Hello and welcome to the very 293rd episode of the shut up and sit down podcast.

The podcast all about board games, board games, and the people who love to play board games.

That's me and you. That's me. I'm Matt Lees and I'm joined by Tom Brewster. I'm Bored Games. He's Bored Games made incarnate. It's true. Put him on the pyre and set him a light so that Bord Game Boy may be born again renewed. That's very thematic actually if you were to bird me at the stake, because this episode, it's the Violence Special.

Oh, absolutely. We love violence here at Shut Up, Sit Down, and that's why we have got three games, which are all incredibly violent.

Just brutal, gory, disgusting games.

We're going to be talking about bomb busters.

Oh, bombs.

Exactly. Bombs. They blow up things. Yeah. This is a game

where you're some bunny rabbits diffusing bombs. It's a cooperative family game. We're going to

be talking about Neko syndicates. A game about the yakuza. Oh, sort of gangs. Blood guts gore.

But actually, it's the little cats, little cats who make sushi and they travel around town to get sushi to people. Tableau building cat game. Yeah, with sushi. And then we're going to be talking about off with their heads. Oh, the guillotine. Oh, the guillotine, the famous instrument of revolution. Yeah, quite violent though, quite violent the guillotineotine because it does involve chopping people's heads off

oh really

yeah that's how it that's how it works oh okay I thought it was for paper when you see that thing saying this machine kills fascists it's because it cuts their heads off because it's because their heads off that's why they die yeah that's why they die this is a game set in the world of like Wonderland's War style things.

So it's about the Queen of Hearts

from Alice in Wonderland saying, off with their heads. Right. And it's a game. It's a kind of a flip and right. It's just very gentle. You're writing numbers on mushrooms. Yeah. And collecting friends to have a tea party with it. Yeah. It sounds really violent. Oh, it's actually there's no implication of violence at all, but from the name.

Oh, okay.

Violence!

First up on the podcast, Matt, you are going to tell me about Neco Syndicate, a 2024 game designed by Danny Garcia, with art by Jennifer Geiner and published by combo games and more

according to board game geek yeah I'm sure I'm sure there's more to than meets the eye this is a game

I heard some nice things about so I want to check it out and it was a really delightful tight

small box tableau builder. Oh, yeah.

The idea of the game is that the old master of the gang is retiring, and you're going to

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