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Set Instructions - English PDF
Set Instructions - English PDF
HE FAMILY GAME OF VISUAL PER
RCEPTION
N®
INSSTRUCTIO
ONS
Agess: 6 to adultt
Num
mber of Playeers: 1 or more
The object of the game is to
o identify a SSET of 3 card
ds from 12 caards placed fface up on the table. Eaach card has four
features, which can vary as ffollows:
A SEET consists o
of 3 cards in which each of the cards’ features, lo
ooked at one e‐by‐one, are e the same oon each card d, or,
are different on each card. A
All of the feaatures must separately satisfy this ru
ule. In other words: shappe must be either
the same on all 3 cards, or ddifferent on eeach of the 3
3 cards; colo
or must be eiither the sam me on all 3 caards, or diffeerent
on e
each of the 33, etc. See EX
XAMPLES below.
A QU UICK CHECK ‐ Is it a SET??
If 2 cards are the same and 1 card is diffferent in anny feature, th
hen it is not a SET. For eexample, if 2
2 are red and
d 1 is
purpple then it is not a SET. A he same OR all different in each indivvidual featurre.
A SET must bee either all th
EASYY START
For aa quick intro ust the solid symbols). Th
oduction, start with the ssmall deck (ju his eliminatees one featurre, shading. O
Once
you can quickly ssee a SET whhen playing tthe 3 feature e version, shu
uffle the 2 de
ecks togetheer to play thee full game.
THE PLAY
The dealer shufffles the cards and lays 122 face up on the table (in
n a rectanglee) so that theey can be seen by all. Plaayers
remove SETs of 3 cards from m anywhere on the tablee. Each SET iis checked by the other players. If co orrect, the SSET is
keptt by the playyer for one point and th
he dealer rep
places the 33 cards with 3 from the deck. A playyer must call SET
ore picking up the cards. There are no turns, the first player tto call SET geets control off the board. After he/shee has
befo
calle
ed SET, no other player ccan pick up cards until that player has finished. The SET must be picked d up within aa few
secoonds after caalling it. If a p
player calls SSET and doess not have o one, or if the SET is incorrrect, he/shee loses one p
point,
and the 3 cards are returned d to the tablee. If all playeers agree thaat there is no he 12 cards, 3 more cards are
ot a SET in th
laid face up on tthe table. Th he 3 cards are not replaced when thee next SET is found, redu ucing the num mber back too 12.
Note e: There are ~ 33:1 odds that a SET iss present in 1 12 cards, andd ~ 2500:1 odds when 15 5 cards are o
on the table.
The play continu ues until the deck is depleted. At the end of the ggame there m may be cards remaining that do not form
a SEET. The numb ber of SETs held by each player is theen counted. O One point is given for eacch SET. High score wins.
If yo
ou want a loonger game, the deal passses to the p he dealer’s left, and the play resumes with the deck
person on th
beinng reshuffled
d. When all th he game endss. The playerr with the higghest overall score wins..
he players haave dealt, th
Wheen playing so
olitaire, if the player doees not find aa SET, 3 morre cards are laid down w with a penaltty of one SETT. To
win the game, th
he player mu ust remove this penalty b by finding a SSET on the taable out of th
he last 12 cards.
EXA
AMPLES
For eexample, thee following aare SETs:
All three cards h
have the sam number of syymbols and they all have different
me shape, thee same color, the same n
shadding.
All three cards h nt shapes, diffferent colorrs, and different numberss of symbols and they alll have the same
have differen
shadding.
All three cards h
have differen numbers of ssymbols and different shadings.
nt shapes, diffferent colorrs, different n
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