Set (1988)

Players: 2-8 (Best for 4, Recommended for 1-8)

Playing time: 30 minutes

Rating on BoardGameGeek: 6.35792

Description: Each card contains 1-3 matching objects, in one of three colors, shapes, and shadings. Twelve cards are laid out, and the first person to spot a set of three collects those cards. The cards are replaced from the deck and play continues.

A set consists of three cards that are either all alike or all different in each attribute: for instance, if all three cards have the same number of objects, but different shapes, shadings, and colors, then they're a set. If two of the cards have a common attribute that is not shared by the third, they are not a set.

1991 Mensa Select

Online Play

http://logical-games.org/ (Flash version with score records)
Aso Brain Games (real-time)
games.wtanaka.com - Set (real-time or turn-based; single or multi-player; monthly time trial challenge)
http://www.ludagora.net/ (turn-based)
Game Pixies (Multiplayer game or daily time trial challenge)
http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm (Daily Puzzle on Set Enterprises Home Page)
http://www.highergames.com/
http://people.reed.edu/~mcphailb//applets/set/
SET solver with source code
http://setgame.ath.cx (iPhone compatible)




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Mechanics: Set Collection, Pattern Recognition

Categories: Card Game, Real-time, Puzzle

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