TDT # 444 - Too many Players!

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we take a look at A Study in Emerald (2nd Edition), Stick to Colours, Vye, Viticulture Essential Edition, Steam Time, Cat Tower, Nautilus Industries, and Casting. We are joined by a host of contributors, including a couple of new segments! We also answer a pile of questions, as well as talk about when to play with the maximum number of players.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink
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0:10.1	the dice tower episode four four four too many players The Dice Tower, episode 444.
0:14.0	Too many players! Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and
0:38.4	especially the people who play them. On today's show Brian takes us to Fireball Island. Jeff tells us how to
0:46.1	win your next coin toss and we present two new segments on finding an inexpensive
0:51.4	game that meets your criteria and the psychology of board gaming.
0:56.2	Plus, a tale of horror and a tale of amazement.
0:59.3	More questions from the mailbag, including a suggested set of metrics regarding what makes a great game,
1:05.6	and we all discuss what the proper player count should be for your first play of a new game.
1:11.1	I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host, the Jack Nicholas of board game. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host, the Jack Nicholas of board gaming, Tom Vassal.
1:17.0	I don't get it! Four!
1:20.0	Oh!
1:21.0	Four!
1:22.0	Well, if you're Chinese, this could be a bad episode because four is a number, death.
1:27.0	Death, death, death.
1:29.0	Oh, really?
1:30.0	Yes, in Korea, some of the buildings don't have a floor number 4, very similar to 13.
1:35.7	13, yeah.
1:37.7	Or they would have F instead of the number 4.
1:40.3	Oh, weird.
1:41.3	Huh.
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