Chicken Memory Cards

Chicken Memory Cards - a memory game about matching pairs of face-down cards on a board that grows from twelve cards to thirty across twenty-four levels. Each level deals a freshly shuffled layout, and a tap turns a card face up; turning a second card compares the two, matched cards stay open and lock in place, while a mismatched pair flips back after a short pause. Every second card counts as one move, and the counter in the top panel shows moves used against the budget of the current level, which is calculated from the number of pairs and tightens as the levels go on. Clearing every pair before the move budget runs out completes the level and opens the next marker on the level map, while running out of moves ends the level and offers a retry from a fresh deal of the same board. The map screen lays out the whole route as a winding trail of markers, locked ones drawn as padlocks and opened ones numbered, together with a counter of how many levels are open and a control that jumps straight to the current level; any level already opened can be started again from its own marker. Progress is kept between launches, so the game returns to the same point on the map after it is closed. The game screen also keeps a status line that reports whether the last pair matched and a hint line that counts how many pairs are left, and a pause control in the top corner opens a panel with options to continue, restart the level from a fresh deal, or leave to the map. The panel at the end of a level reports the outcome and leads either to the next level or back to the map, and the last level reports that the whole route is finished. The game runs full screen in portrait with no timer, so the pace is left entirely to the player.