Catan Junior (PT, ES)

Description

Catan Junior maintains the same trading mechanics as Basic Catan and is adapted to be easy for children to play and start their career in the world of board games. With a pirate setting, players place lairs in a ring of islands and build ships to obtain materials from other islands. Each turn, you can build a ship, get help from Coco the parrot for great rewards or build a lair. The first player to control 7 lairs is the winner. On each turn, one player is the captain, starting with the youngest player. The captain will roll the dice and determine which "this and that" tokens will be distributed to the players. Then the captain, in any order he wishes, can build lairs and ships, as well as ask Coco for help. If he does not have the necessary tokens, he can switch between "this and that". Then, the player to his left will be the new captain. Beware of the Rapina Pirate, who can ruin your plans! In the Junior version, the Rapina Pirate works like the thief in Basic Catan, but in a gentler way. When a 6 is rolled as a result of the die roll, the Rapina Pirate does not steal, but only blocks the generation of resources. He must generate his resources of wood, pineapples, sheep, sabers and gold to win. In this Junior version, the resources are tokens that are easier for younger players to handle. To build a ship, you need wood and sheep's wool, but to build a lair you need both of these resources, plus a saber and a pineapple. Catan Junior's turns work the same way as in the basic Catan, where you roll the dice, generating resources that you can trade with the other players and at the end of your turn you decide whether to build or buy help from the Coco Parrot. Although Catan Junior is perfectly suited for younger players, it is actually a game for the whole family. This game generates fun for players of all ages, because although it is simplified, it has what makes Catan a worldwide success: high player interaction and replayability. Each game of Catan Junior will be different, which makes this game replayable over and over again.