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SHUX’19 Event Schedule
SHUX'19 Events - Friday
When: Friday Oct. 4, 9am-4pm
Where: The Megagame Room
In this Battlestar Galatica-inspired megagame, a small fleet of interstellar vessels tries to survive while maintaining civil society, fending off a military threat from without and infighting from within.
It is the 27th Century, and freedom is under attack. The inhabitants of Wolf 1061C have ambushed and defeated all the fleets of the Old and New Nations of Earth, except for the Aegis, a lone battlecruiser, and its jumbled armada of mostly civilian vessels, drawn to the narrow band of safety the Aegis provides. That fleet, home to thousands and the Interstellar Council-in-Exile, must survive. Can you make the difficult political, military, and logistical choices to weather this long-term crisis?
Players will take on the roles of starship captains, politicians, and others trying to see the fleet through this harrowing time. The game has a focus on managing resources, as well as various units and assets – however, talking and negotiating with other players in a high stress environment will be crucial in order to achieve success. And one must always be on the lookout for The Wolf within.
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 10am-11am
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
The convention begins with a bang! Welcome to our big show! Or at least our show. A show with us! The people, pears and misfits of SU&SD. Don’t miss our grand opening!
Featuring: The Pandemonium Institute
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 10am-11pm (games starting every hour)
Where: BOTC Space
Capacity: 5-27
In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff a demon walks amongst you, killing by night and taking human form by day. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon, or will evil overrun this once peaceful village? Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game for 5-27 players, plus the Storyteller (the game’s moderator). It is played in a circle talking to each other, with the moderator conducting the action and making crucial in-game decisions. Imagine Werewolf but where the moderator has a whole board to play with that other players aren’t allowed to see. Games running every hour on the hour, signup sheet in the room.
Featuring: Alan Gerding
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 11am-1pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 6-30
Stop your President from being blown up! But who is the President? More importantly… Who is the Bomber?!
In this social game (running every 30 minutes, stop on by!) of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast.
Did we mention we’ll be running a sneak-peak at the newest edition? No? Well that’s because it’s HIDDEN INFORMATION!!
See SU&SD play here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMy2EDfkTa8
Featuring: Isaac Childres, Matt Lees
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 11:30am-12:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Our resident Gloomhaven addict Matt sits down with Isaac Childres - the game's creator - to talk about what we've seen of Gloomhaven so far, and quiz him about the future of the game.
Featuring: Kellen Laker, Neilan Naicker, Mark Besada, Quintin Smith
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 1pm-2pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Join the Board Game Barrage tanks, Kellen, Mark, and Neilan, for a live podcast recording, featuring special guest tank Quintin Smith! Board Game Barrage is a podcast about board games, the latest hotness, and how to have fun with your friends even when you're losing.
Featuring: Steven Kimball & Matt Leacock
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 1pm-3:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 14 Seats & Standing Spectators
Pandemic Survival is the tournament format of Pandemic that has teams of two competing simultaneously with the same objective in mind: race to be the first team to find all four cures, or survive long enough to be the last team standing at the end of the game!
Everyone's setup is the same: roles, starting infected cities, and a pre-stacked Player deck—complete with a few handpicked events and six (6!) Epidemic cards. However, based on the choices they make, each team's individual game will play out completely different from any other team. Turns also have a time limit, which means you must act quickly and efficiently to discover the winning strategy!
One more critical element is the same for everyone—a single Infection deck. The Game Master at the event will be drawing infection cards for the entire group, ensuring that all teams are facing the same disease threats at the same time.
Featuring: Jonathan Ying
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 1:30pm-2:30pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 27
This ain't Fortnite. Spot It! (also known as Dobble) is a classic picture-matching children's game for two-to-eight players.
At least that's what the publishers WANT you to think. But here at SHUX, mad game designer Jonathan Ying would like to present his personal favorite variant that can be played by a frankly irresponsible number of players. Come play this fast-paced children's game with up to TWENTY-SEVEN other human beings.
The rules are incredibly simple, taking less than a minute to learn and about 5-10 minutes to complete a full round. We'll be running games around every 15 minutes! Come on by and see if you have what it takes to win the SPOT-IT BATTLE ROYALE.
