Spit It Out! Card Game First Impressions

Spit It Out!: Answer easy questions wrong…

…mostly.

Think fast! Spit It Out! is the fun, fast-paced party game in which you have to retrain your brain to give the WRONG answer to easy questions — but sometimes you have to give the RIGHT answers, too, and you have just thirty seconds to spit it out! Rewire your brain to victory in this hilarious game where wrong is right.

So on your turn, you roll 2 D6 and these numbers will tell you which 2 (or 1 if you roll a double) of the 6 questions you have to answer correctly.

Look how easy they are… Answering incorrectly, but sensibly within a time limit is quite hard.

Spit It Out! Rules Issue

You’re supposed to answer incorrectly but within the spirit of the question but the rules for this are a mess.

The rulebook says…

When you give a wrong answer it must somehow be related to the type of question, e.g. you cannot answer “blue” to a question like “Who brings presents for Christmas” (but you can answer “the Easter Bunny” or “a cow” etc.)

The Easter Bunny makes sense, it’s holiday related. A Cow is so far away from the question that it makes almost any answer possible for any question for me.

For me, the answer here would have to be either a Mythical Humanoid (Harry Potter etc), a Holiday Related Thing (Easter Bunny etc) or a Kids Character (Mickey Mouse etc). A Cow? What? No.

I would accept Ermintrude from The Magic Roundabout 🙂

Terrible rules aside, it’s fun and quick and cheap and good for parties.

Update 13/06/2018

I haven’t really thought of this game much since playing it. Reading back, I know those terrible rules will cause issues. ANY chance to game the system will be taken, like The Mind.

In the Mind, people count in their heads so they know when to play cards based on the count. In Hanabi and games like The Game, players have developed a secret language almost which seems against the spirit of the thing for me. I wouldn’t want to make games like this harder anyway, but people do.

But in Spit it Out, the rulebook has not helped at all in making this an ungameable game. They need to rewrite those rules to help players play the game in the correct way. I sound like a curmudgeon but a game without rules, especially a timed one, leaves the door open for chaos.

Jesta ThaRogue