How to Know if your Cards Make a Set

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of expertvillage.com, today we’re discussing some basic tips for learning to play the game set. Alright, so we’ve discussed slightly about what makes a set in a set of 3 cards, what we’re looking for, questions to ask ourselves. Now, we I think it’s a good time to actually look at the cards once again. We’ve put a couple of different sets together so you can actually see what makes up a set. Let’s go to our first example. We’re going to look these 3 cards here. You have to imagine that out of those 12 cards that you’ve laid out that you are either playing by yourself or with a group of people that these 3 cards were somewhere in that set of 12. Alright, so when we’re looking at this, can you see that this does form a set. You might as yourself, well why does that form a set. Well, we’re asking ourselves questions like are all the features all different or all they all the same. As we go through each of the categories, we look at the color. They’re all the same color; they’re all purple. We’ll go to our next category or symbol. The symbols are all the same. In this category, we’re looking at the diamond symbol of course. We go to our next category or number, and of course, two per card. Here they are once again, all the same. Then we go to the shading where they are all differently shaded. So then we’ve got one that’s outlined, one that has the stripes, and one that is a solid pattern, so you can see that 3 of the features are all the same. We’ve got same color, same number, same shape, and one of the features, actually shading, is where they are different. Therefore, this set of 3 cards makes up a set. "