Settlers of Catan

Nicole and I just spent three hours learning and playing our first Settlers game. I was highly intrigued by a new boardgame for a games night that doesn't involve making a list of things or being timed.

I would compare SoC with the last 45 minutes of an intense Monopoly game, where all the deals go down and the yelling starts, added to chinese checkers. The entire game is like that. Start to finish. You spend all of your dice-gained resource cards to build up houses and cities for points, only to have some jerk come in with some "development card" that gives him free points.

Free points!!

And that's it. Three hours. Down the drain.

I'm considering buying them the expansion pack.