Friends • family • fun Studio™ CatanCatan Core Overview Games After celebrating its 20th anniversary, Catan® is one of The Catan® line of analog games and accessories is the fastest growing major game brands in the World. It organized into five major categories: Catan Core line, is the most highly regarded analog game series of our Catan Variations, Catan Derivations, Catan Accessories, time. Designed by Klaus Teuber in 1995, the Catan core and Catan Merchandise. Best sellers in each category are game (aka The Settlers of Catan®) has been the Game of highlighted below. the Year in countries all over the world. Proclaimed the “Game of the Century” in 2000, it has been described as the “best boardgame ever made.” Already this CATAN CORE GAMES generation’s favorite and most enduring board game, These 10 products are the core of the Catan universe. Catan is a best-selling mainstay in most game shops, • Catan® both brick & mortar and online. Everything from mom • Catan Expansions® (these expand on the base game) & pop shops to box stores have been part of Catan’s - Catan: Seafarers success. - Catan: Explorers & Pirates - Catan: Cities & Knights In Catan your adventurous settlers seek to tame - Catan: Traders & Barbarians the rich isle of Catan. Its random mix of pastures, • Catan Extensions® (add 5-6 players to your games) fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert creates a - Catan 5-6 different board virtually every game—no two games - Catan: Seafarers 5-6 are alike! You guide your settlers to victory by using - Catan: Explorers & Pirates 5-6 clever trading and cunning development. Combine - Catan: Cities & Knights 5-6 resources—grain, wool, ore, brick, and lumber—to - Catan: Traders & Barbarians 5-6 build roads, settlements, cities, and more. You acquire your resources through trade, planning and a bit of luck. CATAN GAME DERIVATIONS There are many routes to victory. Everyone plays to the These products use rules that differ from Catan. end, so victory is always possible, if not likely. Normally • Catan: Junior™ a game takes only ≈60-90 minutes to play. • Rivals for Catan™ (2-player Card Game) With over 23 million games in circulation, Catan is a - Rivals Expansion: Age of Darkness growing global brand. Catan is in over 35 languages - Rivals Expansion: Age of Enlightenment and its international tournament program is a major • Struggle for Catan™ (Multi-player Card Game) draw at consumer game shows. The 2016 Catan World • Catan Dice Game™ Championship will take place in Durango, Colorado. • Catan: Histories™ There dozens of national champions from all over the - Settlers of America world will play before a live online audience. A record - Merchants of Europe breaking 1040 players played together in a single Catan: • Star Trek Catan™ Big Game™ at the International Game Fair in Essen, - Federation Space Expansion Germany in October 2015. • Catan: Collector’s Editions™ Strong social interaction and indirect competition make the game appealing to all, while countless board CATAN GAME VARIATIONS configurations and varying strategies invite frequent These use rules that differ not at all to only slightly replay. People enjoy Catan regardless of age, socio- from Catan. economic status, gender, or culture. That’s why so • Catan: Traveler™ many publications describe Catan as the “Perfect Social • Catan: Family Edition™ Game.” Its easy to learn, always fresh, swiftly playable, • Catan: Geographies™ highly interactive, unpredictable, addictive, and fun. • Catan: Scenarios™ • Catan: Special Editions™ Recent articles about Catan have appeared in Wired, Newsweek, US News & World Report, The Washington CATAN GAME ACCESSORIES Post, The New York Times, The Times, The Financial Catan products that are playable parts of the game. Times, and The New Yorker. The Wall Street Journal • Catan: Game Cards™ described Catan as the “New Golf for Silicon Valley.” • Catan: Cities & Knights Game Cards™ Catan has appeared on TV shows like Supergirl, Orphan • Catan: Traders & Barbarians Game Cards™ Black, The Big Bang Theory, The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, and Parks & Recreation. Everything from bath towels to auto models to soccer teams have borne CATAN GAME MERCHANDISE the “Catan Sun” mark. All of this reinforces the fact that Catan products that enhance and support the brand. Catan is a growing cultural force and an emerging • Catan Game Cards “lifestyle” brand. • Catan Collector’s Ornaments 2 Catan Core Games Catan® Catan® Stock #: 3071 5 & 6 Player Extension MSRP: $49.00 Stock #: 3072 The Core Game MSRP: $25.00 – For 3-4 players A Catan Extension – Ages 10 & up – For 2 additional players – Game Length 60 min. – Ages 10 & up Players are recent – Game Length 90 min. immigrants to the Extend your Catan games to include more players. newly populated This extension adds more hex tiles, resource cards, island of Catan. and development cards, plus green and brown Expand your settlements, cities, and roads for two additional colony through the building of