Toy Fair 2016—Happy Salmon

Raucous demos of Happy Salmon (April, $15) were drawing attention, and orders, to North Star Games as I stopped by at Toy Fair. And so was the cute packaging. But here’s how the game plays…

Every player gets the same set of 12 cards shuffled in random order. As fast as they can, they call out the action on their top card, trying to find someone with a match. When a pair of players match, they high-five, pound it (fist bump), switcheroo (switch places), or happy salmon (sort-of wiggle their arms together) as indicated on the cards. Whoever goes through their deck first is the winner.