Create an instant party with HITSTER, the music card game of the century!
Listen to over 100 years of amazing hits, take turns arranging them in chronological order on your music timeline and create your trip down memory lane.
The first player to collect 10 hits is crowned the HITSTER
HITSTER is the perfect game for an evening with lots of laughing, singing, dancing and sharing memories. Simply open the box, scan a song card and let the music do the rest to create an instant party. So what are you waiting for?
How to play
1. Pick a music card and scan the QR code with the free Hitster app to automatically play it in Spotify
2. Guess when the song was released by placing it in the right position of your music timeline.
3. Flip the music card. If correct, you keep the music card to build your timeline.
Tip: add the Hitster tokens into the mix for an even more exciting game
Features:
- With more than 300 of the greatest hits HITSTER will create an instant party for everybody…guaranteed!
- Everybody is invited for the HITSTER party! Super easy rules and no game set-up gets the party started in no-time. Simply scan a card with the free Hitster app and the music starts playing automatically in Spotify, isn't that cool?
- HITSTER is the music game in which you don’t have to be a music expert. Simply guess if a song was released before or after other songs in your music timeline. The futher you are in building your timeline the more challenging it becomes. Your chances of winning increases if you can also name the artists and song titles.
- Are you craving to show of your music knowledge? Play HITSTER with the Pro rules or even Expert rules in which you have to know the exact year, artist and song title.
- Fancy a less competitive trip down memory lane? Then HITSTER can also be played as one team or by yourself
—description from the publisher
- Quick to play.
- Interesting hidden information and deduction elements.
- Adds a memory challenge to trick-taking.
- Can be difficult for players who struggle with memorization.
- Color differentiation was an issue under poor lighting conditions.
- Silver
- Golf
- Red7
- Kaiten
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — A bidding mechanic is included to earn additional points.
- Hidden Information — Cards are played face-down, and players must deduce ranks and suits.
- Memory — Players need to remember card ranks and what has been played.
- Set Collection — Collecting sets of colors or ranks might be implied by the scoring.
- Trick-Taking — Players take turns playing cards, with the highest card winning the trick.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- y'all can't see that and people know exactly and you talk briefly and you just hope someone doesn't keep talking to you cuz I'm in the grocery store man I got to go
- I was going to try to do do a swarm deck or um what was it the goblin Rush deck
- I don't want to hear it it was something I was watching the other day and they were really children
- holy cow might as well have gone and bought a 12pack but I knew I didn't need all of that
- if you could find an unopened copy I would play it again because I have forgotten
- wow that's really good Marty but that's basically where you want to try to get to
- it's my game I can make it however I want to play
- he can still throw he's he's incredible it's insane it's unreal I wish my arm would stay intact like that
References (from this video)
- Addictive
- Arcade feel
- Satisfying bluffs
- Unique deck mechanic
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card combat — Some cards will block other attacks because you've got, you know, the rock-paper-scissors so like my circle will block your square.
- Deck Destruction — You're burning cards off your deck that you're like.
- Rock-Paper-Scissors — It's kind of like a rock-paper-scissors. It's versus.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Dual Powers is my number one it was dual powers like we live stream that back in 2008 we were in South Carolina and it released in February of 2019 to retail it delivered in 2018 to backers at the back end of 2018 but I checked with Keith and it's a 2019 release and Lizzie has never she's not stopped talking about this game like since we live straight dick
- School Kahlo is my number one for the year and it's I love the meatballs in school Kahlo and like the different guardians
- Blitzkrieg from PSC games Blitzkrieg is a two-player tug of war world war two in 20 minutes really great game honestly
- Cloud spire there's another one that I just we didn't get to the table and I really think it would have been potentially on the list had we been able to get at the table because it's a gorgeous game
- Oh eternal which is a deck building game from renegade and direwolf which is an app but that's a good building game technically plays for but it's perfect a to wouldn't play it with anymore personally
- Dual Powers is just the area of history I love areas in history that don't get enough attention that's for sure good enough love and the Bolshevik Revolution is one of those
- I love history more than Derek I'm gonna go on and say it's true
References (from this video)
- Very cool
- Felt really stupid due to lack of music history knowledge
- Music timeline
- Timeline
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Timeline — Basically timeline with music.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This is all about just playing games. There's not a lot of distractions other than just playing games.
- Basically timeline with music.
- Bethany wins and I lose. That's in the rule book.
- My will to dominate arcs in the galaxy has prevailed. I am the clear winner uh with 30 points.
- This is one of the prettiest looking games in the table.
- So, the trivia night was largely board game and Lord of the Rings themed.
References (from this video)
- resort
- resort
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Telestrations is one of the greatest games ever made.
- Legitimately, I think probably the greatest party game ever made. And one of the greatest games ever made.
- Telestrations, which is just telephone with drawing, is in terms of pure fun, might be the funnest game ever made.
- So good. Tiny Towns kind of plays a rage con. I love this game. I'm playing a butt ton on BGA right now.
- Verdant such a good game, man.
- Verdant of the Calico Verdant Cascadia line Verdant always feels like the one that gets left behind and I think it's my favorite of the three.
- Viticulture I taught Viticulture I would play Viticulture Tuscany. It was great freaking love Viticulture.
- The White Castle absolute banger.
