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The Ling­uists of Catan

The first of the genre of EuroSprachGames to achieve wide­spread pop­u­lar­ity be­yond the bor­ders of Ger­many, The Ling­uists of Catan pits each play­er against a dearth of ling­uis­tic re­sour­ces. Play­ers build set­tle­ments and cit­ies ad­jacent to hexes that pro­duce the five re­sour­ces nouns, verbs, ad­jec­tives, pro­forms, and par­ti­cles, chal­leng­ing them to cre­ate ConLang ut­ter­ances us­ing dif­fer­ent com­bi­na­tions of these re­sour­ces. Strat­egy and luck both play a role in mak­ing you the ling­uis­tic bar­on of the is­land of Catan!

SprachSpiel des Jahres for 1995. ❦पा

Thurn and Taxonomies

Thurn and Taxonomies is set in Bavaria, where players create semantic postal routes based on the similarities of the goods they are to deliver. Use your imagination to establish a semantic category which includes such commodities as oranges, coal, Italian marble, French wines, organic llama dung, candied ginger, pine logs, Roman coins, and many more. Bonus points are awarded when your postal route coincides with the noun classes of a real human language.

SprachSpiel des Jahres for 2006. Created by George Lakoff. ❦पा

Puerto Recorder

A linguistic fieldwork game in a New World plantation context, Puerto Recorder sets a new standard for the number of tiny pieces which can fall off the table and get lost. Informants on each player’s plantation supply one of a number of resources (vowels, consonants, nouns, verbs, folktales, songs, etc.), and players take turns initiating different phases of the game so as to collect the data they need. Collect your linguistic resources and turn them into papers, theses and dissertations before your competitors do; you may be awarded a Professorship at Puerto Recorder University! ❦पा