settlements, roads, players. and cities by harvesting resources from the land around you. Trade wool, lumber, bricks, and grain Note: You need Catan to play this extension. for a settlement, bricks and lumber for a road, or try to complete other combinations for more advanced buildings, services, and specials. Trade with other players, or at local seaports to get resources you might lack. The first player to achieve 10 points, from a combination of settlements, cities, and special cards, wins. 3 Catan Core Games Catan: Catan: Seafarers™ Seafarers™ 5-6 Player Extension Stock #: 3073 Stock #: 3074 MSRP: $49.00 MSRP: $25.00 A Catan Expansion A Catan Extension – For 3-4 players – For 2 additional players – Ages 10 & up – Ages 10 & up – Length 60 min. – Length 90 min. Add islands, Extend your Catan and Catan: Seafarers games pirates, gold, to include one or two additional players. This ships, and trade. extension adds more hex tiles, green and brown Expand your ships for more players, and several new scenarios. Catan game in new directions! Play an immigrant Note: You need Catan, Catan 5-6 Player Extension on the newly populated archipelago of Catan. Build and Catan: Seafarers to play this extension. settlements, roads, shipping routes, harbors, and cities by taking commodities from the land and islands around you. Turn some bricks and lumber into roads, or turn some lumber and some wool into ships. Take advantage of trades with other players, or at local seaports to get resources you might lack. Note: You need Catan to play this expansion. The Image below shows Catan and Catan: Seafarers combined. 4 Catan Core Games Catan: Catan: Explorers & Explorers & Pirates™ Pirates™ 5-6 Player Extension Stock #: 3075 Stock #: 3076 MSRP: $55.00 MSRP: $32.00 A Catan Expansion A Catan Extension – For 2-4 players – For 2 additional players – Ages 12 & up – Ages 12 & up – Length 90+ min. – Length 120 min. Pursued by Extend your Catan and Catan: Explorers & Pirates pirates, lost games to include one or two additional players. in the fog, heading for new shores. Adventure, This extension includes new frame pieces, sea Excitement, Variety. Experience seafaring on hexes, and new green and brown wooden pieces. Catan! Equip settler ships and cargo ships, explore Note: You need Catan, Catan 5-6 Player Extension uncharted regions, trade spices with natives, fight and Catan: Explorers & Pirates to play this extension. pirates and capture their fortresses—even act as a freebooter yourself! Catan: Explorers & Pirates offers 5 magnificent scenarios that can be combined in various ways. This variety brings you many hours of adventure. Become the greatest explorer of Catan! Note: You need Catan to play this expansion. The Image below shows Catan and Catan: Explorers & Pirates combined. 5 Catan Core Games Catan: Catan: Cities & Cities & Knights™ Knights™ 5-6 Player Extension Stock #: 3077 Stock #: 3078 MSRP: $49.00 MSRP: $25.00 A Catan Expansion A Catan Extension – For 3-4 players – For 2 additional players – Ages 12 & up – Ages 12 & up – Length 90 min. – Length 90 min. Dark clouds are Extend your Catan and Catan: Cities & Knights gathering over games to include one or two additional players. the peaceful island of Catan. Wild barbarians, This extension adds two more flip charts, green attracted by the wealth of Catan, set sail to attack and brown cities and knight pieces, and the country. Fortunately, warning has given Catan additional cards. time to meet the danger. Players compete to build Note: You need Catan, Catan 5-6 Player Extension the three great metropolises of Catan. Each of and Catan: Cities & Knights to play this extension. these magnificent centers are worth two additional victory points. To build a metropolis, players must invest in city improvements. To acquire these improvements, players must acquire the three new types of commodity cards: coinage, paper, and cloth. These cards can only be gained by building a city next to mountain, forest, or pasture hexes. Be prepared for new challenges and a longer game! The first player to reach 13 victory points will be the winner in Catan: Cities & Knights! Note: You need Catan to play this expansion. The image below shows Catan and Catan: Cities & Knights combined. 6 Catan Core Games Catan: Catan: Traders & Traders & Barbarians™ Barbarians™ 5-6 Player Extension Stock #: 3079 Stock #: 3080 MSRP: $49.00 MSRP: $25.00 A Catan Expansion A Game Extension – For 2-4 players – For 2 additional players – Ages 12 & up – Ages 12 & up – Length 90 min. – Length 90 min. Immerse yourself Extend your Catan and Catan: Traders & in new Catan Barbarians games to include one or two additional adventures! A campaign of 5 Catan scenarios players. This expansion contains green and brown provides new challenges. Encounter wild rivers, playing pieces, additional hexes, camels, cards, camels and barbarians, help build the Council of coins and more. Catan by providing marble and glass, and tap the Note: You need Catan, Catan 5-6 Player Extension rich Catanian fishing grounds.