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¿Question #585?
mrbeankc: How many years have you been playing board games?

Narlgoth: Nearly 40 years?
notafish: I’ve been playing board games with my family since I was 5. Before that, I played silly card games with them like Spoons, Slap Jack, and Double Speed. My dad ALWAYS cheated. Mom always had to be the banker.
Woelf: All but maybe the first one or two.
BOBBYCAN: More than anyone here knows.
Moonhowler: About 30 years.
Felimid: Since I was little. Elementary school at the very least.
Thisisnotasmile: 20
Phil Fleischmann: It wouldn't surprise me to find out I was playing games in the womb.
boddekker: I can remember playing Clue as an early gradeschooler and being frustrated by it. Nobody really explained it to me and I was frustrated because it always turned out that I was the murderer. Later on I got into Risk, but the real turning point was when I was about 12 and my brother taught me the hex version of the old Avalon Hill chestnut Gettysburg. I was hooked on wargaming after that.
Rygel: 32
Dammawail97: Most of them (over 25 now)
Steerpike.Instance: hmm - about 30 I guess
Noxide: one
jajax: Ever since I was 4
Diamat: Nearly thirty, on and off.
FNH1: 5
Karlsen: Almost all of them
Grimstax: 40
chiplee: ~36
athos: 28
adamjon858: 20
KrazyKarlo: 30 years now; from about 5-6 years old.
Mr_Six: Most of them don't take me a year to complete.
sffh: like 15
DHEK: If I don't count the "early years" (when I played occassionally and didn't know that well about the whole new world of designer boardgames), then I suppose it's around a year.
Kafka: 38
TheArchAngel: 30+
Butterbane: Since infancy.
DataRaven: 5ish
POvidiusNaso: It's a recent thing. About 4.
aleo09: 27 years
l7productions: 20
Nazhuret: around.... twenty seven or so
arnest_r: Don´t ask a Lady her age. Well, I´m no Lady. Still. Since I was 3. One of my first memories is throwing a fit because I lost a checkers match to my uncle (sic)
ZombyDawg: About 28 years of mostly wargaming.
SisyphusX: At least 20.
JonBen: since I was... ummm.... 5
Dweeb: Close to 40.
MaksimSmelchak: I've been playing since the late 1970s so a lot of years.
Nekura: 26
Shotmagnet: too many, about 35. so, maybe not enough
Glenn: 15
vampywife: counting Candyland-type games, about 21.
Lawrence Hung: about 24 years.
rhysling: 25
Helenoftroy: 2 years
dwarf: For as long as I can remember.
gsilva: 31
Phuntom: 30+
MitchellW: As a collecter? from ages 9-13 and 23+. As a serious player? I seriously rediscovered at 23.
xlorp: Magic Realm took two weeks, and I have an unfinished B-17 campaign that's six months old. But years?
brainrob: 31
Connal: All of them.
Tushratta: 35.
_Kael_: around 25
jasta6: since 1974 Richthofen's War............................... almost 30 years....boy I'm old!!
Loquutus: 20+
vetinari7878: For as long as I can remember.
red turtle: 30
GrandpaDave: 12 or 13...been playing seriously only about a year
Harold Godwinson: 29
notquitekarpov: 35
Unexpected Party: 18
ssmooth: I think I was three when I first played Parcheesi, so....
Megadev: 26ish
Hawklord: all of them.
Mark_WH: 38
sourwyrm: 12
anson: Since childhood.
Lord_Prussian: About 27 or so
CharlieWonka: 18
tipigi: More than 30.
arkibet: 28
AdamT: 30+ years (hmm that makes me how old?!?)
Gecko23: 30+
shotokanguy: 35 years or so
Mike A: As long as I remember.
2amp: 30
heli: probably into the 3rd decade by now
Cavedog_pdx: 28
BaSL: 24?
Sceadeau: Way too many
thoia: 30
scriptorum: However old I am plus a few years
otrex: I guess about 20, depending if you count "Pay Day" as a game.
mrbeankc: 25
skrutsch: I'd say 32, but as a geek only about 15.
Drewcooter: 33
puffinge: Since the 50s. And don't you dare do any math right now, just move on.
rawk: 2hours
RandallPeek: Started as a kid, so approximately forty.
Kanga: 15
jpact: most.
apotheos: <5
Bearcat89: Around 35, I guess.
batman: As long as I remember which would be about 30
kennyb: 35 yrs +/- a couple
isolated: Since I was a wee bairn.
Favre4MVP: 2
AlorielLelyn: Oh, probably 30 or so
gnomehome: Long time, since childhood, as a 'serious' gamer maybe 6 years.
dietevil: About 28.
Dante_Cubit: For as long as my little hand was big enough to roll a pair of dice.
wef71: 2, maybe.
Fa�l: About 30 years
m_r_tyler: Almost 40 years.
Nightmare: If you count kids games all my life; more interesting games 13 years
shippert: At least thirty, with some gaps.
sos1: Since about the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Oh, except during my marriage.
GuyHill: <30
sdownin: Since I was a wee little kid. Prolly 27 or 28 years.
mfrederick: 35+
fellonmyhead: Over thirty
P.O.G.G.: Started not long after I was born, so about 25 years probably.
bop517: 30+ years (starting at an early memory of playing Monopoly when I was 8 - I know I'd played checkers/chess/snakes and ladders and such prior to that).
djlg: Almost 30 years.
wtrollkin2000: Aprox 37 years of casual (family) playing. 27 years of rigorous (hobby) playing
chaddyboy_2000: 6 or 7.
geberus: 20
Ludocrazy: As a hobby, about 10 years
netfilterz: Only seriously for like the last year...
Michael Becker: i am 31 years old so i would say at least 28 years
Vince Londini: 25
madmattuk: 44
hibikir: 20+
louiseh: Many
KakarisMaelstrom: Since I was very young, so right now I'd say 24.
BobDodgerBlue: 30
Gomez: 35-40
jttm: If you exclude Monopoly and Risk, close to 10 years
djflippy: At least 26. Don't know the exact figure.
klellingson: Probably at least 30, if not more.
dakarp: Too many, but seriously for the last 6 or 7.
seanp: 28
CDRodeffer: Since I was 3.
Shakar: 14 years.
TD2008YDS: 5 years, regularly.
shumyum: 32
Debate: 30
snoozefest: 20?
Denise: About 32 years.
jens_hoppe: About 24 years
tragicpoet: 24
richardolen2: For as long as I can remember.
queequeg: 25
Jim_P: 47
hooded_paladin: Real board games? Like, only one.
sumo: 30+
Aldie: seriously since 1999.
Blackwind: Too many.
Critical Mass: all of them
Eric Haas: At least 15.
hakko504: Since I was 5 or so
PopeBrain: 31
CortexBomb: Almost my entire life...
WonderCinz: 33
ValJor: More than I can remember... Thirty something...
Flyspeck23: 20+ years.
ynnen: About 20
MisterCranky: Let's see, subtract 3 from 45....42 years.
skelebone: Seriously for a year and a half, but smatterings of games here and there throughout my life.
EYE of NiGHT: Started on german games with Settlers in 1997. But played odd games since childhood, then a lot of RPGs.
CheetohFingers: well Im 31