Set pwnage!!!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

zOMG!! Set game is k00l~! ...I still see funny images floating around in my brain... Anyway, set game is really fun. It is probably the most fun specialized card game on Earth. For now, that is. Yesterday's set competition was so thrilling!

First, let me explain how set game is played, and how the competition was held. Set is played by finding sets of three cards. There are 81 cards in total. Each card has four properties: colour, fill, shape and number.
Colour: Red, green, blue/purple
Fill: Solid, striped, hollow
Shape: Pod, diamond, squiggle
Number: 1, 2, 3

On each set of three cards, the properties must be either all the same, or all different. In the beginning 12 cards are laid out. As long as either team can spot a set, they shout, "Set!" and take the cards which they claim to be a set for the opponent to acknowledge. Three new cards are then laid out. The game then continues in this manner. If no sets are found among the 12 cards, three more cards are added, making 15.

The competition has 36 groups. There are two preliminary rounds, a quater-finals, a semi-finals and a finals, in which only the last 2 groups play. Now let me tell you why I am so ecstatic today. Here are the results of me and Yu Xuen's games: 9:-1; 9:2; 13:12; 14:11; 5:9. If you count carefully, there are five rounds, which means...we went all the way to the finals!!! This meant beating two groups of Sec 2's!! :P

The first two games' Sec 1's were not challenges for us. They just joined for fun, easily letting us get through. From the first Sec 2 group onwards, though, the game became very quick. The teams started screaming "SET!!!!" all the time and grabbing the cards off the table. Soon, only a few cards were left. For the 13:12 game and the 14:11 game, only six cards were left! Can you imagine how fast we were to almost complete the entire deck? Well, we faced a very strong team from 2i2 in the finals. They were much faster than us and cards flew all over the table. They won by 9 points to 5. It was a good effort though. Also, it was a convincing win so that we would not feel so bad.

Something else we did was scam...because some of the other teams had almost absolutely no idea how set was played, they allowed us to have two scam sets--sets which did not conform to the rules. Even the judge noticed it and sniggered in the corner...

All in all, this was a great experience for us both, and we will definitely join this competition again when we are Sec 2!!

(Perhaps you may like to check out this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(game) )

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