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The Dice Tower

Episode #181: Top 10 Games From Designer Collaborations

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2010

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dexter and the Chief talk about Kingsburg and Tom and Eric review Samarkand from Queen Games. We answer a ton of listener questions, and end the show with our top ten games from designer collaborations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Dice Tower, episode 181.

0:03.2

Our top games from collaborations or groups of designers. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

0:35.4

This time, Dexter and the Chief take a look at Kingsburg.

0:39.1

We review Queen Games recent release, Summerkand, and we present our top 10 games from design

0:45.2

collaborations. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host already counting the days

0:50.5

until winter vacation. It's Tom Vassal. the fun. I'll tell you today, the students may not have liked me because they're finding out that, hey, they actually have to do their homework.

1:09.0

But it's good. It's good. I will say I'm looking forward to Labor Day, which is before we record this.

1:14.8

Looking forward to that extra day in the weekend there. Maybe I'll get some more games play.

1:18.6

Who knows? But I was able to get a pile play this past weekend. One of the games I was able to play was one that Eric was talking

1:24.7

about earlier and that's Telstrations. Yeah, cool. Telestrations is the game, if you've seen on the internet,

1:30.9

it's known by several names, one which is a lovely name is Eat

1:34.8

Poop You Cat, but basically it's a version of Whisper Down the Alley.

1:39.3

One person draws a picture, the next person looks at the picture and writes down what they think it is,

1:44.8

the next person looks at what was written down and the person thought it was and they draw a picture

1:48.6

of that, the next person looks at the picture, writes down what they think that is, etc.

1:52.8

With a funny group, this is funny.

1:57.8

Funny, funny, funny stuff.

1:59.3

In fact, I brought it to our local gaming group last week for them to play and we were playing

2:05.8

Dominion and it was getting a little difficult to concentrate because there were just screams

2:10.9

of laughter coming from the Telestration's table. Yeah, you need to sequester the telestrations table.

2:13.0

Yeah, you need to sequester the telestrations players.

2:15.6

Well, I wanted to get up and go over and be all snooty and say, no, please, some of us are not having fun here.

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