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¿Question #426?
cktjharris: What's the first game you remember learning?

TheGrimReeple: I don't remember the process of learning them, but I remember playing Draughts/Chequers/Checkers and Connect 4 at the old house which we moved out of when I was five (and then it got torn down and turned into a carpark).
sgosaric: Not to ask too many questions.
ocdspectrum: Risk.
Woelf: UNO, maybe? There were others I'd learned before that, but it's not memorable.
geigersplat: Not sure but it may have been Survive! which was the first game I remember loving. We had the old Parker Brothers version.
oldhoss: Rooster, which is a simple card-shedding game that my Polish relatives all play.
Randy Cox: Chutes and Ladders.
Butterbob: Catan card game. Or checkers probably if you want the first game. Stupid rainbow jumps. It seemed to unbalance the game, being able to take all of your opponents pieces with one move...
bcooperok: Chinese Checkers from my Grampoo.
pwilz: Careers, I think, though I must have learned some other games before then.
TiwazTyrsfist: Clue
phrosbyte: Peek-a-boo
kathleenryan: Monopoly
AxWill: Afrikan tähti.
Felimid: "Emperor of China" or my late father's homemade "Monopoly" game (it included a very basic stock market).
Cate108: Gin Rummy
Peacebone: Uno or Tiddlywinks
ricardofo: chinese checkers
mr. assist: candy land
Curufea: Chess
mummykitty: Troke
WatchmanX2000: no idea.
Masakiuma: candyland
larshall: Amazing labyrinth
Artemis_146: be more specific. i think it was a diddy kong game though. or maybe pokemon.
spacerx: checkers
ithicks: Sagaland or Enchanted Forest
Capitaine Grappin: Tic-tac-Toe... it's amazing I am on the geek today
Bottlesorter: Blast off
DHEK: Chess.
Butterbane: Dungeons & Dragons
DataRaven: chess
Sandy Petersen: Clue
POvidiusNaso: Uno.
arkibet: Poker... when I was 3 years old. (Funny story)
Nimrod6: Dungeons & Dragons
SybotCB: I guess checkers
tipigi: Hi-Ho Cherrio
suncrush: Chutes & Ladders.
Blacknightjj: monoploy
puffinge: Old Maid?
Munchkin_Micih: Eating
blindspot: crazy eights
dmomo: Forest Friends. Or Duck Duck Goose.
Cromaa: Hi Ho the Cherry-O
nazgul_sp: Nine Men's Morris
vampywife: too far back to recall any of the first ones
jellospike: snakes & ladders, duh.
Big Bad Lex: Ludo
Chris Page: Pinochle.
KDSN: Hi Ho Cherry-o
MochaKimono: Robo Rally.
puffinslayer: Parcheesi. There was a copy at my grandmother's house and was the only thing for the kids to do.
bigbadsteve: probably candyland
shawn_low: Snakes and ladders. Maybe marbles.
jasta6: Life!
Loquutus: Candyland or something similarly lame.
DarqueKhaos: Checkers
vetinari7878: Memory
ssmooth: Aside from baby games like Pat-a-cake, I'm not sure whether I learned Parchisi or Crazy Eights first.
rrc1230: Pollyanna Dixie.
pellitieri: Probably checkers. But I was playing chess by my 5th birthday.
WyldKarde: Snakes and Ladders
Kyleroconnor: tic tac toe
erli: Mouse Trap when I was a kid
GrandpaDave: Monopoly
xlorp: Pinochle.
Dante_Cubit: How to steal from Mommy's purse.
mrbeankc: Cutes and ladders
Lord_Prussian: D&D, although I'm sure there were others before it
davidme: Monopoly
Mrcalcman: Battletech
Schuk: Chess
rdmasters: Chess. I still play it badly.
Gecko23: Candyland.
Defdamesdompi: Memory
skrutsch: War. (Does that qualify as a game?)
kimapesan: I don't remember learning any games.
KnobDoctor: Hi-Ho Cherry-O
ikeafetishist: mahjong
Belash: monopoly
snoozefest: tripples
Kubilai: Checkers, I think.
nexttothemoon: I can't remember.
toulouse: Chutes and Ladders
bacco: checkers
cobra: ludo
BengalBandit: Chess
Longbow: I could be really vulgar and tasteless here, but I won't. And yet, I'm still tempted! grrrrr
Wintergoblin: Memory
Bearcat89: Ting-a-Ling Bingo
Tim Synge: "Coronation Scot" - still not on the Geek at the time of writing!
DenverWolf: Go Fish
AlorielLelyn: I don't remember :P
gamer-stu: Old Maid
Favre4MVP: Uno
Prestonisnormal: Checkers, 21, Risk
filnari: Finance.
[Deleted user]: Go Fish or Old Maid
WasQ: pachisi
sumo: I played some sort of dominoes with pictures with my nan. I would have been about 4 or 5. Thanks for dragging that memory back out!
Ludocrazy: War
dakarp: I remember playing many games before this, but the first game I remember actually learning is chess.
kennyb: probably monopoly
gnomehome: Can't recall
wef71: The Garfield version of War!
Fa�l: I think it was Pachisi or Yellow Dwarf
P.O.G.G.: snakes and ladders
Wernazuma: pachisi
sos1: Uncle Wiggily
GuyHill: probably some silly card game I dont know the english name of
Blackwind: pattycake
Mordachai: Trumps
onky: Monopoly
StormKnight: Lord of the Rings memory game
m_r_tyler: Hi Ho Cherrio or Uncle Wiggley. I was too young to remember Candyland.
chaddyboy_2000: LIFE
netfilterz: Some cardgame...
wtrollkin2000: Clue. I have many older memories of playing games, but Clue is my oldest memory of reading the rules to learn how to play.
fsumarc: 21
HMS_Resolution: Candyland.
tp_ryhansen: Sorry
louiseh: Snakes and ladders
Shakar: Risk.
Critical Mass: one of those soccer games where you pull back the players (mounted in a rubber base at the bottom of a dip) and let them go to flick the ball.
djlg: Hey, hey, witch way?
BobDodgerBlue: War
dietevil: Chess
simon craddock: Cribbage
cornjob: chess
richardolen2: checkers
jttm: Cluedo
Mike A: Go Fish.
CortexBomb: Remember learning is Monopoly, that was not the first game I learned though
kimbo: Can't say for sure. Probably a card game like Old Maid or Fish.
Aldie: Parcheesi
LudesFactor: checkers probably
yossarians: Boardgame-Sorry, Card Game-War
HBGlover: I think Connect Four.
Eric Haas: Chess. It wasn't the first game I learned, but the first I remember learning.
MisterCranky: Snakes and Ladders
Reloaded: Candyland... yuk
Gelatinous Goo: connect four
WonderCinz: Uncle Wiggly
Con Man: checkers
TamiWhitsett: monopoly
statonv: Mille Borne
melissa: chess. I remember playing ludo before then, but the first game I remember being taught was chess
Flyspeck23: Pachisi.
UhhhClem: Game of the States.
tragicpoet: Blackjack
berserkley: Supercar
Geniesse: Candyland!
ValJor: Some stupid card game played with a regular deck
Ward: Magic Realm
ynnen: Cribbage.
janiera: Chutes and Ladders
Jim_P: Uncle Wiggley
CDRodeffer: Peek-a-boo
skelebone: Hangman.
Donkey Thong: old maid
shumyum: Uncle Wiggly
Zambogirl: Aggravation