2025's Best Board Game Gifts!

‘Tis the season! We’re back with a bumper stack of great board games to recommend you buy for your best pals, your arch enemies, or perhaps even… yourself?

That’s right! It’s the Annual Shut Up & Sit Down Board Game Gift Guide and it’s beaming directly into your eyeballs right now. Links for any and all games discussed will be directly below!

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SU&SD’s Gift Guide ’24: https://bit.ly/SUSDGG24
Best Games ’24: https://bit.ly/SUSDFavof24
Ultimate Gift List ’23: https://bit.ly/SUSDChristmasGGuide2023
10 Games to Play with your Family: https://bit.ly/SUSDTop10Xmas

0:00 Happy Holidays folks!

1:10 The Quest for El Dorado
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVBJ2u4xWI
Top 100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrhTAD-D5s
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2:37 Flamme Rouge & Heat
Flamme Rouge
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgX6l8HX16M
Buy US: https://bit.ly/4pedN5q Buy UK: https://bit.ly/48w8WW8

Heat: Pedal to the Metal
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reKywaUtP44
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3:40 Flamme Rouge: Grand Tour & Heat Expansions
Flamme Rouge: Grand Tour
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Heat: Pedal to the Metal: Tunnel Vision
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Heat: Pedal to the Metal: Heavy Rain
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4:43 Sanctuary
Games of Essen '25 Ranked': https://youtu.be/7_fZ4CVwHzE?si=86GYn7qB8Znona9t&t=5556
Buy US: https://bit.ly/4rFHz4D Buy CA: https://bit.ly/3KInvxV
Ark Nova Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgr-ET0buQ
Calico & Cascadia Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC0vPdJs8uQ

5:59 Things in Rings
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7:22 Strike
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9:34 Agent Avenue
Games of Essen '25 Ranked': https://youtu.be/7_fZ4CVwHzE?si=IwLT3hIEq3JB7GRA&t=2366
Buy UK: https://bit.ly/4plE9Tl
Buy Agent Avenue: Division M: Buy UK: https://bit.ly/3MIVXJl

11:39 High Tide
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13:46 Tag Team
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Preview: https://youtu.be/lOQTbfwdPSw?si=FMDU2PZbii_CgwLa&t=359
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16:21 Wizard
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18:56 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game
Podcast: https://bit.ly/SUSDPod268
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpfUDpd5Z7k&t=1150s
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21:05 New Mill Industries card games
https://www.newmillindustries.com/
21:44 Gachapon Trick [New Mill Industries]
22:12 Somnia [New Mill Industries]
23:12 Seven Prophecies [New Mill Industries]
24:24 Lepidoptery [New Mill Industries]
Scout Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFZIr5feAPE
Buy Scout: In US: https://amzn.to/3DeIQsP In UK: https://bit.ly/3H0Jzly In CA: https://bit.ly/3TDX1gW
25:01 Agency [New Mill Industries]

27:08 Wordy Gifts
27:25 The Game Changers
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29:11 Crossword Puzzles
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