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The Dice Tower

Episode #152: Best From Origins 2009

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2009

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tom and Ben discuss several recently played games, including Funny Business, Triviathon, Cartagena 2, Dice Town, Twilight Struggle, Frontiers, and Bonobo Beach. We also talk about the best games and gaming experiences from Origins 2009.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The top 10 games we played at origins. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

0:30.0

In this episode we'll hear from Moritz Eggert, Brad King, Jeff Engelstein, and Joe Stedman.

0:37.4

We continue our Who Would Win contest, and I join Tom for our top 10 game sessions from origins.

0:44.3

And now here are your hosts taking a break

0:47.1

from building a fort out of discarded game boxes,

0:50.6

Tom Vassal and Ben Forgard. All right, I'm Tom Vassal and Ben Forgard.

0:53.0

All right, I'm Tom Vassal.

0:55.0

I'm Ben Forgard.

0:57.0

And welcome to episode 152.

0:59.0

Today we're doing a bit of a recap of what we played at origins actually when I say we not all

1:05.3

the contributors went in fact Ben did not go although Ben has played more games

1:11.8

from origins than most of you have.

1:15.0

Mostly because I brought a whole pile back and we have been playing them seemingly non-stop.

1:20.0

But we'll talk about that in a moment.

1:22.0

A few things we like to mention as always with the

1:23.7

Dice Tower. First of all, we like to thank Fun Again Games. Fun Again Games is a online retailer.

1:30.8

They have tremendous selection of board games the best I've seen online

1:35.6

uh... great prices great service

1:38.4

so go check them out they host our show we're thankful for that in fact i was looking at

1:42.4

a threat on board game geek. I don't know if anyone who listens to the show has seen this, but there was a guy who went to their store. Their store is located in Ashland, Oregon and he went there and went through a tour.

1:54.3

They're a local, friendly local gaming store

1:57.4

that also has an online gaming presence.

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