bribe an official to build a Château & gain royal favor.

A classic game is back! As one of the first worker placement games, Caylus stands among the true board game classics of the 2000s. The original designers' team, together with the Space Cowboys, …

Because it's a damn fine game! Every few years a boardgame comes around that sets a trend in boardgame design. El Grande is to Area/Majority Control what Dominion is to Deck Building. In that …

The general theme and mechanics of Caylus Magna Carta are similar to the Caylus board game. However, there is no board or score track and the tactical nuts and bolts of the game are somewhat …

Dec 29, 2025 · Caylus is a coldly brilliant Eurogame of precision and tension, a design that rewards foresight, punishes inefficiency, and offers a near-perfect blueprint for the worker placement genre it …

Dec 19, 2025 · Caylus also features another clever mechanism: there is no first-player marker determining a clockwise turn order. Instead, players must fight for position on the order track, …

This 1-tile expansion for Caylus was a free give-away at the Essen 2005 fair. The tile depicts the "Jeweller" and can be used to trade gold for points in a 1:5 and 2:9 ratio (gold:points) …

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 …

Aug 21, 2006 · But Caylus is the only Eurogame that I can think of where more than two players negotiate and the result is to expend resources to explicitly harm another player or player's position (s).

Nov 13, 2007 · Caylus, a little known jewel of a town, perches on a hillock in the valley, surrounded on three sides by the steep wooded slopes of the limestone plateau. Huddled stone houses form …