De Kolonisten van Catan - Junior Editie

The junior edition of The Settlers of Catan brings children from age 6 and up to a Catan of unknown year. For there are no "settlers" here in the usual sense. Instead the players are pirates, with hiding places—so-called pirate warehouses—all over the island and with ships at sea in order to erect even more pirate warehouses.

The Catan connoisseur will easily recognize that many essential elements from the "large" Settlers have found their way into the junior edition, but in accordance with the subject, they have new meanings: Here pirate warehouses are built on landscapes, for which one receives equipment cards. With these, one again constructs ships and more pirate warehouses or buys development cards. Naturally one needs entirely different equipment cards in order to build a pirate warehouse.

Wood and wool undoubtedly belong there, but what would an orderly pirate warehouse be without pirate items like a saber and a bottle of rum? Every players begins with two pirate warehouses, and the winner is the first player to builds seven pirate warehouses. In order to build a new warehouse, one must go by ship from an existing warehouse to a new construction site. One therefore always constructs alternating ships and warehouses.