Please help define what a "complete set" of 1977 Hostess Twinkies cards is

[darkhorse9]

Many know my obsession has been on deciphering the 1977 Hostess Twinkies individual card set. There are a large number of various card sizes that hold the cards making it a daunting task. I will concede that there is no need to do like me and acquire every variation of card size to complete the set. A complete set should be much easier than that.

That's where I need help.

We will only consider cards that have been cut down to TPG size. By doing that there are two very distinct types of cards. Type 1 is the standard size and look for Twinkies cards, the other were from cupcakes. Those differ significantly by not having left or right borders on the front and having noticeably smaller print on the back.

Even limiting the set to two types of cards, there's still some problems. You can't complete a set of 150 with just one type and the two types overlap on many numbers.

Type 1 can be found with cards 1-60 and 118-150 (missing 58 cards)
Type 2 cards are 31-135 (overlapping 31-60 and 118-135)

So my question is, how do you consider the overlapping variations in order to complete the set, or is a complete set really more than 150 cards?

1) 150 cards - 1-60 Type 1 . ..61-117 Type 2. ..118-150 type 1 (ignore the overlap cupcake)

2) 150 cards 1-30 Type 1 ..31-135 Type 2 ...136-150 Type 1 (ignore the overlap Twinkie)

3) 150 cards 1-30 Type 1...31-60 any mix of the two types.. 61-117 Type 2...118-135 Mix of the types....136-150 Type 1 (accept either types during the overlaps.)

4 198 Cards 1-60 Type 1....31-135 Type 2...118-150 Type 1

Please give your feedback as to what a complete set really is. I plan to cultivate this into correcting the SCD guides.

[Jim65]

To me, a complete set is one of every card. A master set is one of every card including all variations.