The Simplicity of Asmodee’s Spot It! Matching Game

Asmodee is known the world over for all the board and card game it publishes, and I’m constantly astonished at the range of games the company has in it’s portfolio. Over the holidays, we reviewed many of these titles, and are continuing trough a few other now. Last night, it was all about the kid friendly game, Spot It! where players do their best to find the matching symbols between cards, collecting the cards and ultimately winning the game.

Spot It! has a number of different games embedded within the rulebook, but we like a classic game of flipping cards and matching symbols. Mostly because it is the easiest game for the kids to comprehend on their own. Flip two cards, find the item that matches, call it out and collect the cards into your pile. While the size of the items doesn’t matter, the colour and shape do. I’m terrible at this game.

Sometimes the matching symbols just seem to jump off the page at you instantly. I found, for example, that matching wedges of cheese was incredibly easy, but matching some of the other symbols – such as the pair of scissors – was inanely difficult. This first game is a simple game of Twins (matching two cards), but they games get increasingly more complex. Or, at least as complex as matching games can be.

In The Tower, players each get their own card face up in front of themselves, and then a central card is revealed from the deck. Players quickly try to match their symbol with the card in the middle – the first player to shout out their own matching symbol (which will inevitably be different for each player), gets to take the middle card and place it on top of their current card, thereby creating a ‘tower.’ The tallest tower wins.

There are a variety of other games to play as well, including a take on Twins that is called Threes, where you match three symbols as opposed to two. Overall, however, it is an easy game to pick up and play, is appropriate for all ages, and can provide hours of fun, for one low cost. That’s pretty amazing!