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