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Spot It! Mean Machines

In “Spot It! Mean Machines”, players race the clock to find the hidden objects in cleverly arranged scenes. The puzzles are based on the popular “Spot-It!” book series published by Capstone Press. See how many…

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Spot It! Mean Machines is a video game, released 1 November 2012 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Spot It! Mean Machines is

Spot It! Mean Machines was released in 2012. It was published by Big John Games. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In “Spot It! Mean Machines”, players race the clock to find the hidden objects in cleverly arranged scenes. The puzzles are based on the popular “Spot-It!” book series published by Capstone Press. See how many objects you can spot in 10 different puzzles. Vibrant graphics make spotting objects fun and challenging.
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Where it sits in the Spot It! series

Spot It! Mean Machines is the second of 3 entries we hold in the Spot It! series. It arrived 2 years after Spot It! Challenge. The next entry was Spot It! Go! in 2023.

See all 3 Spot It! games in release order →

How it was received

Spot It! Mean Machines holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Spot It! Mean Machines launched on 1 November 2012, within three weeks of Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4 and Euro Truck Simulator 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4, Euro Truck Simulator 2.

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When did Spot It! Mean Machines come out?
Spot It! Mean Machines was released on 1 November 2012 for Nintendo 3DS.