Purble Place

For those using Windows Vista, this game (Purble Place) should be quite familiar. As stated here, "The goal of Purble Pairs is to remove all the tiles from the board by finding matching pairs. To begin, click on a tile. Click on another tile to see if the pair matches. If the tiles match, they will be removed. If not, try to remember what each tile is, so you can find matching pairs on future turns."

In other words, it's quite a demanding memory game, one that would probably prove difficult for an almost 4-year-old kid. However, this weekend, I watched Theo playing this game on our PC and I was just so amazed at his memory. This was quite a revelation for me, given that at times when I thought he was wrong, he was actually right.

This screen capture shows you his score after eight (8) games. At this level (5x5 grid), he got the highest rank of "Champion in Logic". With a 5x5 grid, you have 25 cards. And as you can see in this screen shot, his "average tiles turned per game" is 53, and his "average turns per match" in the last game is 2! To get these stats after 8 trials, you either have to be very lucky or have a very good memory. Not that he's my son, but given that he's not even 4 years old and yet performing this well in this memory game somehow just blew me away! Really!