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Defenders of Hogwarts Review
Will you play on the side of good or evil as you fight for the control of Hogwarts? Defenders of Hogwarts is a deck building game from MinaLima design studio.
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10 Board Game Accounts to Follow on Instagram 2026
We follow a few thousand accounts on Instagram. However, just for you we have selected 10 of the best accounts to follow on this social media platform. The post 10 Board Game Accounts to Follow on Instagram 2026 appea…
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I went into Here Lies with no preconceptions and with barely any idea what the game was about, and came away both surprised and delighted.
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The little box makes it feel like it's going to be something smaller and lighter, but there's a thick, juicy game here.
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A look at the popularity of 18xx games in Finland from 2003 to 2025.
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The Dealer Review
The Dealer is a party card game about banking or going bust, read the review of it here!
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Gulo Gulo board game review
The Board Game Family How hard can it be to pull a little egg out of a bowl? In Gulo Gulo, it's much harder than you think. Especially when the bowl is packed with different-sized eggs, you're only allowed to use one …
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Flock Ton of Flamingos Preview
Flock Ton of Flamingos is a colorful and fast-paced card game from Weird Giraffe Games where players build out their flamingo community
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Call it a toy, call it a gimmick, call it a quality-of-life improvement, call it what you want, but the sucker dart in the Salamandra box is genius.
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18RoyalGorge first impressions
The latest addition to my 18xx collection is 18RoyalGorge: The Rails of Fremont County and the Royal Gorge Wars. I bumped into this on BGG, I think, and the game sounded good enough so I bought a copy. This was on Kic…
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Reef & Ruins Review
Dive into the deep and check out Reef & Ruin, a three page roll & write game from Weird Giraffe Games. Unlock sunken ships, explore reefs, and raise your score through enchantments. The post Reef & Ruins Review appear…
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Wingspan Pocket Review
Don’t be coy, come on over, there is nothing fishy going on I promise, you can just read my board game review of Koi!
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It's a cliché to say it, but Kobayakawa is much greater than the sum of its parts.
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Pet Quartet Review
The music industry is tough and right now, they are looking for only soloists and quartets. Pet Quartet is a card drafting game from GameHead Games.
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2026 saw the third iteration of Roll The Dice Cornwall's South West Cornwall Games Expo, and it was the best yet.
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BLORP! board game review
The Board Game Family Tile-laying games have been a staple of the board gaming hobby for decades. Classics like Carcassonne have proven just how satisfying it can be to build something one tile at a time. BLORP!, from…
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Don’t miss the AWESOME Shorts Dani Standring did for Board Games Direct. Check back every day for new videos for Board Games Direct!
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Board Games Direct 2026 | Library Additions
Here’s the fully finished games that have been added to the Shut Up & Sit Down Boardgame Library this show, thanks to the publishers for sending them! Mostly new, and all-ly interesting, go try them at your nearest co…
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Come Sail Away! Review
Come check out my ship-shape review of the board game Come Sail Away!
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Trio Review
I finally remembered to write a review of the memory card game Trio, also known as Nana to some!
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Tulikko board game review
The Board Game Family Tile-laying games are some of our family's favorite board games. There's something satisfying about watching a colorful puzzle slowly come together over the course of a game. And when a game adds…
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Marvel: Crisis Protocol – Iron Fist
It has been over a month since my last post. Couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I’ve had a few issues with my computer, which, by the fact that I’m writing this, you can see I’ve managed to sort. Secondly, I’ve spen…
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Flip 7 and Flip 7 With A Vengeance Card Game Review
The Board Game Family Card games don’t usually explode onto the family gaming scene overnight, but that’s exactly what happened with Flip 7. Since its release in 2024 by The Op Games, this little push-your-luck card g…
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Lautapeliopas Game Day #1
Earlier this year I decided to host a small game day for the contributors of Lautapeliopas. I’ve been doing yoga, and the yoga school rents out the place. It’s a lovely place and good for small gatherings. For the fir…
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She made another one
For-Ex had the “why on earth did you buy this game” letter on back of the box. I’m exactly the kind of person to buy a game after reading that. I played the original four times before passing it on. It was a weird gam…
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Vampire The Masquerade – Chapters
I usually start my long reviews with a little atmospheric, story-like intro, and whilst this game certainly lends itself to such, I thought an explanation of what’s to come would be better suited. You see, this didn’t…
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We played Guàn Dàn yesterday. John McLeod (of Pagat.com) was visiting Tampere recently and recommended this Chinese climbing card game to me. According to him, it’s very popular in China right now. It has a couple of …
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First Thoughts – Nemesis
Creeping from room to room, trying not to make the slightest noise, I made my way towards the cockpit. The tension filled the air. My shipmate was on the opposite side of the ship, we’d split up long before and that w…
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Rubik’s Tetris Cube Review: Familiar Moves, Different Headache
The Board Game Family The Rubik's x Tetris crossover combines two of the most legendary shape-based puzzle games into one fun ride. The goal is to restore all six iconic Tetris Tetriminos to their original forms. As s…
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Marvel: Crisis Protocol – Valkyrie
One of Yasmin’s Asgardians and an easy paint for me, as I just followed what I did for Thor… more or less! Primed Black and the dry-brushed all over with Pale Grey Blue and then White… I think you know what’s coming n…
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A good week
This has been a good week of games. We started with afternoon games on Monday. One player dropped out, so the original plan of a four-player game of Imperial turned into a three-player game of Indonesia. I had not pla…
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First Thoughts – Age of Comics
Sat on my shelf for over a year, gathering dust and sticking its tongue out at me in disgust, as I have continually failed to give Age of Comics any recognition in that time. Finally, I managed to get a game or two in…
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Adventures in Bolt Action: Volkssturm!
