 So Spotted was the sleeper hit of PAX like we were PAX ease last year We were jumping all over it. We can call this past year the year of Spotted. I own like three Well, I think spot. It's probably the tabletop game of the year I have owned like five Spotted sets because I keep buying it and giving it to people as gifts I think I gave the first spot. It said I bought that Unfortunately has a for rectal use only sticker on it to Robert you mean fortunately I Am curious to see if he has played that spotted or if he is in fact not opened it for fear if he has the Q&A You can go and ask him. I will it's that midnight on Friday. I know so Blue orange games made Spotted and they made another game. They have a lot of games that they've made I think they have an excess in their warehouse of circular cards and metal tins So trigger is a newer game. They made that looks a lot like spotted little tin circular cards All that stuff and the way trigger works. I'm gonna spoil the review right now It's a great concept and it was fun to play once Kind of have fun it would know I would argue we had fun because of all the arguing and problems Sometimes it was fun some part of it's like part of the time we're playing was fun And part of the time we're playing was not fun You got to admit when when my question to all of you was the state we are in ends in a Conson that was the fun part So the way the game works is you have a card with a question on it or a statement like Your first name has an even number of letters or I have children or The answer is false to you know something like that. You can whistle your own national anthem Everyone slams down either the right hand or the left hand on the trigger, which is the little foam pad The right hand you slam down if the statement is true Now if the statement says you then it means you personally So it's like you are wearing pink shoes Then if you are wearing pink shoes you say true, but if the person says I am wearing pink shoes It's if the person who said the thing on the card So if it's a you question Then people might have to give different answers like what you know Let's say I'm wearing shoes and the guy next to me isn't and it it says you are wearing shoes Well, I'm going to put down the true hand and he's going to put down the false hand Right, but if it's a question where it's a my question Then it's a question about the question asker in which case everyone The you know has the same answer as is the correct answer now Yeah, and you put your left hand down for false Then we we sorted out whoever put the correct answer down first gets to keep the card and they're the reader next Whoever put the first wrong answer down if there is a wrong answer gives up a card And then based on the color of the back of the card The person who won the point is now the new reader and you go through until someone runs out of cards Right, so basically winning doesn't actually get you anything because right because you then have to read a new card But it you know it helps you because when you're reading a card There's no chance you can lose one in that round So if you win every round is basically no chance of you ever losing a card because you're reading questions the whole time, but So what the game comes down to is you know who can hold out the longest without losing all their cards Right, so it's the game could go on forever if everyone plays perfectly Unlike spot it, which is sort of like it's gonna end now The concept is great and we know it is because when we played some of the questions Like everyone would be like, uh, like your brain just like spot it your brain would freeze Your adult brain would say wait a minute. I'm actually a baby Yep And that part is really fun Like you get questions like what's a really good one because some of the questions are kind of dumb The ones that have a lot of double negatives. Yep Stuff like that the opposite of false is true At least two players are wearing shoes with no laces. I'm reading the card in english The table we were playing on is round not now That's where the problems begin right a lot of these questions have assumptions built into them We weren't playing on a table. We were playing on the floor. So what is that question? Even you know, should it be you know, obviously it's not true because we're not playing on a table But it's not false either. Well, it is because logically the statement is false because one portion of it is false Yeah, it's it's however, that's fine because that we could argue but Some of the questions have a problem that they will specify What the actual answer is they'll put a little t or a little f next to it Because they think the people who made this game that no matter what that question will always be true or always be false Sometimes this is the case Sometimes it is actually not for example green is made by mixing blue and yellow They say this is always true. But wait a minute. Not are we talking about pigments? Are we talking about life? Exactly. We're too smart so that we know better than you know, that you can make a really good argument And basically it's a bullshit question or at this table. All right. We already don't have a table There are as many mouths as there are noses. What if someone lost their nose in nom? Now what game exactly? What if someone has two noses? What if there's like, you know, some like a One of those, you know, funny glasses with the nose built onto it sitting on the table That's an extra nose. Oh, there's a good one though This is not the first half of the