Original Ravensburger memory®

Hardly any other game is so successful at bringing players of all ages to the same table. The game is amazingly easy to play, connects generations, creates common ground and is always tremendous fun.

So many people know and love the classic Ravensburger game; memory®. The legendary memory game was first played in 1959, and since then has been constantly reinvented. Whether it features colourful pictures from the world of children's experiences, art from famous museums or as an app or online game, the memory® cards remain in people's minds because of the happy memories playing the game creates.

Pick a card, turn it over – and discover the hidden picture! Every memory® game is an exciting voyage of discovery, and we want to help everyone create happy memories of playing memory® with friends and family.

It all began with a grandfather who wanted to make his grandchildren happy. Swiss-born Heinrich Hurter constructed a game consisting of square pieces of cardboard onto which he then stuck pictures cut out of magazines and mail order catalogues – always using the same picture on two cards. The game proved so popular with the family of his son William that friends encouraged him to offer it to a toy manufacturer. And so it was that in December 1957, William Hurter contact the Otto Maier publishing company, and in January 1958 presented his game to them. Just a few days later the company agreed, and "memory®" was presented at the Nuremberg Toy Fair for the first time at the end of February 1959.

The first Ravensburger memory® appeared on 15 April 1959 under the title of "memory® Pictures". The game consisted of 108 cards measuring 5 x 5cm, and was packed in a square box measuring 20 x 20cm. All the pictures were taken from the company's own books, games and catalogues, including the world-famous "Wolkenkuckuckshaus" ("House of Cards") by Ray and Charles Eames or Alice and Martin Provensen's "Noah's Ark". One of the pictures was the company's recently created seal – the triangle with the pointed cone figure.

Create your personal Ravensburger memory® - quickly and easily! Use your own photos of your friends and family, of fabulous holiday destinations, of your home town, your class at school ... you can use any of the pictures in your personal photo archive for an exciting memory® that will never fail to delight.