Matthew BaileyNote: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form reviews in our Facebook Group. It is not up to the usual standard of our more recent reviews but I feel it is important to include it.
So Jack(6) decided he didn’t want to go to bed tonight.
In the end, I gave up and agreed we could play a quick game before bed.
In an effort to fend off his suggestions of Nemesis or Gloomhaven I offered a quick game of Point Salad a game I had never played and had been sat on our “little game” shelf for a few years.
Point Salad is a card drafting game where cards are double-sided with either veggies or Point scoring showing. You then take Point cards (such as 2 tomatoes or fewest carrots) or vegetable cards.
What works well here that takes a while to get your head around is the because the cards are double sided if you draw veggies the Point scoring cards change so you don’t end up with either a redundant market or having to take a card you don’t really want so the other player doesn’t get it.
I really enjoyed this and actually thought it was one of the best card drafting games I have played and was way better than it has any right to be because it’s so simple. Jack(6) understood it completely although he has grown up playing board games. Toby(3) would not have coped with what is a simple premise but requires a lot of forward planning as well as keeping track of what the other player is doing.
But for older kids, this is a fun little card game that will def come on holiday with us next time we go away.
