Hello and welcome to the very one hundred and sixty-third episode of the shut-up and sit-down

board game podcast, the podcast all about board games, the people love them, and board games.

This is a special

episode specifically engineered to tell you what to buy for people that you like or love over

this coming up Christmas festive period. We have the entire of the editorial team here to tell you

about three, maybe four, maybe four, I don't know, games that they recommend and think you've got to

think about buying for someone. And I'm going to introduce these people one at a time.

Because we're going to jump into the Christmas games straight away, we're not going to do any

nice chat, but we're going to come back to nice chat at the end of the podcast for anyone

who wants it and who wants to stick around. So, Ava Fox 4, can you describe to me in one word how your overall week has been?

Cozy.

Cozy? That sounds like a good one.

And Thomas Brewster.

How's your week been going? In only one word, please, sir.

Pleasant.

Pleasant!

Quinted Smith, one word, your week. Alone. Alone. Fabulous. I'm Matt Lees, and my week has been leaky.

So we decided as a group that we were going to all bring, like a sort of show and tell a few games to this, uh, to this Xmas feature.

Now, I don't know about you lot, but when I was asked, what games should you buy or bring for

Xmas? I thought, sort of what's a safe pair of hands? That's, that's immediately where my head went.

What are games that people try as they might will really struggle to dislike. So whether that's a gift that you're buying for someone

or a game that you can bring to your family and say, we're all playing this one day a year,

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