At the end of 2024, Lilo and Stich hype suddenly shifted a major gear, culminating in the release of the live-action remake in 2025. Dobble Stitch might not tie into the film — rather the animated series — but it still arrives while the little blue alien is incredibly popular.
While we normally lead these things with a little bit of a preamble about the game or the spirit of the game, it’s hard to argue that Dobble has become nearly as established as games like Monopoly and Cluedo. As such it’s safe to surmise that you’re here for one of two reasons: 1) You know what Dobble is, but don’t know what makes the Stitch version different, or 2) You’ve seen Dobble Stitch and like Stitch, so need to know what Dobble is.
As such, you can (should you wish) just read through the sections below that are relevant to why you’ve found yourself here.
What is Dobble?
Dobble — or, for the North Americans, Spot It! — is, at its core, a matching game. All of the versions have involved some variant of ‘Tallest Tower’ as its main ruleset. In Tallest Tower there’s a central tower of the circular cards, which each have a number of icons on them. Each player has their own card to start their tower, when play starts they flip it over and immediately start looking for pairs between their card and the central one. When they spot a pair they name the icon and then take the central card to their pile, where it then becomes the card they pair from. Play then continues until the cards in the centre are gone, with the player with the most cards declared the winner.
There are now dozens of variants of this out there, and many of the newer editions come with an extra three or four modes of play for those who want to play something a bit more complex than the core ‘snap and snatch’ gameplay. Our second ever boardgame review was for Dobble Beach, a waterproof twist on the original.
What makes Dobble Stitch different?
Well, the first and most obvious thing is the fact that the normal icons are swapped out with Stitch Animated Series characters and icons, things such as Cobra, 626, Planets and Vinyls.
Dobble Stitch includes five games. The first is Tallest Sandcastle, which is your standard ‘win the most pairs’ game mode. In addition to that there are: Changing Records, where players are dealt all bar one of the cards and need to pair their cards away; The Hot Potato, where players have a card in their hand face up and must pair their card onto another player until only one remains with the cards in their hand; Badness Level Rising, where you have to pair other players cards to a central reserve forcing them to take the card; and, The Triplet, where 9 cards are placed out and you need to find sets of three to claim them.
Its a decent mix of quickfire modes, with Hot Potato needing the least space but The Triplet best suited for those who don’t really enjoy the rapid snatching that can sometimes come with Dobble.
Dobble Stitch is available now from the Asmodee store.
