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"Played it once, now HAVE to buy it!"
This game is one which requires strategic thinking and the ability to change your plans in the roll of a dice. Players compete to build the largest civilization through acquiring and trading resources which can be spent on roads, new settlements and upgrading settlements to cities.
The rules can seem pretty confusing at first, but after a few turns you start to get the hang of just how resources are doled out and how to best spend them.
The special “Development cards” keep things interesting as you trade resources on a random card which could give you an extra “victory point” (first player with ten wins) or a knight to bolster your army, or a monopoly allowing you to have any resource you wish from all of the other players. The twists and turns that unfold as you play keep this game interesting and intense throughout.
Game is best with three or more players, and gameplay for us was about 90 minutes with four players.
This game is so good that we played it once with friends and now want to get our own!
"The greatest game I have ever played"
This game absolutely revolutionized my evenings, social life and in general my lifestyle. It involves a complex interplay of both strategy as well as pure chance, and no two games are the same. This is the base game and the extensions further enhance this great game, although it in itself is of utmost quality and in recent times has superceded RISK as the most exciting, and strategic oriented board game I have ever played.
"Great game with family & friends"
My friends introduced me to this game and I'm totally hooked – we try to have a game a week if possible! It's easy to set up and understand the rules. I highly recommend this game.
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Description
In The Settlers of Catan you control a group of settlers trying to tame the wilds on the remote but rich island of Catan. Start by revealing the island's many port sites and regions: plains, meadows, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board for virtually every game.
Then embark on a quest to settle the island of Catan. Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. Instead of money, you use combinations of resources - grain, wool, ore, brick, and timber - to purchase development cards or build roads, settlements, and cities. Acquire your resources through trades or the luck of the dice. But beware! Someone might cut off your road or buy a monopoly! And you never know when the robber will appear and steal away with your precious grains!
Contents: 37 hexagonal region tiles, 20 settlement pieces (5 x 4 different colors), 16 city pieces (4 x 4 different colors), 60 road pieces (15 x 4 different colors), 95 resource cards, 25 development cards, 4 building cost cards, 2 special bonus cards, 18 die cut counters, 2 six-sided dice, 1 wooden pawn. Box size approximately 30 x 23 x 5cm
2 - 4 players
Ages 10 & up
Playing time: 1-2 hours
Publisher: Mayfair
Authors: Klaus Teuber
Winner Deutscher SpielePre 1995
Winner Game of the Year (Germany) 1995
Winner Game of the Year Origins (USA) 1996
Origins Hall of Fame
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Fantastic game. Lots to do when it's not your turn. You win by being the fastest builder – you don't have to grind everybody else down, so it's still fun if you lose. Only two main pages of rules, but lots of scope for strategy, if you're that way inclined…