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Pattern Building

Pattern Building is a board game mechanic where players create specific configurations or arrangements to meet objectives. It's crucial for strategic depth and player engagement.

Characteristics of Pattern Building:

Objective: Players aim to construct patterns to score points or achieve goals.
Player Interaction: May involve direct or indirect competition for space or components.
Strategy: Involves planning, foresight, and sometimes tile drafting or hand management.

Common Games:

Azul: Players draft tiles to create patterns on their board.
Patchwork: Players select and place oddly shaped pieces on a personal grid.
Sagrada: Players draft dice to create patterns on a stained glass window.

Pattern Building and Dexterity games

The city is growing every day, with new buildings popping up on every vacant lot. You’ve been hired as a contractor to help develop a skyscraper that will reshape the city’s skyline. If you work hard and plan smart, you can earn the title of Master ...

Quick Cups is the simple, fast stacking, fast matching game for everyone in the family! Flip over a picture card to get the action started. Draw a card and race to arrange your multi-colored cups in the same color pattern, stacking them vertically or...

Put on your hat, break out your props, and hide your rabbits in this magical match up! When the challenge card is flipped over, players race to stack their objects in 1 single pile following 3 simple rules: objects printed in color must be visible on...

In TOKYO JUTAKU you will take on the role of a famous or emerging Japanese architect with the goal of building small homes on a strange or limited size property.In this real time dexterity game, players will build with geometric pieces to stack up to...

Pattern Building games published by AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group)

Pattern Building games published by Board Zeppelin

Regroup new warrior and sorcerer chickens. Arrange your army strategically and defeat your opponents. May the strongest flock emerge victorious! 56 Cards 2 Rules Leaflets Mechanisms:• Card Play Conflict Resolution• Grid Coverage• Pattern Building

Regroup! Chicken Army

The Finest FishFishkeeping is a competitive hobby! Every fish owner wants to wind the coveted Best in Show award at the national goldfish competition. But, to have the most attractive pet you’ll need to carefully plan its colors and design patterns ...

Finest Fish, The

Abstract Game with Pattern Building

Patterns: A Mandala Game

Azul: Crystal Mosaic Expansion

Shifting Stones

Dreamwell (Deluxe Edition)

Holi: Festival of Colors

Pattern Building and Open Drafting games

Zoo-ography (Zoo-Mongous Collector's Edition)

The Isle of Cats: Late Arrivals Expansion

Skulls of Sedlec

Cosmic Colonies

Pattern Building and Dice Drafting games

You can now enjoy more Sagrada by adding up to two extra players. This expansion also introduces the Private Dice Pool boards for smooth gameplay through six players. It also includes new private objectives, tools, and window-pattern cards. Mechanisms...

Sagrada 5-6 Player Expansion

As a skilled artisan, you will use tools-of-the-trade and careful planning to construct a stained glass window masterpiece in the Sagrada Familia.Players will take turns drafting glass pieces, represented by dice; carefully choosing where to place each...

Pattern Building games published by DSV Games

Build Your Own Thriving Jungle!Life of the Amazonia is a medium-weight strategic meeple-placing game that combiens bag building and pattern building. Disocver various animals, insects, and plants and create synergies on yoru way to building your very...

Life of the Amazonia

A Game of Second Chances for Shelter DogsHelp dogs in need find their forever home in this puzzly pattern-building game for 1-5 players. 1. Take dogs into your shelter 2. Prepare them for their new home by completing training cards 3. Match prospective...

Pattern Building games published by White Goblin Games

WILD: Serengeti

Roam - Gem Maps

Ubongo: The Brain Game to Go

Pattern Building and Territory Building games

Kingdom Builder (2nd Edition)

Catacombs Cubes

Kingdomino: Age of Giants

Pack-O-Game: BOX - Four Points, For Points

Honshu (2017 Edition)

Pattern Building games published by Thunderworks Games

In the dark corners of Kulbak Prison, away from the prying eyes of the construct guards, inmates play a game of Goblin Vaults in secret. . .Goblin Vaults is a strategy card game for 1-5 players featuring bidding, card placement, and scoring patterns....

As a student of dungeon-crafting, you must carve your own perilous labyrinth into the base of the Stonespine Mountains. 1. Draft chamber cards to expand your dungeon 2. Arrange cards carefully to accomplish scoring goals 3. Map a path through traps and...

Stonespine Architects

Exploration themed games with Pattern Building

Tamashii, a cyberpunk adventure board game, immerses players in a post-apocalyptic world where survival and achieving objectives require navigating both a physical realm filled with merciless humans and a virtual world plagued by vicious viruses. In...

Tamashii - Chronicle of Ascend

Play as Mika the Mole, a furry adventurer with a love for treasure and juicy worms in this flip & write board game. Strategically tunnel across flower-filled meadows by rotating, and flipping tunnel tiles to expand your molehill home. Make connections...

Molehill Meadows

Pattern Building and Partially overlapping cards games

Present your edibles in the best possible way, sell them to your customers, and be mindful of the rodents that always hand around looking for a quick snack! 40 Cards Rules Mechanisms:• Area Majority / Influence• Layering• Pattern Building• Tile Placement...

Assemble the pages of the Codex Naturalis, the secret manuscript which lists the species of the four kingdoms that live in the primary forests.Play and place your cards to use resources, fulfill the objectives to create the most elaborate manuscript...

Can you save the six magical creatures from the Black Dragon? Use the dragon's crystal magic against it by arranging the cavern cards to save the magical creatures. Crystallo is a simple to learn solitaire game that offers a unique challenge every play...

