Find The Pair | A Memory Puzzle Extension for Joomla!

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Mypuzzle Find The Pair | A Memory Game Extension for joomla.
Fast and easy integration of find the pair memory games into your joomla website.

Extension features in this version include:

  • Very easy integration of online puzzle, direct playable.
  • Use the included MyPuzzle Image Gallery to start immediately
  • Link your own Image Library
  • The puzzle can be inserted everywhere: in your posts and pages.
  • Many Different levels from 6 to 21 card pairs are available
  • You can change size of the puzzle specifically in width and height
  • Change background and card color to fit your themes and layouts
  • Includes restart ability for better game experience

How can you install the Find The Pair Puzzles for Joomla! Plugin?

  • 1. Go to your extension manager
  • 2a. Under “Install URL” enter:
    “http://blog.mypuzzle.org/download/joomla/pkg_mp_ftpair.zip” and press “Install”
  • 2b. Or download the package below and use the “Upload Package” option
  • 3. Use the Module Manager to add (if not visible) and configure the module
  • 4. Give it a “title” (e.g. “MyPuzzle Memory Puzzle”) and a “position” (e.g. “mp_ftpair”)
  • 5. Use a shortcode in your site like “{loadposition mp_ftpair}” to show the Memory Puzzle

Where can I get the Plugin? –> Download Mypuzzle Find The Pair Puzzles for Joomla

How does it look like? Find The Pair

49 thoughts on “Find The Pair | A Memory Puzzle Extension for Joomla!”

  1. Curtis Seebeck

    Thank you so much for the great Joomla puzzles! We have a birthday bash every year for a forum I help moderate. During the bash, we have different contests and this year, I am running a puzzle contest. I am using your jigsaw, word search, and sliding picture puzzle and everyone is liking them a lot!

    I installed your Find the Pair puzzle today but am having problems getting it to work. I get it to load but the pictures don’t show up. In the initial load where it normally gives a quick preview of the pictures, all I see are ?. Then, when I click on a tile, it is blank. This is using your stock photos that are installed with the module. Any suggestions on how to get it to work? It would be a fun one to add.

    Here is how I am using your puzzles…For the jigsaw, I just a photo that has been posted on our forum. When the person completes the puzzle, they have to go to the forum and find the picture and then come back to the page where there is a form. On it, they have to enter the username of the person who took the picture as proof of completion. The same thing applies with sliding picture puzzle. It would be nice to have an option to not have the gallery button so that folks can not cheat!

    For the word search puzzle, I have edited your javascript code a little to put in my own custom message when the congratulations message pops up. In this box, I give a completion code that they then have to enter into the form to prove they completed the puzzle! You might consider adding a box on the back-end for folks to put in their own custom message then your puzzles could be used more easily in contests for the folks who don’t know how to edit the code.

    Anyway, thanks for some great modules! If you ever consider adding some of these features and want to charge a fee for a “Pro” version, I would be all in!

    Also, if you can give some guidance on the find the pair puzzle, that would be a great addition to our contest!

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Curtis,

      thank you for your feedback and nice words. Very creative how you use the puzzles on your site.
      To your questions/suggestions:

      1. Find The Pair puzzle: cant find an error after a fresh reinstall. Do you have a test-page I could look onto to find out what the reason might be?!
      I really need some help here.

      2. Regarding the onSuccess Message. It’s possible for the html/js based puzzles like sudoku, findthepair and wordsearch. Its harder with the flash based. I’ll have a look on the whole idea for all of them.

      3. Hiding the gallery/restart button’s. That is something I implementented for the wordpress and typo3 version of jigsaw and will definitively do that for the joomla versions too. Soon.

      So thanks again for your feedback and help.

      Tom

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  2. Maarten van der Veer

    On my website I already use “find the pair” puzzles but they are not working ok. Maybe I want to use your puzzles because they are looking very nice and I can insert my pictures and I can increase the tiles. There is only one problem. I have a Joomla! 3.0 website and this extension is 2.5. Du you have plans to make this extension for Joomla 3.0

    Regards, Maarten

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Maarten,

      of course, I am just looking into joomla 3 availability. Stay tuned. I will keep you updated.

