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The Dice Tower

Episode #54: Our Top Ten Sports Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2006

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

And from a new location (in the same city), another episode of the Dice Tower!

In this episode, Sam and I announce the winners for the Dungeon Twister contest, introduce a new contest for Jolly Roger Games, and listen to Moritz defend game stores. Rick provides news, Doug provides a rant, and there are two reviews of Pirates Cove and Fuddy Duddy. Jim Dietz joins me for our top ten sports board games. We have the show available in .mp3 format, which you can download below by right clicking the link below, and selecting "save link as".

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Dice Tower, episode 54.

0:13.7

It's the Dice Tower, bigger, better, and dicier than ever before.

0:17.5

The Dice Tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of Eurogames, games, card games, and miniatures, featuring the latest industry news, in-depth product reviews, contests with amazing prizes, and of course a new top ten list every week, with contributions from Rick Thornquest, Moritz-Eger, Sam Healy, Walt O'Hara, David Fair, Mike Hibbert, Doug Cooley, and John Thay.

0:38.3

And now here's your host, the man who put the views in game reviews, Tom Vassel.

0:45.6

All right, this is Tom Vassel, and with me as always, is Sam Healy.

0:49.1

Hello.

0:50.3

We're having, you know, people, I normally think that summer vacation is the easiest time of the year because we're finally done teaching and graduation was last week and we're done.

1:01.5

And yet this has been such an incredibly busy time for me.

1:05.8

I've just moved and we're finally just getting settled.

1:10.1

I'm moving the website, the Dysetower. settled. I'm moving the website.

1:12.7

The Dicestower.com.

1:13.9

We're moving at, but all the reviews are just taking a massive amount of work.

1:17.7

So I'm tired from relaxing.

1:20.1

Yeah, I've got a busy week coming up.

1:21.8

I mean, gee whiz, I've got to move, I've got to get ready.

1:24.6

I'm doing summer school at work and just feels like, you know, weekends don't mean work-ins. You know, I feel that way right now. Yeah, well, I just moved. Now it's the time for Sam to move. So it's good to move. I'm glad to move. Yeah, very cool. But the process of moving is hideous. Tell me about it. You're like, oh, you find things that you forgot you had, something that you wish you still didn't have anymore. Yeah. You think you're going to have room to keep stuff. People give you stuff, and they'll say, oh, you can keep this. It's just an interesting time. Yeah, I grew up a military brat, Air Force brat, and, you know, we moved

2:02.4

every four to five years, and I'm still not used to it.

2:04.9

I hate it.

2:06.0

You know, you think you'd get used to it, but no way, not me.

2:11.0

Well, I bet you're wondering who won the Dungeon Twister games.

2:14.3

Well, we're about to tell you right after this.

2:21.0

Like that. Quister Games. Well, we're about to tell you right after this. Like what you're hearing from Tom and Company, but also looking for another podcast to try,

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