TDT - Episode # 317 - Top Ten Abstract Strategy Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2013

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this show we once again tackle our huge pile of questions, as well as listen to another tale of horror. We talk about recently played games, such as Island Fortress, Hanabi, Railways Express, and Castle Dice. We also start a new, mega-contest, as well as discuss our favorite abstract strategy games.

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0:08.8	Thanks for your support.
0:10.4	The Dice Tower, episode 317.
0:13.6	Our top 10 abstract games. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially
0:40.2	the people who play them.
0:42.4	This time we kick off our network wide cool stuff
0:45.3	contest and we bring you a new tale of board gaming horror. We run through some
0:50.5	recent game sessions, answer your questions from the mailbag, and present our
0:54.4	top 10 abstract games. I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host, The Queen's Gambit to my Sicilian defense.
1:02.4	Tom Vassal.
1:04.1	Ooh, that was thematic.
1:06.8	Yes it is.
1:08.2	Yes it is indeed.
1:09.2	For those that don't know, those are two famous chess openings.
1:12.2	And for those who care, the Queen's Gam it's actually the name of a really good game about Star Wars.
1:18.0	True. Yes.
1:20.0	All right, well you guys have heard us from last week.
1:24.2	We did our JedCon preview with the Secret Cabal.
1:27.6	Yeah, I sort of blacked out though, Tom.
1:30.2	I have no idea what we said.
1:32.3	Was it entertaining? I hope so okay here's a deal
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