Episode #159: Top 10 Gimmicks in Board Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2009

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In this show, Tom answers some questions about the game fair in Essen, and talks about some of the new games he picked up there. Sturm and Geoff talk about game rules, and Moritz ambushes the listeners. Joe and Mark talk about their ASL conference, Sam reviews some new games, and we end the show talking about our top ten gimmicks in board games.

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower episode 159.
0:02.5	Our top 10 games with gimmicks. 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, Jeff reads the rules. Sam explores Age of Conan and
0:36.0	the Battle Star Pegasus. Morets plans an ambush and Joe and Mark review their trip
0:41.2	to Aslock. Plus, somebody just got back from Germany,
0:45.0	and we present our top 10 games with gimmicks.
0:48.0	I'm Eric Sommerer, and now, my co-host went to Essen,
0:52.0	and all I got was this lousy happy meal toy.
0:56.3	It's Tom Vassal.
0:57.3	All right well I guess I do like eating at McDonald's occasionally.
1:03.6	Welcome to the show, I'm Tom Vassal.
1:05.6	And I'm Eric Sommerer.
1:06.8	I apologize about my voice.
1:08.2	I have a bit of a cold, but we thought about you, the listeners,
1:11.0	and that you needed a show. We're gonna push through for you. I guess it's not really that bad.
1:16.4	Well lots of things going on. I have more new games to talk about I think than I've had in many an episode, but rather than me talking,
1:26.2	let's see what Eric has been playing lately.
1:28.2	Oh, let's get the small amount of gaming out of the way first.
1:31.7	I have had only one game night since we last spoke, Tom. I've been
1:36.8	busy with family gatherings. We went out to California and got my brother married off and then spent a family vacation.
1:45.9	I brought games but didn't get to play many of them.
1:48.8	So the only game night that I've had recently, I got to play a game that I really have been looking forward to trying
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