Who goes first in checkers?

When you play checkers, how do you decide who goes first?

It's the rule, plain and simple, red goes first.	9
It's the rule, plain and simple, black goes first.	5
Fire before smoke (red goes first)	7
Smoke before fire (black goes first)	14
Flip a coin.	2
Wrestle for it.	0
Thumb war.	1
Rock, paper, scissors.	3
Quartz, parchment, shears.	1
Tic Tac Toe.	0
Threats of violence.	4
Claim they went first last time, so it's your turn to go first.	1
Cry for it.	0
Let mom or dad decide.	1
Agree to put the game away if you can go first.	0
Agree to do chores if you can go first.	0
Say you'll do ANYTHING to go first!!	1
Act like you love going second so opponent wants to go second.	1
I let the other person go first, I prefer second.	5
Other (comment please)	5

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dirtybirdy

11 years ago | pl

The one with the gun goes first
*hint*
(black)

Teehee

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  lol...that's a good one!!
  
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  - dirtybirdy
    
    11 years ago
    
    Haha yours were great! Quartz parchment shears, HA!
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      That was for the high-class members!!
      
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Wendell

11 years ago | pl

To decide who goes first we settle it with a game of checkers

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- anti-hero
  
  11 years ago
  
  I love that so much.
  
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  That's priceless!!
  
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NeuroNeptunian

11 years ago

I don't know, I don't even know why I clicked on this. I'm bored at work and waiting for the janitors to turn in their keys so I can finish my final inspection and go on lunch break. My grandma said she'd teach me checkers and bought me the set, then she died. Damn it, grandma.

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Captain_Kegstand

11 years ago

Here is what you are going to do.

When you are playing checkers it is a common argument to see who is going first, so I will give you a step by step.

1) You are going to light a small fire in the kitchen, just big enough to smoke up the house.
2) You are going to wait until the smoke chokes out your argument, and evacuate the premises.
3) You will conveniently remember your pet (dog, cat, goldfish, little brother, whatever) that you left inside and gallantly run to the rescue, leaving your partner in the lawn.
4)While your partner is distracted and outside, feel free to make your first checkers move.
5)Put out small controlled fire in the kitchen.
6)Invite your partner back in, explaining that you made the first move because you are the hero of the day, and it can't be taken back now.

Enjoy!

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Boo!

11 years ago

The one who calls it. "it!!!" So obviously me. :D

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- NoraBaker
  
  11 years ago
  
  Hahaha! Of course, it's classic. When dirtybirdy's not around with her gun, your way is pretty good! Yay Boo! :D
  
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  - Boo!
    
    11 years ago
    
    Haha, yepp. I forgot blue took out the big guns. :3
    
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TerryVie

11 years ago

The younger One of course :)

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- Who_Fan4Life
  
  11 years ago
  
  Ahhh yes the younger. I will gladly let the younger, less wise person make the first move, for I have the greatest Checkers move in the world. It's the "Around the block, dont suck my cock no-drama Obama, around the back, don't look back'' move.
  
  Defeats the opponent in only five turns.
  
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  - coolio75650932
    
    11 years ago
    
    i have a move that beats em in three i call it: SUPER OMEGA UBER FINGER LICKING GOOD SAMMICH OF DOOM AND CHUCK NORRIS IS EPIC TROLL FACE move :3
    
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    - Who_Fan4Life
      
      11 years ago
      
      That move is highly illegal!
      
      That move hasn't been played since 1973!
      
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      - coolio75650932
        
        11 years ago
        
        i know:3 that why i use it :3
        
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- Shackleford96
  
  11 years ago
  
  I like that idea :)
  
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dappled

11 years ago

Ahh, it's different here. We call the game Draughts and the pieces are usually black and white. And there used be a rule called "huffing" but they abolished it because too many people got pieces stuck up their nose.

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- charli.m
  
  11 years ago
  
  Oh I didn't realise it had a name! I thought kids just liked sticking game pieces in faceholes :-S
  
  It happens way too often :(
  
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misca

11 years ago

Black begins.

"The player with the darker coloured pieces moves first."
- Wikipedia

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  That's bullshit. You can look at several different sources and find one says red, one says black. Besides, there WAS a time before the internet, and before wiki, and that's when a lot of us learned to play checkers, so we all seem to have our own ways of deciding.
  
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  - misca
    
    11 years ago
    
    What's your point? You asked "When you play checkers, how do you decide who goes first?". So I answered how I decide who begins, when I play checkers. I decide based on that rule I found (on several different websites by googling "official checkers rules").
    
    If you didn't want to know how WE decide, then why bother asking?
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      Your answer sounded like you had no answer so you googled it just now just to have an answer. While yes, it's an answer I guess, it's not exactly what I was looking for.
      
      Maybe you should've just said "If I were to play checkers, I'd google the rules". I was more interested in what your tradition was, not what google says, since most people have been playing checkers long before google (or at least before they were old enough to use google).
      
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NotFloydzie

11 years ago

It's funny. I know how to play chess but I don't know how to play Checkers.

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- anti-hero
  
  11 years ago
  
  Can that happen?
  
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    11 years ago
    
    Yes. Checkers seems boring to me.
    
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    - anti-hero
      
      11 years ago
      
      It is boring but so easy to play that I thought everyone knew how to play.
      
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      - Saycheese
        
        11 years ago
        
        Smartass. lol
        
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        anti-hero
        
        11 years ago
        
        Is this new information Cheese? lol Everyone either calls me a smartass or an asshole. Why is everyone so crazy about my butt? :)
        
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coolio75650932

11 years ago

pistols at ten paces

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Avant-Garde

11 years ago

Some say it's black (smoke goes over fire)

In chess, I know that white ALWAYS must go first.

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nAt2017

11 years ago

I always play black first. Don't really know why.

Actually, no, I just don't usually play checkers. I'm a chess person.

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BurnaBaby27

11 years ago

I thought you just kind of took turns. Have someone go first in round one, and the other person goes first in round two..you usually play more than one round.

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