Glypho

What it is

Glypho is a free memory card game in Arabic and English. Turn two cards, find what they have in common, and keep the pair.

What it does

• Switch language mid-game — Arabic and English are both first-class — right-to-left layout included — and the language switches mid-game without losing the board.
• Three ways to play — Alone against a computer opponent, around one device with up to eight players taking turns, or online in a room with friends.
• Categories worth learning — Pairs are drawn from mathematics, geography, history, science and language, so a round teaches something as well as testing memory.
• Installs like an app — It is a progressive web app: add it to a home screen and it opens from an icon. Local play keeps working with no connection at all.
• Free to play — Every mode, board size and difficulty is free. Glypho Pro adds category choice in every mode and can be cancelled at any time.

Where it came from

Glypho began as a Unity party game and was rebuilt for the web so that playing it takes a link rather than an install. The web version runs the same game rules in the browser as on the server, which is what lets a solo game carry on when the connection does not.