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The Dice Tower, episode 655.

It's the year 2000. Or it was 20 years ago. 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 celebrates the Game of Life. No, not the one you're thinking of and we look at

questions about our favorite pitch car expansions, the old maid mechanism, and a possible

connection between our musical tastes and board gaming.

Then we revisit the turn of the century with our top 10 games from the year 2000.

I'm Eric Sommerer and joining me now the Y to my K Tom Vassal.

Okay I will accept that one because that's clever.

All right.

It is interesting.

He called it clever. If you look back at the the panic for Y2K and now we look at it when we go

Those poor diluted fools they Oh, those poor deluded fools.

They thought that was bad.

Yes, I would trade the Y2K scare for pretty much anything right now. Yes I mean for those of you who were too

young to know there was this weird computer thing in 2000 where everybody

thought that the date changing was going to throw these computers off and possibly shut down the power grid and all sorts of wackiness,

it wasn't nearly that bad.

Now part of it was because they figured it out a couple years ahead of time and they worked really hard to fix the problem.

There was hard work. But they were talking about how whole power grids would fall down, people's

pacemakers would stop working. And what always fascinated me about the whole situation was it was like 1130 in Florida.

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