Tossit

Today, we’re going to look at Tossit, a physical dexterity game that has received a lot of promotion recently on social media.

Played by everyone in the family

Essentially, the game is very similar to how you would play something such as Pétanque but played with silicone darts. There have been games like this around for a while using these types of suction cups that were originally made, as far as I’m aware, as construction toys for children. I remember Toby having a big box of these different shapes and sizes to suction together and join shapes with when he was little.

Anyway, Tossit is trying to market itself as market leaders and, as such, has produced a dart which is a slightly different shape and design compared to most of the ones you can find on the market today.

It’s more weighted towards the front and designed more like a traditional dart, which means it’s slightly easier to throw and is more likely to land on the correct side.

Obviously, these have to be thrown at a flat surface to allow them to stick, such as a wooden floor or tiles if inside. Alternatively, a glass door would work as well. If you are going to play these outside, you do need to be playing onto something such as a glass table or onto a board that you have put down on the ground. Tossit does sell target boards, but we’ll get to that in a moment.

Now, in the set we have set which retails at £56.99, you get a black dart that acts as the Jack that you need to get your darts near to, and 3 darts of 4 different colours. This means you could have 6 darts each choosing 2 colours or do a 4 player game. Other colours are available for £15.99 if you choose.

The darts work really well and the game is fun to play, but one of the main issues is that as you only get three darts each, the game is over in literally a matter of seconds and then you have to go and get them, which means the majority of your time is spent walking back to collect darts as opposed to actually playing the game.

This is where some of Tossit’s marketing is a little bit iffy, in that if you look at their website or social media, there are loads of videos of people playing the game with loads of darts, and equally on the videos where they are only playing with three darts each, they very cleverly just play those three darts and then quickly cut to someone else playing, so as not to show you the continuous trudge back to pick up your darts. There is one specific video on Tossit’s website that shows them using 40 to 50 darts, something that would cost literally hundreds of pounds to achieve.

There is one bit in a video where the video literally cuts out the “walk” to go and retrieve the darts.

Throwing the dart, however, does work well and it does require a bit of practice to get it right and to do it with some accuracy. You kind of have to throw it in a sort of arc motion, but once you get the hang of it, it’s fairly achievable.

Using a target to aim at instead of just scores, I think, is a better way to play this game, Tossit does sell a target, but unfortunately, this retails for a separate £44.99!, and I do think this target should be part of the base box. It literally could just be a boardgame style board.

They say they have partnered with the UK shop Decathlon but I have never seen them for sale in a Decathlon and they do not seem to be available on Decathlon’s website currently.

We enjoyed playing Tossit for a little bit and we’ve played it multiple times over the last month or two in order to really try and “get it.” I’ve also tried it out with older students and again, while I enjoyed it, because of the constant having to walk back and get your darts everyone I have played this with quickly lost interest.

Don’t get me wrong, we did enjoy playing it and it is something that definitely would be enjoyable with the right group, especially if there could be some sort of other challenge and achievements attached to winning and losing games, but for the price, I think it’s a little bit too expensive to make it worth it.

“Tossit” was kindly provided by “Tossit”) for the purpose of review and as a donation to the school in which I work. Our thoughts and opinions are, however, our own.