TDT # 506 - Escaping Rooms

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, we talk about the Hexbug games (Bugs in the Kitchen, BuggaLoop), Cat Box, Amun Re, and then all the different Escape Room games: Escape the Room, Exit: the Game, Deckscape, Unlock! We discuss the pros and cons of escape room games. Enjoy!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Dice Tower is made possible by listeners like you. Thank you for your support and by Cool Stuff Inc. Cool Stuff in stock at cool Stuff Inc..
0:10.0	The Dice Tower episode 50 Tower. Episode 506.
0:14.0	Escape Room Showdown.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:24.5	On today's show, Tom and I discuss some of my recent plays before launching into a comparative
0:28.8	discussion of the current trend of escape games.
0:32.2	We cover exit, unlock, deckscape, escape the room, and escape room the game.
0:37.0	Can we keep them all straight? That's the real question. I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's host the Harry Hudini of board gaming Tom Vassal
0:46.6	well thank you watch me play this game upside down in a milk jug. I think Harry Houdini is one of the people that I've read more biographies of him than almost anybody else. I just find him fascinating.
1:00.0	He was very popular in elementary school. There were a lot of book reports about Harry
1:05.0	Hootini. Well I find it fascinating that people would go and watch him escape for like an hour and a half and today. It would be so boring they would like sit there he would be in the thing and escaping it's
1:19.2	Yeah, folks welcome to our short episode This is just Eric and I and we're going to talk about some games played and that's pretty much it.
1:27.4	Yeah sure sounds good. Hey if you haven't signed up for the Dice Tower Cruz yet. Think of playing games all day long and then
1:38.2	pausing to go to a buffet and then coming back and playing more games and then pausing to go eat games with, eat games.
1:45.0	I just ruined this.
1:50.0	To eat with the dice tower people.
1:53.0	Yeah, okay, let's move on.
1:55.0	You can find that information at dicetower cruise.com.
1:57.0	Full confession, I have been sort of in idle moments looking at the Royal Caribbean website
2:04.0	and various excursions at our ports of call.
2:06.0	So I'm already sort of chomping at the bit
2:08.0	and I sent the links to my wife
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tom Vasel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tom Vasel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.