This weekend in Canberra a group of strangers will sit around a table and plot world domination.
That world is the fictional island of Catan, the centrepiece of a board game first published in Germany 1995, which has gone on to sell tens of millions of copies. Formerly known as Settlers of Catan, it has been described as the golf of Silicon Valley tycoons – enthusiasts reportedly include Mark Zuckerberg – and was named by the Wall Street Journal as “the board game of our time”.
