Families Stuck At Home Turn To Board Game Catan, Sending Sales Skyrocketing
It's a strategy game of trade and development and it's become a hit as people shelter at home during the pandemic. The German founder of the board game describes how he came up with Catan.
In 1963, 11-year-old Klaus Teuber received a gift that would change his life: a board game. "When I opened the box of the game, I liked the scent of the game," he remembers, inhaling deeply. "Ah, so wonderful! There is adventure in this box!"
It was a game of Romans versus Carthaginians. "It was a tabletop game with wonderful painted figures, and you had to role the dice to fight against the others," Teuber recalls.
He remembers playing it by himself, pitting one
