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Episode 324: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Neilan's 50-31
Episode 324
Episode 324

It's meeeeeeeeeee! So if you care to find my top 50 list, look right here. The first twenty incredible games on the list that early critics are calling "surprisingly tasteful" and "delightfully roomy" is finally yours to consume. It's the greatest board games of all-time, Neilan edition!

Released: January 16, 2025

Episode 297: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2023: 30-21
Episode 297
Episode 297

It's a new year which is an awkward time to be right in the middle of something, but we're doing a thing here. It's part three of our Top 50 games of all-time! This week it's our 30th to 21st favourite games, and this is where things start to get spicy. This is like five chilis next to the menu item hotness we're talking. Grab a bib and join us for another course!

Released: January 4, 2024

Episode 259: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2022: 20-11
Episode 259
Episode 259

We've reached the penultimate part of our five part series, the great series that is sometimes called our top fifty greatest games of all time! We're barreling close to the end now, but not without a lot of moving and shaking first. Here's another fine selection of thirty amazing games we love.

Released: January 12, 2023

Episode 207: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2021: 20-11 (ft. Ambie Valdés)
Episode 207
Episode 207

The penultimate episode of the grand series is here, it's the BGB Top 50! As the journey approaches its end, we're venturing into our 20th to 11th favourite games, with some support from the peanut gallery. And with thirty more board games to blitz through, who better to help us than Ambie Valdés of Board Game Blitz!

Released: January 6, 2022

Episode 157: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2020: 20-11
Episode 157
Episode 157

We're moving into the terrible teens of the Board Game Barrage Top 50 Games of All Time. I learned all I know about American teenagers from TV, so I assume this is where all the sex and drugs come in. Let's get to it then, forty (roughly) more games that we simply adore. As the list goes on, they only get better and better. That is, after all, the premise.

Released: January 21, 2021

Episode 140: All About Auctions
Episode 140
Episode 140

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 favourite games that feature them. Before we inflate the bid, we talk about Fleet: The Dice Game, Iwari, and Modern Art.

Released: September 17, 2020

Episode 103: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2019: 20-11
Episode 103
Episode 103

A new year, a new decade, a new podcast, and a new batch of games that we love talking about. It's the fourth in our five part series of our 50 favourite board games of all-time, and appropriately, we're kicking off 2020 by breaking into the top twenty. Synergy.

Released: January 1, 2020

Episode 49: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2018: 20-11
Episode 049
Episode 049

The end is nigh! If you squint just right you can see it from here. We're almost done counting down our favourite fifty games of all time, so join us in the penultimate part of our five part series.

Released: January 3, 2019

Episode 20: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Episode 020
Episode 020

We're counting down games that replace other games in our collections! We also talk about Chimera Station.

Released: June 28, 2018

Episode 17: The Best Things in Life Are $20 or Less
Episode 017
Episode 017

What games can you get for $20? Quite a few really good ones, it turns out. We also discuss Scythe, Watson & Holmes, and Mansions of Madness: Second Edition.

Released: June 7, 2018

Episode 10: Everyone is Wrong and We are Right
Episode 010
Episode 010

Did you know that sometimes the internet is wrong? Thankfully we're here to tell you what's up, and right the wrongs that BoardGameGeek hath wrought. You see, there are some games in their database that are just ranked way too low for how good they are. So, to fix these injustices, we each count down our top five games that BoardGameGeek got wrong, and we got right.

Released: April 19, 2018