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.

🎲 Point Salad (2019)🤓 Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich🏭 Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG).📝Spark Notes:⚡️Salad building⚡️Card drafting, set collection⚡️Choose recipes, collect ingredients.💼Brief Review:🟢Small and portable🟢Unique and enjoyable theme🟢Very easy to teach and to learn🟢Super light-weight yet strategic🟢There’s no one dominate strategy🟢Fast pace keeps the game exciting🌕Low variety in options can feel unrewarding.🎬Final Take:Point Salad is a small game that packs a big punch. Simply just a deck of cards with vegetables on one side and recipes on the other, the ever-changing vegetable market creates a playful challenge on the card-drafting genre. The recipe cards tell you how to score points (i.e. 1 pepper + 1 carrot = 5 points), and the vegetable cards allow you to fulfill those recipes. On your turn you’ll take one of three recipes, or two of six vegetables from the market, replace the taken cards with new ones, then the next player will do the same. By the time it’s your turn again the vegetables you were hoping for might be gone, or new opportunities may have arisen, and the game is played until all cards are drafted. After three rounds of doing so, players add up their total points to determine the victor. Point Salad really shines in its accessibility, portability, pace, and variability. It may turn off gamers who want more depth of strategy and variety of options. For me, this is the perfect travel game or filler between heavier games.

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.

Abandon All Artichokes and Point Salad are not similar games, except that they both contain vegetables and have green containers. Abandon All Artichokes is a deck builder, which requires that whoever you play with need to be able to be comfortable with a "deck" and "discard pile". Point salad is easy, players either pick a point card or two vegetables from the market. After that, the hardest part of the game is doing basic arithmetic, and really you just look for bigger numbers and avoid vegetables associated with minus signs.Abandon All Artichokes has a recommended age of 10+ and Point Salad has a recommended age of 14+, because I think they assume kids can only do math starting in 7th-8th grade. I would say this game is a lot easier and even more educational, because kids (and their respective adults) can practice doing basic math, so this would be better in a home-school setting in my opinion.However, the Abandon All Artichokes game cards are nicer. The Point Salad cards are cheaper and are relatively more likely to show wear sooner. Abandon All Artichokes also is more luck-based. My parents had a harder time grasping Abandon All Artichokes, because of the deck-building aspect (see my review: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RVBU5S09RK3Z ). I haven't had time to test it out on them, but I think they will have an easier time with this game. If you're going between the two games, I would recommend Point Salad, even if the card quality is not as nice, because the play is super fast, easier to play, less take-that, more strategy and more math = more educational value.