It’s getting late, but there’s still time to take your trusty flashlight out on the town to see how many characters and items you can find out and about. Work together to find as many as you can and make it home before bedtime, or compete to be the best eagle eye at the table! Which will you choose?

What Is It?

Multiple Play Styles – Players can work together to search for the characters/objects on the search cards and “outrun” the moon token, or compete to find more of the hidden elements than their opponents

Real-Time – Players have a limited amount of time to search for each character, but they are able to adjust the time settings depending on the level of difficulty they want

Pattern Recognition – Players have to be able to find the hidden people/objects in multiple positions among very busy scenes

Limited Communication – In cooperative mode, players can’t discuss how many times they’ve seen the hidden objects before they submit their guesses

Who Is It For?

  • 1 to 5 Players – I don’t really care for it solo, I just think it isn’t very exciting. But I like any other count cooperatively; I think it scales well
  • Ages 8 & Up / Light-Weight Gamers – Simple gameplay (just searching and counting), and you can scale the difficulty to help younger or less experienced players
  • Fans of cooperative play – I prefer it co-op because it has ways to account for someone being better at spotting the items. I think competitive is fine, as long as you play with evenly matched players
  • Fans of I Spy or Where’s Waldo

Variants

Time Difficulty – Players can change the time constraints to adjust the difficulty – Nice option to scale to players’ skills

Quadrant Mode – Players block out one quadrant with a quadrant card and can’t search that area of their board, changing the number of hidden objects to find – Simple change, but a fun way to change things up, especially if you play often

PROS

  • Aesthetics – Cute, cartoony art
  • Components – Love the boards and how unique it is to search
  • Lots of cards / variety of what to look for
  • I like the amount of variability in play style
  • Plays quickly and smoothly
  • Great for a wide audience
  • Board is part of the box, which is neat

CONS

  • Box only has the one divot for all the components, so it can be a little annoying to fit it all just right
  • Game ends after 5 cards, so I think it always feels a bit short

Final Thoughts

It’s a very cute game! I think the “gimmick” of the flashlights lighting up the board is incredibly unique, and also just super tactile, and a lot of fun to use for searching.

I personally think the cooperative mode works a bit better with the gameplay, but both modes are a good time, depending on the experience you’re looking for. I do wish you used a few more cards each game, but I guess keeping it short does help it from overstaying it’s welcome.

Definitely recommend for a family, especially if you like things like I Spy or Where’s Waldo and you’re looking for a gamey twist on that!

Additional Information:
My Final Rating – 6/10

Designer – Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva
Artist – Giulia Ghigini
Publisher – Horrible Guild
MSRP – $25.00
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*I was provided a copy of this game to do this review*

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