Hello and welcome to the very 162 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'm joined by Ava Fox Fort.

Hi.

I'm going to be talking a bit later on about Cuphead, a fast dice rolling game, which is based on a video game,

and it's just as hard and horrible, and you might love it, but you might hate it.

And Ava is going to be talking about the dice of the dead.

Yeah, which is all dice and coffins and shaky, shaky,

shaky dice, dice, coffin.

Shaky, dice, dice, dice, coffin.

Couldn't have said it clearer myself.

This is, of course, the dice head special.

Two games, both of which featured dices and heads.

Very clever. Very, very clever. Without further ado, let's do a nice little

jingly bit and do the podcast. So dead on time for Halloween, I think, I found time to play a little bit

of Dice of the Dead by James Allen and Mark Stockton

Pitt. This is a dice heavy game with Mexican Day of the Dead themeing, which has been

consulted on by a cultural consultant, which means that the people have done at least some

of their legwork, hopefully. And it means that the game is pretty beautiful. It is literally

about rolling the bones. I mean, it's not. It's about rolling dice, and it's about they are

souls rather than bones. And you are rolling these colourful dice in a ludicrously beautiful

coffin-shaped things. Talking of communicating with the dead,

but I remember us reporting on this

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