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Can the start player lead red before anyone has played red in the round?
The publisher ruled on this directly on BGG, and the ruling clarifies the printed text.
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Only by declaring yourself out of blue, yellow and green first. The publisher says the start player may lead red before it is broken, but must remove their tokens from all other colours to do so, which limits them to red for the rest of the round. The printed rule seems to allow an early red lead only when no other colour is playable, so the ruling clarifies the rulebook text.
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