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#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 -
#229 - The Triple Animal Special!
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 -
#228 - Best Nemeses!
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 -
#227 - Three* Great* Games!
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 -
#226 - Earthborne Rangers & Great Machines!
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
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