Setup is relatively easy, since Catan Junior does away with the original game's interlocking tiles in favor of a static board composed of 13 individual hexagonal islands, arranged on a traditional ...

“Settlers of Catan,” the competitive board game created by Klaus Teuber, is an award-winning game for ages 10 and up. The goal of the game is to collect and trade resources to build ...

Mr. Teuber did not take a childhood interest in board games until he was given a game about Romans versus Carthaginians at age 11. He began to experiment with different ideas of his own, coming up ...

Catan tells a story about Vikings colonizing islands long before the dawn of modern Europe, asking players to make their way in its fictional world by trading resources like wood, grain, and sheep ...

A new version of the board game, Catan: New Energies, introduces a 21st-century twist — pollution. Expand responsibly or lose. In the new version, modern Catan needs energy.