Featuring: Pip Warr, Paula Deming, Ross Connell, Emma Larkins
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 2:30pm-4pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Featuring: Nick Vance & Jennifer Abele
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 3pm-4pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 6-30
Stop your President from being blown up! But who is the President? More importantly… Who is the Bomber?!
In this social game (running every 30 minutes, stop on by!) of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast.
Did we mention we’ll be running a sneak-peak at the newest edition? No? Well that’s because it’s HIDDEN INFORMATION!!
See SU&SD play here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMy2EDfkTa8
Featuring: Steven Kimball & Matt Leacock
When: Friday October 4 • 4pm-6:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 14 Seats & Standing Spectators
Pandemic Survival is the tournament format of Pandemic that has teams of two competing simultaneously with the same objective in mind: race to be the first team to find all four cures, or survive long enough to be the last team standing at the end of the game!
Everyone's setup is the same: roles, starting infected cities, and a pre-stacked Player deck—complete with a few handpicked events and six (6!) Epidemic cards. However, based on the choices they make, each team's individual game will play out completely different from any other team. Turns also have a time limit, which means you must act quickly and efficiently to discover the winning strategy!
One more critical element is the same for everyone—a single Infection deck. The Game Master at the event will be drawing infection cards for the entire group, ensuring that all teams are facing the same disease threats at the same time.
Featuring: Isaac Vega, Lindsey Rode, Jonathan Ying
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 4:30pm-5:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Join Isaac Vega, Lindsey Rode & Jonathan Ying to discuss mechanics we love. We’ll go over the mechanics we are excited about, mechanics that inspired us, and mechanics that have still yet to be utilized. We’ll also discuss how mechanics effect themes, why we believe some mechanics are more popular than others, and what mechanics are trending right now. During the panel we will be doing some mechanic trivia that will offer some giveaway prizes provided by Plaid Hat Games, as well some time set aside for audience questions.
Featuring: Vanessa Briceño
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 4:30pm-6:30pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 2-50
Come join us at The Metagame Mixer for some highly social gameplay. The Metagame is a card game where you share your most ridiculous and profound opinions about comics, music, film, games, and other kinds of art and culture. And there’s not just one way to play – The Metagame is a card game OS that supports a dozen completely different games. SECRET SUPER BONUS PLUS: the newish expansion created by none other than your favorite twisted geniuses at Shut Up & Sit Down.
Featuring: Quintin Smith
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 6PM-7PM
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Quinns loves board games, but did you know he also loves history? In this show, Quinns will try and squeeze 7,850 years of board gaming history into 60 minutes. Come and gasp in horror at the long-forgotten game of "Ultimate Chess", hear why you'd never want to visit the world's first casino, and learn how, for three long centuries, tabletop design was defined by geese.
When: Friday Oct. 4, 6pm-11pm
Where: The Megagame Room
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Join 60+ other players [and guests of honour Hoby Chou (My Little Scythe) and Ryan Lopez (Rise of Fenris] to fight, negotiate, and harness powerful new technologies as prominent political factions, scientists, and industrialists involved in the power struggles of Eastern Europa.
Fight, negotiate, and harness powerful new technologies as prominent political factions, scientists, industrialists, and folk heroes involved in the power struggles of Eastern Europa. At the center of the chaos is the mysterious Factory. Originally constructed by Nikolai Tesla, the Factory produced wondrous technologies utilized by the nations of Eastern Europa to destroy each other during the Great War. Although now the Great War is over, the power struggles are just beginning.
Sickle is a fan-made megagame set in the 1920+ Universe created by Jakub Różalski and is home to the award-winning board game Scythe by Stonemaier Games. We thank Stonemaier Games for the encouragement of fan-made projects, including this one!
Featuring: Trapped Puzzle Rooms
When: Friday Oct. 5 • 7pm-9pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: up to 10 teams of 6 players
Shut Up & Sit Down's beloved mascot is in pearil... Join a team of up to 6 people and puzzle your way through the board game universe to save the day! In this SHUX-exclusive tabletop escape-room-in-a-box experience, you will decrypt codes, uncover clues, flick up some discs, explore lands unknown, and... organize farm animals? This 2-hour event is designed and hosted by Trapped Puzzle Rooms.
