#122 - Marry My Migrating Metro

Shut Up & Sit Down

Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s BUMPER BOX podcast we’ve got SIX entire GameBoards for you to picture in your head as we loosely describe them with words and, quite frankly, a lot of noises? This podcast is really great if you’re a young child and want to hear a bunch of cool new ways you can make sounds with your mouth.

What games are we going to create frequencies about this time, I hear you ask? We’ll be chatting about the unusual themes of Zestrea, the beautiful butterflies of Mariposas, the wonders of the internet in Sumatra, and sheer, unadulterated organisation in Maglev Metro. Then, to round it all out, we have a ramble about Fleet: The Dice Game and Troyes Dice - two games with the same core that couldn’t be more different. That makes it sound like a mid 90s comedy that stars Danny DeVito and Dwayne Johnson. Does that exist? It might already exist.

Have a lovely weekend, everybody

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the very 120 second Shut Up and Sit Down podcast. The podcast all
0:17.8	about board games, board games and the people who love them. Yes, that's right. The board
0:22.8	game people. On today's show, it is me, Matleys joined by Quentin Smith.
0:27.4	Hello, Matleys and Tom Brewster. Hello, Matleys. Nice to meet you. Please don't wear it too
0:36.6	roughly. So we're going to be talking about the strane game of buying and selling daughters,
0:44.6	Mariposes, a game of butterflies and the generations and the inevitable death of animals and
0:52.3	everything. Sumatra, I love Holy Holiday in which you're going to be putting together a grid
0:57.3	of memories in your holiday memory book. Just normal holiday stuff. Maglev Metro is the future.
1:03.7	There are robots now. Maybe there will be humans in the future, but for now mainly robots.
1:08.8	Fleet the dice game. Boats, shrimps, lots and lots and lots of boxes and twa dice. A game of not
1:16.6	one dice, not two dice, not three dice, but probably more than three dice in the French place of
1:27.1	I have been playing a little game called Zestraia and this is literally a little game. It's a very
1:31.8	small card game and it's designed by Patu Alexandru and Horatiu Romain who are both Romanian and it
1:38.9	is a game about being Romanian. This is also just a peek your interest, a negotiation game and it
1:46.0	has absolutely gorgeous art by Maria Sardukan. In Zestraia players are sort of village heads in
1:52.6	kind of, I don't know, Romania at some point in history. I don't know a lot about Romania, but
1:57.8	basically what you've got here is a game about arranged marriages. Okay, so on your turn,
2:04.1	you're everyone starts with one couple in their village as you are the village heads and that
2:08.3	couple may or may not make you money and may or may not have a kid who may or may not be a boy.
2:13.9	And that's relevant because in traditional arranged Romanian marriages, if you have girls who
2:19.3	want to arrange marriages with, once you arrange that marriage, that girl will go away to the husband's
2:24.2	village, which will allow them to generate more money in kids for that village, but not for you.
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