There is also a robber token, initially placed on the desert if a player rolls 7, the robber must be moved to another hex, which will no longer produce resources until the robber is moved again. For example, if a player has one city and two settlements adjacent to a grain hex, that player would take four grain resource cards if the corresponding number was rolled.
Players with a settlement adjacent to a hex containing the number just rolled receive one card of the corresponding resource cities produce two cards of the corresponding resource. On each player's turn, two six-sided dice are rolled to determine which hexes produce resources. Players build by spending resources (wool, grain, lumber, brick, and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce lumber, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool. In 2016, editions of the game were released with a conventional fixed layout board in this configuration, the hexes of which cannot be rearranged. Newer editions of the game began to depict a fixed layout in their manual, which has been proved by computer simulations to be fairly even-handed, and recommend this to be used by beginners. The game board, which represents the island, is composed of hexagonal tiles ( hexes) of different land types, which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game.
Players build settlements, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island. The players in the game represent settlers establishing settlements on the fictional island of Catan. This is one of many custom, extra-large Catan boards seen during demonstrations and tournaments at Gen Con. While the global economy spirals downward, the company says sales skyrocketed by 144% for the first five months of this year.A giant game of Catan being played at Gen Con Indy 2003. In my opinion, part of the success is that women play together in the family with their husbands and with their children."Īs families shelter in place because of the coronavirus pandemic, sales of Catan have climbed. I think these are actually factors that women like. Teuber has a theory about why the game became so popular. Catan sales surged after it was released in the United States in 1996 and continued upward, prompting him to quit his day job. Sales didn't taper off after a few years, as with his previous award-winning games. When it was released in Germany in 1995 - as Die Siedler von Catan - it was an instant hit. It took him nearly four years to reduce the game to a single island ready to be explored and developed by players (the sea exploration segment was later sold as an expansion of the original game). The first draft "was very big," he says, and it included multiple islands and ships filled with settlers exploring new lands. And this gave me the idea to create a game of exploration and of settling," he says. "I was fascinated that they sailed the open sea and explored new lands like Iceland, Greenland or America, and in my imagination I considered what will they do when they come to Iceland? They'll need wood, they'll need to harvest food. Then, in the early 1990s, inspired by the history of the Vikings and the Age of Discovery. His first games did well: He won three Spiel des Jahres awards, a coveted prize in the board game industry. It is a board game of trade and development where players compete for resources in a race to build settlements, cities and roads. "That was the very first step for the later development of Catan," he says.Ĭatan, once known as The Settlers of Catan, would become Teuber's masterpiece. He remembers playing it by himself, pitting one army against the other over a pretend-landscape of rivers, plains and mountains that he had fashioned at his family's home in Rai-Breitenbach, a German village located at the foot of a castle and surrounded by forest. "It was a tabletop game with wonderful painted figures, and you had to role the dice to fight against the others," Teuber recalls. It was a game of Romans versus Carthaginians. "Ah, so wonderful! There is adventure in this box!" "When I opened the box of the game, I liked the scent of the game," he remembers, inhaling deeply. In 1963, 11-year-old Klaus Teuber received a gift that would change his life: a board game. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the game's launch, the elder Teuber has released an autobiography, My Way to Catan. Klaus Teuber, creator of the popular board game Catan, with his son Benjamin Teuber, a managing director at Catan Inc.
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