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How to score Point Salad
To score a Point Salad game, wait for the last card to be taken, then score each point card you kept against every veggie in front of you. One carrot can count on several cards, and some cards take points away. Add them up; the highest total wins.
- 2 to 6 players
- 15 to 30 minutes
- Ends when every card is taken
- Highest total wins
Tabletales is free on iPhone and iPad.
This is the real Scorepad, live: one number for each point card, added on the keypad.
Point Salad
- BGG #614
- 15 to 30 min
A quick card-drafting game. Every card is a veggie on one side and a way to score on the other, so each turn you choose between growing your salad and taking the cards that pay for it.
Year, players, time and rank from BoardGameGeek.
How to play Point Salad, in brief
Every card is a veggie on one side and a point card, with a scoring rule, on the other. Collect both, and at the end your point cards score your veggies; the highest total wins.
- Set up the marketWith fewer than 6 players, remove equal numbers of each veggie, unseen. Make 3 piles point side up and flip 2 from each to the veggie side: the market.
- Take a point card or 2 veggiesTake the top point card of any pile, or any 2 veggies from the market, and lay them face up in front of you.
- Flip one if you likeOnce a turn, you may turn a point card of yours to its veggie side, never back.
- RefillRefill the market from the piles, veggie side up. The game ends when every card is taken.
Every point card looks at your whole salad.
Nothing scores during the game. At the end, each point card you kept (point side up) checks all the veggies in front of you, and the same veggie can pay on as many cards as care about it.
The kinds of point card
| Card | Scores |
|---|---|
| Points per veggieLike 1 for each carrot. Some add a minus for another veggie: 3 per carrot, minus 2 per onion | Per veggie |
| Points per setLike 5 for each pair of carrots, or 8 for each tomato, lettuce and carrot together | Per set |
| Most of a veggieStill pays when you are tied for most | 10 |
| Fewest of a veggieHaving none counts as the fewest | As printed |
| Other goalsLike 5 for each kind of veggie you have 3 or more of. Each pays what its card shows | As printed |
- Play until every card is goneThe game ends when the three point piles and the veggie market are all empty.
- Score each point cardTurn to your point cards and work each one out against all your veggies. A carrot counts for every card that cares about carrots.
- Count only veggies as veggiesA point card kept point side up is not a veggie. Only cards on their veggie side count.
- Take off the minusesA card like 3 per carrot, minus 2 per onion can come out below zero. Subtract it.
- Add them upYour point cards together are your score. The highest total wins.
Carrots on four cards: You win with 69.
Three players, so 9 of each veggie. Your salad: 1 pepper, 3 lettuce, 4 carrots, 2 onions and 3 tomatoes, and those carrots count on four of your five point cards. This is the game on the Scorepad above.
| Player | One number per point card | Final |
|---|---|---|
| You | 8 per tomato, lettuce and carrot set (3) · 5 per pair of carrots (2) · 3 per veggie you have 2 or more of (4) · 3 per carrot, minus 2 per onion · 5 per tomato and lettuce pair (3)24 + 10 + 12 + 8 + 15 | 69 |
| Dev | 2 per pepper (4) · 3 per cabbage, minus 2 per tomato · 5 per cabbage and pepper pair (4) · most veggies in all (14)8 + 8 + 20 + 10 | 46 |
| Anya | Most onions (3) · one of every veggie · an even number of carrots · 1 per tomato and 1 per carrot · 5 per cabbage and onion pair (2) · 5 per cabbage and lettuce pair (2)10 + 12 + 7 + 3 + 10 + 10 | 52 |
You count the cards. Tabletales does the adding.
Tabletales is a scorepad and scrapbook for game night. In Point Salad you work out each point card at the table. Then type each player’s card scores: Tabletales adds them up, marks the winner and saves the game with the night.
- One sum per playerLeave the game on Highest wins. Type each final, or type it card by card (24 + 10 + 12 + 8 + 15) and Tabletales adds it up. The keypad can’t multiply, so work out each card first. A card below zero goes in with a minus.
- The card math stays at the tableTabletales keeps totals, not veggies. Lay out each salad and count every card together, or use the sheet below.
- Ties share the trophyTied players share the trophy.
- And the night is keptSave it with who played and a photo of the salads. Point Salad gets its own history: how often you play it, who with, and who holds the high score.
- Everyone who was there
- Photos from the table
- Point Salad, with its scores
Common Point Salad scoring mistakes
- Letting a veggie score only onceEvery point card looks at all your veggies, so the same carrot can count on several cards.
- Counting point cards as veggiesOnly cards on their veggie side count. You may flip one point card to its veggie side on your turn, but never back.
- Forgetting the minus halfA card like 3 per carrot, minus 2 per onion can cost you points.
- Skipping a tied “most” cardBeing tied for the most of a veggie still pays the card’s holder.
Point Salad scoring, answered
- How does the Point Salad scoring system work?
- At the end of the game, each point card you kept scores against all the veggies in front of you, by veggie, by set, or for having the most or fewest of one. Add your point cards together; the highest total wins.
- Can one veggie score on more than one card in Point Salad?
- Yes. Every point card looks at all your veggies, so a single carrot counts on every card that scores carrots.
- When does Point Salad end?
- When the three point piles and the veggie market are all empty. Then everyone scores the point cards they kept.
Point Salad score sheet
Print one for the table: a line for each point card you kept, for up to six players, with the final at the bottom.
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AEG’s rulebook could not be read as text, so these rules come from the sources below. One of them, UltraBoardGames, gives a tied game to the tied player later in turn order; the others name no tiebreaker. Rules checked on 19 October 2026 against UltraBoardGames, Board Game Arena and Wikipedia (German). Point Salad is a trademark of Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG). Tabletales is not affiliated with AEG.
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