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What are the rules of the game?
How does the scoring work?
How do I use my own pictures with this game?





   What are the rules of the game?


You have a number of cards in front of you that are turned face-down. On the hidden face there is a picture, and each picture is represented twice. You have to find those matching pairs. You're allowed to turn over two cards at a time; if they match, they're removed, if they don't, they are turned face-down again.

The point is that you're supposed to memorize what you saw, so that when you come across a picture you've seen before, you can turn over a matching pair.




   How does the scoring work?


This PC version of the game is designed for single-player games only.

You get a "mistake" point for every card you see for a second time without having turned over a matching pair.

The game remembers what cards you have already seen. Once you see a card for the second time, you have to find the matching card, or you will receive a point. The fewer points you get, the better you are. If you get zero points, it means you have perfectly remembered everything you ever saw in that game.

You can play this against someone else, too, but the game won't keep a score for you then. You'll have to keep the score yourself and ignore what the game says your score is. In two-player games, the players take alternating turns in which they can turn over a pair of cards. If they match, the cards are removed, they receive a point, and they may take another turn. If they do not match, it becomes the other player's turn.




   How do I use my own pictures with this game?


You can point the game at any directory (folder) on your hard disk that contains graphics files in JPEG format. No other graphics format is supported. Most graphics you find on the Internet are in JPEG format (animations aren't). The game will display a list of the files; you're supposed to choose one of the pictures that will be used for the "face-down" cards. The other pictures will be used for the "face-up" cards.

You can also specify the size of the game. For example, a size of 6 by 5 means that there will be 30 cards in the game, i.e. 15 pairs. For obvious reasons this means that you need to have at least 16 JPEG files in your image directory - 15 for the pairs and one for the back face of the cards.

If you specify an odd size like 5 by 5, there will be one card less than that, i.e. 24 cards and therefore 12 pairs.






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