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.
In this first news episode of 2024 Ben and Steve thank the new patreon backers, answer your questions and Ben gets the lowdown on Wyrmspan from Connie Vogelmann and Aqua form Asger Granerud and Dan Halstad.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Almost Innocent and Vaalbara. Then, we talk about what our perfect board game day/night would be like!
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0:00-Intro
0:39-Announcements
3:04-Recent Games - Almost Innocent
9:30-Vaalbara
13:26-Perfect Game Day
32:36-Outro
33:58-Bloopers
This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code "BGBLITZ24" to get 20% off non-exclusive items, and for the month of February, the code "BLITZWOTW" gets 20% off the Kickstarter Deluxe edition of War of the Worlds: The New Wave!
Hey Now Cabalists! In today's Express Don and Jamie present the annual Best of 2023 and Lookback Special in which we look back at the past year and discuss the games we played and reviewed!
The Whose Turners take a trip down memory lane and try to dig a little deeper into why we enjoy this hobby so much. Reminiscing about the 80's / 90's and our experiences of a variety of board games shaping the gamers we are today.
FIRST PLAYER: Dan OTHER PLAYERS: JP & Becky
OVERVIEW In this episode you'll learn: - that Dan has allowed the 'M' word for this episode as it's a safe space - that Becky has broken Guess Who? and people refuse to play it with her - The eyes on the dinosaurs in Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs were very comical - all about our vintage games that help shape us into the responsible adults today...sure - whether we would bring our past games to the present or our present games to the past in our Would You Rather
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 2:29 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 2:38 - Becky - Quadropolis 6:41 - JP - Franchise 12:28 - Dan - Stonemaier Games 19:28 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Board game classics and their influences 21:19 - Becky has broken Guess Who? 23:54 - Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs 29:58 - The Boot Sale Game (Designed by Dan), Dingbats, Blockbusters & Trivial Pursuit 34:00 - Mouse Trap & Kerplunk 35:05 - Bloodbowl, HeroQuest & Space Crusade 40:13 - Pictionary & Articulate 42:26 - Monopoly, Go for Broke, Game of Life & Hotel 47:36 - Risk & Illuminati Events 50:08 - Games from the past we wouldn't touch now 1:01:56 - Games from the past that have had a significant impact 1:09:51 - TURN 4 - Would you rather? 1:10:05 - Would you rather go back to bring your classic games to adulthood or games now to your child self? 1:14:56 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up 1:15:12 - Becky - Septima, Photosynthesis & Dice Hospital 1:17:17 - JP - Jumping back into the Lacerdaverse 1:19:03 - Dan - 12 Hour Mini Marathon conventions organised by Dan himself 1:21:06 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
Recorded in the main dining hall on the Oasis of the Seas, Tom, Julie, and Eric discuss games they played in the pre-cruise event and first few hours of sailing, and also share advice on giving feedback to game designers after playing their prototype.
00:41 - Recording in Person?!?
02:07 - The Vale of Eternity
03:40 - Pre-Cruise Gaming and Taking Over Public Spaces
A pretty solid rule of thumb is that if you've been disappointed in a kind of game, try David Thompson's version of it and see how delightful it can be. Hidden movement got you down? Sniper Elite is the cure. Abstract chunky tiled fighty thing didn't please? War Chest might please. Mediocre skirmish cramping your style? For What Remains is ready to serve. It's a good thing he has styles of games he hasn't explored, lest he just obsolete the remainder of the games industry. Give him time. He'll collaborate with everyone eventually.
Games Played Last Week:
01:41 -Beast (Aron Midhall, Elon Midhall, and Assar Pettersson, Studio Midhall, 2022)
07:17 -Iberia (Jesús Torres Castro and Matt Leacock, Z-Man Games, 2016)
11:42 -Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa (Mandela Fernandez-Grandon and Fabio Lopiano, Osprey Games, 2024)
18:16 -Bitoku: Resutoran (Germán P. Millán, Devir, 2023)
23:00 -Kurz vor Knapp (Helmut Punke and Tobias Punke, Zoch Verlag, 2020)
28:06 -Animal Upon Animal (Klaus Miltenberger, HABA, 2005)
In this week’s episode we welcome Dana back from her long trip away around SE Asia. Def tries to figure which games in his top 10 he hasn’t sizzled yet?? While Jules plays a non-roleplaying game set in the DND universe. The crew also discuss the QOTP, so please jump in to our socials and let us know your thoughts?? And of course, they swear a few oaths and have plenty of banter along the way.
