Ancient Cards

Ancient Cards is the third puzzle mini-game unlocked when starting a new game of Seeker's Notes: Mystery of Darkwood.

Ancient Cards is a pairs mini-game. Players must uncover all the matching pairs of cards within a certain time frame. At higher Ranks there are increasingly higher numbers of cards on the game board.

Ancient Cards is unlocked when the player reaches Game Level 6.

How To Play


The Ancient Cards game board contains a grid of over-turned cards. Tapping a card reveals an image underneath. The object of the game is to find all the matching pairs of images.

Once a card is over turned it remains over turned until a second card is selected. If the second card reveals the same image both cards are removed from the board. If the second card reveals a different image then both cards are turned face down again.

The game is won when all cards are removed from the board.

Tools in Ancient Cards
There are two tools available to use in Ancient Cards:
 * The Flying Time adds 45 seconds to the game's timer.
 * The Eyeglass overturns all cards revealing their images for 3 seconds.

Hints and Tips


There is no great strategy to to Ancient Cards. The best approach is to work your way along the board, looking for pairs systematically. Many people find working top-to-bottom row by row or left-to-right column by column good ways of working across the board. Depending on your own memory, it might help to just try to remember 3-5 cards at a time (a portion of the first row or first column). Working back and forth i.e. top to bottom then bottom to top or left to right then right to left, may also help.

At the higher game levels this game can get quite repetitive and boring as the number of potential images does not increase, just the number of cards on the board. This means there are often multiple pairs of each image. This can be useful to remember if stuck on one side of the board.

You can use a Eyeglass to reveal all the cards for 3 seconds. Although this is not enough time to memorize all of the card locations, it is enough time to take a take a photo of the revealed cards with another device or even take screen grab of the revealed cards (pressing the Home button and Power button simultaneously on your iPad). This will give you an image of all the card's positions to use to make the pairs (Warning: this will make a simple game even less challenging and will not save you time in terms of finishing the puzzle compared to using the row by row or column by column strategy above)

Try to save your Flying Times for use on other Puzzles and Locations.

Related

 * SN Home
 * Darkwood Town Map
 * List of Puzzles
 * Treasure Box
 * Mosaic
 * Tools
 * Location Ranks
 * Achievements
 * Energy
 * Quests
 * Collections
 * FAQ