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The Dice Tower

Episode #156: Top 10 Enemies of Gaming

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2009

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this show, the Englesteins talk some more about their game design process, Moritz discusses solitaire gaming, and Giles and Mark show up with gaming goodness. We start a new question segment, talk about Arimaa, both the game and book, and discuss Attika. Brad concludes his interview, and we announce the top ten enemies of gaming!

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0:00.0

The top 10 enemies of gaming. Well, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

0:31.0

In this episode, Moritz plays Solitaire. Giles confronts his enemy,

0:36.5

and Jeff and Brian continue their game design series. We'll also hear a review from Mark,

0:42.1

check in with Brad, and dig a game out from the vault.

0:45.3

Plus we finish up our feedback contest and present the top 10 enemies of gaming.

0:50.8

I'm Eric Sommerer and joining me now the Skipper to my Gilligan Tom Vassal

0:57.0

All right welcome to the show I'm Tom Vassal and I'm Eric Sommerer and if it's just your first time with us, we're a podcast that talks all about

1:06.6

board games, card games, tabletop games in general, ones that you play with other people, well, most of the time.

1:15.0

Sometimes.

1:16.0

I guess, well, I guess I fall into that trap of setting a game up sometime.

1:20.0

And right now I just got an 18EZ which is a introduction to the 18X series of games

1:27.3

that was made and so I'm kind of looking over it and trying to play through it myself a little bit before I start teaching it to other people.

1:36.0

I will say that if this is the easy level, then I'll probably never go beyond that.

1:41.3

I tried an 18-X-X-X-X-G x game once and it was an interesting experience.

1:47.0

So we'll have to see. I'm kind of interested to try out the rails of England and Wales, which looks like it has kind of an 18-X-X-X-F-S-F-T takes the railroad

1:58.8

tycoon and adds the stock market to it, but I haven't had a

2:04.0

chance to try that out yet.

2:05.0

But speaking of games that we have tried out,

2:08.0

what have you been playing lately?

2:09.0

Well, I have learned that I am terrible at Race for the Galaxy.

2:14.0

Just terrible.

2:15.8

There is a board game geek user

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