Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast all about board and card games and the people who play them.

This episode, Number 10, is part of our classic series and was originally aired on August 3rd, 2005.

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That's geo, m-in-o-s, geominO-S-G-O-M-O-S-G-M-I-N-O-S-G-M-I-N-O-S, G-M-I-N-O-S, G-O-M-I-N-O-S, G-N-O-N-O-N-S, and now, here's your host, Tom Vassal. This is likely the last show you're listening to before Christmas.

I wish we had a better present for you than episode 10,

but it's a week, two weeks late because my Macintosh computer

had all kinds of problems, but I think all that's fixed now so we're

back to normal. Well here over with episode 10. Episode 10 was the first episode we

recorded after origins of 2005. We had pre-record it four episodes and so finally

we were coming back and doing something live per se and it's some interesting things in this episode

it was our first game contest now game contests are kind of a staple of the

dice tower in fact I'm when we have a show without a game to contest I feel kind of weird but at origins I thought you know

maybe a game contest would get people to listen I and so I I approach a few publishers

and they were very very eager the ones that I talked to about it and so I thought, hey, well, we have a couple.

We'll do a couple contests, maybe we can do them every once in a while.

And so there you go, and so this was a pretty good contest prize

conquest of the empire in this show and uh... now our prize just seemed to keep

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