Catan, originally published as The Settlers of Catan, is a multiplayer board game in which players build settlements, roads and cities across a modular hexagonal island, gathering and trading resources produced by dice rolls to fund further construction and to be first to reach a target number of victory points. It was designed by Klaus Teuber and first published in Germany in 1995. The game is widely credited with introducing a broad international audience to the German-style board game tradition, which favors resource management and trading over direct player elimination, and it has since appeared in numerous expansions and licensed editions.
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Origin YearWikipedia infobox (Catan): date='First edition: {{start date and age|1995}}' (corrected from truncated regex match) Originating Region Game TypeBoard game, resource trading and settlement building (Eurogame) 1 Governing BodyNo governing body; the U.S. National Championship and other tournaments are organized by the game's community and publisher rather than a federation. 1 Sport
Game Type (category) In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Europe, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia, Catan
WikipediaLead section, first sentence
Catan (), previously known as The Settlers of Catan or simply Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber.
Lead section, second sentence
It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos).
Tournaments section, U.S. National Championship
Every year, thousands of Americans compete at local qualifying Catan tournaments in the United States.
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