Featuring: Alan Gerding
When: Friday Oct, 4 • 7pm-9pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 50
Fairy Tale Betrayal, a social game for up to 50 players, is a royal bash filled with your favorite fairy tales. You play a classic character who has two quests to fulfill, one classic and one new. Cinderella needs her glass slipper, but maybe she also wants to become the next great wizard. Aladdin finds the genie, but maybe then he joins an Easter Bunny competition? Red Riding Hood wants to be a dragon?!? Can you complete your missions before time runs out? Oh, you'll also need to make sure that nobody learns your character's identity, otherwise they can steal your win.
Featuring: Justin Jacobson, Steven Kimball, Nikki Valens, J.R. Honeycutt
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 7:30PM-8:30PM
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Watch as four industry veterans attempt to bring a classic game back from the dead. We'll talk about our experience updating older games, such as Arkham Horror, Citadels, and Fireball Island. We'll focus on game mechanics but will take a look at art and production as well. Then, we'll dust off a random game from yesteryear and see if we can get it up and lumbering before your very eyes, answering your questions all the while. Care to join us for a bit of board game necromancy?
Featuring: Matt Lees & Quintin Smith
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 9pm-10pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Come and hear us chat about our first day of SHUX! Hear about what we got up to, what we played, where we went, and our wild speculations about Saturday and Sunday.
Featuring: Adrienne Ezell, Board Game Barrage, AnnaMaria Jackson-Phelps
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 10:30pm-11:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Creators share the oddest questions (and may just answer them) they've received as a result of their online presence.
SHUX'19 Events - Saturday
Featuring: Sen-Foong Lim, Jay Cormier, Adrienne Ezell
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 9am-11am
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 16 - first come, first serve
Have you ever wanted to design a game? Have you ever wanted to design one in an hour and a half? Well, now you can! Come jam with like-minded people to create something fresh and fun - no experience required!
Featuring: Alan Gerding
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 9am-11am
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 50
Thingy! a social game for up to 50 players. There is an secret undersea laboratory that is going to self-destruct. You play the part of one of many scientists trying to escape this lab. Unfortunately, you must work together to do so. Very unfortunately, there is only one escape pod. Extremely unfortunately, the "Thingy" virus is loose and spreading its hive-mind among the scientist, trying to sabotaging escape efforts while also spreading its infection. Will you escape, explode, or become one with...THINGY!
When: Saturday Oct. 5, 9am-2pm
Where: The Megagame Room
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Negotiate, backstab, and bribe your legislation through the US congressional gauntlet as a member of Congress, media reporter, or a friendly neighborhood lobbyist in this 20-53 player megagame!
These Great United States are in chaos! Avian flu and wildfires! Tax loopholes and flood insurance! Chinese clones and Russian hackers! Join 50 of your fellow Americans to show just what Congress can do in the face of a crisis! Politically maneuver policies through the congressional machine as a member of congress, media reporter, or a friendly neighborhood lobbyist. Be careful though – everyone wants to do the right thing, but the right thing may not get you reelected in this Megagame of negotiation, tact, and weaponized bureaucracy!
Featuring: So Very Wrong About Games, Board Game Barrage
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 10am-11am
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
So Very Wrong About Games and Board Game Barrage, two podcasts that aren’t afraid to throw punches, answer the question, "Why do reviewers hate your favorite board games?" When they’re done taking shots at the classics, they’ll take on each other's favorite games in a discussion full of heart, hot takes, and mechanical exploration.
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 10am-12:30pm
Where: The Signing Area
Come and meet Matt, Quinns, and Pip from popular internet web site Shut Up & Sit Down! Autographs, selfies and small talk available upon request.
Featuring: Quinten Dredger & Aaron Cassidy of Boards Alive
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 10am-5pm
Where: Genius
Capacity: 9/hour
Based on the fantastic Korean Game Show The Genius - Compete against 8 other players as you try to piece together enough information to wager on the winning horses.
Signup sheet in the room, game time about one hour, and running around10 games over the weekend.
