North Star Games Happy Salmon Card Game

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This will make a great ice-breaker game, and I’m definitely looking forward to bringing this one to my next convention/invitational where it will certainly be amongst the loudest games in the room!

Beginner-Friendly, Just a Few Seconds to Learn- Each card has a simple action on it that requires a partner to complete. The game also come in a wonderfully quirky salmon carry bag which make it perfect for travelling with! The Exploding Kittens edition instead comes in a conventional cardboard box, with no mention of its cards being additionally water-resistant. Join Elite Reward today and earn up to 10% points back with Elite Reward - Our exclusive membership service from GAME.

The eponymous publisher of Exploding Kittens, Throw Throw Burrito and other party games announced that it had landed Happy Salmon over the summer, acquiring the 2016 title from original publisher North Star Games. Looking at the neoprene-like fish-shaped packaging, with the stupidly smug fish on it, I would forgive you for walking past this one. Happy Salmon is a fast, hilarious game in which you must dispose of all of your cards faster than any other player. So players are constantly shouting out what card they have to get the attention of other players who may also have the same card so they can do them together. Credit subject to status, UK residents only, GAME acts as a broker and offers finance from PayPal Credit.

The only recourse for being partnerless is to save the card for later, dropping it to the bottom of your deck. Also perfect for convincing friends who claim they “don’t like playing games” that they actually love them. You can also skip a card to the bottom of your deck if you feel no one else is shouting the same thing as you.Happy Salmon is a cute little game, contained on a deck of cards, and cleverly packaged in a neoprene Salmon-shaped pouch. This will also become my go-to game for any sort of Friendliest Person contest where the goal is to play a game with as many different people as possible! The cards are thick and plasticity enough to survive being thrown on the floor and have different coloured backs so decks can be reset easily. It seems against the Salmon spirit to continually flip through your deck until you find a match (though I might try that sometime just to see if it’d work). A game of Happy Salmon sees a group of people standing around a table shouting the same word over and over again, until they move onto the next action when that word will be repeated on a loop instead.