(Once you know, you know.) The first player to lose all their cards, wins. 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. The decks are divided by player colour, with different symbols making it colourblind-friendly. Each player begins the game with a deck of 12 cards, divided into four sets of three matching cards: High Five, Fish Bump, Switch It Up and the Happy Salmon itself. Happy Salmon’s gameplay remains as simple as before.
Now, the Kittenised edition of Happy Salmon has come ashore, revealing a game that hews closely to the original in terms of gameplay but overhauls its visuals with the artistic stylings of The Oatmeal cartoonist and Exploding Kittens co-creator Matthew Inman.
As part of the announcement, the studio said it would re-release Happy Salmon “with an Exploding Kittens twist” later this year. 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. Happy Salmon, one of the greatest party games ever made - not just my subjective opinion, cold hard fact - has resurfaced with a new remake from the makers of Exploding Kittens.
