The Youngest Settlers of Catan

On a recent rainy Saturday, Isaac and Julia asked if we could play "Settlers of Catan". If you have not played you won't get that this game is easily on par with Monopoly and Risk in complexity and has dozens of little pieces and rules about such. It is not what you might think would interest a 3 and 5 year old!

I agreed to play knowing with great certainty that we would likely tire of it before the first roll of the dice. That, however, did not happen. In fact, we played the game out and even finished it. I filled them in on rules as needed, and gave them advice on each turn. But other than playing with our cards down (so I could tell them what they could do), we played the full game.

The funniest part of the whole deal was that the winner was Julia. I don't know for sure but I would think that this would put her in the running for THE young settler of Catan.

By the way - if you want to get a peek at Catan ... there is a free online version now at PlayCatan.com.