TDT # 720 - Gimmie a Gimmick
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Eric discuss Meadow, Wonderland's War, Cubitos, and Subastral. Geoff discusses some recent studies around playing games with monkeys, and we answer questions from the mailbag. Then we finish off the show with our Top Ten favorite gimmicks in games.
Support for The Dice Tower comes from TheOp.games and GameNerdz.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for the Dice Tower comes from listeners like you and from the OPP, also known as USAopoli, and from GameNerds.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Thanks for your support. |
| 0:11.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 720, give me a gimmick. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, especially the people who play them. |
| 0:41.0 | On today's show, Tom and I have played games with each other. |
| 0:44.0 | Jeff plays games with monkeys, and our listeners have been playing games incorrectly this whole time. |
| 0:49.0 | Finally, we draw you to the table with our top 10 gimmicks in games. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Eric Summerer, and here's your host, the Bob Costas of board game, Tom Vassel. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vassel. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey there, I'm Eric Summerer. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, and yeah, I don't really got any kind of clever thing to say at this point in time. |
| 1:11.0 | Other than school is coming back. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know why. |
| 1:16.0 | I stopped by the store with my daughter to pick up some food, and I saw the school supplies, and I said, |
| 1:21.0 | doesn't that bring a warm feeling to your heart? |
| 1:23.0 | Wow. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.0 | She was not impressed. |
| 1:27.0 | No, my kids don't want to hear about school, although they were looking at the last couple weeks of camp, |
| 1:33.0 | and we have a family vacation coming up, and so it is obvious that things are moving toward school starting, |
| 1:39.0 | but we don't start till the first week of September. |
| 1:43.0 | So we have a little bit of time left. |
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