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Easy MEMOUser manual |
Update on December, 2004 |
Find pairs, or groups of three or more identical cards (picture cards and/or sound cards). Play alone, with friends or even your youngest kids. Play with animal cards, large Disney cards or lots of other cards. Improve your memory by playing with your favourite friends and pictures. You can play from the age of 3 to 103.
The author of the game has created the game set provided with the game and the first game sets on the website. You can send him your own game sets by email. After checking it the set will be added onto the Easy MEMO website. (Refer to How to add game sets of pictures and The author, the authors and the distribution)
At first, so that you understand the game, you will play with the default number of cards. All you have to do is to choose New in the menu Game. (You can also use the key CTRL-N).
Click on the back of a card, turn it over, memorize the picture and try again with another card. If you are lucky, the two cards are identical and the picture will remain visible. Good, you have finished your first pair.
If the cards aren't identical, click on a third one. The first 2 cards are turned back over and hidden again. The third one is turned over. Memorize this picture and try to remember where the other card is to make the pair and then turn this one over.
If not, try again until you succeed in getting your first pair.
When you have your first pair, try to match more pairs of cards as you turn over each new card.
And so on, and so on, and so on... until you find all the pairs.
At this moment, your score will be displayed. (look at Score for more details)
You have just finished your first game,. Try again with different options for a more interesting game. Change the number of cards for example (menu Options / Size)
Options can only be changed when you have finished playing the game in hand. If you have had enough (is this really possible?) then you can stop your game definitively with the Stop the game item of the Game menu.
For the first game, begin in solo mode so that you understand the game. The next thing you can do is to play with more people : see menu Options / Players to change the number and the type of players. You can play against your friends or against the computer at different difficulty levels.
In a multi-player game the first player is chosen at random. He appears with a red color. Look carefully at the name of the first player. The next player will be the player on the right (on the screen of course) and so on.
Each player turns over two cards. If they are identical he plays again, if not the next player plays.
The winner is the player who finds the most pairs.
Remember, the options can only be changed when you have finished playing the game in hand. If you have had enough (is this really possible?) then you can stop your game definitively with the Stop the game item of the Game menu.
By default, Easy MEMO comes with pre-set option values. You can change these by using the Options menu or using the parameter file (cf Advanced Manual)
Choose Options / Players in the menu. The following dialog box appears :
You can play alone or with other players. For each player you have to choose if it is a human player (a friend of yours, your kids...) or if it is a computer player. |
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In multi-player mode the winner is the player who finds the highest number of pairs.
Between each round look carefully at the player name in red and give him the mouse.
In vanish mode, the pairs disappear when you find its, or when you complete a group of cards. It can be easier to see back cards.
With the first item in the Vanish sub menu, you can select if Easy MEMO must use the vanish mode.
At the end of the game, even if you stop the game before the end, you can hide (Options/Vanish/Hide all cards) or display (Options/Vanish/Display all cards) all correct pairs (or groups).
You can choose what sounds you want to hear by checking and unchecking items of the Sounds box. For example if you wish to hear nothing when you make a mistake, uncheck the Bad try item in the Sounds box.
Easy MEMO comes with its own standard wood effect background. All your games are displayed on it. Some game sets comes with their own different backgrounds which automatically replace the default background.
The background setup can be changed by selecting one of the following radio options:
When you play against the computer it can be difficult to see what cards are being played. So, with the blink mode, each card played blinks 2 or 4 times. You can choose the blink speed in the Blink box.
You can also disable this option with the No item and the cards will no longer blink.
Playing in preview mode is easier and it helps you to succeed. In this mode all the cards are displayed before the beginning of the game for a few seconds. Then the cards are hidden and the game begins.
You can choose short or long preview in Preview box. Be careful, by choosing Preview Mode your score will be lower.
Tip: Don't choose preview mode with a Perfect or Advanced computer player!
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You can select here the most important options for your next games:
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In shareware release you can play 2 kinds of games : pair identical cards (like all concentration games) or pair different cards.
