Episode #151: Top 10 Train Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2009
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this show, Ben Forgard joins Tom and they talk about some recent games, such as Timber Tom, Dominion, and Tales of Arabian Knights. Algo talks about Mechanicsburgo, Brad talks about Age of Steam, Steve talks about Monsters Ravage America, and Mark talks about playing games with children. We start a new contest, talk about gaming awards, and Geoff finishes up the show with his top ten train games.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 151. |
| 0:02.5 | Our top 10 train games. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:31.9 | This episode features commentary from Brad Keene and Mark Zelensky, an audio submission from one of our listeners and our top 10 train games. |
| 0:40.7 | And now, here are your hosts, still unpacking the mountain of boxes from origins, Tom Vessel and Ben Forgard. |
| 0:48.9 | All right, this is Tom Vessel. |
| 0:50.8 | And this is Ben Forgard. |
| 0:52.0 | And welcome back. |
| 0:53.1 | And Eric, you know, normally the things that he says are outlandish and totally incorrect. But as it would happen, we were just unpacking more of the games. Two boxes with 14 games inside of games from Origins. And this is actually not going to be a post-origines show. |
| 1:13.1 | We'll be talking about a lot of the games from Origins in our next show. |
| 1:17.2 | And we'll even talk about a few in this show. |
| 1:20.6 | But I wanted to get a few more things under my belt. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm still kind of recovering from JetLag here. |
| 1:27.8 | Anyway, it's good to be back, and I have a few things to talk about in regards to our show. |
| 1:32.4 | First of all, if you want to find out more information about our show, you can go to www. |
| 1:37.4 | The Dice Tower.com. |
| 1:39.6 | That has our reviews, it has our shows, it has our top ten lists. |
| 1:43.4 | And I've just updated the Dice Tower Guild on Facebook. |
| 1:48.8 | I've got the Dice Tower group, I guess, at Facebook. |
| 1:52.4 | And so I'm going to try and keep the updated. |
| 1:54.3 | And we have a Twitter feed up now. |
| 1:56.4 | Now, I swore, I didn't swear, but I said strongly that I would never do Twitter, but apparently |
| 2:03.5 | everyone else in the world is. So we want to stay up with the times. It will tell you when we're |
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