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| − | + | [[Set]] is a game played with a special 81 card deck (3^4th). Each card has symbols on it, with four features in three denominations each: number (1, 2, 3), color (red, green, purple), shading (solid, striped, hollow), and shape (oval, diamond, squiggle). Cards are dealt out 12 at a time, and the goal is to be the first person to find a "set" in the 12 cards. Sets are made up of three cards for which, on each feature, the cards are either all the same or all different. | |
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| + | For more details on gameplay, see [http://setgame.com/ the Set website]. | ||
Set is a fun intellectual game, but is difficult at first, even for talented youth, because it requires very specific pattern recognition skills, rather than just academic smarts. It's a lot of fun once you get some practice, however, and quickly becomes vaguely addictive. | Set is a fun intellectual game, but is difficult at first, even for talented youth, because it requires very specific pattern recognition skills, rather than just academic smarts. It's a lot of fun once you get some practice, however, and quickly becomes vaguely addictive. | ||
| − | == | + | ==Study of Exceptional Talent== |
| + | [http://cty.jhu.edu/set/ SET] is also the acronym for a longitudinal research project at CTY. To qualify for SET, students must score 700+ on SAT Math or Verbal before age 13. SET members are asked to fill out questionnaires. They get Imagine magazine and a SET newsletter. | ||
| − | + | They tend to be pretty good at Set (the game). | |
{{Things we like}} | {{Things we like}} | ||
Latest revision as of 11:13, 18 July 2013
Set is a game played with a special 81 card deck (3^4th). Each card has symbols on it, with four features in three denominations each: number (1, 2, 3), color (red, green, purple), shading (solid, striped, hollow), and shape (oval, diamond, squiggle). Cards are dealt out 12 at a time, and the goal is to be the first person to find a "set" in the 12 cards. Sets are made up of three cards for which, on each feature, the cards are either all the same or all different.
For more details on gameplay, see the Set website.
Set is a fun intellectual game, but is difficult at first, even for talented youth, because it requires very specific pattern recognition skills, rather than just academic smarts. It's a lot of fun once you get some practice, however, and quickly becomes vaguely addictive.
Study of Exceptional Talent
SET is also the acronym for a longitudinal research project at CTY. To qualify for SET, students must score 700+ on SAT Math or Verbal before age 13. SET members are asked to fill out questionnaires. They get Imagine magazine and a SET newsletter.
They tend to be pretty good at Set (the game).
Things we like | |
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| Activities and Games | The Game · Silent Football · Acting Improv · Agreedball · Art of War · Basketball · Blammo · Four Square · Kill Murray/Save Murray · Malkavian Poking Game · Slackjaw · Pokey · The Really Game · Risk · Ultimate Frisbee · Varsity Catch · Wanna buy a duck? · SNAKES!!! · Quiz Bowl · Mandatory Fun |
| Card Games | 1000 Blank White Cards · Egyptian Ratscrew · FLAAR · Illuminati · Kemps · Mao · Scum, Presidents, Speed Capitalism, or Chinese Poker · Scum: The Masquerade · Set · Scroggle |
| Movies | Monty Python · The Rocky Horror Picture Show · The Princess Bride · Alice in Wonderland · Dark Side of Oz · Starcrash · Xanadu |
| Books | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Catch-22 · Ender's Game · Harry Potter |
| Other | 42 · Boobtag · Couching · FNORD · Grass orgy · Phone-flipping · Rina · Three |
