The Memory Match Blog

Two sides of the same deck: the math and habits that clear a board in the fewest possible moves, and the tiny shuffle algorithm that quietly guarantees every layout you're dealt is perfectly fair.

Strategy

How Few Moves Can Win a Memory Game?

The one-unknown rule, what optimal play actually looks like, and realistic move-count targets for every grid from 2×3 to 6×6.

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Inside the Game

Inside the Shuffle: Fisher–Yates and the Fair Deal

Why naive shuffles are subtly biased, how the 1938 Fisher–Yates method fixes it in a few lines of code, and what "every layout equally likely" really means.

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