Crazy Halloween Memory

Crazy Halloween Memory brings the night of 31 October to a pairs board. The game files itself under memory and monster games, and the tiles carry Halloween characters that need to be matched with their twins. The crazy in the title sets the tone: playful rather than genuinely frightening.

Halloween imagery is full of shared colours, with orange, purple, green and black everywhere, which is exactly what makes a themed memory game tricky. When several tiles use the same palette, colour alone will not tell you where a match is hiding. You have to remember faces, shapes and small props, and that extra layer of attention is what the game is really training.

Like other boards of its kind, it is built around four levels and a simple target: pair up every tile in as few moves as you can. A low move count is the mark of a good run, so take a moment after each flip to fix the picture in your mind.

1. Choose a square and turn over its Halloween tile.
2. Turn over another to see if the two match.
3. Keep track of the monsters that did not pair up.
4. Pair every tile to complete all four levels.

Ignore colour and remember faces. On a Halloween board many tiles share the same orange and purple, but expressions and props tend to differ.