Stop fighting. Here are the official rules of Spotto

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-30/spotto-road-trip-game-rules-yellow-car-game/102525070

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Gamers_Mate@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Interesting I thought the only rule was if you see a yellow car you say spotto.

Wendy_MsGator@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 3y
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andyMFK@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What is this article? Some random family made their own rules for spotto. Every family has their own rules. How is the newsworthy?

assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Yeah, but does every family have a journo friend who will publish it in one of the nations biggest news websites. I don’t think so.

ivanafterall@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y (5 replies)

I'm in the U.S. and I'm intrigued that you all seem to have different in-car/on-road games, though this article claims it's international. Fascinating.

Do you all also play "Punch Bug/Punch Buggy?"

theskyisfalling@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yeh, self proclaiming "international rules" is utter bullshit, they could maybe claim national but this doesnt follow the rules as I know them from the UK.

Also who wants "points" it is all about an excuse to beat on siblings or friends when younger.

I have heard of "punch buggy" because of the internet but never knew of that as a thing when I was younger. We did the same thing but for minis and there was no name for it you just shouted MINI as your fist was flying in.

Treevan@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y
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eltimablo@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

What about Padiddle?

syntacticmistake@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

I use to play punch bug as a kid but there aren’t too many of those left on the roads these days.

I have also driven a yellow car for more than 10 years and was not aware my car was a spotto until the last 6 months and now as I drive around I can see kids calling it out in the streets as I pass.

Baketime@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

though this article claims it's international

It doesn't really claim it's international other than saying a family named it "international" as a kind of family in joke to appease their daughters in a rules argument

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 3y

CORNERS!

ravishingzombie@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

Thanks, I might create the Lighthouse Spotting Federation now, just in case people were confused about seeing lighthouses.