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On this starchy episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have been playing a clutch of GREAT LIL’ GAMES!First up is Yotei - a tableau builder centered around everyone’s favourite not-quite-a-vegetable: “The Potato”. We’re following that up with a double dip of Operation Barclay and Evenfall - a podcasting first! Never before have military officials and covens of witches been so closely intertwined. Finally, we’re locking, stocking, and smoking all of our various barrels in Rattlesnake - a contender for one of our very favourite card games this year.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:00:43 - Yotei10:17 - Operation Barclay24:02 - Evenfall36:05 - Rattlesnake

On this constantly revolving episode of the Shut Up Fliptoons and Flip Pick Towers.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:03 - Market Fresh11:20 - Echoes of Emperors17:46 - Fliptoons26:39 - Flip Pick Towers

On this adjective-riddled* episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are sorting through approximately one standard carry-on worth of cardboard luggage!Matt brings The Great Sea to the table - the latest Garphill excursion into ancient history. What’s in this bit of history? Mostly water, it seems. With boats on it! They’re like houses that float? You’ll get the hang of it.Dark Pact is our second game, and feels like a deckbuilder broke free of containment, and has been growing all manner of new limbs whilst we’re not looking. Essentially a race to break the game as fast as humanly possible, it’s gotten Tom rather perplexed.And finally - Typeset - a game designed by the monstrously talented folks at DVC Games. Just when you think you’ve seen everything in a word game, one comes along and gets you spelling ‘TOGWOF’.Have a great week, everybody!*Only some adjectives are present in this episode - and indeed all episodes - of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast.Timestamps:02:01 - The Great Sea17:35 - Dark Pact28:24 - Typeset

On this VIOLENT episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom engage in gladiatorial combat to finally decide who is the ULTIMATE BOARD-BOY!We begin our gauntlet with a bout of ‘Neko Syndicate’ - a BLOODY game of cats making sushi deliveries in a sort of tableau-building pyramid! It’s nasty stuff.Round 2 threatens an EXPLOSIVE END in ‘Bombusters’ - a co-operative family game where various anthropomorphised rabbits deal with increasingly complicated explosives. Red wire? Yellow wire? Either way? Prepare for an absolutely brutal listening experience.Then, the knockout punch! ‘Off With Their Heads!’ is our grand finale, and has you rolling* (punches), writing (wills)... and playing (cards)? Sounds peaceful, yeah? Well it’s only got a flippin’ GUILLOTINE in the title!! It’s going to be an utter casserole.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:02:06 - Neko Syndicate14:34 - Bombusters24:12 - Off With Their Heads!*There’s no actual rolling, but that can be our little secret.

On this Edenic episode of the Shut Up a game that takes 2014’s Evolution and 2020’s Oceans, and hydraulically compacts them into one biodegradable box. Not just one box, mind, but a whole ecosystem of modules and traits that’ll get your neighbourhood zoologist all hot under the collar.That’s then followed by a slice of Perch - a surprisingly lethal “pigeon control game” in which you stack birds atop a vicious fountain. I’d imagine it’s what those pesky sky rats would be doing with their spare time too, if they weren’t so busy defecatingFinally we hitch a ride on the great grey car of the savanna in Tembo - an elephant road trip that’s way more cruel than it has any right to be. Tom’s taken great pains to crack this one open, and feast on all the delicious game-goo contained therein.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:46 - Nature16:58 - Perch24:41 - TEMBO: Survival on the Savanna

On this absolutely soaked episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are getting drenched in two positively sopping releases.First up, our intrepid explorers plunge into the depths of Thesauros! It’s got scubas, it’s got sharks, it’s got sunken treasures! All wrapped up in a slate-grey layer of project management and fund allocation.And following the adventurous land of ‘The Ocean(s)’, our lads point at a few seagulls, bins, and plant pots in the cosy Welsh town and game: Tenby! Who will have the most porches?! Who will find the most relevant landmarks? It’s all to play for in the quaintest Tenby-builder on the market today.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:16 - Thesauros17:30 - Tenby

