Dicebreaker Recommends Point Salad a card game that will have you eating your greens

Dicebreaker Recommends Point Salad a card game that will have you eating your greens

Dicebreaker Recommends: Point Salad, a card game that will have you eating your greens Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Dicebreaker Recommends: Point Salad, a card game that will have you eating your greens Extra portions. Blog by Alex Meehan Contributor Updated on 4 Dec 2019 3 comments Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of board game and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our newest sister site, Dicebreaker, publishing every Wednesday. Check out the Dicebreaker Recommends archive for more. There's nothing outwardly thrilling about Point Salad. It's a card game about making a well-balanced dish from a selection of classic vegetables including peppers, carrots and, of course, the humble red cabbage. But if you take the time to further investigate Point Salad - turning over its crisp lettuce leaves and having a peek - you'll find a fantastically fun game underneath. In Point Salad, players take it in turns to choose from a shared grid of cards. Each turn they can take either two of the six visible vegetable cards or one of the three available point cards. The cards are actually one and the same; every card in the game has a vegetable on one side and a set of specific scoring criteria on the other - more on that in a second. Veggie cards are worthless on their own, but when combined with the right point cards they can net their player quite the tidy sum. For example, you might have a point card that means every precious red cabbage you have is worth two points, so you might be looking at grabbing yourself a few more crunchy treats throughout the game. Here's where the intense strategy of Point Salad comes into play. As players can only choose to take two vegetable cards or a point card, you need to decide which choice is going to net you more points in the long run. This strategic depth is taken even further when you consider that everyone is taking from a shared tableau, meaning that someone else might take the card you want before it's your turn - a feature that pretty much guarantees harmless disputes between players will break out at least a few times per game. Watch on YouTube Some point cards you pick up might cause certain veggie cards to go into negative points. For example, your peppers are worth two points but every lettuce you have subtracts one point from your total. You can choose to negate this effect by flipping the card to show its benevolent veggie side instead but, depending on which veggies you've collected, certain point cards are worth the negative values they bring. The game eventually ends once all the cards are taken and the player with the most points is declared the winner. Point Salad is nothing particularly complex, but it works exactly because it's so straightforward to play and teach. It's a truly engaging card-drafting experience that takes less than 30 minutes to play, yet will stick in your mind for days to come. Copies of the game are currently a little hard to find in the UK (a restock is expected soon) but you can get Point Salad from the US on Amazon.com. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Blogs Digital Foundry DF Direct Weekly: do we really need a Horizon Zero Dawn remake? Plus: path-traced Quake, PSVR2 and the new Need for Speed. 34 VR Corner 13 confirmed PSVR2 games we cannot wait to play Pleasing to the eye. 53 Digital Foundry DF Direct Weekly: Stadia is dead - so what will it take to make cloud gaming a success? Plus: Intel's Arc GPUs arriving soon at a price that's right. 12 Support Eurogamer and get your first month for £1 Quid's in. 101 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store
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