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SU&SD Play… Whitehall Mystery!

Oh no! Someone (Matt) has been leaving body parts all around London town, and it’s up to “the police” (Quinns and Paul) to BUST HIS CHOPS.

We did a video review of Letters from Whitechapel, but the superior sequel, Whitehall Mystery, only got a written review. Since it’s our favourite hidden movement game, we leapt at the chance to show it off on our new Twitch channel. And what fun we had!

Enjoy, everybody.

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SU&SD Streams Whitehall Mystery, Sep 27th at 2pm EDT!

Quinns: Hey all! Matt, Paul and I will be live on our Twitch page in a few hours, at 7pm BST, 2pm EDT. We’ll be streaming the superb Whitehall Mystery (see my review here), with Matt playing the role of a real-life murderer while Paul and Quinns hunt him down like a weird, tall dog.

If you can’t make the stream, don’t worry about a thing! You’ll be able to watch the stream in its entirety on Twitch as soon as it’s finished, and we’ll be uploading the playthrough itself to YouTube tomorrow evening.

See some of you there! xox

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Podcast #86: Doctor, My Dice Are Bleeding

fish suppers, a plastic oncologist, quintin throws shade at an ivory tower

You dice are bleeding, you say? Not to worry! It’s nothing a podcast won’t fix. Matt and Quinns kick this one off with a big, hairy discussion of Ultimate Werewolf Legacy, which segues into a discussion of legacy games in general. The expected “era of legacy games” is failing to materialise, and they offer some theories as to why. Next up they chat about the smooth operations of V-Commandos, which is about to be re-implemented as an official Assassin’s Creed board game. After that they discuss their time spent nursing cubes back to health in the disturbing (and entertaining!) facilities of Dice Hospital, which was a fun surprise for them both. Finally, they consider the carefully orchestrated fish feasts of Uwe Rosenberg’s Nusfjord. Oh, your dice are still bleeding? Oh dear. Well, try to not get it on the carpet. That’s our advice.

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Games News! 24/09/18

quinns has a couple of spatulas and he knows right where to stick ‘em

Paul: Oof, sometimes you instantly know what must surely be the best Games News announcement of the week. It’s Men At Work, the debut design from Rita Modl, illustrated by the magnificent Chris Quilliams and coming from dexterity experts (aka “dexperts”) Pretzel Games.

Flick ‘em Up was flickin’ fabulous. The co-op Flick ’em Up: Dead of Winter was supposedly excellent. Junk Art was just great. Can they do… what’s the equivalent of a hat trick but for four things?

Quinns: I think it’s a phat trick.

Paul: You just made that up.

Quinns: Yes.

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Review: Root (and the Riverfolk Expansion!)

beaver arms dealers, unflagging felines, sinister muppet-pluckers, a raccoon ronin

A long time ago in a forest far, far away…

This week we’re proud to present our review of Root, which is surely the board game industry’s new beau. A grand, inventive game of cat and mouse, as well fox and bird, and – should you buy the Riverfolk expansion – beaver and lizard.

As Quinns says in the review, everybody involved in this production needs to take a bow. But should you buy it? Click play and find out…

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Review: Gunkimono

multicoloured melee, modest mesas, military mish-mash

Paul: Board games are strange. I never know what I’m going to like next and no matter what preference I profess, I am always, always being surprised in a way that keeps me as skittish as an anxious antelope. Do I like fantasy settings? Sure! Eurogames that emphasise player interaction? Party games of bluffing and misdirection? Definitely!

And yet naming the game that will next make me grin is as exact a science as reading tea leaves blindfolded from across the room. It’s like I’m in a raffle I never entered, holding ticket numbers I can’t read that win one mystery prize after another. Today, Paul, you’re going to enjoy a game where you… pile samurai dominoes on top of each other? Okay!

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Games News! 17/09/18

Fantasy Flight faucet, confounding clown, float your goat

Paul: Very few people know this, but Games News comes to us each week as stories pouring off a waterfall. We stand at the bottom, buckets in hand, catching the very best of this constant, unending flow.

Scurrying back to the Games News Cabin this week, we have pails full of the latest info on a Magic Maze expansion, on Azul’s newest award (that game is doing well) and a game based around a terrible pun. BUT FIRST, shall we take a quick look at the enormous explosion of X-Wing Second Edition, which burst onto the scene this weekend?

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SU&SD Play… Flamme Rouge: Peloton!

bi-boys, project k, stinky raccoons

Fill your camelbak with wine and dust of your helmet, we’re GOING FOR A RIDE!

This Thursday was the inaugural stream from Shut Up & Sit Down’s fancy new Twitch page, and we’ve now uploaded it as a normal Let’s Play video. Please enjoy Paul, Matt and Quinns racing one another in Flamme Rouge, with a few features from the Peloton expansion.

A load of people said that the Twitch chat during our stream was the nicest chat they’ve ever seen, so if you’d like to join the party on our next stream, simply click on over to our Twitch page to discover when that’ll be.

Enjoy, everybody!

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SU&SD’s New Twitch Streaming Starts Thursday!

dang that flamme rouge review is really good, we're great

Quinns: Hey all! This week we usher in a new era of Shut Up & Sit Down.

On Thursday the 13th at 7pm BST (2pm ET), Paul, Matt and I will be doing our first ever board game stream on our Twitch channel. Our first game will be Flamme Rouge with the Peloton expansion, because we don’t feel that we’re done showing off that fantastic, blisteringly simple box.

Assuming none of our tech catches fire, we’ll be streaming in the same time, same place, every two weeks!

If you can’t make those times, don’t worry about a thing. Not only will you be able to watch all of our past streams right here, we’ll be popping the video on YouTube the following day.

This also means that – yes! – in the weeks where SU&SD doesn’t post a video review, we’ll be posting a Let’s Play instead, so you can enjoy a new SU&SD video every single Friday.

Huge thanks to our donors for helping us to get this new adventure off the ground. We’re all really excited about not just showing the Twitch audience what modern board games are, but how to enjoy them. So many people find board games intimidating, and we want to offer something a lot more intimate and casual.

See you on Thursday!

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Games News! 10/09/2018

a tangential experience, a tiger squirrel, a robot dinosaur, please no not county jail

Paul: Today’s Games News comes bursting through your front door like a SWAT team seizing all your pirate DVDs. Why DO you have quite so many pirate DVDs? Why haven’t you moved on to Blu-ray? These are questions we’ve all been asking and I guess you’ll have plenty of time to ponder them in the COUNTY JAIL.

ANYWAY, Pandemic: Fall of Rome is on the way from Z-Man Games, it puts a new spin on the the classic cube-busting series and… I can also reveal that I’ve already tried it.

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