Hello and welcome to the very 145th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast.

The podcast all about board games, board games and the people who love board games.

My name is Matt Lees and I am joined by Ava Foxfort, I love board games and Sir Thomas

Brewster. I also love board games, they're cool. Correct answers in round one, leaving

both teams with a tie. So today's episode is quite exciting and the fact that we are

going to be leaving our atmosphere to the cold, chilly embrace of space and it's going

to be stars, there's going to be planets, there's going to be all of those things and more.

And we've got two games we're going to be talking about that take place coincidentally

in space, cryo from the Zaman games, Zaman games as they prefer to be called sometimes

a game designed by Tom Jolly and Luke Laurie and also Moonrakers from IV games designed

by Austin Harrison and Max Anderson. These are two games that come in blue boxes and

feature bits of cardboard and sometimes bits of plastic. That's all the facts and everything

else is just going to be opinions. And those bits are surrounded. Don't forget.

By space, empty space inside the box that we will dive into and enjoy question mark.

Indeed and let the question mark take control. What does that mean? That doesn't mean anything

but we could put a stick in somewhere. So cryo caught my eye a while ago when it was

first announced with a very striking piece of cover art of a spaceship crashing down

into the atmosphere of planet. It has a wonderfully distinct illustration style running throughout

the game in terms of the work on the cards and the work on the board. And it's something

that immediately is incredibly colorful for any board game let alone for a board game

set in space. But also having a really unique vision of a sci-fi world using almost top

a graphical line stylings and lots of interesting fat little wedges of detail on things to

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