Secretly choose 3 colors and build the largest color sections in this fast-playing, tile-laying strategy game. Players build an area of color sections together. In the end, the winner is the player who chose the most valuable 3 colors.

Pattern Building games published by 25th Century Games

It's time to finally organize that messy junk drawer! Carefully arrange your items among four compartments, each with a unique organizational goal.Can you cleverly place your items to keep the most organized junk drawer?• Bingo• Grid Coverage• Pattern...

Decorate the city streets of Águeda with colorful umbrellas in this quick-playing family game.As an artist, you will need to balance the requests of the city, shops, and tourists to create the most stunning arrangement of umbrellas. 1. Place umbrellas...

The use of various symbols and devices to signify individuals and groups dates to the age of antiquity. Warriors often decorated their shieldswith patterns and mythological creatures.Heraldry refers to the design, display and study of armorial bearings...

Pattern Building games designed by Michal Mikeš

The Finesse expansion brings extra strategic depth to Project L through an addition of goals which require each player to fulfill different conditions to get more points during the game. Completing your goals may require making compromises in your strategy...

Project L is an elegant game that, in spite of having just a few simple rules, has a lot of depth, choices, and combinations. Challenge your friends to a game of simple design but intricate gameplay that makes a lasting impression!Enjoy the perfect ...

Project L is an elegant game that, in spite of having just a few simple rules, has a lot of depth, choices, and combinations. Challenge your friends to a game of simple design but intricate gameplay that makes a lasting impression!Enjoy the perfect ...

Pattern Building and Turn Order: Claim Action games

King Manuel I has commissioned the best garden designers of Portugal to construct the most extraordinary garden for his wife, Queen Maria of Aragon.In Azul: Queen's Garden, players are tasked to arrange a magnificent garden for the King's lovely wife...

After more than 2 million copies sold, Azul is back in a mini format. With this new edition, players can now play this classic anywhere they want!Azul is a tile-placement game in which players compete for the highest score by claiming tiles and arranging...

At the turn of the 16th Century, King Manuel I commissioned Portugal’s greatest artisans to construct grandiose buildings. After completing the Palaces of Evora and Sintra, the king sought to build a Summer Pavilion to honor the most famous members ...

Catch The Perfect Wave in this gratifying light strategy card game. Collect Wave cards to construct a sequence, earning points for runs and sets of numbers. Play Trick cards to show off and score bonuses. Paddle out, plan the best combo of moves, and...

Pattern Building games illustrated by Martyna Szpil

Fantasy themed games with Pattern Building

Isle of Cats, The: Race to the Raft (Deluxe Kickstarter Edition)

Runika and the Six-Sided Spellbooks

Gingerbread House

Family Game with Pattern Building

In the year 2964, become a visionary mall engineer with the thrilling board game, Superstore 3000. Set against the backdrop of interstellar commerce, players race to construct the most customer-friendly and aesthetically pleasing shopping haven. Each...

Build a thriving ecosystem and compete to survive in the deep ocean! Combine tiles with special powers to create a unique ecosystem, with hundreds of possible combinations Attack your opponents, defend your system, or build an unstoppable growth machine...

Recruit the help of the authorities, gain influence through their advice, and exhibit your masterpieces! This expansion to Mille Fiori adds a new board and together, adorning master works. Perfect the art of glassmaking and create the most coveted pieces...

Nature themed games with Pattern Building

Neoville is looking for architects to build the perfect city of the future: a city in harmony with nature and dedicated to its population's well-being. Are you up to the challenge?1. Strategically place your tiles to create districts.2. Build skyscrapers...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting depths of a coral reef ecosystem. Cleverly expand your coral formations and create flourishing habitats, attracting an array of fascinating marine animals.AQUA invites you into the beauty and wonder of the ocean, delivering...

In Spectacular, you are creating and developing your own animal park for vulnerable species. In order to preserve the species, you must ensure breeding within each habitat.During the game, you select animal tiles and dice, where the dice represent food...

The Trellis Is Blooming!Grow a garden of tiles, where flowers bloom down all connecting vines. It's a race to be the first player to play all their flowers in this cascade of color and fun. 61 Hexagon Tiles 60 Wooden Flower Tokens 4 Rulebooks (EN, FR...

Solo / Solitaire Game with Pattern Building

Skulls of Sedlec - Crown of Bones Expansion

Pattern Building and Hand Management games

Pattern Building games published by Grok Games

Calico is a gorgeous spatial puzzle game for the whole family!Players are quilters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful cat quilts. Turns are simple - sew patches into your quilt by drafting and placing tiles onto your personal board. Earn...

Working together, players must put numbered stones in the correct arrangement in as few moves as possible. A harmonious stone garden must be in sequential order. It may seem easy, but stones can only be moved in certain ways. In Narabi, numbered stone...

Pattern Building and Drawing games

Knock, Knock, Knocking . . . for Better ScoresIn this exciting card game, whoever as the least, has the most! Each player must arrange and share their cards, all while keeping an eye on their opponents'.The goal: have the least points possible. Enjoy...

How do you fit all that "stuff" in your head? How do you organize it in a fun and fulfilling way, without it being stressful? The dice (much like life) are going to throw things at you, but you arrange your pursuits and priorities (polyominos) in your...

Pattern Building games published by Matagot

Strategy Game with Pattern Building

Pattern Building games developed by Jodi Sweetman

Sol - Last Days of a Star

Sol is a race against time, carefully balanced with a fresh engine-building mechanic uniquely rooted in mutual benefit and competition. Each game of Sol begins as an open starscape, ripe for emerging interdependent networks and careful planning at every...

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Network and Route Building