TDT - Episode # 306 - Hybrid Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2013

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tom and Eric talk about City of Iron, 8 Minute Empire, Tzolkin, Bean Trader, and Age of Industry. Tom also reviews the book Monopoly, Money, and You. We answer a pile of questions, including whether or not our favorite games have flaws - and finish up the show with out top ten hybrid games - games that are mashups between unusual mechanisms.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink
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0:08.8	Thanks for your support
0:10.4	the dice tower episode 306 hybrid games The Dice Tower, Episode 306.
0:14.0	Hybrid games.
0:15.0	Mashup games.
0:17.0	Frankenstein games. The This is the Dice Tower a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people
0:46.3	who play them.
0:47.3	This time we have a book review from Tom.
0:50.4	A widely dispersed tale of board gaming horror.
0:54.0	Your questions from the mailbag and our top 10 hybrid games.
0:59.0	I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host, pluot of board gaming
1:03.6	Tom Vassal this looks really gross the pluot is a hybrid
1:08.8	looking this up on the internet of a plum and an apricot actually that sounds good.
1:13.3	I've heard they're quite tasty I have not had one myself.
1:17.0	It was created by Luther a plum cot was created by Luther Burbank.
1:21.8	Now I know who he is. He's the guy who introduced the cross breeding of fruit.
1:27.0	cross-polonization.
1:30.0	It's a hybrid. We're talking about hybrid games.
1:34.4	Oh, could you just call me a liger?
1:37.2	Ooh, that would have been good.
1:39.2	Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on.
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