#91: The 2018 Pearple's Choice Awards!
Shut Up & Sit Down
Shut Up & Sit Down
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
It's a podcast! You know the drill, everybody. Recover your audio tubing from the protective sheaths and retreat to your listening hutch.
In this episode Matt and Quinns share their experiences with Wingspan (you'll find the NPI review here), Chronicles of Crime (our SHUX Preview here), Franchise and Woodlouse Chaos, before strapping on their tuxedos for the annual Pearple's Choice Awards, which we last celebrated back on podcast #73.
Who will win Best Game? Best Production? Best Designer? And will SU&SD's audience finally decide that mum and dad... are bad and wrong?
Enjoy the show, everybody, and thanks again to clg6000 for putting these awards together.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the very 91st shut up and sit down podcast. My name is Matt Lees joined by Quentin Smith. |
| 0:18.1 | Hello, Matt Lees. And this is a podcast all about board games, board games, and the people who love them. |
| 0:23.7 | What if I like card games? |
| 0:25.5 | Hmm. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, we have this a lot, and people say, oh, board games like Monopoly. |
| 0:29.5 | And we like to think of board games as being a big manger full of lots of different kinds of... |
| 0:33.9 | The manger. |
| 0:34.5 | You went very biblical, though. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, I was trying to think of a stable is what i went but i went |
| 0:38.7 | full on um big jj so yeah card games board games party games big strategy games we like all kinds of games |
| 0:47.8 | in the game rainbow and um yeah it's all fair game it's a broad church i like fair game was that was that |
| 0:53.8 | deliberate no okay well let's move on uh today we're going to It's all fair game. It's a broad church. I like fair game. Was that deliberate? |
| 0:55.3 | No. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, let's move on. |
| 0:57.7 | Today we're going to be talking about a few games. |
| 0:59.5 | We're going to be talking about Wingspan, an economic game about managing birds. |
| 1:03.6 | Yes, you heard that right. |
| 1:05.0 | We're going to be talking about Chronicles of Crime, a game about being a detective that is simultaneously cartoonish and gory as heck. |
| 1:12.2 | We're going to be talking about franchise a game. |
| 1:14.7 | Matt wishes he'd played. |
| 1:17.4 | And we're going to be talking a little bit very quickly about Assel Schmassel, aka Woodlaus Chaos. |
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