Set Instructions - America's Favorite Card Games®

1 TH. 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 SET. S of 3 card ds from 12 caards placed face f up on the table. Eaach card has four features, which can vary as follows: f A SEET consists o of 3 cards in which each of the cards' features, lo ooked at one e by one, aree the same on o each card d, or, are different on each card. All A of the feaatures must separately satisfy this ru ule. In other words: shappe must be either the same on all 3 cards, or different d on eeach of the 3 cards; colo or must be eiither the sam me on all 3 caards, or diffeerent on each e of the 3, 3 etc. See EXXAMPLES below. A QU UICK CHECK Is it a SET?? If 2 cards are the same and 1 card is diffferent in an ny feature, th hen it is not a SET. For example, e if 2 are red and d 1 is purpple then it is not a SET.

2 A SET must bee either all th he same OR all different in each indivvidual featurre. EASYY START. For a quick intro oduction, start with the small s ust the solid symbols). Th deck (ju his eliminatees one featurre, shading. Once O. you can quickly see s a SET wh hen playing the t 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 12. 2 face up on the table (in ey can be seen by all. Plaayers n a rectanglee) so that the remove SETs of 3 cards from m anywhere on the tablee. Each SET is i checked by the other players. If co orrect, the SET. S is keptt by the playyer for one point and th places the 3 cards with 3 from the deck. A playyer must call SET. he dealer rep ore picking up the cards. There are no turns, the first player to befo t call SET geets control off the board. After he/shee has calle ed SET, no other player can c pick up cards until that player has finished.

3 The SET must be picked d up within a few secoonds after caalling it. If a player p calls SET. S and doess not have one, o or if the SET is incorrrect, he/shee loses one point, p 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. Notee: There are ~ 33:1 odds that a SET iss present in 12 1 cards, and d ~ 2500:1 odds when 15 5 cards are on o the table. The play continu ues until the deck is depleted. At the end of the game g m be cards remaining that do not form there may a SEET. The numb ber of SETs held by each player is theen counted. One O point is given for eacch SET. High score wins. If yo ou want a loonger game, the deal passses to the person p he dealer's left, and the play resumes with the deck on th beinng reshuffled d.

4 When all th he game endss. The playerr with the higghest overall score he players haave dealt, th Wheen playing so olitaire, if the player doees not find a SET, 3 morre cards are laid down with w a penaltty of one SETT. To win the game, th he player mu ust remove this penalty by b finding a SET. S on the taable out of th he last 12 cards. EXA. AMPLES. For example, e thee following are a SETs: All three cards have h the sam me shape, thee same color, the same number n of syymbols and they all have different shadding. All three cards have h nt shapes, diffferent colorrs, and different numberss of symbols and they alll have the same differen shadding. All three cards have h differen nt shapes, diffferent colorrs, different numbers n of symbols s and different shadings. Copyyright 199. 98, 1991 Cannnei, LLC. Alll rights reserrved. SET and all design nated logos and a slogans are a registereed trademarks of Cannei, LLC.