Episode #107: Top Ten Good Games with Bad Themes

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2007

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Moritz talks about more possible innovations in board games, and Eric gives us pre-Essen news. Geoff discusses whether some sides of the die come up more often than others, and Mark gabs about ASL-SK1. We review Chang Cheng and Soccer Tactics World, present our website of the week, and continue our contest for Starcraft. Finally, we end the show with some listener questions and our top ten good games with bad (boring) themes.

This show was sponsored by Suprised Stare Games.

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower, Episode 107.
0:05.0	Good games with bad themes.
0:08.0	Welcome to the Dice Tower, episode 107.
0:14.0	The Dice Tower is a podcast about all types of board and card games and the people who play
0:18.7	them.
0:19.7	We'd like to welcome this week's sponsor, Surprised Stare Games, an independent UK company who never
0:25.2	go anywhere without an umbrella and have brought you curious but delightful games such as the
0:30.0	medievally themed Copper Guadal, and the unnecessarily violent and offensive family game. the at W. W. Surprised Stair Games.
0:43.4	Co. UK.
0:45.5	And now here are your hosts.
0:47.4	Two great tastes that taste great together, Sam Healy and Tom Vassal.
0:58.0	You know, I've never seen so many correlations between food and gaming as any other thing. You know, people always say, well, this game was like a good steak.
1:01.0	Now Eric calls us good tastes. Hello this is Tom Vassal welcome to
1:06.0	the dice tower. Hello everyone and it's been not very long since our last
1:10.9	podcast we're weekly again actually not but we're recording back to back episodes because we didn't.
1:16.4	So anyway, this is episode 107. Today we'll be talking about good games that we enjoy with boring or themes that just basically bring them down.
1:25.0	Now since it's been fairly short since we recorded our last podcast and we've been fairly busy since then,
1:31.0	we haven't got a lot of games in but we did get some in
1:33.8	one of the games that we both played will be reviewing a little bit later in the show
1:37.6	Chang I'm sorry Chang Chang Chang Chang Chang Chang.
1:41.0	Chang Ching Ch Changching.
1:43.0	Sure. Okay. Well anyway, we'll be talking about that a little bit later, but we also played some other games.
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