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
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#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 World09:19 - Penguin Party19:09 - Diatoms31:41 - Crafting the Cosmos
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#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 - Daitoshi17:40 - Altay33:17 - Architects of Amytis
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#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 Roanoke17:32 - Shuffle and Swing26:29 - Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon
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#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 - Resafa12:41 - Elfenroads20:30 - PlayProp25:56 - Dracula vs Van Helsing
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