Mayfair Games is a board game publisher that sells games within the Uniteed States and the U.K. Based out of Chicago, Illinois, the company was originally founded in the 1980s, but eventually went defunct in 1997. It wasn't until Iron Crown Enterprises came on the scene and bailed out Mayfair Games that the publisher was able to rebound.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair_Games The logo for Mayfair games is a blue shield with a tan hexagon under a blue letter "M".
Today, Mayfair is a popular publisher that is known for its licensing of popular German board games, such as Settlers of Catan, and the many expansions from the Catan series of games. Mayfair also prides itself on being "the largest publisher of railroading games on planet earth."http://mayfairgames.wordpress.com/about/ The company also puts out a number of other card games, board games, and party games under a large number of titles--from Hey, That's My Fish! and Nuns on the Run to Domain and Shear Panic.
Mayfair Games is also known to have a strong representation at the annual Origins Game Fair, where the game maker sets up a board game room and hold contests and play testing.http://www.originsgamefair.com/Events/tabid/2794/Default.aspx
In 2010 Mayfair has released the new game Nuns on the Run, a secretive cat-and-mouse game where young apprentice nuns must sneak about the cloister concealing themselves from curfew-checking superiors. Mayfair also released a sequel in the popular Catan series of games called Settlers of America: Trails to Rails.http://twitter.com/mayfairgames
Settlers of Catan Review
This video is a review of the Settlers of Catan board game, given by Tom Vasel, a well-known board game critic. Here, Tom explains how the game works and how different pieces are set up to begin the game. The gameplay is dissected so that viewers can have an elementary grasp of the game in the event that the viewer has never played the game.
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Fast Facts
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Founded in
1980
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Based out of
Skokie, IL
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Manufactures
Board games
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Most famous for
"Catan" series of games, and railroad board games
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Recent new titles
Nuns on the Run and Settlers of America: Trails to Rails
