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The Dice Tower

Episode #18: Top 10 Board Game Mechanics

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2008

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, originally aired September 28, 2005, we review Shear Panic and Liberty. We also discuss some more "gamer types", talk about our "Kangaroos": Linq and Colossal Arean, and talk about our top ten board game mechanics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast all about board and card games and the people who play them.

0:15.0

This episode number 18 is part of our classic series and was originally aired on September 28, 2005.

0:22.0

This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games,

0:25.6

makers of Battleground, Fantasy Warfare, the miniature war game without miniatures.

0:30.8

To learn more about Your Move Games or to take a flash demo of battleground

0:34.1

please visit www your move games dot com and now here's your host Tom Vassal

0:40.3

Hi this is Tom Vassal welcome back to episode 18 as we look back at an episode that we did several years ago or at least a few years ago.

0:49.0

I find it interesting how looking back at this episode and then looking at the episode that I just

0:53.9

recorded a couple days ago episode 124 in episode 124 at the end we're kind

0:59.8

of begging people to send us questions if If you listen to this episode, we're doing questions

1:05.2

till over half the show is over. And that's just, you know, some people thought we did too many

1:10.6

questions and I can understand that to some degree but for me the questions kind of gave us a

1:16.8

framework to build on and I kind of miss having all those questions. Nowadays you know

1:21.4

we are picking random questions and stuff, but I don't know.

1:25.0

I like questions and it was a fun part of the show.

1:29.0

But the show progresses, the show changes on.

1:31.0

You can tell maybe by this time that we're getting a little

1:35.6

tired of our intro music. I'm starting to actually have intro segments like the

1:39.8

kangaroo music and the turkey music and I think maybe this is 18 episodes into the series

1:47.2

maybe we were starting to get a little bit more professional at this point we

1:50.8

certainly were talking off each other pretty well. So we'll have to wait and see.

1:56.2

And just listen to this episode and we'll talk a little bit about more when it's over.

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