      Tom

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  3. Hofer Kurt

    Thomas Good day! I installed “MyPuzzle Find the Pair” local. The installation works very well, the module settings are very übersichttlich. Unfortunately, when you enter the puzzle, the images are not displayed! Neither the default path for the Gallery, even in my own path. What could be wrong? There the images are not eingelesen.Ich using Joomla 2.5.9. Maybe you can help me. Incidentally, MyPuzzle Jigsaw and Sliding MyPuzzle I have also tried local – that works!
    With best regards from Austria
    Kurt Hofer

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Kurt,

      sounds not good! Can you please help me to figure out what the problem is on your site?
      Would be nice to have access to your test-page and check what the component is doing in the background.
      So please send me the link to the page causing the plugin not to work.

      Thanks, Tom

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  4. Hofer Kurt

    Hi Tom! I have the puzzle “Find the Pair” local installed! Installation and configuration super! Sorry, but the images are not displayed! Not from the standard folder and not from my folder! What could be wrong? Please help! Also have “Slide Puzzle” and “Jigsaw Puzzle” local tried. Run! Wants me but “Find the Pair” install on my website when it does. Anyway, it is super game!
    With best regards from Austria
    Kurt Hofer

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Kurt,

      as described before…just send me a link to a testsite. Then I will check it.

      Thanks, Tom

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        1. admin Post author

          Hi Kurt,

          found the mistake (hopefully). Your site is running as an subdirectory and I handled the image source-path not accordingly.
          Could you please download the plugin from this site again (version 1.1.0) and reinstall?!
          Let me know whether the new version fixes your problem and I will upload the new version to the extention directory.

          Many thanks,
          Tom

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          1. Hofer Kurt

            Good work Tom! You can see it works!! Have changed the footer in German, but the link is available on MyPuzzle.org! Now I have to upload my own pictures and then can the fellow fishermen play! ;-) Thanks again for the great service!
            Best regards from Kurt Hofer

  5. Tom Sandfeld

    Hi

    I have installed the module but it will not show the images. I have tried with images in other folders than default but nothing helps.
    Any ideas?

    Greetings
    Tom

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Tom,
      just uploaded a new version 1.1.0 that fixed an image-path problem. Maybe that helps your too!?
      You can download it on this page further up or on the joomla extensions site.
      Let me know, whether that works.
      Tom

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      1. Hofer Kurt

        Hi Tom! I’ll call again! It all works now, but a suggestion to you, I still want to do. In the demo, the user can select the number of couples. That would be great in Joomla! Up or down in the middle of a selection dropdown box would be perfect! Tom, as I said just a suggestion. I’m not a programmer, I can not implement it. Maybe you can install the.
        With best regards,
        Kurt Hofer

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        1. admin Post author

          Hi Kurt,

          I guess you mean a functionality like we do have on our website!? http://mypuzzle.org/find-the-pair
          Can imagine to add that in the future. Right now I’m a little short on time…sorry. But anyway a good point and I will add that to my to-do-list.

          Thanks,
          Tom

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        1. admin Post author

          Hi Tom,

          really want to find that issue.
          Can you send me a link to a test-page where I could check whats going wrong?

          Thanks,
          Tom

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  6. Rudi

    Hi,
    Very nice job. Puzzle find the pair works perfectly. Nice that you can use your own picture. Is it also possible to turn off the preview ?

    KR
    Rudi

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Rudi,

      to switch off the preview is not possible right now.
      Would be an additional option in the future.

      Thanks,
      Tom

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  7. Gert

    Hallo Tom,
    I like the demo of your program Find The Pair. About this program I have a question.
    On our website (Non Joomla) with traffic-signs we had earlier a game like Find The Pair, but the kids had to combine the sign with the meaning of that sign. We realized this by giving a suffix to the name of the image like image111a.jpg and image111b.jpg. Is this possible with your programma, in the way you name the images like animals-cat.jpg and animals-cat-2.jpg ?
    Kind regards,
    Gert

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Gert,
      thank you for your message. The fixed couple idea has been brought to me before and I like it.
      I will check how much effort that would be. Probably the easiest would be to do such a filename-matching.
      Maybe with the last character or a suffix. When looking at your example image…To have the images side by side is not a requirement right?
      Thanks, Tom

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  8. JRL

    Thanks for your work on these puzzles…my kids are enjoying them.

    However, I can’t seem to get the pictures to show up. I am using a sub-directory where Joomla 3.x is installed – how should the path to the images be formed?

