Catan Cardboard Mayfair Games 5th Edition | Board Game for Adults and Family | Adventure Board Game | Suitable Ages | for 3 to 4 Players Average

To begin the game, we build the game board with hexagonal terrain tiles. is now born – a beautiful island with mountains, pastures, hills, fields, and forests, surrounded by the sea.

We each place two small houses on spaces where three of these terrain hexes meet, as our starting settlements. And so it begins.

Each terrain hex is marked with a die roll number. Each player who owns a settlement adjacent to a terrain hex marked with the number rolled receives a resource produced by this hex.

Hills produce brick, forests produce lumber, mountains produce ore, fields produce grain, and pastures produce wool. We use these resources to expand across : we build roads and new settlements, or we upgrade our existing settlements to cities.

For example, a road costs 1 brick and 1 lumber. If we do not have the necessary resources, we can acquire them by trading with our opponents. Each settlement is worth 1 point and each city is worth 2 victory points. If you expand cleverly, you may be the first player to reach 10 points and thus win the game.