Most Popular Games – Week of 23 Dec. 2017

There’s not much Christmas spirit here, aside from the one Dutch “kerstmis” game. 🙂

All Games

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 Phases of the Moon Matching Game
Tori Keim
2 Mr. Polum’s Landform Game
Chris Polum
3 Irregular Verb Memory Match
Unknown User
4 States of Matter Breakout EDU
Shellye Wardensky
5 kerstmis
Jack Nowee

New Games

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 CREAMER’S CHRISTMAS BREAKOUT
Unknown User
2 Reindeer Games
Unknown User
3 Breakout – Winter Edition
Elizabeth Bell
4 SPICE SPICE BABY
Unknown User
5 Healing Potions
Unknown User

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Oh, there it is!)

In a previous post about tagging, I addressed some of the problems inherent in how Match The Memory is currently built, specifically that games aren’t particularly discoverable. At the end of that post, I promised that finding games would be better in a new version of the site that’s coming “soon”.

(Update: The “new version” of the site was released in August 2018, with both search and tags pages being *much* faster than their original implementations.)

Since then, I’ve gone on a holiday game building bender, creating several new Christmas games that I thought would be enjoyable to a broad range of people. But this week, my wife helped me see that adding a bunch of games doesn’t help if people can’t find those games. So I decided to do something about it.

Continue reading I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Oh, there it is!)

Most Popular Games – Week of 16 Dec. 2017

Now we’re getting some holiday spirit up in here!

All Games

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 Phases of the Moon Matching Game
Tori Keim
2 Mr. Polum’s Landform Game
Chris Polum
3 Irregular Verb Memory Match
Unknown User
4 The Christmas Symbols Memory Game
Mormon Matching
5 States of Matter Breakout EDU
Shellye Wardensky

New Games

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 The Christmas Symbols Memory Game
Mormon Matching
2 Skills Breakout
Unknown User
3 Símbolos de Navidad
Mormon Matching
4 2 Types of Reproduction
Cynthia Baumann
5 1.1 Las acciones en la clase
Señora Gilson

Most Popular Games – Week of 9 Dec. 2017

I thought that we’d be knee-deep into snowmen and Christmas carols by this point in December, but there’s not a holly leaf or a nativity anywhere in sight in the most popular games. Ya bunch of Scrooges!

All Games

Not much different here.

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 Phases of the Moon Matching Game
Tori Keim
2 Mr. Polum’s Landform Game
Chris Polum
3 Irregular Verb Memory Match
Unknown User
4 Nonfiction Text Features
Suzanne Hurley
5 PARTS OF THE HOUSE
Felipe C.

New Games

This is a first: we have games in 5 different languages in our top 5. Spanish, English, Croatian, Chinese, and Arabic.

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 Accidentes geográficos
Unknown User
2 Louisiana History Review
Ali Thompson
3 Vuk i sedam kozlića Lidija
Lidija Pecko
4 VMV大比併(1)
H03
5 ارشادات الأمن و السلامة
Eman Alghamdi

Most Popular Games – Week of 2 Dec. 2017

I’m surprised that there aren’t any holiday games in here yet. I’m sure we’ll see more of these as the month goes on.

All Games

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 Phases of the Moon Matching Game
Tori Keim
2 Irregular Verb Memory Match
Unknown User
3 Nonfiction Text Features
Suzanne Hurley
4 Mr. Polum’s Landform Game
Chris Polum
5 PARTS OF THE HOUSE
Felipe C.

New Games

We’re covering a lot of the basics here: language, math, geology, civics. If you used all of these new games this week, you’d probably wind up with a pretty solid education. 🙂

Rank Title/Image Creator
1 Culture
Unknown User
2 Module 7 Review
Unknown User
3 Weathering
Unknown User
4 DiSalvi’s Vocab Review Game
Christopher Disalvi
5 Chapter 4 Vocabulary Matching with Pictures
Kyle Heaslip