CheckPoint Gaming is your go-to podcast for learning how to play board games, card games, and tabletop systems. Instead of giving quick overviews, we take a deep dive into the rules—consolidating, organizing, and explaining them in a way that’s easy for new players to grasp and useful for experienced gamers who want a clear rules refresher. Whether you’re learning Mahjong, Gaslands, or classics like Chess and Ticket to Ride, you’ll find everything you need to play with confidence.
CheckPoint Gaming
Claim This Podcastby Bradley P. Thomas
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166 episodes
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CheckPoint Gaming is your go-to podcast for learning how to play board games, card games, and tabletop systems. Instead of giving quick overviews, we take a deep dive into the rules—consolidating, organizing, and explaining them in a way that’s easy for new players to grasp and useful for experienced gamers who want a clear rules refresher. Whether you’re learning Mahjong, Gaslands, or classics like Chess and Ticket to Ride, you’ll find everything you need to play with confidence.
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Recent Episodes
August 4, 2026
Skat: Episode 2: Variants and Tournaments
<p>In this episode, we go over a few variants to the game of skat as well as touching upon how to engage in a skat tournament. With the variants that are found in this episode, we only listed a few of them so if you have others that you wish to share with us, we’d like to hear about them so that we can add them to a follow-up episode.</p><p>So with that said, we hope you enjoy.</p><p>Resources:</p><p>· <a href="https://skatgame.net/intro/skatbasics.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://skatgame.net/intro/skatbasics.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/americanskatorga00eich/americanskatorga00eich.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/americanskatorga00eich/americanskatorga00eich.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://desktopgames.com.ua/games/1036/skat-cards-rules-en.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOopuxdWawuhyjaVXEvBqnx5GQYc4Zy6pUgLsbfukrdf1lhRBpySG" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://desktopgames.com.ua/games/1036/skat-cards-rules-en.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOopuxdWawuhyjaVXEvBqnx5GQYc4Zy6pUgLsbfukrdf1lhRBpySG</a></p><p>· <a href="https://texasskat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/skat_12.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://texasskat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/skat_12.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://skatlink.com/skat101.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://skatlink.com/skat101.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://www.pagat.com/schafkopf/skat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.pagat.com/schafkopf/skat.html</a></p><p>· <a href="https://ispacanada.org/docs/rules/505fc8_e561984976a345bc8404e4474ce066ef.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://ispacanada.org/docs/rules/505fc8_e561984976a345bc8404e4474ce066ef.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://www.skatinsel.academy/en/how-to-skat/rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.skatinsel.academy/en/how-to-skat/rules</a></p><p>· <a href="https://www.parlettgames.uk/skat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.parlettgames.uk/skat/</a></p><p>· <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/SkattheGerman_game_of_cards_.%28IAskatgermangameof00lemc%29.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/SkattheGerman_game_of_cards_.%28IAskatgermangameof00lemc%29.pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p><u>Credits</u></p><p>Writer - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p>Producer - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p>Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor</p><p>Editor - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming</a></p><p><br></p><p>Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.</p><p><a href="https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf</a></p><p><br></p>
July 28, 2026
Skat: Episode 1 - The Basics
