Episode #74: Auction Games and Battlelore
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2006
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
With two episodes to go, another episode of the Dice Tower!
With reports from Rick, Moritz, and Jason, there is a lot of information in this slightly longer episode. Sam gives his top ten auction games, and I talk about different auction styles. We continue our contest for Cluzzle and Wits and Wagers, and I interview Mark Simmons about both Games Quarterly and National Games Week. The highlight of our show is Sam and I giving a short review of Battlelore along with a session report. We have the show available in .mp3 format, which you can download below by right clicking the link below, and selecting "save link as".
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 74. |
| 0:05.0 | Battle Lore Preview. It's the Dice Tower helping gamers out across the world. The Dice Tower is your online home for fun and informative discussion of Euro-games, |
| 0:25.8 | war games, card games, and miniatures. |
| 0:28.0 | Featuring the latest industry news, in-depth product reviews, contests with amazing prizes, and of course a new top 10 list every week, |
| 0:35.4 | with contributions from Rick Thornquist, Moritzegert, Jason White, and a variety of other |
| 0:39.6 | well-known gamers. |
| 0:40.8 | And now here's your hosts, the man who just wants to play games |
| 0:43.7 | Sam Healy and the man who puts the views and game reviews Tom Vassal. Well hello |
| 0:49.7 | everybody and welcome to yet another episode of the Dice Tower. |
| 0:53.0 | Thanks so much for listening to us, |
| 0:54.0 | flather about board games. |
| 0:56.0 | He he. |
| 0:57.0 | This is most definitely, |
| 1:00.0 | I should say most definitely, |
| 1:01.0 | but it's certainly one of the busiest weeks of the year |
| 1:05.3 | especially for me and that the theme of our top ten list this week which is top ten |
| 1:10.5 | auction games is directly based on what I'm doing and that's running an auction at our school. |
| 1:17.0 | And I love auctions and they are fun and it is a great time, but I am so looking forward to it being over. |
| 1:27.0 | It's kind of like a game to see how much money I can make for the school and I realize that that is a good end all and I'm certainly trying to raise money for our school |
| 1:36.2 | but at the same time it's almost like a game I'm playing to see just how much money I can pull in |
| 1:42.3 | through ethical means of course. But man it's like |
| 1:48.0 | dragging nails across a chalkboard to get people to get involved. |
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