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    Cards face down, tap two, keep the ones that match. The twist is the deck: every card in it is one of the 100 most valuable ungraded Pokemon cards there are, from a $585,600 Illustrator Pikachu down to a $2,297 hundredth place. Most of them you will never see in a shop.

    How it works. Tap a card to turn it over, then tap a second one. A pair stays up and pays out in the line under the board: what the card is, what set it came from, where it ranks and what a raw copy of it is worth. A miss turns back over 0.9 seconds after it lands, and you never have to wait for that: tapping a third card snaps the pair straight back. Put the phone away mid-round and the timer stops with it, because the line moves.
    Your score is moves, not seconds. One move is one pair turned over, so a perfect 8 pair round is 8 moves. There is deliberately no clock. This is a game for the twenty minutes you spend in a restock line, and a best score you can only beat by nobody talking to you is not worth chasing.
    There is a real par to beat. A 2013 paper in the American Mathematical Monthly works out how long this game takes when it is played perfectly by somebody who forgets nothing: 9.2 moves on 6 pairs, 12.4 moves on 8 pairs, 18.9 moves on 12 pairs. The same paper is why a bad round stings: you blindly turn over a matching pair less than once a game, at any board size, so there is almost no luck in this to blame.
    Keyboard plays it. Tab walks the board, the arrow keys jump around it, and Enter or space turns a card over.
    Play the deck out and you have seen all 100. That is 17 rounds on 6 pairs, 13 rounds on 8 pairs, 9 rounds on 12 pairs. The deck is walked in a shuffled order rather than drawn fresh every time, so the same cards do not keep coming back before the rest have had a turn.
    Nothing is saved anywhere but your own phone. Your best move count lives in this browser and goes away if you clear it.

    That back is ours, not Pokemon's. The real one is Nintendo's artwork, and the same card back repeated twenty-four times as a game texture is decoration rather than the documentation this site publishes card scans as. So the deck is ours: the Garbage Plate on a green field, drawn the same way the plate on the buying and selling pages is drawn. The faces are the real cards.

    Prices are PriceCharting's ungraded price guide value, read August 22, 2026. That is a price guide figure for a loose ungraded copy, computed from completed sales: it is not an auction result, not a live listing and not a marketplace's market price. Card images are PriceCharting's. The ranking spans every language, because their Pokemon catalog is not split by one and roughly half of the top 100 is Japanese. Pokemon and all Pokemon names are trademarks of The Pokemon Company. This is fan content.

    The other games are a silhouette round, a set guesser, a trivia run and an arcade game. The list this deck comes from has all 100 with the source on every row.