Episode #105: Top Ten Card Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2007
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Greg talks about the International Gaming Awards, Geoff talks about the psychology of reviews, and Mary praises Tichu. Moritz and Paul discuss the finer points of gaming, and we have a review of Lock and Load. Ted discusses GenCon, and we field a few questions (and a couple's quarrel!) Finally - Greg, Sam, and Tom give their top ten card games.
This show was sponsored by Days of Wonder.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 105. |
| 0:05.8 | Our top 10 card games. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, episode 105. |
| 0:18.5 | The Dice Tower is a podcast all about board and card games, featuring Eric Martin, Mike Hibbert, Ted Cheatham, Paul Glenn, Moritz-Eggard, Greg Schlausser, and Jeff Engelstein. |
| 0:29.3 | This show is sponsored by Days of Wonder, who has brought us all some of our favorite board games, such as Ticket to Ride, BattleLore, Memoir 44, Shadows Over Camelot, and Pirates Cove. |
| 0:40.0 | To learn more about any of their excellent games, visit them at www.daseofwonder.com. |
| 0:46.2 | And now, here are your hosts, Apprentice Sumo Wrestlers, Sam Healy, and Tom Bassel. |
| 0:53.1 | See, Sam, we went too far. Last week week we scoffed at him for calling us middleweight |
| 0:58.4 | yeah i guess now now he called the sumo wrestlers yeah well i just got fired from my uh sumo |
| 1:03.4 | apprenticeship i i've i've lost 50 pounds so well congratulations thank you very much it's a week of congratulations i suppose it is currently |
| 1:13.2 | as we record at least for almost two more hours my birthday woohoo yay bob thirty one and my fifth |
| 1:21.1 | daughter was born this week violet charity vassal was born on thursday at 1204 and pretty hefty, 8 pounds, 10 ounces, |
| 1:31.3 | and my fifth girl, which still makes people laugh. |
| 1:37.0 | Hey, but, you know, and then I was reading Eric Summer, our announcer's blog, and he just found |
| 1:42.1 | out that he's having a baby boy. |
| 1:44.0 | Cool. I wonder what that he's having a baby boy. Cool. |
| 1:44.6 | I wonder what that's like. |
| 1:46.3 | So, well, welcome to our bi-weekly show, I think. |
| 1:51.0 | Fortnightly show. |
| 1:52.1 | Well, here's what happened. |
| 1:53.1 | Last time we spoke, we apologized for using the word bi-weekly, since a listener emailed us and said that biweekly was wrong we should really be saying |
| 2:01.5 | bimonthly since bimonthly met twice a month i don't think i've gotten as much email about anything |
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