Hello everybody, Quinn's here with three very short orders of business before we begin this episode.

First off to everyone who wrote in, yes, yes, the reader mail we read out last episode was the same question we read out three episodes ago,

praising the play by mail section of our forum. But you know what? You know what? I don't regret it because the Shut Up and Sit Down Forum is a lovely golden place that deserves

praise every episode.

So there.

I also should say that Mike Young, who works for Plan B games, got in touch to address

my speculation that Reef the game and Next Move, their line of abstract games,

was hastily assembled as a result of Azul's success. Mike says that Plan B has been planning

next move for two years. He also wanted to address my questioning whether the components in Reef

were maybe not as nice as Azul. He says that in the

finished production copy of Reef that we can look forward to trying later this year, the components

will hopefully be nicer. That's all. Enjoy the show, everybody.

Hello and welcome to the very 74th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast.

The podcast exclusively about eggs and those who eat them.

That's not true.

That's not true.

That's one of your classic jokes. My agenda slipping in there again.

No, it's about board games and the people who play and love them.

We've got some really big boxes coming up today, right?

Yes, my name is Quentin Smith, and I'm going to be Matt's sole co-pilot as we fly through the skies.

What's in the skies? It's board games. It's always board games, if you're expecting anything else from this podcast. I'm sure that when some of these board games get into our jet engines,

they are going to tear this plane out of the sky.

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