Strap on your jackboots! It's time for a veritable military parade of a podcast, impressive and pacy but nonetheless going on for slightly too long. Games covered include A Feast to Die For , Quadropolis , Fairy Tale , Pandemic: Contagion and Dear Leader , as well as the long-awaited second half of our spoiler-filled Pandemic Legacy chat! Don't worry about that particular minefield. It's very clearly signposted at the end of the podcast. Following a startlingly unprofessional li...
Jun 15, 2016•1 hr 29 min
Psst! Down here! Climb into this cramped cave of chat with us. There's room for one more person. In what could well be our most feature-filled podcast ever, Matt, Paul and Quinns discuss Torchbearer , Merchant of Venus , Dragon Farkle , The Red Dragon Inn and the concept of playing board games in virtual reality, before getting down to (yet another) peculiarly erotic folk game. But wait! There's more! Quinns snagged video game designer Soren Johnson of Offworld Trading Company t...
Jun 01, 2016•1 hr 25 min
Matt, Paul and Quinns have met once again to create a board gaming Voltron! Albeit one with three hearts and no brain. Games discussed in this prestigious 40th episode include And Then We Held Hands , Ra , Through the Ages , FUSE and A Fake Artist Goes to New York . If you're looking for the Tuesday Knight Games podcast featuring Matt, you'll find it right here . We also chat about board game boxes and sustainability and end with a lovely interview with Plaid Hat's lead designer and lead art dir...
Apr 20, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Paul, Matt and guest star Jonathan Ying come to us LIVE from GDC 2016 discuss the hottest new board games! And by "hottest" we mean "weirdest" (and by "new" we mean "old"). Designer Tim Fowers stopped by our lounge to demo his games to us, the sneaktacular co-op Burgle Bros and deck-building word-builder Paperback . Fantasy Flight designer and friend of the show Mr. Ying showed us Brawl , a real-time card game that just this month enjoyed a reprint. There's also Dancing Eggs , which we inflicted...
Mar 23, 2016•50 min
Welcome back to the podcastle! Not to be outdone after listener Alex Cannon contributed a jingle for last episode, Matt's made yet another jingle. Ready your body! Lube up your ears. It's got a harmony. You've been warned. As for games, we chat about Liar’s Dice , Arboretum , the new editions of Archaeology , and Elevenses: The Card Game of Morning Tea AND new releases 504 and Power Grid: The Stock Companies . Plus our folk game of the month, of course. It's not just Friedemann Friese who can pa...
Feb 17, 2016•1 hr 6 min
Matt, Quinns and Paul return for 2016! New games discussed include Billionaire Banshee , Flick 'em Up and Marrying Mr. Darcy . Old games discussed include Tikal and Pictomania . Million year-old games discussed include The Fun Stick Game. Most importantly of all, our jingle roster has grown! Huge thanks to SU&SD fan Alex Cannon for sending in a folksy sting for Folk Game of the Month. Perhaps we should make a quick round of Billionaire Banshee a regular feature too... ? Billionaire Banshee ,...
Jan 13, 2016•54 min
Hey kids! It's the SU&SD podcast, the perfect background noise when polishing, sharpening or simply admiring a knife. Paul's back from BoardGameGeek Con with stories to tell! Quinns joins him for a discussion of the pleasing heft of The Gallerist , the 2nd edition of Stronghold , the mixed-up genres of Above and Below , and the gentle joy of Porta Nigra . There's also Walk the Dogs , which sounds rubbish. Finally, the two discuss an email they received all about classic knife games. Is there...
Dec 02, 2015•1 hr 2 min
Oh god. Sit down. The new podcast is out, and we've peaked. We'll never have a lineup like this again. Last week we enjoyed exclusive access to scalding-hot 2016 Fantasy Flight epic Star Wars: Rebellion , and on this podcast we want to tell you all about the fun we had with it. But that's not all! We also discuss our time with the wonderful new edition of Fury of Dracula , return to Star Wars: Armada and Quinns has sat down with Jeff Cannata of the DLC Podcast for a (well signposted) spoiler-rid...
Nov 12, 2015•1 hr 8 min
In what could be our most exciting reader mail ever , Quinns has helped a marine biologist pick some board games to take to the above Antarctic research station for 18 months. Tune in next year to hear how those games fared against penguins, boredom and the deadliest winters on planet Earth. But that's not all! Join Paul and Quinns as they walk the tightrope of talking about Pandemic Legacy without spoiling a darn thing. Listen as they discuss other Game of the Year candidates Codenames and Myst...
