Hello everybody and welcome to a very, very special, glutted, fat, loaded, bloated episode

of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast. And that's just me, Quince. It's not me, it's because

we're talking about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, but 13 board games.

Do I put a secret bonus board game? Yeah. Because you've also got a secret board game. No,

13 because you've got a secret bonus board game. But this is alarming. 13 is not a lucky

number, Tom. By the way, it's a curse number. I'm Quentin Smith. I Quentin Smith.

You're my, your Tom Brewster. Tom Brewster. And on this podcast, we're going to be talking

about board games, board games, but more of them than usual. So many board games in this

episode. Why is that, Quince? Why are you selling me up for a question that only you can answer?

Why is that, Tom? Because, oh, yeah, okay, because I've been a S&S, a spiel S&, 2023

in the wonderful town of S& Germany. It's not that wonderful, a town. It's mostly just,

it's just a convention hall, really. It's the largest board game convention in the

world, though, right? It's huge. It's terrifying. It's six halls of board games with two extra

halls just for fun, like the entrance ones. There was like a weird little bonus novelty

zone. I spent some time in the Asmode business lounge, but like I definitely wasn't allowed

in there. I'm sorry. What's a novelty zone? The novelty zone was where it was, that

was what it was called in German. You know, it had German, like, such as two different

words together to make one. It was just a press preview event where there was just a bunch

of games on tables. Oh, I would go to so many more press previews if they called them

novelty zones. I know. And it had a big red arrow pointing you the right way. That's what

I need. Okay. So you've been to S&S Spieler. Spiel S&. And the World Series of board games

in Las Vegas. Oh, but we're not talking about that. I didn't play anything new there.

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