Episodes

14h ago

You've got questions! Tom has answers! It's meant to be!

2d ago

Zee takes a look back at his Top 10 Games of 2024, and makes the necessary adjustments to get it where it would be today!

3d ago

4Tom Vasel takes a look at his top 10 most anticipated games of 2025, and discusses his feelings on them now!

4d ago

The Winter Spectacular continues with Tom Vasel, Mike DiLisio, Zee Garcia & The People sharing their favorite games from 2025.

5d ago

The Winter Spectacular continues as Joey Evans, Camilla Cleghorn and Chris Yi share their Top 10 Games from 2025

6d ago

The Dice Tower continues with the Winter Spectacular. Tom Vasel, Zee Garcia, Mike DiLisio and Joey Evans share their thoughts on what will happen in board gaming in 2026.

Dec 15

The Spectacular kicks off with a healthy helping of Eric, Chris, Mike discussing some of the worst gifts ever along with other awesome contributor segments!

Dec 13

The first day of the Winter Spectacular concludes with Tom Vasel, Mike DiLisio, Zee Garcia and Chris Yi sharing the games that surprised them the most in 2025.

Dec 12

Mike DiLisio looks back at his top 10 games from 2024, and creates a new list as it stands now!

Dec 11

Tom Vasel, Joey Evans, and Chris Yi, also known at times as Kool and the Gang, take a look at their top 10 games that start with the letter K.

Dec 10

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Dec 9

Joey Evans takes a look at Origin Story, Legions, Abducktion, Castle Builder, and Whirly Derby

Dec 8

Chris Yi, Wendy Yi, and Eric Summerer start off your week the right way with Board Game Breakfast! Part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast.

Dec 6

Zee Garcia, Camilla Cleghorn, and Joey Evans take a look at their Top 10 games that are perhaps dripping, oozing, sweltering, or otherwise perspiring theme.

Dec 5

You've got questions! Tom has answers! It's meant to be!

Dec 4

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 advanced strategy games!

Dec 3

4The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's strategy games!

Dec 2

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 solo games!

Dec 1

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 thematic games!

Nov 30

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 games for a stocking stuffer!

Nov 29

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 games you can play with a wide range of folks that we often call "family games"!

Nov 28

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 Kids Games!

Nov 27

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's games for two players!

Nov 26

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 games cooperative games!

Nov 25

The Dice Tower shares 12 great game recommendations in 10 different categories. This time, it's 12 Party Games!

Nov 24

Join Camilla and Jenny who will answer all your questions about Dice Tower East and other topics!

Nov 22

Chris Yi, Wendy Yi, and Eric Summerer start off your week the right way with Board Game Breakfast! Part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast.

Nov 21

Tom Vasel, Zee Garcia, Camilla Cleghorn, Joey Evans, and Chris Yi sit around and react to YOUR hot takes!

Nov 20

Ten years ago, the world was so busy whipping and nae nae-ing and rebooting film franchises like Jurassic World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens that it might have missed out on a few of these games, but WE didn't! Here's our top 10 games from ten years ago, the distant future, the year 2015.

Nov 19

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Nov 18

All the games we reviewed this last week.

Nov 17

Tom has questions, you have answers. It's meant to be!

Nov 15

Tom Vasel takes a look at seven games in a rapid-fire manner!

Nov 14

Tom Vasel explains why the 10 games in the Dice Tower Library with the lowest ratings on Board Game Geek are still there!

Nov 13

What do you play when you don't know the people very well? Glad you asked! The Dice Tower takes a look at their top 10 games you can play with people you don't really know well.

Nov 12

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Nov 11

All the games we reviewed this last week

Nov 10

Chris Yi, Wendy Yi, and Eric Summerer start off your week the right way with Board Game Breakfast! Part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast.

Nov 8

Wendy Yi takes a look at five games. 12 Rivers, Graft, Hot Streak, Orbit, and Tearable Quest!

Nov 7

Jubilations, Dice Tower fans! Join our jaunty gang as they joyfully jam out to a juicy jamboree of board games that start with J!

Nov 6

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Nov 5

All the games we reviewed this last week.

Nov 4

Chris Yi takes a look at a pile of small box games, many card games, many trick taking games, some speed games, just a whole pile of games!

