Settlers of Catan Scenario: The Jungle

Settlers of Catan Scenario: The Jungle Rulebook

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Suitable for: base game and Seafarers expansion. Players: 3 or 4. Duration: about 60 minutes (base game).

Additional material:

The board is set up by the normal rules, but initially without the jungle hex.
Once the board including the number tokens is set up, replace the pasture hex with the "best" number (5/9, 4/10, 3/11) with the jungle hex. The jungle hex should, if possible, not receive a red number token. Under no circumstances may it receive the tokens with "2" or "12". If two hexes have equally good number tokens, the starting player decides.
The pasture hex goes back into the box; it is no longer needed in this variant.
Players found their two starting settlements by the normal rules.
The red discovery chips are placed within the players' reach.
At the start of the game, the robber is placed on the jungle hex.

Play follows the usual rules.

When the number of the jungle hex is rolled, each player who has a settlement on this jungle hex receives 1 red discovery chip. For a city, the owner receives 2 discovery chips.
Discovery chips count as wildcards when buying a development card. They can replace any resource that is needed to buy a development card.
Example: a player buys 1 development card and pays, for example, with 1 ore resource card and 2 discovery chips. Paying with 1 grain, 1 discovery chip and 1 wool would also be possible.
Note: discovery chips do not count as resources. They have no significance when a "7" is rolled, and they cannot be stolen, nor can they be traded.