Match / Concentration

Customised match games - design your unique version

AKA Match (Up), Memory, Matching Pairs, Pelmanism, Pexeso or Shinkei-suijaku

How do you play Matching Pairs?

The aim of this game is to find and collect as many matching pairs of tiles as possible. At the start, all cardboard tiles are shuffled and placed face down on the table, either randomly, or in a tidily ordered rectangle. The starting player picks two tiles and reveals them for all to see. If they match, she keeps them, and takes another turn. If not, she turns the tiles face down again and it's the next player's turn. The games ends when the last remaining pair is collected.

The right mix of luck, strategy, and fun?

Luck: +++oo       Brains: ++ooo       Fun: ++++o

Matching pairs is a great game for the whole family. Sharp memory skills are important, as is a dose of luck, and players of all ages get a chance. The rules are most simple and no time is lost with long explanations before getting into the action. A game doesn't take too long and is entertaining all the way through. The training for your memory is a side benefit that comes free with this fun game.

How to create a uniqe match game with LUUDOO

Matching pairs offers nearly unliminited options for customising your set. Place a picture of your friend or of an overarching motif on the back of the cards, and any pictures of your liking on the card faces. Ever since we started out, matching pairs has been one of our bestsellers, and each customer has come up with a unique idea how to customise their concentration game. To just mention a few:

For birthdays, photos from the various stages in the birthday girl's or boy's life, from the infant and toddler all the way up to adulthood and best ages, are popular. We often see pictures of key points in life - favourite teddy bears, the first car, the first love, parents, friends, children, holidays, you name it.

Wedding anniversaries are a great occasion for cherishing life's special people and moments.

For weddings themselves, there are two classic options: Either the photos celebrate the bride and groom, how they met, their friends, how they grew up - elements of who they are. Or the set of matching pairs is used as a photo album to remember the wedding itself, with photos from the big day.

Holidays are another perfect theme for a set of concentration, bringing a special trip back to life, or even an entire "best of" all places visited together.

Finally, leaving presents are a classic. Saying Thank You! to a kindergarten or primary school teacher, or a sports coach, with photos of the members of the class or the team, can be special.

But there are so many things you can do. We've seen matching pairs as gifts for a baptism, place cards for dinner parties, pairs of dogs or horses for breeders, learning about your extended family for small children, training exercises for people with Alzheimer's or dementia and so on.

To let your get creative and do whatever you want to do, we have assembled a range of templates for the margins on the tiles' faces, so you can readily pick a fitting frame for Christmas, a birthday, or any other occasion. The same goes for our high quality tin box, that you can design with your images, too.

Obviously you can choose from a range of text templates for the tiles' backs, and of course you can place your images there, too. And finally, there is a customised gift box, once more with templates for every occasion, from Easter to Christmas, from birthdays to wedding anniversaries.

Made in Germany and the EU

LUUDOO manufactures customised card and board games since 2012. All of our customised games are manufactured in the EU, the vast majority in Germany. We also take care to source our raw materials in European where at all possible and strive to only use sustainable materials, as long as this does not interfere with the quality or longevity of our games.

As you would expect our customised games meet or exceed the safety requirements for toys in any of the markets we sell to.

Please check the SPECIFICATIONS tab for material, print and sizing information for the customised game components for this particular game