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Games you can play in 30 minutes or less.

Welcome to the dice tower, a podcast about board games and card games, and especially the people who play them.

On today's show, Tom is away, so Crystal joins me to answer some questions from the Facebook mailbag,

and Jeff joins us to discuss why we tend to choke when the stakes are high in a game.

Then we speed things up a bit with our top 10 games that play in 30 minutes or less.

I'm Eric Summerer, and here's your host, the speedy delivery driver to my Noid, Crystal Dax.

Hello everyone, and hi, Eric. Oh my gosh, I'm back on the dice tower podcast. It's been a few years.

It has been, I know we were talking before the show. I know you've shown up in a few live episodes,

but you were telling me that you did one with me and Tom just like a standard straightforward third-chair episode, something like four years ago.

Yeah, I honestly, I'm not quite sure when it was. It was definitely a few years ago.

I kind of don't remember. Chances are the listeners who have probably far better memories than you and I do.

We don't would remember better than me, but it has definitely been a while.

It has been, it is a delight to have you here on the show with us.

Crystal is here because Tom and the rest of the crew is at GenCon right now, and was far too busy to do a little old podcast like this.

So I took the opportunity to get my partner in crime from Dice Tower tonight onto the show, and we're going to have a great time.

I mean, you and I, yeah, we nerd out together every two weeks on Dice Tower tonight, and so it is a pleasure to get to nerd out and even a slightly longer format show with you.

Yes, for those who don't know, your primary podcast home is Board Game Blitz, where you try to keep things a little snappier, a little shorter format than what we do here at the Dice Tower.

Yes, we, all of our episodes are 30 minutes or less, which is very apropos considering our subject tonight for our top 10 lists.

It's almost like we planned it, even though we didn't quite. I mean, it just sort of worked out that way.

Yeah, it really kind of just fell into our lap, and we're going to run with it.

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