The Dice Tower episode 57, our origins review. It's the dice tower, bigger, and dicier than ever before. The dice tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of Euro games, war 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 Thornquist

Moritz eggard Sam Healy Wald O'Hara David Fair Mike Hibbert Doug Cooley and John Thay

and now here's your host the man who put the views and game reviews, Tom Vassal.

All right, folks, this is Tom Vassal, and once again I'm all by myself, although not technically by myself in this episode, but you'll find out in just a second

Sam is still traveling in America. In fact he won't be back next week either but I'm gonna try and find a guest host

for that show. However I do hope that Sam has an enjoyable vacation in America.

I certainly did. I'm back in Korea. I'm back. This is still fairly new when you listen to

this, only a little bit, maybe a day old if you download it right away.

And for those of you who are new, I'm assuming we have some new listeners, hopefully you picked up my

Magnets and Origins and you're tuning in for the first time and listening to the show.

This is a show in which we talk about board games, card games and all that, mostly tabletop games, but with a heavy emphasis on board and

card games. There are hundreds of different kinds of these games that are

produced each year and we so much love to play them when I say we I mean I just love pointing these games and so I'm

here to talk about them now I before I went to America one of the biggest things

that was excited about about going to America was the origins game convention which is held in

Columbus, Ohio each year at the end of June and beginning of July.

It's a fabulous time where you get together and there's all kinds of interesting things.

And I have a whole lot I want to talk about, but the way I'm going to be talking about it is via a

top 10 list. However, I was not the only person at origins, there was thousands of others,

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