memory game, observations

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I have been playing a memory game online .. here is an example of what I mean (sorry if it's hard on the eyes .. if you do a search you can find others).

http://www.web-games-online.com/memory/

It is your basic thing like a digital version of the old memory card game, where you flip two cards up at a time and then return them, and you have to remember where the match to a card is and then flip the matching pair up at once until you get them all.

Predictably, I have what I have always noticed to be a poor working memory in practice and it interferes a lot with my work etc, but I have just observed from playing a memory game a few times that it is more like my working memory is fine for a very short time but then gets overloaded quickly .. to explain, the first time I play a game like the above, when the pictures are brand new to me, at first I do very well, but after a short time and especially when starting a second game, I can no longer keep track of where the cards are vs. the first time I played - I remember the position of some of the cards but cannot remember if it was the first round or the current round, and shortly after that it's hopeless - I can only turn over about six of the cards and keep track of them. Then if I have not matched them, I have to start over with a different section. Let's say I can manage the placement of fourteen cards at first, and two rounds later only six. I notice this when doing other things or playing other games, that after a situation has been repeated I cannot follow it anymore, but I'm fine the first round when the game play can't be confused with previous rounds. Another example: when I play one game of pool I have no issue remembering whether I am stripes or solids, but second game I occasionally have to ask, and third game I have to ask before half of my turns, unless I have just watched the other person shoot and made a note of it.

I have very strange memory problems of all sorts, so I don't know if this is typical or not .. but I'm curious to see if it's something other people have observed - something like working memory overload rather than (or in addition to) simply a poor working memory.

That is pretty hard, .54 tries, 33%, 3:14sec.

Sucks having bad memory lol.

here is the actual one I was doing. It's a little easier than the first one I posted, and easier to look at.

http://secretlivesofprincesses.com/Memory.aspx

first time: 44 tries, 41% correct, 1:53
second time: 57 tries, 32% correct, 2:26
third time: 51 tries, 35% correct, 2:06
fourth time: 59 tries, 31% correct, 2:14
fifth time:50 tries, 36% correct, 2:05

I guess I didn't do worse every time but the first time was easiest to remember where they were. In the first round I had a good idea where a good number of them were but in all attempts after the first I felt I had very little sense of where the cards were.