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The idea. Twenty cards, face down: the first names and last names of ten people, all on today's theme. Flip two at a time. A first name and its last name clear that person; anything else flips back.

Shared names. Some days two people share a name (Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise). Either Tom then goes with Hanks or Cruise; each person clears once. The cards don't say which names are first names and which are last names: that's for you to know.

Star + film days. On some themed days (westerns, horror, sci-fi, superheroes, movies at sea, Christmas, cozy Christmas TV movies) the pairs are a star and a film they starred in instead of first and last names: Jack Nicholson goes with The Shining.

Scoring. A move is two cards. 14 moves or fewer is 1,000 points; after that you score 1,000 × 14 ÷ your moves, so 28 moves is 500. Time is shown but doesn't count. (Before No. 17, par was 10 moves.) Peek. Before your first flip you can take one free 3-second look at all the cards; it isn't a move.

Sound. Flips, matches and the themed days have sound effects. The 🔊 button at the top turns them off and on for every IT Games game on this device.

Names and films come from Wikidata (CC0); the cozy Christmas TV movies and their stars come from Wikipedia's lists of TV Christmas movies (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; each is credited under the cards with its licence. Flipit isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any studio or actor.