Hello everybody and welcome to the very 119th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast all about board games, which are increasingly relevant and yet

increasingly hard to play in a post-pandemic world. My name is Quentin Smith, and I am joined on

this podcast by the lovely Tom Brewster. Hello. And the lovelier Ava Foxford.

I'm lovely. I ranked you two there.

Weren't expecting that, were you?

Absolutely savage.

On this podcast, we're going to be savaging one another a little bit.

I have a feeling there's going to be lots of disagreements on this one.

In our running order, we're going to be talking about the cute little card game Village Green,

a game about taking trees,

taking flowers, and doing your best to make a life out of them. We're going to be talking

about Glasgow, a game for just two players, about creating an industrial city centre and bickering

over who gets the whiskey. We're going to be talking about Crypt hunters, the new game from,

okay, it's from Games Workshop, but our podcasting doc says Glom's Workshop.

For some reason, someone thought that was funny, and I'm going to be finding out who, after

we're done with this recording. And to round everything off, we're going to be having an enormous

discussion about no less than four of the games of perhaps the greatest

board game designer ever made. Rina Knitsia, we're going to be talking about Rina's classic games

through the desert and Tigris and Euphrates and his updates to them, Blue Lagoon and Yellow

and Yangtie, one of which we like, another of which we don't.

Ooh.

I've been hanging out in the Village Green with Pierre Silvesta's Village Green,

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