Spot It, published by Asmodee, Blue Orange, and Play Factory, and designed by Denis Blanchot, Guillaume Gille-Naves, and Igor Polouchine, is a card game of 55 round cards with pictures where you have to be the first to spot the only matching items on both cards. Every two cards have exactly one matching item. I’m not exactly sure how they do that.

Reinhard Staupe is pretty sure that he knows, however. He designed Catch The Match, published by Amigo, Playroom Entertainment, Gigamic, and others, a card game of 15 square cards with pictures where you have to be the first to spot the only two matching items on both cards. Every two cards have exactly one matching item. Actually, it’s a lot easier to do that with 15 cards than with 55.

Richard is not planning to sue, but he’s plenty upset [PDF]. Catch the Match has been in print since it was released, and he believes that he should at least have been acknowledged.