Sea Salt & Paper*
+2Fairplay À la carte
Family Game
Push Your Luck
Animals
Drafting
Set Collection
+50 more
- À la carte 2023🇩🇪
- Graf Ludo 2023🇩🇪
- Spiel des Jahres 2023🇩🇪
- SPIEL'22🎡
- SPIEL'23🎡
- Take That
- À la carte🇩🇪
- Animals🦓
- Last 10 years📆
- Gift Ideas🎄
- Board Game Quest Awards🇺🇸
- 2-4 players
- 3-4 players
- 2020s
- up to 20 €
- Board Games with Crabs
- Board Games with Sharks
- Board Games with Squids
- 45 minutes⏰
- 60 minutes⏰
- Brettspiel-Arena🖥️
- Golden Geek
- Card Games 2022
- Card game🃏
- from 10 years
- from 9 years
- Bruno Cathala🇫🇷👨
- Cranio Creations🇮🇹
- Family game👨👩👧👦
- Hobby Japan🇯🇵🏢
- Drafting
- Games like Mau-Mau
- Games like Rummy
- Nominated for Spiel des Jahres Award🇩🇪
- 2022📆
- Card-Drafting🃏
- Take that!
- Fishes🐟
- Penguins🐧
- Set Collection🧺
- Graf Ludo🇩🇪
- Hand Management
- Japan Boardgame Prize🇯🇵
- Les Trois Lys🇨🇦
- Modern card game🃏
- Nederlandse Spellenprijs🇳🇱
- New Card Games
- Push your Luck🍀
- Tric Trac awards🇫🇷
- BGG Top100🥇
Sea Salt & Paper is a set collection card game that combines strategic decision-making with the excitement of timing your moves just right. Similar to Rummy in gameplay, it involves collecting sets of cards to score points, while also navigating the timing of when to end the round for optimal advantage.
Gameplay Overview
- Hand Assembly: Players build their hand, potentially using cards for their effects.
- Strategic Round Ending: Decide whether to end the round, weighing the potential to catch opponents off-guard against giving them an extra turn.
- Point Accumulation: The game concludes when a player reaches the target score, which varies based on the number of players (30 points for 4 players, 35 points for 3 players, 40 points for 2 players).
Game Experience
- Excitement and Timing: The game emphasizes the thrill of ending the round strategically to outmaneuver opponents.
- Combos and Card Effects: Enjoy the satisfaction of playing effect cards and creating powerful combinations.
- Set Collection Mechanism: Collect sets of cards in a style reminiscent of classic Rummy.
Artwork
- Origami Theme: The cards feature unique origami illustrations, adding a visually appealing aspect to the game.
Conclusion
Sea Salt & Paper is a great choice for players who enjoy card games that require careful planning and timing. The game offers a blend of strategic decision-making and set collection, suitable for players who appreciate the challenge of outsmarting opponents while building valuable combinations. The origami-themed artwork adds a charming and distinctive touch to the overall gameplay experience.
Nominated for 10 awards and won 3.
- 👥 2 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 30 - 45 Minutes
- 🧒 8+ years old
- 🧩 Immediately playable
We like Sea Salt & Paper so much that we recommend it in the following board game recommendation lists 2026
- Position 1 in All "À la carte🇩🇪 2023" game award winners & nominees in comparison
- Position 1 in All winners and nominations for the game graphics award "Graf Ludo🇩🇪 2023"
- Position 2 in Our predictions for the Winners of the Spiel des Jahres🇩🇪 2023 Award
- Position 4 in Best games released at SPIEL 2022 in Essen
- Position 5 in Best games released at SPIEL 2023 in Essen
- Position 5 in Best games where you harm opponents without eliminating them
- Position 8 in The best "À la carte🇩🇪" award card games
- Position 8 in The best animal games 🦓
- Position 26 in The best board, card & dice games of the last 10 years
- Position 14 in The best board game gift ideas for Christmas🎄
- Position 14 in The best "Board Game Quest Awards🇺🇸" winners & nominees
- Position 10 in The best board games for 2 to 4 people 👯♀️-👨👩👧👦
- Position 19 in The best board games for 3 to 4 people 👨👩👦-👨👩👧👦
- Position 17 in The best board games of the 2020s
- Position 23 in The best board games under 20€
- Position 1 in The Best Board Games with Crabs
- Position 1 in The Best Board Games with Sharks
- Position 1 in The Best Board Games with Squids
- Position 25 in The best board games you can play in 45 minutes⏰
- Position 20 in The best board games you can play in under an hour⏰
- Position 16 in The Best Board Games You Can Play on Brettspiel-Arena 🖥️
- Position 27 in The Best BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award games
- Position 2 in The Best Card Games of the Year 2022 in Comparison
- Position 17 in The best card games 🃏
- Position 25 in The best children games for 10 years and older
- Position 24 in The best children games for 9 years and older
- Position 3 in The best games from Bruno Cathala 🇫🇷👨
- Position 3 in The best games by Cranio Creations 🇮🇹
- Position 16 in The best games for the whole family
- Position 13 in The Best Games from Hobby Japan 🇯🇵🏢
- Position 12 in The best games in which you have to draft
- Position 11 in The best games like Mau-Mau
- Position 11 in The best games like Rummy
- Position 16 in The best games nominated for the "Spiel des Jahres" game award
- Position 4 in The best games released in 2022📆
- Position 5 in The best games where you can draft cards 🃏
- Position 5 in The best games where you damage your opponent but don't take them totally out of the game
- Position 2 in The best games with fish
- Position 1 in The best games with penguins
- Position 8 in The best games with Set Collection🧺
- Position 2 in The best "Grad Ludo🇩🇪" winners and nominees
- Position 10 in The best hand management games
- Position 11 in The Best "Japan Boardgame Prize🇯🇵" winners and nominees
- Position 11 in The best "Les Trois Lys🇨🇦" winners and nominees
- Position 16 in The best modern card games - alternatives to Poker & the like 🃏
- Position 7 in The best "Nederlandse Spellenprijs🇳🇱" winners and nominees
- Position 25 in The Best New Card Game Releases
- Position 2 in The best push-your-luck board, card & games 🍀
- Position 10 in The best "Tric Trac awards🇫🇷" winners and nominees
- Position 86 in The Top ${items.length} games🥇 on Boardgamegeek (BGG)
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