Q 01/05

Who designed Catan?

A) Klaus Teuber

B) Reiner Knizia

C) Wolfgang Kramer

D) Uwe Rosenberg

Answer · why

A) Klaus Teuber

Klaus Teuber began inventing games in the early 1980s to unwind from a stressful day job; Catan sold so well that in 2002 he founded his own company, ...

Q 02/05

Catan helped spread which style of board game worldwide?

A) Eurogames

B) Wargames

C) Party games

D) Abstract games

Answer · why

A) Eurogames

Eurogames favour trading and building over knocking rivals out, so every player stays in until the end; Catan was one of the first to become popular b...

Q 03/05

Each player begins a standard game of Catan with two settlements and two of what?

A) Cities

B) Knights

C) Roads

D) Harbours

Answer · why

C) Roads

Roads: each starting settlement comes with one, and because every later settlement must connect to your own road network, where those first two point ...

Q 04/05

Which company first published the game?

A) Ravensburger

B) Kosmos

C) Mayfair Games

D) Hans im Glück

Answer · why

B) Kosmos

Its full name is Franckh-Kosmos Verlag; Mayfair later handled the English editions for years.

Q 05/05

Under what longer name was Catan originally sold?

A) The Traders of Catan

B) The Lords of Catan

C) The Islands of Catan

D) The Settlers of Catan

Answer · why

D) The Settlers of Catan

The Settlers of Catan was the name on the box for two decades; the whole line was rebranded as plain Catan in 2015, when the fifth edition marked the ...