The memory game that nags you
nAG is a reverse-order memory game. You scout a shuffled board of cards, and then you replay the whole order in one perfect run. Turn over the wrong card and you lose a point, the board hides, and you start the run again from your anchor.
Two halves of a game
Part one is free. You turn cards over until you find a matching pair, and that pair is your anchor — the one thing you now know for certain. Nothing hides while you look and you cannot lose a point.
Part two is where it nags. The list under the board tells you what comes after your anchor, and the order wraps around. You play every card in that order. One wrong card costs you a point and the board hides again.
Win by playing every pair in a single unbroken run. So hardcore it is annoying-good.
Six levels of increasingly bad ideas
Play it
In the browser
The game plays in the browser, right here on the site. Nothing to install, nothing to download, and your best times are kept in that browser.
Play nAG online in the playground
On your own machine
The downloadable copy is the same game, packed into one small archive. Unzip it and open index.html in any browser. It works offline, it never sends anything anywhere, and your records stay on your own machine.
Get the nAG archive
How it plays
Built for every way of playing
Every card is a real button, so the whole board can be played with a keyboard, a switch or a screen reader. The cards show their number as their accessible name, so you always know what is face down without seeing it. Focus rings are visible, colours meet the contrast rules, and the game follows the reduced motion setting of your system: with reduced motion on, the cards turn over without the spin.
Touch is a first-class input. The board is big enough for a thumb, and the cards never need a double tap or a long press.
Nothing leaves your machine
The game has no accounts, no telemetry, no analytics and no advertising. It asks for no permission and reaches no server. The only thing it stores is your own records — best times, last score and the games you have played — and those live in your own browser, on your own machine.
Free and open
Open source, with ethics attached
nAG is free and open-source software under the Annoying Goods Open Source License with Ethical Restrictions. You may use it at home, at work, sell things you make with it, change it and share your changed copies — as long as the licence and its ethical restrictions travel with every copy: the archive carries the licence text, and so does the source.
The archive also carries the licence of the one library it stands on, canvas-confetti, which draws the celebration when you win.
