Episode #170: Top 10 Replacement Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2010
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this show, we take some time talking about the top ten games that have replaced other games in our collections. Dexter and the Chief talk about Take it Easy, Brad goes over Age of Steam, Tom reviews 10 games in 9 minutes (or something like that), and Moritz talks about the evolution of Lord of the Rings. We review Wits and Wagers: Family, do Conventional wisdom, and talk about some recently played games - including our never ending online game of Stone Age.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 170. |
| 0:02.4 | Games that have replaced other games. Welcome. 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, Moritz shows us the evolution of the Lord of the Rings. |
| 0:35.6 | Giles vents his frustration about a remake, and Dexter and the Chief decide to take it easy. |
| 0:42.4 | Plus, Tom gives us another 11 reviews in 9 minutes. |
| 0:47.0 | We team up to review the new Family Edition of Wits and Wagers, |
| 0:50.0 | and we present our top 10 games that replaced other games. |
| 0:55.0 | This episode is sponsored by Gryptonite Games, makers of Dungeons Solitaire and Riner |
| 0:59.3 | Canizias Poison, two card games for the iPhone and iPod touch, available at iTunes for just 299 each. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Eric Sommerer, and joining me now, here's the whirlwind of board game controversy |
| 1:11.8 | known as Tom Vassil. |
| 1:15.0 | All right. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, I'm Tom Vassil. |
| 1:18.0 | And I'm Eric Sommerer. |
| 1:20.0 | Okay, we're going to have to explain |
| 1:23.4 | i i want to talk about this sure go ahead |
| 1:27.2 | because that what people understand i guess inside jokes that are made for the next |
| 1:31.3 | three or four months. |
| 1:33.8 | If you folks who are listening don't know, there's a sister podcast, well not a sister, |
| 1:39.2 | a cousin, a wife podcast, I don't know, some kind of podcast I have a video podcast a dice tower |
| 1:44.4 | I put out a video podcast where I review games and I think for years now let's see I've |
| 1:49.7 | been reviewing games for what eight years I think at this point. And early in the beginning I got a |
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