Shut Up & Sit Down

Come on up! Make yourself at home in our twiggy podcast nest, where Paul and Quinns are ready to regurgitate some warmed-up board game knowledge into your waiting beak. This episode features the quietly fabulous tile-laying of Gunkimono . There's Taj Mahal , the fourth in a fantastic series of beautiful Reiner Knizia remakes. We've had a first play of Trade on the Tigris , a new negotiatio...

Can you hear a distant rumble of people applauding, firing party poppers and doing synchronised donuts in their cars? Don't panic! Nothing could be more natural when our post-Gen Con podcast rolls around. It's possible that there's never been such a diverse and exciting array of games tucked into a single SU&SD podcast. Today, Paul and Quinns exchange first impressions of Keyforge:...

Pop on your monocle and climb into your biggest chair, because this is a podcast where we are most definitely the bad guys. First off, Matt and Quinns discuss the be-hyped box of Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game with the help of some royalty-free music. Next, the pair shatter a few dreams with their description of Disney's Villainous board game. There's then a quick discussion of Crypt...

Everybody, pick up your pencils! No, you're not having another stress dream about being back at school. We've just finally found a roll-n-write game that we absolutely love. It's called Welcome To , and podcast #82 starts with an explanation of what it is, and why you should get excited for the release date in September. And that's just the beginning of this... peculiarly positive...

Hot damn! We've got some smokin' exclusives for you today. In this podcast we chat about our playtest of Reef , the next game in the series that brought us Azul . We gossip about Newspeak , a great-looking code-cracking game that will be arriving on Kickstarter imminently. We offer our thoughts on the fabulous labour of love Museum , which has yet to make its way to Kickstarter backers. Ma...

Oho, this episode of the award-winning Shut Up & Sit Down podcast has more scoops than sweet shop, and is just as sweet. We found out that learning geography CAN be fun in the tense game of Destination X . We learned that Lowlands is the best Uwe Rosenberg game since A Feast for Odin, and it isn't even designed by Uwe Rosenberg. We learned that the amazing-looking Starship Samurai is, perh...

Excuse me, are you ready to report for jury duty? In this episode of our award-winning podcast, Matt, Quinns and Paul discuss the hellish lumber management of Lignum , the lumbering hell-management of Huns , they have a troubling conversation about Holding on: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr and have a good laugh about Band Manager: The Boardgame . After that? This show throws open the doors of th...

Rain falling on cracked windowpanes. Once-boisterous assembly rooms, now silent. Mr. Paul stalks the halls of his once-proud lamp factory, his mind a warren of regret.  How did my business venture go so wrong? Excitingly, this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast Paul and Quinns discuss their experience of running 19th century factories in the ENORMOUS game of Arkwright .  Also, there's...

HONK! After a long journey, the latest Shut Up & Sit Down podcast is now docking with your ears. The pinnacle of opinion-container technology, it's 400 metres long bow to stern (but you shouldn't feel a thing since it's largely metaphorical). The thing is, the boys have finally played Container , a ridiculous economic game that'll be enjoying a similarly ridiculous new "Ju...

It's been a while since the last podcast, but we've not been idle! Like a board game version of Nintendo's Kirby, over the last month the team has been sucking in experiences and now we're going to expel them at you in a 90 minute special episode. Boomf! In order of appearance, Matt, Quinns and Paul discuss The Mind , Cardline: Animals , Bye-Bye Black Sheep , Kemet: Set (which is s...

This week, Matt, Paul and Quinns reunited in a hotel! We didn't record them all crying with joy for five minutes straight, but we  did record them sitting down afterwards to discuss some board games. First off, the team discuss stress-testing some of their favourite games from the last year at the 2018 Game Developer's Convention in San Francisco. Did Ethnos , Fog of Love , Azul or Barenpa...

Everybody, please remain in your seats with your seatbelts securely fastened. We're expecting some turbulence. Some turbulent discussions of board games, that is! In this one and only 74th episode of the SU&SD podcast, Matt and Quinns discuss their weird wooden mates in the Journeyman expansion for Isle of Skye . They chat about stabbing nightmares with pencils in Stuffed Fables , which mi...

Who's this, arriving fashionably late in a limousine? Why, it's only a new podcast discussing the winners of the 2017 Pearple's Choice Awards ! Quickly, cinch up your black tie or crawl into the nearest dress before joining us on a discussion of the best games of last year. There's reflection on Gloomhaven , Sagrada , Inis , Captain Sonar , Fog of Love , Azul , Consulting Detective...

