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On this glittering and golden episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are sitting atop a dragonâs hoard of card board! Wahey! Thatâs what we in the business like to call âRhyme Styleâ, and you can find many examples of it in the youthmusic of today :)
Right atop the pile is the latest from frivolity enjoyers Weast Coast - Loners! Itâs a card game that has an entire clown car of variably ripped dudes. Proceed with caution! Hachi Machi!!! We follow that up with the latest game from the Reiner Knizia Cardboard Industrial Complex: Gold Country! Itâs camel speculation. Youâll see what we mean. Last but by no means least, Matt chats about some strange dream he had about a kind of figure-of-eight draconic salad spinner - completely unrelated to our discussion of 8 Dragons.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
2:47 - Loners
12:57 - Gold Country
23:24 - 8 Dragons -
On this delicately preserved episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are venturing through a rolling landscape of cardboard and canned fish.
Moytura and Azure are the latest double-bill of mythological titles from Bitewing Games, and have gotten Tom and Matt all excited about abstraction. We follow these beasties with the briny offerings of Conservas - a solo game about making sure youâve got juuust enough fish to turn into canned delicacies to be consumed en masse by TikTokers (we presume). And finally, Matt enters his happy place: putting numbers into boxes. Daydream is a roll-and-write with a charming presentation that, like the very best games, hides a crunchy coreâŠ
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:34 - Moytura
13:00 - Azure
23:08 - Conservas
29:57 - Daydream
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On this starchy episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have been playing a clutch of GREAT LILâ GAMES!
First up is Yotei - a tableau builder centered around everyoneâs favourite not-quite-a-vegetable: âThe Potatoâ. Weâre following that up with a double dip of Operation Barclay and Evenfall - a podcasting first! Never before have military officials and covens of witches been so closely intertwined. Finally, weâre locking, stocking, and smoking all of our various barrels in Rattlesnake - a contender for one of our very favourite card games this year.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
00:43 - Yotei
10:17 - Operation Barclay
24:02 - Evenfall
36:05 - Rattlesnake
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On this constantly revolving episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are perusing a gargantuan grocery store of games. This one stocks four whole games! Can you believe it?
First up is Market Fresh - a Kramer and Kiesling reimplementation that Mattâs played, and Tom is chomping to. We follow that with a quick spritz of Echoes of Emperors - a game that crunches the computer strategy genre into cardboard form, and close out the podcast with a double bill of flippers; Fliptoons and Flip Pick Towers.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:03 - Market Fresh
11:20 - Echoes of Emperors
17:46 - Fliptoons
26:39 - Flip Pick Towers -
On this adjective-riddled* episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are sorting through approximately one standard carry-on worth of cardboard luggage!
Matt brings The Great Sea to the table - the latest Garphill excursion into ancient history. Whatâs in this bit of history? Mostly water, it seems. With boats on it! Theyâre like houses that float? Youâll get the hang of it.
Dark Pact is our second game, and feels like a deckbuilder broke free of containment, and has been growing all manner of new limbs whilst weâre not looking. Essentially a race to break the game as fast as humanly possible, itâs gotten Tom rather perplexed.
And finally - Typeset - a game designed by the monstrously talented folks at DVC Games. Just when you think youâve seen everything in a word game, one comes along and gets you spelling âTOGWOFâ.
Have a great week, everybody!
*Only some adjectives are present in this episode - and indeed all episodes - of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast.
Timestamps:
02:01 - The Great Sea
17:35 - Dark Pact
28:24 - Typeset
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On this VIOLENT episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom engage in gladiatorial combat to finally decide who is the ULTIMATE BOARD-BOY!
We begin our gauntlet with a bout of âNeko Syndicateâ - a BLOODY game of cats making sushi deliveries in a sort of tableau-building pyramid! Itâs nasty stuff.
