Episode 181 - The Perfect Collection
April 20, 2023
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Kites, Agent Decker, and Descent: Legends of the Dark. Then, we talk about what factors go into making your own perfect board game collection.
Episode 137 - Bad But Good
August 12, 2021
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Murder at the Motel, MicroMacro: Crime City, and Gartic Phone. We then list our top five favorite games that we're bad at but still like.
Episode 121 - Interview with Toby Mao
December 31, 2020
Ambie interviews Toby Mao, the creator of 18xx.games, in this special episode.
Ambie's Top 100 Games: 40-31
February 1, 2020
Ambie's revisiting her top 100 games as of the end of 2019! This video is numbers 40-31.
18xx with Ambie: Track Laying
August 24, 2019
18xx with Ambie is Ambie's video series about 18xx board games featured on The Dice Tower's YouTube channel.
In this video, Ambie talks about laying track in 18xx games.
18xx with Ambie: Stock Markets
June 25, 2019
18xx with Ambie is Ambie's video series about 18xx board games featured on The Dice Tower's YouTube channel.
In this video, Ambie talks about some of the different stock markets in 18xx games.
Top 100 Games: Ambie's 30-21
June 4, 2018
For our two year podcast anniversary, we decided to put together our top 100 board games of all time! In this video, Ambie goes over her top 30-21 games.
Episode 31 - On the Road Again
July 6, 2017
Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Fourth Age, 1817, Kitten Klash, and Barenpark. We then talk about playing games while traveling or on vacation. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "score."
Portland 18xx Tournament 2017 Recap
June 28, 2017
by Ambie Valdés
Toby and I got to go to an 18xx convention for the first time! Since we live on the west coast, we decided to go to the Portland 18xx Tournament (there are other ones further away) last weekend. Although it's called a tournament, it's not really a tournament - everyone records the scores of the games they played and get ranked based on that, but most of the people didn't care about the tournament and were just there to play 18xx games and have fun. We were there Thursday through Saturday, and we played 6 total 18xx games.
Even though this is one of the smaller convention libraries, it probably has the highest density of rare games!
Episode 30 - Winning Isn't Everything
June 22, 2017
Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including 1817, 1880: China, 1857, Between Two Cities, and Mint Works. We then talk about being a good sport in board games both in winning and losing. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "tie."