At The Table with The Dice Tower - Small Wonder

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This time, Tom gives us an update on his replay of the Catan expansions before we take a big look at small games. What are the pros and cons of games that can fit in your pocket? Also, we share a new Tale of Horror, as well as our latest batch of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

01:03 - Summer: Origins, Dice Tower East, Dice Tower Cruise, Gen Con

05:03 - Catan Update and Chess

07:10 - Small Games

36:41 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

40:06 - Hot Streak

44:22 - Rhymes with Duck

47:08 - Lynx

51:11 - Endeavor: Deep Sea

54:51 - Fate of the Fellowship

58:21 - Tower Up

Questions? Tales of Horror? [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.0	Episode 48.
0:03.9	Small wonder.
0:29.0	Welcome. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:35.7	On today's show, we take a big look at small games. What are the pros and cons of making a game with a small footprint?
0:38.1	And where did I put my copy of Spy?
0:44.3	We also have a new tale of wargaming horror and will close the show by tiptoeing through a field of roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm Tom Vassel. I'm pretty sure you
0:51.2	don't tiptoe through roses. It's tulips, I believe. No, no. I think it's roses.
0:56.4	All righty. Well, we've never mixed a metaphor before at all at the here. No, I mix metaphors. Eric does not.
1:03.9	Hey, folks, welcome to the show. It is, it is summer. School is out by the time you hear this in most places.
1:11.1	I think hopefully by almost everybody.
1:13.7	I guess a few places are still going.
1:15.3	Maybe Australia goes.
1:16.3	Did they switch your school year with summer and winter?
1:18.2	I don't know.
1:18.8	They do.
1:19.6	There you go.
1:20.6	Sorry, guys.
1:21.9	Well, also, you'll make it.
1:26.3	My daughter graduated from high school, so that was nice.
1:29.9	Cool.
1:30.2	I say congratulations.
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