Round 2 threatens an EXPLOSIVE END in âBombustersâ - a co-operative family game where various anthropomorphised rabbits deal with increasingly complicated explosives. Red wire? Yellow wire? Either way? Prepare for an absolutely brutal listening experience.
Then, the knockout punch! âOff With Their Heads!â is our grand finale, and has you rolling* (punches), writing (wills)... and playing (cards)? Sounds peaceful, yeah? Well itâs only got a flippinâ GUILLOTINE in the title!! Itâs going to be an utter casserole.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:06 - Neko Syndicate
14:34 - Bombusters
24:12 - Off With Their Heads!
*Thereâs no actual rolling, but that can be our little secret.
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On this Edenic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom strip down to their bare cheeks to chat about games wot are all about âOutside, like birds and thatâ.
First up is Nature; a game that takes 2014âs Evolution and 2020âs Oceans, and hydraulically compacts them into one biodegradable box. Not just one box, mind, but a whole ecosystem of modules and traits thatâll get your neighbourhood zoologist all hot under the collar.
Thatâs then followed by a slice of Perch - a surprisingly lethal âpigeon control gameâ in which you stack birds atop a vicious fountain. Iâd imagine itâs what those pesky sky rats would be doing with their spare time too, if they werenât so busy defecating
Finally we hitch a ride on the great grey car of the savanna in Tembo - an elephant road trip thatâs way more cruel than it has any right to be. Tomâs taken great pains to crack this one open, and feast on all the delicious game-goo contained therein.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:46 - Nature
16:58 - Perch
24:41 - TEMBO: Survival on the Savanna
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On this absolutely soaked episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are getting drenched in two positively sopping releases.First up, our intrepid explorers plunge into the depths of Thesauros! Itâs got scubas, itâs got sharks, itâs got sunken treasures! All wrapped up in a slate-grey layer of project management and fund allocation.
And following the adventurous land of âThe Ocean(s)â, our lads point at a few seagulls, bins, and plant pots in the cosy Welsh town and game: Tenby! Who will have the most porches?! Who will find the most relevant landmarks? Itâs all to play for in the quaintest Tenby-builder on the market today.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:16 - Thesauros
17:30 - Tenby
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On this slippy olâ episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about Emberleaf; a game of woodland creatures amassing honey and battering bandits! âLike Pooh gone all vigilante on them assesâ.
Our dynamic duo then seek to area control eachother in a WORTH WRESTLE! Whose critical opinion on this luminous box will come out on top? Neither, really. Theyâre both pretty chill about the whole thing. Everyoneâs allowed opinions - even YOU!
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:19 - Emberleaf
16:20 - Wroth
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On this post-apocalyptic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, weâve got the last remaining swigs of game in this here canteen - donât gulp it all to yourself, now! Share nicelyâŠ
First up is Phoenix New Horizon, a game of building post-apocalyptic power networks and trying to get a promotion. Thatâs followed by a slightly spoilery chat about Regicide Legacy - a game that asks the bold question; âWhat If Regicide, But Legacy?â. The podâs rounded off with a quick chat about Zenithâs standard two-player mode, and spicy four player variant! Just like⊠never mind.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:49 - Phoenix New Horizon
17:57 - Regicide Legacy
27:13 - Regicide Legacy Spoilers
33:31 - Zenith
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On this gloopy episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are donning their Memory Marigolds and getting elbow-deep in the past; recalling titles played all the way back in November 2025 (imagine!).
Expect rambling thoughts about a whole cluster of games played at PAXU 2025, and a few other sneaky additions to the lineup last-minute.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:14 - Epona
10:19 - Joyride: Full Throttle
13:42 - Petiquette
17:32 - Wiggle Roulette
20:34 - Pick ân Packers
28:31 - This Is Not A Game About A Pipe
34:43 - No Loose Ends
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On this ticked-off episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are rambling about the box-ticking bonanza âTendâ as well as the chronologically questionable âTake Timeâ!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:19 - Tend
23:31 - Take Time
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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.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:14 - 12 Rivers
12:43 - Hot Streak
26:41 - Magical Athlete
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On this subsequent episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are returning to a couple of the games they were excited about in the Essen Special, as well as covering one that was missed from the billing!
