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The Dice Tower

Episode #91: Top 10 Influential Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2007

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Mary gives us the news, and we continue our contest for Incan Gold and 24/7. The main focus of our show is our Top Ten Influential Games lists. Greg Schloesser gives us the top ten influential games of all time, Jason talks about the top ten influential war games, and Mary talks about the top ten influential games from the last fifty years. Finally, the boys from the Spiel join us us and give us their top ten influential games from the last fifty years.

Transcript

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The Dice Tower Episode 91, the Top Ten Influential Games. It's the Dice Tower helping gamers out across the world. The Dice Tower is your online

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home for fun and informative discussion of all types of board and card games.

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Featuring the latest industry news, in-depth product reviews, interviews,

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contests with amazing prizes, and of course a new top 10 list every week,

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with contributions from Moritz-Eggart,

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Jason White, Mary Prasad, Greg Schlosser,

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Eric Sommerer, Mike Hibbert,

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and a variety of other well-known gamers.

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And now, here's your host, the man who puts the views in

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game reviews, Tom Vassal. All right folks, well we thank you so much for

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joining us this week and just checking us out once again I had a good week it's the coldness

0:55.5

has returned to Korea and it's the first week of March we're hoping it warms up

1:01.4

soon and then stays warm for a long time.

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Lots of different interesting things going on.

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Just a couple days ago, I got some new games from Mayfair and one of them has been the very much talked about pillars of the earth.

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A game that's actually based upon a book.

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Now I've not read the book and I'm not really sure.

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I mean I guess the book's about building a cathedral and there's probably more to it than that but the game itself

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So far I've only played a two-player game of it, but I'm very impressed by it

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On the internet there was talk of it being Kailis Light or a game that's like Kailis and I saw the similarities but when my wife played it she hadn't read all these things and she said that it reminded her of Kailis and so you know the similarities are there but I think it's almost like a

1:49.0

refined better version but you know this could just be my hyper-enthusiasm talking so

1:55.9

let's wait and see with some more plays and with some more players. Now today we

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