Episode #137: End of the Year Show, Part 2

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2009

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tom and Sam talk about a their favorite gateway games, and have a look at 2008 as a whole. We talk about gaming events, while Eric reviews Monastary. We end the show with the top ten games of 2008. Thanks to 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 and Worst of 2008 Part 2 Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.
0:34.6	This episode is part two of our review of the year 2008.
0:38.5	What are the best and worst games?
0:40.6	Let's find out.
0:42.2	This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, makers of
0:45.8	Battleground Fantasy Warfare, in which you simply purchase a deck of cards to get a complete
0:50.9	epic miniiatures game.
0:53.1	To learn more about Your Move Games or to try a Flash version of their games, please visit
0:57.4	W.W. dot Your Move Games.
1:00.8	And now here are your hosts in order of appearance
1:03.6	Tom Vassal and Sam Healy.
1:05.8	Oh I gotta say something quick so I'm first.
1:07.8	In order of appearance?
1:09.8	Okay man.
1:13.0	one anyway, if you're just coming back after a few days after our last episode, this is part two of the best and worst of 2008.
1:20.0	We gave a lot of different categories in our last show.
1:22.0	We have a few more, but the big part of this show is the top 10 of 2008.
1:27.0	So let's just get right into it.
1:30.0	Hey man, want to try a game?
1:33.0	It's time for the best gateway games from 2008.
1:37.0	Games used to get new people into the wonderful world of gaming.
1:41.0	And the new gateway game of 2008 for me is Hanging Gardens from Din Lee, a new designer actually.
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