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**Warning**

After writing this, I noticed that a lot of it goes way over board in the description, so unless you’re very interested don’t read the stuff in italics and parenthesis.

My Catan game is almost finished! I have to print out the special cards I made, make the event die (it has pictures instead of numbers on it’s sides) and paint the roads for yellow and red, but other than that I’m done! Below is a sample setup to show you how it looks (though you play on a bigger board).

As you can see, there are number tokens on all the hexes that aren’t water or desert(When the dice roll that number you get resources and or commodities from it). Instead of the things I originally showed you as cities, settlements and roads (they were to big and to hard to mass produce) I’m using the short cylinders on the left of green and blue as settlements and two stacked as a city (settlements are worth 1pt and cities 2.). The square with the green outline is a knight with the 2 you can see faintly on it representing it’s strength (Knights are used to drive off the barbarians (among other things)). I already showed you the Merchant pawn next to green city (If you have it you can trade 2:1 with the resource it is on (in this case wood)). I also showed you the robber on the top left hex (While on a hex no one gets resources from that hex if it’s number is rolled). Blue’s city in the middle has a black token under it which represents a city wall (city walls let you hold more cards). Blues right-most piece is a metropolis which counts as four points.

This is the barbarian board. If a barbarian ship is rolled on the event die the black counter on it is moved forward one. As you see, it is currently on 3, so if the ship is rolled five more times it will land on the crossed swords and the barbarians will burn a couple of cities then return home singing piratey songs. (they can be stopped by Knights.)

P.S. Yes, there is a real settlers of Catan box in the top of the first picture as Roland kindly gave us one to put our stuff in.

I need your help in making up a game. Do you think one about hippos, ants, Spanish conquistadors, or peanuts (or a mix!) would be more fun?

For Thursday’s craft class we made collages. all we had to work with was some posters, a calendar, and some christian and african magazines

The game I’m making is really complicated, as it contains both add-ons to the origional. The origional, however consists of a board with no water and a lot less land than I’m using. In the origional, you start with two settlements and two roads on the board and try to make more settlements, roads, and turn your settlements into cities using various materials. If one of your places is sitting next to a hex with a 8 on it when an 8 gets rolled, you get 1 of the matereal depicted on that space for a settkement, 2 for a city ( the matereal is a clay for a reddish hex, sheep for light green, wood for dark green, iron for greyish black and yellow for wheat). You win when you get 10 points, with a city worth 2 pts and a settlement worth 1. (I could tell you more, like how much each trhing cost, but it wouldn’t be quite fair to Klaus Teuber (the inventor of the game).

When the Seilers were here, Roland (Susan’s husband) taught us how to play a game called Catan. After he left I started making my own copy of the game. I got pictures of the pieces of the board hexes of the internet, resized them, and made some pictures of hexes I couldn’t find (like the the water all over and the gold field hexes in the top right.) Below is the board.

I also have started making the settlement, road, and city pieces (left to right) below.

and have completed the number dots (top), the ports (bottom center), the merchant (bottom left), and the robber (bottom right).