Set Enterprises
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Set Enterprises, Inc., is a game
publishing company based in Fountain Hills, Arizona
. Set Enterprises, Inc., produces several dedicated-deck card games and that have won several Mensa Select awards from American Mensa.
Set Enterprises, Inc. is a family owned and operated business with a global presence; its games are sold across America and in over 15 countries around the world. Set Enterprises, Inc., is a leading developer of award winning family and educational games with five games currently on the market: SET, Quiddler, Five Crowns, Xactika and SET CUBED. Games from Set Enterprises, Inc., have received numerous awards from such organizations as MENSA, Games Magazine, Parents Magazine, Dr. Toy, Parents’ Choice, Teachers’ Choice and ASTRA http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm.
Set Enterprises, Inc., entered into license agreements to make some of its games available on platforms such as: The New York Times online puzzle page http://www.nytimes.com/ref/crosswords/setpuzzle.html, facebook http://apps.facebook.com/j_setgame/, electronic handheld game http://www.setgame.com/set_handheld/index.htm, and iPhone http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=304669341&mt=8.
Set Enterprises, Inc., was founded by Marsha and Robert Falco in 1990 and is now owned and operated by their daughter, Colette Falco. The company’s first game, SET, was developed by Marsha in 1974 while she was doing genetic research in Cambridge, England. Marsha was a Population Geneticist who was trying to understand whether epilepsy in German Shepherds is inherited. To study the genes and chromosomes in the dogs’ cells, Marsha created file cards with blocks of information for each dog. Because certain blocks of information were the same on each file card, she drew symbols to represent blocks of data, rather than writing out the data. She used symbols with different features (i.e., color, shading and number) to represent different gene combinations. While explaining the combinations on the cards to the veterinarians she was working with, Marsha decided that there could be some fun in the cards, and SET was born. Marsha spent years playing the game with family and friends before founding Set Enterprises and making SET available to the general public.
and PDA
versions of Set Enterprises' games.
Game
A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...
publishing company based in Fountain Hills, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
. Set Enterprises, Inc., produces several dedicated-deck card games and that have won several Mensa Select awards from American Mensa.
Set Enterprises, Inc. is a family owned and operated business with a global presence; its games are sold across America and in over 15 countries around the world. Set Enterprises, Inc., is a leading developer of award winning family and educational games with five games currently on the market: SET, Quiddler, Five Crowns, Xactika and SET CUBED. Games from Set Enterprises, Inc., have received numerous awards from such organizations as MENSA, Games Magazine, Parents Magazine, Dr. Toy, Parents’ Choice, Teachers’ Choice and ASTRA http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm.
Set Enterprises, Inc., entered into license agreements to make some of its games available on platforms such as: The New York Times online puzzle page http://www.nytimes.com/ref/crosswords/setpuzzle.html, facebook http://apps.facebook.com/j_setgame/, electronic handheld game http://www.setgame.com/set_handheld/index.htm, and iPhone http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=304669341&mt=8.
Set Enterprises, Inc., was founded by Marsha and Robert Falco in 1990 and is now owned and operated by their daughter, Colette Falco. The company’s first game, SET, was developed by Marsha in 1974 while she was doing genetic research in Cambridge, England. Marsha was a Population Geneticist who was trying to understand whether epilepsy in German Shepherds is inherited. To study the genes and chromosomes in the dogs’ cells, Marsha created file cards with blocks of information for each dog. Because certain blocks of information were the same on each file card, she drew symbols to represent blocks of data, rather than writing out the data. She used symbols with different features (i.e., color, shading and number) to represent different gene combinations. While explaining the combinations on the cards to the veterinarians she was working with, Marsha decided that there could be some fun in the cards, and SET was born. Marsha spent years playing the game with family and friends before founding Set Enterprises and making SET available to the general public.
Games
- SETSET (game)Set is a real-time card game designed by Marsha Falco in 1974 and published by Set Enterprises in 1991. The deck consists of 81 cards varying in four features: number ; symbol ; shading ; and color...
, a visual perception matching card game that involves multiple shapeShapeThe shape of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as colour, content, and material...
s - SET CUBED, a challenging 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 award-winning classic game of SET
- SET The Computer Game', a computer version of the award-winning classic game of SET
- QuiddlerQuiddlerQuiddler is a proprietary card 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 may be considered a mixture of Scrabble and gin rummy. The word "Quiddler" is a trademark.- Play and scoring...
, a rummyRummyRummy is a group of card games notable for gameplay based on the matching of similar playing cards. The Mexican game of Conquian is considered by David Parlett to be ancestral to all rummy games, which itself is derived from a Chinese game called Khanhoo and, going even further back,...
-based card game involving spellingSpellingSpelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of naming the letters... - XactikaXactikaXactika is a proprietary 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 highest number of points after eight rounds of play...
, a trick-taking card game involving cards that have four suitsSuit (cards)In playing cards, a suit is one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several symbols showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or in addition be indicated by the color printed on the card...
each - Five CrownsFive CrownsFive Crowns is a five-suited rummy-style card game that is played with an extra suit. The deck has no aces or 2s and there are two of every card which increases the players' ability to go out quickly by grouping their cards into books and runs. For each round, the wild card and the number of cards...
, a rummy-based card game involving five suits and wild cardsWild card (poker)Card games, particularly poker games, may contain one or more cards designated as wild. These may be jokers, or they may be normal ranked and suited cards pressed into wild card duty . In most cases, the wild card or cards must be agreed upon by all players before the cards are dealt and play... - Trilogy, the visual challenge of SET that involves rummy and the action of war
- Jurassic Jumble, a blind trading game that involves dinosaurs
Mobile Games
In 2005, Set Enterprises entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Mustang Mobile Games giving Mustang Mobile Games the exclusive rights to develop mobile phoneMobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
and PDA
Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant , also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet...
versions of Set Enterprises' games.