Hello and welcome to the very 98th podcast of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, the podcast all about board games, people who love board games, and the board games that love them.

My name's Matt Lees, joined as ever by Quentin Smith.

Hello, Matt Lees.

And we've got a treat for you today, because we're going to be talking about some board games.

It's a revolutionary new idea that's taking the internet by storm. are the taverns of Tiefenthal, a tavern simulator from the designer of quacks of Quedlinburg.

We're going to be talking about Stefan Feld's Carpe Diem, a game about Romans trying to put their houses in the right place and failing.

We're going to talk about Luxor, a game of Egyptologists going around a pyramid and swearing.

We're going to be talking about silk.

Matt, how would you describe silk?

It's a bizarre hellish, pastily game of eating your friends' worms in a world that doesn't

quite make sense. Lovely stuff. I'm going to be talking about rail pass, a cooperative

real-time game about passing actual physical trains with actual cubes on to your friends

without the cubes falling off because then that counts as lost cargo.

Look forward to that.

Gosh.

It's even more ridiculous and fun than I'm...

That's exactly how trains work in real life.

Don't drop the train, Kenneth!

This whole podcast is just going to be me like rushing through everything to get to talking about rail pass, because it's a heck of a thing.

We're going to be talking as well a little bit about some of our reviews that have just gone up,

crock and old pipeline and soon to be too many bones.

And then we've got a reader question in which Stefan from Germany is going to ask,

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