Happy Salmon Game

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Happy Salmon is a kids or family game that is frantic and fast-moving.

Happy Salmon is the fast-paced card game that get’s everyone moving and laughing in under two minutes! Only 30 seconds to learn.and two minutes to play! 1) At the same time, everyone calls out the action shown on their top card. 2) When two players have a match, they celebrate by performing that action together, then discard their top card. Happy Salmon is the fast-paced card game that get’s everyone moving and laughing in under two minutes! Only 30 seconds to learn.and two minutes to play! 1) At the same time, everyone calls out the action shown on their top card. 2) When two players have a match, they celebrate by performing that action together, then discard their top card.

Each player begins with an identical deck of cards, and when the game starts you flip over the top one. The cards ask you to do one of four things with another player – high five, fist-bump, change places, or ‘happy salmon’ – putting your arms adjacent and briefly slapping each other like a fish tail. The catch is, the other player must be looking to do the same action too, so everyone is yelling* at the same time the action they’re looking to complete. If you can’t find a partner, quickly put the card to the bottom of your deck and flip the next one! As soon as you’ve completed a card, you simply drop it on the table/floor. First to get rid of all their cards wins!

*You can also play the game silently, where there are actions to show what card you have.

The game is called Happy Salmon. You might wonder why this particular salmon is so happy. After all, salmon have a hard life with the, you know, swimming up river and the jumping and the bears and the dying. Could it be so happy because it won a Major Fun award? Or is it because it knows how happy it will make the people who get to play it?

This is one smug salmon. And deservedly so. The game is quick (takes maybe a couple minutes to play). It’s easy to learn. It gets everybody moving. Everybody involved. And, best of all, it makes people laugh.

You could think of it as a card game – that’s because it’s played with a special deck of cards. But it’s really a people game.

Happy Salmon Game How To Play

It goes like this:

There are six sets of 12 cards, each a different color. First, give one set to each of 3-6 players who are at least six years old. There are four different cards: Happy Salmon, High 5, Switcheroo and Pound It! Each card has an associated action. Your objective is to be the first to get rid of all your cards. You can only do that if you can find someone who’s playing the same kind of card. You can tell, because that person is either trying to get you to High Five or to Fist Bump (Pound) or change places (Switcheroo) or Happy Salmon (put your wrist along the other player’s wrist and wiggle your hand in a salmon-fin-like manner).

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You’ll probably play many rounds of the game before you put it back in its neat, salmony zipper pouch. And next time you play, you might want to try the completely silent variation (though it is likely that the laughter will escape you).

Happy Salmon Game Review

Luckily, there are two great videos showing the game in action. First, here’s one with kids playing:

And now, one for the growns:

Happy Salmon Directions

O, the fun! O, the sheer Majorness of the fun!!

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Designed by Ken Gruhl and Quentin Weir, from Northstar Games.