Happy Easter Memory Game

Controls

Mouse on a computer, touch on a phone or tablet. Some games also take the arrow keys or the letter keys, and the game will say so when it starts.

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Happy Easter Memory Game

Happy Easter Memory Game is concentration with painted eggs and spring artwork: a grid of face down cards, two flips per turn, and a pair removed every time the pictures match.

The whole game happens in the seconds after a failed pair. What you do with the two cards you just saw and did not match is the entire skill, and it is why some players clear a board in half the moves of others.

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How to play Happy Easter Memory Game

  • Click a card to turn it face up.
  • Click a second card.
  • If the pictures match, both stay up and the pair is gone.
  • If they do not, both turn back over.
  • Clear the whole grid before time runs out to move on.

Levels

The grids grow. An early board can be brute forced by turning cards more or less at random, and a later one cannot, because by the time you have flipped enough cards to know where things are, the clock has gone.

Tips and strategy

Work along a line

Turning cards at random feels faster and is not. Work left to right along the top row, then the next row, and you build a map of the board in the order your memory can hold it.

Remember the position, not the picture

The mistake almost everyone makes is trying to remember what a card was. The useful memory is where it was. Positions are easier to hold because they sit in a grid you can picture, and a picture you cannot name is still a picture you can point at.

Practical habits

  • When you turn a new card, immediately ask whether you have seen its partner. If you have, go straight there.
  • If you have not, turn a card you have never seen before as your second flip. Turning a known card teaches you nothing.
  • Say the pairs to yourself as you find them. Naming a thing makes the position stick.
  • After a failed pair, pause for one beat before the next flip. That beat is what fixes the two cards in memory.

Under time pressure

Do not speed up. Faster flipping produces more cards seen and fewer cards remembered, which is the worst trade in the game. Steady play with a plan clears a large grid more often than frantic play ever does.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you win the Easter memory game?

By finding every matching pair on the board before the timer runs out. Matched pairs stay face up and leave the grid.

Is there a time limit?

Yes, each level runs against a clock, and the grids grow larger as you progress.

Is this suitable for young children?

Yes. The rules are two clicks long and the artwork is friendly, which makes it one of the easier games on the site to hand to a child.

What is the best way to improve?

Turn cards in a fixed order rather than at random, and remember where a card was rather than what it showed.

Does it cost anything?

No. It is free and runs in the browser with no download.

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