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Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition in Board Games

Pattern recognition is a cognitive process that challenges players to identify and understand complex arrangements and sequences. In board games, this mechanic involves recognizing shapes, symbols, or colors that are grouped by defined rules.

Importance of Pattern Recognition

Enhances Strategic Thinking: Helps players develop strategies to achieve game objectives.
Improves Cognitive Skills: Aids in memory retention and problem-solving abilities.
Increases Engagement: Offers a mentally stimulating challenge, keeping players engaged.

Examples of Board Games with Pattern Recognition

Set: Requires players to identify sets of cards based on common characteristics.
Azul: Players must select tiles to create specific patterns on their boards.
Carcassonne: Involves tile placement to extend and match terrain features.
Qwirkle: Combines shapes and colors to create rows that share a common attribute.

Pattern recognition is integral in providing depth and complexity, making board games more engaging and rewarding.

Pattern Recognition and Tile Placement games

Paint the Roses

Catacombs Cubes

Stars are Right, The

Pattern Recognition games published by Mythical Normal

Inhuman Conditions

Mechanisms:• Acting• Elapsed Real Time Ending• Hidden Roles• Pattern Recognition• Role Playing• Storytelling

mostly positive, 73%

Elapsed Real Time Ending

Team-Based Game with Pattern Recognition

Pantone - The Game

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

Twin It! Board Games Edition

A Message From the Stars

Dice Game with Pattern Recognition

Roland Wright: The Dice Game

Runika and the Six-Sided Spellbooks

Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin

Family Game with Pattern Recognition

Dungeons & Dragons - The Yawning Portal

Pictures - Orange Expansion

Purrrlock Holmes - Furriarty's Trail

Rory's Story Cubes - Voyages

Dinosaur Tea Party

Clacks: A Discworld Board Game (Collector's Edition)

Pyramid's Deadline, The

Zillionaires Road Trip USA

Pattern Recognition games published by Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd

IOTA is a card game in which players score points by adding cards to a grid. The deck consists of 64 regular cards and two wild cards; each of the 64 cards contains three properties – color, shape and number – with each property coming in four different...

Spot It! Is a game of observation and quick reflexes for all! There is always only 1 matching symbol between 2 cards! Spot it first and you win! Spot It! Has 5 different ways to play, and this version of spot it features classic icons, items, and characters...

Braintopia Beyond is the follow-up to the fast-paced brain bender that tests your mental focus, flexibility, and speed. Comprised of eight different types of challenges, up to six players race through a deck of cards, fighting to keep up with the ever...

Braintopia is a simple game that will test your skills of observation, quick thinking, and coordination. The game is made up of eight fast-paced challenges that will keep you on your toes as you race to refocus your mind and solve each puzzle before...

Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Micaela Dawn

Rosetta - The Lost Language

Rosetta: The Lost Language is a co-operative judgement game for two or more players.In the game, players take on the role of experts who try to understand the written language of the author, a player who represents a lost individual, community, or civilizatio...

mostly positive, 72%

Ancient Civilization

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition and Hand Management games

The lock. A simple mechanism meant to protect whatever is on the other side, a means to keep out undesirables, and a symbol for all that is off-limits to the downtrodden and oppressed of New London. It's no wonder, then, that the citizens of this corrupt...

Nobody Puts Princess in a Tower!Sparkle Kitty is an adorably fun, social, and magical spell card game for all ages, sizes and genders. Once upon a time, a group of powerful princesses were captured and locked away in Cursed "No Cursing" towers by the...

There's nothing fun about nightmares! But you have your Cuddly Toy for transforming your bad dreams into nice tales!1. Choose a Cuddly Toy that fully covers the Nightmare that is in the middle of the table.2. If the Nightmare is fully hidden by the Cuddly...

Pattern Recognition games published by Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.

In Spot It! There is always only 1 matching symbol between any 2 cards. Spot it first and you win!30 cards, 5 quick party games, for 1 to 5 players ages 3 to adult.

Dear Students,It's time for the final exams of the Potions class! The rules are always the same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode...and you can take them, too...

A spacecraft crashes in Blackwood Grove, protected by a powerful forcefield. Why can some objects pass through the forcefield, but others are repelled?The alien Visitor invents the Pass Rule for the forcefield, and allies with the Kid against each government...

A murder has been committed, and the crime scene holds the clues as to what happened and who is responsible. A photo was taken just as the police arrived, but some rookie went and messed with the scene when your back was turned. It’s up to you to find...

Pattern Recognition games published by FoxGames

Shift your brain into high gear with this clever game of speed and perception. Players compete to recreate a pattern on a card with their set of 5 blocks. Simple, or is it? Play alone or up to 4 players. 1. Take a set of 5 blocks. 2. Flip a pattern card...

Whoosh: Bounty Hunters is a fun, fast reaction game in which players try to capture cute monsters and collect bounty.Each player has a draw pile of Weapon and Spell cards. Three Monster card piles are at the center of the table, each with a revealed...

Can you trust your eyes? Is that actually what you see? Illusion is a raucous good time in which perception is everything and players must use a keen eye to decide what is reality and what is illusion in order to win. Who has the right perspective not...

