Alright game geeks—and I know there’s a lot of you, I used to work at a local game shop—have I got some news for you.
In June, Mayfair will release Catan, Traveler Edition, a new geomorphic edition that folds to fit in a lockable, trapezoidal box with a carrying handle. The game board includes collapsing trays for peg storage, and features double-sided tiles (which means that there are only hundreds of board permutations, instead of thousands).
MSRP will be $45—so, really not much lower than the original game. But, still, I don’t see how making Catan more portable can be a bad thing.
ICv2 goes on to discus the theory behind the Catan expansions and upcoming improvements to their website, if you’re into that kind of thing.
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2015.
