Spot The Intro Game Review
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Reviewed by Claire Giles
As a family we’re always looking for new games to play on family games nights or with friends. As the kids get older it seems to get harder to find suitable games but as all my daughters love listening to music Spot the Intro looked like a game they would be interested in. The aim of the game is to identify songs streamed through your phone from just their intros.
The initial set up of the game is super quick and easy. You simply place the game board out, put the relevant number of counters on the start space and open the card packages then you’re ready to play. Up to 2-4 players or teams can play at any one time. You will need at least one smart phone with a QR scanner to play the game and an internet connection. There is a rules booklet inside the box which has a QR code to scan which takes you to the games webpage. On the webpage is a copy of the game rules, test songs, a music and quiz section to get you used to the format of the game and a really helpful short QuickStart video.
To start the game the youngest player goes first and they pick a category. There are four game card sets with different categories on each side; 1960’s/1970’s, 1980’s/1990’s, 2000’s/2010’s or show themes. There are 640 cards with a QR code for a track on which are double sided so there are 1,280 spot the intro tracks in total. A card from the chosen category is scanned by a rival player / team who plays 10 seconds of the song’s intro and the player / team has to try to quickly identify the song and artist. A point is given for each correct answer. If they manage to answer correctly both or either the song or artist then a bonus question on the webpage is asked for an additional point. The player then moves the number of points scored on the board. From then on which category card is played is dictated by what space they land on, on the board.
To win the game a player/team must get to the finish and on their next turn select a card and guess the song and artist correctly and answer the bonus question to win. If all three are not answered correctly then they must wait for a further turn for another attempt at winning.
In theory this all seems great and very easy but that’s not actually the case. Getting from scanning the QR card to playing the track takes a few steps and actually requires using a music streaming service, either amazon music, Spotify, apple music or YouTube. We have an amazon music subscription so choose to use that. After scanning the QR code on the card you then clicked on the song title it produced and were prompted to copy the title. You then choose the music service you require from the list and whether you want an android or apple version and then it takes you to the music service. You then have to paste the title into the search bar and search for it. You then choose the correct song from the search results and manually play 10 seconds of the track. This all was a bit fiddly and amazon music couldn’t find a couple of the tracks which meant we had to go back and use YouTube instead which had adverts to play before it streamed the song. This all took awhile to get used to. It put off some of the players and is definitely not for anyone not tech savvy. You then have to go back to the game webpage for the bonus question.
Overall we enjoyed the game and would play it again. There’s a massive amount of songs on the cards so you could play it multiple times without repeating the songs. All ages enjoyed the game once we got used to the game play but the whole QR code and copying / pasting the title into a music service part of the game did make game play longer than necessary and got a bit tedious after a while. The overall concept of the game is good but there are definitely improvements that could be made.
Rating: 4/5
RRP: £25.00
This product can be purchased from Cheatwell Games at www.cheatwell.com.