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The Dice Tower

Episode #222: Martin Wallace Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2011

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we visit yet another gaming store and answer a ton of user questions. We go over several new games, including Rune Age, and end the show with our favorite (and worst!) Martin Wallace games.

Transcript

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Thank you for your support.

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The Dice Tower episode 2-2.

0:12.0

Our top 10 Martin Wallace games. The Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

0:42.0

This time we get some geek skills training from the

0:44.8

father geek guys. Greg is on the road again and we try to catch up with our

0:49.8

overflowing mailbag. Plus Ryan goes a little overboard talking about Martin Wallace games, both good

0:56.7

and bad. And the rest of the team joins in the fun as well in our top 10. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host the apples to my

1:05.8

uh apples it's Tom Vassal. All right well here's a fun fact for you Eric

1:12.3

Yeah apples to apples was originally called apples to oranges.

1:16.0

So what does that make me? The orange. Oh. But I guess that was only in the prototype form though it never actually was published under that name

1:25.6

it was you know comparing apples and oranges in fact I I even heard about it that was before I was really in the gaming very much I thought was a

1:33.2

cool sounding game and when apples apples first came out I went and read reviews of

1:37.1

it online at some family website and they were just astoundingly positive and I thought huh this must be a

1:44.7

good game if everybody's like raving about it so much and it is it is you know I

1:49.9

get games now and my and party games like that my daughter likes playing them so she's

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asking I just got one in the mail today from patch it's called love it or hate it

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okay the hilarious game of no and tell and it's in a unique shape box. It's almost an oval with a point out of the end of it.

2:08.5

Basically it looks like a speech bubble. That's the that's the shape and that's fantastic because we so desperately

2:15.4

needed that shape. Yes. How do you store that? I'm only reading the back of the

2:19.5

box because I've not yet popped the shrink on it. Okay.

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But you turn over a card and it says if I were trapped in an elevator for three hours or someone,

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