Nov 3

Tom Vasel takes a look at games from 1, 5, 10, and 20 years ago

Oct 31

Tom Vasel takes a look at 6 party games in a rapid-fire style!

Oct 30

You've got questions! Wendy is going to answer!

Oct 30

You've got questions! Wendy is going to answer!

Oct 29

You've got questions! Joey will throw the answers back at you faster than you can say "The quick brown foxed jumped over the lazy dog!" That's not even true. But he WILL answer them!

Oct 28

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Oct 27

You've got questions! Tom has answers! It's meant to be!

Oct 25

Wendy Yi takes a look at the games she is most anticipating from Essen Spiel 2025! Thanks to W. Eric Martin for his work compiling these in the BGG Preview: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/78/spiel-essen-25-preview?sort=hot

Oct 24

Zee chats about the games for two that he's most excited about from SPIEL '25!

Oct 23

Camilla and Joey talk about 10 games they are excited to check out at Essen 2025.

Oct 22

Tom Vasel, Joey Evans, and Chris Yi take a look at the upcoming games from Essen 2025. Thanks to Board Game Geek's Spiel Preview list!

Oct 21

All the games we reviewed this last week.

Oct 20

Mike DiLisio talks about the games that he is most excited about that will be released at Essen SPIEL 2025!

Oct 18

Tom Vasel, Zee Garcia, Camilla Cleghorn, Joey Evans, and Chris Yi sit around and react to YOUR hot takes!

Oct 17

Tom reviews 6 games in a rapid fire manner.

Oct 16

Tom Vasel takes a look at games from 1, 5, 10, and 20 years ago

Oct 15

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Oct 14

All the games we reviewed this week.

Oct 14

All the games we reviewed this week.

Oct 14

All the games we reviewed this week.

Oct 13

You have questions, Tom has answers. It's meant to be!

Oct 11

Tom Vasel takes a look at 6 games in a rapid-fire style!

Oct 10

Camilla Cleghorn, Wendy Yi, Joey Evans, and Chris Yi complete their Top 100 games of all time! Are these objectively the ten best games of all time? Absolutely not. Will you agree with any of their picks? You probably shouldn't. But who cares, we're here to talk about the games that we love!

Oct 9

Joey Evans, Camilla Cleghorn, Wendy Yi, and Chris Yi have games they like. There's 20 more of their favorites left to talk about. So, fittingly, in this video, they'll be going over their picks for number 20 through 11. Yeah, it's kinda like Saturday morning cartoons but for people who like board games and Tuesdays rather than cartoons and Saturdays.

Oct 8

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Oct 7

All the games we reviewed this last week.

Oct 6

Chris Yi, Wendy Yi, and Eric Summerer start off your week the right way with Board Game Breakfast! Part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast.

Oct 4

Joey Evans, Camilla Cleghorn, Wendy Yi, and Chris Yi move on to the final 30% of their Top 100 Games of All Time. If you were a math wiz, you'd call it the Top 30 to 21 games of all time! Come see if there's any shakeups, big crossovers, or just plain old good games to be discussed.

Oct 3

Tom Vasel discusses the challenges of managing a game collection when someone passes away, and offers possible solutions to those challenges.

Oct 2

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Oct 1

Wendy Yi takes a look at 5 games she finally played lately, Bus, Cthulhu Death May Die, Fliptown, Mind MGMT, and Obsession. Also Potion Explosion gets a shoutout.

Sep 30

The Dice Tower takes a look at their last week of reviews.

Sep 30

The Dice Tower takes a look at their last week of reviews.

Sep 29

Joey Evans, Camilla Cleghorn, Wendy Yi, and Chris Yi take to the top half of the list! If you're counting, we're 60 games in, with only an incalculable amount of games left. How many games will be covered in this section of the list? We may never know. So come join and watch so we can find out. Then the unknowable will be knowable. The unseen, seen. The unfathomable, fathomed. The underdeveloped jokes, -derdeveloped.

Sep 27

Tom Vasel explains his system for rating games on The Dice Tower!

Sep 26

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Sep 25

Your hosts Chris Yi, Wendy Yi, and Eric Summerer start off your week with a variety show about board games and the people who play them.

