The birthday-party problem is twelve children, forty minutes and a weather forecast. A memory-match station solves a slice of it: one tablet on a table, two players at a time, best score wins a small prize. It is the calm five minutes between the cake and the pass-the-parcel.
Because nothing needs installing or signing up for, you can hand the device to any guest â including the one who arrived with a phone but no charger â and walk away. The game runs itself, keeps score, and ends every round with a winner.
For the party bags, a QR code to a favourite theme beats a plastic favour that breaks before the car ride home. Pick the birthday child's current obsession from the theme list â dinosaurs, unicorns, space â and the station practically runs the party itself.
Choose your difficulty
Every birthday party game runs at three levels â easy, medium and hard â switched inside the game at any time. Start easy for little ones, or jump to hard if you fancy the challenge.