Melvin's digital garden

Set card game

How many cards are needed to have at least one Set?

  • 20 proved in 1971, Giuseppe Pellegrino

Generalized version with n attributes and 3^n cards

  • cap set problem, largest set with no 3 elements in a line
  • previous bound is based on Fourier analysis
  • at most (2.756/3)^n, proved with polynomial method

https://setwithfriends.com/

https://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle