Circuit Match

How to play

Sixteen tiles hide eight pairs of gadgets: a phone, headphones, a controller, a laptop, a battery, a wrench, a watch and a camera. Flip two tiles at a time. If they match, they stay face up. If not, they turn back over after a moment and you try again.

The round ends when all eight pairs are found.

How scoring works

A perfect game is eight moves and scores 1,000. Every extra move costs 25 points and every second on the clock costs 4, so accuracy matters about six times more than speed. The lowest possible score for a finished board is 50.

Tips

• Use your first few moves to explore rather than guess. Flip two tiles you have not seen yet instead of gambling on a half-remembered match.
• Work through the board in rows. It is much easier to remember “second row, third tile” than a random position.
• When you flip a tile whose partner you have already seen, take the match straight away, before you forget where it was.