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¿Question #2968?
meshuggener: What is you favorite method of picking who goes first?

ocdspectrum: By age. Always end up in the middle.
Woelf: Ask who wants to go first, then let them go first.
Cringing Dragon: Whoever says "I'm going first" first.
pwilz: I like the Start Player deck.
MisterCranky: I am going to ask DHEK what he thinks, and get back to you.
Gregski: Place one meeple for each player in hand. Someone randomly picks out the starter.
DasViktor: The guy who has played before.
Fennic: Have everone pick a letter from the alphabet and then randomly open a page from the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Role a six-sided die (d6) and count the number of stanzas doen from the top of the page indicted on the d6. Select the nth word in that passage where n is the number of players. Read the word out loud and the last letter of the word is translated into its numerical equivalent (a=1, b=2 etc.) an then take this number and plug it into the following formula where it is represented by x, and n is the number of players playing the game: x^n- 6x + n. With this number start with the person who randomly selected the Shakespearean passage and count around the circle of players. The person whom the count ends with roles a d6 and then passes it to the next person. The person with the highest role goes first. In the event of a tie start over from the beginning at which some point someone will scream out "Oh for bloody sakes just let 'm' go first" Where m is a signular subset entity of n.
beerbear: We usually do the dice thing but I like the Filler suggestion and may do that sometime.
Felimid: Put them in a jar and watch them turn green. Oh, wait. You said *picking*, not *pickling*. Oops.
l10n0fjudah: Russian Roulette
xofour: Paintball!!!
kallman1206: Highest diceroll, reroll ties. Equal chances wioth the same dice, right?
aleo09: collect the player pawns and randomly select the first player.
ricardofo: chance
cgund: I just say "you go first".
ExcitingJeff: Owner of the game, or the person who read the rules.
midnightfaerie: i always make up some weird random rule, like, the smallest number when ppl add the 2 digits of their age together.
Hector Vortac: spinny finger
Chris Page: Highest untied die roll on a 1d4.
shteev: Ready, Aim, Fire.
WonderLlama: Remainder game.
Aingeru: We usually roll a die. Or starts the loser...
Dandelion: youngest goes first
jcarvin: roll the bones
jtrleone: By playing a filler game. Whoever wins goes first! Most commonly is a roll of the dice.
DHEK: Rolling the dice.
stray_flux: Fickle Finger of Fate!
themagni: Let kids go first. Then roll dice.
ColtsFan76: the person with the most experince with the game - i teach a lot of new people new games - so that seems the best way to teach newbies
xlorp: Biggest booger
eddyspaghetti: I go first.
Sagrilarus: One potato Two potato.
MenuGarit: roll the cranium die and whoever is closest to purple (color-wise) goes first
mrspank: Fist fights.
greenpawn: random pick of players pawns
Nimrod6: Roll 20 sided dice
Cut & Space: take all pawn in hand and making one fall
sikeospi: The player who knows what he is doing.
Leo-T: random
dougpartridge: Usually mixing the score markers and picking one at random.
rawdawg: dise
pattonre: Roll a D6
anonInternetName: dice roll (highest)
nathanholden: roll a dice
bigbadsteve: it involves lots of yelling
imahuron: Duel. Pistols preferred.
hacksword: The pwn3r of the game should go first.
jasta6: dice........................................................................
doghouse724: Guess what time it is. See Chrononauts.
vampywife: Roll a d6 or two, highest goes first.
s.bonnermann: Die roll
Helenoftroy: age before beauty
KDSN: dice
fFish: Youngest
puffinslayer: I usually go first as I'm teaching people the game. Otherwise, I'm a fan of rolling a D6 for it, high number wins.
Loquutus: Rochambeau.
brainrob: Headbutts - the last one standing goes first
starbug: Class Struggle has the best one: white men, who are statistically more likely to be capitalists, get to go first.
janiera: Rolling the die
LemonyFresh: Highest untied die roll, rerolling all 5s and 6s
ctalbot: Roll the die, whoever rolls highest goes first.
Steve Leach: rock, paper, scissors
dakarp: I have one of those Spin-4-it spinners on my keychain.
Jim_P: Random selection
Larry Chong: randomly draw one from all players' score track markers
markus_kt: Chess to the death.
POvidiusNaso: Arbitrary decision-making.
Great Dane: The FINGER!
scriptorum: Twister.
sourwyrm: cast lots
Legend Dan: I say somebody's name.
Megadev: high roll on 2D6 if the rules don't clearly state (or if it's something else that isn't random like Citadels "oldest player receives the Crown counter" crap
rdmasters: Dice, person to left of least experienced, longest beard...
Lord_Prussian: Rock, paper, scissors
skrutsch: Put each person's game piece in your hands and shake them around. Divide in half and have someone pick a hand. Throw the other's out. Divide, pick, toss until one is left. That person goes first.
der_chad: we just take turns.
AdamT: Telling someone they can go first
davedanger: bribes
darthcliff: The owner of the game picks.
ssmooth: Rulebook, spinner, or arbitrary
Ebon Wendigo: Arm wrestling
2amp: D6
AWildEep: Age
djlg: Pick up each player's piece, give 'em a shake and drop one out.
Windopaene: The Spin-4-It always decides...
puffinge: nude twister
Randy Cox: Whoever won the previous game
heli: secrete 1-n pieces in my hand. ask each player how many in turn. they must give different numbers. whoever guesses right goes first. if none do, I go first.
Bearcat89: Mud wrestling
SteveK2: whichever of my sons asks loudest / quickest
chaddyboy_2000: Depends how scabby the first player is.
snoozefest: randomly draw from the scoring markers
Spielfreak: The Australian "farthest traveller" method.
CDRodeffer: The "lucky you" finger spinner.
Tim Synge: According to the rules or roll of a dice.
alfonzos: Random draw.
jttm: Girl, then n00bie decides.
ValJor: The one written on the rules. Failing that, dice roll.
CortexBomb: Rock Paper Scissors
skelebone: Spinny finger is pretty neat.