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Table Talk 013: A Chat about Gateway Games

Taylor and Alice discuss games that got them into the hobby and what makes something a “gateway game” anyway. 

Games mentioned (so many!):
Agueda https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/317515/agueda-city-of-umbrellas
Chai https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/253185/chai
Nine Tiles Extreme https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/391084/nine-tiles-extreme
Nine Tiles Panic https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/279869/nine-tiles-panic
Shifting Stones https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/302280/shifting-stones
Agricola https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31260/agricola
Caverna https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102794/caverna-the-cave-farmers
Applejack https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367662/applejack
Nova Luna https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284435/nova-luna
Framework https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353152/framework
Wacky Wacky West https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/19/wacky-wacky-west
Chartae https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/269257/chartae
Tigris and Euphrates https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42/tigris-and-euphrates
Quest for El Dorado https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217372/the-quest-for-el-dorado
Gardeners https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/361840/gardeners
Paint the Roses https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/253759/paint-the-roses
Decorum https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/344554/decorum
Magic Maze https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209778/magic-maze
The Mind https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/the-mind
Root https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/237182/root
Ticket to Ride https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9209/ticket-to-ride
Kitchen Rush https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223953/kitchen-rush
What’s For Dinner https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/327121/whats-for-dinner
Photosynthesis https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218603/photosynthesis
Railroad Ink https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245654/railroad-ink-deep-blue-edition
Evergreen https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/363307/evergreen
Dragon Castle https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/232219/dragon-castle
King’s Dilemma https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245655/the-kings-dilemma
Quacks of Quedlinburg https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244521/the-quacks-of-quedlinburg
Wingspan https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266192/wingspan
Patchwork https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163412/patchwork
Parks https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266524/parks
Viticulture https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128621/viticulture
Glass Road https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/143693/glass-road
Herbaceous https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/195314/herbaceous
Furnace https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/318084/furnace

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An experimental podcast with only one voice about games getting reskinned. What are your favorite reimplementations? What makes them better than the original? Or, alternatively, worse?

Games mentioned in this episode:

Curios

Wonder Woods

Century: Golem Editions

Furnace

Azul: Master Chocolatier

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After a hiatus of embarrassing length because of a disastrous attempt to record an actual play podcast of the infuriating and deeply beige game De Vulgari Eloquentia, we return triumphantly for our first double-digit show! Taylor and Alice talk about reorganizing Alice’s collection and both best practices and pitfalls around that.

Games mentioned:

Codex Naturalis

Sagrada: Artisans

Robot Quest Arena

Dominion

Cosmic Frog

Robo Rally

Crash Octopus

Succulent

Mechanical Beast

Gallerist

Gartenbau

Finest Fish

Scrabble

Fearsome Floors

Masterpiece

Queendomino

Kingdomino

Trailer Park Wars

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Was GenCon 2023 a dumpster fire? Or just a smoldering waste paper basket? Listen on, friends, as Taylor and Alice wax poetical!

Games mentioned:
Disney Lorcana
Cosmic Frog
Gartenbau
The Finest Fish
Habitats
Framework
Fairy Trails
Nova Luna
Applejack
Ticket to Ride: Europe
Undergrove
Lacuna
Mycelium
Wonder Woods
Curios
Starry Night Sky
Quoridor
Qawale
Pollen
District Noir
Three Sisters
Splito
Cat in the Box
Gardeners
Bear Raid
Ra
Indian Summer
At the Gates of Loyang
Galaxy Trucker
Everdell: Farshore

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Taylor G and Alice C talk with RPG superstar designer Cezar Capable about design, feelings, colonization, and, apparently, zombie cows.
 
 Cryptid: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246784/cryptid

Paint the Roses: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/253759/paint-roses

Century: A New World: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/270970/century-new-world

Furnace: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/318084/furnace

I Guess This Is It: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/346911/i-guess-it

Alice is Missing: https://www.huntersentertainment.com/alice-is-missing

Nexalis: https://capacle.itch.io/nexalis

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This week, Alice and Taylor have some strong feelings about house rules for board games. 

 Games referenced in this episode:

Curious Cargo

New York Zoo

Beer and Bread

Renature

Azul: Queen’s Garden

Glass Road

Patchwork

Monopoly

Viticulture

Parks

Uno

Scrabble

Mahjong

Rummikub

Euchre

Dominoes

Canasta

Rummy

Shanghai

Jenga

Tzolk’in

Founders of Teotihuacan

Catan

Royal Game of Ur

Ticket to Ride

Wingspan

Gizmos

De Vulgari Eloquentia

Caper

Control

Surrealist Dinner Party

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It took us a while to get our meeply asses in gear, but we (Alice, Bailey, David, Taylor, and Victoria) finally managed to get together in one (virtual) place and pay tribute to Klaus Teuber, designer of CATAN (originally The Settlers of Catan) and one of modern Eurogaming’s OG’s.

After starting off with the usual “what we’ve been playing”, we share our earliest memories of CATAN and other Teuber favorites, discuss CATAN’s role as a gateway game and whether it’s still the gateway game, whether it still stands up design-wise today, and end off by comparing our favorite CATAN variants.

On the way we also talk about the following games:

Ticket to Ride

Hoplomachus: Victorum

Dixit

Kinoko

CATAN Histories: Struggle For Rome

Settlers of the Stone Age

CATAN Histories: Settlers of America: Trails to Rails

Fairy Trails

Wacky Wacky West

Machi Koro

Space Base

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The Game Changers podcast on Klaus Teuber and the history of CATAN can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

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What makes a game replayable a few times? Many times in a row? Something you long to play again? Taylor and Alice give you the definitive answer.

Caverna
 Agricola
 Frosthaven
 Shifting Stones
 Moon Base
 Greed
 One Night Werewolf
 Dominion
 Undaunted: Normandy
 The Gallerist
 Sea Salt and Paper
 Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar
 Azul: Queen’s Garden
 My City
 Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr
 Cascadia
 Planet
 Ecos: First Continent
 Catan
 Glass Road
 Chess
 Ticket to Ride
 Power Grid

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Taylor and Alice chat with friend and DWP contributor Bailey D about how she finds off-beat and less popular games. And they’re coming to you live (recorded) from the Edge House’s annual 24-Hour Board Game Marathon fundraiser. Want to support that community? Go to www.edge-uc.org/donate. 

Games we discussed:

The Gallerist

Acquire

Moon Base

Moon Adventure

So, You’ve Been Eaten

Charioteer

Conestoga wagon?

Beer and Bread

Tiny Epic…

Codenames

Acts of the Evangelists

Heading Forward

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When you go on vacation, how do you take your game collection? Obviously, you need to take them, you’ll need to play them. But what about all those boxes and bits? What games are good for various situations? Don’t worry, Taylor and Alice have you covered.

Surrealist Dinner Party

Paint the Roses

Exit: The Advent Calendar

The Initiative

Agricola

Azul: Queen’s Garden

Art Robbery

5211

Mint Rails

Travel Carcassonne

Travel Catan

Square Meal

Iota

Set

Quirkle

Point Salad

Sea Salt and Paper

Solitaire

Pass and play apps for specific games you like

Hive

Uno

Codex Naturalis

Just One

Tsuro

Dreamscape

I Guess This is It

Fuji Flush

Tricky Tides

Rage

Wizard

Diamonds

Folk games mentioned:

I’m going for a picnic on the moon…

TCP (Taboo, Charades, Password)

Picture Telephone

Card Games That Don’t Suck

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