Welcome to episode 552.

Games that teach English. Well, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and

especially the people who play them. On today's show, Tom and Mandy are at the gathering of friends and

reporting on their adventures. Plus, we finally get Mandy to put together a top 10 list

with our top 10 games for teaching English. I'm Eric Sommerer and here are your hosts

The Fred and Ethel of Board Gaming, Tom and Mandy.

All right folks I don't know what Eric just said because he recorded this after I did this

but I'm assuming it was something very complimentary I'm Tom Vassal I'm Andy

Hutchinson now you might be wondering why we're swear dancing here and switching partners around and that's because Mandy and I are here at the gathering of friends.

Now the so that a couple things first of all we're recording live of sorts like right now

get there there's a vacuum cleaner going on in the background which we thought

it didn't realize would be there but maybe relaxing you know so be it and we

we're recording this at nine o'clock Sunday morning it is

possible that people come and interrupt us a strong possibility that will occur

so who knows what's going to happen but if you don't get the gathering your friends is it's something that was started 29 years ago

By Alan Moon where he invited several of his closest friends just to get together in game. They did it in Columbus, Ohio.

It was in Columbus, Ohio for many years

and eventually moved to Niagara Falls.

And so it's an invite-only convention.

And while it started with his friends,

it kind of became an industry thing where

designers and publishers came to the point where when we're here we see almost more

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