TDT # 487 - Best and Worst of 2016

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Tom, Eric, and a host of contributors take a look at 2016 and talk about the best and worst games of the year!

Show Notes:

1:14 - Intro

4:43 - Year as a whole

15:55 - Biggest Surprises

22:56 - Biggest Disappointments

28:25 - Best Components

32:40 - Best Art

38:05 - Worst Games

41:42 - Best Card Games

47:57 - Best Family Games

53:11 - Best Party Games

56:26 - Best Cooperative Games

1:03:07 - Best Children's Games

1:07:54 - Most Innovative Games

1:13:56 - Strangest Games

1:16:56 - Best Expansions

1:20:58 - Best Reprints

1:24:01 - Biggest Brainburners

1:27:10 - Favorite Game Events

1:33:47 - Top 10

2:02:26 - Other Categories

2:07:00 - Looking at 2017

Transcript

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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 487 the best and the Worst Tower of 2017. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:43.4	On today's show, it's our look back at 2016.
0:47.1	Tom and I, along with a host of contributors,
0:49.8	run through the best components, biggest surprise,
0:52.8	biggest disappointment, and worst games of the year,
0:55.9	along with best family game, best kids game, biggest brain burner,
0:59.9	and more, finishing up with our top 10 games of the year. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your
1:05.8	host the Jin Urso of board gaming. Tom Vassal.
1:10.0	Hmm. Why do you say such things, Eric?
1:13.2	I actually don't know how appropriate it is yet.
1:15.6	I'm seeing the film on Sunday, which by the time you hear this will have been already.
1:21.4	I guess I'll see it at some point. Aren't you seeing it like
1:24.3	immediately after we're done recording? That's right baby! Oh yeah! I'm so excited. Well you
1:30.0	know what the thing is I would have waited but there is literally like no time this weekend
1:34.6	there's Christmas kantada and Christmas parties for the stupid kids and
1:40.4	oh I may wait let me reframe that stupid Christmas parties for the kit now whatever it works either way
1:46.6	sure now there's just so much going on this weekend I was like if I don't see it opening weekend
1:51.2	and I run the risk of getting spoiled mhm I don't see it opening weekend, then I've run the risk of getting spoiled and I'm really dying to see this.
1:57.0	It would be a lot, especially since the reviews are like universally positive at this point.
2:01.0	Good. So who knows?
2:04.0	I know I've seen the trailers.
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