Oct 22, 2015•1 hr 13 min
Market research tells us that the median SU&SD reader is, at a given moment, most likely to be thatching their mead hall. How boring! You'd best pop our 33rd ever podcast on in the background. Matt and Quinns are desperate to talk about their crippling Infinity habit, while Paul's been playing the beloved game of Battlecon . We've got a quick interview with Fantasy Flight CEO Christian Petersen where he answers such lovely questions as "What happens to board games that don't sell" and "What ...
Sep 16, 2015•1 hr 7 min
My god! 32 podcasts in and we're finally approaching "professional". Paul, Matt and Quinns discuss the bold new Game of Thrones card game and think back on classic lie-athon Battlestar Galactica , before clearing the floor for an interview with veteran designer Eric Lang (Quarriors, XCOM: The Board Game , Chaos in the Old World). We close with a quick trip to the SU&SD mailbag and an impromptu game show(!). We've done it, ladies and gents. It's all downhill from here. A Game of Thrones: The ...
Sep 02, 2015•1 hr 11 min
(This podcast is also available as a video .) Last year team SU&SD hustled 300 people into a dingy Gen Con annex to record a live podcast . It was incredible. So this year we did it again! After a shaky start where Matt, Quinns and Pip realise their audience is only there to hear about their hotel, the board game chat begins in earnest. We discuss the croquet mallets of T.I.M.E. Stories, the wandering chicken nuggets of Evolution and waste disposal in The Bloody Inn. Then it's time for QUEST...
Aug 07, 2015•55 min
You ever eat Nerd Rope ? Just an endlessly long, glutinous tongue, speckled with sour little gobbets? That's basically the 30th ever SU&SD podcast. On this lengthy journey of no less than one hour and one minute, we discuss the absence of bitterness in the magnificent Forbidden Stars . We chat about the sheer joy of Funemployed (alas, we're still waiting on the European release), and the sweet coloured pebbles of Trajan . The Saturday morning cartoon-looking reimagining of Catacombs has reac...
Jul 09, 2015•1 hr 2 min
Now Quinns is back from the UK Games Expo, we slid a microphone under the door of the con-tamination chamber to record a new podcast! Paul's got questions about the sublime Welcome to the Dungeon , the prototype of Vlaada's Codenames and Quinns' performance at the UK Netrunner Nationals. But that's not all! Quinns is starved for company and wants to know about the games Paul's been playing: For the Crown and 7 Ronin , which both sound great. There's also some discussion of Knightmare Chess , mos...
Jun 03, 2015•1 hr 1 min
Sometimes Team SU&SD can be compared to a marching band, except instead of playing musical instruments we make awful mistakes, and instead of moving forward we stay in the same place forever. Not today, though! Today, in podcast #28, we prove our competence. Paul discusses overcoming Panamax 's awful manual to discover the fabulous game within, while Matt and Quinns discuss the great time they had leading civilizations in both Nations and Imperial Settlers . Finally, we discuss Paul's new, p...
Apr 30, 2015•1 hr 6 min
STOP! This is the police. You're under arrest for being in possession of 27th Shut up & Sit Down podcast. I'm afraid it's very illegal indeed. First there was that scaremongering at the beginning about ghosts in Mysterium . Then they openly discussed how they were underqualified for their work as politicians in the recent Megagame , detectives in Consulting Detective and alchemists in Alchemists . Then there was Quinns' segment on the most morally questionable games in all of the board game ...
Apr 08, 2015•54 min
Matt, Quinns and Paul re-unite in a stuffy room to discuss all the marvelous games they've seen on their travels around North America, the forgotten continent. We get off to a civilized start with Bring Your Own Book and the delicate negotiation of Dragon's Gold , followed by total regression into childhood and the beautiful miniatures and deadly turbolasers of Imperial Assault . Finally, Matt's heard rumours of a folk game that's all about ruining things. But that's all they are... rumours... B...
Mar 25, 2015•54 min
Paul : Here's the story of how I bunked off school to play a board game and how that board game changed my life. Saying that immediately makes me excited to tell it.
Mar 25, 2015•17 min
After discovering everything he was taught about chess to be wrong, Brendan goes on a quest to learn the game properly, in this special feature on the ancient pastime.
Mar 25, 2015•23 min
First things first, huge thanks to Vitaliy Zavadskyy for gifting our podcast with some magical intro and outro themes. The UK finally has a second radio show to be proud of after the BBC World Service. In this episode Paul's been hard at work testing Spyfall , Panamax and The Witcher Adventure Game as well as continuing to plumb the depths of the new edition of D&D . Meanwhile, Matt and Quinns do their best to get in his way. Quinns wants everybody to play his new on-air banana game and Matt...
