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Tidy Baby is inspired by and indebted to the iconic card game SET. If you like Tidy Baby you will love SET.


Objective

Find sets of three cards by selecting grid cards that form valid combinations with your two player cards.

Three Dimensions

Each card has three properties:

  • Length: 3, 4, or 5 letters
  • Part of Speech: noun, verb, or adjective
  • Style: bold, italic, or underline

Valid Sets

For three cards to form a valid set, each dimension must be either:

All the Same
All Different

Examples

🌞 Clean Set (+11 points)

All 3 dimensions form valid sets

cat
noun
3 letters
bold
dog
noun
3 letters
italic
pig
noun
3 letters
underline

✅ All nouns
✅ All 3 letters
✅ All different styles

🫘 Beans Set (+7 points)

Exactly 2 dimensions form valid sets

cat
noun
3 letters
bold
jump
verb
4 letters
bold
huge
adjective
4 letters
bold

✅ All different parts of speech
one 3 letter word, two four letter words
✅ All bold

🍄 Fungus Set (+3 points)

Exactly 1 dimension forms a valid set

red
adjective
3 letters
bold
sly
adjective
4 letters
italic
vivid
adjective
5 letters
bold

✅ All adjectives
two 3 letter words, one five letter word
one italicized word, two bold words

🐌 Slime Set (0 points)

No dimensions form valid sets

cat
noun
3 letters
bold
pig
noun
3 letters
italic
blue
adjective
4 letters
bold

two nouns, one adjective
two 3 letter words, one four letter word
one underlined word, two bold words