Saturday, December 29, 2007

New Game Old Friend

A New Friend, An Old Game!
I found a website where they play a card game I learned many years ago at a Mensa Halloweem Party in Chicago. Smart People at play!
The site is: http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm

A SET consists of three cards:

There are Numbers: 1-3;
Colors: red, green, purple;
Shapes: peanut, oval, diamond; and
Shading: outline, striped, filled in

Each feature in a Set must be:
ALL THE SAME as,
or ALL DIFFERENT from
the other cards in the set.
The little kids say, "If two are, and one isn't, it's not a set."
It is a game for all ages. Simple and difficult at once, three year olds can play, so can very old people. One needs vision to play this game.

I enjoyed that Mensa weekend. My partner and I won the Bridge Competition, which was interesting in that my only exposure to Bridge, the Card Game, before that day was being a little kid and counting points for Mama in a corner with four sets of 13 cards from a different deck. It kept me quiet, I guess. But My Partner, Eric Ziemer believed me when I said, "I will bid exactly, truthfully, what I hold in my hand." Nobody ever figured out my peculiar bidding system, thus we won! And for Christmas, someone gave me the website where anyone can register and play! Check it out!