[Testing] Problem with "Memorize Activity" OLPC XO 1.0 & 1.5 build OS852

[Simon Schampijer]

On 09/21/2010 06:55 PM, Gary Martin wrote:
> Hi Caryl,
>
> On 21 Sep 2010, at 17:15, Caryl Bigenho<cbigenho at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Did you see her screenshot?  There is an unfilled square in the lower right corner :-(
>
> Yes, but that seems to be as expected/designed when playing a pair matching game in a 5x5 odd numbered size grid. Perhaps the games levels should be limited to 4x4, 6x6, and 8x8 so that they are all even numbers? 8x8 would be quite the challenge, and most of the demos probably don't have enough questions to fill that sized grid just now (fairly easy to extend them). Would need to run some testing on XO-1 hardware to make sure memory usage is not a problem.
>
> I can file an enhancement request ticket if you/others think it's a good idea, let me know.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary

As some have noted already the number of cards has the base 2. FWIW, I 
use Memory in my class quite often and so far no learner has been 
confused by the simplification we use in the view.

As Mitch suggested one could use as well placeholders cards. But imagine 
you have 11 Pairs and select a 5x5 grid. You would need 3 placeholders 
cards. I do think that can be more confusing.

Regards,
    Simon