In a recent paper Velleman and Warrington analyzed the expected values of some of the parameters in a memory game, namely, the length of the game, the waiting time for the first match, and the number of lucky moves. In this paper we continue this direction of investigation and obtain the limiting distributions of those parameters. More specifically, we prove that when suitably normalized, these quantities converge in distribution to a normal, Rayleigh, and Poisson random variable, respectively.We also make a connection between the memory game and one of the models of preferential attachment graphs. In particular, as a by-product of our methods we obtain simpler proofs (although without rate of convergence) of some of the results of Peköz, Röllin, and Ross on the joint limiting distributions of the degrees of the first few vertices in preferential attachment graphs.For proving that the length of the game is asymptotically normal, our main technical tool is a limit result for the joint distribution of the number of balls in a multi-type generalized Pólya urn model.
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