Hello everybody and welcome to the very latest episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast about board games, board games and the people who love board games.

My name is Tom Brewster and I'm joined by Matthew Lees.

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. And last week on the podcast, Matt, it was just me making

it a one player podcast. This time on the podcast, there's the two of us making it a two player podcast.

So we're going to talk about two player games. I've put a 50 pence P in the machine and I've pressed the button and it's gone, a new player, a new player, and you play it. But actually it's not four players. It's just I've kept putting pound coins in the machine and pressed all the buttons on the arcade machine. And we're going to lose now because two of the people aren't even being controlled. I was thinking that what we could do is we could just slowly expand the podcast into a two player, then a three player, then a four player, then a five player, then a six player podcast, covering only games that fit those player counts. And I'm trying to think when the wheels would really start to fall off. Maybe there's three or four, seven player games out there. Maybe there's five or six, eight player games out there. But I think when we get into nine and ten, eleven, that's when things are going to go really crazy. What with nine people on the podcast as well? Nine people on the podcast and finding the games. It's telling that my immediate worry was finding the kinds of games that would have nine players playable. Yeah, I think at that point, as soon as you get like eight plus, as soon as you get like,

oh, this is a game for 10 people, really what you're talking about at that point is sports.

And that's fine.

Because I think that you get a certain mass of humans that the requirement is to even house 10

people with a space, you're already getting to something that is the size of a ping pong table

that's just made out of people.

Once you get to a certain number of people, they will naturally do sports, is sort of what

you're saying.

Well, I just think if you have enough people, then distance between the people, it means if there's

going to be any meaningful interaction between people who are far

away, that's going to mean either A, people moving their bodies around, or B, people throwing

things to each other. So there's a dexterity element to any massive gathering of humans.

And that's my review of the world. On this podcast, we're going to talk about three, two player games. We're going to start things

off by talking about tag team, a street fighter-esque game of bapping people in teams. We're going to

talk about Suna Valo, a game about making a farm competitively to another farmer who lives

just across the river from you and you're really

annoyed by them. And then we're going to talk about general orders, Sen Goku Jedi, a game about

doing war on a tiny little board. First up on this podcast, we're going to talk about tag team.

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