🧠 Concentration

How to play

Concentration is a memory game on a grid of 24 face-down tiles hiding twelve emoji, each appearing twice. You turn over two tiles at a time: a matching pair stays face up for the rest of the game, and a mismatch flips back after a short pause. The game is finished when all twelve pairs are found.

• Click a tile — turns it face up. Tiles already face up or already matched ignore clicks.
• Click a second tile — completes the turn. A mismatch stays visible for 0.8 seconds while the board is locked, so you can memorise both.
• New Game button — reshuffles the twelve pairs into a new layout and resets both counters.

Scoring

There is no point score. Two counters run above the board: Pairs, counting matches out of 12, and Moves, which rises by one every time you turn a second tile. The first tile of a turn is free and a wrong guess costs nothing beyond the move. A perfect game is 12 moves, which would require knowing every position in advance; the high teens is a strong result. When the last pair is found the message reports your move count.

Tips

• Work through the board methodically at the start — turning new tiles in order builds a map faster than clicking at random.
• Remember positions by their place in the grid rather than by the emoji, since the layout is fixed for the game.
• When you flip a tile and recognise its partner, take the pair immediately.
• Use the 0.8 second pause on a mismatch to actually look at both tiles rather than rushing the next click.

Frequently asked questions