Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Holiday Hijinks: The Groundhog Gambit and The Cupid Crisis, Dorfromantik: The Board Game, and Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game. Then, we talk about how both simple and complex games can have value.
0:00-Intro
0:47-Announcements
2:23-Recent Games - Holiday Hijinks: The Groundhog Gambit & The Cupid Crisis
4:30-Dorfromantik: The Board Game
8:54-Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game
16:06-Simple vs Complex
25:32-Outro
26:36-Bloopers
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It's finally time to cap it all off with the cream of the cream, Mark and Neilan's final set of ten games each! These are the games that we think are the pinnacle of our respective tastes, that we'd never turn down, that any person ought to try at least once. It's the Top 10 Games of All-Time!
01:48 - Mark's #10 - Age of Steam 08:17 - Neilan's #10 - Brass: Birmingham 11:21 - Mark's #9 - Arboretum 17:35 - Neilan's #9 - Time's Up! 20:15 - Mark's #8 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 23:48 - Neilan's #8 - The Oracle of Delphi 28:35 - Mark's #7 - The Estates 33:44 - Neilan's #7 - Pictomania 35:14 - Mark's #6 - Time's Up! 38:26 - Neilan's #6 - The Search for Planet X 42:09 - Mark's #5 - Brass: Lancashire 45:59 - Neilan's #5 - Alchemists 48:49 - Mark's #4 - Fresh Fish 52:56 - Neilan's #4 - Sidereal Confluence 57:33 - Mark's #3 - Barrage 1:03:52 - Neilan's #3 - A Feast for Odin 1:09:03 - Mark's #2 - Agricola 1:14:01 - Neilan's #2 - Blood on the Clocktower 1:20:27 - Mark's #1 - Biblios 1:23:04 - Neilan's #1 - Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
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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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In this episode we ask the important question...do you know what really crunches my cubes? Expect rants, expect us to get riled up about cardboard and remember this is just a bit of fun.
FIRST PLAYER: Adrian
OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Dan
In this episode you'll learn:
- that JP has not only played Orléans by dlp games but driven past it as well, exciting.
- about Dan's experience with Shackleton Base by Sorry We're French Games
- whether Adrian's heart weighs the same as a feather in Men-Nefer by Ludonova
- what triggers us in the hobby on as we pick fault in inserts, player aids, game days and much much more.
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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
1:06 - Public Service Announcement
3:54 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
4:15 - JP - Orléans
13:48 - Dan - Shackleton Base
17:14 - Adrian - Men-Nefer
27:43 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Do you know what really crunches my cubes?
28:21 - Player aids
32:52 - Crowdfunding
42:02 - Poor quality boards
45:22 - Inserts that are just s**t
52:49 - Falling out of love with Stonemaier Games
1:00:31 - The expectation vs reality on board game days
1:08:01 - TURN 4 - Receive, Sleeve or Leave
1:16:01 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
1:24:18 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
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Our upcoming convention, July 25th-27th 2025, is in its planning stages! We have a venue but nothing much else yet. Not even a name! Suggestions welcome. Mark quite likes So Very Wrong About Games Fun Times Good Vibes Only Trans Rights Are Human Rights Boardgame Jamboree, but he worries that it might be too pithy. Few things are off the table! Special guests? Maybe! Fabulous prizes? Well, prizes, definitely. More like obligatory prizes.
03:08 AYURIS: Undaunted: Battle of Britain (Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson, Osprey Games, 2023)
Games Played Last Week:
04:49 -Malediction (Leo Cunha, Nicole Lobo, and Daniel Pettersen de Lucena, Loot Studios, 2025)
12:09 -Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)
13:43 -Lone Wolves (Yasuyuki Nakamura, Wonderful World Board Games, 2024)
18:51 -Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2022)
24:01 -Critter Kitchen (Alex Cutler & Peter C. Hayward, Carboard Alchemy, 2025)
27:59 -Coloretto (Michael Schacht, ABACUSSPIELE, 2003)
29:26 -The White Castle: Matcha (Israel Cendrero & Sheila Santos, Devir Games, 2024)
32:56 -Planet Unknown: Supermoon (Ryan Lambert & Adam Rehberg, Adam's Apple Games, 2024)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
38:59 Bullet big box
40:03 Benjamin Sperling Persuasion roll and write on Kickstarter
40:32 Champions of Midgard 10th Anniversary Edition
41:15 SVWWAG Convention! July 25th, 26th, 27th. Details to follow!
