Episode #158: Top 10 Party Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2009

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Geoff crunches some numbers, Eric and Tom talk about some recently played (or NOT played) games, and Giles goes head to head with Tom about Doom and Descent. We preview a couple of games, and take a look at an older game - Lost Cities. We discuss how much money the show makes us (hint - not much), and end the show with our top ten party games!

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower, episode 158.
0:02.4	Our top 10 party games. 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 hear from Moritz, Giles, Mary, and Jeff.
0:34.7	We pit Doom against Descent in a board game grudge match and we present our top ten party games.
0:41.0	I'm Eric Sommerer and joining me now the Peter Segal to my Carl Castle.
0:46.0	Here's Tom Vassal.
0:50.0	All right, well you know Eric I had to go look those names up on the internet because to my shame I did not know who they were
0:57.6	I see I've heard the show before
1:01.2	What's the show called again now?
1:03.0	NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me the NPR News Quiz, really funny show and I like those two guys.
1:09.0	Yeah, and I hadn't I hadn't I've heard it before but I didn't know the names of the
1:14.5	the gentleman but there we go we all learned something new so what's up with
1:19.9	you and oh I guess we should introduce ourselves I'm Tom Vassal and I'm Eric Somerer.
1:24.7	We're here to talk about all sorts of games, mostly board and card games, and we'll start right
1:30.1	up with that. Eric, tell us about what you've been playing lately well I'm actually
1:34.1	a little disappointed because I didn't get to play my brand new game this past
1:38.9	week I got the Pegasus expansion to Battlestar Galactica in the mail and you know that that
1:44.7	feeling when you get a brand new game that you've been looking forward to you you
1:48.0	open up the box and you're sorting the pieces I'm bagging the components I even
1:52.2	combined the the base set and the expansion set into
1:56.1	the expansion box so that it looks cooler sitting on the shelf.
2:00.9	Figured out everything I needed to do in order to play it on our game night on Sunday night
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