Memory Match: the card matching game for two

The classic pairs game, played with a link

Everybody knows the memory card game: all cards lie face down, you turn over two, and if they show the same picture you keep the pair. If not, they go back face down, and the trick is to remember where everything was. Memory Match brings that classic to your phone, made for two.

Play it the classic way, taking turns on one table: find a pair and you go again, miss and it is your friend’s turn, and whoever ends up with more pairs wins. Or race: you both get exactly the same layout, each on your own table, and whoever clears it in fewer tries wins. Send the link and play live, or let your friend take their turn whenever they have a minute.

Three levels, three kinds of cards

• Easy: 12 colourful cards. Six pictures that differ in shape and colour: a red heart, a yellow star, a blue moon. Great for kids and a quick round.
• Medium: 20 cards in one colour. Ten pictures drawn in black ink only, so colour no longer helps. You have to remember the shapes.
• Hard: 30 look-alike cards. Circles, squares and triangles in five colours. A blue circle is not a blue square, and a pink triangle is not a red one. A real test.

Tips for a better memory

• Say it in your head. “Moon, top left” sticks better than a picture alone.
• Start at the edges. Corners and edges are easier to remember than cards in the middle.
• Flip a known card first. If you remember where one half of a pair is, open an unknown card first, then decide.
• Watch your friend. In turns mode every miss shows you two more cards for free.

Fair for both of you

The cards are shuffled on our server, and a card’s picture only reaches the page once it is face up. Nobody can peek at the layout, not even by looking at the page code. In a race you see only how many pairs your friend has found, never where, until you have finished yourself.