Concentration

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Objective of Concentration

In the game of Concentration, your objective is to find all the matching pairs of animal cards by flipping them over two at a time. How many turns will it take you to clear the entire board?

Concentration's Gameboard

On the screen above you'll see a grid of face-down cards. Tap any face-down card to flip it over and reveal the animal hiding underneath. Matched pairs are removed from the board, while non-matching pairs flip back face-down.

How to Play Concentration

On your first turn, tap any card to reveal the animal on the front. Then tap a second card to try to find its match.

If the two cards show the same animal — it's a match! The pair will flash green and disappear from the board, and your matched-pairs count will go up by one.

If the two cards don't match, they'll both flip back face-down. Pay close attention to where each animal appeared, because that information is the key to winning!

Keep flipping pairs of cards, using what you remember about previously revealed cards to guide your choices. The game is over — and you win — when every pair has been matched and cleared from the board.

Your final score shows how many turns it took you, as well as the total number of individual card-flips. The fewer, the better!

Strategic Tips for Concentration

  • Flip a new card first: At the start of each turn, flip a card you haven't seen yet. If it happens to match something you already remember, you can immediately flip that known card as your second pick — an instant match!
  • Remember positions, not just pictures: When a non-matching card flips back over, try to anchor its location in your mind — "the dolphin is in the third row, far right." Picturing where a card lives on the grid is easier to remember than just what it looks like.
  • Work in sections: Instead of flipping cards all over the board, focus on one area at a time. Exploring a small zone systematically gives you a tighter, more manageable mental map of what's where.

Levels of Difficulty

You can choose between two grid sizes: the "Easier" grid is 6×6 and contains 36 cards (18 pairs), while the "Harder" grid is 6×8 and contains 48 cards (24 pairs).

Fun Fact

Concentration — also known as Memory — has been played since at least the late 1950s, and has appeared in countless languages and card decks around the world ever since.