Hello and welcome to the very 122nd shut up and sit down podcast.

The podcast all about board games, board games and the people who love them. Yes, that's

right, the board game people. On today's show, it is me, Matt Lees, joined by Quentin Smith.

Hello, Matt Lees. And Tom Brewster. Hello, Matt Lees. Nice. My name. Please don't wear it

too roughly.

So we're going to be talking about Zistrea, the strange game of buying and selling daughters.

Mariposes, a game of butterflies and the generations and the inevitable death of animals and everything.

Sumatra, a lovely holiday in which you're going to be putting together a grid of memories in your holiday memory book, just normal holiday stuff.

Maglev Metro is the future. There are robots now. Maybe there will be humans in the future,

but for now, mainly robots. Fleet, the dice game. Boats, shrimps, lots and lots and lots of boxes,

and twas, a game of not one dice, not two dice, not three dice, but probably more than three

dice in the French place of Tuas. I have been playing a little game called Zastraya, and this is literally a little game.

It's a very small card game, and it's designed by Patio Alexandru and Horatiu Roman, who are

both Romanian, and it is a game about being Romanian.

This is also, just to peak your interest, a negotiation game, and it has

absolutely gorgeous art by Maria Serducan. In Zastraya, players are sort of village heads in kind of,

I don't know, Romania at some point in history. I don't know a lot about Romania, but basically,

what you've got here is a game about arranged

marriages. Okay? So on your turn, everyone starts with one couple in their village, as you are the

village head, and that couple may or may not make you money and may or may not have a kid who

may or may not be a boy. And that's relevant because in traditional arranged Romanian marriages, if you have girls

who you want to arrange marriages with, once you arrange that marriage, that girl will go away to

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