Episode #124: Top 10 Games Under 30 Minutes
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2008
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Sam discuss Oregon, Galaxy Trucker, Stone Age, and Amyitus; as well as discuss several news items. Giles talks about an Australian game expo, Paul discusses theoretical war games, and Mary gives a recap of Origins 2008. Tom gives his top ten games that take less than thirty minutes to play, and we discuss ways to keep game plays from going overly long. We also rant about the Origins awards (again!) and answer a few questions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 124, |
| 0:03.3 | Our top 10 games that the people who play them. |
| 0:20.0 | In this episode we'll be discussing our top 10 games you can play in under 30 minutes. |
| 0:25.0 | This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, |
| 0:29.0 | makers of Battleground Fantasy Warfare, the Miniature War Game Without Miniatures. |
| 0:34.5 | To learn more about Your Move Games or to take a flash demo of Battleground, please visit |
| 0:39.1 | WFW. Your Move Games. |
| 0:42.4 | And now, here are your hosts expert pyrotechnicians |
| 0:45.5 | Tom Vassal and Sam Healy. Well I don't know if my wife would call me an expert pyrotechnician. |
| 0:53.4 | Fire! |
| 0:54.4 | Fire! |
| 0:55.4 | I do like to burn things, but I got to set off some fireworks I guess the other day. |
| 0:58.9 | I want to go get some more. |
| 0:59.7 | They were kind of lame. |
| 1:01.0 | They had been sitting up there for over a year. Just some Roman candles. So, but that was |
| 1:06.6 | how we celebrated 4th of July, I guess. It's the Lazy, crazy days of summer. |
| 1:14.0 | We have lots... |
| 1:15.0 | We have lots of things to talk about, but a lot of things I'm going to talk about from |
| 1:19.9 | origin specifically. |
| 1:20.9 | I'll be putting Amusings on number five, should come out soon so we'll talk about that some more then but we were able to play some games from the fair and we'll talk about that in a bit |
| 1:30.7 | But for now let's get into just some gaming news and some things that are going around in the industry. |
| 1:36.0 | The first news that I thought was of note is Days of Wonder is announced that they were going to have an exclusive distributor with Alliance |
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