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¿Question #1151?
skelebone: What first brought you to BoardGameGeek?

shawtyritz: Reddit
Purpletriplecrown: Google
Woelf: Board games
pakos13: boardgames!
Felimid: Referred to it by a gaming friend of my best female friend. Naturally I procrastinated, waited a year, jumped in, and then regretted I had waited a year.
ricardofo: A friend: Heraldo Makrakis
Jorage: Settlers of Catan. Trying to find out as much as possible about it as my interest was piqued. Opened a door to this world that I don't know if I'll ever be able to find my way out of.
KillerPower: A friend of mine...
Luis Francisco: My graduation project...
DougBeebe: Word of mouth among game group. (buckeyeboardgamers.org)
Mr_Six: The internet. (Or did you want me to really answer that? I think I was searching for something about Settlers of Catan.)
FreeMorpheme: I came for the games, I stayed for the snacks.
Polgara: looking up a game
Stnhl: Googling on cry havoc
Stradk: I think I did a boardgamesearch on google
hob69: I think I was looking for info on something or other, can't even remember what.
Lori713: WarpWoofWeft
Randy Cox: I don't recall. That was a long, long time ago.
bulldozers: searching for good fantasy boardgames like Heroquest
kathleenryan: When Josh Ostrand e-mailed me and asked if he could list our game. I'd never heard of BoardGameGeek before that. Can you imagine such a thing?
earthvssoup: wizard's quest
pchilton2002: Needing rules for Colditz
datainadequate: Google
dogzard: GeekBuddy told me about it.
kpetzing: the game collection database
Whiskey Jack: Researching Axis & Allies replacement- Europe Engulfed.
DHEK: My interest in boardgames.
aleo09: searching for settlers info... i think
Phelonius: destiny
Ebon Wendigo: A computor
rootbeer: I used to visit the Gaming Dumpster (Frank Branham's old site?), and then it shut down, with all content moved to BGG. That was a long time ago.
Beyak: let me think... I think it was boardgames!
LordT: A friend of mine mentioned BGG
chockle: googled "Titan"
KentuckyKid: Friends in my game group.
TKRKS: Me looking fore info on World of Warcraft: The Board Game
Beelzebub: Web search on Yahoo in 2001
Cut & Space: random search over the net
Janiv: Looking for some fun, new, board games to play with my girlfriend
dmomo: I can't remember.
bigbadsteve: i thought it would be a good way to annoy the crap out of scott reed
davidgpeterson: My friend Ryan Wheeler...
wtrollkin2000: an early reference in rec.games.board
mlanza: The awakening of my passion for board games.
Shotmagnet: grognards and boredom
Helenoftroy: my husband
WatchmanX2000: an idiotic post by some dolt who thought they knew everything about gaming
Loquutus: The strategy articles.
dwarf: A friend told me about the site.
Billtje: my PC
jasta6: Wing of War....Thank you Andrea Angiolino ........................................
bekudno: I think I was looking for information about some game I'd heard about called "Settlers of Catan".
brainrob: Repeat question - see my previous response
stray_flux: Tamara Leer
Reloaded: dunno now... it was after I got M44...
vetinari7878: A Google search on some game or other.
SgtTodd: my keyboard
shizzane: Wow, interesting question. Let me think about that one. I can't remember, but if I had to guess it would probably be a computer geek friend that mentioned the site.
RoSKoMaNTe: looking for rules...
Dr. No: Dr. Fu
Bahamut-X: A picture of the map of game of throne
Regault: Google
ronster0: info on heroscape
Tushratta: Well... it was my computer, actually.
Null Signature: My quest for Mutant Chronicles, Siege of the Citadel... i must find the precious...
GuyHill: search of a simple wargame (and I found it: Hammer of the Scots)
matthew.marquand: Trying to find where I might be able to buy a copy of Acquire
sbszine: A link from Slashdot.
Darkholmme: I was searching for reviews for Risk: Godstorm, a game I still have not bought.
Dementomstie: Defectiveyeti.com
tiredmind: I think Talisman. Heck, it was so long ago now...
kennyb: looking for rules
Lord_Prussian: Funagain
The Unbeliever: 42
2amp: google search for some info about a game i was interested in
skrutsch: I can't remember. I'm sure I did a search on some game and discovered BGG.
ssmooth: Back in the early days Derk asked if he could use some session reports I'd written for games that hadn't been written up yet for the geek.
