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The Dice Tower

TDT # 505 - Trick Taking Games (with Sara Erickson)

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Sara from Renegade Games joins us as co-host when we discuss Problem Picnic Attack of the Ants, Flip City: Wilderness, Great Western Trail, and prototypes! We also hear from Geoff, a tale of gaming, and answer questions about demoing games at conventions and musical gamers. Finally, we end the show talking about our top ten trick-taking games!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Dice Tower is made possible by listeners like you.

0:03.0

Thank you for your support.

0:04.5

And by Cool Stuff Inc.

0:06.0

Cool Stuff in stock at coolStuff Inc. dot com.

0:10.0

The Dice Tower, Episode 505.

0:13.4

I'm back. Oh, also, trick-taking games.

0:16.2

Yay! 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, Tom is back.

0:45.9

Just in time to welcome this week's guest Sarah Ericsson from Renegade Games.

0:50.9

Tom, Sarah, and I discuss some recent games played, answer your questions from the mailbag,

0:55.7

and try to win some points with our top 10 trick-taking games.

1:00.3

What is a trick-taking game anyway? We get to that too. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host,

1:06.0

The Dragon to my dog, Tom Vassal.

1:10.3

All right folks, well welcome back to hopefully some semblance of normality hopefully

1:17.4

It's just yeah so well at least that's the benefit of not doing a show on your own is that you have people who can pick up the slack.

1:26.2

And I said, you know, last time I found out that my mother had died, I think, you know, well, actually I found out she was about to die. She would have died while we were recording

1:35.6

Oh my goodness really good that that I didn't join in that recording but I called I called Rotto

1:41.5

I woke him up 15 minutes earlier than he was going to get up and I felt bad about that.

1:46.9

It's probably good I wasn't on the show anyway because it would have been like four hours.

1:50.4

It was it was an extensive recording session, yes.

1:54.0

I'm sorry, Eric, I meant to protect you from the honest lot of words of Rado, but I wasn't able to.

2:01.0

But hey folks, we're back. So first things first we should introduce our

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