Experdize Mandarin Basic Match - Extra

How to play: the board deals each word twice — once as its characters, once as its pinyin or its English. Tap a tile, then tap its partner: a pair goes in, pays 100 points, and is said aloud in Mandarin. Every pair you make without a mistake multiplies the next one, up to five times over, and a wrong guess counts a mistake and puts the run back to nothing — the board ends only when every pair is matched. Clear it and the clock stops; each deck and size keeps its own best time. Nine decks of 204 words in all, from the forty a beginner meets first through numbers, family, food, colours, travel and verbs. The Tones deck is the hard one: it deals whole families of one syllable in all four tones — mā, má, mǎ, mà — so the only thing telling the tiles apart is the mark over the vowel. A pair already made stays on the board faded; tap it to hear the word again.