TDT # 538 - Best of 2008 (ten years ago!)
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In this show, we take a look at Unlock and Exit, You Betcha, Keyper, Azul, Hardback, and Ponzi Scheme. We also hear a tale of horror (anger?), listen to Geoff's wise words, and finish the show with our top ten games from ten years ago - 2008!
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower is made possible by listeners like you. Thank you for your support. |
| 0:05.0 | And by Cool Stuff Inc. Cool Stuff in stock at coolstuff Inc. |
| 0:10.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 538. |
| 0:13.0 | Best of 2008, a decade ago. Oh! Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them. |
| 0:42.0 | On today's show Jeff presents a world in which games can be solved in seconds. |
| 0:47.0 | Tom and I answer questions from the mailbag about Magic Circle etiquette |
| 0:51.0 | and we share an enraging tale of board gaming horror. |
| 0:55.0 | Finally, we look back a full decade with our top 10 games of 2008. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host the Tony Stark of board gaming Tom Fassil. |
| 1:06.8 | Now I feel like you are doing this because the Marvel Universe. The Cinematic Universe started a decade ago. the cinematic universe |
| 1:13.5 | universe started a decade ago but I think you also said the Tony Stark thing |
| 1:16.6 | before. I think I think I definitely did it's entirely possible I did it five |
| 1:20.8 | years ago and and just looked at movies from 2008 and said hey iron man let's use that |
| 1:26.3 | But I still think it's apt you're surrounded by technology and you know I don't think it's apt because Tony Stark's a jerk |
| 1:37.0 | You're right. Not apt at all. The pause was too long, noted in my little black book. |
| 1:42.0 | Okay folks, well, welcome to the Dice Tower. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm Tom Vassal. |
| 1:46.0 | Hi there, I'm Eric Sommer. |
| 1:48.0 | And Word, this is... |
| 1:49.0 | Ah, there's nothing I can do with this number. |
| 1:51.0 | I say like 538. I think I have to wait for 555 and 567 or 543. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah, maybe we can do the big countdown episode in 543. |
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