Episode #23: Top 10 Abstract Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2010
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, originally recorded November 9th, 2005, Tom and Joe Steadman compare and contrast Lowenhertz and Domaine. They also discuss using games in classrooms and what determines a simulation. Finally, they end the show with their top ten abstract games.
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | This episode, Number 24, is part of our Classic series and was originally aired on November 9, 2005. |
| 0:23.8 | And now here's your host, Tom Vassal. |
| 0:28.4 | All right, it's great to be back another week. |
| 0:31.4 | Now, you obviously have noticed this is not our weekly |
| 0:33.8 | podcast. These are pretty busy sometimes but we wanted to not leave you with |
| 0:38.9 | nothing this week. We'll get back to our regular scheduled podcasts next week, but this is one of our old |
| 0:45.0 | podcasts. As you heard in the intro, it's episode 24, which it's hard to believe was recorded |
| 0:51.8 | five years ago. |
| 0:53.2 | Five years we've been on here, which I guess with a lot of different programs and TV shows |
| 0:57.7 | and stuff, isn't meant maybe a long time, but in the life of a podcast it really can be. |
| 1:03.0 | Well there's a couple things that we have for you here and the first is we wanted to not keep this time |
| 1:09.4 | sensitive and so we have our conventional wisdom. |
| 1:13.0 | Eric, what's going on? |
| 1:15.0 | Now it's time for a little conventional wisdom, |
| 1:18.0 | keeping you up to date on board gaming events near you. |
| 1:21.0 | I got a couple coming up really soon and one that's pretty far out but I'm pretty excited |
| 1:28.0 | about it. |
| 1:29.0 | Let's start with Charcon in Charleston, West Virginia, October 22nd through the 24th, which Travis tells us about. |
| 1:36.0 | It's a very active event with lots of new stuff going on this year, |
| 1:39.0 | including a bar at the end of the universe, and of of course lots of games to play. |
| 1:44.0 | Read all about it at charcon.org. |
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