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puffinge: What's your favorite method to determine who goes first?

Paraxis: Choisi app on iphone
Dastorn: Smallworld's method - who has the pointiest ears.
Drab Emordnilap: Finger trick. (Each player simultaneously reveals any number of fingers. Starting from the game owner, count around the table the number of total fingers.)
MartinWin: Everyone thinks of a number. The one with the highest number goes first.
Butterbob: Whoever is ready first and calls it
Yldarr: If there are player pieces in different colors, I grab one from each player, shake them like dice and throw them on the table like dice in a predetermined direction. Whichever one goes the furthest in that direction is the start player. Or, this (which someone else answered): "Collect one player piece from each player. Hide them in your hands and shake. Divide between two hands. Choose hand. Throw others out. (not literally) Continue until one is left. That person goes first." Or, roll dice.
Woelf: Pointing to someone and saying, "why don't you go first".
PowerTrader: Cage fight
Corran Horn: The one who explained the game (usually the owner, too) goes first so the others can see what's going on...
Jatoha: the kid that yells the loudest
amosmj: new guy goes first.
Chris Page: Via a comedy routine.
axeme: Die roll, or whoever is finished eating first (away from the table of course).
ChelseaSquare: Loudest burp when playing with my friends. It usually ends up being the funniest burp.
Zedsdead: Whoever can recite pi to the greatest number of decimal places goes first.
mrbeankc: I begin to pummel my oppoent. If he says I can go first before he loses consciousness I go first. Otherwise he goes first upon waking up.
Mors: Rock, paper, scissors
pikkusiili2000: Spin the meeple, or drop pieces and see who is closest to an object.
gantrell: die roll
praisechick: Closest upcoming birthday.
DHEK: Rolling dice.
tsukata: draw from bag
Ebon Wendigo: My favorite method is indian wrestling but everybody seems to just want to roll dice.
teryg: spin Mike Robert's cell phone
TheArchAngel: dice roll
slowcorner: I go first.
vampywife: I like the one where whoever's birthday is closest to the day you're playing goes first.
the_redstar_swl: Russian Roulette, 1 (blank) bullet, 6 chambers.
arkibet: the bang your dead method. (Point at someone, point at self, or point in air and resolve)
monkeyrobot: Random die roll
POvidiusNaso: Deciding who should go first myself.
roo414: wrestle
martybjsg: Roll a die or use the pick-the-hand method with game pieces.
aleo09: rock paper, scissors
matthewjhoskins: Rolling dice
Wes Robiinson: Youngest
unixrevolution: Rolling Dice. THe problem is rolling first to see who rolls first.
Beyak: shocking roulette
Leo-T: roll dice
Son of Murray: Fluxx: whoever first declares a desire to go first.
dictator555: Last person to touch her nose.
dietevil: Holding breath till all but one person has passed out.
mcross: The Finger of Fate (from Tin Soldiers)
scriptorum: Knife fight.
greglios: Randomised by picking colours out of a closed hand or whatever.
ZombyDawg: roll dice
prolifekilledmywife: Knife fight.
duLac956: Draw colored marker from someone's hand.
brainrob: Headbutts - last one standing goes first
pattonre: roll a D6
moyet: The hungriest player as in Mama Mia
FrozenHoHos: By who pisses me off the least. Usually we determine order based on game experience to help n00bs.
mrspank: Rock, paper, scissors.
Avatar_69: Random choice
mlanza: Randomly draw someone's score marker from another person's hands
RandomGraham: Meeples in cupped hand, someone else picks one out without looking.
Loquutus: Rochambeau.
hkishel: Roll a die
Myszka: A sane dice rolling.
bigbadsteve: toss the dice into the other room. whoever gets em first gets to go first
bekudno: The mathematician in me likes this method for N players: each player simultaneously reveals a number of fingers from 0 to N-1. If the sum of all those numbers is X, count X mod N players clockwise beginning with myself.
KrazyKarlo: Youngest player or newest player (assuming first go is of benefit).
the_spy: Dies or anyone thows numbers and then we count clockwise.
confuse_a_cat: The Sheriff goes first.
ctalbot: Roll a die, highest goes first.
ssmooth: When somebody says, "Who goes first?", reply, "You do."
Steve Leach: rock, paper, scissors
javelin98: Distribute baseball bats and settle it like men.
GuyHill: look for the silly rule in the rule book
TaliaIsabelle: Youngest, because that's always me, people are starting to catch on though
Suzan: Ask everybody who wants to start.
DonO: Give everyone a D6. They all secretly pick a number to be face up, revealing them all at the same time. Highest unique number goes first. If no unique numbers, repeat.
Topdecker: d6
mads b.: die. But not who roll the highest - I like it better when you distribute numbers to each player and then rolle only one die. And yes, I am taking this far to seriously
matthew.marquand: first to fart
Belash: paper, rock, scissors
CharlieWonka: The wooly Bully method of whoever lives closest to the countryside
skrutsch: Collect one player piece from each player. Hide them in your hands and shake. Divide between two hands. Choose hand. Throw others out. (not literally) Continue until one is left. That person goes first.
Great Dane: I use my finger
Megadev: just saying "I go first"
Nightmare: Put one piece of each color in my hand and have someone pick one.
Redneon: Oldest player (I am 60)
Ludocrazy: Who looks most like a pirate
Windopaene: The Spin-4-It rules!
familygaming: Goofy methods found in the rules: eg. Cartagena: "Whomever looks most like a pirate." But if you mean on my own, if the rules say nothing, we let the previous loser start.
shotokanguy: Whoever looks most like the monster.
The Unbeliever: 42
Lord_Prussian: Rock, Paper, Scissors
KnobDoctor: Sadly enough, Rock Scissors Paper.
melissa: shake one of each coloured piece & drop one.
2amp: d6
djlg: Picking up one of each player's pieces and shaking out a random one.
stephensj23: Throwing meebles at the box.
snoozefest: randomly draw scoring markers
puffinge: Nude Twister.
Nomadik: Talisman's official rule, "The owner of the game goes first"
AWildEep: Roll a die
MisterCranky: quick survey to see who is willing.
gnomehome: Random finger counting.
erli: Picking pawn colors
ValJor: The one that comes with the rules. Other than that, die roll
RandallPeek: A yodeling contest.
jttm: The girl
heli: "I am holding 1-n bits in my hand. First to guess the number goes first. If no one guesses it, I go first."
cktjharris: whoever lost the last game goes first
xlorp: Owner of game
Dave: "Mod-choosies": Search http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/GameSystems4.shtml for "Remainders".
chaddyboy_2000: The sexiest player goes first.
Blackwind: We have a fist fight and the winner goes first.
CortexBomb: Paper - Rock - Scissors...because I have an unearthly talent for it
skelebone: Usually by age, though I would like to get one of those spinning finger things.
AlorielLelyn: Longest hair - which results in me, if I'm not playing with my wife, or her, if she is. Few people can match 3 feet of hair, and almost no one can match 5 feet.
Spielfreak: The Australian method -- take a piece in each player's color into your fist, toss them across the table, and whichever has travelled the farthest is the first player.
CDRodeffer: The "lucky you" finger spinner.