Podcast #294 - Clandestine Vocabulary - Shut Up & Sit Down 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! Tap below for full timestamps and...

Podcast! On this week’s episode, Tom and Matt are chatting about BIG BOATS in ‘The Great Sea’, unchained deckbuilding in ‘Dark Pact’, and inefficient verbiage in ‘Typeset’!

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The Top 100 Board Games of All Time: Azul YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down

This week we add AZUL to our DEFINITIVE list of the Top 100 Boardgames! Beautiful mosaics that are just BEGGING to be hammered.

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Regicide Legacy: A Chunky Love-Letter to an Absolute Banger YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down

This week we've got a review of a whole dang royal-smashing CAMPAIGN. Regicide Legacy is absolutely delicious.

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Podcast #293 - ENDLESS VIOLENCE - Shut Up & Sit Down 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! Tap below for full timestamps and more info!

Podcast! This week it’s ALL ABOUT VIOLENCE in this extra bloody and brutal extravaganza of viscera!!!

Expect efficient cats in Neko Syndicate, jolly co-operation in Bombusters, and peaceful box checking in Off With Their Heads.

VIOLENCE!!!

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Review: LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers Trick-Taking Games - Shut Up & Sit Down 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 compan...

Oh,you thought you were finally free of Lord of the Rings games? NUH-UH, BUDDY. THERE’S TWO MORE. AND THEY’RE REALLY, REALLY GOOD.

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Podcast #292 - The Natural Special - Shut Up & Sit Down 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 “Outside, like birds and that”. Tap below for full timestam...

We’re evolving new tails and spines in Nature, battling for prime fountain place in Perch, and trying not to sacrifice too many baby elephants in Tembo: Survival on the Savanna.

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Podcast! This week we’re stripping it all down to the bare essentials in this 100% natural episode.

The Top 100 Board Games of All Time: Last Will YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down

This week we have an episode of The Top 100! We loved Last Will when we reviewed it 53 years ago, but has it stood the test of time? Matt remains fond, but may not be able to compete with Brewster's "Meh"-llions!

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Luthier - A Classical Classic? YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down

Can YOU make the most beautiful Bassoon in all the land?

Maybe! But it’s certainly more likely to happen in a game of Luthier - the subject of this very latest video review, which you can watch IMMEDIATELY! GO GO GO!!!

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Animal Rescue Team (the first game in our SU&SD Presents line) has been nominated for an Origins Award in the Coop/Solo category! Thank you to the panel!

Podcast #291- Wet Famous - Shut Up & Sit Down On this absolutely soaked episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are getting drenched in two positively sopping releases.Tap below for full timestamps and more info!

Podcast! This week Tom and Matt are on an undersea adventure in the massive “Boat Type Game” Thesauros, and a gentle pierside joust in the rather dinky “Welsh Type Game” Tenby.

TWO GAMES, BOTH WET, WHO WILL EMERGE VICTORIOUS?

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Review: Magical Athlete & Hot Streak - Shut Up & Sit Down Hot Streak came out a little while ago, offering all the thrills of gambling on hot dogs and fish without any risk of gastroenterological problems. More recently from the same publisher, ANOTHER racin...

This week's video is a TWOFER REVIEWFER: a double serving of joyfully silly boxes, both of which are EXCELLENT. But which one is the best?

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Podcast #290 - The Turnips of Wroth - Shut Up & Sit Down On this slippy ol’ 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! “Like Pooh gone all vigilant...

Podcast! Tom and Matt are yabbering about cosy card-dancer Emberleaf, before spilling all of their opinions on the most luminous box of 2025, 2026, and possibly beyond - IT’S WROTH!

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Review: Take Time - Shut Up & Sit Down Take Time is a fantastic little puzzle game that has you playing cards in numerical order around a clock face. No, please, don’t leave! The core of this one is a fascinating little ‘rules outside of t...

Video! This week we’re taking a look at Take Time - a squat box of puzzles that’s a delight to co-operate your way through…

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Podcast #289 - Standard Box, Kallax Nightmare - Shut Up & Sit Down On this post-apocalyptic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’ve got the last remaining swigs of game in this here canteen - don’t gulp it all to yourself, now! Share nicely…Tap below for ful...

