Set Enterprises, Inc. was a
game
A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (su ...
publishing company based in
Fountain Hills, Arizona
Fountain Hills is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. Known for its impressive fountain, once the tallest in the world, it borders the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and Scottsdale. T ...
, USA. Two of its games won in the annual Mind Games competition
American Mensa
Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Mensa formally compr ...
.
In April 2019,
PlayMonster
PlayMonster (formerly, Patch Products) is a manufacturer and marketer of family entertainment products that specializes in games, children's puzzles, toys, activities, and teaching tools. As of February 2016, Patch changed its company name to Pla ...
acquired Set Enterprises.
Games
*
SET, 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 on ...
s.
*
Set Cubed {{primary sources, date=November 2021
Set Cubed is a board game created by Set Enterprises in 2008. Set Cubed is based on the Mensa award-winning card game Set, and challenges a player’s ability to find "sets" by combining the dice
Dice (si ...
, 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. ...
, 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
''Xactika'' is a card game for two to ten players created by Set Enterprises in 2002. The trick-taking game is played with a dedicated deck of 81 cards, in which the object is to obtain the greatest number of points after eight rounds of play. ...
, 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 g ...
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
The North American International Toy Fair (formerly the American International Toy Fair and also known as Toy Fair New York) is an annual toy industry trade show held in mid-February in New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and at t ...
.
References
External links
Set Enterpriseshomepage
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Card game publishing companies
Companies based in Arizona