Let’s Play Pelmanism!

Do you want to play a fun memory game? Pelmanism is just what you’re looking for! It’s a game that you can play with your friends or family. It’s a bit like another game called Concentration. The goal of Pelmanism is to get the highest score by matching cards. If you match two cards, you get to remove them from the game. Are you ready to give it a try?

Getting Started

First, we need to choose someone to be the dealer. The dealer will shuffle all the cards and then place them face-down in a grid. Make sure the cards don’t overlap. Now we’re ready to start!

How to Play

When it comes to Pelmanism, there’s no set order or ranking for the cards. It doesn’t matter what suit the cards are, as long as you find matching pairs. Each set of cards has four cards with the same face value. You want to match two cards that have the same notation on them, like two Jacks, two 7s, or two 3s.

How to Play

In Pelmanism, the game starts with the player to the left of the dealer and goes clockwise. On your turn, you flip over two cards. If they match, you collect them and put them in a pile next to you for scoring later. If they don’t match, you turn them back face down, and it’s the next player’s turn.

If you successfully match a pair, you get to take another turn and try to match two more cards. You keep taking turns until you don’t match a pair anymore.

Let’s talk about how scoring works in the game once all pairs on the table have been matched and moved to score piles.

SCORING

I’ll count my matching pairs and score a point for each pair I made. These scores can be added up over several rounds or used as a final score for the game.

END OF GAME

The game ends either after the first round or after a number of rounds that we decide. The player with the highest score is the winner. If two or more players have the same high score, we can tie the game or play more rounds to determine a final winner.

VARIATIONS

We can also use different decks of cards that have more or fewer than the standard 52 cards. This will make the game longer or shorter.

Some packs of cards only have one pair, so there are only two of the same cards. This makes it harder to find a match at the beginning of the game if you want a more difficult version.

If you want to make the game even more challenging with a standard 52-card deck, you can add a rule that the pairs must match in both number and color. For example, a valid pair would be two red queens, but it would not be valid to have a pair with a red queen and a black queen.

If you want to make the game even more difficult, you can add a rule that the pairs must match in both number and color. For example, if you have two red queens, that would be a valid pair, but if you have a red queen and a black queen, that would not be valid.