Happy Salmon is a party game that you’ll learn how to play in seconds, but you’ll keep playing for hours.

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. It’s a credit limit that’s sits alongside your PayPal account which you can use for your online purchases. When my wife said she had borrowed the card game Happy Salmon off a friend, I would normally have been outrageously grumpy about trying it. The recently release of the Blue Happy Salmon effectively ups the player count to 12 and these games are a delightful manic medley of mayhem. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.It’s a somewhat disappointing change, but one that potentially makes sense in the light of efforts to reduce plastic use and boost sustainability across the tabletop industry. A Game by Exploding Kittens - Creators of award-winning, hilarious and entertaining games that adults, teens and kids will all enjoy! When you realise someone else in doing the same thing you both perform the action and dump the card on the floor. Happy Salmon is a cute little game, contained on a deck of cards, and cleverly packaged in a neoprene Salmon-shaped pouch. After starting his career writing about music, films and video games for various places, Matt spent many years as a technology, PC and video game journalist before writing about tabletop games as the editor of Tabletop Gaming magazine.

Happy Salmon is a real-time game in which players are trying to get rid of a deck of cards by performing the actions on it together with another player. Please note: Virtual goods are eligible for PayPal Credit with the exception of electronic gift cards and software downloads.Sometimes though I want to run around like an idiot and shout silly phrases while striking people (sort of), on these days I turn to Happy Salmon. At the start of the game, all players flip their stack over so that they can see the top face up card. The aim is to match the card at the top of your deck with another player, performing the shown action to discard the card - high-fiving, fist-bumping, swapping places and slapping each other’s forearm like a flapping fish. Join Elite Reward today and earn up to 10% points back with Elite Reward - Our exclusive membership service from GAME. A player can almost always find a partner in Pit, and even when they can’t there are plays to be made (splitting a set, changing the collected suit).

The card names are slightly revised from Happy Salmon’s earlier release, with the excellently-titled Fish Bump replacing Pound It! There are legions of folks who share your passion for gaming, behind-the-scenes content, and the occasional gift of free stuff–and they’re all hanging out on our Discord server! Not necessarily because it (used to) come(s) in a fish, or because its mechanics are revolutionary or because you'll be challenged mentally and spiritually while playing; it's so good because it makes some of the best use of the players that are standing around the table.There’s no reason to expect that this won’t see the same success as the green ‘core’ set, and later this year it will be followed by ‘ Funky Chicken‘, which is the same game except with dance moves and a case shaped like a chicken.