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Quiz about Catan Seafarers
Quiz about Catan Seafarers

Catan: Seafarers Trivia Quiz


Originally called "The Seafarers of Catan", this was the first expansion released (in 1997) for Klaus Teuber's popular "Settlers of Catan" base game. How well do you know it?

A multiple-choice quiz by reedy. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
reedy
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
403,491
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
258
Question 1 of 10
1. As an expansion to the base "Catan" game, a number of additional pieces are included. Which of these is/are among them? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. A further expansion pack to increase the number of players to five or six is also available that includes pieces for two more players. What are the two colours that come with the '5/6 Player' expansion? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The new player pieces in "Catan: Seafarers" are ships, and each player has a supply of fifteen of them. What is the production cost to 'build' a ship? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In order to build ships, what MUST a player have? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which of these choices is NOT a function of a player's ships in "Seafarers"? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. 'The Pirate' is a black ship that acts in exactly the same manner as 'The Robber' of the base "Catan" game, except that it's on water.


Question 7 of 10
7. What new land-based terrain hex, not found in the base game of "Catan", is included in "Seafarers"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "Catan: Seafarers" comes with a number of scenarios (how many has changed over the years and the different editions). It is required to play the scenarios in the order they are presented.


Question 9 of 10
9. 'The Wonders of Catan' was originally presented as a scenario one could download from the internet (it has its own special cards), but since the 2007 4th Edition of "Catan: Seafarers" it is now included with the game (Scenario #8). Which of these is NOT a 'Wonder' that can be constructed? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. The final scenario (#9) of the game allows for a completely randomized board (of 42 hexes, fitting within the given border pieces), using any components of the base game and "Seafarers" in its make-up. What is the name of this final, variable scenario? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. As an expansion to the base "Catan" game, a number of additional pieces are included. Which of these is/are among them?

Answer: Sea region hex tiles

The base "Catan" game features a roughly circular 'Island of Catan', constructed of hexagon-shaped terrain tiles (called 'hexes' for short) and border pieces to hold everything nicely together. With the "Seafarers" expansion, 30 more hexes are included, among them water and gold fields, plus a few more of the original six types of terrain (field, forest, pasture, mountain, hills, and desert, and new number chits to place on them). This allows for creating new, smaller islands with water traversable in-between.

Then there are the 15 ships for each player (in their colours) that allow the player to expand their territory across the water in the same manner as the road pieces do on the 'main island'. 'The Pirate' is a black ship that acts much like 'The Robber' in the base game, only on the open seas.

Lastly, 'Catan chits' are new to the game of "Catan" with this expansion, used for different purposes, depending on the scenario. They can be applied as special victory points, serve as markers, or help to count the results. Special victory points are (generally) earned when building a settlement on a new island. They are simply small round cardboard pieces with a picture of a Catan settlement on them.
2. A further expansion pack to increase the number of players to five or six is also available that includes pieces for two more players. What are the two colours that come with the '5/6 Player' expansion?

Answer: Brown and green

The base game of "Catan" comes with the colours blue, orange, red and white for different players. This extends to the "Seafarers" expansion. For both the base game and the expansion, the 5/6 Player expansion packs come with brown and green player pieces.

This pattern, of course, extends to all the other expansions ("Cities & Knights", "Traders & Barbarians", and "Explorers & Pirates") as well.
3. The new player pieces in "Catan: Seafarers" are ships, and each player has a supply of fifteen of them. What is the production cost to 'build' a ship?

Answer: One lumber, one wool

Essentially, the concept behind the purchase cost is lumber for the hull of the ship and wool to make the sails.

It is possible to play a game of "Seafarers" without ever building a ship, but if you don't bother with that aspect of the expansion, then you might as well just play the base game.

Ships in the game do not act like real, individual ships that can move and sail around, but rather they represent 'trade routes', and are used much like the road pieces on land.
4. In order to build ships, what MUST a player have?

Answer: A settlement or city on the coast

When placing settlements at the beginning of the base game of "Catan", you also place a road piece. In "Seafarers", you get the option of either a road piece or a ship, but you can only build a ship at a settlement that is on the coast of an island.
5. Which of these choices is NOT a function of a player's ships in "Seafarers"?