Feb 04, 2015•54 min
Oho! What's this? Board gaming's most excitable hour of chatter is back, as Matt and Quinns discuss everything they played and saw over the New Year, including a visit to London's first board game cafe . After that, this one's all about crap houses. The boys discuss the terrible property investments they made in Last Will and the Getting Sacked expansion , Matt makes fun of Quintin's horrible estate in Castles of Mad King Ludwig , before finally the boys discuss how being tall makes it harder to...
Jan 14, 2015•1 hr 14 min
Quinns spent his youth as a "Keeper of Drinking Games". Whenever him and his friends were boozing as kids, in those empty kitchens or under trees, he'd lay the games out. He wants to share a few with the world now, before he dies. A written transcript is available here , and Brendan's essay on craic is here ....
Dec 05, 2014•16 min
For our 23rd podcast Paul and Quinns discuss board games past, present and future. That sounds more hifalutin than it probably is. We begin by discussing the consenting tentacle sex of Consentacle , and how our next live podcast will be an excuse to review Cat on Yer Head . We fret about Prophecy , chat about Tammany Hall , ponder Istanbul and gossip about Warhammer 40,000: Conquest , a game of war, war and more war. And don't forget Shadows in the Woods ! It almost slipped us by. Post-podcast w...
Nov 13, 2014•1 hr
Last month Grant Howitt Kickstarted a silly RPG called Goblin Quest . A game where players take the role of a steady stream of goblins trying to compete banal tasks, but mostly just dying along the way. This week Grant sent us a preview of one of the variants in the back of the book, titled "Sean Bean Quest". The less you know about this the better. Just hit play and enjoy Matt, Paul and Quinns approaching never-before-seen levels of silliness....
Oct 30, 2014•1 hr 2 min
Halloween is upon us! That wonderful time of the year where bumps are forcibly inserted into the night, and we can bookend our podcast with creaky door sound effects. In this horrifying installment we discuss the gore-flecked teenagers of Zombie 15' , the forbidden pouches of Sheriff of Nottingham , the... uh... terrifying suburbs and sidewalks of Subdivision , before finally giving up and chatting about the new edition of D&D , indie RPG Dog Eat Dog and Paul's trip to FiraxiCon. Listen... I...
Oct 16, 2014•1 hr 18 min
Our very 21st podcast is a magical journey into the realm of card games. We start in our Lifeboat , fall into Bruno Cathala's undersea Abyss , and wash up in the exotic Eastern home of Samurai Spirit , Panda Poker and Seiji Kanai's Say Bye to the Villains . Matt, Quinns and Paul have played all of these games, but that's not the best part. It turns out we can't agree about a single one of them. Abyss , Samurai Spirit , Lifeboat , Say Bye to the Villains , Pandánte...
Aug 27, 2014•1 hr 2 min
At Gen Con 2014 we hosted a special, live podcast for 300 of our closest fans. It was unbelievable. If you were there, thank you. If you weren't there, contained within is us yammering about the new XCOM board game , Ca$h 'n Guns and one huge game of Two Rooms and a Boom , before running two games of our own! True (or False) Dungeon and Question Jenga. It's more madness than you can shake a sedative at....
Aug 20, 2014•54 min
Yes, we're still playing the Star Wars: Edge of Empire roleplaying game! No, our intrepid gang of sob stories and space-wastrels hasn't been arrested yet. In session #3 the gang stretch their luck to the very limits by attempting a heist at the height of a terrible electric storm. And... oh, no. Are they really pretending to be musicians as a cover story? With no knowledge of music, and no musical paraphernalia at all? Star Wars: Edge of the Empire , Role-Playing Games...
Aug 12, 2014•34 min
For the month of June 2014, Leigh played a deadly femme fatale in a month long watergun assassination game. This is her story of stalking her prey, shivering in bushes and battling the most dangerous enemy of all. GUILT. A companion podcast where Leigh, Paul and Quinns review the game itself is just over here , and a written transcript is available here ....
Aug 06, 2014•18 min
In June, Paul, Leigh and Quinns took part in a month-long, city-wide, entirely ludicrous watergun assassination game. In podcast #19 they cast off their disguises, holster their leaky weapons and assemble for the official SU&SD review. A downloadable .pdf of Killer by Steve Jackson is available right here , the official Streetwars site is here and Leigh's AMAZING story of her time as a murderess is just over here ....
Aug 06, 2014•51 min
