Our first Eurogame we played was the Simply Catan version of Settlers of Catan. We have recently purchased the travelers addition to take on our camping trips and, as always for Eurogames, the quality is excellent: the pegs slide in/out of the board easily, the compartments on the plastic insert tray are deep so the pieces stay in place—-ready to use with no extra set-up, and the dice are small which are easy to roll in the box lid.

We made a few modifications to help with the small pictures since we both wear glasses:

The pictures on the docks were hard for us to distinguish, so I added words under each picture by typing them on white paper, cutting out the words, and gluing them to each dock (i.e. wool, wood, etc.).

I made small Building Cost Reference word cards to match the picture cards in the game.

For colored-blindness, all I had to do was put the green wool cards on the opposite end of the box as the green wood cards—-the pictures help to distinguish Resource Cards also.

The Settlers of Catan do not come with score keepers (can buy score cards with add-ons)—I used 10 pony beads strung on a cord—-each one can be slid to the opposite side as points are earned (and the cord fills the opening on the beads, so they stay in place).

Very few changes, which didn’t take long to create. We keep the game pieces, including the playing board, all set-up inside the box and ready to start a game-—a great asset for traveling.