Episode #136: End of the Year Show, Part 1
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2008
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Sam talk about a few games that they've played recently. This is part one of the big "end of the year" show, and we talk about our favorite Children's Game, strangest games, war games, innovative games, best expansions, worst games, biggest disappointments, best components, best party games, and biggest surprises. With guest contributors Moritz Eggert, Mark Haberman, Mark Zielinksi, Mary Prasad, Doug Cooley, Geoff Englestein and family, Rick Thornquist, Eric Summerer, and Eric Burgess.
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| 0:00.0 | The Best of 2008 Part 1. |
| 0:05.0 | The Best of 2008 Part 1. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:33.8 | This episode is part one of our review of the year 2008. |
| 0:37.8 | What are the best and worst games? |
| 0:40.4 | Listen and find out. |
| 0:42.0 | This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, makers of Battleground, |
| 0:46.2 | Fantasy Warfare, in which you simply purchase a deck of cards to get a complete epic miniatures game. |
| 0:52.8 | To learn more about Your Move Games or to try a Flash version of their games, please visit |
| 0:57.0 | W.W. dot Your Move Games. |
| 1:00.5 | And now here are your hosts. One of them is a sylon. Can you guess which one? |
| 1:06.2 | Tom Vassal and Sam Healy. |
| 1:08.6 | Well, to be fair, it is absolutely already determined neither of us are silons. |
| 1:15.0 | That is correct. Although I did suspect Sam because he was the Admiral and the |
| 1:19.6 | president and I thought why would one man want that much power and I stole the presidency from |
| 1:23.9 | Tom that was really cool well anyway welcome to the dice tower happy new year |
| 1:29.8 | if you're listening to this in 2009 Merry Christmas if uh... |
| 1:34.6 | well i don't think with |
| 1:35.8 | well it for those of the you who we missed |
| 1:38.6 | uh... may very merry christmas to you |
| 1:40.9 | hope you're having a good holidays we We're doing okay, although there's sickness running rampant through everywhere and anywhere here. |
| 1:50.0 | The good thing about vacation is the chance that we've had a chance to play and we will have a chance to play a lot of games. |
| 1:57.0 | Although with New Year's Eve coming up, that's been traditionally a time to play a lot of party games rather than descent marathon or what have you. |
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