Two-man Settlers Variation
Henry discovered a two-man Settlers of Catan variation that is super-fun! We just played twice. It feels _almost_ like playing real Settlers.
Here’s a link to the pdf: http://nick.borko.org/games/Catan2Players.pdf
To sum up: remove 5 land tiles, several Dev cards, a couple of number chips, and a few of each player’s pieces. You may trade only with the bank (4:1) until you get a harbor.
It’s tight and fast and the board feels appropriately crowded. I sent Henry on a one-way trip to Butt-Kick City for I am the LORD AND MASTER OF ALL CATAN :)
Uh. Flickr is adding crap on top of my photo when you mouseover. Revolting. Time to find another photo host.
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January 6th, 2014 at 4:06 am
Is that the seafarer’s expansion? Or maybe I just have a different edition. Mine doesn’t have harbor and sea tiles. They’re part of the frame.
January 7th, 2014 at 10:06 am
Karen: this is a first edition Settlers, before they added the goofy frame :)
Sigal: good idea! I’ll look into it.
January 7th, 2014 at 8:41 am
Ms. Kara, I thought you could do a fabulous job on this book: Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes. It is very like The Girl on the Boat style and I see that no one has done it before. Just thought to mention it.
Sigal
January 7th, 2014 at 10:07 am
Karen: just draw a few harbors on bits of paper and skip the sea tiles. That should work just fine.
January 8th, 2014 at 8:31 am
Hey Kara!
Just wanted to let you know I just listened to Heidi – read by you on my ipod!
I thought you did a great job of reading it!
Please feel free to come read my review (I did mention you and put in a link to your website).
http://wall-to-wall-books.blogspot.com/2014/01/heidi-johanna-spyri.html
January 22nd, 2014 at 2:36 pm
Ooh! We love Settlers at our house. We’ll have to try this version!