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

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#249 - The Ancient Art of Putting It All On Red

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

#248 - Silver & Space

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!

#247 - Even More Love for Earthborne Rangers

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! 

#246 - Daybreak is Optimistic and Intriguing

On this Knizian episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Matt delve into Bitewing Games’ double-feature of new Reiner games - Cascadero and Cascadito. How do they compare to other classic Knizzes, and which of the two boxes should you add to your collection? The boys then have a little natter about Fit To Print - a mildly more relaxing alternative to the Galaxy Truckers of the board game world. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: Cascadero - 02:10 Cascadito -22:14 Fit To Print - 31:51

#245 - Cascaduo!

Just a very little update for our plans this year. We&#39;re swapping to three episodes per month rather than four, with a bonus episode each month for folks supporting us on Patreon. Cheers!

A Quick Podcast Update!

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

#244 - Our 2024 Board Game Predictions!

On this AMAZING episode of the Shut Up AND Sit Down Podcast, Tom AND Pip chat ABOUT A trilogy of excellent games that start with A! Yes, really, that’s the theme. It was kind of an ACCIDENT! In-between retrospective chats about Tom’s favourite ‘gentle tile build-em-up game’ Akropolis and Portugese tile-smashing simulator Azul, there’s ample time to chat about the latest in the soothing nature-themed game subgenre; Aqua. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 03:21 - Akropolis 10:22 - Aqua 26:18 - Azul

#243 - Triple A!

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

#242 - The PAX Unplugged Playlist (Pt.3)

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

#241 - Bees and Trees

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

#240 - The PAX Unplugged Playlist (Pt.2)

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

#239 - The PAX Unplugged Playlist (Pt.1)

On this international episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom welcomes the absolutely fabulous Emily to the airwaves! Wahoo! Together, they chat about Bonsai, Infiltraitors, and Crash Octopus - a trio of much-hyped games that are all pretty damn good! Please do show your appreciation for Emily in the comments on the site! She was SO nervous about appearing on the pod, and I think she absolutely bossed it. Have a great weekend, everybody!

#238 - BIG CHALLENGES

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

#237 - Spirit Cows!

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

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