About the Rainforest What's Missing? Game
Parrots squawk, sloths snooze and jaguars prowl — welcome to the busiest place on Earth. The rainforest deck is bursting with life, just like the real thing.
What's in the Rainforest deck
The full deck, so you know what to watch for — 12 pictures: 🦜 Parrot🐍 Snake🦥 Sloth🐸 Tree Frog🦎 Gecko🌴 Palm🌺 Hibiscus🍌 Banana🦋 Butterfly🌧️ Rain🐆 Jaguar🌿 Fern
Study tip: link the first three — parrot, snake and sloth — into one ridiculous mental picture. Absurd images stick; lists don't. When a picture vanishes, replay the scene and ask what doesn't fit any more.
How to memorise a nature board
Nature decks are scenes waiting to happen. Put the sun or moon at the top of your mental image, weather in the middle band, and plants and terrain at the bottom — a three-layer landscape. When you need to recall whether the mushroom was there, you check the forest floor layer, not the whole board.
Use the seasons as a story spine: blossom, then fruit, then falling leaves, then snow. If the deck's items can be walked through in seasonal order once, the order itself becomes a checklist you can replay mentally whenever you are hunting a missing pair.
How to Play
- Press Start and memorise every picture on the board.
- After a few seconds the board hides and one picture is removed.
- Pick the missing picture from the answer choices.
- Each correct answer adds a bigger board. Three misses ends the game.
Fun Facts About Rainforest
- More than half of the world's plant and animal species live in rainforests.
- The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth — bigger than Western Europe.
- Some rainforests get over 2 metres of rain every year.
- Sloths move so slowly that algae grows on their fur, turning them slightly green.
Nature deck questions
Do nature themes suit older players?
Yes — gardens, weather and landscapes are familiar at every age, which makes the boards friendly rather than childish. Many care-home activity sessions use exactly this kind of deck for gentle reminiscence.
How do I stop the green tiles blurring together?
Anchor on shape, not colour. A leaf, a fern and a clover are all green but wildly different silhouettes — memorise the outlines and the colour stops mattering.