About the Coffee Shop Memory Game
The hiss of the steam wand, a window seat and ten spare minutes — the coffee shop deck is made for exactly that moment. The perfect companion to your morning flat white.
What's in the Coffee Shop deck
The full deck, so you know exactly what you're up against — 12 cards, 6 pairs: ☕ Espresso🫖 Teapot🥐 Croissant🧁 Muffin🍪 Cookie🥛 Steamed Milk🍰 Cake Slice📰 Newspaper💻 Laptop🪴 House Plant🎶 Café Playlist🛋️ Comfy Chair
Study tip: link the first three — espresso, teapot and croissant — into one ridiculous mental picture. Absurd images stick; lists don't. Then do the same for the next three, and the board will memorise itself.
How to memorise a food and drink board
Cook the board into a menu. Starter, main, dessert, drink — assign every item a course and walk the meal in order. Food decks memorise like recipes because recipes are already ordered lists with logic to them; a random-looking grid becomes a set menu after one pass.
Use flavour and temperature as handles too. Hot against cold, sweet against sour, breakfast against midnight snack — oppositions are memorable, and most food decks are quietly full of them. When the pancake goes missing, "breakfast foods, left side" is a small question.
Fun Facts About Coffee Shop
- Legend says coffee was discovered by an Ethiopian goat herder whose goats danced after eating the berries.
- "Espresso" means "pressed out" in Italian.
- The cappuccino is named after the brown robes of Capuchin monks.
- London's 17th-century coffee houses were nicknamed "penny universities" — a penny bought entry and great conversation.
How to Play
Tap any card to flip it over, revealing the order image underneath. Tap a second card — if the two match, they stay face up and you keep going. If not, they flip back after a moment. Your goal is to match every pair in as few moves as possible.
Three difficulty levels are available: easy (6 pairs), medium (8 pairs) and hard (12 pairs). Switch between them any time with the difficulty buttons above the board. Start on easy if you're new, or jump straight to hard for a proper brain workout.
Food & Drink deck questions
A good theme for playing with children in the kitchen?
Yes — name each item, decide who would eat it, argue about dessert. Food vocabulary is everyday vocabulary, so the deck doubles as a language game for small children and English learners.
Any trick for the drinks versus foods mix-ups?
Group them first thing: everything you pour on one side, everything you slice on the other. Food decks punish players who scan randomly more than any other theme.