App Review: Animal Memory Match

Animal Memory Match transports a simple kids game – Memory – and puts it on the iPhone. The game is populated with all sorts of cute animals, beginning with the home screen icon, a lovable little duck. The game includes four levels – at the easiest level, you have to match six cards, while at the hardest level you have to match thirty cards. Game play is straightforward – you just start-up the app and start touching the cards – they flip over in a smooth animation and remain flipped if you happen to match them. If you fail to match them, they flip back over and you can try again. There’s no timer, no score, no pressure, and no multiplayer aspects to the game – but that doesn’t stop the fun.

Animal Memory Match - Hard

Animal Memory Match - Easy

This app took a little while for my two-year old to figure out – but after we spent a couple of weeks playing it together, she is now fully in control of her own experience. In fact, the only thing that slows her down is stopping to exclaim “WOW” every time she matches a pair of cards. Although she has mastered the first three levels of the game, she does still like playing it with me so that she can learn the names of all of the animals. This app is definitely worth the $0.99 price tag and is among the apps that my daughter consistently revisits. Interested in checking it out for yourself?

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