Hello and welcome to the very 169th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast that's this time about board games.

I'm Tom Brewster and today I'm joined by two board

games, Ava Foxfort. I am a deck builder with heavy economic elements. And Matthew

Lee's. I play one to eight, but I'm best with two. It's true. It's true. It's just true.

Like your sidereal confluence duel, and Ava is Arkwright,

clank, arc, clank, legacy.

I feel insulted now, and Matt came up with a much cleverer thing than me,

because he had slightly more time to think about it.

My brain is, like, rapidly cycling through ideas that I'm just immediately junking.

Like, I'm a dice game. No, not good enough.

I'm Hans Dutonica, too. No, no, that's not good enough.

I'm a negotiation game, but with less racist theming than Chinatown.

No, put that in the bin. Put it in the bin. And I'm struggling. You're a Bonanza expansion, right? Oh no! That's what you are. I'm the worst kind of board

game. No, it's the best. I feel like the worst thing you could call someone would be, you know,

you're a bit of a push-your-luck game, right? So I was going to say it to you, but I was like, no, I'm not going to say that because that's not fair.

That's not fair.

I'm still thinking about the fact that Tom kind of maybe by accident said Arkwright Legacy Clank edition or something.

And I'm now imagining a game in which you have to go into a layer, get loads of Victorian children to make you silverware and then escape quickly.

And I mean, that sounds absolutely fabulous.

Rapid spoon collection as fast as humanly possible.

Get out before they discover that you've been using hundreds of children as a workforce and send a dragon after you.

On this podcast, we're not going to send children or

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