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for selling a port you need extra cards for doing the trade no?, like for example if ypu dont have the material they want, you cant simply accept them for free or do you?

I played yesterday and had 6 wood and 6 stone and 6 didn't roll a single time all game

He's the most annoying player.

Catan is not a perfect knowledge game - you don't know what development cards people have.

so what did the 97% players of catan chose and why is it wrong?

There's also a Catan Dice app for Android that does the same thing as the event cards in perfect bell curve dice distribution. It's possible to do the event cards with just using the dice rolls

That was good, I bet you a like comment subscribe that you got 3 decks of cards🤣 brilliant. It’s refreshing and clever, most TH-cams 3 seconds into the video say like and subscribe without us watching the video or understanding the quality of the content.

Where I can watch the recordings of the games like this? 😮

Have you tested it? It would be nice to see a runthrough and some comments

Looks so tense and uncomfortable

I yesterday play with my friends and 12 rolled 3 times in the row. In all the game 12 rolled like 6 times but number 5 rolled only 1 time in all the game. :)

the first 5 seconds i saw bo perform, i knew he was the man

I’ve heard a ton about Catan, seen it at all of the LGS’s around me, but never seen it played. This game is captivating. I’m completely enthralled with the social aspect

As a professional poker player and a casual Settlers of Catan player with an ELO of 1300, I can tell you that mathematics doesn't really have much to do with poker; it's an enduring misconception for beginners. Poker is about understanding your opponent's behavior and playing your hand accordingly. If you ever see two cards of the same suit on the flop and two more of the same suit come out, or you're missing one card for a flush, you know you're in a 50/50 situation. Similarly, if you lack one card for a straight, you're aware that you're not in a favorable position and need to play the hand differently. That's simple mathematics. Mathematical insights in poker mainly assist those who analyze statistical data to determine the long-term viability of certain playing styles, and so on..

Is this pulled directly from mistergnome's reddit comment?

Bo

Its great and all to be "so good". But he seems like he would be so aggravating to play with. At the end of the day, its a game and it should be fun for everyone playing. Seems like he is just pissing people off with the way he has input on what everyone else is doing.

All of these ideas are horrible. I get that there is variance in Catan but part of the skill and strategy of the game is understanding probability/statistics/variance and playing accordingly. The other thing people forget about Catan is trading. If you dont roll a resource you can trade for it, port for it, or rob it. Sometimes the dice will require you to pivot from your pre-planned strategy and let the dice/resources guide the game. Catan is clearly a game of skill just like Poker. A beginner can beat a pro in Poker if they get a great hand, but the pro is going to win 9/10 times. A pro Catan player will probably beat a beginner 7 or 8 times out of 10. Catan is a game of skill not variance and the variance is part of the game and people need to understand you have to manage the variance not try to remove it

The app is definitely fixed in a way though. If someone puts the robber on a number it will roll within 3 especially if it hasn't rolled yet

Hey Ken, what happened to the videos you had before you were doing Catan? I would like to rewatch some of them and check the website as well.

This is a wonderful video, I love all the rules and changes to the game. I'd like to see a realistic version for Seafarers and Cities & Knights, that would be really cool to see the PVP with those.

dude i love the randomness. Ive been playing with risk pieces and treating settlements and cities like territories in risk and you can take other players cities XD.

Fix your description man It's got a typo but more importantly it is sort of self-depricating

what is this calling mono business

Great video!

Bo flips a table

Nice video, very well edited. This is Bo here, I have a few things to add that might help the viewer better understand the context 1. Thiago (White color) wasn't a native English speaker, so there was definitely a communication barrier. That's why I had to repeat phrases many times and physically point things out such as the resources to trade. 2. All of the players were very strong and definitely knew each player's position at any given moment, so everyone knew others were effectively at 9 at the end. 3. One part that didn't make the video was when I quoted "Mono defense" on my final turn, to make sure Eric couldn't win with a mono on his turn, but we couldn't execute it on Kristian's turn. It was a 3.5 hour game, so we were all incredibly exhausted. 4. Thiago had a chance to win when he pulled a development card but missed. He also could have won with a 2 roll on his turn, that would have been epic. He played a really great under the radar game. 5. Eric calling bathroom break was genius, he did this at the US Nationals 2022 as well. Game changing meta, I will do that at my next tournament. Eric and are I both from New York, so it was great to compete against him, and help each other get a chance to win. I shook his hand after, but might not have been captured on the video. 6. A lot of respect to Kristian, he played extremely well and a super great person to connect with. 7. I called the judge to get a clarification on a new vague rule change for this tournament. The rule was "If a player attempts to negotiate a trade before completing the robber action, the robber will be placed in the desert and the player receives no cards as in rule 3.0.14(b)." However, as I learned, the rule does allow you to negotiate about trading "non-blocks", just not resources. Anyways, hope these comments are helpful. Keep up on making these videos, I enjoy watching them!

Bo flips the table

I knew I had watched this before a long time ago, but since it showed up on my recommended again it was worth it to watch again

Reorganizing the channel again?

So happy that Bo won and Mari lost. She was so annoying, acting like she was not a threat and antagonizing Bo. Hope she never wins a championship.

You only need 3 brick and 3 wood for longest road. You already start with 2 segments.

I just found your channel and this video. Well done my man! I love the way you made it seem like Bo was playing a video game striking monsters to bring down their HP. Fantastic job on editing and commentary. I’m very much looking forward to your future Catan videos 🙌👏👍🏻

Learning to deal with unfairness is an essential life-skill. Tired of not having your numbers rolled? Make sure you select a decent spread of numbers to start off with! You'll never learn to do this if someone gives you (yuck) pity tokens.

Illegal trades unfortunately

Upgrade to 1 city, build 3 roads for the longest road bonus. Draw 5 victory points......

With content quality this good I was shocked to see this video had only 10k views (I mean not too shabby, but still). Really helpful tips!

Amazing. I loved watching Bo play in the World Championship in Malta also.

I’m 14 and my parents told me I can’t do the vodka game… do you think I should do it anyway? I mean there is vodka in the kitchen bar

Hello

The werewolves and vodka game sounds very fun! I’d like to try it

this looks fun

these are actually good games thank you

I tried all of them with my friends to choose one for party,, the most fun is the zombie game it's really good 💙💙

This first game is stupid

Vampiric Charm is my fav! And keep those Dad jokes coming.

This deserves more views! Also my favourite game is zombie hoard

zombie hoard seems pretty fun! thanks for the idea

To somewhat mitigate the resource uncertainty of your initial settlement placement. Each player is allowed to place a harbor of their choice at the location of their initial settlement. This would allow players to either risk a 2:1 harbor on one of their uncovered resources, or play it safe with a 3:1 harbor. All remaining harbors are removed from play. This would keep the motif of being settlers to a new land and maintaining trade with their home country. This would likely require the frame pieces to be placed upside down.