On this slippy ol’ episode of the Shut Up a game of woodland creatures amassing honey and battering bandits! “Like Pooh gone all vigilante on them asses”.Our dynamic duo then seek to area control eachother in a WORTH WRESTLE! Whose critical opinion on this luminous box will come out on top? Neither, really. They’re both pretty chill about the whole thing. Everyone’s allowed opinions - even YOU!Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:19 - Emberleaf16:20 - Wroth

On this post-apocalyptic episode of the Shut Up “What If Regicide, But Legacy?”. The pod’s rounded off with a quick chat about Zenith’s standard two-player mode, and spicy four player variant! Just like… never mind.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:49 - Phoenix New Horizon17:57 - Regicide Legacy27:13 - Regicide Legacy Spoilers33:31 - Zenith

On this gloopy episode of the Shut Up recalling titles played all the way back in November 2025 (imagine!).Expect rambling thoughts about a whole cluster of games played at PAXU 2025, and a few other sneaky additions to the lineup last-minute.Have a great week, everybody!Timestamps:01:14 - Epona10:19 - Joyride: Full Throttle13:42 - Petiquette17:32 - Wiggle Roulette20:34 - Pick ‘n Packers28:31 - This Is Not A Game About A Pipe34:43 - No Loose Ends

On this ticked-off episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are rambling about the box-ticking bonanza ‘Tend’ as well as the chronologically questionable ‘Take Time’!Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps:01:19 - Tend23:31 - Take Time

Website Copy: On this free-flowing episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about competitive marble-pilfering simulator 12 Rivers, as well as a double-bill of absurd racing games in Hot Streak and Magical Athlete!You may be expecting that this podcast thumbnail would show the promised board of 12 Rivers (which you can find here) and instead shows a picture of Hurley - the not-a-hotdog from Hot Streak. This is intentional, and important.Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps:01:14 - 12 Rivers12:43 - Hot Streak26:41 - Magical Athlete

On this subsequent episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are returning to a couple of the games they were excited about in the Essen Special, as well as covering one that was missed from the billing!Excuse the occasional odd buzzing on this one - we tried to scrub it as much as possible but there's only so much you can do to heal a dodgy microphone before you start making Matt sound like a blender.Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps:02:33 - Winning Ticket15:41 - Feya’s Swamp37:04 - Sanctuary

On this FULL CAPS CHUNKY episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about all of the games they played at Essen 2025!This is an audio-only reupload of the video we just put out on the main channel - so if you’d like to enjoy a physical tier list alongside these wobbly words? Then that’s where it is, and will be, forever and ever.Excuse the mildly iffy audio on this one!Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps:01:00 - Chemical Overload07:50 - Collect!12:45 - Tolleno19:05 - A Carnivore Did It!21:40 - Echoes of Time23:55 - Pyradice29:07 - Tax The Rich32:09 - 3 Witches37:53 - Agent Avenue43:33 - Recall46:59 - Feya’s Swamp54:43 - Wie Die Karnikel58:20 - Milch Mit Abführmittel1:03:34 - Big Shot1:08:07 - Night Soil1:11:24 - The White Castle: Duel1:16:58 - National Economy1:21:05 - Railway Boom1:23:38 - Pulitzer1:30:28 - Sanctuary1:34:29 - River Rats1:39:32 - Ghost Lift

On this flexibly numerical episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are, you guessed it, talking once again about games with CARDS, BOARDS, and DICE! In exactly that order - each game picking up a new component like a hungry Katamari.First up is Duel for Cardia - a perplexing little two-player dueller that lets you hop back in time to un-win your opponent - swiftly followed by 20 Strong, a solo-only game of clobbering a wolf. Or escaping a dream! Or becoming an alien. It’s a modular game system, you see.Finally, we’re chatting about Vantage - an open-world board game that’s one of 2025’s biggest! And Tom’s feeling all confused about it…Have a great weekend, everyone!Timestamps: 02:12 - Duel for Cardia11:23 - 20 Strong25:37 - Vantage

