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thanks for your support the Dice Tower episode 653 and is for no! no! Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and

especially the people who play them. On today's show Jeff has some betting

advice and a special guest shares how our games could have a lasting benefit beyond what we might expect.

Plus, we answer questions about what makes us turn to older games and whether I force my kids to play with me.

And we finish off the show with our top 10 games that start with the letter N.

I'm Eric Somerer and here's your host, The Nasty Nork of Board Gaming, Tom Vassal.

I don't know what that means.

Uh, yeah, I didn't expect you to.

Nasty Nork is the villain from the first Spyro the Dragon game but I just like it because it's not spelled

with ends at the beginning it's nasty nork but it's spelled a nasty ganork

it does make you want to go and smack some of the people who've made these words initially.

I was, me and my wife listens to my rant every year. My son is learning to read. He's in kindergarten. Sure. And this is the last time, the last time.

And you know, he's telling me about these special sounds and I'm like, why do these special sounds exist? Uh like why do these special sounds exist?

Why do I teach him that CK says kk?

Why is duck have k at the end?

Come on and then I go off and then large it says uh-huh.

And not it's but... and then I go off and then larger says, uh-huh, and not.

But folks, welcome to the Dice Tower.

And welcome to, well, episode 653, we're getting pretty close to 666,

Eric, what is going on here?

Yeah.

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