When you play in different mode, you can group a picture and its name, a word and its pronunciation... (as you can play with groups up to a maximum of 5 cards, you can match an animal, its cry, its name...)
This option is only available with Easy MEMO Pro.
Making pairs is really easy, everybody can do it. But finding a group of 3 or 4 identical cards is not so easy. And finding a group of 5 identical cards in 150 cards is very, very hard.
But your score will be better, if you complete the game of course!
With 2 cards, even with a random way of playing it's possible to finish a game. With a difficulty of 5 identical cards and a size of 150 cards, it's impossible to complete a game without good training and a lot of concentration. It is more difficult with a higher game set specialization. It becomes very difficult when all the cards are very similar (eg military planes).
The Scenarios features allow the game set author to create a lot of sub-games with the same game set. Only available scenarios in the current game set are listed in the dialog box. A given scenario is available if it matches the language in use, the kind of game in use (see above) and the difficulty in use (see above).
So, if the game set you are playing with has several scenarios, you can select which one you will play with.
When starting, Easy MEMO chooses a size of 6 or 8 cards. So you can quickly understand the rules of the game.
But if you want an interesting game, you have to quickly change the number of cards. Of course, your score will be better with a higher size.
Just click on left bottom button and you will view new fields. Instead of selecting a single value for Difficulty you can choose a range of difficulty, so you can have more available scenarios without trying each difficulty value.
As a scenario can be available for many Difficulties you have next to choose the Difficulty of your next game for the given scenario.
Tip: By selecting Difficulty from 2 to 5 you can see easily all available scenarios for this language and this Kinds of games.
It's not really pleasant to play all the time with the same pictures. So you can find new game sets on the Easy MEMO website. Every month you can find new game sets on this site.
The more pictures that there are in a game set, the less chance there will be to have the same picture in 2 consecutive games.
A game set is a group of pictures with one special picture. This special picture is on the backs of the cards.
A game set can also have a parameter file. (look at How to add game sets of pictures)
To change the game set you have to click on menu Options / Sets. This opens the playlist dialog box.
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Uses button "Auto select/Manual select" to setup your playlist mode. With "Auto select" the playlist contains the list of all your game sets. With Manual select you can add or remove game sets to your playlist. (use buttons "Select", "Select All", "Remove", "Remove All") When you start a new game, Easy MEMO will choose a game set at random from this playlist. The nearest possible size to the previous game will automatically be selected. Note: When Easy MEMO load a new game set it can display this error: "Your game set need a more recent release of Easy MEMO". What does it means? You downloaded and install a game set build for a new release of Easy MEMO. This game set can have some problems with your current Easy MEMO release. What you have to do? Connect Easy MEMO website and download the latest release. |
Your score is computed using a complex formula with these parameters : number of cards, difficulty, number of tries and the card size.
If you are playing online, alone with more than 10 cards and without preview mode you can add your name to the Hall of Fame (if you beat at least the last player of a board). There are three boards :
Bruno Berenguer,
I like computers and games, and I distribute Easy MEMO as a Freeware and Easy MEMO Pro as a shareware. If you have any questions, you can send me an email.
If you like the game, you can create some game sets for your own pleasure, but also if you want, for the pleasure of all the players in the world. (look below to know the distribution mode)
These game sets will remain your own intellectual property and will be distributed as a Freeware.
It is possible to indicate for each game set the name, the email and the homepage of the author.
Easy MEMO Pro is a shareware. This means that you may try the program online on the official website. If you decide that you want to use it offline, you must register it, i.e. buy the full version and obtain a End User License. If you want to use Easy MEMO Pro online on your own website, you could contact us for more informations.
The author keeps the ownership of the game and he is the only person who can modify it.
Easy MEMO is a freeware. The author keeps the ownership of it and he is the only person who can modify this game. For commercial or 'online' use you need to buy Easy MEMO Pro. For private use you can play and copy it free for to your friends whatever the support (CD, internet, disk...) but there are 3 conditions :
If you want the latest version, download it from the website.
You can also contact the author if you have any suggestions to improve this game.