AEG & Flatout Games | Point Salad - Award-Winning Card Drafting Game for the Whole Family | Easy to Learn | Quick to Play | 2-6 Players | Ages 10+

This game is really fun. Pretty simple for most people, but for those who it isn’t, they pick it up within a game. Awesome design, high quality cards, and it has been a staple for me and my wife to play. Introduced it to family and they love it. Fast paced game since you use the number of cards based off of the number of players you have.

It's a pretty decent lightweight game. Easy to learn, slightly strategic, fairly random/ luck based as well. Plays quick enough, and easy for a new player.

The term Point Salad is used in the board gaming genre when a game has many ways to score points. POINT SALAD takes this term to the extreme. Each different card represents a different way to score points. In a full 6 player game, that's 108 different ways! The gameplay is very simple. Each card has a point side and an ingredient side. The point side shows a way to collect points with the various ingredients you collect. There are 6 different ingredients, and they are very identifiable. You start the game with three even stacks of cards point-side up, and six cards below them in the market. Each turn you can either take a point card or take two ingredient cards. Simple enough. You can also flip already collected point cards to their ingredient side (but not vice versa). The game goes until the cards are all claimed, then points are tabulated. Several nice things about this game. First, it scales well. From 2 to 6, all you have to do is remove a random amount of each ingredient card to make up the initial card pool. Secondly, there is just the right amount of luck vs. strategy. You can always see what a point card will become when it gets flipped into the market, so you can try to hinder your neighbors. I find this game to be a very good, quick game to break out on gaming nights, and fun for gamers and non-gamers alike.

INTRO: for those who don't know, the term "point salad" in the table gaming world refers to a game in which there are many ways to score points. Thus, to title a game Point Salad and actually make the game not only have many ways to score, but to also have a salad theme, is a bit clever. What really shines about this game is that unlike most other "point salad" games (example: most Stefan Feld games), Point Salad has a very low barrier to entry, and can be taught and learned quite easily. SETUP: Take the appropriate amount of cards from each of the 6 vegetable groups (18 cards each), depending on the number of players. Shuffle these together and separate into 3 roughly equal piles, score side up. Flip two from each pile to the vegetable side, making 3 columns. The resulting grid should be 3x3, with the top row consisting of 3 score cards (piles), and 2 more rows of 3 single vegetables each. GAMEPLAY: On your turn, you literally only have two options: 1) Pick ("draft") one card from one of the 3 score piles. 2) Draft any 2 vegetables from the available 6. That's it! Where it gets interesting is that no two score sides are the same. Some give you points per single vegetable (positive and/or negative), with multiple vegetables; some give you points per group of vegetables (2 or 3 depending), some give you end of game scoring conditions, etc. Within a couple turns everyone should have the basic gist of how to play. The strategy, though not too deep, starts to come with how you decide to choose between selecting scoring cards and vegetable cards. Play continues until there are no cards left. At the end, add/subtract points from each of your scoring cards based on which and how many vegetables you drafted. Whoever has the most wins. ART/QUALITY: The artwork is simple and slightly cartoonish, but very colorful and well done overall. The graphic design is great and very easy to read. My only quips are with the card quality, which is a little thin/flimsy (I fear the cards will wear out somewhat faster than other card games), and with the selection of colors and shapes, specifically for the onions and cabbage. Both of these two vegetables are pinkish/purplish in color, as well as round, and can be a little hard at first glance to distinguish the two, particularly when looking between your tableau and the drafting grid. A different color for the onions (white, perhaps?) could've solved this small issue easily. We found ourselves constantly double and triple checking between the two throughout the game. Other than that, everything played smoothly, and there is even room in the box insert for sleeving your cards if you so choose. OVERALL: This is a great gateway game for nongamers, and has juuuust enough dash of strategy to keep gamers involved. While it wouldn't be my first game of choice, particularly with other gamers, it is a great new game that I feel replaces other gateway games as better and even easier to learn. The artwork is very cute and colorful, making for a pleasant treat for the eyes. It is also a good game for younger people, I'd say 8+ (maybe 6 or 7 with some help), and helps not only with developing beginner strategy concepts, but also is a fun way to sharpen math skills. I recommend Point Salad if you're into: (a) tableau building/drafting games, (b) gateway games (c) developing strategy and/or basic math skills, (d) any or all of the above.

This card game blew us away when we got it. It sounded fun and it lived up to every bit of that. The game has a very unique element where you choose your own ways to score, and can change this at any time in the game. It is a drafting game, where you will either draft a card that offers a way to score, or you will draft cards that satisfy your' scoring needs. And the real kicker is that those scoring cards will turn into resource cards as the game goes. So your' choices and options may change each turn. The quality of the game is very good. It is merely a deck of cards, which are high quality and will last. The game is easy to learn and get going. We are full time RVers, and so we really love small box games that are fun for 2, and this ticks all of our boxes. It does scale well to more players, however. I highly recommend this game. I can't even think of one negative. it is even priced well. Especially for the amount of fun you will have playing it.

Fun game and very easy to teach. Great for the family. I pull it out for holidays.

Colorful, eye-catching card game that will not only be fun for the family/friends, but also teach basic math skills of addition, subtractions, multiplication and even negative numbers. We play this with our grandchildren - ages 11, 10, and 8. It's interesting to what them strategize which point cards to collect and what "salad items" they want to pick up. And, although the game isn't over, they are continually adding up their points to see what they have as we play the game. Although played with cards, the playing area can change rapidly, depending on what cards the players before you choose. Would not be a game for in-the-car-while-travelling, since it is a card game and you need room to spread your cards out. But, the small sturdy box in which the cards and directions are in would travel well to be played once you got to your destination. Easy to follow directions. Family favorite and highly recommend.

A quick game that everyone can play. Easy to learn but strategic enough to not be boring. Card quality good and easy to pack for vacation fun.

Great game. As soon as you think you've found "the strategy" to win, you find an even better one haha. Very well balanced game, would recommend to everyone

This has completely replaced Sushi Go. Excellent light card drafting game.

Nice simple card game for families, with a cute veggie theme!

This is a simple but brilliant game with its own depth. Fun and quick and can be played with a range of ages. Colourful cards and everything seems good design and built to last.

Y vaya que fácil de ensañar y rápido de jugar, llamativo y colorido, sumado a su precio éxito garantizado, además de que hay versión en español, tiene estrategia a pesar de su sencillez. Simplemente sublime