Gold foil leaves curl across a black lid, the base underneath is bright orange, and inside are cats and dogs in full costume. A spaniel zipped into a pumpkin, a white cat in round glasses and a red-and-gold striped scarf, a bumblebee, a mummy wrapped to the ears, a pirate under a skull-and-crossbones hat, a princess in a pink tutu. Each costume’s name rides on a ribbon across the bottom of its card, in friendly capital letters.
Turn them over and everything goes quiet and starry: black skies, gold crescent moons, scattered stars, a few small lightning bolts, so a ghost and a cowboy look exactly alike until somebody flips one. Lay them out on the rug some October evening and settle in for the long game.
Details
30 cards make 15 matching pairs
Comes in its own lidded storage box
Recommended age
3+
Why we love it
Memory is the one game where a small person has the honest advantage, and watching your kid clean up while you squint at identical moons is most of the fun. The costume names give a new reader something friendly to sound out between turns, and the hand-drawn pets are sweet rather than spooky, so it comes out year after year.
