Catan (English)

After a long journey with great deprivation, your ships have finally reached the shores of an unknown island. Its name shall be Catan! But you are not the only explorer. Other fearless seafarers have also landed on the shores of Catan: the race to settle the island has begun!

The women and men of your expedition are building the first two settlements. Fortunately, the yet uninhabited land is rich in natural resources. You build roads and new settlements that will eventually become cities. Will you succeed in gaining supremacy over Catan?

Trade dominates the scene. Some resources you have in abundance, while others are scarce. Iron ore for wool, bricks for timber - you trade for what is necessary for your current building projects. Proceed strategically! If you placed your settlements in the right spots and skillfully trade your resources, the odds will be in your favor. But your opponents are clever too.

How to play Catan

To start the game, we build the game board using hexagonal terrain tiles. Catan is 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 terrain hexes meet. They are your starting settlements. And then it begins. You roll two dice. An “11”! Each terrain hex is marked with a number. Each player who owns a settlement adjacent to a piece of terrain marked with the same number as rolled receives a resource produced by that hex.

Hills produce bricks, forests produce timber, mountains produce iron ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool. You use these resources to expand across Catan: you build roads and new settlements, or you upgrade your existing settlements to cities. For example, a road costs 1 brick and 1 timber. 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 wisely, you could be the first player to reach 10 victory points and thus win the game!

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