{"id":310,"date":"2023-02-19T02:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2023-02-19T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T17:44:43","slug":"our-animal-memory-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/2023\/02\/19\/our-animal-memory-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Animal Memory Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_Junglefowl_by_George_Edward_Lodge_white_background-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_Junglefowl_by_George_Edward_Lodge_white_background-1.png 940w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_Junglefowl_by_George_Edward_Lodge_white_background-1-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_Junglefowl_by_George_Edward_Lodge_white_background-1-768x580.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"921\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Octopus_vulgaris_Merculiano-1-921x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Octopus_vulgaris_Merculiano-1-921x1024.jpg 921w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Octopus_vulgaris_Merculiano-1-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Octopus_vulgaris_Merculiano-1-768x854.jpg 768w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Octopus_vulgaris_Merculiano-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is about a game that one of my sons and I play. We say words to each other to choose moves in a series of alternating steps. Here is an example (&#8220;M&#8221; is for my move, and &#8220;S&#8221; is my son&#8217;s move). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M chicken<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S octopus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M elephant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S rabbit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M rat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S bat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M pig<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S cow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M frog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is a draw; neither of us won. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas_africanus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_white_background.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas_africanus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_white_background.jpg 734w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas_africanus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_white_background-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hoefnagel_copie_du_Lievre_de_Durer_Louvre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hoefnagel_copie_du_Lievre_de_Durer_Louvre.jpg 768w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hoefnagel_copie_du_Lievre_de_Durer_Louvre-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The trick to this game is to keep the animals played in your memory and visualize where the moves are. Previously we came up with a matrix of animal names to represent different places in relation to each other. <\/p>\n\n\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>| Pig\n    <\/td>\n<td>| Cow\n    <\/td>\n<td>| Rabbit\n  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>| Bat<\/td>\n<td>| Chicken<\/td>\n<td>| Rat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>| Elephant<\/td>\n<td>| Frog<\/td>\n<td>| Octopus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>This is like playing a game of tic-tac-toe (or noughts and crosses or Xs and Os by other names). We are trying to get three in a row, but without writing it down and just keeping it in our heads. It is more challenging, but this makes it more fun, and it is probably good memory practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"186\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Rat_Drawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-355\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357\" width=\"463\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus-1.jpg 617w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus-1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Years ago, my brother and I played something similar a few times but in three dimensions. We had to have a &#8220;gravity rule&#8221; where the position(s) below had to be played first, or there were just too many ways to move with no way to block a win by the first player. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Danisches_Sortbroget_Schwein_5-1024x626.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Danisches_Sortbroget_Schwein_5-1024x626.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Danisches_Sortbroget_Schwein_5-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Danisches_Sortbroget_Schwein_5-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Danisches_Sortbroget_Schwein_5-1536x939.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Danisches_Sortbroget_Schwein_5.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Cow_female_black_white-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Cow_female_black_white-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Cow_female_black_white-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Cow_female_black_white-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Cow_female_black_white-1536x1178.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Cow_female_black_white.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is more challenging, but my son and I might work our way up to three dimensions by adding a second layer first before all three layers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_eyed_tree_frog_edit2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_eyed_tree_frog_edit2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_eyed_tree_frog_edit2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_eyed_tree_frog_edit2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_eyed_tree_frog_edit2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/floydsplace.us\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Red_eyed_tree_frog_edit2-1.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Link<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wikipedia article on tic-tac-toe, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tic-tac-toe\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tic-tac-toe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chicken (rooster) image, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Red_Junglefowl_by_George_Edward_Lodge_white_background.png\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Red_Junglefowl_by_George_Edward_Lodge_white_background.png<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Octopus image, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Octopus_vulgaris_Merculiano.jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Octopus_vulgaris_Merculiano.jpg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elephant image, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Elephas_africanus_-1700-1880-Print-Iconographia_Zoologica-_(white_background).jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Elephas_africanus_-<em>1700-1880<\/em>&#8211;<em>Print<\/em>&#8211;<em>Iconographia_Zoologica<\/em>-_(white_background).jpg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rat image, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rat_Drawing.jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rat_Drawing.jpg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bat image, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus.jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus.jpg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pig image, <a 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We say words to each other to choose moves in a series of alternating steps. Here is an example (&#8220;M&#8221; is for my move, and &#8220;S&#8221; is my son&#8217;s move). The result is a draw; neither of us won. 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