Episode #178: Top Hot Games from GenCon 2010
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2010
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we spend a bit of time talking about Gen Con 2010, and some of the strengths and weaknesses of the convention. Geoff talks about one of the most famous math problems and how it relates to games, and Dexxter and the Chief recount a recently played game. Finally, Tom talks about his top "hot" games from GenCon 2010.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 178. |
| 0:02.8 | Our top 10, my top 10, stuff I saw at Gen-Kine. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. This time, Jeff says, let's make a deal. |
| 0:36.3 | Dexter gives the chief a birthday present, and we vint some anger at some mechanics we hate. |
| 0:43.4 | Plus we give you our impressions of some recent games and Tom gives his top ten games that |
| 0:49.2 | he played at GenCon. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm Eric Sommerer and all these people want to know |
| 0:54.4 | Where in the world is Tom Vassal's game collection and the host of where in the world is |
| 1:01.1 | Tom Vassal's game collection, Tom Vassal. |
| 1:07.1 | All right, well welcome to the show. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm Tom Vassal. |
| 1:11.1 | And I'm Eric Somerer. And we're here to talk about all kinds of board games, card games, |
| 1:15.7 | tabletop games, and everything else. This is an interesting time. We skipped our last week of putting out the show because it was just |
| 1:27.7 | crazily chaotic. I was moving into my house and the next day flying to GenCon. So I thought we could squeeze the recording in there. |
| 1:39.5 | We had like a three hour window that we could maybe fit in a recording time. |
| 1:43.8 | Well I scheduled the internet guy to show up at my house and I knew that wouldn't go quickly |
| 1:49.6 | or smoothly. |
| 1:50.6 | They're always punctual. |
| 1:52.0 | Well, actually this guy did come within his six hour window. |
| 1:55.0 | Okay. |
| 1:57.0 | So, so anyway, so he said everything up and then the wireless didn't work and then I was thinking, |
| 2:02.0 | how can we record this? And shouldn't I be... said everything up and then the wireless didn't work and then I was thinking |
| 2:02.7 | how can we record this and shouldn't I be packing anyway and I need to go buy food for |
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