![]() ![]() Here at lost in play are going to answer the question on everyone’s mind, yes that means you too (pivot head to cam b, stare), “Hypothetically, How quickly can someone win a game of Catan if played perfectly and everything went their way?” It seems like a cool mental exercise and I thought, “hey, I should do it.” without ever considering whether I could do it. Roll dice, place settlement, flip dev card. Oceans 11 style slide ins of perfect dice etc. What could possibly go wrong? It seemed like a cool mental exercise and I thought, “hey, I should do that.” without ever considering whether I could do that. The objec tive is clear, I know what I must do. Here’s the challenge, “Hypothetically, How quickly can someone win a game of Catan if played perfectly and everything went their way?” And I mean everything, perfect dice rolls, perfect placements, perfect development cards AND perfectly dumb opponents that have the brains of a scarecrow (yellow brick road). So how the **** are we going to pull this off? I don’t know yet, but I have to try. This game is built to be played against real life humans who are trying their very best to defeat you. Whereas most speedruns happen in a single player game against the AI. That’s because it breaks all the rules of a traditional speedrun. This is a first time ever attempt at speedrunning Catan, and for good reason. It breaks all the rules of what is expected or traditional to speedrunning, like oh. ![]() And if you think about it for more than 2 seconds, it’s pretty clear why. And we’re doing it here at lost in play because we take play seriously (“not that seriously” table flip meme), not in a flip the table sort of way, but the mad scientist sort of way. “Until it’s settled, zoom in with music, then sheepīut I’m here to ask, AND answer, HOW would anyone do that? You don’t even have to answer that, because the answer is no, simply because it’s never been done before. Hourglass (crossed my mind), Bring out game box, standing over Catan box, Typography, look at camera and smirk at “settled” Gameboy playing pokemon, n64 playing zelda, epic camera pan towards settler board I am ready to do battle and I won’t rest until it’s settled (places settlement on board, sheep BAH) (TG). You’ve heard of Pokemon speedruns, you’ve heard of Zelda speedruns, but have you ever heard of Catan speedruns? Probably not because why would anyone do that? But ever since the t hought crossed my mind, I couldn’t ignore it, I needed to know if it could be done, it NEEDS to be done. There is a lot of interesting things you can learn about the game from watching this, in addition to the actual goal of the video. As a fun thought experiment, I thought, "Hypothetically, how quickly can someone win a game of Catan if played perfectly and everything went their way?" After a lot of contemplation and tomfoolery, I made a video out of it. ![]()
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