🃏 Memory Match

How to play

Sixteen cards lie face down, made up of eight emoji pairs shuffled into a fresh order every game. Turn two cards over at a time: if they show the same emoji they stay face up for good, and if they do not they flip back after nine tenths of a second. The board is solved when all eight pairs are found.

• Click a card — turns it face up. Cards already matched, already face up, or turned while a mismatched pair is flipping back are ignored.
• New Game button — reshuffles all sixteen cards and resets the move count and the clock.

Scoring

There is no point total here. You are measured on two things: Moves, which counts one for every pair of cards you turn over regardless of whether they matched, and Time in seconds. The clock does not start when the board appears but on your first click, so you can study the layout for as long as you like. Matched shows your progress out of 8, and finishing reports both figures together.

Tips

• A perfect game is 8 moves and is only possible by luck. A realistic target is under 20, which means wasting no more than a dozen pairs.
• Turn a card you have never seen before as the first of each pair, and a card you already know as the second. That way every move teaches you something.
• Remember positions rather than emoji. It is easier to recall that the rocket was second from the left in the top row than to picture the whole board.
• Since the clock only starts on your first click, take a moment to settle before you begin if you are chasing a time.

Frequently asked questions