Settlers of Catan

The Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber and first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as Die Siedler von Catan. Players assume the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop their settlement while trading and acquiring resources. Players are rewarded points as their settlements grow; the first to reach a set number of points is the winner. At no point in the game is any player eliminated. The Settlers of Catan was one of the first German-style board games to achieve popularity outside of Europe. Over 15 million games in the Catan series have been sold, and the game has been translated into thirty languages from the original German. It has been called "the board...