year and the first letter of the state We are in is in the first 10 letters of the alphabet See those are good ones right ones that where there's no ambiguity. There's no argument to be made It's true or false some of these right there was one that wasn't even true or false It was like a command. Yeah, it was like slam both your hands down at the same time Well, it's like, well, wait a minute. That's not a true or false statement That's bullshit. Also, some of them are predicated upon the future So I realized that I could retroactively change the result of the game One of them was you are sleeping here tonight Yep So we had some friends who were actually sleeping over but scott wasn't sleeping over But he could have said true and then said, all right. Yeah, I'm gonna stay the night Or what if I didn't let him stay the night or what if something happened later and they weren't people weren't able to sleep there You know, you never know what's gonna happen So you can't you can't make true or false statements about the future unless you know psychic powers are real Now the other trouble is that the way the game is written It doesn't have all the game modes like spot it did So the game kind of peters out and then you're gonna rapidly have the same questions over and over again as the game goes Well, that's that's another flaw in the game, right? Everyone's dealt these cards at the beginning of the game And you you you cycle through those cards and each card does have five questions But you don't choose which question to ask it's determined by the color of the previous card So as you keep if you keep playing and you don't suck, right? Then what happens is you keep asking the same questions over and over again And you don't draw any new cards to get new questions You would have to play again a new game with new cards or Bring in some sort of house rule where you can throw away cards you have already and draw new ones and stuff like that But it's not in the official rules So yeah, the rules are flawed in that you don't get fresh questions and eventually you're doing the same things over and over again Which is actually, you know Apples to apples has a similar problem that everyone uses the good cards And then if the game goes on too long everyone has nothing but a bunch of shit proper nouns And everyone's just bored waiting for the game That's why you get to get so many expansions, but even to get so many expansions It's not like they're all good cards in there You still get a handful of crap the real answer is gonna make your own apples to apples Yeah But the other problem with the rules Is that the way it works you can't really get ahead you can basically just hold out Already already disgusting. Yeah, but there's a way around that and that maybe you just don't answer any questions Then you can never fall behind Well, I think see the way I interpret it is that you have to put a hand down, right? But it doesn't specify a time limit so I can just wait till everyone's done sit there Fully consider the question the very slowly go, uh Yeah, that's I'm fine with that So I feel like you have to put a hand down because let's say everyone puts a correct hand down No one's saying anything you still have to think about it and decide if it's right hand or let or what to do But the way the questions are given 30 seconds to think you're guaranteed to not fuck it up I know so Unless it's one of those stupid ambiguous questions what this game is if I had to encapsulate it in a word is lazy I call it not broken. I'm gonna say lazy because I say broken Yeah, it is broken, but it's only broken due to laziness the concept Is really solid and it could have been great They just didn't even like put half a fucking ass into the questions they put on it And they didn't actually think about the mechanics. It's like they didn't actually play test this game I cannot imagine adults playing this game for more than two seconds without running into a question They can't answer from the rules. Yeah, you could take this exact same rule set Add a rule for maybe switching cards out or drawing cards or something like that like when you win you draw a card or who knows and then um You know clarify the rule about you know Uh, do you have to answer or not? Maybe do something like get rid of any ambiguous question and only put in good The good questions Yep Like one way maybe you make a rule like the last person to put their hand down gets some penalty to force people to move Yeah, or something the game could be fixed Uh with the significant effort it could be an okay game It wouldn't still wouldn't be as good as spot it though even if all those problems are solved I think it could be because the few rounds where the question was good And there was no ambiguity had the exact same brain feel as spot it. Yeah, but I think spot is just Yeah, you could can't be a spot it. I think you could just this game Like I said, this game is broken, but it's broken due to nothing more than laziness This could have easily been a really fun game But instead as it is I would not buy this game if I were you. No, we're not gonna be having 10 copies giving them I'm gonna try to fix it like I'm other than to make all new cards No, I can't fix the questions, but I'm gonna try to figure out a way to at least fix the mechanics Because I think the concept is solid Maybe I don't know I gotta come over there. Maybe I swap it instead of putting your hands down. There's a totem I don't know. I'll come up with something. Yeah, I'll make like a trigger mod sure