5D Set

Having played Set all my life, I was inspired one day to design 5D Set. Adding one new dimension on top of the existing four: number, colour, shape, and fill.

After much visual experimentation I settled at last on the border around each shape as the 5th property, with solid, doubled, and dashed borders:

On top of adding a 5th dimension and thus making this game much harder to play and shuffle (with a whopping 243 cards!), I have considered a number of other aspects such as: making the squiggles rotationally symmetricSomething which always bothered me about the original game

, the colours more colourblind-friendlyInterestingly, 5D Set naturally contains within it three sets of accessible decks of regular (4D) Set as you can simply remove the dimension of colour entirely now that you have a new visual property to replace it.

Additionally, this is useful to non-colourblind folk as well if you happen to be playing under adversarial lighting conditions (like at a party)

, and various aesthetic tweaks, rounded corners, and retro-style card backs with a 5D twist.

Printing a full deck soon, stay tuned!