Matching Game: Famous Places

Flip two cards at a time and match each landmark to the place where it stands. Every card says whether it is a Landmark or a Place, and a pair is always one of each. The game counts a mistake when you miss a match on a card you have already seen.

How to tell them apart#

Every landmark card carries its name, so each pair teaches two things at once: what the landmark looks like and where to find it. The places are cities, regions and countries, and each one holds only one landmark on the board, so there is always exactly one right answer. Elizabeth Tower, the clock tower in London, is often called Big Ben, which is the name of its great bell.

How to remember the places#

Link the landmark to the sound of the place’s name with a mental image. For Petra and Jordan, you might picture a river Jordan pouring down the face of the carved rock. The stranger the picture, the easier it is to recall. See how to create mnemonic images for more ways to build them.

To remember where each card is, give every position on the board a place in a memory palace, and walk back through the palace when you need to find a partner.

About the drawings#

The landmarks are drawn for this site as simple shapes, one to a card, so some details are left out and a few are made larger than life. The Leaning Tower, for one, leans more steeply on its card than it does in Pisa.

Try a bigger board#

Every game deals a different set of landmarks, so play again to meet new ones. Once you can clear a small board with only a few mistakes, move up a size.

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