Excuse the occasional odd buzzing on this one - we tried to scrub it as much as possible but there's only so much you can do to heal a dodgy microphone before you start making Matt sound like a blender.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:33 - Winning Ticket
15:41 - Feyaâs Swamp
37:04 - Sanctuary
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On this FULL CAPS CHUNKY episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about all of the games they played at Essen 2025!
This is an audio-only reupload of the video we just put out on the main channel - so if youâd like to enjoy a physical tier list alongside these wobbly words? Then thatâs where it is, and will be, forever and ever.
Excuse the mildly iffy audio on this one!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
<strong>Timestamps:</strong>
01:00 - Chemical Overload
07:50 - Collect!
12:45 - Tolleno
19:05 - A Carnivore Did It!
21:40 - Echoes of Time
23:55 - Pyradice
29:07 - Tax The Rich
32:09 - 3 Witches
37:53 - Agent Avenue
43:33 - Recall
46:59 - Feyaâs Swamp
54:43 - Wie Die Karnikel
58:20 - Milch Mit AbfĂŒhrmittel
1:03:34 - Big Shot
1:08:07 - Night Soil
1:11:24 - The White Castle: Duel
1:16:58 - National Economy
1:21:05 - Railway Boom
1:23:38 - Pulitzer
1:30:28 - Sanctuary
1:34:29 - River Rats
1:39:32 - Ghost Lift
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On this flexibly numerical episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are, you guessed it, talking once again about games with CARDS, BOARDS, and DICE! In exactly that order - each game picking up a new component like a hungry Katamari.
First up is Duel for Cardia - a perplexing little two-player dueller that lets you hop back in time to un-win your opponent - swiftly followed by 20 Strong, a solo-only game of clobbering a wolf. Or escaping a dream! Or becoming an alien. Itâs a modular game system, you see.
Finally, weâre chatting about Vantage - an open-world board game thatâs one of 2025âs biggest! And Tomâs feeling all confused about itâŠ
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Timestamps:
02:12 - Duel for Cardia
11:23 - 20 Strong
25:37 - Vantage
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Usually the moniker of âCosy Gameâ is a snug portent of mild-mannered fun - a thoroughly whelming box thatâs pleasant enough, but doesnât 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 expectedâŠ
Weâre talking Frogs and Rabbits and Crows in âA Wild Ventureâ, Trains and Cars and Passengers in âRailroad Tilesâ, and Lakes and Lakes and Lakes and LAKES in CascadiaâŠ. Alpine Lakes!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Timestamps:
02:54 - A Wild Venture
16:20 - Railroad Tiles
27:43 - Cascadia: Alpine Lakes -
This week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, weâre 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 Ordersâ Samurai Sequel: âSengoku Jidaiâ - and, within it, has perhaps found a game thatâs too small for even our perma-shrunk noggins.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Timestamps:
02:44 - Tag Team
15:09 - Suna Valo
23:54 - General Orders: Sengoku Jidai
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Itâs just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and heâs taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical floorboards. They wouldnât fit through the real floorboards. Thatâd be silly. And we donât do silly, here.
Let us know what you think of these episodes! Theyâre a little unusual, but quite fun to make in a pinch!
Timestamps:
02:21 - Joraku
07:33 - Calimala
12:35 - Tofu Shifu
16:52 - March of the Ants
23:34 - Beaver House
26:24 - Naishi
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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. Iâm really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouille joke, but itâs not coming naturally. âBeavertouille, he only does Dams this time?â. I donât know. Get out of my restaurant.
Timestamps:
01:52 - Hutan: Life in the Rainforest
12:50 - Flash Point: Legacy of Flame
32:27 - Timber Town - Laat meer zien
