How to Play The Settlers of Catan

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RULES:

On your turn, before you can buy or trade, you must roll both dice. Then, based on what number is rolled the corresponding resource hex that has that number, produces its resource to all players who have a settlement or city touching that hex. You receive 1 of the resources of that hex for every settlement touching it, and you receive 2 of the resources of that hex for every city touching it. All numbers produce and all players touching that number receive proper corresponding resource cards.

There is no hand size limit. However, if any player (including you) rolls a 7, then any player with more than 7 cards must discard half of them (rounded down). Additionally, whoever rolled the 7, must move the robber to a different terrain hex. The Robber may not return to the desert nor be moved onto a sea hex. Whichever hex you choose, place the robber covering the number on that hex showing that that terrain cannot produce resources when that number is rolled. If any other player has a city or settlement touching the affected hex, you must pick one card at random from one of their hands and steal it. You then continue your turn as normal.
After you roll dice and collect resources, or move the robber, you are allowed to trade with other players or the bank and/or buy things. Only the player who’s turn it is can initialize a trade and you can only trade with other players who have resources (you cannot gift resources). A trade with a player is whatever you agree on but you cannot trade development cards and like resources. You cannot trade 2 wool for 1 wool. Both players have to agree on the trade.

Additionally, on your turn, you may trade with the bank: 4 of one resource for 1 of any other. If you own a settlement or city that is touching a port, on your turn you are allowed to trade with that port’s specifics. 3:1 ports allow you to trade 3 of one resource for 1 of any other. 2:1 ports allow you to trade 2 of one specific resource as indicated by that port, for 1 of any other. You don’t have to trade if you don’t want to.

You may also buy during you turn. Pay the bank the proper resources and you can buy roads, settlements, cities, and development cards. Roads cost 1 brick and 1 wood and must be placed between two hexes connecting to one of your existing pieces so long as a road isn’t already present. If you have the longest, continuous road, and it is greater than 5 pieces, then you take possession of the longest road card, no matter who has it. The longest road is worth 2 victory points.

A settlement costs 1 brick, 1 wood, 1 wheat, and 1 wool, and must be placed on an available intersection connecting to one of your roads. No settlement may be adjacent to another settlement or city.

A City costs 3 ore and 2 wheat. You may only upgrade one of your existing settlements into a city. Remove that settlement and replace it with a city. Remember, terrain hexing touching one of your cities, produces twice as many resources as a settlement and are worth twice as many victory points.

A Development card costs 1 ore, 1 wheat, and 1 wool. Draw one development card from the deck. You may not use a development card the turn you purchased it. Anytime during your turn, even before you roll, you may play a development card. You may only play one development card per turn, unless it is a victory point, then you may reveal as many as you have to allow you to win. All the cards say what they do and the most common card is the soldier. The soldier allows you to move the robber to another space.

When you play a soldier it plays in front of you and stays there fro the rest of the game. When it is played, it acts just like you rolled a 7, except it does not affect the number of cards in player’s hands. If you have the most solder’s in...

0:00 – Objective
0:19 – Set Up
1:00 – Starting Settlements
1:39 – Turns
2:00 – Roll a 7
2:16 – The Robber
2:41 – Trade
3:10 – Ports
3:29 – Buy
4:09 – Development Cards
4:48 – End Game

[AtemiRaven]

Brother invited me over to play this game and told me it was easy. Looked this up beforehand and I feel like I just took an introduction into economy class o.o

[DNchap]

God, this makes constitutional law look straightforward.

[u]

Let's learn to play Catan
5min later
Ight Imma head out.

[DeHavenac]

still trying to figure out how to organize number tiles in alphabetical order

[suffocatingdreams]

I came for the video, but stayed for the comments. 😂

[greghodges]

This video was extremely helpful in introducing my family to this game; much simpler for an 8 year old to view this than to read the directions, and clearer than my own explanations. Thanks!

[cstyles]

It's short. It's sweet. it gets a thumbs up. the 20+ minute explanations on youtube put me to sleep.

[lml-mike]

5mn, clear, concise, to the point. Thanks, great video!

[Jsaycool]

Another settlement needs your help. Here, I'll mark it on your map.

[idesofmars]

i was curious about playing this game until i watched this. now im not. forget it

[KPTube]

A very easy game to get the hang of - yes there's quite a lot going on but it flows so well, once you've had one round and other players are making sure you're doing it correctly, you'll get the hang of it without any problems. There are cards that explain everything really well too.

[AMPStorm]

Darn. This is really well done and the graphics add so much value to this video. Excellent job.

[JamesMasters-fusw]

Incredibly detailed and succinct explanation of the rules. These games always sound more complicated than they are but love how the point of the game was included first, followed by setup, followed by additional rules.

[hugohugo]

I was told this game was easy. It's more complicated than nuclear fission. I don't get it at all. I'm going back to translating Plato into Swahili. It much more straightforward.

[SpeedyNoriega]

I feel this game is like beer. When you first try it, it seems very unpleasant but if you try it enough you run the rick of becoming addicted.

[ganzheston]

Thanks for that video, you explained the rules very well, i found an answer to the question i was searching for,
please continue your good work :) need more video like this for today's more modern board game. There so many intresting but heavy on the rules games. Catan compare to them is just a small rule book hah

[nitorishogiplayer]

I like how concise your videos are. Many other video board game tutorials take 25 minutes explaining the rules and that's just too long imo.

[SolusBatty]

Amazing guide! Shared it with my friend who is new to Catan for tonight's game.

[shaunschofield]

I was wondering what the kid from the 6th sense was doing these days.

[dannyd_tv]

great synopsis here! nice brunch shirt man! happy new year!