How to Know if your Cards Make a Set: Part 4

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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. Now, don’t get frustrated. This is a game of visual perception and sometimes it’s really hard in the beginning to identify what a set is. I know we’ve discussed it, but it’s not always easy right off the bat. It’s really good to just keep playing it and keep trying to visualize this. You have to remember, each of those 4 categories have to have a similar characteristic. They have to be either all the same or all different in each of those 4 categories. Some of them out of the 4 categories, 2 of them could be the same and 2 of them could be different. 3 of them could be the same, 1 of them could be different, or vice versa. You just have to answer yourself, are they all the same or all different, yes or no, in each of those different categories. When you’re playing the game, you yell out the word set, and if it’s not a set, you will lose a point, so you don’t want to lose a point. Let’s for instance, we’ll go to the boards here once again and pretend the dealer has put out the 12 cards here. Can you by looking at this identify any sets? Now, off the bat, I see 2 sets here. For instance, there’s one right in this row straight ahead here, 1, 2, and 3. Why is it a set? Well, let’s go through our lists once again. They share all the same color; they’re all green. They share all the same symbol. We’ve got 2 characteristics that are all the same. The next one, they’re all different when we refer to number. You’ve got 1 here, 2 here, 3 here, and finally, the shading. The shading is all different. You’ve got a solid, striped, and an out-liner in open shading, so that forms a set. If I was playing this game, I would say set and I would take those 3 cards down and that would be a point for me. Then what we’d do is replace 3 more cards in it’s place. Then you’d keep playing set until you run out of cards. Now, for this purpose, I can see one more set that I’ll just mention right out the bat here. These 3 cards right up here as well; they’re all a set. Ask yourselves a question. Get used to asking yourselves a question. Color, all different colors. Red, green, purple. Symbol; all different symbols. Number; all different numbers on here. And of course, finally, shading; they’re all shaded differently as well. Everything is basically different on these cards, which therefore makes it a set as well. So I’m going to take that down, and if we were actually playing the we would them replace it with 6 more cards and keep playing set.

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