Designer Klaus Teuber Publisher Mayfair Games Players 3-4 Playtime 60-120 mins Suggested Age 10 and up Honors 1995 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game Winner 1995 Essener Feder Best Written Rules Winner 1995 Meeples' Choice Award 1995 Spiel des Jahres Winner 1996 Origins Awards Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Board Game Winner 2001 Origins Awards Hall of Fame Inductee 2002 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Japanese Game Nominee 2004 Hra roku Nominee 2004 Hra roku Winner 2005 Gra Roku Game of the Year 2011 Ludo Award Best Board Game Editor's Choice Winner 2012 JoTa Best Game Released in Brazil Critic Award 2012 JoTa Best Game Released in Brazil Nominee Expansions Catan: Treasures, Dragons & Adventurers Catan: 5-6 Player Extension Catan: Cities & Knights Catan: Explorers & Pirates Catan: Seafarers Catan: Traders & Barbarians Catan: Explorers & Pirates - 5-6 Player Extension Catan Scenarios: Helpers of CatanCatan Geographies: New EnglandCatan Geographies: Georgia Catan Scenarios: Frenemies Catan Scenarios: Rickshaw Run Catan Geographies: Delmarva Catan Geographies: Penn/Jersey Catan Geographies: New York Catan Geographies: The Carolinas Catan: Seafarers Scenario – Legend of the Sea Robbers Catan Scenarios: Oil Springs Catan Scenario: Crop Trust The Settlers of Catan: The Great River Catan: Cities & Knights – Legend of the Conquerors CATAN: The Helpers CATAN: Hawai'i Scenario CATAN: Soccer Fever Scenario Family Catan Series Struggle for Catan Reimplemented By The Settlers of ZarahemlaThe Settlers of the Stone AgeCatan: Ancient EgyptCatan: Traveler – Compact Edition Catan Histories: Settlers of America – Trails to Rails Accessories Yucatan Adventure BoardLarge 30mm 2-Sided RobberCatan Replacement Cards Gamegenic - Catan Trading Post Gamegenic - Catan Hexadock: Base Set Gamegenic - Catan Hexadock: Expansion Set Catanimal Plushes - Catan Brick Sprite Catanimal Plushes - Catan Ore Sprite Catanimal Plushes - Catan Robber Sprite Catanimal Plushes - Catan Sheep Sprite Catanimal Plushes - Catan Wheat Sprite Catanimal Plushes - Catan Wood Sprite Additional Info 13/catan http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/297/catan/reviews In Catan (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players collect these resources (cards)—wood, grain, brick, sheep, or stone—to build up their civilizations to get to 10 victory points and win the game. Setup includes randomly placing large hexagonal tiles (each showing a resource or the desert) in a honeycomb shape and surrounding them with water tiles, some of which contain ports of exchange. Number disks, which will correspond to die rolls (two 6-sided dice are used), are placed on each resource tile. Each player is given two settlements (think: houses) and roads (sticks) which are, in turn, placed on intersections and borders of the resource tiles. Players collect a hand of resource cards based on which hex tiles their last-placed house is adjacent to. A robber pawn is placed on the desert tile. A turn consists of possibly playing a development card, rolling the dice, everyone (perhaps) collecting resource cards based on the roll and position of houses (or upgraded cities—think: hotels) unless a 7 is rolled, turning in resource cards (if possible and desired) for improvements, trading cards at a port, and trading resource cards with other players. If a 7 is rolled, the active player moves the robber to a new hex tile and steals resource cards from other players who have built structures adjacent to that tile. Points are accumulated by building settlements and cities, having the longest road and the largest army (from some of the development cards), and gathering certain development cards that simply award victory points. When a player has gathered 10 points (some of which may be held in secret), he announces his total and claims the win. Catan has won multiple awards and is one of the most popular games in recent history due to its amazing ability to appeal to experienced gamers as well as those new to the hobby. Die Siedler von Catan was originally published by Kosmos and has gone through multiple editions. It was licensed by Mayfair and has undergone four editions as The Settlers of Catan. In 2015, it was formally renamed Catan to better represent itself as the core and base game of the Catan series. It has been re-published in two travel editions, portable edition and compact edition, as a special gallery edition (replaced in 2009 with a family edition), as an anniversary wooden edition, as a deluxe 3D collector's edition, in the basic Simply Catan, as a beginner version, and with an entirely new theme in Japan and Asia as Settlers of Catan: Rockman Edition. Numerous spin-offs and expansions have also been made for the game. The Settlers of Catan is the original game in the Catan Series.
