page_title: Set (card game)
section_title: Games
hierarchical_section_title: Set (card game) / Games
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Deskohraní 2012
context_page_description: Set is a real-time card game designed by Marsha Falco in 1974 and published by Set Enterprises in 1991. The deck consists of 81 unique cards that vary in four features across three possibilities for each kind of feature: number of shapes, shape, shading, and color. Each possible combination of features appears as a card precisely once in the deck.
  In the game, certain combinations of three cards are said to make up a set. For each one of the four categories of features — color, number, shape, and shading — the three cards must display that feature as a) either all the same, or b) all different. Put another way: For each feature the three cards must avoid having two cards showing one version of the feature and the remaining card showing a different version.
  For example, 3 solid red diamonds, 2 solid green squiggles, and 1 solid purple oval form a set, because the shadings of the three cards are all the same, while the numbers, the colors, and the shapes among the three cards are all different.
context_section_description: Several games can be played with these cards, all involving the concept of a set. A set consists of three cards satisfying all of these conditions:
  They all have the same number or have three different numbers.
  They all have the same shape or have three different shapes.
  They all have the same shading or have three different shadings.
  They all have the same color or have three different colors.
  The rules of Set are summarized by: If you can sort a group of three cards into "two of ____ and one of ____", then it is not a set.
  For example, these three cards form a set:
  One red striped diamond
  Two red solid diamonds
  Three red open diamonds
  Given any two cards from the deck, there is one and only one other card that forms a set with them.
  In the standard Set game, the dealer lays out cards on the table until either twelve are laid down or someone sees a set and calls "Set!". The player who called "Set" takes the cards in the set, and the dealer continues to deal out cards until twelve are on the table. A player who sees a set among the twelve cards calls "Set" and takes the three cards, and the dealer lays three more cards on the table. (To call out "set" and not pick one up quickly enough results in a penalty.) It is possible that there is no set among the twelve cards; in this case, the dealer deals out three more cards to make fifteen dealt cards, or eighteen or more, as necessary. This process of dealing by threes and finding sets continues until the deck is exhausted and there are no more sets on the table. At this point, whoever has collected the most sets wins.
  Variants were included with the Set game that involve different mechanics to find sets, as well as different player interaction. Additional variants continue to be created by avid players of the game.
caption: Playing Set
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