SET

Pros: Clever game of visual perception with endless variations suitable for adults and kids alike.
Cons: Color-blind players will be confounded by the poor ergonomic design.

Introduction: In Which We Meet a Much-Beloved Game Packing for vacation when you've got a five-year-old math whiz and game addict in tow is an experience not dissimilar to packing when bringing a baby along. Instead of carefully checking that ...

Pros: educational, thought provoking, and fun
Cons: none

My 10 year old daughter played SET while on our family vacation last summer. I hovered and I had no clue what was going on! I decided to purchase the game for her for Christmas this past year since she enjoyed it so much. What a great decision...

Pros: It'll keep you busy for hours and everyone can play.
Cons: It gets kinda hard on the eyes.

"Set" is an interesting card game. My best friend's little sister brought it out one day and we sat and played it for 4 hours straight.

Object of the game:
To make sets of cards that are either all the same or all different.
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Pros: Clever, challenging and engaging for the whole family
Cons: If any cards get lost, the whole thing collapses like a house of, well, you know ...

After the wassail has been drunk, the roast beast eaten and the wrapping paper strewn, it's fun to completely overanalyze the gifts we receive for the holidays. Presents speak volumes about the donee and/or their hopes for, or assumptions about, the...

Pros: fun, challenging, 1 player or more, uses whole brain
Cons: none unless you don't like challenges or thinking

This is a great card game I found after a lady in my Mom's group told us about another great game called Quiddler. That night I decided to see if there was a website for this "quiddler" and that's how I saw the SET® game. I read the instructions and...

Pros: Simple, engaging, stimulating, no batteries required, promotes thinking
Cons: don't lose any cards!

My husband is a mathematician so this game is a natural for my family.

What is it, exactly? Nothing but a deck of cards. Each card has four attributes:

• shape of object(s)
• number of objects
• color of objects ...

Pros: Fun thinking game
Cons: kind of difficult

Set is an extreme game of skill and speed. It really boggles the mind, and makes you think in perspectives you never thought possible. It takes real patience to play a game such as Set, because it can be very irritating if you can't quite get it...

Pros: Different, addictive, intergenerational
Cons: Confusing at first, plastic box top doesn't fasten too securely

I (Mr. expono) bought SET on a whim: it was featured as an excellent game in my favorite independent games and puzzles store. What the heck, even those smart people at GAMES magazine recommended it, as well as those dummies at MENSA. It was only a...

Pros: fun for a wide array of ages, builds thinking skills
Cons: takes a little time to learn, a bit hard for the younger set

I ordered this game because I read a very nice write up about it in a homeschooling catalog. It sounded like the perfect, fun addition to our homeschool, as well as something we could all do.

It is indeed a fun, fast paced, card game, that...

Pros: Portable! Never gets boring!
Cons: Very competitive.

Every once in a while you'll find yourself playing a game at a friend's house and you know you MUST own the game for yourself. Set is one of those games. It seems like a simple card-matching game, but in its simplicity is an elegence that will get...

Pros: Simple, for all ages
Cons: Basic rules may need modification for young kids

SET is great fun for everyone. Since it is simple to play, kids from 5 up can play it, and it's a riot for adults. We've come up with some rules to level the playing field when kids and adults play, and it's very playable with a mixture - basically...

Pros: Simple, great for any number of players, consuming, educational
Cons: kind of mathy

Set is one of those games. It's the kind of game that you can play for a half hour or for seven hours. Eventually, you see the world through Set. You dream about it. Your entire life alters slightly so that you're seeing sets in everything. It's...

Pros: umm...it's portable
Cons: sort of dull

I'm not sure what the big deal is about Set, but then again, I never was one of those kids who liked doing "Math and Shapes" worksheets. We own this because my boyfriend's family gave it to us, and to be fair, they seem to adore it. But...

Pros: Brain engaging, easy rules
Cons: none

I received SET as a gift the first year it was produced and play it whenever I can. The concept is simple, yet the play can be difficult for some people.

The cards picture 1, 2 or 3 objects that vary in Color, Shape and Fill. A SET is...

Pros: lots of fun, mental challenge
Cons: can get pretty competitive

I got SET a couple of years ago, and I always really enjoy it. It takes a little while to really get the hang of it, but once you do it's a lot of fun. If you get four people together who really know how to play well, it comes close to being a...