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Point Salad

Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich · AEG / Flatout · 2019

Draft vegetable cards and scoring rule cards from a shared market. Each scoring card awards points for different vegetable combinations — but you can flip any scoring card to become a vegetable instead. The name is a design philosophy joke, and the game embraces it.

Players

2–6

Time

20 min

Ages

Difficulty

Light

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Why you'll like it

Rules explained in 2 minutes
20-minute play time with real decisions
The flip-to-vegetable option adds strategic depth
Works well from 2 to 6 players
One of the most accessible games ever designed

How it plays

Point Salad is a quick card-drafting game. Each card has a vegetable on one side and a scoring rule on the other. On your turn you either take one scoring card or two vegetable cards.

Scoring rules reward collecting certain combinations of vegetables, so you have to balance how many rules you take with having enough vegetables to make them work. A game takes about 20 minutes and works with up to 6 players.