Hello and welcome to the 133rd Shut Up and Sit Down podcast.

I'm here today joined by Tom Brewster.

Hello. And I remain Ava Foxford,

and we are on our own and the dads aren't here. The dads aren't here. I should put like a

fanfare in at this point to signify the start of the Dads Aunt Herecast. It's actually a bit weird whenever I call

Matt and Quinn's dad and not just in the way you think it's weird, but also because I'm a little

bit older than them. We are going to talk at you today about some old and crusty Euro games,

but they're not actually that old and that crusty. We think that they've got some sharp and pointy bits inside of them that mean that they should be due a reprint, a reissue, a rebirth, a re-resurrection, or similar.

Or you can actually play all of these games online on either board game arena or yucatar.de.

Is it a dot-de-e address?

Yeah, I like to call it yucatade, which I don't think is what it's called.

That's good.

All these games we think are really interesting, and we're going to have a little chat about

St. Petersburg, palaces of Carrara and El Grande. So if you like the sound of all of those games,

then you can hear us talk about them after this sting. So the first of these games we're

going to talk about is a little game called St. Petersburg.

This is available on Board Game Arena and is made by a man called Burned Brunhofer.

And let me tell you, St. Petersburg is weird.

It's this strange mix of being a game that's very straightforward with these very quick, simple, easy and juicy decisions, but also just being like so stripped down to me that I think it's quite strange as a pitch for like where or when you would play this game.

But we'll get into that later.

Let me tell you what St. Petersburg is about.

Basically, it is a game about playing cards and getting points. Each round of the game, you will be going through four

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