#290 - The Turnips of Wroth

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Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this slippy ol’ episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are chatting about Emberleaf; a game of woodland creatures amassing honey and battering bandits! “Like Pooh gone all vigilante on them asses”.

Our dynamic duo then seek to area control eachother in a WORTH WRESTLE! Whose critical opinion on this luminous box will come out on top? Neither, really. They’re both pretty chill about the whole thing. Everyone’s allowed opinions - even YOU!

Have a great week, everybody!

Timestamps:

01:19 - Emberleaf

16:20 - Wroth

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the very 290th episode of the shut up and sit down podcast,
0:16.6	the podcast about board games, board games and the people who love board games.
0:19.7	I'm joined as ever by Matt. Hello. And we're going to tell you about one, two, maybe three, board games. If you're lucky, who knows? Who knows what's going to be contained in this exciting grab bag? We don't even know yet. No. We do. We know a little bit. We know a little bit. I got no preamble banter, Matt. Okay. That's okay. I got nothing. Don't worry about it. What have I done this morning? You know, I've written some words. Some people were cutting down a tree earlier. Yeah. You know, they only did like a couple of branches of the tree and they left the rest of it. Just chill it's all been popping off. It's been an exciting time. Is it? Has it? Yeah. Is this what the listeners want to hear?
0:55.6	No.
0:55.8	I'm drinking an aloeira drink that I bought.
0:57.4	My goodness.
0:58.6	What's happened to us?
0:59.6	It's got bits in it.
1:00.3	Well, I don't know what's, you say what's happened to well. It's what's happened to me? I mean, I've been 40 for a while now. Welcome to the club, buddy.
1:05.6	I'm not 40?
1:06.9	No, but soon you will be.
1:09.2	And then your life will just be
1:10.3	extension cables and greyness.
1:12.8	It's fine.
1:13.4	You find your own fun in the chaos. You know, no, but soon you will be. And then your life will just be extension cables and greyness.
1:12.8	It's fine. You find your own fun in the chaos. And speaking of which, board games, what a hobby.
1:19.9	Tom, Tom, Tom. Hi. You told me a little while ago that you played a game called Emberleaf.
1:24.9	Did play a little game. And I would like you to tell me now about it.
1:28.7	It's not a little game.
1:30.3	It's a big game. I was just saying little and the, like, you know. And you know, like that's... Like a meaningless word. Not a... The fact that it's a big game and not a little game might be my problem with it. Oh. Yeah. We're going to come back to that in just a little bit.
1:43.0	Emberleaf is a game designed by Frank West,
1:46.3	who you might know for such games as Isle of Cats, Race to the Raft. But he's joined by a co-designer this time around, James Tomlin, who also does some of the art, and Frank does some of the art, is co-designed down to the wazoo. Down to the wazoo?
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