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Oooh Cathy, my DS7 and I have been playing SET like crazy the last couple of days (we just got it). He's better at it than I am!!! LOL!!!! I haven't tried Blokus. It sounds like we need to get that too!

Blokus has very simple rules but tricky strategies. Have you played with Pentominoes? The Blokus pieces are pentominoes, quadrominoes, triominoes, dominoes, and monominoes. I think it would appeal to most mathy people.

I play Set online every day. Talk about addictive. (At least I'm fast at it, and there's only one batch available per day...)

Here are the links:

http://www.setgame.com/set/index.html

and there are 4 per day at this site:

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/crosswords/setpuzzle.html

Sorry to share this. It's really not nice of me!

I haven't played pentominoes but both DS7 and I are very mathy so I am sure we'd love it. Sounds great, thanks!

Have you ever played the Rush Hour games or any of the Think Fun games? We also really enjoy those.

Kriston, I play that online every day too! It is addictive and I think you're the one that mentioned it before. That led to my current addiction and ordering the actual card game! LOL!!! Share anything else like this that you have too!!!!

Yeah, I've played around with Rush Hour a little. We have River Crossing which is a good one. Kind of a cross between a maze and a logic game.

Blokus is a HUGE fav in our house! We also just got turned on to SET from this board I believe. Now that I think about it, where did I put those cards?

We also love Rush Hour Jr. and Train Rush Hour.

E&C: I think crisc shared the Set site, didn't she? (Say THAT 10 times fast!) I know I found out about the site from the forum. But only the first link, not the NY Times one. I found that because I needed more!

We got the cards first, but online is faster.

I'll have to check out the logic problems one.

Kriston, I love playing the online set game but I wish there were more than one game there a day. It takes me an average of two and half minutes to find all the sets. My personal best is 45 sec. I play the NY times ones, too. It just goes too fast!

Wow, Cathy!

I haven't broken a minute yet, though it rarely takes me as much as 2 minutes anymore. I'm usually right around 90 seconds.

Given that the first time I did it, it took me something like 20 minutes, I'm okay with that!