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Thank you so, so much to the kind folks who keep this little adventure into board games pottering along every year. You’re the absolute best. The cats pajamas! Shut Up & Sit Down literally wouldn’t exist without your generosity and attention, and we so appreciate it. Thank you, thank you!

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5 MORE Great New Board Games!

This week on SU&SD, Tom’s absolutely dissolving himself in “Peak BST” to bring you no less than FIVE great new board games for you to touch and prod with your real human hands! It’s the return of the feature you all know and love, now with (sadly) 100% less Adrian Brody.

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Review: Dark Pact

This week on SU&SD, we’re taking a look at Dark Pact – a deckbuilding game that wants you to tear it apart as fast as possible. Is that good? Do we LIKE IT? WHO KNOWS!?

Tom puts his thoughts into this little morsel of video, which does contain more ritual sacrifice than usual.

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Review: LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers Trick-Taking Games

One Ring to give to Thomas, One Ring to give to The Lord of The Rings: The Tricktaking Game(s). Why? ‘Cos they’re about to get married at a big cardboard altar, and enjoy many years of love and companionship together.

We initially covered these games on a podcast way back in February of 2025; and we even got the rules a bit wrong just for fun! Since then, Tom’s been playing Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers nonstop with basically anybody who doesn’t run away immediately – and has now  made this here video commemorating a newfound love of all things Orcs.

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Review: Luthier

Legend says that if you collect every single instrument in Luthier, then Beethoven himself will come downstairs to give you a little kiss on the cheek, mwah. Thanks, Lud. That’ll do nicely.

This week we’re taking a look at Luthier – the ornate eurogame of turning hair into music! But what’s the score, eh? EH? Like a musical score? Never mind.

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