Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31028364-20180715173255/@comment-34236190-20180715202721

Match is my favorite mode and the one I complete the fastest.

I quickly scan the room with no zoom, like Lilboops, and can generally find 3 to 6 pair. Then I zoom.

Once in zoom, with most modes I start in the top right corner and explore the room in sections working first top to bottom then bottom to top in small sections saying the names of the items as I see them.

However, with match mode, I zoom, start in the top right corner, GO ACROSS the top of the room (right to left) and then go across the bottom of the room (left to right) saying the names of the items as I go. I can generally find 7 pair this way. It's usually three pair on top and three on bottom.

If, while I am scanning, I see an item and I know where the match is, then I immediately make that match and then return to searching the room at the point where I stopped.

I usually complete match mode in one room search and in an average of 70 seconds using this strategy.

This method is less cognitively demanding for me than clicking on items to see which highlight because I only have to remember two cognitive cues (name of the item which is auditory and relative location of the item which is visual) versus three cognitive cues (name of object, relative location, and whether the object highlights or not .... which is another visual).

I used to use the click and highlight strategy until I did rooms like candy world and the villa, where some objects are so opaque you can't tell whether they highlight or not. That's when I switched to this strategy. ❤