What are the most original or funniest starting player determination rules out there?
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Whoever has last reached the peak of Mount Everest using nothing but blue and white checkered stilts carved from the wood of a Mammoth tree is declared the Starting Player. In case of a tie, the wisest player of the group begins the game.
Grr.. my version, in addition to having the Rio Grande/Abacus omission of the card removal rules for 2-4 players, also doesn't indicate that the hungriest player should begin, merely that players should select a starting player.
Counters are small cardboard game pieces. They often represent the position of something on the game board. Wargames tend to use a lot of them to represent the positions of the military forces, but there are other things they can represent, too, and in other types of games.
This is hilarious. I never knew there were all those different rules. In fact, I always think it's unusual when a game says that the youngest player goes first (which seems fairly common).
I like Carcassonne's variant, it's the most elegant: Youngest player decides who goes first. Nothing fancy or non-sensical, no difficult age questions you might have for oldest player goes first, and there is an element of chance.
Of course all this is only necessary if you don't have dice handy, and even the occasional Eurogame has dice, so it shouldn't be a problem...
Mountain View
California
Amherst
Ohio
Gouda
Zuid Holland
Youngest player decides who goes first.
Nothing fancy or non-sensical, no difficult age questions you might have for oldest player goes first, and there is an element of chance.
Of course all this is only necessary if you don't have dice handy, and even the occasional Eurogame has dice, so it shouldn't be a problem...
Toronto
Ontario
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