Episode #174: Top 10 Pick-up and Delivery Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2010
⏱️ 115 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Dexter and the Chief explore Ubongo, Moritz talks about the history of SPI, and Geoff interviews the artist for his upcoming game. We finish off our recent contests, and compare Castle Panic to Forbidden Island. Our feature of this show is our top ten pick-up and delivery games.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 174. |
| 0:02.8 | Our top 10 pickup and delivery games. The Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:31.0 | This time, Dexter and the Chief Explore Yubongo. |
| 0:35.0 | Moritz remembers S. P. P. I. |
| 0:37.5 | and Jeff interviews the artist for his upcoming game, The Ares Project. Plus, we resolve our Vicious Fishes and Witz and Wagers' Family Contests, |
| 0:47.0 | and we present our top 10 pickup and deliver games. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Eric Sommerer, and me now bringing you that purple cube in 30 minutes or less or it's free. Here's Tom Vassal. |
| 1:00.0 | All right, well welcome to the show everybody. It is good to be talking to you in the beginning of the summer. No more school. |
| 1:10.0 | Or was it? No more teachers, no more books. I forget, oh, no more pencils teachers no more books. I forget oh no more pencils no more books no more |
| 1:15.6 | teachers dirty looks exactly as a child I thought that the teachers hated summer |
| 1:21.1 | vacation now I know that students have no idea how awesome |
| 1:25.9 | summer vacation truly truly is. Although by the end of every summer |
| 1:30.9 | vacation I'm just absolutely ready to go back and teach |
| 1:33.5 | teach up a storm again, but it's good to end it. Although the Board Game Club here in Korea |
| 1:40.9 | at my school is now officially over done and over with the sadness of it. |
| 1:47.0 | Because this is a game podcast, a board game podcast, so we should talk about those every once in a while. So one of the board games I was able to play recently. I've talked about this in prior shows but horse fever just has really been doing well around here. In fact, people know that most of the games that we're playing right now, |
| 2:05.7 | I'm not taking with me to America because there's just not room for them, |
| 2:09.4 | but I'm going to find a spot for horse fever. |
| 2:11.9 | It's a game where you're basically betting on horses and there's |
| 2:15.1 | some pretty ridiculous bets that can be made and won because the game basically allows you |
| 2:20.4 | to cheat, not cheat the game game but cheat in the race and you know give your |
| 2:25.7 | horse steroids or poison another horse or something along that line to mess them up and |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tom Vasel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Tom Vasel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.