Set (card game) Set (card game) Set is a real-time card game designed by Marsha Falco in 1974 and published by Set Enterprises in 1991. The deck consists of 81 cards varying in four features: number (one, two, or three); symbol (diamond, squiggle, oval); shading (solid, striped, or open); and color (red, green, or purple). Each possible combination of features (e.g., a card with three striped green diamonds) appears precisely once in the deck. The game evolved out of a coding system that the designer used in her job as a geneticist. "Set" won American Mensa's "Mensa Select" award in 1991 and placed
Frank J. Prial widely regarded as a classic newspaperman. Prial was the co-editor of "The Companion to Wine" (1992), the author of the column compilation books "Wine Talk" (1978) and "Decantations" (2001), and his writing featured prominently in "The New York Times Book of Wine" (2012). He was inducted into the Wine Media Guild hall of fame in 2007, and accepted a membership in the Légion d’Honneur from the French government. Prial died on November 6, 2012 in West Orange, New Jersey 82 years old, due to complications of prostate cancer. Frank J. Prial Frank J. Prial (November 4, 1930 – November 6,