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The Dice Tower

TDT # 734 - Games We Should Play, But Haven't

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tom and Eric discuss Witchstone, Art Decko, So Clover, Savannah Park, Exit: Kidnapped in Fortune City, and Unfathomable. Geoff tries to scare us, but nothing is as terrifying as our Tale of Boardgaming Horror. Finally, we finish the show with a Top Ten list of games that we SHOULD play, but haven't.

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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 734.

0:14.0

Games that we should have played, but we haven't.

0:30.0

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

0:43.0

On today's show, we have some good old-fashioned board game carnage with a new tale of board gaming horror.

0:50.0

Jeff tries to scare us, we answer questions from the mailbag, and we fess up to our top 10 games that we should play, but haven't.

0:58.0

I'm Eric Sommer, and joining me now, the Citizen Kane of board gaming, Tom Vassel.

1:04.0

You know, there's probably some reference here that if I had ever watched this movie, I might know.

1:11.0

Well, I've never watched it either, which is my point, is that it's, you know, Citizen Kane is often considered the pinnacle of cinema,

1:21.0

and I haven't watched it because, well, partially because the ending has become such a cultural touchstone,

1:28.0

and has become just an element of pop culture, the Animaniacs talked about it.

1:34.0

I feel like I sort of would know where it's going, and I know I'm wrong.

1:38.0

I know that it's a fine piece of cinema, but I just haven't had any desire to see it, just because I know where it's going.

1:46.0

That being said, if you haven't seen Star Wars, go watch it.

1:50.0

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to watch it either. Maybe I will, I don't know.

1:54.0

I shouldn't say I won't, because you never know.

1:57.0

But I also have any desire. No people will say that.

2:00.0

Eric's it was a pinnacle of cinema, but the pinnacle of cinema, as we all know, was Avengers Endgame.

2:08.0

Okay.

2:09.0

And I know this because when an Avengers Endgame ended, I said to my kids, that experience was so great.

2:14.0

If I never see another movie in my life, I'll be okay.

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