Answer: Attack other players' ships

In the base game of "Catan", the player with the longest continuous road earns two victory points, as long as they don't allow another player to overtake their total. In "Seafarers", ships are used in a similar way, acting as a 'roadway' or trade route across the water. And the total length of your trade route can include both ships and roads, as long as there is a settlement or city on the coast where they connect. The longest possible continuous trade route could be 30 pieces in length (fifteen roads and fifteen ships).

If your path of ships reaches a new island or a new available coastal location on the original island, you can establish a new settlement (keeping the two-space rule away from any other settlement/city).

And, as with roads, ships can be used to cut off or block the expansion of a rival player. You may not be able to physically attack other ships at sea, but you can outmaneuver them. Thankfully, another feature of ships is that you can change the location of a ship at the open end of a route (not anchored between other ships or at a settlement/homeport) once per turn, as needed.
6. 'The Pirate' is a black ship that acts in exactly the same manner as 'The Robber' of the base "Catan" game, except that it's on water.

Answer: False

The Pirate actually only has one attribute that is the same as what 'The Robber' does - it allows the player to steal a Resource card (as long as it is placed on a hex with an opponent's ship adjacent to it).

Being placed on a sea hex, the Pirate also acts as a deterring force, as it will not allow any new ships to be placed adjacent to the hex that it is occupying. This is different from the Robber, which does not limit any construction, but does limit resource production from the hex it occupies.

In both instances, the Robber and the Pirate are moved when a '7' is rolled, but only one of them may be played at a time (if both are included in the given scenario).
7. What new land-based terrain hex, not found in the base game of "Catan", is included in "Seafarers"?

Answer: Gold field

The gold field or gold river acts as a 'wild card' resource tile. If you have a settlement adjacent to the gold field and roll the dice to match the number token on it, then you can choose one of any of the five resources used in the game. If you have a city there, you can choose two resources.
8. "Catan: Seafarers" comes with a number of scenarios (how many has changed over the years and the different editions). It is required to play the scenarios in the order they are presented.

Answer: False

While the scenarios are designed to follow a progression (even a bit of a storyline), there is absolutely no requirement to play them in sequence. That said, the first four (of nine) scenarios are modeled on the basic rules of "Seafarers", while scenarios five through eight are more complex. They all have their own descriptive titles:

#1 - Heading to New Shores
#2 - The Four Islands
#3 - The Fog Island
#4 - Through the Desert
#5 - The Forgotten Tribe
#6 - Cloth for Catan
#7 - The Pirate Island
#8 - The Wonders of Catan
9. 'The Wonders of Catan' was originally presented as a scenario one could download from the internet (it has its own special cards), but since the 2007 4th Edition of "Catan: Seafarers" it is now included with the game (Scenario #8). Which of these is NOT a 'Wonder' that can be constructed?

Answer: Colosseum

In addition to the normal way of winning the game (achieving the required number of victory points), in this scenario you can also win by being the first to build your chosen Wonder to the fourth stage.

There are five Wonders to choose from, and before a player can even think about starting to build one of them, they have to achieve prerequisites:

Cathedral - must have one city and at least six victory points
Great Bridge - must have established a settlement at the strait (marked purple square on the board)
Great Wall - must have established a settlement at the wasteland (marked brown square on the board)
Monument - must have a city at a harbour, plus a trade route of at least five lengths (roads/ships)
Theater - must have two cities

Once a player qualifies for and claims one of the Wonders, no other player can choose the same one. Once claimed (and marked as theirs), the player must then build their Wonder by paying the required five resources for each of four 'stages'. Again, each Wonder has their own selection of five resources.

If you can accomplish all of that before someone else, or before someone reaches the requisite 10 victory points AND has finished a higher level for their wonder than any other player, you win.
10. The final scenario (#9) of the game allows for a completely randomized board (of 42 hexes, fitting within the given border pieces), using any components of the base game and "Seafarers" in its make-up. What is the name of this final, variable scenario?

Answer: The New World

How this 'scenario' is created is entirely up to the players. If you shuffle the tiles (a suggested number of each type is given), you can completely randomize the board setup... or you could create it how you like from the given tiles.

A suggested number of victory points to win is also given (twelve), but again, if you want to change it, that's up to you.

Greater Catan, by the way, was a real scenario from the earlier (pre-4th) editions that was removed, due to the fact that it actually needed TWO base games of "Catan" to play it.
Source: Author reedy

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