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¿Question #1152?
skelebone: What was your first Euro/Designer game?

Hector Vortac: Does Eurorails count? I bought it at the very convention where I first played Catan.
Shleeg: catan i think, back when there were no boardgame stores around. i think we bought it from one of those stores that sells specialty pool cues! and... we had to walk to the store in our bare feet in the driving snow and ate rocks for breakfast?
Bio9: Settlers of Catan
myrm: Settlers of Catan
vantageGT: Like many others, Settlers of Catan... but I don't count that; someone bought it for me as a gift. The first one I got because I wanted it was Carcassonne. I still love it and play it all the time (on iOS).
SliverXII: Carcassonne
Mazz_O: stone age
Felimid: "King of the Elves". Last November.
Jatoha: It may have been Galloping pigs.
pwilz: Depending on what you consider a Euro/Designer game, it was either Acquire or Settlers of Catan.
Jythier: Power Grid.
El Hidalgo: Settlers
LilRed: Settlers of Catan.
ZeroZilla: I can now no longer remember if we played Settlers or Citadels first.
william_henshaw: carcassonne
Twinge: Shadows Over Camelot.
ipgyst: El Grande
Nazhuret: settlers.. though i didn't like it at the time. it's a long story...
DHEK: Settlers of Catan.
biggdork: Catan, or Lowenherz.
rawdawg: ummmm...
POvidiusNaso: Elfenland.
JaTal: Settlers of Catan
MenuGarit: Settlers of Catan
signjc: Settlers of Catan
hob69: Carcassonne
Leo-T: Settlers
tagger418: Catan
Kubilai: Played Sagaland (Enchanted Forest) around '82, it was new then and Hase und Igel (Hare and Tortoise) even before this. Settlers of Catan in 95 when it came out.
chockle: Settlers
ZiggyZambo: Settlers
JonBen: Burn in Hell... is that Euro?? I'm not really sure.
eschaton1000: Settlers of Catan.
interhawk: settlers i think
janiera: Settlers of Catan
Leif: Played - Settlers, owned - Carcassonne
Roja: Settlers of Catan
pedrolisboa: Settlers
ciscokidnj: Settlers of Catan
FrozenHoHos: Survive (if that counts) otherwise *sigh* Catan.
scriptorum: My first Euro was probably Settlers, but my first designer game would have to be one of the Avalon Hill games. I don't know which I played first.
s.bonnermann: Mississippi Queen
SkyBry: Hmmm... don't have an answer for that one.
Chris Page: Settlers of Catan, 1995. Thought it was okay, but that was it.
hacksword: Scrabble
dietevil: Starfarers
tipigi: SoC
bigbadsteve: i suppose risk would have to count
Megadev: Settlers of Catan
fFish: Settlers. purchase: Attika/New England/Citadels/Entdecker
brainrob: DdW
korppu: Carcassonne
Dinky_Gnatbane: Princes of Florence
ZombyDawg: Settlers of Catan
kyrasantae: Hmm...think it was Bang.
ssmooth: First I'm aware of was Risk, designed in France. Later Rummikub, Scotland Yard, Daytona 500, Hols der Geier, Kremlin, Settlers of Catan, Euphrat & Tigris, I think in that order.
Cerebus: Ticket to Ride
notquitekarpov: Settlers
mrbeankc: Hoity Toity and never was their a more overrated game.
Belash: Settlers
BaSL: Tikal
SteveK2: settlers
puffinge: Something from the late 80s, maybe Hare and Tortoise.
bluebehir: Carcasonne
CapAp: Settlers
Lord_Prussian: Settlers
snoozefest: settlers?
nexttothemoon: Amazing Labyrinth was the 1st we played.
WasQ: Catan
djlg: Maybe Acquire
melissa: Settlers
Windopaene: Card - Bohnanza, Board - Tikal
esswedl: Carcassonne
kennyb: euro - adel Verphlchkttk designer - one of SPI's titles
Quest22: El Grande
batman: Tikal
2amp: none
AWildEep: Settlers
dakarp: First german game: Settlers of Catan. First "designer" game: depends which you count as designer. Talisman, followed by Deluxe Illuminati, Dungeonquest, Cosmic Encounter, then Acquire (clearly designer, I guess).
seanp: Scotland Yard (does that count?)
BengalBandit: Settlers of Catan
Con Man: played - Through the Desert; owned- Lord of the Rings
heli: Die Macher
Wintergoblin: not sure
Dave: Mississippi Queen or Streetcar
StormKnight: Settlers of Catan
Mosse: Carcassonne
Karlsen: Designer game - one of many SPI games because they credit them. Euro - Settlers of Catan
AlorielLelyn: Reiner Knizia - Lord of the Rings
shippert: Modern Art
redhuntingcap: carcassonne, but only beacause i was too impatient for my first order to arrive.
Ilikegames: Settlers of Boredom
gnomehome: Löwenherz
sumo: My first German Game was Sechs Tage Rennen, but I had played Broker and Alaska before that.
ScottBecker: Acquire, although I didnt realize it at the time.
game_boy: Settlers.
wef71: Citadels.
Wernazuma: Inkognito or Targui quite long ago. Café Int. Das Kartenspiel triggered my newer board game trip.
Marquardt: Tally Ho!, I think. Perhaps Settlers. Can't remember.
Andy Parsons: Schoko & Co. was my first played, Die Macher was the first I bought.
louiseh: Settlers
Grimwold: Settlers
Glamorous Mucus: Die Siedler was the first one that I consciously recognized as a "different kind of game from Germany."
netfilterz: A Game of Thrones.
rochs77: Settlers of Catan
Mordachai: Don't remember...
Bluenose: Settlers
Blackwind: Settlers
MisterCranky: It must have been one of Sid Sackson's. Probably Venture. Of course, this was long before he could only get his games produced in Europe.
jttm: Carcassonne
cktjharris: Cartagena
sos1: Trade Winds (an American version of the Euro Buccaneer)
shumyum: First played: Settlers. First bought: Modern Art.
Ravsitar: Settlers of Catan
chaddyboy_2000: I cannot process this question.
CortexBomb: Settlers
DangerMouse: I can't rightly say.
CDRodeffer: Acquire
onky: Formula D'e
ValJor: Café International - Das Kartenspiel. Pretty lame, I know, but hey, I like it!
Spielfreak: Adel Verpflichtet from AH, but I wasn't cognizant of the Euro/Designer game niche until I picked up Settlers of Catan.
ynnen: I haven't designed on yet... Oh -- to play? In that case, probably Puerto Rico.
skelebone: Carcassonne.. that's the one that started the avalanche.