Added a screenshot – good suggestion!

That’s good advice about starting in a windowed mode and for making it smaller. Thanks for sharing how you did that.

The annoyance level is deliberate but I hope it inspired you to try again rather than quit: I wanted a feeling that was a little like snakes and ladders (chutes and ladders if you’re from the US) only instead of it being a random throw of the dice that reverses your fortunes, it’s your own mistake. You can get into cascades of mistakes and punishments that take you back to the start as you’ve found out – but it is possible to claw your way back to completing it.

If you persist, you’ll find strategies that make it easier. My best score now is 128!

Thank you again for playing and for the suggestions.

I like the idea of making things progessively more difficult, but it’s too hard to have to remember where the cards were in the previous round in case of an error… Well, I guess the point is to train one’s memory, so many I could get better at this . It was discouraging when it started turning back 6 cards from the previous round though, and then from the round before, and the round before…

I downloaded your game anyway, but:
pygame.error: No video mode large enough for 1280×1024

(I can probably fix it myself, let’s see what happens next…)

Requires python and pygame to run. Developed using python 2.6.5