Match Cards, the game of pairs and triplets to remember
The cards are laid face down. You flip two of them, or three in triplets mode: if they show the same image, they stay visible; otherwise they flip back in the same place. Remember where the images are to find all the groups before the missed attempt limit.
Available on the App Store (iPhone, iPad) and on Google Play (Android).
The idea in one example
Here is a 12-card game in pairs, Easy level, with images from the Mammals family, drawn by the app (code MM2-PAAU-AAAAAAB). The board has 6 pairs:
| giraffe | donkey | cat | beaver | giraffe |
| ring-tailed lemur | bison | cat | ring-tailed lemur | donkey |
| beaver | bison | empty slot | empty slot | empty slot |
On attempt 1, the "giraffe" card (row 1, column 1) was seen without finding its pair. On attempt 3, a new "giraffe" card (row 1, column 5) appears: remembering the first one is enough to make the pair.
| giraffe (found) | face-down card | face-down card | face-down card | giraffe (found) |
| face-down card | face-down card | face-down card | face-down card | face-down card |
| face-down card | face-down card | empty slot | empty slot | empty slot |
Without ever forgetting a card, this game is won in 9 attempts, 3 of them missed, for a limit of 20. The rules detail each case, and the strategy explains how to remember.
What you choose before playing
- pairs (12, 20, 30 and 60 cards) or triplets (12, 21, 30 and 54 cards);
- the difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard, which changes the images and the attempt limit;
- the card type: one of the 50 image families, a category or the whole catalog of 2,190 subjects.
Where to start?
The rules
Flipping cards, keeping identical groups, the missed attempt limit, winning and losing.
Levels and cards
Pairs or triplets, Easy, Medium and Hard, the number of cards and the image families.
Strategy
Discovering cards you've never seen, never missing a known group, going through the board in a fixed order.
Games played
Games drawn by the app and played attempt by attempt, with their code so you can replay them.
On phone and tablet
The app is played in landscape, on iPhone, iPad and Android. The images are screenshots of the current app.