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More and more board games are adopting eco themes! Whether it’s Daybreak and it’s simulation of climate change or Dune: War for Arrakis and Dune’s enviromental themes and… uh… one or two plastic miniatures or Ticket to Ride Legacy and… um… all the railroad constru…. You know what nevermind, welcome to board games! It’s board games everyone, aren’t they good? So good those board games. Are they good? It depends on which one it is. And thus enters the board game reviews. They’re here. Enjoy it.
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On to the timestamps:
00:00 Cold Open
1:27 Intro
2:30 Audience Correspondence: Green Appreciation
6:08 Dune: War for Arrakis
38:26 Daybreak
59:07 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
Reviews of Divinity Original Sin: The Board Game, Santa's Workshop, Horrified Greek Monsters and so many more. Featured review: Federation by Eagle Gryphon Games. Board game discussion starts at 34:40. Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games, Grand Gamers Guild, and AEG.
Jason welcomes the co-designers of Daybreak on the show to chat about building a cooperative card combo game, and also the challenges of taking on a topic as big as the climate crisis.
The Space-Biff's Review - https://spacebiff.com/2024/01/04/daybreak/
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!
We made it! We've arrived at last at the final ten(-ish) games, in fact, our TOP TEN (or so?) favourite games of all time. Thanks for joining us again on this yearly pilgrimage, as always it's the journey that's the important thing - but that's not to say that there isn't some exciting moving and shaking to happen at the destination. That said, it's time to pass out on the couch.
01:34 - Neilan #10 - The Resistance 05:00 - Mark #11 - Caylus 1303 05:51 - Mark #10 - Arboretum 07:39 - Kellen #10 - Dominion 11:11 - Neilan #9 - The Oracle of Delphi 12:35 - Mark #9 - Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020 16:33 - Kellen #9 - Telestrations 18:38 - Neilan #8 - The Search for Planet X 20:40 - Mark #8 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 23:14 - Kellen #8 - Inis 24:37 - Neilan #7 - Pictomania 26:17 - Mark #7 - Time's Up! 27:33 - Kellen #7 - El Grande 30:06 - Neilan #6 - Alchemists 32:42 - Mark #6 - Fresh Fish 35:07 - Kellen #6 - Wizard 39:14 - Neilan #5 - Time's Up! 40:11 - Kellen #5 - Time's Up! 41:39 - Mark #5 - Brass: Lancashire 43:30 - Neilan #4 - Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant 48:34 - Mark #4 - Bus 50:55 - Kellen #4 - Archipelago 54:52 - Neilan #3 - Blood on the Clocktower 57:04 - Mark #3 - The Estates 1:00:02 - Kellen #3 - Dune 1:03:50 - Neilan #2 - A Feast for Odin 1:05:55 - Mark #2 - Agricola 1:08:52 - Kellen #2 - Cthulhu Wars 1:11:50 - Neilan #1 - Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization 1:14:57 - Mark #1 - Biblios 1:16:03 - Kellen #1 - Innovation
Hey now! Episode 289 kicks off with Chris taking over the show to leading us down the path his mind walks. Then the gang talks about some games they've been playing including The Fox Experiment, Plum Island Horror, Speakeasy Blues, Crusaders Thy Will be Done, and Everdell Digital. Then Chris, Don and Jamie feature After Us from Florian Sirieix and Pandasaurus Games. Then Tony T gives you the best Damned tabletop gaming news programing that your ears ever beheld. And finally the founders discussed their irksome irritants, the things they find annoying about board games and the hobby, and how they would fix them. After Us Review 00:46:26, News with Tony T 01:22:35, Irksome Irritants 02:17:29
Matthew hosts a show, and as he also writes these descriptions it might also be the greatest episode we've ever done.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
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