what are a shark's two most favorite words here fishy Man Overboard this is a snap review for get bit get bit is a game of swimming faster than your friends by Dave Chalker it's suitable for ages eight and up and it plays in under 20 minutes this new version from greater than games and Flat River games can be played by two to seven players so let's talk about the art in get bit in a game like this the art isn't just in the cards but in the industrial design as well gone are the Lego style men of
the original game and all the pieces have received a wonderful touch-up and are made of this really soft adorable plastic the theme has been tweaked to be about bath toys and it's adorable look at this cute pink shark it looks just like a little squirter toy and there are six little swimmer toys as well the cards are all bath themed too I love all of these illustrations is because of the different colored swimmers just motoring along and just look at these happy Shark cards and the little soap
tokens these swimmers are really really cute but their arms and legs still pop off but that's by Design we'll talk about it in these mechanics every player chooses a swimmer and takes the matching deck of cards lay the swimmers out on the table in a line but in a random order put the shark behind the last swimmer every player Cho chooses a card from their hand and then reveals them simultaneously it's time to swim any Players whose cards match each other don't move this round then starting from
the lowest untied number each player moves their swimmer to the head of the line each player sets their played cards aside in the first round that's it go on to choose another card from your hand but starting in the second round the last swimmer in line gets bit the player removes either an arm or a leg their choice from their swimmer and then moves them to the front of the line they also get to pick up all their played cards when a swimmer loses their fourth limb they are eliminated from the ga
me when there are only two swimmers left the shark devours the swimmer in the back of the line no matter how many limbs they have left the other player is the winner you need at least four swimmers for this game to work properly so if you have fewer than four players there's a few modifications in the rule book for two players you each control two swimmers but as soon as one is eliminated the other player wins with three players the fourth swimmer will be controlled by random draws from the deck
so anra what did we expect from getbit I first saw get bit over a decade ago now on the old tabletop show with Will Weeden the group that played it had a blast running out in front of each other and trying not to lose limbs to the shark the swimmers were really blocky and they looked kind of like robots in fact that's how will weaton described them they're robot swimmers I really love this new theme from the moment I saw it bath toys make the game a little bit more light-hearted I also expected
it would go over really well with our boys there's something about losing Limbs and being eaten by a shark or getting your friends eaten by a shark that's just right for them but I was a little nervous about player elimination it's no fun to sit and watch every else get to play a game after you've been kicked out I was also concerned about player elimination since that's something that we always think about when we're playing family games like you said it's just not fun to sit there and watch e
veryone else competing for Glory but what surprised Us in this game well how much more flexible this version of the game can be the original only worked at four five or six players this version can handle any number of players between two and seven one reason you can do a higher player count is because one player can be the shark they get their own special deck that determines what limb they get to bite and sometimes penalizes swimmers in other ways but if their card misses they lose a hunger to
ken one of these little soap guys instead of biting the shark can lose by running out of hunger tokens in which case the swimmer with the most limbs wins and then there's the surprise of how okay our kids were with elimination having to wait around and watch after being eliminated isn't really a problem in this game both because the game's very fast once you're eliminated it's pretty likely that the game's going to be over soon but also because you want to watch and see what other players get el
iminated too our kids were usually rooting for the parents to get eaten of course plus they could play with these cute little guys while they were waiting would we recommend get bit yes I think we would especially with pre-teens and te teers it's incredibly fast moving it has a great look to it with all these 3D figures that makes it really easy to understand and who wouldn't want to rip the arms and legs off their little swimmer guy it's fun at two or three but it's best at four or more players
this is totally a game your kids can play with their friends as young as maybe eight or so or do what we do and play it as a whole family with kids trying to outrun or out swim the adults it's fantastic we're going to rate get bit four and A2 limbs out of five and that's get bit in a [Music] snap yeah just don't lose the leg don't lose the leg Yeah right maybe you should do the joke
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