IS THIS THE END FOR OUR HEROES?! Matt, Paul and Quinns were last seen launching an expedition to get to the top of the Shut Up & Sit Down review stack. They talked about wanting to scale games like Mountaineers , A Tale of Pirates , The Climbers , the second edition of London and the Munchkin Collectible Card Game  (which actually sounded... quite good?). They were also talking about getting t...

Matt and Paul regroup for a post-festive ramble through the wilderness of sentient cardboard. Paul shares some thoughts on Legacy of Dragonholt and Celestia  - which Matt is comedically unable to recall too clearly. Meanwhile, Matt has been toying with the free co-op app for Imperial Assault  - and compares his experiences with this to the recently-reviewed Gloomhaven , for your pleasure / horror....

Who's feeling cosy? In this final, festive podcast of 2017 Matt and Quinns tuck themselves beneath the Christmas tree before cutting it down for victory points. That was an oblique reference to the first game the pair discuss, the noble Photosynthesis . The boys then get far too excited about cubes  and the possibilities thereof in the absurd game  Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation...

Oh my goodness! Apologies if anyone was looking for a board game,  we seem to have them all here. In this 69th installment of the SU&SD podcast Paul chats about  Charterstone and explains Ex Libris . Matt is fascinated by Fabled Fruit , Fast Forward: Fortress and Fast Forward: Flee . Quinns catalogues Clans of Caledonia and flaps his lips about the  Flamme Rouge: Peloton  expansion as well as...

Matt and Quinns took to the stage at PAX Unplugged for this Very Special Phillysode! The first segment, "Card games that made us feel bad", includes chat about Capital Lux, Hanamikoji and Plums. Then there's "Eurogames that are actually quite good", featuring Pie Town and Altiplano. Finally, the boys move onto their game of the show, and possibly the year: Jacob Jaskov'...

Sixty six podcasts.  Can you imagine such a thing? Try and picture sixty six podcasts lying jumbled-up in a big pile. You can't, can you? Well, today we've made things even stranger by releasing the 67th SU&SD podcast, a spoooOOOoooky Halloween special in which we forgot to do any Halloween-related content of any kind. Instead we talk about how Matt's been groovin' on Gloomhave...

Our 66th ever podcast has been removed, hot & crispy, from the aging oven of our minds! In this instalment Matt, Paul and Quinns try and unpick all of the games they played at SHUX 2017. That means chat about Shifty Eyed Spies , Bargain Quest ,  Hanamikoji , Edge of Darkness , Space Base , When I Dream and Quinns getting a bit aggressive about Meeple Circus ( again ) . We also preview the upco...

Drop everything! Our 65th ever podcast is live, Paul is talking about A Dog's Life and Quinns is on about something called Yummy Yummy Pancake . These are the releases you've been waiting for, right? ...No? Not to worry. We've also got Quinns' exclusive thoughts on the new Netrunner core set  and Paul's advance review of Unearth , as well as chatter about Legend of the Five Rin...

Buckle up, everybody! The 64th  ever Shut Up & Sit Down podcast is here, and it's something of a round the world special. It's Quinns and Paul in the driver's seat once again as they discuss their journey Between Two Cities with the new Capitals expansion . Paul's desperate to discuss the weird creatures he met during Train Heist . The pair examine the fast cars and small compo...

You know what doesn't get enough kudos?  Bags.  Big ones, small ones, soft ones, leathery ones. Where would we be without bags? Walking home from the shops, clutching cucumbers to our chest with onions in our armpits, that's where. Our 63rd podcast is all about great games with some great bags. Paul's been building (and cursing at) stained glass windows in Sagrada , Quinns has been car...

OH MY GOODNESS our 62nd podcast ever  is here! This episode is all about older games, so why not join Paul, Matt and Quinns as they creep across the board game scene like a pack of daring botanists through primeval jungle, jealously cataloguing and scrutinising all that they find. Paul's been inspecting the darling buds of Bruges , a Stefan Feld classic that we're expecting a reprint of an...

Who's hungry? The 61st ever SU&SD podcast is here, and it's an uncomplicated buffet of board games. Do you like it when we talk about board games? Then this is the podcast for you! You can start by letting Matt, Pip and Quinns whet your appetite with talk of the questionable New York Slice and the evocative chaos of Kitchen Rush,  and afterwards they can spill the beans on the excellen...