#277 - The Rules Ramble
On this scenic detour, Tom and Matt are chatting about RULES! What are they? Who made them?! And what do they want with my PIN number?!?
This is a companion podcast to the most recent video on the YouTube channel - ‘The Board Game With No Rules’ - and is a more loose and daft excursion into the wild world of rulesless games.
Timestamps:
None, it’s just RULES!
#276 - It Means ‘New Ears’, Officer
On this advanced episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are once again settling into the pod-thrones to yap about “some games wot they have played”.
Nova Era challenges players to develop a healthy civilisation, 3 Chapters is a set collection AND trick taking AND drafting game all squished into one box, and Creature Caravan is a gentle ride through a terrifyingly large deck of cards.
There’s lots to like! Three whole games to like, in fact. Board games! Who knew?!
Thanks for listening, everyone!
Timestamps:
01:38 - Nova Era
15:39 - 3 Chapters
26:52 - Creature Caravan
#275 - Find Yourself A City To Live In
On this floriferous episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are yappin’ about Barcelona, Bluebells, and Board Games!
Cities is first up on the docket - a city-building game that’s real dinky and designed by two of our favourite small-and-simple designers. Following that, Matt continues his recommendation of Floristry from our video review into the podcast world, and Tom talks about his mixed feelings towards ‘The Morrison Game Factory’...
Thanks for listening, everyone!
Timestamps:
02:32 - Cities
13:12 - Floristry
24:43 - The Morrison Game Factory
#274 - Arctic Algae Expeditions (In Space)
On this microscopic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are yammering on about a few of the rather interesting games they’ve played over the past few weeks! Expeditions: Around the World is like if Ticket to Ride had only one train going spare, and Penguin Party has got Matt all excited. Diatoms is an algae-based puzzler with nifty pattern-based-scoring, and Crafting the Cosmos has you making LIFE ITSELF?!
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
Timestamps:
02:34 - Expeditions: Around The World
09:19 - Penguin Party
19:09 - Diatoms
31:41 - Crafting the Cosmos
#273 - The Big-Game-Small-Box Intervention Special
On this long overdue episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are hosting an intervention for one particular publisher… and also talking about some board games!
First up is a chat about Daitoshi, the latest ambitious and busy design from site favourites Devir, followed by some nattering about the “area-control-deck-builder-mutation” Altay and “tic-tac-toe-em-up” Architects of Amytis!
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
Timestamps:
01:59 - Daitoshi
17:40 - Altay
33:17 - Architects of Amytis
#272 - Podcast Adjacent Enjoyment Material
On this refreshing burst of Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have a bouquet of nifty games to natter about!
First up is a chunky chat about Pagan: Fate of Roanoke - a two player head-to-head witch hunt with flecks of Netrunnner. Is it any good? Yes! Should you buy it? Maybe…
Then, a double-bill of yapping about Shuffle & Swing; a mice-based eurogame of making human instruments - followed by a sneak peek of our upcoming video review for Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
Timestamps:
01:46 - Pagan: Fate of Roanoke
17:32 - Shuffle and Swing
26:29 - Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon
#271 - Elfenroads, Take Me Home
Sorry! Tom forgot to upload this episode of the podcast because he was on a plane. A plane! In the sky! How do you expect us to podcast under these conditions?!
On this dromedary episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt natter about a collection of - YOU GUESSED IT - boardgames.
Resafa! It’s a game about camels and irrigation and cards and POINTS! PlayProp! It’s a game of trying to get corks into a cup and screaming! Elfenroads! It’s a game about gently meandering down winding fantasy paths until an errant ‘cart orc’ ruins your day, or week, or possibly year.
Finally, the dynamic duo chat about another characterful couplet; Dracula vs Van Helsing - a two-player duelling game we'll review in a few DAYS time!
Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great week!
Timestamps:
01:41 - Resafa
12:41 - Elfenroads
20:30 - PlayProp
25:56 - Dracula vs Van Helsing
#270 - Or Episode 9 Billion, If You'd Rather
On this far-flung episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are getting eaten by minotaurs in Corps of Discovery: A Game Set In The World of Manifest Destiny, as well as bending metals in Mistborn: A Game Set In The World of ‘Mistborn’. They also talk about Fromage: A Game Set In The World of Brie, and Triqueta: A Game Set In The World of ‘Three Goats and a Wolf or Two’.
Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
02:00 - Corps of Discovery: A Game Set In The World of Manifest Destiny
15:10 - Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game
26:46 - Fromage
33:14 - Triqueta
#269 - Tomga Benga, Never Defeated
On this powerfully allied episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are negotiating poorly in Tonga Bonga, getting all sandy (again!) in Dune Imperium: Bloodlines, and meandering through a bucolic farm or two in Black Forest.
Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
01:36 - Tonga Bonga
12:17 - Dune Imperium: Bloodlines
24:24 - Black Forest
#268 - Spectacular Horses In Your Area Want To Chat
On this galloping episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about the wonders of nature in Spectacular, engaging in frivolous spending with Winner’s Circle, and taking Bilbo for a spin in The Fellowship of the Ring: The Tricktaking Game. There’s even time to get Stuck In A Lift for just a little while…
Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
01:41 - The Fellowship of the Ring: The Tricktaking Game
12:40 - Spectacular
24:30 - I’m Stuck In The Lift
28:30 - Winner’s Circle
#267 - The Hungry Bikers
On this uphill episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom is rambling to Matt about a couple bits and bobs he’s played recently! First up is Flamme Rouge’s ‘Grand Tour’ expansion, that turns a simple session of Flamme Rouge into a month long tour! Is it as good as it was when Matt played it just seven short years ago? Find out here!
That’s then followed by a little recommendation for a recent Oink title - Moving Wild - before capping the podcast off with a bit of retrospective chat regarding SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence after our recent(ish) middling review…
Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
02:15 - Flamme Rouge: Grand Tour
17:55 - Moving Wild
28:07 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
#266 - Beyond the Blender
On this machiavellian episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have a chatter about even more curiosities picked up from Essen! First up is Power Vacuum - a diplomatic trick-taker where you play as fascist toasters - followed by Beyond The Horizon, a reimagining of 2020’s Beyond The Sun. Finally, a little beachfront chat about Seaside - a game that’s got Matt’s favourite component of all: “A Bag”
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
2:18 - Power Vacuum
18:49 - Beyond the Horizon
31:37 - Seaside
2024’s Best Games
It's a chunky extra special feature from Matt and Tom, sat FACE TO FACE on the very same table! Let us drag you through a rolling discussion about the games we've enjoyed most in 2024. This is also available as a VIDEO - so just choose your poison and dive in!
Timestamps:
2:59 - Earthborne Rangers
10:35 - Daybreak
18:25 - Arcs
24:22 - COMPILE
28:47 - Tichu
33:51 - Spectral
36:59 - Leviathan Wilds
43:36 - Eternal Decks
49:46 - SPECIAL MENTIONS
50:14 - Dune Imperium: Uprising
52:03 - Slay The Spire
56:41 - Vale of Eternity
59:18 - How To Make Friends at Conventions
#265 - Shallow Sea Shoppers
On this slowly sinking episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about a cluster of small games they’ve played recently! Tom’s got the cosy, tile-laying pairing of Middle Ages and Flower Fields, whilst Matt brings novel Oink releases Deep Sea Adventures: Boost and Souvenirs From Venice to the table.
Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
03:33 - Middle Ages
10:59 - Souvenirs from Venice
20:21 - Flower Fields
26:49 - Deep Sea Adventures: Boost
36:23 - Lord of the Rings: Duel
#264 - The Big Sheep BBQ
On this eclectic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking LOGISTICS in Minecart Town, CURRENCY in Pax Penning, and CONCEPTS THAT ARE AS LARGE AS DEATH in Compile!
Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
02:22 - Minecart Town
15:31 - Pax Penning
32:13 - Compile
#263 - Candy Rehab
On this rock-and-rolling episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about three very different games. First up is Rock Hard 1977, a euro-ish game of being a ROCK STAR that had one of the funniest arcs of any game we’ve played this year. We also chat about Tom’s most recent BGA obsession, Newton. It’s a game of cards and efficiency! What more could you want? Finally, the gang chat about The Gang - a game that asks ‘what if poker was co-operative?’ Makes u think, don’t it.
Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
01:57 - Rock Hard 1977
21:40 - Newton
31:13 - The Gang
#262 - The HOTTEST Essen Podcast POSSIBLE
This week on the inimitable Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt showcase their survival skills by going to Germany and then RETURNING from Germany, having played such a very large quantity of games.
Our Essen 2024 special is a quickfire spectacular, running through a bunch of the notable games we got our hands on during the show.
Many pints of sweet sweat have been pumped into the world in order to bring you this episode of the podcast, so you're morally obliged to at least TRY and enjoy it.
Timestamps:
1:26 - Fischen
4:43 - Power Vacuum
9:19 - Gibberers
The Word Game of Language Invention and Civilization Development
11:47 - Da Da Da
13:43 - Bomb Busters
17:06 - Saltfjord
20:11 - Duck & Cover
24:51 - Altay: Dawn of Civilization
28:28 - Packen Wir's!
31:58 - Bauernschlau
34:52 - Draft & Write Records
39:31 - Lords of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth
44:36 - Captain Flip
49:03 - Oinky Bits
#261 - The Outer Space Special
On this out-of-this-world episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have played two incredibly spicy space games that have got them all excited. First up is SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; a game of discovering aliens and working out ‘what their deal is’ that’s absolutely fascinating and packed with CGE’s specific, odd tendencies. Following that tall act is Sol: Last Days of a Star, a game that sits on the complete OTHER end of the spectrum. Pilot your ‘sundivers’ away from a dying star, as you desperately eke out turns before everything is gone forever? The perfect way to spend a Thursday evening.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:44 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
20:37 - Sol: Last Days of a Star
#260 - Aesthetic Arguing
On this… seedy… episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily are talking about two bucolic farm-em-ups in Windmill Valley and Harvest, as well as the utterly innocent Courtisans. Emily decided the theme on this one after the fact and I’m still reeling. Seedy? It’s a family show, come on now We also end up spending a weird amount of time getting into the particulars of how the two very pleasant and agricultural games listed are not entirely to each other's aesthetic tastes. Strange!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:16 - Courtisans
13:40 - Windmill Valley
27:09 - Harvest
39:33 - Recent Reviews: Defenders of the Wild
#258 - The Sandy Special
On this gritty episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily are chatting about a whole dune’s worth of sandy, sandy games! Well, two of them are sandy. The other two are just games. In fact one of the two sandy games is mostly water. Listen, it’s Friday afternoon and I’m ready to stop working and start playing Deadlock, which I am hopelessly addicted to. Truth be told, the new fortnightly podcast schedule only exists to fuel my addiction to losing roughly four games in a row every evening until the end of time. I will die ignorant, and I will die angry. You can’t stop me! YOU CAN’T STOP ME!!
This episode, we’re talking about Sand, Surf’s Up, Sumo, and Tokkuri Taking! Enjoy!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:41 - Sand
15:26 - Surf’s Up
27:46 - Sumo
33:24 - Tokkuri Taking
Thanks to our amazing community podcast transcripts are available here https://bit.ly/SUSDPodTranscripts and are usually completed within a few weeks of the podcast's release.
Tom's Game Gauntlet
On this solitary episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom ALONE is checking out a whole cluster of games he played in one big week of boards! Enter… if you dare…
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:28 - Life in Reterra
06:44 - Belratti
11:49 - 23 Knives
16:35 - Festival
20:56 - Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
30:16 - Arcs
33:52 - Pampero
#257 - Big Buildings, Bigger Creatures
On this terrifyingly tall episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are checking out some games with BIG THINGS in ‘em! Skyrise is the latest from Brass: Brum publishers Roxley Games and has you making great stinkin’ scrapers, and Leviathan Wilds from new publisher Moon Crab Games gets us climbing the backs of crusty creatures. It’s a good pair of games!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:30 - Skyrise
19:47 - Leviathan Wilds
#256 - Iron/Wood and Un/Daunted!
On this VGA-Compliant episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about two excellent asymmetric games they’ve been dabbling with recently! First up is Ironwood - a game where wood and metal collide in a Root-Lite frenzy of asymmetric squabbling - followed by Undaunted 2200: Callisto - the newest, most lunar entry into the Undaunted series!
Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
02:37 - Ironwood
23:31 - Undaunted 2200: Callisto
#255 - Dragons & Demolitions
On this rambling, tangient-rich episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Pip chat Wings and Wyrms in a creature feature on Wyrmspan! Then, we take a break from the hotness to discuss an old classic that Tom was bored to tears by; Roborally.
Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
03:23 - Wingspan & Wyrmspan
26:27 - RoboRally
#254 - Dungeons & Directors
On this freshly sloganed episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily huddle around the boardgame campfire to tell tales about games of old. Or new. They’re all new games and I’ve wasted this pastoral image in an unfitting manner. Too late now! Nobody reads these descriptions and I’ve got stuff to do! We’ve gotta get going!
On this podcast we talk about Kinfire Chronicles: Nights Fall, Hollywood 1947, and Vampire Village - a fine crop of funky boards.
Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
04:12 - Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall
20:04 - Hollywood 1947
31:17 - Vampire Village
#253 - batteries.
On this battered episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are making batteries in Salton Sea, eating batteries in After Us, and getting battered in Dobro! It’s the battery special, officially sponsored by Duracell and the horrible bunny that we all hate.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
03:27 - Salton Sea
22:13 - After Us
38:53 - Dobro
#252 - Just Two Players, Looking For A Third
On this mildly unhinged episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily are taking on a double-bill of two player games followed by a BIG CHUNKY BOX. First up is Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel - a two-player only version of the bag-busting (sorry) classic! We then chat about the ying to Quacks’ yang in the highly-tactical time-bending fish-em-up Fisheries of Gloucester! Finally, we chat about Bloodstones - a divisive strategy game that Tom bravely defends and recklessly batters.
It’s a good pod! We had a lot of fun! I hope you can tell!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
05:20 - The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel
14:58 - Fisheries of Gloucester
25:28 - Bloodstones
#251 - Tom and Pip's Haunted Rat Raft
On this almost chiaroscuro episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Pip are chatting about games that could not be more different. First up, Rats of Wistar - a crunchy engine-building game with rats and cards and being as efficient as possible within a strict turn limit. That’s followed up with Dro Polter and Rafter Five - two Oink games that are some of their silliest yet.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:10 - Rats of Wistar
25:11 - Dro Polter
36:33 - Rafter Five
#250 - A Straightforward Podcast
On this chronologically consistent episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Emily are rambling their way through three whole games! We’re talking about Ito - a relaxed party game about untangling your pals’ opinions! We’re talking about CATAN: Starfarers Duel - a two-player-only version of Catan: Starfarers that’s weird and wonky! AND we’re talking about Faraway - a game about doing everything in reverse.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
1:26 - Ito
8:17 - CATAN: Starfarers Duel
22:43 - Faraway
#249 - The Ancient Art of Putting It All On Red
On this addictive episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Pip are talking about a board game and… a VIDEO GAME? First up, a sensible and grounded conversation about the slightly perplexing world of Ancient Knowledge - a tableau builder set on top of an ancient conveyor belt. This is then followed by a ramble about Balatro - a poker-themed deck builder that’s quite clearly NOT A BOARD GAME. It’s made of ones and zeroes! It’s on a screen! The horror, the horror, the horror.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
04:51 - Ancient Knowledge
22:14 - Balatro
#248 - Silver & Space
On this extra-terrestrial episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Emily are venturing into SPACE in MLEM: Space Agency, and digging deep down into the mines in Kutna Hora: The City of Silver. Two very different games, on this one, but both absolutely worth checking out.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:30 - MLEM: Space Agency
19:00 - Kutna Hora: The City of Silver
#247 - Even More Love for Earthborne Rangers
On this adventurous episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt wander into great beyond to ramble about their favourite things in Earthborne Rangers! There’s some very light spoilers in this one - with emphasis on the very - but it’s mostly just a podcast where we wax lyrical about one of our favourite games in recent memory.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
#246 - Daybreak is Optimistic and Intriguing
On this climate-friendly episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt take half an hour to amble through their first play of Daybreak - the latest co-op save-the-world-like from Pandemic designer Matt Leacock, new designer Matteo Menapace, and publisher CMYK games of Monikers, Wavelength, and Lacuna fame. A stacked lineup, for sure; but what do we think of the game? Find out more by having a little listen...
