Episode #169: Top 10 Stress-Inducing Board Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2010
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Eric reviews a pile of games, Moritz discusses Mozart and games, and Geoff defends High Society. Dexter and the Chief go over Long Shot, Tom rants against publishers' lack of respect for dads, and Adam gives us some Dominion variants. Ryan gives more instructions on how to properly teach a game, and Eric talks about Ra: the Dice Game. Finally, we give our top ten stress-inducing board games, along with guest Charley Eastman.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 169, are top 10 games that cause us stress. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:32.0 | In this episode, Ryan tells us how we learn. We get more Mozart |
| 0:36.7 | from Moritz and Adam gives us a new way to play Dominion. Plus we resolve our Summoner Wars contest. |
| 0:44.4 | Build a packing list for your next convention and present our top 10 games that cause stress. |
| 0:50.9 | This episode is sponsored by Dungeons Solitaire, a new card game for the iPhone and iPod |
| 0:56.0 | touch from the award-winning studio, Grip-The-Nite Games, available at iTunes for just $1.99. I'm Eric Sommerer and joining me now the |
| 1:05.4 | Mr. Miyagi to my Daniel son here's Tom Vassal. I think I would be too |
| 1:12.2 | humble to compare myself to the all-inspiring Mr. |
| 1:16.4 | Miyagi. |
| 1:17.4 | Then why do you keep asking me to wax your car? |
| 1:20.2 | Well that's just, I need the stuff done. |
| 1:22.4 | Actually if you saw my car you would know that it never gets wax to get washed we are lucky |
| 1:29.7 | Wash on wash off. Well since Eric is starting off the show, you know, talking about him being the underling, I suppose, |
| 1:39.4 | that's not even remotely true in our online board gaming. Now maybe it's possible that I might |
| 1:47.9 | win our current Stone Age game. We'll see you're you're not that far behind. |
| 1:51.4 | I feel that my strategy is sound. Okay. Except my |
| 1:57.1 | roles are terrible. I have rolled four ones in the last five roles and that's starting to annoy me. |
| 2:04.0 | It's not annoying me. |
| 2:05.0 | And I told Eric for some odd reason, it seems to be more annoying when you do it online like this because you can stare at that one for a really long time. |
| 2:13.0 | See in real life I roll the one, I'm like, what is that? |
| 2:16.0 | And then we all laugh and we move on. |
| 2:18.0 | And I even went back and redid my turn wondering if it would give me a different role. |
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