Usually the moniker of ‘Cosy Game’ is a snug portent of mild-mannered fun - a thoroughly whelming box that’s pleasant enough, but doesn’t tickle us for more than a couple plays. But this week on the podcast? Matt and Tom are chatting about a whole bunch of cosy games that surprised them, with a bit more pep than might have been expected…We’re talking Frogs and Rabbits and Crows in ‘A Wild Venture’, Trains and Cars and Passengers in ‘Railroad Tiles’, and Lakes and Lakes and Lakes and LAKES in Cascadia…. Alpine Lakes!Have a great weekend, everyone!Timestamps:02:54 - A Wild Venture16:20 - Railroad Tiles27:43 - Cascadia: Alpine Lakes
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#282 - Two Player Town (Population Two)
This week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’re talking two players! Tag Team is a head-to-head brawler, and Suna Valo is exactly the same, but for farms! Finally, Matt waxes lyrical about General Orders’ Samurai Sequel: ‘Sengoku Jidai’ - and, within it, has perhaps found a game that’s too small for even our perma-shrunk noggins.Have a great weekend, everyone!Timestamps: 02:44 - Tag Team15:09 - Suna Valo23:54 - General Orders: Sengoku Jidai
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#281 - Tom’s Game Gauntlet II: The Return of ‘Game Gauntlet’
It’s just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and he’s taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical floorboards. They wouldn’t fit through the real floorboards. That’d be silly. And we don’t do silly, here.Let us know what you think of these episodes! They’re a little unusual, but quite fun to make in a pinch!Timestamps: 02:21 - Joraku07:33 - Calimala12:35 - Tofu Shifu16:52 - March of the Ants23:34 - Beaver House26:24 - Naishi
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#280 - The Firefighters of the Rainforest
Three kinds of wood, all alike in dignity. Except one of them is on fire, and one of them has a lot of toothy rodents in it. I’m really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouille joke, but it’s not coming naturally. ‘Beavertouille, he only does Dams this time?’. I don’t know. Get out of my restaurant.Timestamps:01:52 - Hutan: Life in the Rainforest12:50 - Flash Point: Legacy of Flame32:27 - Timber Town
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#279 - The Very Timely PAX East Episode
PAX East! Truly the highlight of everyone’s July!For whatever reason, it’s taken us absolutely ages to get round to covering the board games that we played at PAX East - but better late than never! This is especially true in this pod right here, where we’ve got three hot servings of board game to ladle directly into the laps of our ravenous listenership. We’ve got a starter and dessert made of space - with Galileo Galilei and Moon Colony Bloodbath protecting a gooey fantasy center all made of Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship!Have a great weekend, everybody!Timestamps: 03:18 - Galileo Galilei18:16 - Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship31:18 - Moon Colony Bloodbath
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