Get the flags out. Hoot your horn, Give me a big round of applause… I’ve finally painted another unit for Bolt Action! Volkssturm! The old, the young, and the unfit. The scrapings from the bottom of the barrel. I thou…
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18GB with two and Indonesia
This week has been good for board games. On Tuesday, I met a friend for a two-player game of 18GB: The Railways of Great Britain, and yesterday we played another game of Indonesia. Two-player 18GB is a fine 18xx exper…
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5 Hot Games I’m looking forward to at SaltCon Spring 2026
The Board Game Family SaltCon Spring 2026 is only a couple of weeks away and the excitement is building. I've attended our local board game convention near Salt Lake City, Utah for 15 years and have loved seeing it gr…
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Marvel: Crisis Protocol – Uncanny X-Men
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m experimenting with speed/contrast/Xpress paints, call them what you will, in order to try and increase my output of minis, and I thought this would be a good point to show you two of the …
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Chicago & NorthWestern redraw
I wanted to do a redraw of the Chicago & NorthWestern board. I own the original Winsome Games edition. The Rio Grande version has a nicer board, though it’s a bit plain and doesn’t include the most obvious usability f…
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Return to Indonesia
We had a great game session yesterday. We played Indonesia! The appearance of the new third edition made me realize Indonesia would be a great match for my current game group, so I quickly reacquired a copy. I got the…
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Catching up… and some Walls!
Not a very productive year, 2025, certainly not from a hobby perspective anyway. Fourteen posts was all I managed, which to be honest, was probably close to the number of games I actually played too. With my daughter …
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Marvel: Crisis Protocol – The Amazing Spider-Man
Let’s start by saying just how much I dislike painting Spider people. I hate it! That suit drives me crazy… so much and yet so little detail. I think this is the third or fourth I’ve done now and I kept putting him of…
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Marvel: Crisis Protocol – Toad
Painting has been a bit sporadic over the last few months and the couple of things I’ve completed have been done in a hurry, of which Toad here was the first. Pretty simple with just two main colours, one of which is …
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Skull – Is it a fun game or colorful drink coasters?
The Board Game Family Forget the regular preamble to a board game review. We'll cut right to the chase – Skull is an absolutely hit with everyone we've introduced the game to. It's a short game packed with strategizin…
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Don't miss the AWESOME Shorts Dani Standring did for Board Games Direct:
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25 Words or Less party game review
The Board Game Family “I can name that tune in 5 notes.” “You go ahead and name that tune!” That’s exactly what I thought when reading the rules to 25 Words or Less, a new game from The Op Games. Since most of our rea…
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Hello! Basically every single year I’ve worked for Shut Up & Sit Down, I’ve typed out the words: “it’s been a weird year” …and 2025 is proving to be absolutely no exception! We’ve just put out a sponsored video onto t…
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Shut Up & Sit Down is delighted to announce a partnership with Play to Z to hunt down the board game treasures that we think belong in every collection. " SU&SD Presents " is a brand new line of titles that places a s…
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Tom: Hey folks! We wanted to kick off the year with an update that goes over what Shut Up & Sit Down is going to be up to in 2024. This is the kind of thing we normally reserve for the newsletter, but we wanted this t…
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Tom: October! Spooky Month! This one’s packed with TREATS! No tricks, I promise! It’s candy! Go on, bite it! BITE IT! Mmmmmmmm. Yum. Isn’t that nice? Tasty Tasty Cardboard. Videos! Let’s talk about those! We’ve got ab…
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