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¿Question #2132?
puffinge: What's the funniest game rule you have ever read?

ocdspectrum: The starting player is the last one to have ridden a Dragon.
Jrtolf: The starting player in Fearsome Floors is the player who looks most like the monster.
pwilz: Galaxy Trucker stuff, I guess.
katlibrary: Galaxy trucker, the entire rule book is hilarious, but I can't dredge up the funniest rule on the spot, and the game is like five steps away in the cupboard, and I am just too tired to go look it up!
Shem_Whistler: Who reads rules?
uglifruit: "The player with the longest beard starts." (Once upon a time).
Randy Cox: I cannot think of any. Humor and rules don't often go well together.
Woelf: The start player rule in Bridges of Shangrila is a good one: "Whoever has last reached the peak of Mount Everest using nothing but blue and white checkered stilts carved from the wood of a Mammoth tree is declared the Starting Player. In case of a tie, the wisest player of the group begins the game."
Sinnersandassociates: mony pithon card game, pick any of the modifiers!
Ender Barney: no table talk
WiltChamberlain: the starting player is the one who most recently got a haircut
Hendal: Cheating is aloud if everyone agrees on it! OK not that funny, darn it.
WatchmanX2000: hrm. can't recall
hancock.tom: Mobile Bordello chit and accompanying rules from DAK2. Its historically accurate
DHEK: That the player to start first is the one who most recently had a great idea. It's from Tempus.
aleo09: the part about the winner in Settlers being hailed lord of catan by all!
Leo-T: The ugliest player goes first.
Capitaine Grappin: The whole Mad boardgame's rules are funny
Tina and Steve: The trivial pursuit comment about the swizzle sticks
GuyHill: the one in munchkin about throwing a die and arguing about it
Cut & Space: The rules from Killer bunnies
dmomo: Don't remember. Maybe the one about winning Catan.
Big BabOOn: Friedrich - Russia quits the game. Funny.
FrozenHoHos: Fearsome Floors monster look alike.
brainrob: The 'Doris & Frank' gene card in Ursuppe
Helenoftroy: The person who goes first is the one who has read the Bible last
the grim reaper: a "peace" piece
dralius: In Condottiere if the game ends in a tie the players should agree to play another game.
Chris Page: That wasn't intentionally funny? It's Mine, where the winner is the first to win two chips (independent rounds). Then in alternate ways to play, the rules say, "For longer game, play to three chips." Hmmm. Maybe you had to be there when it was being taught.
LemonyFresh: (New England) - Choose the starting player. The player to the left of the starting player begins the game by.....
javelin98: Can't recall, but it was probably something in Paranoia
bigbadsteve: the board is divided into hexes. hereafter, hexes will be referred to as squares. d-day, by avalon hill
Loquutus: Any Calvinball rule.
Bahamut-X: Hex Hex: Winner of the game invent a rule for the next game
scriptorum: Don't remember.
skrutsch: Well, I think the story for Igloo Pop is very funny. I know I've read funny rules, but I can't think of any at the moment.
sourwyrm: nothing springs to mind
Lord_Prussian: I wish I could remember
Ludocrazy: You can't win with government cheese (from The Great Brain Robbery, Cheapass Games)
rdmasters: Munchkin: The rule about deciding who goes first... Right up there with the World War 3 rule about burning the map!
The Unbeliever: 42
djlg: A lot of the "starting player is" rules are good. Categena's in particular (who looks most like a pirate).
WasQ: The last rule in Munchkin, I use once in a play and my friends go stared at my face in complete surprise...WHAHAhahahahaaaa...
darthcliff: A crappy english translation of Mah Jong rules
Lucimara: Jungle Speed "you are not allowed to hit your opponet with it" :)
heli: "An erect man can expose himself in an aperture." (from an early war game)
MisterCranky: Sobald sich ein Spieler für eine Zirkuskarte entschieden und sie auf die Hand genommen hat, ist sein Zug beendet. OMG, it sounds so much like Sergeant Schultz muttering to Hogan, I am shaking with laughter!
tragicpoet: X=X+1, while playing a drunken game of Fluxx
2amp: the tie-breakers in "scene it"
viogression: Quite a few starting player rules are funny
snoozefest: ?
gnomehome: There are a lot of funny rules to determine starting players (there's a geeklist)
netfilterz: Ballroom card in Citadels
Tim Synge: Goa (Rio Grande edition): "Place the game board in the middle of the table."
sos1: "When in doubt, roll and shout."
Claytonius Maximus: The Great Dalmuti has that whole thing where the Greater Peon has to do whatever the Greater Dalmuti says, like get snacks, etc.
fellonmyhead: Eiszeit (I think); something like "the hairiest player goes first".
Blackwind: game rule...hmmmmm
ValJor: Mamma Mia: the hungriest player goes first. How the hell are we supposed to measure that?
jttm: Mystery Abbey. The chanting card.
AlorielLelyn: Can't think of one off the top of my head
chaddyboy_2000: "These are the dice."
CDRodeffer: Several "who goes first" rules are kind of silly.
Spielfreak: The start player rule for Bridges of Shangri-La
skelebone: Some of the starting player rules are pretty good.
Wintergoblin: When you can make up your own rule