#85: Do you have any Fascist Fish?

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Leisure, Games

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Come on up! Make yourself at home in our twiggy podcast nest, where Paul and Quinns are ready to regurgitate some warmed-up board game knowledge into your waiting beak.

This episode features the quietly fabulous tile-laying of Gunkimono. There's Taj Mahal, the fourth in a fantastic series of beautiful Reiner Knizia remakes. We've had a first play of Trade on the Tigris, a new negotiation game from the designer of Space Cadets. Quinns talks about how GKR: Heavy Hitters is almost his favourite game of all time, if it could just be combined somehow with Critical Mass (see podcast #84). Also, like the rest of the internet, we've begun playing Root and can't seem to stop.

Finally, the pair chat about a reader mail asking when, and where, we'd consider playing board games for money.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the 85th shut up and sit down podcast a podcast all about
0:13.6	board games card games table top games my colleague Paul Dean hi and me Quentin Smith
0:20.5	we have been talking about board games for seven years now there you go without stopping
0:26.7	without no there's been sleeping sometimes it feels that way but that's just how it's got
0:32.6	to be Paul we have got a hum donker of a show why don't you tell me what is on this hum donker
0:39.0	of a show we are going to be talking about a bunch of board games including Gunkimono which
0:43.9	is a kind of domino related Japanese war game that has nothing to do with Japan or war
0:51.4	but it's really good I was impressed I'm going to be talking about Taj Mahal yeah an
0:56.5	update of a of an old game from Ryan Eknitzia keep coming back they keep coming back it
1:02.1	turns out Dr. Ryan Eknitzia has like hundreds of games and literally some of them are really
1:06.9	good we're going to be talking about trading on the Tigris yes a new trading game about
1:12.8	being a Babylonian and occasionally asking people if they want a religious fish or goat
1:18.4	or a goat do you want to go I got a lot of goats is it a fascist goat it's let's move on I don't
1:26.0	want to spoil that one trading on the Tigris is yeah very interesting trading game we'll be talking
1:30.1	about that later I've been playing GKR heavy hitters do you know what GKR stands for Paul killer robots
1:35.9	and a huge robot miniatures and it looks very sexy I think they are the nicest pre-painted miniatures
1:42.0	that money can buy wow but that's a thing yeah well I'll be talking a bit about GKR for sure okay
1:47.3	but then the sort of grand finale of all the games we're going to be talking about we have been
1:51.5	playing a lot of root root the game that everybody is talking about the game of the moment absolutely
1:59.3	and actually when board games have a game of the moment it tends to be a bit flash in the pan
2:03.5	the hype will usually last for maybe two weeks but with root the hype it's not going anywhere it's
2:09.7	here to stay it's got squatters rights and you know what I'm going to say right here right now it
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