TDT # 381 - Engine Building Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2014

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we review Colt Express, Kings of Israel, The Golden Ages, Nations the Dice Game, Yunnan, and Geister Ei. We also answer another pile of questions, and then talk about our favorite "engine building" games.

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0:08.8	Thanks for your support.
0:10.4	The Dice Tower, episode 381.
0:13.0	Engine Building Games. Welcome to the Dice Tower a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:41.0	This time Tom and I get to some more questions from the mailbag. We're still
0:44.6	working through the games we brought back from Essen and we get the snowball rolling
0:49.1	with our top 10 engine building games. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host the
0:55.0	amazing Mumford of board gaming. Tom Vassal. Thanks. I guess.
1:00.3	Allah peanut butter sandwiches.
1:03.0	You know, I just... I'm a big Muppets fan.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:09.0	But for some reason that doesn't transcend the Sesame Street for me.
1:12.0	Interesting. doesn't transcend to Sesame Street for me.
1:12.8	Interesting.
1:14.8	I like Burton Ernie and Grover.
1:18.3	But I really don't like Elmo.
1:20.0	I really want to punch him all the time.
1:22.9	Elmo has scaled back quite a bit.
1:24.9	He's not quite so front and center as he used to be.
1:27.8	I guess he is all over the show.
1:29.8	But they did a really nice comic-con parody in the new season that was Numericon and they had
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