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Contents

Interfaces

The MemoSetLauncher

The Game

Game rules

How to play Set

How to play MemoSet

About

About MemoSet

About Coast

About Aragon

About spax

License

General Public License

Aragon Public License


The MemoSetLauncher

InputFields

-Server: Enter the hostname or ip of your server here. If you start a server at your box the field will be filled in automatically for you.
-Name: Enter your prefered username here. You will be prompted for a password then.

Buttons

- Color lets you choose your user color.
- Start/Stop Server lets you start or stop a MemoSet server at your box.
- New Game lets you start a new game.
- Join Game lets you join an already existing game.
- Stop Game lets you stop your running game.


The Game

the userlist

You can see all other players and their score here. The player with the highest score is on top of the list.

the last set

In this box you can see the last set you collected.

the collect button

If you have selected a set you can collect it if you push this button.

the game field

You can see 20 cards here. Cards which are selected by other players have the players' color around them, so you can see which player selected which card. You can select cards by clicking on them and deselect them in the same way. You are not allowed to select more cards than the number of cards in a set.


How to play Set

How to play a Set game

Set is a card game designed by Marsha Falco and published by Set Enterprises in 1991. The deck consists of 81 cards varying in four features: number (1, 2, or 3); symbol (rectangle, triangle or oval); shading (solid, striped, or open); and color (red, green, or blue). A set consists of three cards which satisfy all of these conditions:

* They all have the same number, or they have 3 different numbers
* They all have the same symbol, or they have 3 different symbols
* They all have the same shading, or they have 3 different shadings
* They all have the same color, or they have 3 different colors

Given any two cards from the deck, there will be one and only one other card that forms a set with them.
Examples:

three features are the same:

All cards have a different number of symbols (1, 2, 3), the same symbol (oval), the same shading (solid) and the same color (green).

two features are the same:

All cards have the same number of symbols (1), the same symbol (oval), a different shading (solid, striped, open) and a different color (green, blue, red).
one feature is the same:

All cards have the same number of symbols (1), a different symbol (triangel, rectangle, oval), a different shading (solid, open, striped) and a different color (blue, green, red).

none feature is the same:

All cards have a different number of symbols (1, 2, 3), a different symbol (oval, triangle, rectangle), a different shading (striped, open, solid) and a different color (red, green, blue).

At the beginning of the game there are 20 cards (at the original game there are only 9) on the table. Each time a player finds a set, the set is removed and the slots are refilled with new cards from the deck.The game ends if the deck is empty and there is no set left on the table. There are two kinds of valuations at the end:

The number of sets a player finds is used to determine the winner.

The value of each set can be calculated by the number of differences in a set. So if you take a look at the examples the score is raising from example to example (the first set counts 1 point, the second 2 points, the third 3 points, and the last 4 points). The winner is determined by calculating the score of the sets he found.


How to play MemoSet

How to play a MemoSet game

The basic rules of MemoSet are the same as the rules of Set. The difference is, that you can only see cards selected by you or by another player; unselected cards will be at their backside. You can imagine this as a kind of memory where all players are playing at the same time.


About MemoSet

MemoSet homepage:

memoset.pallas.net/

E-mail

spax@memoset.pallas.net

Comments, bug reports and questions are always welcome, but please read this help file carefully before mailing me.


About Coast

COAST home page

www.opencoast.org/

E-mail

coast-support@ipsi.fhg.de

Please read this help file carefully before mailing any questions.


About Aragon

Aragon home page

aragon.sourceforge.net/

E-mail

Daniel.Hutzel@abaxx.de

Please read this help file carefully before mailing questions.


About spax

spax's home page

www.sebastian-pape.de/

E-mail

spax@memoset.pallas.net

Comments, bug reports and questions are always welcome, but please read this help file carefully before mailing me.


License

MemoSet - a card game between Memory and Set!
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