Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan's many harbors and regions: pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert.

Acquire your resources through trades, cards or lucky dice (even outside your turn). Use resource combinations of grain, wool, ore, brick, and lumber to build roads, settlements, and cities. Buy handy development cards.

But beware! Someone might cut off your road or play a monopoly card.

And you never know when the wily robber might steal some of your precious gains!

Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game. No two games are the same!

• The incredibly popular, multi-award winning civilization-building board game of harvesting and trading resources
• Players control their own civilization and look to spread across a modular hex-board in a competition For victory points
• Beware the robber’s nefarious plans as he steals resources and plunders the wealthy
• 3 to 4 players, 60 minutes, ages over 10