<p>With Skat, it’s a trick-taking game, is part of the Ace-10 family, and trumps are used. It’s played between 3 players with a modified deck that consists of 32 cards instead of the standard 52. In this episode, we’ll be going over the mechanics of the game, scoring, and other related aspects of the game.</p><p>So with that said, we hope you enjoy.</p><p>Resources:</p><p>· <a href="https://skatgame.net/intro/skatbasics.pdf">https://skatgame.net/intro/skatbasics.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/americanskatorga00eich/americanskatorga00eich.pdf">https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/americanskatorga00eich/americanskatorga00eich.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://desktopgames.com.ua/games/1036/skat-cards-rules-en.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOopuxdWawuhyjaVXEvBqnx5GQYc4Zy6pUgLsbfukrdf1lhRBpySG">https://desktopgames.com.ua/games/1036/skat-cards-rules-en.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOopuxdWawuhyjaVXEvBqnx5GQYc4Zy6pUgLsbfukrdf1lhRBpySG</a></p><p>· <a href="https://texasskat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/skat_12.pdf">https://texasskat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/skat_12.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://skatlink.com/skat101.pdf">https://skatlink.com/skat101.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://www.pagat.com/schafkopf/skat.html">https://www.pagat.com/schafkopf/skat.html</a></p><p>· <a href="https://ispacanada.org/docs/rules/505fc8_e561984976a345bc8404e4474ce066ef.pdf">https://ispacanada.org/docs/rules/505fc8_e561984976a345bc8404e4474ce066ef.pdf</a></p><p>· <a href="https://www.skatinsel.academy/en/how-to-skat/rules">https://www.skatinsel.academy/en/how-to-skat/rules</a></p><p>· <a href="https://www.parlettgames.uk/skat/">https://www.parlettgames.uk/skat/</a></p><p>· <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Skat-_the_German_game_of_cards_.._%28IA_skatgermangameof00lemc%29.pdf">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Skat-_the_German_game_of_cards_.._%28IA_skatgermangameof00lemc%29.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><u>Credits</u></p><p>Writer - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p>Producer - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p>Voice Talent – ElevenLabs: Taylor</p><p>Editor - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming">https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming</a></p><p> </p><p>Copyright Disclaimer:Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.</p><p><a href="https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf">https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf</a></p><p><br></p>
July 21, 2026
Mad Dragon 2
<p>With Mad Dragon 2, it’s a childhood anger management game used to help children between the ages of 6 and 12 to learn techniques on how they can go about controlling their anger. And though it’s a childhood game, it’s to be used by teachers and therapists to help their young clientele master the needed skills to control moments of anger.</p><p>So with that said, we hope you enjoy.</p><p><br></p><p><u>Credits</u></p><p>Writer - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p>Producer - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p>Voice Talent – (Credit) ElevenLabs:</p><p>Editor - Bradley P. Thomas</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://linktr.ee/Check_Point_Gaming</a></p><p><br></p><p>Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.</p><p><a href="https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Dragon-Version-Game-Social-Emotional/dp/B0F8L944VB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ISG59JC9NTSI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pFkaVgozYU4O6acu2EsLJxusHXjBidWSUjgqHFqoTxjcRxxnT0Gck2yek5wtel6dpV8CSM5FNC47zZFdqS8mgneNI4LKvhd-hK72Sbg-20kuc1lvuMtONPIkMcCuRHYAHrH79k9KawYcnSOQuNz_CrsZTVbHYwHW1QPDePhj8Pvj4TQwz0nWav_EKAYF9l0ddOluRghyFGYn66aCkaaLNeEexEXuvf08gH6fJh-gE-g.cMQ-aIZLCrVD1UHEanxSGs8M3QBslNRTEbSX72uvpMY&dib_tag=se&keywords=mad%2Bdragon%2B2&qid=1781375673&sprefix=mad%2Bdra%2Caps%2C243&sr=8-1&th=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Dragon-Version-Game-Social-Emotional/dp/B0F8L944VB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ISG59JC9NTSI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pFkaVgozYU4O6acu2EsLJxusHXjBidWSUjgqHFqoTxjcRxxnT0Gck2yek5wtel6dpV8CSM5FNC47zZFdqS8mgneNI4LKvhd-hK72Sbg-20kuc1lvuMtONPIkMcCuRHYAHrH79k9KawYcnSOQuNz_CrsZTVbHYwHW1QPDePhj8Pvj4TQwz0nWav_EKAYF9l0ddOluRghyFGYn66aCkaaLNeEexEXuvf08gH6fJh-gE-g.cMQ-aIZLCrVD1UHEanxSGs8M3QBslNRTEbSX72uvpMY&dib_tag=se&keywords=mad%2Bdragon%2B2&qid=1781375673&sprefix=mad%2Bdra%2Caps%2C243&sr=8-1&th=1</a></p><p><br></p>
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