Mini Match
Clear the tiny board before your flips expire.
Designed and developed by Savvy Tech Sphere, LLC
Mini Match
Classic concentration for sub-five-minute focus bursts. Flip two cards, lock the pairs, and clear the grid before your flips run dry. Every few levels adds more cards, leaner budgets, and animated distractions—stay sharp to earn perfect clear badges.
Perfect Clear Badges
About Mini Match
Mini Match condenses the thrill of memory matching into bite-sized bursts. You’re presented with a tiny grid of cards hiding icons ranging from retro arcade sprites to modern emoji. Flip two at a time to find pairs, but beware: every mismatch drains a limited flip quota. The small board size may look forgiving, yet the rapid reshuffling between levels keeps you on your toes. We designed the animations and tactile flips to mimic the satisfying snap of real cards, making each reveal a tiny dopamine hit.
Beyond the classic mode, Mini Match introduces clever twists. Power-up cards grant peeks, shuffles, or slow-motion highlights, and special rounds sprinkle in decoys that force you to rethink your strategy. Our difficulty curve adapts to your mastery, widening the grids, adding more card types, or limiting the time allowed. The aesthetic rotates daily—one day you’re matching constellations, the next you’re pairing tiny pixel pets—so the experience never feels stale.
We engineered the game for replayability and accessibility. A calm mode removes timers for a soothing zen experience, while competitive players can chase perfect-flip streaks in ranked runs. Colorblind-friendly icon sets, high-contrast outlines, and haptic feedback options ensure everyone can enjoy the game comfortably. Mini Match excels as a quick mental refresh or an extended session where you practice intentional memorization techniques.
How to Play
- Tap two cards to flip them over. If the icons match, they lock in place; if not, they flip back after a short delay.
- Track the limited number of allowed mismatches. Exceeding the quota ends the round early.
- Clear all pairs on the board to advance to the next level, where grid size and icon variety increase.
- Collect power-up cards when they appear; they provide useful perks such as revealing a row or freezing the timer.
- Complete daily objectives, such as finishing a round with zero mismatches, to earn cosmetics and additional card sets.
Tips & Tricks
- Mentally number the grid rows and columns and form quick verbal labels for icons; translating visuals into words aids recall.
- Flip cards in a consistent pattern (left to right, top to bottom) so you always know where you last saw a symbol.
- Save power-ups for late in the round when the remaining unmatched cards are hardest to remember.
- If you forget a card, resist random tapping. Pause and reconstruct earlier flips—it's faster than gambling away your mismatch quota.
Skills and memory strategies*
- Short-term visual memory by tracking where icons have appeared on a small grid
- Attention control, as you resist flipping random cards and instead follow a plan
- Pattern recognition when you notice icon themes and reuse them as mental "anchors"
- Practice with basic mnemonic devices such as grouping similar icons or creating mini stories about them
*Mini Match is an entertainment game and not a medical, therapeutic, or diagnostic tool. Memory-related descriptions are general and should not be interpreted as treatment claims.
Group and classroom ideas*
- Screen-share a game and have students call out coordinates ("row 2, column 3") to flip collaboratively
- Divide the class into small teams, each responsible for remembering a subset of the grid, and see which team clears the level fastest
- Use the game as a discussion starter about memory techniques; after a session, ask players which strategies actually helped
- For family game night, rotate who controls the device each level while everyone else tries to coach from memory
*Group uses are suggested for fun and discussion and are not structured cognitive training programs.