Juan Carlos Castillo
United States
Laredo
Texas
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When the box opens and is time to choose pieces color I always grab the red pieces maybe because most of the sport teams I like use red in their uniforms: 49ers, Liverpool, Bulls. If somebody else wants red I have no problem and I go with black or even brown if available.
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Tom Rosen
United States
Arlington
Virginia
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I should probably have this microbadge (thanks to Legomancer) because I definitely always play yellow
The reason is actually because I used to always play green long ago, but that seemed to be a popular color that others would want too, so a couple years ago I switched to playing yellow, since no one ever seemed to want that color, and now I definitely always play yellow, I can't go back now, hehe.
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Vote Tally
Yellow: 25
Green: 16
Blue: 15
Red: 14
Black: 10
Purple: 8
Orange: 6
White: 4
Brown: 1
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This is very odd, I never realized that my exact reason for playing yellow (i.e., believing it's generally an unpopular color) is shared by so many other people who choose yellow too. I wonder why this rationale is uniquely yellow!
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Colin Hunter
New Zealand
Auckland
Stop the admins removing history from the Wargaming forum.
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I try to play pink and purple. Most male gamer shy away from these colours as girly (at least in our group) so I usually go straight for one of them.
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Leo Zappa
United States
Aliquippa
Pennsylvania
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Usually Black, because of its high evil content! My alternate color if someone beats me to the Black is Red, because of its aggressive, warlike characteristics. As I play almost nothing other than direct conflict, warlike games, these colors just do it for me!
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Daniel Kearns
United States
Bloomington
Indiana
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Yellow. I'm the host and everyone universally hates yellow. Now I love it and wouldn't play anything else.
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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Blue or Yellow. My favourite colours and my favourite colours to have together. I dislike red mainly cos of the Arsenal connotation and also the fact it clearly makes you a target! I used to have a strange hatred of green as kid (very much strange as I lived on a farm!) Blue's the classic but I'm more than happy to play as yellow and depending on my mood I may take yellow anyway.
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Chris May
United States
Killeen
Texas
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I like green. It's my favorite color. My second choice would be black. Probably the Atlanta Falcons connection.
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Andy K.
United States
Norman
Oklahoma
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Yellow first, then natural-wood/white (if available) or black. Mostly because I have no problem seeing those colors on the board.
Also, yellow is just like me: craven and sly with a vicious streak.
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Joe Stude
United States
Plymouth
Michigan
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My brother and I used to playfully fight to see who would get the red... well, anything, dinner glasses and game pieces included, though I have no idea why. Some bizarre prepubescent understanding of the masculine potency of the color red?
Come to think of it, I still gravitate toward red more often than not. Hmm.
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Chuck Easterlin
United States
Saint Peters
Missouri
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Black... followed closely by purple if available.
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Weaving Geek
United States
Muncie
Indiana
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Black, of course, I am always black. If that's not possible, then white/grey. My two favorite colors.
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Tony Watson
United States
San Diego
California
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I am always blue if it's available. In fact my gaming group expects it. In multiplayer light wargames, like History of the World, there's a saying around the around the gaming table: "When in doubt, kill blue." This stems from, I believe, the fact that generally I have the unenviable job of reading the rules and explaining them to the rest of the group. They conclude that since I explained the rules, I must know them best, and need to be hammered because of the advantage.
To paraphrase Kermit, "It's not easy being blue."
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Brad Fuller
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
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whatever color is left over, or whatever I grab first. It's doesn't change the game.
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John Brier
United States
Aventura
Florida
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I like white, but it's often not one of the options. I also like doo doo brown
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Lori
United States
Durham
North Carolina
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Green and purple are my favorite colors in general, and all my gaming life I have always gone for green. You don't see many games (though there certainly are some!) that have purple as an option, though when there is purple I sometimes take purple for a change. The ideal strategy is to play a game where I can be purple while letting one of the other green people have their turn at green.
Ah, the other green people. We're like some bizarre species that can't get along with itself. All my life I had the monopoly on green in my family. Now, mixing with random other gamers, I encounter others who are the green one in their household or their group. And we both want green! Worse yet, there can be no victory, because whoever gets the green pieces will find the other green people instinctively trying to move them half the time.
But it doesn't matter. Once green, always green.
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Gantry Rogue
Canada
Abbotsford
BC
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yellow. because my toothbrushes are always yellow, of course.
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Aaron Brooks
United States
Mililani
Hawaii
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Maybe there's a connection here, but I'm always blue. I'm also the only person who always reads the rules. Everybody laughs, until something comes up that we don't know how to deal with...
Oh yeah, and as for why: because blue is the luckiest color!
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Josh
United States
Surely I'm not the only person who really enjoys the smell of post offices
The face of the Earth is a graveyard, and so has it ever been. Each living thing restores when it dies that which had been borrowed to give form and substance to its brief day in the sun.
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As a colorblind person, whichever color looks the least like any other color in that particular game. For example, in Nexus Ops, either red or blue are good. In most games, this means avoiding red and green like the plague.
However, black is always good. Tough to mix up ol' trusty black, absorber of all wavelengths...
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Dan Alban
United States
Arlington
Virginia
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yellow. no one else seems to pick it, so it's easy to play yellow in every game and reduce the potential for confusion
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John Paul Sodusta
United States
Santa Barbara
California
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Put me down for yellow as well as no one picks the color. But over time yellow started growing on me and I always choose yellow now.
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David Hawkins
Australia
NSW
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BLUE! Blue is for boys!
Like JoshBot I am colorblind so red, green, brown and variants thereof are a major no go. Bright Yellow (T2R and Carc.) and Black are fine as well.
Just to be annoying my family members always dive for the blue as soon as the box is open, so they can force me to struggle through with red and green.
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Trae Russell
United States
Ohio
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It's funny that so many people who have replied so far have picked yellow. It seems to be the last picked color a lot. I usually just take the color that is left so as not to be confronational. That's the way I've been all my life. I try to get purple when possible, but not many games have that color. Usually I will take yellow second, or maybe green. Again, whatever I don't have to fight over, not worth the argument. The guy who runs the FLGS I go to is always red. Most games have it and since he has to get up and be game store owner a lot, he knows which color to move when he gets back. Just easier that way, I guess. But, if I had my way, I'd paint some purple meeples and move on. I already have the purple settlers of catan base set bits and got the unpainted cities and knights and seafarers bits at origins last year. Some day I'll have the time to paint them to match!
    
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John Crowe
United States
West Hollywood
California
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Count me as another rules-reading BLUE player.
In games like Risk and Settlers I like dark colors that do not attract attention. In other games like Caylus, I go for colors that do stand out. I find it's easier to picture strategies in my head that way.
BTW, for anyone keeping count, you can add one more for RED for my fraternity brother who ALWAYS has to be red. 
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Ralph H. Anderson
United States
Norwalk
Connecticut
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Green - check out my avatar!
Why - to re-paraphrase Kermit - "It's not easy beating GREEN!
I am not exactly sure how I came to prefer green but its become quite difficult for me to play any other color if green is on the board. I'll move the green pieces more likely than not anyway!
If my favorite color is not available I'll play black, purple, white (which is actually just unpainted green!)
I have been known to relinquish my favorite on some rare occasions when others simply have to play it.
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John Crowe
United States
West Hollywood
California
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DragonCat wrote:
white (which is actually just unpainted green!)
Clever!
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