Hello and welcome to the very 168 episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, the podcast that is all about board games, board games and the people who love board games. My name is Matt

Lees and today I'm joined by Ava Foxford. Hello there Matt Lee. Hello there, Ava Foxford. And gosh,

have we got some games that we're going to talk about today? The answer to that question is yes.

It was a rhetorical question, but I've answered it. We're going to be talking about

the great Zimbabwe

and

the gallerist.

It's much harder to do that last year one

in a good rhythm, isn't it?

Yeah, there's fewer syllables.

What are you going to do?

So we're going to be talking about

two quite chunky,

heavy games here getting into the grit.

So if this is not your speed, no worries, you can just skip this whole episode.

Talking of speed though, I'm very pleased to have this episode number.

This is 168 is possibly one of my favourite numbers.

There was a great bus I used to love in London.

The 168 used to take me through from Old Kent Road. I love the 168. It was my favourite bus. I haven't been on it for years. So anyway, I hope that if there's anyone else out there who's also going, yes, 168 as a number for some reason, then happy 168 day to you.

So we talked about the Great Zimbabwe on a live podcast, but we didn't go into much detail

because whenever it's a big, heavy, complicated game of any kind, or anything really

interesting, we tend to butcher them during live podcasts because we're very tired and slightly

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