• Award-winning board game for three or four players.
• Immerse yourself in an imaginary unexplored island, where players are explorers and settlers.
• Players must use their resources to develop their island home.
• Takes only 15 minutes to learn; beginner and advanced game modes.

.com ---- #review { width: 100%; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 12px; } .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } In this award-winning board game for three or four players, Catan is an imaginary unexplored island, and players are explorers and settlers. The playing surface is made of hexagonal tiles that, depending on their placement, create a different environment each time the game is played. Settlers must use their resources to develop their island home, building roads and houses to create new towns. But watch out! There's a robber on the island, and that renegade can show up at any time to steal your valuable resources. The game includes a rules booklet, a game almanac (with examples and advanced rules), cardboard hexagonal tiles, a plastic game sheet, small wooden markers (for settlements, cities, and roads), playing cards, and wooden dice. Settlers of Catan takes only 15 minutes to learn, and the game can be played in a simple version for beginners or in a more complex version for experienced players. --Marcie Bovetz Catan is an imaginary unexplored island, and players are explorers and settlers. Settlers of Catan incorporates many different board game elements, to deliver a rich experience of creating, trading, and developing territories in a new land. From the Manufacturer --------------------- Play an immigrant on the newly populated island of Catan. Build settlements, roads, and villages by taking commodities from the land around you. Turn sheep, lumber, rocks and some grain into a settlement, bricks and wood into road, or try to complete other combinations for more advanced buildings and services. Take advantage of trades with other players or at local seaports to get commodities you might lack. The first player to gain ten points from a combination of roads, settlements, and special cards wins. Winner of Games Magazine 100 Best Games of 1996, 1997, and 1998. Also winner of Germany Game of the Year 1995.