Card Game · Children's Game

Pasona

Pasona is a Kenyan-made memory and luck card game for 1–15 players that supports four distinct modes of play, scaling from simple icon matching for young children to rapid-fire number-series racing for competitive groups.

1–15 players30 minages 3

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About the game

What is Pasona

All modes share the same setup: 48 cards are spread face-down on any flat surface, and players take turns flipping cards one at a time without moving them. What constitutes a valid match — and what happens next — depends on which mode is in play.

In Icon Match, each card has a unique paired symbol; finding its counterpart earns both cards and another turn. In Number Match, players search for pairs that sum to 10, with a reversible 6/9 card serving as either value. Number Series challenges players to flip a consecutive run from 1 through 9, keeping valid portions of a sequence and forfeiting invalid flips — a push-your-luck mechanism that rewards memory and restraint in equal measure. Trade Numbers, the most advanced mode, adds a real-time race: players may trade cards freely at any point, and the game ends the instant someone completes the full 1–9 series.

Special action cards — Wild (matches any number and is kept), Skip Turn (discarded after use), and Extra Turn (discarded after use) — appear throughout the deck and add unpredictability across all modes. The deck can be halved to 24 cards for faster games or younger players.

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