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The world's best board game review show.
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#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!
Customer Reviews
I don’t even play many board games
But this show is full of great humour and insight. I really like looking through the back episodes. There are in-depth conversations about game designs—not just bird games, but also TTRPGs, and also unusual games like water gun assasination.
Incredible Board Game Podcast
I love listening to this podcast - the diversity in the board game preferences of the hosts is so wonderful. They are witty and funny and clever and respectful of eachother and it is a joy to listen to them each week.
Cannot recommend enough! Must listen!
TLDR: If you like podcasts with funny, well-spoken, heartfelt individuals, sharing laughs and opinions over a thing that we can all use a little more of - fun! - then, have a listen to this podcast. Their You Tube channel is my absolute favourite channel to watch and it brought me here, and I now I love this too. More people need Quinns, Matt, Ava and Tom in their lives.
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