Podcast! Tom and Matt chat tricksy-worker-placer in ‘Phoenix New Horizon’, followed with step-by-step instructions on how to bump off an entire lineage of royals in ‘Regicide Legacy’. There’s even time for some leftover tug-of-wars in ‘Zenith’! What a pod!

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Podcast#288 - The Memory Tub - Shut Up & Sit Down 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 ...

Podcast! Tom and Matt are chatting about an avalanche of games of various quality, and YOU’RE INVITED! It’s horse breeding in Epona, it’s worm catching in Wriggle Roulette, and it’s definitely Not A Game About A Pipe. Enjoy!

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Review: Railroad Tiles - Shut Up & Sit Down In this video, Tom tries to shoo away the January blues in the only way he knows how; by relentlessly over-playing a gentle game about trains, cars, and people. Railroad Tiles is a fabulous spritz of ...

Video! Tom’s fallen head-over-heels for Railroad Tiles, a delightful box of trains and cars that’ll chase away the greys of January…

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Review: Wroth - Shut Up & Sit Down We're kicking off the year with a video that we're hoping might just be colourful enough to wash away a layer of that cold January grey. Wroth - a recent release from Chip Theory Games is simple, tact...

Watch Matt review Wroth: an unbelievably snappy game of dice-drafting, area control, and harassing your friends with the hands of an Orc.

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Podcast #287 -Tending Time - Shut Up & Sit Down On this ticked-off episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are rambling about the box-ticking bonanza ‘Tend’ as well as the chronologically questionable ‘Take Time’! Tap below for full...

Podcast! This week, Tom and Matt are chatting about the final boss of flip-and-writes, as well as a tantalising new co-op game for fans of The Crew AND The Mind! The Crind. The Mrew. Something like that.

Enjoy!

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SU&SD Reviews: 2025 - Shut Up & Sit Down Thank you so, so much to the kind folks who keep this daft little site pottering along every year. You’re the absolute best. The bees knees! Shut Up & Sit Down literally wouldn’t exist without kind fo...

This site wouldn't exist without the continued generosity of people who want it to succeed and grow. Thank you, so so much, for taking the time to watch this video, and/or chuck us a couple quid!

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Kind folks! Lovely people! Help keep SU&SD truckin’ this winter, and get yourself a BUNDLE OF BONUS BITS to watch next week!

Preferably sprawled on the sofa, packed with cheese(s) and wine(s). Just a little suggestion from ‘Doctor Christmas’

Shelf Stable: A Board Gaming Podcast: #47 ft. Tom Brewster, Iteration and Innovation Lesser Tom is joined by the Tomb Rewster of Shut Up & Sit Down fame this week to talk board games (shock) and video/podcast creation. Listen in on some Type III fun as we get into the nitty gritty...

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BIG OL PEAR HANGIN' OUT WITH THE SHELF STABLE CAST

HELLO! If you're looking for an extra squeeze of SU&SD, then both Tom and Emily have recently guested on the fabulous @shelfstablecast.bsky.social !

It's a fantastic, laid-back, and highly tangential approach to board games - and we're big fans. Go take a listen! Right now!

Links below!

2025's Best Board Game Gifts! - Shut Up & Sit Down ‘Tis the season! We’re back with a bumper stack of great board games to recommend you buy for your best pals, your arch enemies, or perhaps even… yourself? That’s right! It’s the Annual Shut Up & Sit ...

IT’S THE ANNUAL SHUT UP & SIT DOWN BOARD GAME GIFT GUIDE! Your one-stop shop for all manner of gift material for literally any person you could think of… so long as they have at least a passing interest in board games. That’s probably important. Enjoy!

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Podcast #286 - THE BIG WET SPRINT - Shut Up & Sit Down 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...

Podcast! This week, Tom and Matt are finally tackling the dynamic duo of Hot Streak and Magical Athlete! Spoilers; they’re both absolutely fabulous. The games. Though the lads do have their moments.

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Galactic Cruise: Epic Journey, or a Waste of SPACE? YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down

This week's video sees Matt truly haunted by a gigantic box of cogs and space-travel fiddling. Is Galactic Cruise a holiday worth pursuing?

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Returning to Slay the Spire - ACT 1 YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down

Back by popular demand, Matt returns with special guest Dani to delve once more into Slay the Spire. Cozy up: It's time to get DEFECTIVE.

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Hope you have a lot of fun! Drink water!

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