About the Christmas Sequence Memory Game
All the festive favourites: trees, presents, snowmen, reindeer, stockings and stars. A cosy game for the long afternoons between Christmas and New Year.
What's on the Christmas pad
The tiles the sequence is drawn from — 12 in all: 🎄 Tree🎅 Santa🤶 Mrs Claus🎁 Present⛄ Snowman❄️ Snowflake🦌 Reindeer🔔 Bell🕯️ Candle🧦 Stocking🍪 Cookie⭐ Star
Study tip: give the first three tiles — tree, santa and mrs claus — fixed positions in your head ("top-left", "middle", "bottom-right"). Sequence memory is about position as much as pictures.
How to memorise a festive board
Hook each tile to the tradition it belongs to. Decorations, food, gifts and weather each form natural clusters — and holiday decks are unusually cooperative about it, because the same four clusters repeat across nearly every festival. When a bauble vanishes, you look in "decorations", not "anywhere".
Use the calendar as your story. Most festive decks roughly follow the year: items you would see in the run-up, items for the day itself, items for the leftovers. Walking the board once in date order turns recall into a countdown you already know by heart.
How to Play
- Press Start and watch the tiles light up in order.
- When the sequence finishes, tap the same tiles in the same order.
- Each round adds one more step to the sequence.
- One wrong tap ends the run — your best round is your score.
Fun Facts About Christmas
- The first Christmas card was sent in 1843.
- Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented in 1939 for a department-store colouring book.
- Christmas crackers are primarily a British and Commonwealth tradition.
- Norway gifts the UK a Christmas tree every year for Trafalgar Square.
Holiday deck questions
When should I bring these out for a family gathering?
The sweet spot is the lull — after the meal, before the next thing. One or two rounds on a tablet at the table keeps everyone in the room. The easy board lets grandparents and the youngest play the same game.
The deck feels familiar — is it the same as the other holiday themes?
There is deliberate overlap between seasonal themes, but each deck is its own set of pictures. If you can already beat the Christmas board, try winter or birthday for a fresh challenge.