MEMORY
Memory is a whimsical card-matching game that rewards memory, not luck. Players flip two cards per move and clear the board in as few moves as they can, while a scoring system tells avoidable "slips" apart from free exploration, so a perfect memory always earns a perfect score. Streak bonuses, star ratings, color-coded results, synthesized sound effects, and confetti cannons make every game feel playful. Built with Python, Flask, and vanilla JavaScript, deployed on Heroku, and designed privacy-first: no accounts, no tracking, and every score stays in the player's browser.
PYTHON FLASK JAVASCRIPT WEB AUDIO API HEROKU
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Memory, Not Luck
A simulation showed that even a perfect memory averages about 9 moves, so scoring by moves alone mostly measured the shuffle. I redesigned it around slips: a miss only costs points when the player had already seen the match, or flipped a card they knew wasn't one. Exploring new cards is always free, so a flawless memory scores 1350 on every board.
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Streaks That Sing
Each match is worth +100, plus +50 for every match in a row. Sticker-style toasts, sparkle bursts, and a chime that climbs in pitch with every streak step make a run feel like it's building. All sound is synthesized live with the Web Audio API, so there are no audio files and nothing loaded from anywhere else, plus a mute toggle that remembers your choice.
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A Flawless Finish
Winning fires confetti from two corner cannons, drawn on a canvas with time-based physics so it stays smooth on any screen. The results card shows stars, points, slips, a personal best, and session stats, plus a row of color squares that can be shared through the Web Share API or copied to the clipboard.
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Admire Your Board
Players can step out of the scorecard to see their finished board, with each pair glowing in its score color, and a floating chip brings the results back. Each game deals 6 pairs from a pool of more than 100 photos, optimized automatically by a git pre-commit hook. Non-square photos are shown whole over a feathered, blurred copy of themselves.
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