Episode #172: Top 10 Word Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2010
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
In this show, we talk about why Eric logs his game plays, why Scrabble is annoying, and why old games can be great. Dexter and the Chief talk about Cartagena, Eric talks about Entdecker, and Tom talks abou You're Bluffing! Moritz talks about the history of Avalon Hill, and we end the show with our top ten Word games. We have a new contest - to enter, fill out the survey at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEhJbTFLYWpQSm01LTcybm9UdDh0V3c6MQ
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 172. |
| 0:03.0 | Our top 10 Word 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, Ryan fights against the cult of the new. Jeff starts |
| 0:35.9 | counting Scrabble tiles and Moritz tells us about the good old days of Avalon Hill. |
| 0:41.1 | Plus we tell you how you can win a copy of Witzen-Wagers family, help you work up to teaching |
| 0:47.3 | our favorite games, and we present our top ten Word games. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm Eric Sommerer and joining me now a conferrer of cruciverbalist |
| 0:56.6 | erudition. Here's Tom Vassal. |
| 0:59.2 | All right, well thanks Eric for making me go get a dictionary and feel stupid about my lack of such |
| 1:07.7 | verbose vocabulary. |
| 1:08.7 | Well, since we're doing word games, I broke out the Thesaurus. |
| 1:11.8 | Ah, okay. I see. |
| 1:13.4 | And that actually is a point that I want to talk about word games, but we'll get into that a little |
| 1:19.5 | bit later. |
| 1:20.5 | But the thesaurus, I think think has destroyed some word games but we'll see okay I'm all for |
| 1:26.9 | building vocabulary though but not okay well here I'm starting my rant early |
| 1:32.4 | I'll hold back I'll hold back okay not okay well here I'm starting my rent early |
| 1:32.8 | uh... hold back okay let's talk about games that we played recently |
| 1:38.1 | i am a bit jealous of |
| 1:40.1 | two things on your list go Go ahead and start off. |
| 1:42.6 | Well, the first thing, the top of my list is that in my grubby little hands I have the |
| 1:46.9 | brand new Dominion expansion, which is Dominion Alchemy. This is a, it's not a mini expansion, I guess a half size expansion to Dominion. |
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