Featuring: The Pandemonium Institute
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 10am-11pm (games starting every hour)
Where: BOTC Space
Capacity: 5-27
In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff a demon walks amongst you, killing by night and taking human form by day. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon, or will evil overrun this once peaceful village? Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game for 5-27 players, plus the Storyteller (the game’s moderator). It is played in a circle talking to each other, with the moderator conducting the action and making crucial in-game decisions. Imagine Werewolf but where the moderator has a whole board to play with that other players aren’t allowed to see. Games running every hour on the hour, signup sheet in the room.
Featuring: Alan Gerding, Lindsey Rode, J.R. Honeycutt, Isaac Vega, Jonathan Ying, Mike Selinker, Niki Shults
When: Friday Oct. 4 • 11:30am-12:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
A podcast about board games and other games you can play on or under your table!
Featuring: Adrienne Ezell, Jacob Way
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 11:30am-12:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 60
You and 60 of your closest attendees can try out Floor Plan, the new game from Deep Water Games. Build a house, and satisfy the client's whims with this roll and write; but don't forget to draw doors - we're not playing the Sims, yeah? It's all the fun of Welcome To... turned up to 11.
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 11:30am-1pm
Where: The Social Snug
Math Trades are a fantastic way to do some trading without the hassle of finding trade partners and haggling. Loads of info on BGG if you’re up for some swapsies, find out more here!
Featuring: Paula Deming, Ross Connell, AnnaMaria Jackson-Phelps, Mark Besada, Conor McGoey, Tim Eisner, Jonathan Ying
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 1PM-2PM
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Two teams made up of your favorites designers and guests compete in the First Annual Board Game Olympics.
Teams will compete in three mega-exciting rounds to win the Golden Game Box and of course the Ultimate Bragging Rights (until the next Board Game Olympics, of course).
Featuring: Steven Kimball & Matt Leacock
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 1pm-4pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 14 Seats & Standing Spectators
Pandemic Survival is the tournament format of Pandemic that has teams of two competing simultaneously with the same objective in mind: race to be the first team to find all four cures, or survive long enough to be the last team standing at the end of the game!
Everyone's setup is the same: roles, starting infected cities, and a pre-stacked Player deck—complete with a few handpicked events and six (6!) Epidemic cards. However, based on the choices they make, each team's individual game will play out completely different from any other team. Turns also have a time limit, which means you must act quickly and efficiently to discover the winning strategy!
One more critical element is the same for everyone—a single Infection deck. The Game Master at the event will be drawing infection cards for the entire group, ensuring that all teams are facing the same disease threats at the same time.
Featuring: Alex Hague, Justin Vickers
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 1:30pm-4:30pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 25
Wavelength is a social guessing game in which two teams compete to read each other's minds. Teams take turns rotating a dial to where they think a hidden bullseye is located on a spectrum. One of the players on your team — the Psychic — knows exactly where the bullseye is, but can only get your team to guess by:
(1) Drawing a card with a pair of binaries on it, such as: Job - Career, Rough - Smooth, Fantasy - Sci-Fi, Sad Song - Happy Song, etc....
(2) Giving a clue that is *conceptually* where the bullseye is located between those two binaries.
For example, if the card this round is HOT - COLD, the Psychic’s clue needs to be on the spectrum between extremely hot on the far left side to extremely cold on the far right side.
After the Psychic gives their clue, your team discusses where they think the bullseye is located and turns the dial to that location on that spectrum.
The closer to the center of the bullseye you guess, the more points your team scores!
Featuring: Alan Gerding, Lindsey Rode, Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 2:30pm-4:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Mothership is a sci-fi horror roleplaying game where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space! You'll excavate dangerous derelict spacecraft, explore strange unknown worlds, exterminate hostile alien life, and examine the horrors that encroach upon your every move.
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 4pm-10pm
Where: The Megagame Room
A narrative megagame about overly-ambitious dwarves building a new city fortress. Players will delve deep into the mountain to discover unique resources, forge legendary weapons, develop thriving trade and culture, and fight back against the many dangers they uncover!