Sep 20

The Dice Tower Team is heading to Vegas for the World Series of Board Games. We'll be taking a short break from DTVA, until Thursday, September 25th. Thanks for listening!

Sep 19

Joey Evans, Camilla Cleghorn, Wendy Yi, and Chris Yi take to the top half of the list! Or if you use Joey Evans math, the top 25%. With numbers 50-41, who knows where this section of the Top 100 Games of All Time will take us.

Sep 18

Camilla Cleghorn, Wendy Yi, Joey Evans, and Chris Yi are back! From outer space! Or from the Dice Tower Retreat. And now we're off to continue along in our categorical, methodical, and undeniable ranking of our favorite 100 games of all time!

Sep 17

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Sep 16

The Dice Tower takes a look at the last week of reviews and more! 10 Days in the National Parks https://youtu.be/6mLJUdXOdrE Line of Fire: Burnt Moon https://youtu.be/Ux0qyMXOfLQ King and Peasant https://youtu.be/AKfLqFN_Mxw Light Speed Arena https://youtu.be/BfsFdO_vYj0 Big Sur https://youtu.be/_CjEAY4nC9I 5 Quick Reviews with Joey https://youtu.be/nxCOOipSH24 Papyria https://youtu.be/0h-jM4C0lY0 Tornado Splash https://youtu.be/7iSZihL0nWw Up or Down https://youtu.be/EVu0p1MauEM Money! https://youtu.be/P_j2FyoopaQ Marvel Champions Falcon and Winter Soldier https://youtu.be/91MLyWqVdtY We Finally Played Blood on the Clocktower https://youtu.be/GzfxhpTjW04

Sep 16

The Dice Tower takes a look at the last week of reviews and more! 10 Days in the National Parks https://youtu.be/6mLJUdXOdrE Line of Fire: Burnt Moon https://youtu.be/Ux0qyMXOfLQ King and Peasant https://youtu.be/AKfLqFN_Mxw Light Speed Arena https://youtu.be/BfsFdO_vYj0 Big Sur https://youtu.be/_CjEAY4nC9I 5 Quick Reviews with Joey https://youtu.be/nxCOOipSH24 Papyria https://youtu.be/0h-jM4C0lY0 Tornado Splash https://youtu.be/7iSZihL0nWw Up or Down https://youtu.be/EVu0p1MauEM Money! https://youtu.be/P_j2FyoopaQ Marvel Champions Falcon and Winter Soldier https://youtu.be/91MLyWqVdtY We Finally Played Blood on the Clocktower https://youtu.be/GzfxhpTjW04

Sep 15

You've got questions! Tom has answers! It's meant to be!

Sep 13

Camilla and Zee recommend 13 Games to play for Halloween!

Sep 12

Camilla Cleghorn, Wendy Yi, Joey Evans, and Chris Yi are back! From outer space! Or from the Dice Tower Retreat. And now we're off to continue along in our categorical, methodical, and undeniable ranking of our favorite 100 games of all time!

Sep 11

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Sep 10

All the games we reviewed recently.

Sep 9

Your hosts Chris Yi, Wendy Yi, and Mike DiLisio start off your week with a variety show about board games and the people who play them.

Sep 1

We'll be taking a break from DTV Audio for a week, but feel free to listen back to any episodes you might have missed, or visit our youtube channel to enjoy other board game content at https://www.youtube.com/user/thedicetower We will return on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025.

Aug 30

Tom Vasel takes a look at 5 games that didn't make the grade.

Aug 29

Camilla Cleghorn, Joey Evans, Wendy Yi, and Chris Yi go through their Top 100 Games of All Time. This time, numbers 80-71.

Aug 28

Camilla Cleghorn, Joey Evans, Wendy Yi, and Chris Yi go through their Top 100 Games of All Time. This time, numbers 90-81.

Aug 27

Join us for some news, announcements, and curiosities from across the board game world!

Aug 26

The Dice Tower takes a look at the reviews they did last week.

Aug 25

You've got questions! Tom has answers! It's meant to be!

Aug 23

Tom Vasel takes a look at 6 games and gives his thoughts on them in a rapid-fire style!