Set (card game) 9th in the 1995 "Deutscher Spiele Preis". Several games can be played with these cards, all involving the concept of a "set". A set consists of three cards satisfying "all" of these conditions: The rules of "Set" are summarized by: If you can sort a group of three cards into "two of ____ and one of ____", then it is not a set. For example, these three cards form a set: Given any two cards from the deck, there is one and only one other card that forms a set with them. In the standard Set game, the dealer lays
Russian playing cards usually ignored. In spite of many attempts by the Russian government to restrict card games, many Russians, especially the Russian nobility, played cards in a significant scale during the 18th century. Before the 19th century practically all playing cards were imported from Western and Central Europe, and since 1765 all imported cards had to be stamped and the high import duty had to be paid (that was supposed to limit card gaming). However, in 1819 the restrictions were lifted, but at the same time the import of playing cards was also forbidden and the state monopoly was created. The production