How To Play Galaxy Trucker!

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By SU&SD on March 11, 2016

These "How to Play" videos are giving us a great chance to dust off some of our all-time favourite boxes. Of course we were going to do Galaxy Trucker. We'll climb back into its rickety cabs any chance we get.

If you want to see more of this absolutely hilarious game your next port of call should be our Let's Play, which we swear to god was not "rigged" despite what you might have read. The game is just that ridiculous.

After that, you should just buy the darn thing. It looks like the Anniversary Edition in this video has now sold out, but the base game is ready and waiting for you.

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Review: Patchwork

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By Paul Dean on March 10, 2016

Paul: True story: I got in trouble for sewing once when I was six years old. I wasn’t supposed to be sewing because, apparently, sewing is not a thing that a man does. That seems a little strange since I have definitely met some tailors who were men and whose helpful craft meant I wasn’t instead stumbling naked through life. Anyway, being thus steered from sewing surely explains why I’m not as good as I should be at Patchwork.

And it’s such a shame because I want to be better at it. I’m sure I could. I’m certain I’m on the verge of some sort of needlework breakthrough, of a real understanding of petite, precise Patchwork. I cannot stop now. I must master this splendid, splendid challenge. This flat, unassuming and apparently drab affair is so much more than it seems. Do not underestimate its prosaic presentation.

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GAMES NEWS! 07/03/16

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By SU&SD on March 7, 2016

Paul: March is here and with it what might be THE MOST EXCITING GAMES NEWS OF THE YEAR SO FAR. Maybe. I don’t want to get your hopes up or anything, but we have a whole host of great stuff here. Let’s get started with one of the most interesting games concepts I’ve seen for long time…

Quinns: Fog of Love! Riding high on its early Kickstarter success, Fog of Love is a two-player game about trying to navigate the ups and downs of a relationship, about trying to understand your partner and about trying to get what you want both from a relationship and from life.

We’ve already seen the abstract And Then We Held Hands do well on Kickstarter, but this is a completely different flavour of fish. Fog of Love gives you hidden personality traits, a whole host of situations to navigate together and life goals that may or may not match up.

The way it’s laid out reminds me of Dead of Winter, except instead of deciding who gets the last box of medicine, I guess you’re surprising your friend with a trip to the Maldives?

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Review: Star Wars Rebellion

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By SU&SD on March 4, 2016

Hold on to your womp rats! Quinns is here with one of the biggest reviews of the year. Star Wars: Rebellion is Fantasy Flight's forthcoming Star Wars star war.

One side plays the Empire, another the Rebellion, in a vast conflict involving more than 150 plastic miniatures and countless twists, turns and heroics.

In other words it's about the most exciting thing imaginable. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this early review.

How to play Condottiere!

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By SU&SD on March 1, 2016

Condottiere is a card game with a little bit of everything. A bit of area control, a bit of bluffing, a bit of hand management, a bit of negotiation and a bit of luck. It's like a delicious sampler platter of everything board games have to offer, and it's a perfect game to start your collection with.

Shut Up & Sit Down has talked up this classic since the site began. Check out this review from back in 2011! It turns out this game is still available in shops and still excellent, so it's time to do it again!

Review: 504

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By Paul Dean on Feb. 26, 2016

It's been styled as an experiment, but is it more of an extravagance or perhaps even some crazed meddling with the forces of nature themselves? 504 is no simple board game, but instead a... gigantic collection of cards and components and pieces and possibilities.

Is this a revolution? This this hubris? Is this madness? This week, Paul faced down one of his greatest challenges ever...

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Review: Archaeology: The New Expedition

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By Quintin Smith on Feb. 24, 2016

Quinns: Since Matt and I reviewed the completely excellent Arboretum I’ve been filled with a fervor not seen since I started snaffling up Netrunner expansions. Arboretum, it turns out, is just one entry in a whole line of “deluxe card games” from Z-Man Games, all of which come in identical-sized boxes.

In the last two weeks I went full magpie and bought almost all of them.

It turns out they’re not all hits. Lords of Scotland’s cautious soldier management is awesome, but the game is a little too similar Condottiere, a perfect card game that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to anybody. Black Spy and Chimera are breezy, funny trick-taking games in the manner of Hearts or Bridge, but they’re not particularly exciting. Monster My Neighbor is mediocre. Fairy Tale and Parade could be excellent, I haven’t tried them yet.

No, they’re not all hits... but the latest entry very much is. It’s a new edition of 2007 game Archaeology titled Archaeology: The New Expedition. It came out just this month, it’s as silly as Arboretum is thinky and it's absolutely fantastic fun.

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SU&SD Play... Catacombs

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By SU&SD on Feb. 20, 2016

Almost since SU&SD began we've been banging on about Catacombs, the dungeon-delving dexterity game. A team of heroes (who are discs) battling an evil villain (who's a disc) with spells, slings and arrows (which are - you guessed it - discs).

Availability of Catacombs is a little thin right now, though, so we figured we'd do a video that lets you enjoy it through us! Pull up a stinky dungeon pew, and watch as Matt and Quinns break out a copy of Catacombs, a bottle of absinthe, and a camera that does cooool slo-mo