The Rules for Finding a Set in the Game of Set

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk, today we’re talking about some basic tips for playing the game set. Now, set is a game of visual perception, and this is perhaps why kids are so good at it. Set is also really good actually scientifically to get your right brain and your left brain working together. It can really get you thinking and working more creatively. In this next clip here, we need to talk about what actually makes a set. You’ll find as we go through these. I’ll give you some examples in later clips, but they might not jump out at you right away, but the more that you play this game, the more that the sets will come to you more quickly and more rapidly. Sometimes it’s really good to play the game by yourself as a set of solitaire. Just start understanding and visualizing what sets are. There are so many different types. You’ve got a deck of cards with all these different symbols, squiggles, number and such. As we put this together here, basically we need to start talking first of what is a set. A set is of course 3 different cards. If we have a look at all these cards on this board here, as we mentioned in the earlier segments, we laid down 12 cards and we’re looking for 3 cards to form a set. Now, a set, to form it, they have to be either all different or all alike within each of the categories that we discussed in an earlier segment. Let me repeat that once again. A set, 3 cards; they have to be all different or all alike within each of the categories. You have to test each of the cards within these 4 categories through color, symbol, number, and shading. Okay, so 3 cards, and we’re looking for all of the various symbols and colors and number and shading to either be all different or all the same, and that’s what makes a set. In our next clip, we’re going to talk about some questions to ask yourself as to when you’re looking at the cards, is that or is that not a set."