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The Dice Tower

TDT - Episode # 307 - Judging a Game by It's Cover

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2013

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Huzzah - a few hours late - but here's the show! In this episode, Eric and Tom take a look at Firenze, Mousqetaires du Roy, Tenka, and Eight-Minute Empire. Tom also previews Xia: Legends of a Drift Symbol, and Eric tries to scare us. Brian takes a look back at Dark Tower, we discuss the nominees for the Spiel des Jahres, and we finally answer the question - "Do we judge games by their covers?"

Transcript

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Thanks for your support the dice tower episode three seven judging a game by its cover Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

0:42.0

In this episode, Brian the dark tower. Barry

0:46.4

attempts to recruit gaming friends in the workplace and those darn pirates are

0:50.8

back to talk about Miniature's Games.

0:53.0

Plus, we have some new gaming stereotypes

0:56.0

and we discuss judging a game by its cover.

0:59.0

I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host,

1:02.0

the Albus Dumbledore of Board Gaming.

1:05.0

It's Tom Vassal.

1:06.7

Is this some kind of reference to the fact that I just went to Universal?

1:09.4

Yeah, I hear you're a very famous denizen of Hogwarts.

1:13.0

Well, we, I wanted to, you know, every time we go to a park, we always have to kind of split the time between the little kids and the bigger kids.

1:22.0

You know, half want to ride rollercoasters, the other half one of ride. split the time between the little kids and the bigger kids.

1:23.0

You know, half want to ride roller coasters, the other half want to ride, you know,

1:26.0

married around.

1:27.8

So I took the three older girls to Universal Studios slash islands of adventure.

1:34.0

And we even got the Fast Pass thing,

1:37.4

which is completely worth it.

1:38.8

It's expensive, but it's the fact

1:41.0

that you could just walk in front of the line,

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