In this new paradigm in Shut Up & Sit Down Podcasting history, Tom and Quinns are chatting about what they think the board game industry holds for us all… in 2023! Expect a series of 5 completely uninformed opinions laced with ‘reckons’ and ‘guesses’ - all with a competitive twist. We're hoping to circle back on this episode in 2024 and be overjoyed by quite how wrong we are.
Have a great weekend, everybody!

#205 - Our 2023 Board Game Predictions!

Games

Leisure

On this freshly sloganed episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily huddle around the boardgame campfire to tell tales about games of old. Or new. They’re all new games and I’ve wasted this pastoral image in an unfitting manner. Too late now! Nobody reads these descriptions and I’ve got stuff to do! We’ve gotta get going! 
On this podcast we talk about Kinfire Chronicles: Nights Fall, Hollywood 1947, and Vampire Village - a fine crop of funky boards.
Have a great weekend!
Timestamps:
04:12 - Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall
20:04 - Hollywood 1947
31:17 - Vampire Village

#254 - Dungeons & Directors

On this battered episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are making batteries in Salton Sea, eating batteries in After Us, and getting battered in Dobro! It’s the battery special, officially sponsored by Duracell and the horrible bunny that we all hate.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
03:27 - Salton Sea
22:13 - After Us
38:53 - Dobro

#253 - batteries.

On this mildly unhinged episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily are taking on a double-bill of two player games followed by a BIG CHUNKY BOX. First up is Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel - a two-player only version of the bag-busting (sorry) classic! We then chat about the ying to Quacks’ yang in the highly-tactical time-bending fish-em-up Fisheries of Gloucester! Finally, we chat about Bloodstones - a divisive strategy game that Tom bravely defends and recklessly batters.


It’s a good pod! We had a lot of fun! I hope you can tell!


Have a great weekend, everybody!


Timestamps:
05:20 - The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel
14:58 - Fisheries of Gloucester
25:28 - Bloodstones

#252 - Just Two Players, Looking For A Third

On this almost chiaroscuro episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Pip are chatting about games that could not be more different. First up, Rats of Wistar - a crunchy engine-building game with rats and cards and being as efficient as possible within a strict turn limit. That’s followed up with Dro Polter and Rafter Five - two Oink games that are some of their silliest yet.
Have a great weekend, everybody!


Timestamps:
02:10 - Rats of Wistar
25:11 - Dro Polter
36:33 - Rafter Five

#251 - Tom and Pip's Haunted Rat Raft

On this chronologically consistent episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Emily are rambling their way through three whole games! We’re talking about Ito - a relaxed party game about untangling your pals’ opinions! We’re talking about CATAN: Starfarers Duel - a two-player-only version of Catan: Starfarers that’s weird and wonky! AND we’re talking about Faraway - a game about doing everything in reverse.
Have a great weekend, everybody!


Timestamps:
1:26 - Ito
8:17 - CATAN: Starfarers Duel
22:43 - Faraway



#205 - Our 2023 Board Game Predictions!

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