Usually the moniker of ‘Cosy Game’ is a snug portent of mild-mannered fun - a thoroughly whelming box that’s pleasant enough, but doesn’t tickle us for more than a couple plays. But this week on the podcast? Matt and Tom are chatting about a whole bunch of cosy games that surprised them, with a bit more pep than might have been expected…We’re talking Frogs and Rabbits and Crows in ‘A Wild Venture’, Trains and Cars and Passengers in ‘Railroad Tiles’, and Lakes and Lakes and Lakes and LAKES in Cascadia…. Alpine Lakes!Have a great weekend, everyone!Timestamps:02:54 - A Wild Venture16:20 - Railroad Tiles27:43 - Cascadia: Alpine Lakes

This week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’re talking two players! Tag Team is a head-to-head brawler, and Suna Valo is exactly the same, but for farms! Finally, Matt waxes lyrical about General Orders’ Samurai Sequel: ‘Sengoku Jidai’ - and, within it, has perhaps found a game that’s too small for even our perma-shrunk noggins.Have a great weekend, everyone!Timestamps: 02:44 - Tag Team15:09 - Suna Valo23:54 - General Orders: Sengoku Jidai

It’s just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and he’s taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical floorboards. They wouldn’t fit through the real floorboards. That’d be silly. And we don’t do silly, here.Let us know what you think of these episodes! They’re a little unusual, but quite fun to make in a pinch!Timestamps: 02:21 - Joraku07:33 - Calimala12:35 - Tofu Shifu16:52 - March of the Ants23:34 - Beaver House26:24 - Naishi

Three kinds of wood, all alike in dignity. Except one of them is on fire, and one of them has a lot of toothy rodents in it. I’m really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouille joke, but it’s not coming naturally. ‘Beavertouille, he only does Dams this time?’. I don’t know. Get out of my restaurant.Timestamps:01:52 - Hutan: Life in the Rainforest12:50 - Flash Point: Legacy of Flame32:27 - Timber Town

PAX East! Truly the highlight of everyone’s July!For whatever reason, it’s taken us absolutely ages to get round to covering the board games that we played at PAX East - but better late than never! This is especially true in this pod right here, where we’ve got three hot servings of board game to ladle directly into the laps of our ravenous listenership. We’ve got a starter and dessert made of space - with Galileo Galilei and Moon Colony Bloodbath protecting a gooey fantasy center all made of Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship!Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps: 03:18 - Galileo Galilei18:16 - Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship31:18 - Moon Colony Bloodbath

Come come, hungry diners - take a seat at the big table and have a little gander at this spread of delectable games!Oops, all good games on this one! This podcast features chat about a space tourism simulator (Galactic Cruise), a light-and-breezy turtle-based engine builder (Australis), and TWO entire TWO PLAYER games about being Greek and In Trouble (Iliad and Ichor).Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps: 01:46 Galactic Cruise 22:12 Australis31:04 Illiad40:41 Ichor

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!

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 Era15:39 - 3 Chapters26:52 - Creature Caravan

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 - Cities13:12 - Floristry24:43 - The Morrison Game Factory

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 World09:19 - Penguin Party19:09 - Diatoms31:41 - Crafting the Cosmos

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 - Daitoshi17:40 - Altay33:17 - Architects of Amytis

On this refreshing burst of Shut Up 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 Roanoke17:32 - Shuffle and Swing26:29 - Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon

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 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 - Resafa12:41 - Elfenroads20:30 - PlayProp25:56 - Dracula vs Van Helsing

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 Destiny15:10 - Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game26:46 - Fromage33:14 - Triqueta

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 Bonga12:17 - Dune Imperium: Bloodlines24:24 - Black Forest

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 Game12:40 - Spectacular24:30 - I’m Stuck In The Lift28:30 - Winner’s Circle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - Fischen4:43 - Power Vacuum9:19 - GibberersThe Word Game of Language Invention and Civilization Development11:47 - Da Da Da13:43 - Bomb Busters17:06 - Saltfjord20:11 - Duck & Cover24:51 - Altay: Dawn of Civilization28:28 - Packen Wir's!31:58 - Bauernschlau34:52 - Draft & Write Records39:31 - Lords of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth44:36 - Captain Flip49:03 - Oinky Bits

On this out-of-this-world episode of the Shut Up 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

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

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.

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

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

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

On this rambling, tangient-rich episode of the Shut Up Roborally. Have a great weekend! Timestamps: 03:23 - Wingspan & Wyrmspan 26:27 - RoboRally

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

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

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

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

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

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