Episode #163: Top Ten Most Unique Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2010
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In this show, the gang talks about the strangest games they ever played, Geoff talks about giving, and Mark talks about Christmas. We discuss recently played games - Thunderstone, the Adventurers, Castle Panic, the Ares Project, Summoner Wars, and World without End. Giles talks about a game convention, we take a look back at Lord of the Rings, and we give our top ten most unique games.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 163. |
| 0:02.4 | Our top 10 most unique games. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:31.6 | In this episode, Jeff gives gifts. |
| 0:34.4 | Giles looks forward to his favorite convention, and we all discuss some strange games. |
| 0:39.9 | Plus, we revisit the roster of gamer stereotypes. We look into the vault to find one ring to rule |
| 0:46.5 | them all, and we present our top ten unique games. This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored |
| 0:52.8 | by North Star Games, makers of wits and wagers, |
| 0:56.4 | which has won more awards than any party game in history, including Party Game of the Year from |
| 1:02.1 | Board Game Geek and Games magazine. |
| 1:04.9 | I'm Eric Summerer, and joining me now, the Ebert to My Roper. |
| 1:09.3 | Here's Tom Vassel. |
| 1:12.2 | All right, I don't know, is Ebert to my Roper. Here's Tom Vassel. All right. I don't know. Is Ebert the nicer guy of the duo? I'm not really sure. I don't |
| 1:20.0 | listen to them as much. Well, maybe. I was going more that Roper was the newer guy of the duo, |
| 1:25.6 | although now they're both off TV. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, that's true. |
| 1:33.4 | Well, I do read Ebert's reviews quite a bit, but I don't necessarily agree with them, |
| 1:38.4 | but I like reading them because I know what he likes, and so it's easy to tell from what he writes, |
| 1:39.9 | whether I will like it or not. |
| 1:40.5 | Exactly. |
| 1:42.6 | Well, this is a time of holidays. |
| 1:49.1 | Merry Christmas to all our listeners, although it's past Christmas, and will most likely be past New Year. |
| 1:51.5 | So, happy New Year's to all of you. |
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