How to play
Tap or click a card to turn it over, then turn a second one. If both show the same picture they stay face up; if not, they flip back after a moment. Every pair of cards you turn counts as one move. Match every pair to clear the board.
Flip two cards, remember every picture and clear the board in the fewest moves.
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Tap or click a card to turn it over, then turn a second one. If both show the same picture they stay face up; if not, they flip back after a moment. Every pair of cards you turn counts as one move. Match every pair to clear the board.
Sweep the board in a fixed order, row by row, so you always know which cards you have already seen. When a new card shows a picture you remember, go straight for its partner. Quietly naming each picture as it appears makes positions much easier to recall.
The 4×4 board has 8 pairs and suits a quick round. On 5×5 and 7×7 the centre card is a free star that starts cleared. 8×8 uses all 32 pictures. Each size keeps its own best time, fewest moves and star rating in your browser.
Finish within one and a half moves per pair to earn three stars. Matching several pairs in a row triggers streak praise. Your score is 100 points per pair minus 5 for every move, so careful remembering beats fast guessing.
The ribbon above the cards shows the three-star target for the current board. Two stars need no more than 2.3 moves per pair, and anything slower still earns one star. In numbers: 4×4 – 12 moves for three stars, 18 for two; 5×5 – 18 and 27; 7×7 – 36 and 55; 8×8 – 48 and 73. The clock starts with your first flip and pauses while the tab is in the background.
Your browser keeps four separate records for every size: best score, fastest time, fewest moves and most stars, so they can come from different games. If you are signed in, each cleared board also sends its score to the Memory Match leaderboard. Bigger boards hold more pairs and therefore more points: a flawless 4×4 is worth 760, a flawless 8×8 3,040. For a different kind of brain workout, try Sudoku or the colourful Match 3.
Yes. The arrow keys move between cards, Home and End jump to the first and last card, and Enter or Space turns over the card in focus.
When the site sound is switched on, every card you turn plays a short note, a match plays a chord and a miss a low tone. Sound is off until you enable it.
A little under a second. Two cards that do not match turn back after 0.85 seconds, and you cannot flip a third card until they do.
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