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Ben Teuber: Catan hosted a 1,000-person simultaneous world record game

Ben Teuber · Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders | Masters of Scale · Jul 18, 2025 · at 21:15

Ben Teuber, Co-CEO of Catan GmbH, explains the mechanics of Catan Big Game (now Catan Connect) and its world record event.

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“We've been making a world record with most people playing Catan in the same time, the same game. So we have had a thousand people on long benches, and there's one dice roll, and everybody Plays the same turn.”

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The claim, plainly

Catan set a world record for the most people playing Catan simultaneously in the same game, hosting 1,000 players who all acted on a single dice roll.

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Assessment

Ben Teuber's assertion is fully corroborated by official records and event archives. In August 2013 at Gen Con, Guinness World Records certified a world record for 922 players simultaneously playing in a single continuous Catan game. This was subsequently expanded in October 2015 at SPIEL Essen, where Catan GmbH and Kosmos organized the 'CATAN Big Game' with 1,040 players, and in September 2017 in Rotterdam with 1,096 players. In all these Big Game events, hundreds to over a thousand players sat along connected tables and resolved actions simultaneously off a single centralized dice roll per turn.

Guinness World Records certified 922 simultaneous players in a single continuous Catan game at Gen Con in August 2013.
Catan GmbH organized the CATAN Big Game at SPIEL Essen in October 2015 with 1,040 players acting on centralized dice rolls, breaking previous marks.
Catan GmbH's official Big Game format rules confirm the game structure where all players resolve actions simultaneously based on a single moderator dice roll.

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[1] guinnessworldrecords.com [2] wordpress.com [3] guinnessworldrecords.es [4] catan.com [5] catan.com [6] catan.com [7] inverse.com [8] catanstudio.com

"Catan Big Game" Essen 2015 players Guinness World Record most people playing Catan simultaneously single game Guinness World Record most people playing Settlers of Catan simultaneously Catan Big Game world record 1000 players Gen Con Essen "Catan Big Game" 2015 "1,040" OR "1040" OR "1,000" OR "1000" "Catan Big Game" Rotterdam 2017 "1096" OR "1,096"

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