Episode #108: Top Ten Economic Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2007

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Moritz talks about a horrible gaming experience, while Tom describes what it's like to go 40 Days around the World. Sam and Tom both review Cutthroat Caverns, and answer several user questions. Moritz talks about gaming design, Paul about chit pulling, and Geoff discusses the Prisoner's Dilemma. We talk about our top ten economic games, and our hot games of the month. Finally, we conclude our Starcraft contest. By the way, we didn't mention it in the show, but to enter our latest contest, simply email us at thedicetower@gmail.com and let us know which game award you find most interesting.

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower, episode 108, our top 10 economic games.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Dice Tower, episode 107.
0:11.0	The Dice Tower is a podcast about all types of board and card games and the people who play them.
0:16.8	We'd like to welcome this week's sponsor, Surprised Stair Games, an independent UK company
0:22.1	who never go anywhere without an umbrella, and it brought you
0:24.6	curious but delightful games such as the medievally themed Copper Guadal, and the unnecessarily
0:30.3	violent and defensive family game, Bloody Legacy.
0:33.8	To learn more about their surprisingly good games, visit their website at
0:37.6	www.
0:39.0	Surprised stair games.
0:40.6	co. UK.
0:42.7	And now here are your hosts.
0:44.6	Two great tastes that taste great together,
0:47.4	Sam Heely and Tom Vassal.
0:50.8	All right, well welcome to the show.
0:52.1	This is Tom Vassal.
0:53.0	Hey, man, this is Sam Healy. Come man, can you let me say hi?
0:56.0	Geez. I was just going to say that we're glad to have people with us today.
1:00.0	All right. Well, this is show 108. Later on in the show we'll be talking about our
1:04.7	top 10 economic games. But for now we just want to tell you about some games that we played
1:09.2	recently. And finally, finally, finally, I was able to get Sam to play David and Goliath, which is probably my favorite
1:17.2	trick-taking game, mostly because it works with up to six people.
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