Healthy Games - Season Salad

Season Salad

The Idea

Season salad is based off of the game Old Maid where players race to eliminate cards from their hand. At the beginning of a conventional game of Old Maid players will set up in a circle and be dealt all of the cards from the deck. Players will then place all of the pairs that they can create face up on the playing field. Play begins then with players passing one card face down to the player on their left in the circle. If the card that a player gains matches on that they hold in their hand they place the pair with their others on the playing field. If not the card is held by the player and play continues with each person in the circle passing another card to the left. Play continues in this fashion until a player is out of cards. If a player is out of cards then they are removed from the circle and become one of the winners of the game. Play will then continue until one player in the circle holds one card, that player will be declared the loser.

The Game 

• Players - 3-8 
• Round Time - 10 - 15 minutes

In the game Season salad players play a conventional game of old maid where players must match fruit or vegetable cards with its correct season. The indicated season that a vegetable can correspond to is written on the bottom of the fruit or vegetable card.

In the deck of cards created purely for the game of Season salad there are 51 cards, each depicting a fruit or vegetable, season, or ice cream. Some cards can be seen below.

The one card in the game that has no match is the Ice Cream card as there is no season in which ice
cream will grow. The player that has holds this card at the end of the game will be declared the loser

Thoughts

Creating a game that teaches others is important in games that are educational and inspire learning. These games are used to teach others certain information through a more interesting technique than acquiring the information through a text book/teacher.

Thanks for reading, and happy gaming!