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🎮 [Proposal]: Memory Matrix Challenge #556

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@varshini-nandula

🎮 [Proposal]: Memory Matrix Challenge

📛 Project Name

Memory Matrix Challenge

📊 Category

Game / Brain Training / Logic Building

📝 Project Overview

Memory Matrix Challenge is an interactive memory-based game where players must memorize highlighted cells in a grid and reproduce the same pattern before time runs out.

The game includes multiple difficulty levels:

  • 🟦 3×3 Grid → 3 highlighted cells
  • 🟪 4×4 Grid → 4 highlighted cells
  • 🟥 5×5 Grid → 5 highlighted cells

Players can freely choose between 3×3, 4×4, and 5×5 difficulty modes from the menu screen. The game continues as long as the player correctly recalls the highlighted cells. A wrong selection or incomplete recall ends the current run, after which players can replay the same difficulty or switch to another mode.

✨ Planned Features

  • 🎯 Multiple difficulty levels
  • 🧠 Random pattern generation
  • ⏳ Timer-based memory challenge
  • ❤️ Lives and scoring system
  • 🔄 Replay functionality
  • 📈 Progressive difficulty scaling
  • ✨ Interactive terminal animations/emojis
  • 📱 Beginner-friendly interface

🛠️ Tech Stack

  • Python Standard Library
  • Random Module
  • Time Module
  • Procedural Programming

🎯 Educational Value

This project helps beginners understand:

  • 2D lists and grid handling
  • Randomization logic
  • User input handling
  • Game loops
  • Conditional statements
  • State management
  • Algorithmic thinking

✅ Code Compliance Checklist

  • This project will use ONLY Python's Standard Library (No pip install).
  • The codebase will use procedural logic (No unnecessary classes/functions unless creating a GUI/Web App).
  • The terminal interface will include interactive emojis.

  • I am a registered GSSoC 2026 contributor and want this assigned to me.

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