Set Enterprises, Inc. was a game publishing company based in Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA. Two of its games won in the annual Mind Games competition

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. In April 2019,

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acquired Set Enterprises.

Games

SET Set, The Set, SET or SETS may refer to: Science, technology, and mathematics Mathematics *Set (mathematics), a collection of elements *Category of sets, the category whose objects and morphisms are sets and total functions, respectively Electro ...

, a visual perception matching card game that involves cards depicting

shape A shape or figure is a graphical representation of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, texture, or material type. A plane shape or plane figure is constrained to lie ...

s. * Set Cubed, a board game where ''SETs'' are made by combining the dice in a player's hand with ''SETs'' already on the board. * SET Electronic Handheld, an electronic handheld version of the game SET. * SET The Computer Game, a computer version of the game SET. *

Quiddler ''Quiddler'' is a card game and word game created by Set Enterprises. Players compete by spelling English words from cards in hands of increasing size, each card worth various points. The game combines aspects of ''Scrabble'' and gin rummy. Th ...

, a

rummy Rummy is a group of matching-card games notable for similar gameplay based on matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build '' melds'' which can be either sets (three or four of a k ...

-based card game involving

spelling Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to represent a language in its written form. In other words, spelling is the rendering of speech sound (phoneme) into writing (grapheme). Spelling is one ...

. * Xactika, a

trick-taking card game A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a ''hand'' centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called ''tricks'', which are each evaluated to determine a winner or ''taker'' of that trick. The object of such ...

involving cards that have four suits each. * Five Crowns, a rummy-based card game involving five suits and

wild cards ''Wild Cards'' is a series of science fiction superhero shared universe anthologies, mosaic novels, and solo novels. They are written by a collection of more than forty authors (referred to as the "Wild Cards Trust") and are edited by George ...

. * Trilogy, the visual challenge of SET that involves rummy and the action of war. * Jurassic Jumble, a blind trading game that involves dinosaurs. * Zangle, a shape-matching card game – won the "Best of Toy Fair 2019" award at the 2019 American International Toy Fair.

References

External links

Set Enterprises
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