Klaus Teuber made Catan, and it changed the world’s expectations for board games

Enlarge / Klaus Teuber, in 2015 at a games festival in Essen, Germany. Teuber created The Settlers of Catan (later just Catan), along with other award-winning board games.Picture Alliance via Getty Images

I was in my early 30s when I first played The Settlers of Catan. I had been at a bar with a small group one freezing winter night in 2012 in Buffalo, New York. One of us, eager to share his recent obsession, declared it was time for the outing’s next stage. We went to his barely unpacked new apartment nearby. He pulled the game from a plastic

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