Thomas Brendel
United States
Dunwoody
Georgia
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This has nothing at all to do with the actual gameplay of Set, but it's another interesting way to use the cards.
One player is the knower, the other is the seeker. The knower takes one card from the deck and looks at it secretly. This is the target.
Then the knower looks at the next card and places it face-up to one side if it shares exactly one feature in common with the target and to the other side if it shares exactly two. If it shares zero or three features, it is discarded face-down. After each card, the seeker may attempt to deduce the identity of the target.
After the target has been found, the players switch roles. The winner is the player who needed the fewest cards.
Any combination of these alternate rules could also be used:
- Instead of being discarded, cards that share zero or three features could be placed together in a third face-up area. It would be up to the seeker to determine whether each card was a zero or a three.
- Instead of always using the next card, the knower could lay out a tableau of three cards for the seeker to choose from. This would give the seeker a bit more control over the final score.
- Instead of switching roles, the players could both take both roles simultaneously. Either each player would have a separate set of clues or (super-advanced ow-it-hurts-to-even-think-about-this) the same cards could serve as clues for both players, with shared features indicated by tokens rather than position.
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