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Games Memory Match

Memory Match

A leaf of cards face down, each one half of a pair. Turn two over. If they belong together they stay up; if they do not, they go back and you are the only record of what was there.

How it works

The two halves of a pair are never the same thing twice — a letter meets how it is written, a figure meets its value, a word meets its meaning. So finding a pair is not spotting two identical pictures; it is knowing what the card says. What the round keeps is not how fast you clicked but how often you turned over two cards you had already seen and still did not pair them.

First look

The whole chart — thirty-four consonants in seven orders — spelled the way people write it in a name or a message, not in a phonetics table. Narrow it to one order and the board becomes a drill on a single vowel. A board of 8 drawn from 182, freshly each time. Nothing is shown before you start, so every card you know is one you turned over yourself.

Your record

Kept per deck — fidel letters — with the best turns and time held for each board size on its own. Neither stands unless the round was played straight in, without the first look.

No boards cleared yet. Play one and this fills in.

The four decks

Every card comes from something the rest of the site already teaches, so a board is a sample of the whole set rather than a fixed dozen.

  • Fidel letters

    182 pairs

    The letter How it is written. The whole chart — thirty-four consonants in seven orders — spelled the way people write it in a name or a message, not in a phonetics table. Narrow it to one order and the board becomes a drill on a single vowel.

  • Ge'ez numerals

    20 pairs

    The figure Its value. The twenty figures of the manuscripts and the church calendar: the ten singles, the eight tens, and the two multiplier marks.

  • Amharic words

    663 pairs

    The word What it means. Six hundred and sixty-three words across twenty-five subjects. Pick a subject and the whole board comes from it, which is how the words start holding on to each other.

  • Ethiopic punctuation

    8 pairs

    The mark What it does. Eight marks, so a full board is the entire set. The quickest deck to learn outright.