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Board Game Gateway episodes

March 08, 2023Ep 026 | It's Time to D-D-D-D-D-Duel!
"It's Time to D-D-D-D-D-Duel!"
- Yu-Gi-Oh
Half the hosts but just as much content. This week Neeber and Ralph sit down to have a chat about some of their favourite 2-player games that they have been playing lately. If you are looking for something to play with a partner, significant other or even someone that you just met we have some great options for you in today's episode.
Timestamps
3:57 - Tigris and Euphrates

17:54 - My City (Gateway Game of the Week)

27:27 - Caesar: Sieze Rome in 20 Minutes

38:01 - Mandala
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
59 min
February 22, 2023Ep 025 | Friends don't let Friends Drink and Game!
Games have a place at the tables in our homes but what about those tables in local pubs and taverns?
In this week's episode Neeber, Blayke and Ralph chat about why your local pub/tavern is a perfect venue for you and your friends to play some board games. We also talk about some of the games that we have played this week including revisiting a classic in Great Western Trail, finally playing the new hotness in Clank Catacombs and bluffing each other silly in the coaster-ific Skull.
Throw in an 'Ode to Matt', a family review from last and many game title pho-pars and you have a classic Board Game Gateway episode.
Timestamps
5:27 - Great Western Trail

22:08 - Clank Catacombs

35:58 - Skull (Gateway Game of the Week)

48:01 - Playing games are your local pub/tavern
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
1 hr 6 min
February 15, 2023Ep 024 | A Unique Sequence of Cards
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards you are creating a unique sequence of cards that has never been seen before in history, statistically. There are more card combinations than stars in the Universe. Don't believe us? It was on an episode of QI so it must be real.
We welcome a new guest to the Board Game Gateway Podcast this week with Ralph's Cousin Anthony (yes another one) to the studio. We have invited him here to introduce us (and you the listener) to an old but FANTASTIC card game called Briscola. We also ask him for some stories about him and Ralph and how they were taught the games they play as well as the memories they have from their past.
Oh, we also welcome back Matt. You know this one is going to be all over the shop so strap in!
Timestamps
5:11 - Scout (Gateway Game of the Week)

20:30 - Briscola

45:02 - Anthony's are Duplicating

49:31 - Billionaire (Get Rich Quick)
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
1 hr 4 min
February 08, 2023Ep 023 | The Friendships we made along the way!
Do you find it hard to make new friends in this day and age? Do you find yourself looking at your game collection and wondering why you have no one to play it with and why your friends don't have every night free to knock out an epic game? Well maybe you need to expand your groups and maybe some new friends are waiting just around the corner.
In this week's episode of the Board Game Gateway we go back and have a look at one of the simplest and easiest drafting games to play in Sushi Go as well as its cutthroat and simple variant in Sushi NO, we discuss our initial impressions of the game Gizmos and why it may be much much better in person, as well a look at how friendships can be formed from this wonderful hobby we all partake in.
Sit back and pick a platter for the train as it is podcast time.
Timestamps
2:02 - Gizmos

21:11 - Sushi Go (Gateway Game of the Week)

28:36 - Sushi No Variant

37:57 - The Friendships we made along the way!
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
58 min
February 01, 2023Ep 022 | New Season, Same Gateway!
Welcome to Season 2 of the Board Game Gateway Podcast.
We are rested, recharged and ready to go for a new year of Board Gaming and Tabletop time. This week we have a look at what it is we have been playing over the holidays including The Kings Dilemma, Heat: Pedal to the Medal, Ready Set Bet!, Bus and our Gateway Game of the Week Kites. There is a lot to catch up on and a lot that we still have ready to go.
Welcome to 2023 and a look forward to a great year ahead.
Timestamps
5:07 - Bus

19:03 - Kings Dilemma Story (NO SPOILERS)

21:23 - Heat: Pedal to the Metal

31:27 - Ready, Set, BET!

