At The Table with The Dice Tower - Looking Back at 2024
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Julie and Eric spend some time recapping PAX Unplugged before all of us take a look at the year that was 2024. What was the easiest game to teach? The game that you'd best set aside a day to play? The Hoopiest Hula Hoop? All will be revealed, dear listener!
01:00 - PAX Unplugged Recap
14:03 - The Quiet House
16:49 - Star Trek TNG VCR Game
20:41 - 2024 as a Whole
29:25 - Best to Play at a Convention: Ito, Rock Hard 1977, Duck & Cover
31:40 - Best Theme: Rock Hard 1977, Mistwind, Kelp: Shark vs. Octopus
34:43 - Most Likely to be Gifted: Muppets Clue, Wicked
38:00 - Best Traveling Game: Seaside, Smug Owl, Ito
40:25 - Best Set Aside a Day For It Game: Tidal Blades 2, El Burro, Wandering Galaxy
45:13 - Easiest Teach/Learn: Cat Horror Costumes, Pixies, Ito
46:50 - Bonus Heavy Euro: Civolution
47:16 - Wanted to Play but Didn't: Power Grid Outpost, Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel, Paella Park, Pagan: Fate of Roanoke, Daitoshi
50:18 - Hoopiest Hula Hoop: Ziggurat, Slay the Spire, Panda Panda
53:51 - Sharpest Thorn: I Am Done, Clash of Galiformes, Unlock Kids
57:31 - Rosiest Rose: Star Wars Unlimited, Wyrmspan, The 7th Continent
59:22 - Anticipated for 2025 - Raas, Azul Duel, All My Books, The Elder Scrolls, Galactic Cruise
Next Episode: January 14th, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | At the Table with the Dice Tower. |
| 0:02.0 | Episode 36. |
| 0:03.7 | Looking back at 2024. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them. |
| 0:31.4 | On today's show, it's our list of superlatives for 2024. |
| 0:35.1 | What was our favorite theme in a game? The easiest game to teach. |
| 0:38.7 | And most importantly, what was our hoopee-yest hula hoop? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Eric Summerer. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Julie Ahern. |
| 0:44.7 | And I'm Tom Vassel, and I want to be really clear. |
| 0:46.7 | I don't write the scripts. |
| 0:50.0 | What? |
| 0:50.7 | It's just so much fun to say hoop-y-est. |
| 0:53.9 | I can't not. |
| 0:55.7 | Alrighty. |
| 0:56.5 | Well, I have been busy over the last week. |
| 0:59.8 | We've been doing the winter spectacular best of the year stuff and getting ready for that. |
| 1:06.2 | But meanwhile, the two of you were traipsing up to Philadelphia, cold Philadelphia, if I'm hearing |
| 1:11.7 | correctly. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:13.0 | And it was chilly. |
| 1:14.2 | Went to packs unplugged. |
| 1:16.2 | So tell me a bit about this, I think, first sold out packs. |
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