Memory

1959
(Uncredited)
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5.0
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BGG Average Rating
4.8
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#29481
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Players
2-6
Weight
1.14/5.00
Playtime
30 min
Age
3+
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⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

Team-Based Game Variable Set-up Set Collection Solo / Solitaire Game Memory

📂 Categories

Environmental Novel-based Card Game Movies / TV / Radio theme Children's Game Comic Book / Strip Novel-based Environmental Animals Prehistoric

🎨 Artists

John Kovalic Mirko Suzuki Stephanie Graegin Antonio Lupatelli Lydia Ortiz Guusje Siegers Anne-Catherine Sigrid Stahlberg Silvio Neuendorf Dick Bruna Margret Rey Anke Pohl Mark Baker René Goscinny Achim Bednorz Gunilla Bergström Christine Berrie Pepa Bonilla Helen Craig Courtney Davis Ray Eames Wolf Erlbruch Marie Felix Anne Geddes Martha-Luise Gubig Charley Harper Helme Heine Renate Hofbauer Dorothee Hufer Jonas Hufer Wiliam Hurter Magdalena Konopásková Nina Laden Olaf Landström Lena Landström Yang Liu Christian Moser Hedwig Munck Flávia Nalon Květa Pacovská Chet Phillips Fábio Prata Kim Raymond Boris Roger Betty Root Mathias Surges Joscha Sauer Thomas Thiemeyer Hans Ticha Jan Saße Robert Tomala Alexa Zurcher Theodor Seuss Geisel Hergé Ingrid Vang Nyman Thilo Rick Takao Aoki Eric Carle Hermann Wernhard Kevin Hawkes H. A. Rey Klaus Baumgart Dik Bruynesteyn Christof Herdt Laura aus dem Siepen Axel Scheffler Robert Velter E. H. Shepard Roger Hargreaves Hans de Beer Lizzy Rockwell Jean de Brunhoff Albert Uderzo Amanda Milne Arnold Reisse Janosch Shirley Barber Antje Bohnstedt Paul Frank Jim Henson Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek Klemens Franz

📖 About This Game

First published in today's form by Ravensburger in February 1959, have the rights for the brand name Memory. There are versions known from Japan in the 16th century - matching pictures painted on shells. Known as Awase or Kai-awase. In USA and England known as Pairs, Pelmanism, or Concentration. But these are played with simple playing cards. In Switzerland was a domino-like game named Zwillingsspiel with the same roots. In Czech Republic this type of game is known as Pexeso. The name is an acronym of "pekelně se soustřed!", which literally translates to "hellishly focus!". It usually consists of 32 pairs of square cards. There are thousands of Pexeso sets with different themes. There are hundreds of different Memory games - starting with 24 cards for the youngest, with all kinds of animals, art, about countries, also a gay and a "Breast Memory", several free giveaway Memory games published by companies. Players lay a series of tiles upside down in random order. Then proceed to uncover 2 at a time. If they match, the player keeps both. If they don't, the player loses his turn. There are 2 different types of memories: type A: Pure memory games with pairs of identical motifs and type B: memory games with similar motifs, e.g. 1x1 memory with a pair consisting of the numbers to be multiplied and the solution. Game end when all tiles have been matched. The player with the greater number of tiles wins.