Catan
Build, trade, and settle the island of Catan.
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The game represents settlers establishing settlements on the fictional island of Catan.[1] With more than 22 million copies sold since its creation, Catan is one of the most played board games in the world.[2] Klaus Teuber designed the multiplayer board game Catan, which Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) first published in Germany in 1995.[3]
Making and release
The game's first expansion, Catan: Seafarers, adds the concept of exploration.[4] The combined game including Seafarers is probably the closest game to Teuber's original intentions.[4] The base game of the Catan series is designed for 3–4 players.[5] From 1993 through 1995, Teuber and Kosmos worked together to streamline and reduce the complexity of the game, resulting in its final version.[6]
A 1996 release added an extension that increased the base game's player capacity to six.[5] Cities and Knights of Catan, the second major expansion, debuted in 1998.[5] To mark the series' 20th anniversary in 2015, the entire Catan line was rebranded, and the original game formerly called Settlers was renamed simply Catan.[7]
What the cited sources add
The Board Game Analysis blog defined a balanced Catan board as one where resources and roll probabilities are equally distributed on the board.[2] A study published in 2015 concluded that the game provides numerous chances for mathematical investigation within a classroom setting.[8] A board configuration from a 2016 tournament was also examined and earned a score of 0.106.[9][2]
References
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Perling, "The best beginner board games for adults", The Wirecutter, 9 December 2019; "Professor Easy's Settlers of Catan tutorial" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Player One, "What is a balanced Catan board?", Board Game Analysis, February 21, 2020. facts only, no text reused. boardgameanalysis.com
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Levy, "Special K", August 2001; "Families Stuck At Home Turn To Board Game Catan, Sending Sales Skyrocketing", NPR.org; "About Us CATAN", www.catan.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Levy, "Special K", August 2001 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Klaus Teuber's Ludography" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Catan-Domaine-Entdecker", Mayfair Games (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Settlers of Catan®: 20 years of settling, trading and building", Mayfair Games, 15 January 2015 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Austin, "The Settlers of Catan: Using Settlement Placement Strategies in the Probability Classroom", The College Mathematics Journal, 2015, p. 275–282 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Catan" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Player One, "What is a balanced Catan board?", Board Game Analysis, February 21, 2020 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia: Catan (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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