TDT # 534 - Best of 2017

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Joined by Suzanne, we delve into the year 2017! First we spend some time talking about the different trends of the year, then we jump into our biggest surprise and disappointment, favorite art and components, most innovative game, strangest game, biggest brainburner, best family and party game, and more! Finally, we end the show talking about the top ten games of 2017.

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower is made possible by listeners like you.
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0:09.5	The Dice Tower, episode 534.
0:12.0	The best and worst of 2017. Welcome. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and
0:39.1	especially the people who play them. On today's show we have 50% more hosts as Suzanne joins us to run through the best and worst
0:48.1	games of 2017.
0:50.6	We'll hit our favorites for Family Game, Brain Burner, Most Disappointing Game, and more.
0:56.6	And Tom tries on his prediction hat as we list our top 10 games of 2017.
1:02.3	I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host, the BB-8 of board gaming, Tom Vassal.
1:08.0	Well, that was interesting, Eric. Thank you.
1:10.0	You're welcome, folks.
1:11.0	Thanks for coming to our best of 2017.
1:15.0	Mostly, we call it the best and worst, but it's really just mostly the best.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	Because I don't really like dwelling on the worst too much. We mentioned it a little bit but really want to talk about the best.
1:27.0	But hey folks, today we are joined by one of our hosts, Suzanne. Thanks for coming on the show with us today. I'm pretty excited to look back on 2017
1:38.1	with y'all. Now before we get to any of the games, we should also mention that your compatriot is missing.
1:45.7	Indeed. And fortunately I think a busy end of year took its toll on poor Mandy and she is stricken with a massive sinus and ear
1:56.8	infection and is just in huge amounts of pain and completely laid out.
2:01.8	It's pretty much the only thing that would keep her from joining us
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