At The Table with The Dice Tower - Judging The Book

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Tom, Julie, and Eric run through the nominees for the German Game of the Year awards before focusing on the episode's main topic: box covers. How does what you put on the front of the box attract a particular audience? We also have a tale of horror? as well as a question from the mailbag, and of course our usual assortment of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:50 - Summer is Here?

03:07 - Spiel des Jahres Nominees - Bomb Busters, Flip 7, Krackel Orakel

10:04 - Kennerspiel des Jahres Nominees - Endeavor: Deep Sea, Faraway, Looot

12:03 - Kinderspiel des Jahres Nominees - Cascadia Junior, Le Clan des Souris, Top die Torte

12:53 - Box Covers

31:32 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror?

39:12 - Question: Message to Past Self?

44:11 - Cretaceous Rails

47:59 - Hexpath: Detour Deluxe

50:32 - Fromage

53:44 - Wondrous Creatures

56:33 - Innovation Ultimate

59:46 - Ziggurat

Questions? Tales of Horror? [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.3	Episode 47.
0:04.0	Judging the book. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:29.6	On today's show, we focus on the front of the box and wonder how what appears on a game's cover can attract a particular audience.
0:36.6	We also have a new tale of board gaming caution, and we'll close the show by tiptoeing through
0:42.7	a field of roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:45.7	I'm Eric Summerer.
0:46.8	I'm Julie Ahern.
0:48.4	And I'm Tom Vessel.
0:50.4	And welcome, welcome.
0:51.8	It is summertime.
1:00.8	School is out. Unless, of course, you were in summer school or go to one of those year-round schools. Congrats.
1:03.4	My kids still have a little bit longer to go, but okay, yes.
1:06.4	Yeah, by the time this... Yeah, by the time this airs, Eric.
1:07.1	Absolutely.
1:07.9	Still there.
1:10.8	I'll be going to my niece and nephews graduation.
1:13.1	Or I'll have had gone.
1:16.8	The Northeast has too long of school periods, is what I think.
1:18.9	They blame things like snow.
1:25.7	But summer is here because just around the corner is origins, and then around the corner from Nat is Dice Tower East, and around the corner from that is Jen Con.
1:29.3	And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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