Settlers of Catan for the colorblind
First, let me say that Settlers of Catan is a great game. Everyone should try and play it a couple of times. Imagine the fun that you expect to have when playing Monopoly, but actually having fun when you do play! That’s not something that happens with monopoly. Anyway, the link to the Wiki article does a good job of explaining the game for now, which is not the point of this post anyway.
As some of you know, I am colorblind, so when I opened the Settlers of Catan 5-6 Player Expansion box, I gazed upon the new color pieces dishearteningly, as they were brown and green (I think). Anyway, I have always kept these out of game play because I cannot tell them apart. That, and we have only played with more than four people once, and that was only with five.
That was, of course, until this weekend. Here is a set of Settlers of Catan pieces (Settlers Expansion and Seafarers Expansion) that I painted grey… Bridgeport Grey, to be exact. The brown set is no more, and now there are 6 different colors to use with my copies of Settlers. I sorted them by attempting (and failing) to sort them myself until Meghan corrected my apparently obvious mistakes.
I’m thinking that I might paint all my pieces to make my copy of Settlers of Catan a little personalized, possibly get an adobe/stucco color for the buildings and paint their roofs the color of the set and paint the hulls of the ships brown but make the sails the color of the set. Once I know I have a job come the new year, I’m going to consider how I’ll do this. I’m also going some sort of sealant, as the paint is probably going to chip and wear with constant use.