42:21 Topic: How Expansions Can Fail
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This week Shelley and I deliver goods and explore the Pacific in
Cargo Empire by Alexander Bogdanovsky and Pini Shekhter from Moaideas Game Design
and
Cook Islands by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede from Trefl
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Scott Alden
@Aldie
Opener: Everyone knows Aldie, right? Feels like we do. Scott Alden, the man behind BoardGameGeek, is one creative entrepreneur, let me tell ya. Anyone could've thought to make a central website where boardgamers come for information and community, but it takes more than a good idea for something to be reality. For 25 years Aldie has been adding features, listening to comments, growing the hobby, and doing way more than most to enhance boardgaming around the world. I can't believe it's been so long since I've had him on the podcast. I'll be sure to do it again soon.
Here Scott joins me to talk about the BGG Hall of Fame, where 25 famous titles were inducted into an inaugural collection. Jennifer Schlickbernd headed up the project with Aldie's blessing, and Candice Harris was responsible producing & editing the awesome videos that accompanied this launch. I was pleased to be invited to be the initial jury that came up with the games, and also pleased with the end result. We each had our own experiences & different appreciations for various titles, but it was a group effort--including much group deliberation--that resulted in the final list. Schacht The Monkey con After the interview, I go on to talk about most of the games I played at a recent, regional convention: EsCon. The games all have one thing in common--they were all designed by Michael Schacht. As long as my friends are onboard, I really have fun focusing on something at events like these. Sometimes it's SdJ winners, or trick-taking games, or pre-2000 boardgames. This time it was focused on a single designer. As EsCon host Steve Paap likes to label these things, we called it our Schacht The Monkey con.
Closer: The following month's episode will be this podcast's own 20th anniversary. Can you believe it? Dave Arnott will be on to interview me and I can tell stories (some old, some new) about the past two decades behind a laptop and inexpensive microphone. If you've got questions or otherwise want to me to talk about something, send in your feedback now. Thanks. -Mark
On this galloping episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about the wonders of nature in Spectacular, engaging in frivolous spending with Winner’s Circle, and taking Bilbo for a spin in The Fellowship of the Ring: The Tricktaking Game. There’s even time to get Stuck In A Lift for just a little while…
Thanks for listening everyone! Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
01:41 - The Fellowship of the Ring: The Tricktaking Game
12:40 - Spectacular
24:30 - I’m Stuck In The Lift
28:30 - Winner’s Circle
Neilan's back to continue the journey down the lazy river of cardboard that is his top 50 board games of all time. It's games 30 through 11! I just counted, and that's twenty amazing games that I can't wait to tell you all about! 00:59 - #30 - Gloomhaven 02:58 - #29 - War Story: Occupied France 07:35 - #28 - Gaia Project 10:17 - #27 - Ark Nova 12:26 - #26 - Kemet 14:55 - #25 - Yellow & Yangtze 17:09 - #24 - Undaunted: Stalingrad 19:51 - #23 - War of the Ring: Second Edition 22:39 - #22 - Guards of Atlantis II 25:14 - #21 - The Quest for El Dorado 26:49 - #20 - Hansa Teutonica 28:33 - #19 - Exit: The Game 31:23 - #18 - Taj Mahal 34:05 - #17 - Cthulhu Wars 35:24 - #16 - Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar 38:23 - #15 - The Resistance 41:28 - #14 - Patchwork 43:16 - #13 - Ra 44:58 - #12 - Stationfall 49:44 - #11 - Blue Lagoon
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Tom complains about the cold before we all discuss forms of Table Talk. What just bends the rules, and what breaks the game? We share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, a couple of questions from the mailbag, and some new Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:40 - It's cold in Florida
01:41 - Gamefound - SupportDicetower.com
02:11 - Dice Tower East and West
03:00 - Table Talk
25:07 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
31:31 - Question: Social Deduction Games (Where Am I, Blood on the Clocktower)
38:38 - Question: Screen Printed Meeples
44:49 - Little Alchemists
46:50 - Star Realms Academy
48:34 - Azul Duel
50:50 - Dr Jeckyl & Mr Hyde vs. Scotland Yard
53:28 - Rajas of the Ganges: Cards and Karma
56:47 - Unstoppable
1:00:07 - Catch the Moon
If you can choose to be the regular version or the spicy version, you obviously choose the spicy version. I mean, sure, the capsaicin may sting, but one assumes that the canonical version is caliente. Put another way, would you prefer "SVWAG" or "SVWAG en fuego?" The choice is clear. It is a corollary of sorts to Winston Zeddemore axiom that when someone asks you if you are a god, you say yes.
