What you need
Set of ordinary playing cards.
What to do
- Deal 7 cards to each player.
- 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.
- Decide who goes first.
- Draw one card from the top of the deck or from the top of the discard pile. Decide which card you need to discard.
- Now the next person draws a card and discards. Keep taking turns drawing a card and discarding one card.
- The goal is to create 2 sets of 3 cards. Each card in a set must have a characteristic in common.
- As soon as you have 2 sets of 3 of a kind say “Two Sets!”
- 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.
- All of the players must agree on the reasons for that person to win that hand.
- 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.