Strategy and inventiveness are required in order to keep up. Teuber was born in in Rai-Breitenbach, a small village tucked beneath Breuberg Castle, in central Germany. As a child, he set up miniature fighters and ancient Romans on the floor, using strings to create mountains and rivers and to build routes through the terrain. He rediscovered games during his mandatory military service, when he needed something to entertain his wife and young son in the barracks. The game won the Spiel des Jahres award, the most coveted prize in the board-game world.
According to Stewart Woods, a communications professor at the University of Western Australia, a successful game typically sells about ten thousand copies in Germany; a Spiel des Jahres winner can expect to sell between three hundred and five hundred thousand. After Barbarossa, Teuber designed several other games and won two more Spiel des Jahres awards, but he was still working fourteen-hour days in the dental lab.
In , after reading histories of Viking life, he became fascinated with Iceland and the age of discovery. Eurogames—also called German-style games, because most of them originate in Germany—have fairly simple rules and are intellectually demanding but not overly complicated.
The rise of Eurogames parallels the rise of digital games, but Eurogames are insistently analog. Last August, nine hundred and twenty-two people played on a huge archipelago of linked Catans, setting a Guinness World Record for the most people playing the board game at one time. It hit the market just as the gaming community was adopting the Internet, and the Internet enabled Catan to go viral. There are more than eighty thousand active members of Playcatan.
Catan can be played on iOS, Android, and Xbox; there have been about two million downloads of Catan apps. In Germany, Catan sold very well in the first few years after it was released, then sales flattened. In the U. College students took it up, as did their professors. It spread to Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg and John Lilly traded bricks for logs on corporate retreats. The Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is also a fan.
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Highly addictive. NoName - 6 months ago , Verified purchaser. Great game! Wish there was not a separate expansion pack, but still great game. Absolutely YES 5 out of 5 stars.
MommyOf5 - 6 months ago , Verified purchaser. We love board games but I have never purchased a game that has been played so much and so consistently!! My kids ages 7,8,11 and 17 all take turns playing with my husband and I. We have ordered the expansion pack which allows for more players than 4! There is a bit of a learning curve and the instructions seem like a lot but once you take the time and read and play a few rounds, it all clicks. Not too hard for the younger players at all!
The game takes about 90 minutes for 4 players , it says 60 but I have yet to see that with my family. If your family loves board games and wants a different type game that involves some strategy and not all luck , I recommend Catan. Also all pieces are made thick and high quality.
Savanah Smiles - 7 months ago. We have a ball playing this game as a family. Load 8 more. Get top deals, latest trends, and more. Email address. Sign up. About Target Careers. Email Signup. Target Brands. Advertise with Us.
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