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Catan Card Game bears only a slight resemblance to The Settlers of Catan, the original game in the Catan series. There are six resources: wool, wood, bricks, grain, ore, and gold. Before beginning the game, the players receive six square cards showing the resources, with a different die number on each card. In addition, the players start the game with two village cards and a road card connecting them. There are card stacks of more roads and villages, as well as cities, to be purchased during the game. With each new village or city comes two new resource cards. Villages and cities give victory points.

When the number die is rolled, instead of collecting more cards, the players rotate the corresponding card 90 degrees to indicate a gain of one more of that resource; i.e., the brick card shows a picture of one brick on one edge of the card, two bricks on the next clockwise edge, three bricks along the third edge, and zero bricks on the fourth edge.

There is also an event die, with five possible outcomes:


a reward for the player with more knight points or more 'windmill' points (a picture of a windmill on some cards),
a bonus resource,
an attack if a player has too many resources, and
one of six special events - civil war, conflict, master builder, plague, productive year, or progress.


There are 62 expansion cards in six stacks in the center of the table. Before beginning the game, players choose one stack, go through it, and choose three cards to hold in their hands. 42 of the expansion cards require spending resources to be put into play, gaining civic improvements or knights. Every civic improvement serves some useful function or adds victory points or both. Twenty of the cards are actions benefiting one of the players or harming the other. After a player pays to put a card down or uses an action card, he blindly draws a replacement. Unwanted or unusable cards can be traded in future turns. Some of the cards have flags on them, indicating victory points.

Twelve victory points wins the game.

Belongs to the Catan Series and is part of the Kosmos two-player series.

Genres

Dice Rolling   Hand Management   Open Drafting   Trading  

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Release Date	1996
Players	2-2
Playing time	120 minutes
Age	10+
Alternate names	Catan Card Game Catan Telepesei: Kártyajáték Catan με Κάρτες Catan το παιχνίδι με κάρτες Catan: Jocul de carti Catan: O Jogo de Cartas Catanin uudisasukkaat: Korttipeli I Coloni di Catan: Gioco di Carte Colonistii din Catan jocul de carti Los colonos de Catán: El juego de cartas Les Colons de Catane: Le Jeu de Cartes De Kolonisten van Catan: Het Kaartspel Naseljenci otoka Catan: Igra s kartami Naseljenci otoka Catan: Igra s kartami za dva igralca Osadníci z Katanu: Karetní hra pro 2 hráče Osadnicy z Catanu: Gra Karciana The Settlers of Catan Card Game The Settlers of Catan Card Game Die Siedler von Catan: Das Kartenspiel Die Siedler von Catan: Kartenspiel – Für zwei Spieler Карточные колонизаторы Колонизаторы. Карточная игра 卡坦島紙牌版
Honors and prizes	1997 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place 1997 Fairplay À la carte Runner-up 1997 Meeples Choice Award Nominee 1997 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2020 5 Seasons Best International Card Game Nominee
Publishers	KOSMOS 999 Games Albi Competo / Marektoy Devir Filosofia Éditions Galakta Giochi Uniti Kaissa Chess & Games Laser plus Mayfair Games Piatnik Smart Ltd Tilsit