App Profile: SET - a Twisted Classic

rainbowpull

Rating: 5/5

great design! i’ve played every month for over a year now, so that shows how solid the app is. Premium is well worth paying for. two suggestions: 1. Multiplayer can be glitchy sometimes… only works if you send the invite to your friends phone number, not their icloud game center icon. 2. Fix deck mode! Any time there isn’t a Set out of the 12 cards, you have to start the game over, which makes it almost impossible to play. The developers should add the official rules of being able to deal out 3 more cards when there aren’t any sets. Math shows that there is a ~1/13 chance there won’t be a Set out on any given dealing. Since that is true, and there are 24 possible sets, and the game ends whenever there isn’t a dealt set, it makes Deck mode incredibly hard to play, which shouldn’t be the case when it is the most classic game mode.

not_billevans

Rating: 5/5

Excellent job. One request: In Sprint mode, it would be nice to customize the way the countdown is calculated (right now, it’s [# of Sets * 10 seconds]). I am at level 83 (I’ll start the next round with 830 seconds to find 83 Sets), and often find that I have 100+ seconds left at the end. To make it more challenging, it could help to add the option to change the multiplier from 10 to something else, or difficulty levels with different multipliers (e.g., Hard = 9s, Average = 10s, Easy = 11s) Otherwise, you truly did a great job bringing this special game to life on iPhone!

U. N. Happy

Rating: 4/5

Have wanted one for a long time, and this doesn’t disappoint! Looks great, no huge bugs, and lots of different modes to keep my ADHD brain happy. I would happily give it 5 stars except for: 1. Multiplayer always just searches forever and never matches me… maybe there’s just not enough people using that mode when I want to? Either way, I’d like to see some different kind of multiplayer mode, so that I can actually use it! 2. The timers don’t pause when you click the (?) icon, which is fine, but it means there’s no way to pause in the middle of a game other than leaving the app. For sprint and other fast modes that’s fine, but when I’m 7 minutes into a 10 minute level I don’t want to give up just because someone wants to chat with me for a minute. 3. Only some stats are available, and it would be nice to have some sort of stats for everything, even if they’re silly or arbitrary. All the modes I’m best at have no Game Center comparison, so I can’t feel smug about my skills!! It’s a great app, and as someone who has played SET their whole life, it makes me very happy.