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
A Gamut of Games with an additional preface by Sackson, in 1992. A Gamut of Games A Gamut of Games is an innovative book of games written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969. It contains rules for a large number of paper and pencil, card, and board games. Many of the games in the book had never before been published. It is considered by many to be an essential text for anyone interested in abstract strategy games, and a number of the rules were later expanded into full-fledged published board games. Some of the games which were later sold separately include Focus,