All Dwarves are welcome at Deephaven! From the proud Mountain clans and industrious Hill clans, to the mysterious clans of the Deep. Yes, even Gully Dwarves are allowed! MINERS delve deep to find arcane metals! SHAPERS forge legendary weapons, armor, and new inventions. ARCHITECTS build awe-inspiring structures and massive fortifications. MERCHANTS handle foreign trade, FARMERS feed us, and BREWERS keep us, uh, well-hydrated! The CARTOGRAPHERS maintain the Grand Map and the INKBEARDS chronicle discoveries, announce oaths, grudges, and important events. The GUARDIANS keep the peace, and the LEGION leads us to war! We rely upon the wise COUNCIL to enact decrees and manage a fair economy. Come to Deephaven! Build a new home for all Dwarves!
Featuring: Trapped Puzzle Rooms
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 4:30pm-6:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: up to 10 teams of 6 players
Shut Up & Sit Down's beloved mascot is in pearil... Join a team of up to 6 people and puzzle your way through the board game universe to save the day! In this SHUX-exclusive tabletop escape-room-in-a-box experience, you will decrypt codes, uncover clues, flick up some discs, explore lands unknown, and... organize farm animals? This 2-hour event is designed and hosted by Trapped Puzzle Rooms.
Featuring: Steven Kimball & Matt Leacock
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 5pm-6pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
From science to floods and from Rome to the realm of the Old Ones, the beloved cooperative game Pandemic has grown in many directions. Join Matt Leacock, designer of Pandemic, and Steven Kimball, Head of Studio for Z-Man Games, as they discuss the future of Pandemic, the new Pandemic System category, and the exciting competitive format for the cooperative game: Pandemic Survival.
Featuring: Alan Gerding
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 5pm-7pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 6-30
Stop your President from being blown up! But who is the President? More importantly… Who is the Bomber?!
In this social game (running every 30 minutes, stop on by!) of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms. Find your teammates, establish trust, and exchange hostages before time runs out and the bomb explodes! It’s the party game that’s always a blast.
Did we mention we’ll be running a sneak-peak at the newest edition? No? Well that’s because it’s HIDDEN INFORMATION!!
See SU&SD play here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMy2EDfkTa8
Featuring: Mike Selinker, Matt Leacock, Nikki Valens, Isaac Vega
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 6:30pm-7:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
The developers of your favorite co-op games—Betrayal, Pandemic, Mansions of Madness, Dead of Winter, and many others—talk about how co-op games test your skill. Maybe they'll even talk about their upcoming games. Cooperatively.
Featuring: Alex Hague & Justin Vickers
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 7pm-9:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 4-20
Join the creators of Monikers for the live debut of Monikers: Serious Nonsense - the new 330-card box all 100% created by Shut Up & Sit Down.
If you've never heard of Monikers before, the rules are super simple: get your friends to guess the name on the card.
The twist is that you play over three rounds, and each time, you have to give clues in different ways. So in the 1st round, you can say or do anything. In the 2nd, you can only use one word. And in the 3rd, you can only do charades.
The same deck of 50 or so cards are used in each round, so by the end of the game, you and your friends have made up a bunch of hilarious jokes together.
Featuring: Isaac Vega, Emma Larkins, Alan Gerding, JR Honeycutt
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 7:30pm-8:30pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 45
Isaac Vega sits with Emma Larkins, Alan Gerding, & J.R. Honeycutt to talk about their introductions to board games, what being a part of this community has meant to them, and how they were able to organize their own community in their area. Attendees will get tips on gathering players in their area and may have the opportunity to share their stories as well. If you have ever wanted to start your own board game night, club, or just hear how board games affect people’s lives and brings them together this one if for you.
Featuring: Matt Lees, Pip Warr, & Thomas Gofton
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 8pm-9pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Live first looks at the new Shadowrun board game featuring the Chronicle System by Lynnvander Studios. Live play on stage with some of the SU&SD crew and the game designers!
Featuring: Mike Selinker
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 9pm-10pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 45
Mike Selinker—developer of Pathfinder, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Lords of Vegas, Apocrypha, and many other games—tells fun stories about games. Come ask him for a story!
Featuring: Matt Lees, Quintin Smith, Alex Hague, Justin Vickers
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 9:30pm-11pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Play Wavelength with the Shut Up & Sit Down team and the designers & chat about SHUX Day 2!
