The carts are on a turn table, and each cart has an arrow pointing outward. The object of The Kids of Catan is to collect resources, build buildings, and eventually build the town hall.Įach player starts off the game with a cart with three empty spaces in it and a number of the buildings in town to call his own (either 3, 4, or 6 depending on the number of players in the game), which he sets to the side in preparation for building. They're large enough to be easily accessible to young hands and evocative enough that they'll generate play beyond just the game. Given the age group, it'll presumably need to be read by a parent or guardian.Īll together, the pieces in The Kids of Catan are entirely beautiful. Half of this is actually a story, while the other half explains the rules with lots of pictures. Rulebook: A full-color, glossy 8 page rulebook.
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Every building is also printed with windows and doors. Most of these buildings are made out of two pieces of wood joined together, one for the body of the building and one for the colored roof, but in a couple of cases they are actually three blocks of wod. There's also a special green-roofed building, which is the city hall. These include 6 houses, a church, a gate, a baker, a butcher, a school, and a tower. 12 of them are player buildings, marked with red roofs. (In our playtest game they became brocolli, pineapples, and ziggurats.)īuildings: There are a total of thirteen buildings, all beautifully rendered as wood structures. However, I didn't find these very iconic of what they represent. Like the rest of the pieces, they're large and attractive. Resource Pieces: There are 5 pieces each of the 3 resources: green woods, yellow grain, and red bricks. The black pawn, unfortunately is pretty easy to knock over due to its shape. These are all very large and simply shaped. Pawns: There are 4 player pawns, colored blue, white, yellow, and red, as well as one bully pawn, colored black (a color which my wife considers unfortunate due to racial overturns). It's easy to use.ĭie: An oversized wooden die, marked 1 to 3, twice. Overall, the design of this is very nice, with little slots for all the pieces to go into, and lots of color coding to identify where resources are placed and which cart belongs to which player.
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Finally, in the middle of the turntable, lies the town of Catan, with 13 spaces for the 12 red buildings plus the city hall. The edges of the turn table contain the 4 players' carts, each of which has a space for the player pawn, then three spaces for carted resources. In the middle of the board is a turn table, which is connected into the tray by a wooden "bolt". The board has along its edges 15 different spaces, into which the 15 resource pieces are placed, as well as 1 space for the bully. Game Board & Turntable The game board actually sits on the box tray, right inside the box-which is a very clever design. The Kids of Catan comes with high quality, evocative components, just perfect for its age group: This game was simultaneously printed in Germany by Kosmos as die Kinder von Catan.
The Kids of Catan is Klaus Teuber's simplified Catan game, for kids in the 4+ age range.