How to Play: Baseball Highlights: 2045
March 12, 2018
Our How to Play videos are designed to be short (but still complete) instructional videos, mainly for people who want an overview before playing with someone who knows how to play (in place of that person teaching the rules). Setup and refresh is usually in a separate video, since only one person needs to know the details.
Blitz Stop Mechanic: Set Collection
March 11, 2018
Blitz Stop Mechanic is a new segment featured on The Dice Tower's bi-weekly Throat Punch Lunch videos about games where I pick a mechanism and then talk about games that use that mechanism in a cool, thematic way.
Episode 47 - The Fun & Function of Social Deduction
March 1, 2018
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Dinosaur Island, Castell, and GROWL. We then talk all about social deduction games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "deduce."
Blitz Con 2018 Recap
February 26, 2018
by Ambie Valdés
We hosted our second annual Blitz Con this year over President’s Day weekend again. Last year we had 50 people, but this year we grew to a little over 100 people! We had a much bigger space and there was always plenty of room to play games.
I took this picture after setting up (this was half the room). Lots of table space!
Blitz Stop Mechanic: Real-Time
February 25, 2018
Blitz Stop Mechanic is a new segment featured on The Dice Tower's bi-weekly Throat Punch Lunch videos about games where I pick a mechanism and then talk about games that use that mechanism in a cool, thematic way.
Episode 46 - Birds of a Feather Blitz Together
February 15, 2018
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including 18CLE and Keyper. We then talk all about cooperative games. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "cooperation."
Episode 45 - The Cull of the Wild
February 1, 2018
Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including The Ravens of Thri Sahashri, Seikatsu, and Muse. We then talk about culling our collections. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "cull."
Cursed Court Review
January 29, 2018
by Ambie Valdés
Note: I received a free review copy of Cursed Court from Atlas Games.
I hadn’t heard much about Cursed Court before getting a review copy of it, but I read the rules and it seemed interesting enough. Cursed Court is a bidding, betting, and bluffing game, with both hidden and public information. Think Poker without the gambling real money part, and with more theme. It plays 2-6 players in about 30 minutes.
Bonus Episode - Crystal and Ambie Discuss TI4
January 25, 2018
A couple weeks ago, Crystal decided to recap her first ever play of Twilight Imperium live on Twitch! This is the podcast version (you can see the video version here).
Blitz Stop Mechanic: Roll and Move
January 24, 2018
This is a new segment featured on The Dice Tower's bi-weekly Throat Punch Lunch videos about games where I pick a mechanism and then talk about games that use that mechanism in a cool, thematic way.