Peaceable Kingdom Board & Card Games Peaceable Kingdom - Match Up Games - Trucks

Match Up Games - Trucks

by Peaceable Kingdom

$22.95 ~~$26.35~~ /

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Two cards flip, a matching truck pair appears, and the table cheers.

🧠 Memory building – the face-down round asks players to hold card positions in mind, with fewer cards on the table for beginners
🎨 Colour matching – bold truck illustrations make spotting pairs by colour and vehicle simple for ages 2+
🧩 Truck puzzle – the same 24 cards fit together as a puzzle for a second kind of play
👨‍👩‍👧 Shared play – works for 1 to 4 players, solo with a grown-up or around the table
🔇 Silent play – no batteries and no buzzers, easy to pack for cafés, car trips and grandparents' houses

The Educator's Note

The face-up round lets a two-year-old win straight away, which builds confidence before the memory round adds working-memory demand as their recall grows.
One set of 24 double-sided cards covers three play types: matching, memory and a truck puzzle. That means it stays useful across a wide stretch of attention and recall development instead of being outgrown in a month.
Difficulty is set by how many cards you lay out, so a two-year-old and a five-year-old can play the same game at the same table and both still get a fair challenge.

Play Specifications

🧒 2 years +

Recommended for ages 2 years +

🧱 Builder

Construction & Engineering

🔬 Scientist

Curiosity & STEM

🔇 Silent

No sound

🏠 Indoor

Living Room / Playroom

👥 Group Play

Collaborative / Multi-Player

🧳 Travel Friendly

Compact / Portable / Car-Friendly

🧠 Cognitive

Problem Solving & Logic

🗣️ Language

Speech & Vocabulary

The Educator's Note

The face-up round lets a two-year-old win straight away, which builds confidence before the memory round adds working-memory demand as their recall grows.
One set of 24 double-sided cards covers three play types: matching, memory and a truck puzzle. That means it stays useful across a wide stretch of attention and recall development instead of being outgrown in a month.
Difficulty is set by how many cards you lay out, so a two-year-old and a five-year-old can play the same game at the same table and both still get a fair challenge.

Play Specifications

🧒 2 years +

🧱 Builder

🔬 Scientist

🔇 Silent

🏠 Indoor

👥 Group Play

🧳 Travel Friendly

🧠 Cognitive

🗣️ Language

Lay the cards face up and a two-year-old can start matching straight away. Name a truck, then watch them scan the cards, point and pick up the pair. This box grows with your child. Face-up matching suits ages 2 and up, the memory round follows once they can hold a few card positions in mind, and the same 24 double-sided cards then build a truck puzzle. Three ways to play, one small box, and a clear path from simple matching to real memory play.

Also available in a great value bundle

Choose this set when you want one box that moves with your child from first matching to real memory play.

Two-year-olds (24 months and up) who love trucks, diggers and anything with wheels, and are ready for simple face-up matching with a grown-up
Three- to five-year-olds who are ready for longer memory rounds and need a short, friendly game before moving on to harder board games
Families with siblings of mixed ages, where an older child plays the memory round with more cards and a younger one matches face up
Parents and carers looking for a quiet, battery-free game for the car, a café or a waiting-room table

Starts with matching, finishes as a memory game

The first round is the easy one. Spread the cards face up, name a truck and let your child hunt for its twin. They scan the whole layout, link colour to shape and say the words out loud as they point. That early matching and colour vocabulary is the foundation every later card game builds on.

The memory round is where the challenge starts

Turn the cards face down and the game changes. Now your child flips two cards, sees two different trucks, and has to remember where the first one was when its twin turns up later. Holding positions in mind, then letting go of the ones that did not match, is working memory in action. It is also the skill behind following multi-step instructions at preschool. Start with just a few pairs on the table and add more as recall improves. Turn-taking comes with the territory. In a game for up to four, each child waits, watches the other flips and learns to cope with a miss. That is a gentle way to build frustration tolerance before board games with harder rules.

Then the cards become a puzzle

The 24 cards are double-sided, so they also fit together as a truck puzzle. Children match picture to picture, turn pieces to fit and check the whole against the parts. This visual-spatial reasoning is what they use later to line up letters and numbers on a page. Play is silent and set up in seconds, so it suits a rainy-day floor, a café table or a school-holiday road trip.

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Why gift givers choose this

Three ways to play – face-up matching, memory and a 24-piece truck puzzle in one box
Grows from age 2 – start with matching, then add memory rounds as recall develops, so it stays in use longer
Silent and battery-free – nothing to charge, replace or turn down
Plays solo or together – 1 to 4 players, with the difficulty set by how many cards you lay out
Easy to carry – a small box of 24 cards that fits a bag for travel and visits