Featuring: Nick Vance
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 10pm-11:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 6-20 [45-60min per game]
Secret Sith is a hidden role game of intrigue and betrayal set during the fall of the Galactic Republic. Each player is randomly and secretly assigned to be a Loyalist or a Separatist, and one player is the Secret Sith - Emperor Palpatine. The Separatist coordinate to sow distrust and install their dark-sided leader; the Loyalists must find and stop the Secret Sith before it's too late. The Loyalist team always has a majority but doesn't know who's on their team. Secret Sith is a fan conversion of Secret Hitler and is similar to games like Resistance, Werewolf, and Mafia. Games take 45-60 minutes.
Featuring: Jennifer Abele
When: Saturday Oct. 5 • 10pm-11:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 4-8
Tooth or Bear is a friendly chat and chill, social game. Come try this group hug experience!
Tell stories and make new memories with friends and strangers. Being released soon from Tuesday Knight Games, written by Aerospace Engineer and game designer Jennifer Abele.
SHUX'19 Events - Sunday
Featuring: Conor McGoey
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 9am-10am
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 7-41
Welcome prisoner to SHUX - Safety Housing for Urban eXtremists - your sentencing for gang related crimes starts now. Join the rest of the prison population for yard-time and meal-time, but spend your cell-time in careful introspection. The Warden and guards will watch your every move, so don’t even think about setting up the hit on that rival gang boss. You cannot win, and you will not escape - Lights out.
Featuring: Tim Eisner & Ben Eisner
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 9am-11am
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 24 - first come, first serve
Come learn the basics of board game design in a safe and collaborative environment. This workshop will teach a basic structure to follow when designing games and participants will work in small groups to create a brand new game.
When: Sunday Oct. 5, 9am-4:30pm
Where: The Megagame Room
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Lights in the Sky: Cold War Conspiracy is a twist on Jim Wallman’s masterpiece megagame, Watch the Skies, which we ran at SHUX for the last 2 years.
This spiritual successor to the global megagame phenomenon combines the tropes of first contact movies like Independence Day, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Arrival with the paranoia and intrigue of the Cold War. Who can you trust?
Set in the 1980s, players take on the roles of politicians, diplomats, generals, spies, and [redacted] at the height of the Cold War. Communist States, Capitalist Democracies, Non-Aligned nations, and [redacted] vie to convert others to their networks of alliances and economic trading blocs. But beware, with [redacted] rumored to be walking among us, who can you trust?
Featuring: Alan Gerding & Matt Lees
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 10am-11am
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
Matt Lees joins psychology professor Alan Gerding to talk about the psychology of manipulation and how it can be used to win games. Learn the research that teaches how to blend in as the betrayer of your favorite social games. Avoid being targeting while convincing your opposition to attack your opposition. Join this session to get people to do generally what you want them to do while having them thank you for it. It's a bit dark, potentially evil, and very fun.
Featuring: The Pandemonium Institute
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 10am-5pm (games starting every hour)
Where: BOTC Space
Capacity: 5-27
In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff a demon walks amongst you, killing by night and taking human form by day. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon, or will evil overrun this once peaceful village? Blood on the Clocktower is a captivating and addictive social bluffing game for those who delight in deduction and deception. No two games are ever the same and no player is ever eliminated. In Blood on the Clocktower, death is not the end…
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game for 5-27 players, plus the Storyteller (the game’s moderator). It is played in a circle talking to each other, with the moderator conducting the action and making crucial in-game decisions. Imagine Werewolf but where the moderator has a whole board to play with that other players aren’t allowed to see. Games running every hour on the hour, signup sheet in the room.
Featuring: Quinten Dredger & Aaron Cassidy of Boards Alive
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 10am-5pm
Where: Genius
Capacity: 9/hour
Based on the fantastic Korean Game Show The Genius - Compete against 8 other players as you try to piece together enough information to wager on the winning horses.
Signup sheet in the room, game time about one hour, and running around10 games over the weekend.