Have a great weekend, everybody!
#245 - Cascaduo!
On this Knizian episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Matt delve into Bitewing Games’ double-feature of new Reiner games - Cascadero and Cascadito. How do they compare to other classic Knizzes, and which of the two boxes should you add to your collection? The boys then have a little natter about Fit To Print - a mildly more relaxing alternative to the Galaxy Truckers of the board game world.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
Cascadero - 02:10
Cascadito -22:14
Fit To Print - 31:51
A Quick Podcast Update!
Just a very little update for our plans this year. We're swapping to three episodes per month rather than four, with a bonus episode each month for folks supporting us on Patreon.
Cheers!
#244 - Our 2024 Board Game Predictions!
On this mystical episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns are delving into the future… and being embarrassed by the past. It’s the SU&SD 2024 Predictions Special, where our two intrepid hosts guess at what treasures await for the hobby in this glittering, shiny, brand new year.
Want to vote? If you listen to this podcast on Spotify, there should be a polls section where you can cast your opinion as to which of our hosts deserves a game from the others’ collection. A video of the resulting pilfering will be shared in part on our Twitter once the poll closes, and in full in our monthly ‘Bonus Bits’ Newsletter for donors to the site.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
03:57 - 2023 Predictions Revisited
21:01 - 2024 Predictions Created
#243 - Triple A!
On this AMAZING episode of the Shut Up AND Sit Down Podcast, Tom AND Pip chat ABOUT A trilogy of excellent games that start with A! Yes, really, that’s the theme. It was kind of an ACCIDENT!
In-between retrospective chats about Tom’s favourite ‘gentle tile build-em-up game’ Akropolis and Portugese tile-smashing simulator Azul, there’s ample time to chat about the latest in the soothing nature-themed game subgenre; Aqua.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
03:21 - Akropolis
10:22 - Aqua
26:18 - Azul
#242 - The PAX Unplugged Playlist (Pt.3)
On this triptychal (NOT A WORD!?) episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are summing up the final selection of games that they played at PAX Unplugged - ready to wipe the slate clean and begin a whole new year of boardgames!
We’re chatting about the trick-taking-twist of Inside Job, taking on a double whammy of family in CDSK and Fun Facts, and finishing up with two very different dexterity (?) games; Nekojima and Turbo Kidz.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
00:57 - Inside Job
06:39 - Fun Facts
13:58 - CDSK
19:36 - Nekojima
25:22 - Turbo Kidz
#241 - Bees and Trees
On this untimely episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Emily and Tom are chatting about two cracking games with a little twist of nature in them - Forest Shuffle and Apiary! The former has you playing cards and building a forest, whereas the latter is 99% about moving a big plastic bee, I think? Awkwardly tucked away at the end of this podcast is, fittingly, Misfits - a stacking game with A GHOST!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:30 - Forest Shuffle
12:25 - Apiary
28:04 - Misfits
#240 - The PAX Unplugged Playlist (Pt.2)
On this moderately larger episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt chat about a few more games that they played at PAX Unplugged! We’re dealing with the chunkier games of the bunch here - the games that got us to calculate, manoeuvre, and… drive a big truck into a wall. Enjoy!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:28 - Dune: Imperium
07:27 - Nucleum
21:28 - Evacuation
35:05 - Thunder Road: Vendetta
#239 - The PAX Unplugged Playlist (Pt.1)
On this hot meat sandwich of a Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are running through a selection of the games they played at PAX Unplugged!
First up are some excitable impressions of the latest from Leder Games: Arcs! That’s followed up with a double bill of Grandpa Beck games - the raucously silly Cover Your Assets and Skull King - which in turn is followed by ANOTHER double bill of mushroom-themed boxes with Mycelia and Mycelium: A Mushling Game. Finally, we get to the real good stuff, where Tom and Matt wax lyrical about Strike; a ridiculously simple dice-chucking game that we simply couldn’t get enough of.
