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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 & 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 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 & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt natter about a collection of - YOU GUESSED IT - boardgames.Refasa! 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 reviewed juts MOMENTS ago!Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great week!Timestamps:01:41 - Refasa12:41 - 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

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 & 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

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

Shane McInnes heads down to the AIA Centre and catches up with Tom Mitchell as he continues his rehab. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 & 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

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 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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On this hastily-themed episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns are nipping through a triathlon of games that have some amount of animals in them. First up, Tom digs out the practically ancient Zooloretto for an enticing retrospective, before having a chunky chat about another recent Devir small-box wonder; 3 Ring Circus. Closing out the pod; Feed the Kraken - a be-dumbification of hidden role games featuring a large watery friend. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 02:09 - Zooloretto 08:50 - 3 Ring Circus 23:48 - Feed the Kraken

On this confrontational episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and “NEW POD PERSONALITY PIP” chat about a whole cluster of games! First, the pair divine the precise co-ordinates of a sweet potato in Tiwanaku, before bearing witness to the unholy power of fire in Iki. To close out the pod, Tom recommends Pip try out Block Party, a game of making a detailed carrot from cubes. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 01:57 - Tiwanaku 22:40 - Iki 38:25 - Block Party

In this inconveniently titled episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns talk about Three* Great* Games! We're talking about two* cracking* games from Reiner Knizia - Zoo Vadis and My Island, as well as the latest tiny-box game from Devir; Bamboo! Rarely does my cold and mechanical editors heart chuckle whilst chopping pods, but I made myself laugh with this one. I think it's good fun*. Enjoy! *(with caveats) Note: Quinns refers to the wrong artist during our Bamboo section - the painting is a Hokusai! Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 01:30 - My Island 12:47 - Bamboo 22:37 - Zoo Vadis

On this eco-mechanical episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt chat about two very different - but very thematic - games! First up are Matt's early impressions of Earthborne Rangers - a massive game about protecting and engaging with the environment from one of the folks who made Twilight Imperium happen. Then, our dynamic duo shift gears to talk about their time about causing and preventing riots in the one-v-all game of prediction; City of the Great Machine. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 01:53 - Earthborne Rangers (Production Chat) 10:01 - Earthborne Rangers (Game Chat) 24:18 - City of the Great Machine

Note: Sorry about the audio on this one! Some very jacked up mics produced a lot of room noise that was hard to scrub. We'll have this fixed in a couple episodes! In this clay-based episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about a cluster of games they've played together recently. First up is a lengthy chat about Golem - the crunchy, Italian-designed eurogame based on the folkloric Jewish automata (it's quite good!). Then, a couple of very speedy chats about Resist! (a fantastic solo game where you play as the SPANISH revolution) and Stomp The Plank (a great push your luck game we recently reviewed). Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 01:47 - Golem 23:56 - Resist 32:13 - Stomp The Plank

Note: We misquote Will Smith's line in Independence Day a couple times in this podcast - not realising the ⁠pretty charged history⁠ of misquoting it in such a manner! Apologies for this, it was not our intention to offend! In this loamy episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are taking a little wander through the hills and valleys of… a rather complicated engine builder. We're talking about recent BGG darling Earth and its soil-based engines, alongside a few brief chats about seance-based deduce-em-up Phantom Ink and mud-based clean-em-up Dirty Pig. Matt also has a few words to say about the student games we got to briefly drop in on at the recent UK Games Expo! Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 02:17 - Earth 26:19 - Phantom Ink 38:31 - Dirty Pig 44:52 - Student Games

In this unknown episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about a couple of the games they played at the UK Games Expo! First up we're taking off to visit Planet Unknown - a chunky tile-laying game with a spritz of Susan. We're also going to be chatting about Big Boss - a new ‘n improved version of the Kramer Klassic from 1994! Finally, a quick chat about War of the Ring: The Card Game after the recent video review! Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 02:00 - Planet Unknown 17:18 - Big Boss 36:01 - War of the Ring: The Card Game

In this bright green episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Ava are ambling through a selection of good new games! We're talking about the latest Friese title ‘Findorff', the much-anticipated expansion to Beyond The Sun - ‘Leaders of the New Dawn', and our upcoming video review for the hidden movement game ‘Beast'! Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 03:04 - Findorff 16:54 - Beyond The Sun: Leaders of the New Dawn 32:10 - Beast

In this squishy jelly baby episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Ava are chatting about a cluster of funstuff they've been hanging out with recently! First off, Ava apologises for her callous disregard of engine-building classic Gizmos, and Tom slightly loses his mind during a game of Rolling Heights. Finally, our two intrepid boardsplorers (?!?) chat about Ava's latest, smallest video review for Hamlet. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 06:09 - Gizmos 19:43 - Rolling Heights 33:38 - Hamlet