Hello everybody and welcome to the very 295th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast about board games, board games and the people who love board games. I'm joined as ever by Matt Lees. Hello. And today, we're having ourselves a little treat. Mm-hmm. An explosive treat. Oh, isn't, oh, all this pick-a-mix. Oh, we've got all these different little games we've played. And we've eaten them all. And, oh, no, I'm too full. We need to get these pick-a-m mix games out of our brains before we explode tom i'm really glad you said brains because then you were like i'm eating all this pick a mix yeah i know i know i know i led you done that dirty path and i knew i was doing it and the way your face turned as i said it i'm hoping that happened to all of the listeners too but don't worry worry. They're just in our brains because that's where Pick a Mix lives. That's right. It's the board

game Pick and Mix Brain Explosion. Absolutely. First of all, in our Pick and Mix explosion is Market

Fresh. Market Fresh. A game which, to be honest, does look like an explosion of Little Sweetheets. It does. This is a game by Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer and published by Avalon Hill. And it is a game of stacking produce. Little apples? Apples. Cherry? Fruits. Lemons? Lemons. Lones? No guns. Oh. But there are some vegetables. Oh! It's a re-implementation of a game called Jabaku, I believe. It's basically a domino game where what you have is you have a little grid in front of you, which represents your market stall, I guess. And you have a small hand of dominoes in front of you, except these dominoes are little plastic baskets that have little coloured plastic bits of fruit in them. You have them in front of you as a hand, and you always have three, and then on your own, you can take another one. So it means you can choose to place one, take one, take one, take one, place one. It means you kind of always have a sense of what you've potentially got coming up, but you can also be like, I really don't want that one on the end. I'm just going to ignore it and hope that you never have to use it throughout the whole game. And then you're taking these dominoes, which I have like, sometimes very lucky. And they have like both sides have the same type of produce in them. But mostly they don't. Mostly it's like, hey, it's half strawberries, half onions. Completely normal.

Bad smoothie. Um, and then you're placing them on your grid, effectively. Now, there are some spaces on the grid that you can only cover up with a matching thing. So they'll picture of a strawboard in it. You have to put some strawbs on there if you want to cover up. But otherwise, you can just put them however, want you, however you like. There's no adjacency rules. you just go mad.

Fill it up.

Great.

Amazing.

And then when you do that, You can just put them however you like. There's no adjacency rules. You just go mad.

Fill it up.

Great.

Amazing.

And then when you do that, if you have more than two of a type of the same type of produce next to each other in this grid.

That's a group. So let's just say I've got that.

Then that counts as a group and you would look to the little chart.

The chart.

Yes.

Because not only do you get points.

So you get a couple of points for that, right? Two strawberries, two points. Why not? It's not rocket science. That's the moment you place your tile. The moment you place it on your term. But then you will also look at the chart. This is where the game gets a little bit fruity. for a game

that's not meant to be a pun

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