#57: Where There's a Will, There's a Gateway
Board Game Barrage28 Helmi 2019

#57: Where There's a Will, There's a Gateway

Gateway games are an often requested topic, but we wouldn't be us without a big old debate about them first. Are they important? Should you be trying to convert your friends at all? Isn't every game a gateway game if you just talk slowly enough? Before we raise the portcullis, we also talk about Targi, and Catan.

01:25 - Targi
07:19 - Catan
09:35 - Gateway games
17:11 - Forbidden Island
18:38 - Codenames
19:01 - Sushi Go!
22:23 - A Fake Artist Goes to New York
24:56 - Bärenpark
27:47 - Biblios
32:16 - Splendor
35:31 - The Quest for El Dorado
38:12 - Blue Lagoon
41:05 - Dominion
43:57 - Wingspan
47:32 - Converting non-gamers?

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#145: Zero to One Hundred: $100 Collection Triple Triumph

#145: Zero to One Hundred: $100 Collection Triple Triumph

We weren't going to let Kellen have the last word on what makes the perfect $100 collection, so the 139 squad is here to finish it out. Forgot the premise? You've lost all your board games, and only h...

22 Loka 202057min

#144: Zero to One Hundred: Red Tank's $100 Collection

#144: Zero to One Hundred: Red Tank's $100 Collection

It's an awful notion, but bear with me. What if you lost your entire board game collection, and had to rebuild it from scratch? Here's the catch, you only have one hundred dollars. We try to predict w...

15 Loka 202054min

#143: Pace Yourself

#143: Pace Yourself

Slow and steady might win the race, but it doesn't make for an exciting board game. Pacing is a vital component of most entertainment mediums that doesn't often get applied to board games, so we're go...

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#142: Play Me a Memory

#142: Play Me a Memory

Blessed are the forgetful, because they don't have to play memory games? After all, games with a strong memory component often get a bad rap in the hobby. We look at some of the reasons why very few g...

1 Loka 20201h 3min

#141: Expectations Great and Small

#141: Expectations Great and Small

We often build up the idea of what a game will be before we play it, whether for bad or good, and the reality of the game itself might deliver something we weren't expecting. We take a look at what of...

24 Syys 202056min

#140: All About Auctions

#140: All About Auctions

We return to our much loved feature from 2018, all about our favourite mechanics. This week, a mere two years later: auctions! We look at the good and bad sides of auction mechanics, and discuss our f...

17 Syys 20201h

#139: Bugbear Brawl

#139: Bugbear Brawl

It's an unprecedented trio of hosts, but we're no less heated about our biggest board game bugbears. In fact, we're so upset about these little annoyances, that we couldn't help but order them in a li...

10 Syys 20201h 3min

#138: Life's Lessons Learned

#138: Life's Lessons Learned

It would be hard for us to be as invested in this hobby as we are, if we didn't think there was something important underlying it. We share some of the lessons we have learned from board gaming, and s...

3 Syys 202052min

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