Life & fun · December 30, 2025
Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words
Hi HN — Tidy Baby is a new game made by me and Wyna Liu (of NYT Connections!) that is inspired by the legendary card-based game SET that we assume many of you love (we too love SET). In SET, you’ve got four dimensions: shape, number, color, and shading, each with three variants. In Tidy Baby you only have to deal with three dimensions: - word length (3, 4, or 5 letters) - part of speech (noun, verb, or adjective) - style (bold, underline, or italic) Like in SET, you are trying to form sets of three cards where, along each dimension, the set is either all the same or all different. If you’ve…
Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words launched on December 30, 2025 with 37 votes, #475 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Tidy Baby is a word-based puzzle game inspired by the card game SET. Players form sets of three words by matching or varying three dimensions: word length (3, 4, or 5 letters), part of speech (noun, verb, adjective), and text style (bold, underline, italic). Like SET, each dimension in a valid set must be either all the same or all different across the three words. The game is designed for players familiar with SET who want a word-focused variation.
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If you don't know how to play SET, we recommend checking out the How To Playfrom tidy.baby
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN — Tidy Baby is a new game made by me and Wyna Liu (of NYT Connections!) that is inspired by the legendary card-based game SET that we assume many of you love (we too love SET). In SET, you’ve got four dimensions: shape, number, color, and shading, each with three variants. In Tidy Baby you only have to deal…
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