Klaus-Jurgen Wrede's genre-defining Carcassonne will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year.

To mark the occasion, Hans im Gluck, the original publisher of the Spiel des Jahres-winner, is issuing a new 10th Anniversary edition of the game that will be packaged in a giant blue meeple-shaped case, which will include all the contents of the original game plus ten new land tiles and colored translucent meeples.

The medieval city-building Carcassonne is a quintessential tile-laying board game that remains extremely popular. Thanks to its enduring play value and a number of clever expansions,nearly a decade after its first release, it still managed to take the #5 spot on ICv2's most recent list of "The Top Ten Board, Card, & Family Games."