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thanks - i figured it out. I had to enable java. yay!

Maybe, one day.

He is still 5 months old. Its scary enough that he unsnapped the safety strap on his diaper changing station last night when I was in the kitchen heating his bottle. I am sure it was "unintentional".

When I signed off last night, I realized last night that the SET game is really just asking you to find a projection of a sparse matrix.

Its trivially solved by ordering ALL the possible items in a matrix then placing the given items in that emptied matrix and then drawing the allowable lines between adjacent items in the resulting populated matrix. You can either translate the given items into a notation set and solve for the required projection or just project the matrix in your mind.

For more SET math, check this out: http://www.setgame.com/set/mathtricks.htm

My speed solving strategy relies on looking for certain easy-to-spot sets first and then systematically finding the rest. That means that I can be really fast if certain sets are present.

Austin, I think SET is a shape-sorter game for grown-ups

Now THAT is Cheating!!!!

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Cheating - Looking up things BEFORE you figure them out.

But the point of the game is not to figure out the math behind it. It's to find the sets.

Of course, if you like figuring out the math and that's how you make the game fun for yourself, then you don't have to read the link. That's fine. But I don't see how it's cheating to read about the math behind the game.

I guess I'd call it learning, not cheating!

Yes, I offered the link in the spirit of sharing some interesting math with others.

I have done some thinking about the math behind SET myself. I appreciate the elegance of the presentation in the link.

Ya'll convinced me to buy Set for dd9 for her birthday. She enjoys the game, but dd5 is addicted. She is very good and can beat even experienced adults. I didn't even realize she was a visual-spatial kid. She wants to play everyday so I showed her the online version.

Kriston, you can put another notch in your SET belt.

Cathy - SET was on the table for two meetings at the math circle my DS attends. They had lectures and exercises on the math behind it.