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

This episode, Number 31, is part of our Classic series and was originally aired December 21st, 2005.

In this episode, Tom and Joe announced the winners of the Empire of the Sun contest

and answered quite a bit of email questions.

They introduced two new gamer categories and discuss their top 10 games that they're looking forward to in 2006.

This episode is sponsored by Kartuna, the tile-laying creature-building game featuring the whimsical art of Robert Burke

accepting pre-orders for a limited time at cartoona.net.

And now here's our host Tom Vassal.

Hey everybody this is And now here's your host, Tom Vassil.

Hey everybody, this is Tom Vassil.

This is probably not the episode you were expecting to hear.

But episode 250 was such a huge thing to deal with.

There was a lot of stuff going on so that we got really crunched for time.

So rather than have no episode the following week,

we decided to do one of our classic episodes.

Now this is six years old almost this episode and it's very interesting to go back and listen to these.

So we're going to go ahead and take a listen to this and then I have some comments at the end.

But some of the things have changed.

Like in the beginning we talk about board game news, which is still around,

although I won't say it's the best news site anymore now.

I think Dice Tower News is the best news site anymore now I think Dice Tower News is the best news site but be

that as it may there's a lot of things that you might find interesting and I'll

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