The Memory of Ravensburger is inspired by the "twin game" the writer Berta von Schroeder, which had no commercial success and also was not the first version of the game. This game came to London in 1946 to the Swiss military attaché William Hurter. The further developed by him laying card game appeared after his return to Switzerland in 1959 by Verlag Otto Maier in Ravensburg (today Ravensburger), after an attempt to present the game in Edition Carlit, was unsuccessful because Edition Carlit already a similar game called Punta led. https://www.facebook.com/events/1478754672409629/

On the origin of the name of the long-standing publishing director and game expert Erwin Glonnegger said:

"When I (Hurter) have then asked him, what's the game actually, he said: Well, yes, we have since no such right name for it, in Basel the game is called" twin game ", but the neighborhood kids when the always came to the game, or if they wanted to play, said the: Let's play your memory game. As I said, since we have but one title we take [1] ".

The Memory of Ravensburger, of the up to now more than 50 million units have been sold in 70 countries, is referred to by the publisher as his greatest success.