Set Enterprises

Marsha Jean Falco invented the game Set for her own amusement several years ago and only introduced it to the outside world a few years ago. 

In 1974 she was living and working in Cambridge, England. One part of her job as a Population Geneticist was to try to understand if German Shepherds who get epilepsy inherit it. Geneticists try to connect the traits that plants, animals and people have to the genes and chromosomes in their cells. She wrote information about each dog on file cards. Because blocks of the information were the same on each file card, rather than writing the data, she drew a symbol to represent a block of data. She used symbols with different Properties to indicate different gene combinations. When she tried to explain to the veterinarians what to look for, the idea came to her that she could have some fun with this. At home with her husband and friends she worked out the game which she now calls SET. 

Five Crowns - uses skills learned from playing old favorites like hearts, spades and rummy.

Quiddler - beautiful word card game with naturally smooth game play.

Set - identify a 'Set' of three cards from 12.

Xactika - same genera as Spades or Euchre.

04/16/08