This week we make a quick correction of our review last week because we missed a rule in
Dragonarium by Wei Chang and Kuan Chen from Wonderful World Board Games
then we discuss our highlight game from BGG.con
Up or Down by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling from Capstone Games
and end with a BIG title from Essen
Orloj: The Prague Astronomincal Clock by Paloma Pascual and Abraham Sanchez from Perro Loko Games and Devir
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Website Copy: On this free-flowing episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about competitive marble-pilfering simulator 12 Rivers, as well as a double-bill of absurd racing games in Hot Streak and Magical Athlete!
You may be expecting that this podcast thumbnail would show the promised board of 12 Rivers (which you can find here) and instead shows a picture of Hurley - the not-a-hotdog from Hot Streak. This is intentional, and important.
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Timestamps:
01:14 - 12 Rivers
12:43 - Hot Streak
26:41 - Magical Athlete
Ambie and Crystal interview Blaž Urban Gracar, the designer of All is Bomb, LOK, Abdec, LOK Digital, Workworkwork, and Herd! Check out all his games on his website Letibus Design. Herd figurines designed by Vojta Karen.
0:00-Intro
0:36-Interview with Blaž
31:08-Outro
32:03-Bloopers
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Somehow Ghost Turkey returned. And you never saw it coming! That might be because we forgot to remind people that it's Thanksgiving, but never mind that, the important thing is you're fools. Not us though, we're back with yet another juicy, cranberry soaked list of bird gaming goodness. Gobble gobble!
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Mike is in the host seat this week and he's all befuddled...
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Your ears don't deceive you...three years has passed since Rob has secured the first player and he's back to talk all about solo gaming, why we do it, why some of us don't and everything in between.
FIRST PLAYER: Rob
OTHER PLAYERS: JP & Kerley
In this episode you'll learn:
- JP likes to go "off road" in Restoration Games' version of Thunder Road Vendetta
- Kerley's latest adventures into Dungeons and Dragons having been away for a long long time
- Rob is collecting all the Hall or Nothing Games with the latest purchase of Kreel Manor
- about our experiences with solo gaming, whether we enjoy it, why we don't do it and a chin wag about the subject
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
2:37 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
3:00 - Kerley - Dungeons & Dragons
12:08 - JP - Thunder Road Vendetta
19:05 - Rob - Kreel Manor
23:16 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Playing with yourself
25:38 - Kerley's flirtation with solo gaming
33:59 - JP's deep delve into solo gaming
41:54 - Using solo modes to help learn games for multiplayer sessions
50:54 - How solo play aligns nicely to campaign style games
1:04:37 - The fulfilment factor has to be worth the payoff
1:11:29 - TURN 4 - Konn4ct F4ur
1:19:08 - TURN 5 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Next?
1:29:06 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
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Before Dr. Reiner Knizia invented areas, everyone and everything was simultaneously co-located and yet distant all at the same time. It was primordial chaos. Movement was effectively impossible, as Xeno demonstrated; then Knizia did don his Bow-Tie of Delineation of Time and Space and constrained and liberated us all at once with his invention of areas.
Games Played Last Week:
00:53 -Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gate (Matthew Dunstan, WizKids, 2025)
11:40 -Keyflower (Sebastien Bleasdale & Richard Breese, R&D Games, 2012)
15:36 -I'm Out (Masato Uesugi, CMYK, 2025)
20:01 -No Thanks! (Thorsten Gimmler, CMYK, 2025)
25:18 -My Very First Games: Let's Be Veterinarians (Kristin Mückel, HABA, 2024)
27:30 -The Quest for El Dorado: The Golden Temples (Reiner Knizia, Ravensburger, 2019)
31:55 -Peloponnes (Bernd Eisenstein, Irongames, 2009)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
37:48 Renegade reprint of Lords of Waterdeep (with expansion)
39:29 Renegade G.I. Joe Heroscape
43:06 Render unto us your questions! Ask us anything for Omnibus Questions
43:26 Feature Game: The Hobbit: There and Back Again (Reiner Knizia, Office Dog, 2025)
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UPDATE - WE GOT ONE RULE WRONG ON DRAGONARIUM, MAKING THE GAME HARDER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN!
We SAID that you were supposed to move your assistant and ONLY place a gem on the FINAL spot where the assistant stopped. THE REAL RULE is that you place a gem on a spot in EACH COLUMN OR ROW you get to as you move. That makes the game less difficult and opens up the chances to gain more dragons, which is a VERY good thing!
This week we check out a fun card game, and then preview a very cool puzzle game with dragons!
First up is Meister Makatsu by Reiner Knizia from AMIGO where each player had their own deck and you're tryin gto avoid taking points.
Then we place domino-style tiles and hope to birth dragons in
Dragonarium by Wei Chang and Kuan Chen from Wonderful World Board Games
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