26th
Settlers of Catan
I never really liked board games growing up. I would always be terrible at them and it would never be my fault. I would always lose to a series of unfortunate dice rolls and no decision on my part would have changed the game for me either way. When my friends who were back from college coerced me into playing a board game for an hour or so, I was skeptical. This board game was named The Settlers Of Catan.
There was no board, there were little hexagons and cards. I had little to no time for this tabletop nonsense. I had a couple of drinks and then I was finally ready. I guess these little hexagons came together randomly to form an island that we would be using as the play area. These spaces we put down were illustrated to show a specific resource that would be essential to playing the game. A number was assigned to each of these spaces that would correspond to dice rolls.
When the dice is rolled everyone gets a resource card and the goal of the game is to expand and develop your settlements using these cards. Trading and strategy are the main happening in each turn. There is no combat or war, there is only economic competition and passive attacks such as placing a “Robber” character on each space, rendering it fruitless (Read: Not real fruit).
It looks fairly complicated but I assure you will understand everything shortly after starting and even faster if you are playing with someone who has played before. You can find the game on Amazon or your local game (not video game) store
