In fall of 2010, a completely revised version of the Catan Card Game for 2 players will be published.

In this context, we are holding a prize drawing where participants can win a 3D-Catan, 4x “The Settlers of America,” and 5x the Catan Dice Game Deluxe Edition.

Klaus Teuber talked about the development of the new Card Game in (so far) five blog posts at Catanism - blog.catan.com:

• Part 1 – Birth of the Card Game
• Part 2 – Expanding the Card Game
• Part 3 – First Concept and Development
• Part 4 – History of Catan and Illustration
• Part 5 – The Introductory Game

In part 5 of these blog posts, 36 cards were presented, among them six “Heroes of Catan” whose names were blackened out - the protagonists of Rebecca Gablé's Catan novel.

The solution word for our prize drawing is composed of a sequence of single letters, using one letter from each of the names of our heroes:

1. Letter 4 of the name of the character with the book.
2. Letter 2 of the name of the character with the axe.
3. Letter 2 of the name of the character with the raven.
4. Letter 4 of the name of the character with the sword.
5. Letter 3 of the name of the character with the hammer.
6. Letter 2 of the name of the character with the sickle.

If you have read the novel "Die Siedler von Catan" ("The Settlers of Catan") by Rebecca Gablé, it shouldn't be difficult for you to correctly assign the names of the characters. You probably also saw the solution word in the novel.

For all those of you who didn't read the book, we hid some hints on www.catan.com. Don't worry - if you look around attentively, you can hardly overlook the hints.

Conditions of Participation

Please send the correct solution word as e-mail subject to

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indicating your country of residence. Wrong solutions, solutions without information about the participant's country of origin, or solutions from countries outside Europe and North America do not participate in the prize drawing.

Deadline was June 21st, 2010 at midnight (Central European Time) - thank you for participating! We will soon announce the correct solution together with the winners.

There is no possibility of recourse to legal action. If we receive more than 10 correct solutions, the winners are determined at random. We will send e-mail notifications to the chosen winners and ask them for their complete addresses. Provided that the respective winners do not object, their names and the names of their cities of residence will be published here. Staff members of Catan GmbH, KOSMOS, and Mayfair Games, Inc. as well as their family members are excluded from participation.