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Thanks for your support the dice tower episode 219 the fourth annual Dice Tower Awards. The fourth annual Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

In this special episode, we present the winners of the Dice Tower Gaming Awards for 2010.

What was the best family game, the best components, the best new designer,

best game of the year, and more?

The answers are just moments away. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's

your host, the James Franco to My Anne Hathaway. It's Tom Vassal.

I'm not sure whether to be pleased that I'm the guy or displeased that I don't have the talent. When you start doing the voice over you get to be the pretty lady.

Yeah see these are comments that I don't even know how to respond to.

All right well folks this is not our usual episode.

No.

If this is the first time you're tuning in, I'm Tom Vassal.

And I'm Eric Sommer.

This is a show all about board and card games, but in this show we are joined by many of our peers.

We are, surprisingly enough, not the only podcast out there about board games.

There's several.

One or two more.

We have invited all of them to join us in the voting for the annual Dice Tower Awards.

Today we'll be talking about the winner of our Dice Tower Awards. These are winners for the games from the year 2010.

If their English version came out in 2010, they were eligible for these awards.

And there was about 30 to 40 people who voted on these awards,

prominent bloggers, podcasters, people who are associated with the Dice Tower in various ways.

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