- The rule I and maybe this changed from the original version and the version we have, but in the version we are playing, when you take the action where you collect the blue meeples, and you're multiplying the amount of blue meeples you you collect times the amount of blue building spaces in the nine, including the space you're on, spaces, you can add cards to that.
- YES. I DID NOT KNOW these things.
- There were multiple rules in like Pandemic we used to play wrong cuz we read the rulebook once a long time ago, but just never read it again.
- Someone in the comments is like looking at these cards Murph might be OP I'm like I don't know I don't know I don't think so I think we're I don't think they're that I don't think they're that great. I think we're fun and interesting but I don't think we're the strongest characters ever made.
- I love the theme of it a lot it looks really cool it looks really cool.
- I picked up Alhambra all time classic for me. $20 here.
- You don't really seem to like solo games that much. I really like it. I think you'd find the card play interesting.
- I enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed it. Me and Paula enjoyed it. Or no, Paula was just watching. Was it just you and me playing?
- I just feel like Dinosaur World, they had the opportunity to clean up Dinosaur Island, and they just made it bigger. And I feel like it was a it was a very big missed opportunity.
- Necessary is such an interesting question.
- However, the game is a lot better.
- We're not going to play without the expansion.
- literal everyone says no one says essential. I don't think it's essential. I think it's if you got the money and you like A Feast for Odin, definitely do it. You'll never go back.
- it levels up the game.
- And then they just redid it again. It's it's very confusing what they're doing with that.
- I really like Onirim. I really like Castellion.
- A lot of other people don't like that game. It's like one of the lowest rated Oniverse games.
- The general plan is that every year we do a Kickstarter there will be a new game.
- I really like Onirim.
- So, naturally being at a resort has got me thinking about like a game centered around like a resort and stuff
References (from this video)
- Highly recommend
- Good for musical friends
- Good for popular music knowledge
- Music
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Music Trivia — try and got try and got to guess the songs.
- QR codes — They got QR codes on the cards
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Ohoy there, YouTube. I'm back again for some more board game content.
- It is December 9th, 2025, and I'm going to go over 60 games under $30 right now on Amazon that I can recommend to you because I already know they're good to great.
- This game is incredibly difficult, that's why it's down here. It feels borderline impossible.
- People are gonna be yelling at each other and you're gonna be really stumped, but in a good way.
- This is Forbidden Island. This is a fantastic familyweight cooperative game. It's a great gateway cooperative game.
- It comes in this big metal tin which most most of the time a lot of people aren't a fan of
References (from this video)
- Fun game.
- Cool concept to play music trivia.
- Host struggled with modern music timeline placement.
- Game can be challenging.
- Some song snippets are at the end of the song, making identification difficult.
- Music Trivia
- Timeline placement
- Timeline
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Music Trivia — The game tests knowledge of songs and their release dates.
- QR code scanning — A QR code is scanned to play a snippet of the song.
- timeline placement — Players must place songs in the correct chronological order.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- It's pretty awesome. Um, but we have been just so so busy.
- I mean, you know, within reason, but what's really cool this year is the nominees really seem to fit their category.
- Man, are we super busy.
- This was supposed to be a regular game night stream but Nikki wasn't prepared.
- I wish I could figure out what's going on with this base. It's gold, which I should have done before.
References (from this video)
- Super fun
- Played for hours
- Music timeline
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Timeline — It's described as a music timeline game.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Battle Station's Lightseed, that would be great. I could use another pair of eyes on it.
- Don't all volunteer at once, y'all.
- I feel like that that that needs to be a a card that you can get in the uh Empire's End expansion or after the Empire expansion. Politically motivated and grouchy.
- So that's homework for next week. Bring bring those three and and we'll uh we'll discuss.
- I would say my favorite game designer is Ryan Mock basically because he somehow managed to make a really good game lugging that anchor Evan behind him.
References (from this video)
- thematic fit for zombie survival and tension
- spectating eliminated players can still be engaging
- player elimination on steroids is unacceptable for group play
- sitting out for long periods ruins fun
- player elimination as a core mechanic
- zombie survival with elimination
- high-stakes, tense, survival-oriented
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Player Elimination — eliminate players from the round, drastically reducing interactivity
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Terrible mechanism interrupts.
- I despise memory in board games.
- The absolute worst board game mechanism is in the game Hit Zero.
- I love that these are like jobs and missions where, you know, you're maybe escorting somebody to a different planet or you're carrying contraband.
References (from this video)
- Accessible party game
- Music-driven mechanic is engaging
- Reasonable price for a party title
- Requires QR scanning and possibly a device/app to trigger music
- Music cues and memory-based ordering
- Party/social setting with music and timing
- Light, competitive party game
- Hitster (Marmic version)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern/sequence placement — Players place cards in a time sequence based on music heard after scanning QR codes.
- Real-time validation — Players check if the order is correct after scanning; the lead attempts to fit cards into the correct ring sequence.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a simple party game where you're trying to get rid of all your cards
- The price (€22) is a good price
- In flip tunes, you're doing exactly that. You're flipping tune cards one by one until you have six.
- Scout is a simple card game where you need to get rid of all of your cards, but you can only play out cards if you create combinations.
- That's not a hat. It's a board game.
- globus.
- Sea Salt on paper, you are collecting cards.