Catan

Setup

1

Looking for something specific?

Use the magnifying glass on the top right in the burger menu

2

Setting up the game board

Assemble the water frame

Fill it with hexagonal landscape tiles

Place them like this in the first game. It's balanced and fair

Later distribute the tiles as you like

Place number tiles on them

In the first game distribute them fairly, like here

Later you can lay them out in order A-F on the landscape tiles

Then flip the number tiles - with the numbers facing up

Place the robber piece on the desert

3

Resource cards

Make 5 stacks of cards - one for each resource

place them in the display box - that's the bank that manages the resources

4

Setting up development cards

Shuffle the development cards

Place them in the free compartment next to the resource cards

5

Trade routes and knight power

Place the two cards visibly next to the game board

They bring victory points

How exactly you can find out here

6

Distributing playing pieces

Everyone grabs their settlements, cities, and roads in one color

Plus an overview card of the building costs

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The game material is described in more detail below

Goal

1

Build quickly and grab the resources

Resources come from landscape tiles that border your settlements

See how it works here

For this, the number on the tile must be rolled

With these resources, you can build more settlements and roads

Settlements can be upgraded to cities to get double resources

Or you buy development cards for progress and victory points

2

You win if you reach 10 victory points

3

You earn victory points for settlements, cities, and cards

Settlement = 1 point

City = 2 points

Victory point cards = 1 point

Trade routes and knight power = 2 points

Gameplay

1

Setup phase at the start of the game

The starting player begins as follows

He places a settlement at an intersection between the landscape tiles

Next to it, he places a road in any direction

This is done by all players in turn

Caution: The settlements must not be next to each other

The last player may immediately build a second settlement and road

Then it goes backwards to the starting player

Before it starts, there are still resources

for the second settlement of each player

Check the adjacent landscape tiles

For this, there is one resource card each

2

Game phase: Build, trade, play cards in any order

After the setup phase, the game continues in turn

When it's your turn, roll both dice

Add up the dice points

Did you roll a 7?

Then the robber becomes active

You can find the rules here

Every other number is on the landscape tiles

Look for the tiles with the rolled number

All adjacent players get resources

How exactly it works, you can find out here

3

Trading Resources

You may trade cards with any player

Entirely at will, as long as it remains non-violent

Or trade with the bank 4:1

Give 4 identical resource cards

Receive 1 random resource card

Harbor trades 3:1 or 2:1

If you have a settlement at a harbor,

you can trade this resource as shown

Example: You have a settlement at the Straw Harbor

Give 2 straw cards to the bank

Receive 1 random resource card

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Building

On your overview card, you see the building costs

Give the costs as resource cards to the bank

Roads

cost 1 wood and 1 clay

must be adjacent to one of your roads or settlements

is built between two intersections

Settlement

costs 1 wood, 1 clay, 1 straw, and 1 wool

must be adjacent to your own road

No two settlements may stand next to each other

They must be separated by at least 2 roads

You get 1 resource from the next round

for adjacent landscape tiles

if the number on the landscape is rolled

City

costs 2 grain and 3 ore

Replaces a settlement - The settlement is removed

For this, you get 2 resources from the next round

for adjacent landscape tiles

if the number on the landscape is rolled

Development cards

cost 1 grain, 1 wool, and 1 ore

You draw a card face down from the stack

You may play it from the next round

Victory point cards can be played immediately

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Playing an event card

Once per turn you may use a development card

Progress card

Carry out the action described on the card

The card then leaves the game

Victory point cards can be collected face down

Reveal them when you reach 10 victory points

Knight card

You may move the robber, as described here

It remains in front of you

If you have 3 knight cards, you get the knight power card

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Game phase as flow diagram

Here you see the flow of a game round

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Material

1

The game board consists of

19 landscape tiles - hexagonal

Including 1 desert tile in the middle

4 forests, 4 pastures, 4 grain fields, 3 clay pits, 3 ore fields

18 number tiles - round

You roll to activate them

Size and color indicate how often they are rolled

Large and red numbers are more frequent than smaller numbers

The frame with water

Trading places on the coast that give you trading bonuses

More information about trading here

2

Game pieces

The nasty robber figure

Starts on the desert tile

Rob players who hoard more than 7 resource cards

All details here

Settlements

Placed on intersections between the landscape tiles

You must dock it to your own road

No two settlements allowed next to each other

Cities

Upgrading a settlement to a city

Exchange the existing settlement for a city piece

Roads

connect your settlements and cities

New settlements can only be built on your roads

Attention! Always at least 2 roads between settlements

3

The cards

5 different resource cards

Wood, clay, wool, grain, ore

Each type of landscape delivers a different resource

Development cards

Progress cards

bring one-time benefits

You may keep them face down

Victory point cards

provide points at the end of the game

Knight cards

With them, you can move the robber and rob opponents

Once you have 3 knight cards, you snatch the knight power card

Special cards bring 2 victory points

More about this here

Trade route

If you build 5 connected roads

Knight power

If you have played 3 knight cards

Infos

1

Special cards Knight Power and Trade Route

Knight Power

Regularly buy development cards

Among them are Knight cards

When you have played 3 Knight cards, you get the Knight Power card

Trade Route

Build 5 connected roads

You receive the Trade Route card

The card must be given to the player with the longest road

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Receiving resources

After a dice roll, you look for the landscape tiles with the rolled number

There are 2 landscapes with the same number

Each type of landscape delivers a different resource

Each player who has a settlement next to these areas receives resources

For a settlement: 1 resource card

For a city: 2 resource cards

3

Moving the robber with a 7

When someone rolls a 7, the robber becomes active

All players who have more than 7 resource cards must give up half

Including the player who rolled the 7

Rounded down

If a player has 8 or 9 cards, they must give up 4

With 10 or 11 cards, they must give up 5

The active player who rolled the 7

may move the robber to another landscape tile

He chooses a player with a settlement on that tile

And he draws a random resource card from that player