Hello everybody and welcome to the very 285th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast about board games, board games and the people who love board games. It's another Matt and Tom episode.

That's right. And we are two of the people who love board games.

Yep. We've been playing them. We've been playing loads of them.

We've been talking about them. Tons of them. We've just been having them on the brain in the tinker.

You poke your fingers into my squishy cr cranulations of the head and you will find

card games yeah we've just come back from

Essen 2025 which is why we might be a bit loopy

on this podcast we've also just filmed an absolutely

gargantuan video where we were sort of ranking all of the

games we played at Essen and a

tier list. Yes. And somehow we managed to forget one of them entirely. Yes. Despite playing it like, you played like four times. I think so. Yeah. And it was one of my favorite games I played of the what happened. Uh, well, I think what happened was like, you, you did a really good job of having the idea of like, let's do a ranking little tier list, chab, all the games. I was like,

that's a brilliant idea. But I was also like full of a head cold. So I was like you you did a really good job of having the idea of like let's do a ranking little tier list chab all the games i was like that's a brilliant idea but i was also like full of a head cold so i was like i can't really offer anything to this other than that's a brilliant idea but hopefully i'll feel better later in the week and we can do it and i did but it meant i had absolutely no involvement with any of the help setting it up therefore my brain did not spill out important things it should have done.

It's fine. We got most of them. And you should be able to watch that video pretty soon. Yeah, if not already. Yeah, if not already, it might be out there in the wild. Fungus crossed. Fungus crossed. In your eyes and ears. But on this podcast, we're going to talk about the one game that we missed. And we are also going to talk a little bit more in detail about a couple of the games that were on that list

as well. Yes. On this podcast, we're going to talk about winning ticket or ticket garnier.

Oh, I don't do French. Garnier tickets. It's a very French game. A game about betting on horses

and moving them left and right and up and down and

all over the shop. Are you saying that all the French people move in all directions and gamble

constantly? They're a very dangerous chess piece. That's a very whimsical bit of stereotyping.

Then we're going to talk a little bit more about Fayer's swamp, a game about fishing and making a completely unnavigable bit of water.

And then we're going to talk about sanctuary, a cozy re-implementation of some of the systems in Arknova to make a hex-based game about putting a giraffe on a board.

Ooh.

First up on this podcast, we're going to talk about winning ticket or if if you want to find it on BGG, it's ticket Gagnon. G-A-G-N-A-N-T.

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