TDT # 392 - Best Dice in Board Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about Empire Engine, Artificium, Kings of Israel, Robot Turtles, Cthulhu Wars, Hyperborea, Pints of Blood, and Dogs of War. We have a tale of horror and of amazement, Mark talks about his kids, Mary about Tichu strategy, and Brian about Mancala. Tom discusses why the Dice Tower is about games, but especially the people who play them; and we end the show with our favorite dice found in games.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink cool stuff in stock at cool stuff ink dot com
0:09.2	thanks for your support the dice tower episode three ninety two our favorite dice The Dice Tower, episode 392.
0:14.0	Our favorite dice. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and
0:38.7	especially the people who play them. In this episode Brian looks at the Mancala mechanism.
0:44.6	Mary has some teachu strategy to share and Mark tells us about some kids games
0:49.2	received as gifts this past Christmas. There's both horror and amazement to share, a discussion about
0:55.4	the show's tagline that I just read, and we close the show by talking about our favorite dice.
1:01.5	I'm Eric Sommerer, here's your host the Heisman Trophy of
1:04.9	Board Gaming Tom Vassal. Wow you really are running out of stuff. No no you
1:10.3	you often make poses like that while you're carrying loads of board games.
1:14.3	Get out of my way, I'm holding this game.
1:18.7	Is that, would that be like, is that like one of those obnoxiously first world problems when you're like, oh, one of the things I hate about conventions are all the games I have to carry everywhere?
1:30.0	Well, I don't say things like that, but you might say things like that.
1:35.0	I will say though. It always happens at a convention. I'll go there and invariably the first person who offers me a game gives me this really heavy one.
1:44.8	And you're like, okay, no big deal.
1:47.2	And they give it to you in a plastic bag.
1:49.4	Yeah.
1:50.0	And then those straps, like, rip into your fingers you're like no big deal but after
1:55.2	carrying around for an hour it's it that's painful oh yeah and I love the people who have
1:59.3	cloth bags I especially love aeg g Although I think it's kind of solid proof now that AEG's giant bag is very fragile.
2:09.0	It is.
2:10.0	I ripped it multiple times.
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