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The dice tower episode 458.

I hate this box! Oh! Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.

On today's show we explore the origin of the meeple.

Learn the one question you shouldn't ask a game designer

and get another perspective on the gathering of friends.

Plus, tales of horror and amazement, questions from the mailbag,

and ways to deal with those annoying flimsy mass market game boxes.

I'm Eric Sommerer, and's your host the rich uncle penny bags of

board gaming. Tom Vassal. Okay I know what you're talking about. What what is

this? You get the reference? Oh good. It's also known as Mr Monopoly.

That's so exciting. I'm so happy. You're an icon, Tom, an icon. Oh, well. Quite literally. I don't want to be an icon. Oh, wow. Well, well, well. What a week? What a week? What a lot of things to talk about, a lot of games. I'm just excited.

We're at the turning point in the year where they're like announcing all these new games and we're seeing new games coming out and it's like yeah

Happiness it's just exciting to me

Yeah, you've got to you've been to several events where you get to see upcoming stuff, which is pretty cool.

Yeah, you know, I get a kick out of that and it's kind of a mix because there's these prototype conventions, and I've gone to one of those and I really

struggled there because these are prototypes that haven't even hit the

publishers yet.

And they may never, ever, right?

You're going to see like one good game out of 20.

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