Children's Museum of Houston

What you need

What to do

1. Deal 7 cards to each player.
2. Set the rest of the deck in the middle face down. Turn over the top card and put it next to the deck. This will be your discard pile.
3. Decide who goes first.
4. Draw one card from the top of the deck or from the top of the discard pile. Decide which card you need to discard.
5. Now the next person draws a card and discards. Keep taking turns drawing a card and discarding one card.
6. The goal is to create 2 sets of 3 cards. Each card in a set must have a characteristic in common.
7. As soon as you have 2 sets of 3 of a kind say “Two Sets!”
8. The first person to have 2 sets of 3 of a kind explains to the rest of the players why the three cards belong in the set.
9. All of the players must agree on the reasons for that person to win that hand.
10. The winner of the hand deals the cards for the next hand.

What to ask

• What is the same on these cards?
• How do you decide which card to discard?
• What is the best way to organize the cards in your hand?

What’s next?

•  Play the game again but this time the three cards in each set have to be different in the same way.
• Make your own unique set of cards.
• Change the rules so that the cards in a set must have 2 or 3 attributes in common.
• Change the rules so that each set must have 4 cards.
• Search for sets of objects in a room or neighborhood that have like attributes or characteristics.