Hello and welcome to the 133rd Shut Up as a Jit Dan podcast. I'm here today joined by Tom

Brewster. Hello and I remain Ava Foxfort and we are on our own and the dads aren't

here. The dads aren't here. I should put like a fanfare in at this point to signify

the start of the dads on here cast. It's actually a bit weird whenever I call Matt and

Quinn's dad and not just in the way you think it's weird but also because I'm a little

bit older than them. We are going to talk at you today about some old and

crusty Euro games but they're not actually that old and that crusty. We think that they've

got some sharp and pointy bits inside of them but mean that they should be do a reprint,

a reissue, a rebirth, a re-resurrection or similar or you can actually play all of these

games online and either board game arena or yukatar.de is it a dot de address. Yeah I like

to call it yukatar which I don't think is what it's called. That's good. All these games

we think are really interesting and we're going to have a little chat about St. Petersburg,

palaces of Carrara and El Grande. So if you like the sound of all of those games then

you can hear us talk about them after this sting. So the first of these games we're

going to talk about is a little game called St. Petersburg. This is available on board

game arena and is made by a man called burned brun offer and let me tell you St. Petersburg

is weird. It's this strange mix of being a game that's very straightforward with these

very quick simple easy and juicy decisions but also just being like so stripped down

to me that I think it's quite strange as a pitch for like where or when you would play

this game but we'll get into that later. Let me tell you what St. Petersburg is about.

Basically it is a game about playing cards and getting points each round of the game

you will be going through four separate decks of cards and you'll have a spread of eight

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