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 Anglstein, Rad Keene, and Mary Prasad,

and our reviews of Railways of the World and Dosto DiMaio.

Plus, we duke it out in a board game grudge match and present our top 10 deduction games.

My name's Eric Sommerer and joining me now, the Sarge to my Beatle Bailey.

It's Tom Vassal. All right, I'm Tom Vassal.

And I'm Eric Sommerer.

And Eric didn't see fit to even give me an officer position, um, still enlisted.

You know, I would, erag if had I joined joined the military I would have been a lieutenant

at least I think yeah but it's always the sarge that's yelling at beetle that's the

point right oh so you're trying to tell people I yell at you the whole time well Well, 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 Walenstein. Now I really enjoy Walenstein. 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 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

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