✓ A Set: some features the same
- Numberall different ✓
- Shapeall the same ✓
- Shadingall the same ✓
- Colorall different ✓
How to play
Find three cards that make a Set.
Onset is the card game Set, played live. Everyone plays on their own phone or computer, sees the same cards and races to spot a Set. A big screen the whole table can see is optional.
Every card has four features
Each feature comes in three versions, which makes 81 different cards.
Number
Shape
Shading
Color
What makes a Set
Three cards where each feature is either all the same or all different.
✓ A Set: everything different
- Numberall different ✓
- Shapeall different ✓
- Shadingall different ✓
- Colorall different ✓
Almost, but not a Set
✗ Not a Set
- Numberall different ✓
- Shapeall different ✓
- Shadingall different ✓
- Colortwo blue, one orange ✗
Quick check
If two cards share something and the third doesn't, it's not a Set.
Tip
Pick any two cards. Only one card in the whole deck completes them, so look for that one.
Playing Onset
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1
Join on your screen
Start a game, or join one with its room code, link or QR, then pick a name and a color.
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2
Look for a Set
Twelve cards go up on every player screen, and on the big screen if you use one. Everyone sees the same cards at the same time.
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Tap SET!
Tap SET! on your screen, then pick the three cards within 15 seconds. Nobody else can call while you pick.
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Score
Right: +1 and the three cards are replaced. Wrong or out of time: −1, but never below 0 and you're locked out for 15 seconds.
No Set on the table?
Anyone can call No Set. If the others agree within 15 seconds, three more cards go down.
End of the game
The game ends when the deck runs out, or when someone reaches 5 points in a quick game. Most points wins.