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A CONCENTRATION CARD GAME FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

Number of Players: Any number at all—the more the merrier.

The Deal: Just spread the cards face down on a table. Don't bother to put them down neatly, but just jumble them up, making sure that no 2 cards overlap.

Object: To capture pairs of cards. The player who captures the most pairs wins the game.

The Play: Before play begins, each player should be told what his turn is. Thus each player knows whether he is first, second, third, etc.

The 1st player turns up any card and then turns up any other card. If the two cards match each other (for example, if they are two Aces, or two Kings, etc.) the 1st player captures them as his pair. He then has another turn and proceeds to turn up two more cards in the hope of finding a pair. As soon as he turns up two cards that are not a pair, he must turn them face down again in the same place, and it now becomes the turn of the next player.

Each player proceeds in the same way, until all the cards have been captured. At that time, the player who has captured the largest number of cards wins the game.

Skillful Play: The trick is to remember the cards that have been turned up and exactly whereabouts on the table those cards are. For example, suppose the 1st player turns up a King and a 10. He must turn those cards face down, and you do your very best to remember exactly where that King is and where that 10 is. If it is now your turn, you try to turn up a card in an entirely different part of the table, hoping to find another King or another 10. If you find another King, you can go right to the first King like a homing pigeon and then you will have a pair of Kings. If you find another 10, you can go right to the first 10 and thus have a pair of 10's. If you try to remember too many cards, you will forget them all. It is much better to begin by trying to remember only two or three cards. When you find that you can do that easily, try remembering four cards. In this way you can gradually increase your skill until you can accurately remember the whereabouts of seven or eight cards at a time. This should be enough to win almost any game.

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