Memory Duel

How to play

Memory Duel is a two-player memory game with a twist: you build the board. Every pair of cards is split between the players. Blue cards belong to one player and red cards to the other. You secretly place yours on your side of the board (the bottom half) while your opponent fills the top half.

On your turn, flip one of your own cards and then pick one of your opponent's cards where you think its twin is hiding. Get it right and you score and play again. Get it wrong and the turn passes, but both of you saw what was flipped. The player with the most points when every pair is found wins.

Difficulty modes

On Normal the cards stay where they are. On Hard the whole board turns or flips between turns and the card faces rotate. On Extreme rows and columns swap or slide, and random events like Earthquake, Switch, Panic and Confusion can hit. Hell mode does everything at once, with fog, decoys and very short reveals.

Every move is announced first with an arrow, and then the whole board visibly turns or flips as one piece, so the layout you built stays recognisable. Row and column moves happen one at a time with the moving cards lit up. Boards go from 12 to 100 cards.

Items and scoring

Pick three items before a match. Preview flashes three random cards, Peek shows one card you choose, Scanner shows a 3×3 area, Double Points doubles your next match, Extra Guess gives you a second try, Freeze stops the board moving after your turn, Score Steal takes 10% of your opponent's points, and Rewind undoes the board's last move, putting every card back where it was. You can use one item per turn.

Matches in a row multiply your points up to ×4. Fall three pairs behind and you get a free Peek to fight back.

Campaign, daily challenge and online

The campaign has ten levels that each add something new, from spinning boards to look-alike cards, and unlocks new card packs. The daily challenge gives everyone the same board and the same CPU; sign in to put your score on the leaderboard. Share a challenge link to dare a friend to beat your score on the same board, play two players on one device, or go online with Quick Match or a private room code.

Tips

• Place your cards in a pattern you can remember, like corners first or one row per animal group.
• Watch every card that flips, including your opponent's misses: that tells you where their cards are.
• On moving boards, follow one or two cards you care about instead of trying to track everything.
• Save Double Points for a pair you're sure about; a miss wastes it.
• Use Freeze before a turn you might miss, so the board stays still for your next try.
• Lost track after a big turn? Save Rewind for that moment: it plays the last move backwards.