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Thanks for your support the dice tower episode 259 game mechanics in real life. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially

the people who play them. In this episode Ryan reviews Urban Sprawl. Jeff explains why we want to be

competent when it comes to games and a bonus Engelstein takes us beyond the board

with a brand new segment.

Plus, Tom makes a big boo-boo-boo so we get an extra segment on storytelling

games. And our question of the week involves game mechanisms creeping into real life.

This episode is sponsored by Goblins Drool, Ferries Rule,

a card game of rhyme and reason for kids of All Ages, raising funds on Kickstarter right now.

And by Fifth Street Games Castle Dash, the Speedy Siege game.

Pre-order it at your friendly local game store today. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's

your host The bait to my switch. It's Tom Vassal.

All right. We're not talking about like live bait are we? No no no we'll we'll get to this in a little bit this is a teaser. Oh Okay. I have a feeling I know where this is going.

Oh, I know exactly where this is going.

Folks, my name is Tom Basel.

Hi, I'm Eric Sommer.

Just wait, just wait.

And we run a show that's all about tabletop games, mostly board games. And the big deal is that about our show that's different than most other shows is that we have a host of contributors. I would say we probably had

30 different contributors over the years bringing stuff to our show and we appreciate them

all mostly. And well anyhow, one of the one of them is one of them is mr. Ryan Sturm who came on I think two years ago maybe maybe more than that it's

been a while and Ryan came on with the how to play podcast where he explained in

very painstaking detail on how to play games and a lot of people like that because

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