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Games News! 15/12/14

the corpse annex, bow of the bowman +1, trapped birds, candlepower

Quinns: Morning everybody! Our cover photo today is of L’Auberge Rouge (“the Red Inn”), a gorgeous-looking game coming next year from venerable Belgian publisher Pearl Games. It looks like you’ll all be running incredibly creepy pubs.

Brendan: oh god what day is it

Quinns: Brendan?! What are you doing under the desk? The Top 25 wrap party is over. You should be at home.

Brendan: i had the worst dream. i reviewed board games for a living

Quinns: Hey, I’ve got a great idea. You can help me do the weekly Games News! Here, pull up a chair.

Brendan: oh no

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SU&SD’s Top 25 Games Ever! #5 to the #1

oh god, honourable mentions, the alien gurgey, quash

Quinns: Here we go.

Warning: Contains opinions.

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SU&SD’s Top 25 Games Ever! #10 to #6

Quinns' rap, Paul's madness, Matt's pah, Brendan's dendan, Pip's toddler

Quinns: I CAN’T… LOOK AT IT…

IT’S SO BEAAAUUUTIFUUUL

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SU&SD’s Top 25 Games Ever! #15 to #11

the hexagons appear, the lies make their debut, the rude jokes begin

Quinns: Like the M People or a fart, today we’re Moving on Up with our team’s Top 25 games ever.

Have you guys started guessing at the top 10 yet? You must at least have had a guess at number 1. Go on. It’s just a bit of fun. No shame in it.

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SU&SD’s Top 25 Games Ever! #20 to #16

a beautiful bratwurst, a wad of potato, a cup of tea, judas iscariot

Quinns: We’re back! Like a chicken rolling down a hill, SU&SD has started and won’t stop until we’ve reached the bottom of this mess.

Let’s see what golden games we’re squawking about today, eh?

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SU&SD’s Top 25 Games Ever! #25 to #21

hot squabbles, top germs, the chalice of christ, pip's family, milk

Quinns: Oh my GOODNESS GRAVY, this week we’re giving you something you’ve been asking for for 3 and a half years. A list of Shut Up & Sit Down’s top 25 games of all time, ordered from our least most favourite to most most favourite, and all just time for Christmas.

An awful lot of thought, time and love went into this list, so we very much hope you enjoy it. We’ll be posting one instalment a day, right the way through to the end of the week. A bit like an advent calendar, except too short and every day it’s just us again. You’re probably best off taking it back to the shop.

Without further ado, let’s KICK THIS BABY OFF A NOTCH.

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Games News! 08/12/14

oily combat, plastic raptors, crap wizards, hot masks

Quinns: What do we want?!

“SCYTHE!”

When do we want it?

“NOW!”

Why do we want it?

“Because the box looks well nice.”

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Quinns’ Favourite Drinking Games

Quinns spent his youth as a “Keeper of Drinking Games”. Whenever him and his friends were boozing as kids, in those empty kitchens or under trees, he’d lay the games out. He wants to share a few with the world now, before he dies. A written transcript is available here, and Brendan’s essay on craic … Read more

Quinns’ Favourite Drinking Games

headbutting tables, examining lentils, Quinn's most secret vegetable

Continuing what we started with Brendan’s Correct Way to Scratch and Leigh’s Month as an Assassin, we’ve got our third ever spoken article! Quinns wants to tell you why drinking games are important. In fact, he’s waiting for you in our podcast section right now.

Too nervous for a private performance? It’s understandable, of course. You’ll find a written transcript right after the jump.

Take your pick ladies, gentlemen, and teenagers who definitely shouldn’t be reading this. No. We wouldn’t condone that at all. Enjoy, everyone!

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Paul’s Favourite Games from BGG Con ’14!

grumpy ghosts, nice ships, paul's pits, sentient seismographs, texas

Paul: Well goodness me, I’m as beaten as a leather strap, as worn as two-week old jerky, but I sure got my fill of board games at BoardGameGeek Con the other week. Between grabbing some footage of the event (give me a week or two to edit that!) and running the site remotely from the US of A (nobody died, but Millicent did lose another tentacle), I sat down to play games with friends old and new. Here’s the six best new games that found a place in my heart during my time down in Texas.

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