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Oh no! It's the consequences of my own actions! I performed so poorly in a game of Catan that I played as a spectator. I got a single wheat (the robber kept getting moved back to my space), and that was the only resource I generated all game. Even better? I kid you not, it was on the last turn. Naturally, as the game went on, we rolled exactly one 8 in the entire two-hour game. The thing that was funny in hindsight was that someone needed wheat, and instead of trading me for it used their knight card to steal it, since it was the only card in my hand. I was going to extort everyone at the table and run them dry of all their other resources.

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Plus as I remember, I was the one of the only people on that type of resource, and the only other field on the board had something like a 3 or 4 on it. Speaking of trading, I would have the ability to generate exactly what someone needed as often as possible and use that as leverage for better trades. Here's all the possibilities going on in my mind: Anytime someone rolled an 8, I would get one of any resource, perfect for the late-game and getting any resources people won't trade me. I know you're supposed to diversify your hexagon portfolio when it comes to Catan, but come ooooooonnnnn, who could resist such a perfect wombo-combo? Given the way everyone else placed their settlements, I could only pull this stupid strategy off only playing on spaces that were touching those two 8's.

I slammed down my settlements in pretty terrible spots for Catan standards. I was last to place my settlements… so I risked it all. Even better? There was another field with an 8 across the board. It was a field with an 8 (one of the two most likely numbers to generate resources) and it had an identical port on it! That meant that I could turn all that wheat into anything I wanted at a fraction of the cost. There was something that jumped out to me immediately. The board has been randomized by an app and set up appropriately.

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It was so bad that I should honestly recreate it for my Game Breakers series because good lord it was atrocious. The worst possible game of Catan you can play. I remember a particularly bad game of Catan for me. And that's kind of inherently unfair, is it not? Because to me, in some games, dice are the single sour spot in otherwise wonderful games. Dice are added as a way to guarantee that no one knows what will happen, because the outcome isn't deterministic. That's kind of the point of dice.Īs a designer, you don't put dice in your game because you want certainty or predictability. Sprinkle in some recency bias and someone playing around their good rolls particularly well and suddenly the game is 'unfair' and 'luck dependent.' Your friend rolling really well is just how random numbers work. People are shockingly good at finding patterns in things, even when there absolutely isn't one. And if it's not that exact situation, there will still be a pattern we'll instinctively pick up on. For example, if I had a six-sided dice and rolled a 6 on my turn five times in a row, you'd be feeling some kind of emotion, wouldn't you? Well, if you're rolling the dice a hundred times a game, then it's not unheard of for that to happen at some point. The problem is the squishy human brains interpreting those numbers. And that can be approximated with math, which is never the problem. Like I mentioned earlier, dice functionally are (mostly) just in your game to generate random numbers. Let me explain.Īnd the story of the worst game of Catan anyone has ever played. Some games use dice to tell incredible stories and some should really just stick to using them for gameplay. But like… so many games I've played have dice, and well… I'm getting kind of tired of dice. I don't think there's a better way to generate random numbers on the fly in a more convenient and fun way than dice. I actually quite like dice a LOT in board games! Lord knows the amount I've spent on dice alone is about to need a comma sometime soon. Okay okay, now that I have your attention, I'm not suggesting all dice suck.

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