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¿Question #4067?
puffinge: Have you ever concocted an elaborate procedure for determining which game to play next? Please provide details.

Woelf: Sometimes I'll sit on the floor and pet kitties while I decide.
frumpish: Rolling die.
Jatoha: Well, yes, with kids there can be a lot of bargaining, I think Ice cream may have been involved once.
hob69: Nope. Protracted debate and perusal.
MisterCranky: This answer brought to you by Turkey Basters Anonymous.
Felimid: I multiply all the atomic weights on the Table of Periodic Elements by how many stoplights exist between Boston and Los Angeles by how many stars are in the sky, and devide that by pi. That usually gives me a good ballpark estimate.
Hendal: rolled dice and the highest roll decides
pwilz: Not esepcially elaborate. I've used, 'assign each person a game and use the Start Player deck.'
Fred West III: No.
MotUfan: No.
WatchmanX2000: yes. no.
Hector Vortac: This works best when a specific group of 3-5 meet repeatedly. There is a running point total maintained and the player with the lowest is responsible to choose. For 4 players, for example, select 4 games to choose from. All players assign a value 1-6 to each game, not repeating any number, 1 being game most preferred. Take each games total; divide by 4 to obtain rank factor. Selecting player is still free to choose any game, but his running total points will be increase by factor x (game length in hours + some bayseian number; maybe 3?). Never tried it. Let me know if it works.
El Hidalgo: Yes...I offer people choices...it gets messy.
atrium: When I was very young, I often had to entertain myself. Sometimes I would line up every toy or game that I owned along the wall, and perform an elaborate "eenie meenie miny mo" ritual. If it landed on a game I didn't like, then I would decide that item is "out", and start over. And very likely was unsatisfied with the outcome, so I would just grab the thing I wanted to play with anyway. But the procedure was quite entertaining and followed complex rules.
Ebon Wendigo: Nope
DHEK: Nope. We just play whatever everyone wants to play next.
kmcdougan: Not yet.
mrbeankc: no
Blueharlequin: um, no.
Geosphere: no
gf_ripper: yes many times
aleo09: no
Havoc: We once made a complex voting procedure in my gaming group.
Nimrod6: Play Billabong to determine player order in Caylus
Dryfus: no
GibsonGirl: Yes. (If you want details go to boardgames.meetup.com/40
heavymetalhamster: No
Lawrence Hung: I set up a schedule of games to play in BGG and follow them.
FrozenHoHos: Not yet...I need to get the group familiar with a few more first.
brainrob: No
vampywife: not really, i try to leave the game choosing to my gaming friends
hellsbishop: No.
Android: Nope. The winner of the last game picks.
Helenoftroy: ooh yes, I need ideas
RyanMC: nope
KDSN: no
LemonyFresh: Well, there's always highest-untied-die-roll-rerolling-all-5s-and-6s....
Bandit Ripshawd: Yes... having each person eliminate one game at a time. It can take a while to get through my collection!
Loquutus: No
Cavedog_pdx: I'm not that anal. You all have 5 minutes to decide before I jump into the negotiations and make an executive decision.
Recneps: I once fasted for a week until somebody finally chose one. That story's probably not true.
Redneon: No
kimapesan: Yes. I let my six year old decide. That's elaborate enough for me.
ValJor: No, never
POvidiusNaso: No.
GuyHill: no
puffinge: yea, the 4 of us wrote down 15 games we wanted to play. Then we would play a game from one of the lists, but first each of the other 3 got to eliminate 3 games they didn't want to play, leaving 6 on the list. Then each person ranked those games from 1 to 6 and we awarded points then added them up. Whichever game had the most points, we played. Then we did this for the other 3 lists. Really.
DonO: Yes, it is very elaborate and complicated, I had to review my notes to remember just exactly how it works...the winner of the last game gets to choose the next one.
snoozefest: no, usually it just takes forever until we agree
Lord_Prussian: Not that I can recall. I usually just look at the shelf and see what jump out at me.
chaddyboy_2000: MBG had a meta game to determine which game to play next.
Randy Cox: For a gaming gettogether I used to host, we sent out ballots beforehand and everyone got a number of votes to cast (either FOR or AGAINST a game), maximum vote of 10 for a single game, out of something like 100 total points. Yeah, it was extremely geeky, and I don't do that anymore.
CDRodeffer: I wrote a script to choose randomly based upon past choices. It used genetic algorithms. In Fortran.
skelebone: Sure not, other than looking over the game stacks, looking for something that we'd enjoy.
Spielfreak: no.
CortexBomb: Um, no...I don't see the need
jttm: We rolled dice, matched birthdays to the numbers, correlated that to the location of Venus in the heavens, then decided based on who jumped the highest.