Episode #196: New games, iPod games, and more!
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the upcoming year 2011, start a new contest for Yomi and Puzzle Strike, and discuss several new games. Dexter and the Chief talk about SWAT, Eric Herman goes over some iPod Games, Eric reviews Pirate Fluxx, and Tom reviews Merchants and Marauders. Also included in the episode: Character types, gaming news, a discussion about local game stores, Summary Judgement, and Fathergeek. Check out this action packed episode!!
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| 0:00.0 | Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by fun again games the world's best game source online at fun again.com |
| 0:08.0 | Thanks for your support |
| 0:09.4 | the dice tower episode 196 what to do about these local game stores? Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:40.0 | In this episode, Dexter and the Chief look at a different kind of SWAT team. |
| 0:45.0 | Eric Herman reviews some new dice-based mobile apps and the Father Geek guys try to prevent their kids from destroying their games. |
| 0:54.8 | Also, Tom and I review a pair of pirate-themed games. |
| 0:58.5 | We start a new contest and wonder what we would add to our local game stores. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Eric Sommerer and I'm broadcasting from a giant block of ice. |
| 1:08.8 | Here's your host, much warmer than I am, it's Tom Vassal. |
| 1:14.1 | Well, I'm trying not to be smug here. |
| 1:17.1 | It's scary around here, Tom. |
| 1:19.6 | Trees are falling down, power going out, it's crazy. I watched a video on the internet |
| 1:25.2 | where some lady threw some boiling water into the air and it turned into |
| 1:29.1 | mist and snow. Craziness. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.0 | I had my air conditioning on today. |
| 1:36.0 | Just thought I'd mention it. |
| 1:38.0 | Sometimes I don't like you very much. |
| 1:40.0 | All right folks, well, welcome to the Dice Tower. I'm Tom Vassal. |
| 1:44.2 | And I'm Eric Sommer, hi. |
| 1:45.8 | And yeah, lots of, I mean, this is our first show in 2011. |
| 1:51.2 | I mean, I guess we did some shows shows already but they were so much about 2010 that we didn't talk much about hey |
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