Episode #142: New Contest and 19 Games in 19 Minutes
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2009
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this show, Tom and Sam talk about the best trading games, and Geoff talks about the mechanics of trading. We start a new contest to win Age of Steam, talk about some upcoming games and news. Moritz reviews the "living card game" from Fantasy Flight, and Mark reviews Red November. Finally, we review nineteen games in nineteen minutes!
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 142. |
| 0:03.6 | Our top 10 trading games. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:32.0 | In this episode we'll be reviewing a slew of games |
| 0:35.0 | and talking about our top 10 trading games. |
| 0:38.0 | And now, just turn the crank and snap the plank |
| 0:41.0 | and boot the marble right down the shoot, now watch it roll and hit the pole right down the shoot. |
| 0:42.6 | Now watch it roll and hit the pole and knock the ball in the rubbed tub tub |
| 0:45.8 | which hits the man into the pan, the trap is set. |
| 0:48.2 | Here comes the net. |
| 0:49.2 | Oh yes, I guarantee they're the craziest hosts you'll ever see, |
| 0:53.4 | Tom Vassal and Sam Healy. |
| 0:57.2 | I really did like that game as a kid. |
| 0:59.4 | I think it was my favorite games. |
| 1:00.5 | Do you ever play Mouse Trap? |
| 1:02.3 | Oh man. The game itself is a horrible game. favorite games. Do you ever play Mouse Trap? No. |
| 1:03.0 | The game itself is horrible game. |
| 1:05.0 | It's building that Mouse Trap contraption. |
| 1:07.0 | I just always thought that was really cool. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, this has not a lot to do with board games but the Audies were just announced. |
| 1:15.8 | These are the, basically the Oscars of the audio book world. The Audies were announced. And so if you're looking down |
| 1:24.2 | through them and you get down to the science fiction category you'll see that |
| 1:28.6 | childhood's end by Arthur C. Clark one and that happens to be narrated by Eric Michael Sommerer who does our show. |
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