New Game Round-up: Hunt for the Yeti, Toss Your Point Salad, and Become a U.S. Food Chain Magnate

Yeti is a quick family dice game with extraordinary components and funny illustrations.

In Yeti players are competing adventurers and mountaineers, looking for traces of the Yeti, the legendary Snowman in the Himalaya. They want to find its footprints — or even better take photos of it — in order to collect points. To achieve this, they need to improve their equipment and acquire the help of Sherpas to lead them up the mountains. Most importantly, though, they should hope for good weather because if too much snow falls, the search of all players comes to a halt...

In Point Salad, you take on the role of a hungry customer trying to squeeze into a crowded salad bar to snag limited ingredients. You will be building a salad made of overlapping cards in front of you. Every ingredient has a unique scoring condition, and quantities of each are extremely limited — the servers never seem to refill the salad bar — so you've got to hurry and snag the ones that will make your salad the best of all!

In more detail, using a rondel-based mechanism, you move your meeple on your turn to one of the three salad bar stations in front of you, take the ingredient available there, then perform the action that corresponds to that station. If another player's meeple is currently located at the station you want to visit, you can bump them — but doing so allows them to leave the line and move to any unoccupied station, giving them a free ingredient and action.