TDT # 724 - Spiel des Jahres Winners
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Eric discuss Omega Virus Prologue, Exit: The Sacred Temple, Sweet Existence: A Strange Planet Card Game, Snakesss, Mystic Paths, and So Clover! Geoff heads to the Olympics, and we answer questions from the mailbag. Finally, we finish up with our Top Ten Games that have won the Spiel des Jahres award.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for the Dice Tower comes from listeners like you, and from the OP, also known as USA Opily, and from GameNerds.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Thanks for your support. |
| 0:11.0 | The Dice Tower, Episode 724. |
| 0:14.0 | The Spieltice Yars winners. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, and especially the people who play them. |
| 0:42.0 | On today's show, Jeff heads to the Olympics, and we answer questions about age-old design debates. |
| 0:48.0 | Age-old questions about the value of board games and age-old balance between aesthetics and accessibility. |
| 0:55.0 | Finally, we look back at our favorite award winners with our top 10 recipients of the Spieltice Yars. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Eric Sommer, and here's your host, the Susan Luci of board gaming. |
| 1:05.0 | Tom Vassel. |
| 1:07.0 | I don't know what we're talking about. |
| 1:11.0 | Really? See, I was wondering if, I'm sure there is a certain segment of our listenership that at this point doesn't know who Susan Luci is. |
| 1:21.0 | Susan Luci is an actress who was on all my children for many, many years. |
| 1:26.0 | I feel like it's fair to know that I would not know that. |
| 1:29.0 | You haven't been watching all my children this whole time? |
| 1:32.0 | I have not. |
| 1:34.0 | And for many years, she was nominated for a daytime Emmy for her role on that show and did not win. |
| 1:40.0 | She was like the longest running actress to ever have that many nominations and never a win. |
| 1:46.0 | She did finally win the award at one point. It was a big deal. |
| 1:49.0 | But this is relating to you, Tom, because as far as I know, you have not won the Spieltice Yars. |
| 1:55.0 | I don't think I've been eligible to ever have won. |
| 2:00.0 | Well, maybe not this year. |
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