Hello and welcome to the very 284th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, the podcast all about board games, board games, board games and the people who love board games.

As ever.

As ever, I'm Matthew and I'm joined by

Tom. Tom. I'm a mononym now. Tom. Tom, I'm like Prince. Tom, I'm on. I'm the Prince of Board Games.

The Prince of Board Games. That's what I've been told. He hath come as it was written in the back of the

rule book. It was written in the back of the rule book. At last. He will come. The Prince of Board Games is here. Welcome to this episode where we're going to be talking about some games. Last time, we had a bit of a cozy meandering about some crunchy old games. This time, we're going to be a bit more nippy, speedy. We're going to tell you about some cool little things. And then we're going to get a jog on and, uh, and, uh, and end it and leave. This podcast is going to be like a bullet to the head. Yeah. That's what we're going for. I gave the sense that maybe it was going to be like a three minute thing. It's not. It's just going to be not as chunky and slow as the last one. We could do, that could be an episode,

which is like every game,

we do like 150 games,

and each one we do the name, and then we give the verdict in the next 20 seconds, and then we

move on.

And the verdict for each one is just a different sound effect of a different kind of gun firing.

And you have to work out what the different sounds mean. It's sort of an outsider art piece. I think I'd be really into it. Yeah. On this podcast, we're going to talk about three different games. We're going to talk about Dual Forcardia, a game that has cards in it. I know nothing about this one. I should not be doing this intro. You'll like it. Okay, I'll like it. Then we're going to be talking about 20 strong, a modular game system that's got dice and cards and lots

of strange ideas. And then we're going to end the podcast by talking about Vantage in probably

what will be the slowest and most meandering and confused segment on the pod, because these are my

first impressions of a game

that is baffling in so many ways. You'll be dawling your old man hat and wandering around going,

where are my keys? My keys on in the fruit bowl. Let me out on the podcast. The first game that we're

going to talk about on this podcast is dual for Cardia, designed by Fosie Bogida and Matthew Riviero, with art

by a whole bunch of people. Loads of people. It's going to be a common theme on this podcast. All of the

games that we're talking about just have a bunch of different artists. Like too many to mention.

Everybody putting their paintbrush in the same place at the same time. To make one giant brown

splotch. You're going, Yeah. Imagining artists being like

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