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Best games like Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza (2026): Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is pure reflex: chant, flip, slap, laugh. If your family has played it to exhaustion, or you want something with the same speed for an older crowd, these six games keep the fast, loud, no-reading energy. Every pick plays in about 15 minutes or less. Need the original's rules first? See how to play Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza.
Fast reaction games at a glance
Six picks for slap-and-shout fans.
- Top pick: Happy Salmon — shout, find a match, high-five, done in 90 seconds (about $9)
- Best for a rowdy table: Throw Throw Burrito — card game plus foam-burrito dodgeball (about $20)
- Best seated pick: Flip 7 — fast press-your-luck flipping (about $8)
- Best brain-speed game: SET — race to spot patterns (about $13)
What makes a good Taco Cat follow-up
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza works because nobody waits for a turn in their head; everyone is watching the pile. It is also level: a seven-year-old can beat an adult. We looked for games with the same everyone-at-once attention, short rounds, and little to read. A couple of picks lean older, which is useful once the kids are teenagers and want something with a bit more bite.
1. Happy Salmon: top pick for the same chaos
Players: 3 to 8 (6+) · Price: about $9 · Best for: the fastest possible round · Check Happy Salmon on Amazon
Happy Salmon has no turns at all. Everyone holds a stack of action cards, flips the top one, and shouts it: high five, fish bump, switcheroo, or happy salmon. When you find someone shouting the same action, you do it together and both discard. First to empty their stack wins, and a round takes about 90 seconds.
It is Taco Cat's closest relative: loud, physical, impossible to play without laughing. The box has 98 cards for 3 to 8 players. Rules: how to play Happy Salmon.
Skip it if: you need a game for two. Happy Salmon starts at three.
2. Throw Throw Burrito: best for a table that wants more action
Players: 2 to 6 (7+) · Price: about $20 · Best for: groups happy to get up and move · Check Throw Throw Burrito on Amazon
Everyone passes cards at the same time trying to collect three of a kind, until a burrito card triggers a brawl, a war or a duel and players grab the two foam burritos to throw. It adds a little set-collecting strategy to Taco Cat's speed, and the throwing gets everyone off their chairs.
Rules: how to play Throw Throw Burrito.
Skip it if: you are playing near breakables or a sleeping baby.
3. Flip 7: best seated follow-up
Players: 3+ (8+) · Price: about $8 · Check Flip 7 on Amazon
Not a slapping game, but it keeps the flip-and-react feeling. Flip number cards one at a time and decide when to stop before a duplicate busts you. Rounds are quick and the groans are loud. It is the game families graduate to once the kids can add up to 200.
Comparing the two directly? Read how to play Flip 7.
Skip it if: your crew needs to move. Flip 7 is played sitting down.
4. Exploding Kittens: best quick pick for kids who want strategy
Players: 2 to 5 (7+) · Price: about $20 · Best for: push-your-luck fans · Check Exploding Kittens on Amazon
Draw until someone draws an exploding kitten and cannot defuse it. Turns are fast and action cards let you skip, attack or peek. It shares Taco Cat's silly-cat sense of humor, and kids aged 7 to 12 tend to love it.
Rules: how to play Exploding Kittens.
Skip it if: you want a pure reflex game. Exploding Kittens is turn-based.
5. SET: best brain-speed race
Players: 1+ (8+) · Price: about $13 · Check SET on Amazon
SET swaps hand speed for eye speed. Twelve cards go face up and everyone races to spot three that are all the same or all different in color, shape, shading and number. Call it out and grab them. Kids often beat adults, just like in Taco Cat, but the race is in your head.
Rules: how to play SET.
Skip it if: your group is all about noise. SET is intense but quiet.
6. Slapjack with a standard deck: best no-extra-cost option
Players: 2 to 8 · Price: about $25 · Check Slapjack with a standard deck on Amazon
The classic slap game with the same core idea: deal out the deck, flip cards onto the pile in turn, and slap when a jack appears. Wrong slaps cost you a card. A 12-pack of Bicycle cards also covers Egyptian Ratscrew, Speed and Spoons, so the slapping never has to stop.
Rules: how to play Slapjack and how to play Speed.
Skip it if: you want bright art and silly characters.
Choose by your group
| Your group | Get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Little kids and parents | Happy Salmon | about $9 |
| Kids who want to throw things | Throw Throw Burrito | about $20 |
| Tweens and teens | Exploding Kittens or Flip 7 | about $20 / about $8 |
| Puzzle lovers | SET | about $13 |
| No budget | Slapjack with any deck | about $25 |
Stack them into a game night
Run fast games in rising energy. Start with SET or Flip 7 while people settle in, move to Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza and Happy Salmon once the snacks are out, and finish with Throw Throw Burrito when nobody minds a foam burrito to the face. The whole run fits in an hour.
Shopping on a budget? Most of these cost under $20; see our best party games under $20.
Questions about games like Taco Cat
What games are like Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza?
Happy Salmon is the closest in speed and silliness. Throw Throw Burrito adds foam throwing, and Slapjack works with any deck.
What is a fast card game for kids and adults?
Happy Salmon and SET both let kids compete evenly with adults.
Is Happy Salmon good for small groups?
It plays with three, though it gets better with five or more.