Gecko23: I was looking for a review of Carcassonne.
redhuntingcap: i was trying to research games.
AWildEep: jjacy1
heli: At Essen 2000 Scott came to our booth, took pictures and mentioned I think that he would be starting at site.
Lucimara: Tigris and Euphratis
scriptorum: Hmm, I don't remember. I went to register an account six months ago and discovered I had already registered in 2002, which was a surprise to me.
familygaming: The year was 2000 and I had just discovered German games, and by lucky coincidence, BGG has just started up and I found out about it from the links at the bottomg of Funagain's website.
fehrmeister: I think it was a Google search on "Settlers of Catan"
stephensj23: Rules translation
Bearcat89: A link from Funagain.
erli: GeekQuestions...fun stuff like that
tragicpoet: Searching on google for alternate rules to a game I owned
nexttothemoon: Looking for info on boardgame ratings I think so I could figure out what was the best to buy...it was a great eye opening website to find.
Troymk1: web link
Metaphora: I was looking for "educational" games to use at work and ran across this site. It took me a long time to get used to it, and even longer before I created a username, but now I check in almost daily.
melissa: My husband
esswedl: Looking for the rules to Risk 2210
LudesFactor: i'm not really sure, it was probably 2 or 3 years ago and i was doing searches or something ... a few months ago, followed a link in a pbem game i'm in and been here ever since (Aldie, can you check your server? there've been complaints that i'm missing around here ...)
rawk: searching for warhammer or d@d
MisterCranky: Magic wings and a tremendous updraft.
midgetsrawk: friend Ryan
ginn5j: Tigris & Euphrates
jpact: I was searching for Skelebone.
Flyspeck23: My browser.
Malacoda: Looking for rules.
snoozefest: can't remember ... some random search for settlers or something?
BaSL: Google most probably. Or else the 999forum
Cavedog_pdx: Got bored looking for a job in '02. Saw Tikal in a store looked it up on Ebay there was a link to BGG and voila!
djlg: The search for english rulebooks.
m_r_tyler: Me.
Dave: An announcement of its grand opening on rec.games.board
AlorielLelyn: My friend Zefquaavius
DenverWolf: Google searched Empire Builder looking for errata/corrections/variants.
isolated: A search for an obscure RPG-style dungeon crawl game from my youth. I just never left.
gnomehome: Google (through a search for translations).
dietevil: A link from spielfrieks
Salt-Man Z: Long before I became an active user, I found this place while looking for instructions to "The Bottom Line".
boermans: My girlfriend's previous flatmate
sumo: I am pretty sure I came here on the Internet.
fizzix: Looking for PR strategy tips.
thoia: Google.
UhhhClem: I came for the waters.
Belash: krainer recommended the site as I became more interested in the hobby
Mike A: Funagain, looking for info on Carcassonne.
Abundance of Flowers: Devi Hughes
CherryPie: Google.
viogression: I seem to recall that it was a link from Slashdot.
shumyum: An announcement of its grand opening on rec.games.board
louiseh: Curiosity.
haraggan: Good question. It feels like I've been here forever. Somebody must have sent me here to get more information on a game I was interested in
Blackwind: Google
Ryno8: Search from Google
jttm: Heroquest
Nightmare: I don't remember
Bluenose: Google
DangerMouse: Derk told me to post some of my session reports up cuz they needed some content to get things rolling.
CortexBomb: A link from Funagain, I don't know what game it was...maybe Settlers? Though I was already into the alea games by the time I started coming here regularly
BobDodgerBlue: an eBay auction
CDRodeffer: Probably an Internet search, it's been a while.
puffinge: audio of the GOF werewolf game
chaddyboy_2000: I was looking for Entdecker, which I had played at GenCon, which I had randomly decided to go to since I was in Milwaukee for the summer.
ValJor: I don't even remember anymore, but I believe it was games
Spielfreak: rec.games.board
skelebone: I was looking for Carcassonne strategy.
ynnen: A friend of a friend of a friend sharing links several years ago. I honestly don't know who originally pointed me in this direction, but I'm sure glad they did!