Set Game

When I have off­spring they shall not play the banal form of con­cen­tra­tion that most of us played when we were knee high to a grasshop­per. They shall play Set. This is a match­ing game that gives your brain a seri­ous work­out. A set is deter­mined by group­ing three cards accord­ing to four dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories and by sim­i­lar­i­ty or dif­fer­ence. Wha-? Read the rules. Play the dai­ly online puz­zle.

Games I played as a child:

War: This con­sist­ed of find­ing a stick that was vague­ly gun shaped, jump­ing over and hid­ing behind logs, cov­er­ing myself with dirt and hid­ing under the river­bank, all the while shoot­ing imag­i­nary ene­mies and fight­ing a lit­tle hand to hand com­bat. This was played alone.

Black Op: This is just like War except I fol­lowed my dog the whole time because we were on some sort of secret mis­sion where my dog knew where to go.

Cold War: On the off chance that a neigh­bor kid want­ed to play with me, we would play Cold War by stock­pil­ing as many wal­nuts as pos­si­ble. Gigan­tic piles of wal­nuts. Hun­dreds of wal­nuts. Then we’d throw them at each oth­er. This game became some­what adapt­ed in high school when we used bot­tle rock­ets as ICBMs.

Thun­der­dome: This game is played by catch­ing as many craw­dads as pos­si­ble and then mak­ing them fight each oth­er. The one that sur­vives the longest gets dropped off the bridge on the golf course.

Pirate: My poor, poor cat.

Mon­key: This game was played under the tree by the ravine, most of the roots were exposed and long and tough enough to swing upon. This is the best way to get as dirty as pos­si­ble in the short­est amount of time.

House: Yes, I played House. STFU.

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