Featuring: Jonathan Ying
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 10:30am-11:30am
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 27
This ain't Fortnite. Spot It! (also known as Dobble) is a classic picture-matching children's game for two-to-eight players.
At least that's what the publishers WANT you to think. But here at SHUX, mad game designer Jonathan Ying would like to present his personal favorite variant that can be played by a frankly irresponsible number of players. Come play this fast-paced children's game with up to TWENTY-SEVEN other human beings.
The rules are incredibly simple, taking less than a minute to learn and about 5-10 minutes to complete a full round. We'll be running games around every 15 minutes! Come on by and see if you have what it takes to win the SPOT-IT BATTLE ROYALE.
Featuring: Michael Walker, Mark Bigney, Quintin Smith
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 11:30am-12:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
A live recording of the podcast that is consistently incorrect, but is at least occasionally self-aware. Your workaday hosts Michael Walker and Mark Bigney will be joined by international superstar special guest Quinns, who will probably be in town for some reason or other.
Featuring: Dominic Crapuchettes
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 11:30am-1pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 28
Not a trivia buff? It doesn't matter! In Wits & Wagers, each player writes a guess to a question such as “In what year did the bikini swimsuit makes its first appearance?” or “How many feet wide is an NFL football field?” and places it face-up on the betting mat. Think you know the answer? Bet on your guess. Think you know who the experts are? Bet on their guess. The closest answer — without going over — pays out according to the odds on the betting mat. Strike it big and you'll be cheering like you just hit the jackpot!
Wits & Wagers is a trivia game that lets you bet on anyone's answer. So you can win by making educated guesses, by playing the odds, or by knowing the interests of your friends.
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 12pm-6pm
Where: The Social Snug
Capacity: 2-50
Sunday we'll be running a hodge podge of awesome social games, classic and new. When's the last time you played Werewolf with a room full of people? Too long! Come put that right, in the Social Snug.
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 1pm-2pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
You thought that grand opening was our ONE live podcast event at our own bloody convention?! You were wrong, friend. The very best kind of wrong. Come join us as we talk about… games, probably? We'll talk about the best new titles we found at SHUX, and you should of course expect surprises - it is our 100th podcast afterall!!!
Featuring: Trapped Puzzle Rooms
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 1:30pm-3:30pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: up to 10 teams of 6 players
Shut Up & Sit Down's beloved mascot is in pearil... Join a team of up to 6 people and puzzle your way through the board game universe to save the day! In this SHUX-exclusive tabletop escape-room-in-a-box experience, you will decrypt codes, uncover clues, flick up some discs, explore lands unknown, and... organize farm animals? This 2-hour event is designed and hosted by Trapped Puzzle Rooms.
Featuring: Jonathan Ying, Nikki Valens, Liberty Kifer, Mike Selinker
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 2:30pm-3:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
"Where do you get your ideas?" It's a very vague question that's always rather challenging to answer. Well, we're going to try to do just that! In this panel with industry veteran designers we're going to talk about how new games emerge from the primordial ooze of "cool ideas in a designer's head" We'll also cover other popular topics such as "Mechanics first or theme first?" and "How important is originality?"
Featuring: Sen-Foong Lim & Jay Cormier
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 4pm-5pm
Where: The Test Grotto
Capacity: 20 - first come, first serve
Writing the rules to your game can be one of the biggest hurdles you need to overcome as a game designer. Learn how to write rules from industry veterans including game designers, educators, and graphic designers and find out how you can create player aids and rule books that let your players get to the fun part faster! Bring your own rules to this workshop to go through them with the pros!
Featuring: Quintin Smith & Matt Lees
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 4pm-5:30pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
In Floor Plan you’ll take on the role of architects, laying out new rooms, planning outdoor features, and competing to create the perfect home for your clients. You’ll roll dice each turn, and all players will use the same dice to make choices about their designs. Plan wisely and design the home of your clients’ dreams!
Featuring: Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, Pip Warr
When: Sunday Oct. 6 • 5:30pm-6pm
Where: The Big Theatre
Capacity: 1000
A fond farewell and thank you to all our SHUX’19 attendees! Will Matt rock the bass again? Will Quinns be as fragile and shattered as last year? Will Pip be napping under the table? You’ll have to come see.