Carcassonne scoring guide: roads, cities, monasteries and farmers
June 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Quick answer
In Carcassonne you score features as you complete them: roads earn 1 point per tile, cities 2 per tile plus 2 per pennant, and monasteries 9 when fully surrounded. At game end, incomplete features score reduced points and each farmer earns 3 points per completed city touching their field.
How do you score completed features?
Most Carcassonne points are scored during the game, the moment a feature holding your meeple is finished:
- Road: 1 point per tile, once both ends are closed off
- City: 2 points per tile, plus 2 points per pennant
- Monastery: 9 points when its tile is surrounded by all 8 neighbours
Scoring a feature returns the meeple to your supply: Carcassonne is as much about recycling meeples as about the points themselves.
What happens at the end of the game?
Incomplete features score reduced points: roads 1 per tile, cities 1 per tile plus 1 per pennant, monasteries 1 point plus 1 per neighbouring tile.
Then come the farms: each farmer scores 3 points per completed city touching their field. Farm scoring decides more games than anything else, and it is also the rule that has changed the most between editions, so agree on which version you play before the first tile hits the table.
Common scoring mistakes in Carcassonne
- Scoring a city or road that still has a gap: a feature is complete only when every open edge is closed.
- Forgetting pennants: 2 points each in completed cities, 1 each at game end.
- Miscounting farms: fields are separated by roads and cities, so trace the boundaries before counting cities.
- Mixing farm rules from different editions within the same group.
Free Carcassonne score sheet (no signup)
Add your players, fill in the boxes as you go and the totals add themselves up. Leave a box empty if it scored nothing: then tap See who won when the game is over. Nothing is sent anywhere: the sheet stays in this browser, so you can close the tab mid-game and pick it up later, or print it blank and use a pen.
| Category | ||
|---|---|---|
Points on the score track | ||
Incomplete roads and cities | ||
Incomplete monasteries | ||
Farmers | ||
| Total | 0 | 0 |
For the points you scored during the game just carry over the score track. The rows below are the end-game count, the one that gets argued about.
2–5 players
An empty pad for the table: no scores, nothing on screen is cleared.
What's the easiest way to track Carcassonne scores?
Carcassonne endgame counts are famously easy to get wrong. A permanent record of the final scores won’t stop the farm arguments, but kept in RivalBoard, a free shared leaderboard app for friend groups, it does settle who actually leads the rivalry.
RivalBoard is a free shared leaderboard app for friend groups, made for exactly this: log each Carcassonne match in seconds and everyone in the group sees the same standings, with win percentages, streaks and head-to-head records. Still weighing your options? See our comparison of paper, spreadsheets and apps for tracking board game scores.
Frequently asked questions
How many points is a completed city in Carcassonne?
2 points per tile plus 2 points per pennant. If the city is still incomplete when the game ends, it scores 1 point per tile and 1 per pennant instead.
How do farmers score in Carcassonne?
Farmers stay on the board and score only at the end of the game: 3 points for each completed city that touches their field. Fields are separated by roads, cities and the edge of the map.
Do incomplete features score anything in Carcassonne?
Yes, at reduced value during final scoring: incomplete roads score 1 per tile, incomplete cities 1 per tile plus 1 per pennant, and monasteries 1 point plus 1 per surrounding tile.
Is there a free Carcassonne score sheet online?
Yes, the end-game score sheet on this page is free and needs no signup: carry over the points from the score track, then add incomplete features and farmers separately, which is where the count usually goes wrong. It is made by RivalBoard, a free app that keeps a shared leaderboard for your group across game nights.
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