Picture yourself in the era of discoveries: after a long voyage of great deprivation, your ships have finally reached the coast of an uncharted island. Its name shall be Catan! But you are not the only discoverer. Other fearless seafarers have also landed on the shores of Catan: the race to settle the island has begun!

About the game

The women and men of your expedition build the first two settlements. Fortunately, the land is rich in natural resources. You build roads and new settlements that eventually become cities. Will you succeed in gaining supremacy on Catan? Barter trade dominates the scene. Some resources you have in abundance, other resources are scarce. Ore for wool, brick for lumber - you trade according to what is needed for your current building projects. Proceed strategically! If you found your settlements in the right places and cleverly trade your resources, then the odds will be in your favor. But your opponents are smart too.

To begin the game, build the game board with hexagonal terrain tiles. Catan is now born - a beautiful island with mountains, pastures, hills, fields, and forests, surrounded by the sea.

Each player places two small houses on spaces where three of these terrain hexes meet, as their starting settlements.

And so it begins. Roll two dice. An “11”! Each terrain hex is marked with a die roll number. Each player who owns a settlement adjacent to a terrain hex marked with the number rolled receives a resource produced by this hex. Hills produce brick, forests produce lumber, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool.

Use these resources to expand across Catan: build roads and new settlements, or upgrade your existing settlements to cities. For example, a road costs 1 brick and 1 lumber. If you do not have the necessary resources, you can acquire them by trading with your opponents.

Each settlement is worth 1 victory point and each city is worth 2 victory points. If you expand cleverly, you may be the first player to reach 10 victory points and thus win the game!

Components

19 Hexagonal Region Tiles
6 Sea Frame Pieces
9 Extra harbor Pieces
20 Wooden Settlement Pieces
16 Wooden City Pieces
16 Wooden Road Pieces
95 Resources Cards
25 Development Cards
4 Building Cost Cards
2 Special Bonus Cards
18 Number Tokens
2 Dice
1 Wooden Robber Pawn
1 Rulebook & Almanac

Product Info

Ages: 10+
Players: 3-4
Playing Time: 45 to 90 minutes
Designer: Klaus Teuber
Art: Volkan Baga & Harald Lieske & Stephen Graham Walsh

To play with 5–6 players, the 5–6 player extension is required.

Skills:

Clever trading, strategy, tactical skill, luck

Spiel des Jahres 1995 (1995 Game of the Year) [Germany]
Deutscher Spiele Preis 1995 (1995 Award for Best Adult and Family Games) - 1st place [Germany]
Essener Feder 1995 - Beste Spielregel (1995 Award for Best Rulebook) [Germany]


It may not be possible to ship very heavy items outside of the Mainland UK.
Released: 30 November 2018