Set™ Theory

[6_bleen_7]

I joined a Meetup group who play different kinds of board games every Tuesday evening. Originally I joined because the group specialized in Scrabble; and for several months that’s just about all we played. But as the group slowly grew, we began to diversify. These days we usually get enough people that we have three or four games going

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[shizuku_san]

SET! We used to play that game all the time in high school. I got so good at it that I couldn't play with newbies because I'd be calling sets before they even looked at all the cards... which made it kinda boring. I used to handicap myself by not calling set until I found a second set in the 12 cards.

[6_bleen_7]

Wow, that's good. I'm still learning to recognize the SETs.

[ruthling]

neat analysis. I've read that the prime demographic for excellence at SET is tween/teen girls, but I don't remember the suggested reasons why.

[6_bleen_7]

Thanks! Wow, that's amazing-not that they'd be good at it, but that they'd be interested in it at all.

[6_bleen_7]

Red/green color blindness only affects a percent or two of males, so that probably isn't it. I could see it being preference for less intellectual pastimes; would be interesting if the difference were noticed ante Nintendo.

[6_bleen_7]

ROFFLE! I did that, too, the other night when we played.