38:27 - The Lost Dice Board Game Cafe, Adelaide

41:22 - Kites! Gateway Game of the Week
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
55 min
December 15, 2022Ep 021 | The Christmas Special
Welcome to the Board Game Gateway Christmas Special and our Season 1 Grand Finale. It is the season for joy, the time for giving and we are excited to do our first-ever annual gift exchange where 3 of our hosts buy a game gift for the other host. What games have they decided that the other would like? Well, you are going to have to tune in to find out.
We also have a nerd-win story from Ralph, the first game apology from Blayke, a review of the year that was and the boys surprise Neeber with something totally awesome. There is a whole bunch of wholesome soup coming at you this week so we hope you are hungry because you are going to love it.
Timestamps
2:58 - The Annual Gift Exchange

16:00 - Gaming over the Christmas Break

30:52 - Ralphs Nerd-Win Story

36:09 - Blayke has an Apology

44:03 - The Boys Surprise Neeber

46:21 - The Year that Was and the Year Ahead
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
1 hr 10 min
December 08, 2022Ep 020 | The Top 10 Gateway Games
Description
Welcome to Episode 20 and the Board Game Gateways Top 10 Gateway Games of 2022. This is a list compiled by your hosts but none of them knows what will come out on top. Our special guest Georgee has graphics, envelopes and information that none of the boys has seen before so you will find out as they find out what collectively they have decided are the top 10 gateway games to introduce your friends into the board gaming hobby.
There will be controversy, and there will be surprises but one thing for sure is that this is the definitive list from the boys. Will your favourite make the list? Will you agree with what is at the top? You are going to have to listen to find out.
Timestamps
9:45 - #10

12:23 - #9

14:30 - #8

18:46 - #7

21:48 - #6

24:18 - #5

27:34 - #4

29:36 - #3

32:45 - #2

37:57 - #1

41:11 - Post Top 10 Games Discussions

We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
1 hr 6 min
November 30, 2022Ep 019 | We don't really have a plan!
“Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.”
- Eddie Robson, Doctor Who Unbound: Masters of War
Description
It is officially summer and that means are coming to the end of 2022, are we begin to wrap up the year we have a bit of an experimental episode where we decided NOT to do an official discussion topic or to have a plan for what we would be talking about after our plays and gateway game of the week. We let the conversation take us where it wanted to go. Will be able to be entertaining for you without some dot points? We thought so but I guess you would have to listen and make up your own mind.
We also had a chat about some of the games we played this week. The masterfully produced Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest, the wonderfully frustrating Search for Planet X and the simple yet elegant Bärenpark.
Timestamps
3:07 - Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest

17:49 - The Search for Planet X

40:52 - Bärenpark (Gateway Game of the Week)

56:12 - We don't have a plan, but it's entertaining.
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
1 hr 20 min
November 23, 2022Ep 018 | Luck be a Lady Tonight!
"Luck be a lady tonight, just be a lady tonight"
- Sky Masterson
Description
Luck, Randomness and Variability are spread throughout board gaming as what they bring to the table leads to many interesting board states and challenges we have to overcome. However, these can also bring problems and headaches that gamers just have to put up with. So let's discuss the difference between Luck and Randomness, the positives and negatives and all that comes with it.
We also had a chance to try the tabletop simulator mod for the game Drift designed by Australian James Allen. Without spoiling the podcast you are in for a treat with this discussion as we wish we have played this BEFORE our racing game special because it may be our new favourite racing game.
Timestamps
4:10 - Milestone Celebration - 1000 Podcast Plays

6:59 - Matt Family Play Update

10:16 - Drift

32:50 - Modern Art (Gateway Game of the Week)

49:52 - Luck & Randomness - Dealing with Variability in Board Games (Discussion Topic)
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
1 hr 13 min
November 16, 2022Ep 017 | My Board Games stuck on Replay!
"Shawty's like a memory in my head and I can't keep up and I'm feeling like.
Nah na na na every day like my board games stuck on replay!"
- Rodeo, Iyaz
Description
Board Games are inherently designed to be played more than once but what is it about games that make us want to come back and play them again? This is our discussion topic for this episode of the Board Game Gateway Podcast. We also asked for community feedback to see what others thought about this subject.
We also have a look back at the games we played this week including the beautiful looking Canvas, the Mind Bending Unlock: Epic Collection as well as a review on the epic game of Twilight Imperium which Ralph, Blayke and Neeber participated in over the weekend. Finally, we look at our gateway game of the week the amazingly awesome Cockroach Poker.
Timestamps
2:51 - Matt Recap of Carcassonne with the Kids

6:01 - Unlock: Epic Collection

7:22 - Canvas

9:31 - Twilight Imperium

17:22 - Cockroach Poker (Gateway Game of the Week)

29:40 - Replayability in Board Games (Discussion Topic)
We want to thank all of you for supporting us and being a part of the community. We would also like to invite you to join our community by joining our Discord Community & the Facebook Group.
Intro / Outro Music Merry Bay by Ghostrifter Official | https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official
1 hr 12 min

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The Board Game Gateway Podcast is your light and fun entry point for people who want to know more about the board gaming hobby and games that are simple and easy to play.