TDT # 685 - Hybrid Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Games, Leisure

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

In this show, Tom is joined by Jeremy Howard as Eric is away. We talk about Paris, Almanac, and Whistle Mountain. Geoff brings some insight that's for the birds and we dive into a slew of questions. Do we get Kickstarter regret? Are there any one-vs-many games that play well with two players? How do we deal with someone who is attached to their phone during a game day? And more! Finally, we end the show talking about our favorite hybrid games - games that combine two or more mechanics.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Support for the Dice Tower comes from listeners like you and from the op also known as
0:05.9	USA Opelie. Thanks for your support.
0:08.6	The Dice Tower episode 685. Hybrid Games. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and
0:37.0	especially the people who play them. On today's show I'm still unpacking from
0:41.4	the move and recording this in a makeshift fort out of O'Orellek's foam.
0:45.7	So Tom has a special guest to help him answer some questions from the mailbag.
0:49.7	Plus Jeff has pigeons on the brain and the show concludes with the top 10 list of hybrid games.
0:56.0	I'm Eric Sommer and here's your host, The Great Sphinx of Board Gaming, Tom Vassal.
1:02.0	All right right everybody.
1:04.0	Welcome to the show.
1:05.0	So today's show is completely different.
1:08.0	Actually, it's not completely different.
1:09.0	It's pretty much the same thing except I have finally freed myself from the tyranny of Eric Michael's summer.
1:17.0	Actually, Eric is moving. Can you believe that moving?
1:21.0	This is a bad time of year to move and it's a bad year to move.
1:26.0	Brave man.
1:28.0	Although I was talking to a realtor friend of mine, Blake, he lives in Georgia, and he told me that more, just as many if not more people
1:38.6	are moving these days.
1:41.4	You know, honestly, I do see this kind of like pack my bags, you know, kind of, you know, kind of, you know, mindset, like, hey, just change it up, but I'm also seeing this more comical thing in my mind
1:54.5	where you just have the stick with the bag like you used to see on like old cartoons.
1:58.1	But now I've in my comical now now I've added kids to that image with their little bags and the sticks.
2:06.6	I guess that's what he's doing.
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