    Thanks in advance for your help.
    :)

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi, go to your media manager. that is refering to the path “images”. So if you put the picture directly here. “images” should be the path for the module configuration.
      If you add another subdir like “holiday” and put your images there…then “images/holiday” should work as “Image gallery Path” in the module options.
      Hope that helps
      Tom

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  9. Sandra

    Hi Tom! I was happy when I found your extentions. They would fit my site perfectly. I downloaded and installed both Find the Pair and Sliding, but I can’t get any of them to work. They install fine, but when I try to load them in a post, they don’t show up. Am I missing something? I installed the files from the Joomla extension page, but I tried with the one from this page as well and it doesn’t change. Neither the default folder or my own image folder work. I do have my web page in a subfolder (sub sub folder actually), if that’s the problem. What can I do to make it appear?
    Thanks a lot,
    Sandra

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Sandra,
      as mentioned before I need a working link to have a look onto the issues.
      Thanks, Tom

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  10. Tebo

    Hello dear Admin.

    I have little problems to use “find the pair”. After the installation (with your documentation) and integration in my website, i cant see any pictures.
    Joomla 2.5 was installed offline on my pc.
    What can i do to see the pictures?

    Thanks for your help.

    Greetz Thomas

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Thomas,
      have been on your site and it seems that it works just fine now!? (The Immenhof Memory Game)
      Of course I would love to see credit link to mypuzzle that you removed ;-)

      Tom

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      1. Tebo

        Hello Tom. :-)

        Sorry. I have deleted the Test, because Template Problems. The link is coming back. :-)

        And now to my Problem with the memory game:

        The Memory works fine, because:

        Suchmaschinenfreundliche URL: No

        But now is the url very long.

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  11. Gert

    Hi Tom,
    On the date 22 apr 2013 I asked you for more possibilities to pair different pictures (traffic sign and the meaning )
    Now I have installed your progam , but the images are missing.
    The gallery image path is:
    images/pictures

    The link to the test page is:
    Leerling –> Kijk hier –> puzzelen
    http://www.trafficeducation.eu/bordenbos/index.php/leerling/kijk-hier/2-uncategorised/38-puzzelen

    Example of a pair, the traffic sign and its meaning
    http://www.trafficeducation.eu/bordenbos/images/pictures/pic103a.jpg
    http://www.trafficeducation.eu/bordenbos/images/pictures/pic103b.jpg

    with kind regards,
    Gert

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  12. Sandra

    Hi again Tom,

    It appears my last comment is still awaiting moderation even though you have replied to other comments after that, so I just thought I’d check in with you again. I’d really like to get this sorted out so that I could use your apps!

    I actually got Sliding Puzzles working. It works great! But for Find the Pair, I can’t get it to show any pictures. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall without success. My web site is 2.5.blissymbolics.org/open if you want to take a look – click on the links under “Fun Stuff” at the right side.

    Thanks!
    Sandra

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Sandra,
      sorry for coming back to you so late.
      Can you check your link or post it as a working link?
      I will have a look on it then.
      Thanks, Tom

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  13. Gert

    Hi Tom,

    I have installed two puzzles “Find The Pair” and “Jigsaw” but only the installation of Jigsaw was successfull.
    Find The Pair will not show the images . I have tried with images in other folders than default but nothing helps. What can I do to see the pictures?
    Please have a look on my testpage.
    The link to this test-page is:

    http://trafficeducation.eu/bordenbos/index.php/vind-paar

    (See also my question on 22 april 2013)

    Gert

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Gert,

      somehow you managed to get your site-path obstructed with that index.php in it.
      You need to enable URL rewriting. A related post would be here.
      Then the plugin should work too. Let me know whether you got that to work properly.

      Tom

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      1. Gert

        Hi Tom,

        I have enabled URL rewriting and the plugin works now. Great, thank you very much!
        I’ ll go on with my own pictures.

        Gert

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi Razlie,
      looks like the plugin is expecting your images to be in the path:
      “http://dev.5r.com.my/kelabnuri_new/hubungi-nuri/images/mixnmatch/xyz.jpg”
      Maybe the give path is not correct?
      Tom

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi, thanks. Wonder how you would calculate the highscore and how the design would arrange itself with that highscore-list.
      Any examples? Thanks, Tom

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  16. Aj

    I have downloaded pkg_mp_ftpair.zip. When I installed the package the message was “package installed sucessfully”, but when i try to go to components-com-mp-ftpair, I get error “component not found”. I have uninstall and then I have installed again, but the error always is the same. My site is joomla 3.0.

    Thank you for your help.

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    1. admin Post author

      Hi,

      the component is only a background component to read and resize the images. You dont care about it.
      Just configure to module and use it with loadposition.

      Tom

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