Sound Memory
Objective: To use your memory and your vocabulary to find as many words as possible as quickly as you can.
For solo or group play.
Mix the cards (including the two wild cards).
Lay out all of the cards face down as a grid.
The player who didn’t lay out the cards turns four cards over. If two or more of the cards can create a word, the player collects those cards and turns the remaining cards face down. If all four cards create a word, the player collects those cards and goes again.
In a clockwise fashion, the next player does the same, uncovering four cards with the hope of forming a word that is two or more cards long.
Play continues until no cards remain or no more words can be formed.
If two or more players are playing, the player with the highest number of collected cards wins.
Possible variation: Play a more traditional memory game using two decks. For example, mix and lay out pairs of all 26 vowel (or consonant) cards in a grid and find matches for each of the vowel (or consonant) cards.
Note: As words can be pronounced differently depending on accent and dialect, there can be more than one way to transcribe a word phonetically. Thus, players should agree in advance on how to resolve questions about acceptable respellings. For example, they might chose to consult Dictionary.com or another dictionary of their choice for standard phonetic transcriptions of words.