The Settlers of Catan Board Game - Available from: Amazon.com

Best-Selling Board Game of the Year

The Settlers of Catan Board Game, recently featured in Wired Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, has been the best-selling board game of the year in both the U.S. and Germany.

Game Description

One of the most successful games of all time, Settlers of Catan is a trading and building game set in the mythical world of Catan. The game utilizes a game-board with 19 hexogonal tiles that form an island.

In the game players, representing settlers, roll dice to gather resource cards from the island, such as ore, brick, wood, wheat and sheep. Players strategically trade the resource cards with other players to get what they need to build roads, settlements and cities, each of which are worth 2 points. The first player to score 10 points wins.

Many Technology companies are now using the game as an icebreaker at business meetings and also as a training aide. It is particularly popular in Northern California around Silicon Valley.

The Settlers of Catan was designed by Klaus Teuber and first published in Germany.