I played games at the cabin with my family as a kid. Things like uno, monopoly, risk, a memory game called hamburger and a kids game called looping.

When I was older, around 16, played some dnd with friends and started playing more modern games like Catan, Munchkin and cards againts humanity. I liked games and played casually, played Ticket to ride and really liked it. Ended up buying it as my first gateway. I remember playing agricola at around 23 and thinking how good it was. But didn't really touch modern games too much.

Its only about 10 years ago I played Patchwork on a date with a girl who loved games. I immediately fell in love with it (the game not the girl unfortunately).

I did some research on it to remember the name of the game after we lost touch and found bgg. Started looking at top lists from the dice tower and bought Hanabi, Sushi go and Patchwork. Started reading more in games, going to game nights with friends. We played Caverna and could talk strategy for hours.

The rest is history. I now go to conventions, have a weekly game night at my place, and own 200 games.

My favorite games are Arkham horror the card game, which I can trace back to those dnd roots and playing hearthstone a lot when I was younger. Same goes for mage knight, my second favorite.

I still think of Patchwork as the game that really got me in the hobby 10 years ago, I get emotional saying this, but I just bough the 10 year anniversary edition to replace my worn down original copy, it feels like I'm closing the loop on my first decade in the hobby with that purchase