Games Played Last Week:
01:33 -Under Our Sun (Maximilian Lichtner and David Poluda, tabletopper games, 2024)
06:05 -Cosmic Frog (Jenna Felli, Devious Weasel Games, 2020)
09:34 -Ankh: Gods of Egypt (Eric M. Lang, CMON, 2021)
14:20 -Trio (Kaya Miyano, Cocktail Games, 2021)
17:17 -Don't L.L.A.M.A. Dice (Reiner Knizia, AMIGO, 2021)
18:58 -Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024)
21:02 -The Vale of Eternity: Artifacts (Eric Hong and Mathieu Rivero, Mandoo Games, 2024)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
25:06 If you know of games lost in the L.A. fires, let us know!
26:28 Topic: Year in Review 2024
27:43 Walker and Mark's Personal Top 10s
48:50 2024 SVWAG Game of the Year
52:24 Special Categories
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00:02:00 Intro
00:04:00 Dice & Diversions
00:08:00 First Impressions
00:13:00 Wheels on the Bus
00:22:00 Miniature Market
00:24:00 Chu Han
00:28:00 Beyond the Horizon
00:44:00 Portal Games
00:46:00 Moving Wild
00:51:00 Arcs
01:11:00 Game Toppers
01:13:00 E-Win Chairs
01:16:00 Outro
We got to attend Dice & Diversions this month and the drive was worth it. The location was great, and the gamers were so well taken care of by the team that if you are in the Southeast, consider going next year. The date for 2026 hasn’t been announced as they work on contracts with hotels, but just know it will be in the first quarter. There was plenty to do if you are into board games or RPGs with plenty of opportunities to join others as people were continuously looking for players.
One of the games we played was a re-implement of one we played many moons ago that I really enjoyed. Beyond the Horizon uses similar mechanics found in Beyond the Sun, but it is its own game and should be judged as such. We compare the two in this episode and found that the mechanics in one we enjoyed more than the other. I think for people that have played both, your playstyle will help you determine which you like more. For me, Beyond the Horizon is more my style with the map versus the space majority control board.
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In this episode, Conor and Dana Banana are back for their first episode of 2025, while Lauren has so much to talk about, she returns for another chat in back-to-back episodes.
Lauren has us with our mouths open as she talks about her latest trick-taking game that has the weirdest theme we’ve heard in a while. Conor has settled into his role as a hobo as he rummages through his bindle looking for goodies at 2am in Vagrantsong. Meanwhile, Banana has fallen for Ryan Laukat as she tries to save the pack-turtle in her first experience with Red Raven Games in Creature Caravan.
They also recap last week's Question of the Pod, all before sharing some news as to what's got them fired up!
New Question of the Pod: What was your biggest gaming surprise of last year and what did you enjoy about it?
Sizzling Games:
Xylotar [40.00]
Vagrantsong [52:58]
Creature Caravan [01:05:02]
Question of the Pod Recap: [01:16:43]
New Question of the Pod: [01:24:18]
Fired Up: [01:30:21]
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Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed:
Unpublished games: Tropical, I Can’t Even.
Pathogen: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369862/pathogen
Root: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/237182/root
Fromage: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/384213/fromage
Flip 7: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/420087/flip-7
The Gang: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/411567/the-gang
Civolution: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/400602/civolution
Nekojima: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359029/nekojima
Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/374173/star-wars-the-deckbuilding-game
Fairy Ring: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/419074/fairy-ring
Piles!: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/400752/piles
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