This is the first in a double, potentially TRIPLE feature of PAX Unplugged games! Next time, we’re tackling the big crunchy boxes that melted our brains…
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
03:43 - Arcs
13:44 - Cover Your Assets
19:31 - Skull King
24:45 - Mycelia
32:21 - Mycelium: A Mushling Game
39:38 - Strike
#238 - BIG CHALLENGES
On this international episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom welcomes the absolutely fabulous Emily to the airwaves! Wahoo! Together, they chat about Bonsai, Infiltraitors, and Crash Octopus - a trio of much-hyped games that are all pretty damn good!
Please do show your appreciation for Emily in the comments on the site! She was SO nervous about appearing on the pod, and I think she absolutely bossed it.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
#237 - Spirit Cows!
On this bedominoed episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Pip chat about a couple of pleasing games they’ve been playing over the past couple days! Djinn is a fabulously satisfying game of stuffing spirits into bottles, and Moon River is a divisive entry into the Kingdomino series of games! That’s games! Two of ‘em! Read ‘em and WEEP!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:54 - Moon River
21:48 - Djinn
#236 - Brain of the Century
On this historic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are smacking chess pieces together in Match of the Century, cramming their brains with tetrominoes in Mind Space, cramming their drawers (NOT RUDE) with junk (NOT RUDE) in Junk Drawer, and stealing eachothers words in Shenanigrams! It’s a smorgasBOARD of BOARD games! See what I did there? WAHOOEY!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
Match of the Century - 01:47
Mind Space - 13:40
Junk Drawer - 21:10
Shenanigrams - 25:17
#235 - The Exclusively Two-Player Special
On this DUALITY of a Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns are EXCLUSIVELY talking about games for just two players! After an afternoon of cards and “Brotherly Bonding” they’re ready to let it rip - where IT is opinions and RIP means AMIABLY DISCUSS! We’re nattering about Dogfight, Nawalli, and Sail on this one - with a little snippet of Mind Bug thrown in for good measure.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
Dogfight - 03:33
Nawalli - 13:46
Mind Bug - 24:38
Sail - 26:53
#234 - What News, From The Sea?
On this briny and newsworthy (?? episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Pip and Tom are chatting about a couple of games they found right at the very depths of the sea. First up, we run through the twists and turns of dragon-packing simulator Sea Dragons before settling down to the familiar comforts of archipelago-based 4X-ing in Orichalcum.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:28 - Sea Dragons
15:56 - Orichalcum
#233 - The Essen Special!
On this jam-packed episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns are going through all the games that Tom brought back from Essen! This doesn’t include the whole host of eurogames he played whilst there, which might even be a separate podcast all by itself! Goodness! We also have time for a very sneaky mention of Crystallo’s latest expansions, and a fair portion of semi-irrelevant chat. Just what the doctor ordered!
Thanks for bearing with us during that brief podcast pause - we’ll be back to the regular schedule from now on!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
03:47 - Crystallo
06:47 - Sky Team
12:22 - Viking See-Saw
14:37 - 3 Second Try
16:44 - Ninja Master
18:06 - Nuts A Go-Go
21:32 - Tiger and Dragon
26:01 - RoboTrick
31:13 - The Same Game
36:36 - Prey Another Day
41:21 - Triqueta
44:51 - Match of the Century
#231 - Everything is an Abstract
On this greasy episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, we’re talking about a whole BINDLE of games. First up we chat about YET ANOTHER Devir small-box Eurogame (The White Castle) before then talking about Soulaween - an abstract game that’s had Quinns making sweeping, terrifying statements. Finally, some chat about a bundle of little card games sent to Tom - including recent review Five Three Five alongside Harvest and Bridge City Poker.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:44 - The White Castle
14:58 - Soulaween
28:30 - Five Three Five, Bridge City Poker, Harvest
#232 - Tom and Pip Touch Grass
On this verdant episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Pip have a chat about the nature-based-games they’ve been digging into recently - Evergreen and Planted! Enjoy!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
04:11 - Evergreen
18:10 - Planted
#230 - It’s a Numbers Game
On this 3-digit episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Pip are chatting about 003 different games, and scoring NO POINTS for it! First up is the light deduction puzzler The Number, followed by a retrospective and sleepy chat about Broom Service. We tie things up by talking about the much-hyped Sea Salt & Paper, trying to get BIG BLUE POINTS in the BIG BLUE SEA.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:04 - The Number
14:57 - Broom Service
30:45 - Sea Salt & Paper