The second place winner is Cristian Cabrera of Cordoba, Argentina, who created a Catan board from cake, candy covered chocolate pieces, and other goodies. He wins a copy of the new 4th edition The Settlers of Catan.

The third place winner is Melissa Whitfield, who re-created the 3rd edition Catan base game cover in the form of a gingerbread house. Melissa wins Elasund: The First City, from the Catan Adventures line of games!

We had a mouth watering time looking at the submissions this year. Thanks again to all of those who submitted such wonderful Catan food creations!

Catan LLC wants to wish Will Niebling, the retiring CEO of Mayfair Games, a warm, fond farewell.

Mayfair Games, Inc. recently announced that its beloved CEO, Will Niebling, has decided to retire after 10 wonderful years as CEO of Mayfair Games. We understand that, after 30+ years in the game industry and approximately 25 years of service with Mayfair Games, Will is stepping away from his management work in order to focus on more creative endeavors. Catan LLC is grateful for all of Will's excellent service leading the Catan brand in the US over the past decade and we wish him the best for the future.

Over the years, Catan LLC and Mayfair Games, Inc. have developed a strong and successful partnership. We are very excited to announce that we will be continuing our partnership with Mayfair Games, Inc. We look forward to working with the new management team and we are happy that it will have many familiar faces. We are pleased to hear that Pete Fenlon will be shouldering the role of corporate CEO, Larry Roznai will continue as President , and Robert Carty will remain the  Sales & Marketing Director. Working with the entire Mayfair team over the years has been great and we are glad that we continue working with them!

For our partners working with Mayfair Games, Inc., you can contact the Mayfair Games management team as follows:

Larry Roznai
MAYFAIR GAMES, Inc. 8060 Saint Louis Avenue
Skokie , IL 60076 USA
Voice (847) 677-6655
Fax (847) 677-6253
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Bob Carty
MAYFAIR GAMES, Inc. 8060 Saint Louis Avenue
Skokie , IL 60076 USA
Voice (813) 707-6659
Fax (813) 707-8791
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The famous US board game portal PulpGamer.com has interviewed Klaus and Guido Teuber in late march during the Games Expo in Las Vegas at the Mayfair booth.

They have published the interview as a podcast - click here to be led to the podcast page at PulpGamer.com.

... If for any reason the above original link becomes invalid, you may download the entire podcast as MP3 file from our own server by right-clicking here (20,4 MB - courtesy of PulpGamer.com).

Catan GmbH is pleased to announce that The Settlers of Catan, the legendary board game from the mind of Klaus Teuber, has come to Xbox Live Arcade. Catan is internationally available for download on Xbox Live Arcade, showcasing a beautifully rendered 3D "living world", a streamlined trading interface, a ranked matchmaking system and voice chat ability.

For more information, please visit http://www.catanlive.com/

We proudly present our re-launched website www.catan.com. We have optimized its structure and as well concentrated various pieces of content that were previously spread across various websites. During this process, those other websites will be closed and will afterwards point to this central web portal www.catan.com.

Have fun browsing!