🌾🧱 Settlers of Catan Board Game Night — Pizza, Trades, and Betrayal

Why we picked it

**Important:** This is not a free event. This is a restaurant outing, and everyone is expected to order food and/or drinks roughly equivalent to a small meal, with 18% automatic gratuity added for groups of 6+. **Short summary** Settlers of Catan is a game about building roads, collecting sheep, negotiating politely, and then immediately refusing to trade with the person who helped you ten minutes ago. This is a Friday night built around Catan: resource gathering, suspicious bargains, unlucky dice rolls, blocked roads, quiet grudges, and the ancient human question of whether anyone truly has wood for sheep. No general board-game night this time. No giant menu of games. No chaos disguised as variety. Just Catan, pizza, drinks, and the slow realization that “friendly strategy game” still leaves plenty of room for betrayal. **The plan** We’ll meet at 7:00 PM, settle in with food and drinks, and play Settlers of Catan as the main game for the evening. The base game works best with 3–4 pl