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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
- 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.