The Dice Tower, episode 157.

Our top 10 deduction games.

Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

This episode features commentary from Sam Healy, Jeff Engelstein, Brad Kean, and Mary Prasad,

and our reviews of Railways of the World, and Doste Mayo.

Plus, we duke it out in a board game grudge match and present our top ten deduction games.

My name's Eric Summerer, and joining me now, The Sarge to my Beetle Bailey.

It's Tom Vassel.

All right, I'm Tom Vassel. And I'm Eric Summerer. And Eric didn't see fit to even give me an officer position, still enlisted. You know, Eric, if had I joined the military, I would have been a lieutenant at least, I think. Yeah, but it's always the serge that's yelling at Beatle. That's the point, right? Oh, so you're trying to tell people I yell at you the whole time. Well, that you do have this new reputation that you are the new grumpy one on the show.

Yes, I did hear that. Actually, I ran into a guy yesterday who kind of challenged me on this,

and I told him we would mention him on the show,

but we wouldn't use his real name. So we'll just call, we'll call him Joe, even though it's not

Joe Stedman. Okay. And we were playing a game of Wallenstein. Now, I really enjoy Wallenstein.

It's a game in which you're trying to control different areas of Germany and churches and

buildings and castles and there's war in the game. You can fight in two battles per turn, but war is a

very bloody affair. You'll lose a lot of your own units and it's beneficial if you do it judiciously.

You probably won't use every single one of your battles.

Well, the game scores twice, and halfway through the game we scored the first time, and I was

winning, but it was a pretty close race.

But the guy in fourth place, who was only in fourth place by a few points, decided that he really

didn't get the rest of the game per se, and the attacking seemed like a lot of fun.

So he basically did suicide attacks for the rest of the game just because it was fun,

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