Episode #97: Pleasant Surprises
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2007
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we preview several new games, and Mary gives us the news about what's coming up in the next couple of months. Moritz talks about Mozart the gamer, and recounts his Wilderness War game with Jason White. Mike Hibbert reviews On the Underground, and we talk about if a person should ever deliberately lose a game. Finally, Greg, Mary, Sam, and I all talk about games that are "pleasant suprises" - games that were much better than we originally thought. And check out our new contest for Treasure Fleet!
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 97. |
| 0:04.0 | Our top 10 pleasant surprises. It's the Dice Tower helping gamers out across the world. The Dice Tower is your online |
| 0:20.2 | home for fun and informative discussion of all types of board and card games |
| 0:24.4 | featuring the latest industry news in-depth product reviews interviews |
| 0:28.6 | contests with amazing prizes and of course a new top 10 list every week with contributions from Morris |
| 0:34.7 | Eager, Jason White, Mary Prasad, Greg Schlosser, Eric Sommerer, Mike Hibbert |
| 0:40.0 | and a variety of other well-known gamers. |
| 0:42.6 | And now here are your hosts, the man who just likes to play games, Sam Healy, and the man who puts |
| 0:47.7 | the views and game reviews, Tom Basel. |
| 0:51.7 | All right, folks, well, welcome to Show Number 97. We're glad you're with us. |
| 0:56.2 | We are full blasts in the spring here and full blasts into the spring crop of games. |
| 1:02.0 | This is the time of year where there is just piles and piles of games that show up and some of them... |
| 1:08.0 | Go ahead and say hi. |
| 1:11.0 | Hello everyone. Okay. |
| 1:14.0 | Sam is here too. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome Sam. |
| 1:17.0 | But there's piles and piles of games that show up around this time of year and some of them are really spectacular and some of them |
| 1:24.0 | or anything but let's just talk about some of the ones that came in and since our last show |
| 1:30.0 | the biggest two probably the most exciting two that came in, were both from Days of Wonder. |
| 1:35.8 | The first was Coliseum, which I had heard negative initial opinions on, it's by Wolfgang Kramer and I had heard that it wasn't that good |
| 1:46.2 | and wasn't as good and I thought oh this may be the first days of Wonder game in a long time |
| 1:51.0 | that I just didn't find it as good, but it is great. |
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