Gobble Up, Line Up 4 Gobblets in a Row and win! Gobblet is the Multiple Award-Winning, Fun Game of Strategy. As easy as Tic-Tac-Toe, Gobblet can be learned in a few seconds and is fun to play again and again. Beautifully crafted, Gobblet is entirely...

Card Game with Pattern Recognition

Avocado Smash! is a fast-paced snap variant where the first player to get rid of their cards is the winner.The first player starts at one and the next players follow in sequence up to 15 avocados, then it goes back to one avocado and so on. If a card...

Each player must use the rhythm of nature to plant seeds and grow flowers in order to collect the most beautiful bouquet. Earn the most points to win this Mandala-Inspired gardening game for 2 to 4 green thumbs.

Chain the crystals to break the curses.Mysterious and intriguing temples call for exploration by brave adventurers. Powerful arcane runes were hidden in these ancient and magical ruins protected by dark and deadly curses. As a Curse Breaker, you must...

Pattern Recognition games published by Gigamic

Simple and tactical at the same time. Qawale finds its inspiration in the piles of pebbles found along paths. Like these meandering stones, prepare to be transported by the many twists and turns of this incredible game. 1 Game Board 9 Light-colored Pebbles...

A game of limitless imagination and infinite stories! Combine items, characters, places and animals to create and share unique tales! Intergenerational, transportable and playable everywhere.Rory Story Cubes comes back in this new eco-conveived packaging...

Rory's Story Cubes (Eco-Blister)

Pattern Recognition games published by Czech Games Edition

The Marvel Edition of Codenames combines the hit social word game with the Marvel Universe including Spider Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers and Doctor Strange. Opposing teams, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, compete to be the first to identify all...

In Codenames: The Simpsons, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give clues which can guide their team to multiple cards on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding...

The Gateway opens, revealing a land of shadow and fire. Demonic forms wielding strange powers clamber into the arena. Tash-Kalar is now open to the extra-dimensional realm of Nethervoid.Nethervoid is a new player deck for Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends...

Pattern Recognition games published by SD Games

How quick and careful are your hands as you attempt to become the new Master Fox?It's a frantic race of tactile recognition as you hurry to capture the correct loot.Be the best at completing each mission as new tricks are added to the mix.Contents:4...

You have to be Nimble in this rapid reaction, card-shedding game!In Nimble, everyone plays cards simultaneously from their hands. Players attempt to match the color of the card backgrounds in their hands to the target colors on the cards in the center...

Pattern Recognition games published by Gém Klub Kft.

Spot the match among your favorite Disney and Pixar characters in this special Disney 100 edition of the classic Spot It! Game: the game of observation and quick reflexes for all ages! Be the first to name the only matching symbol between two cards ...

Spot It! Disney 100th Anniversary

Escape the Room games began as digital adventures and quickly turned into real-life events all around the world where players are locked in a room and must uncover clues and hidden objects to escape.The year is 1913 and you are the lucky winner of a ...

Escape the Room: Secret of Dr. Gravely's Retreat

Pattern Recognition games published by Korea Boardgames

In the Inuit language, Tukilik is used to define an object that carries a message. The northern landscapes are densely populated with such objects. The most well-known of these is certainly the inukshuk.During each turn, you will attempt to construct...

Pakal is a real-time sliding-puzzle game in which each player has a 4x4 grid filled with 15 blocks, some of which have a solid color on them and some of which are clear. Each round, an objective card is revealed, then players slide their blocks in the...

Escape the Room games began as digital adventures and quickly turned into real-life events all around the world where players are locked in a room and must uncover clues and hidden objects to escape.It's 1869 and the town's well-respected astronomer ...

Pattern Recognition games published by Devir

Two teams compete to be the first to identify all of their team's Treasure Cards displayed on the grid.Only each team's Cluemasters know the locations of the Treasure Cards their team is trying to find. They give clues in the form of a code word that...

The base game got a new coat of paint on the box. The tiles have remained the same in design. Sold millions of times, simple and always new: Carcassonne is the timeless classic game that inspires worldwide. Build up the landscape, deploy your meeples...

Checkpoint Charlie is a game of observation, deduction, and mental agility. Watch all the suspects carefully and find out which of them is the chief of spies using the clues that you and the other investigators uncover. Be the first to find the chief...

Pattern Recognition games designed by Oleksandr Nevskiy

Pattern Recognition and Deduction games

Zendo is an inductive logic game in which players compete to be the first to figure out a secret rule chosen by a neutral moderator. Players take turns building new structures of game pieces, each of which will be marked by the moderator as to whether...

Dreams is a fantastic game of perception and intuition with 72 large cards, beautifully illustrated by eight different artists.Star by star, the players transfer one out of four possible images onto the night sky. However, there is a good chance that...

CODENAMES: Harry Potter is a fun, easy-to-learn cooperative word and picture deduction game for Harry Potter fans of all game levels. Players help their teammates locate secret Agents who are concealed among a grid of Harry Potter references. Use only...

The year is 1692. In an atmosphere of pessimism and charged paranoia, the residents of Salem quickly discovered that they could find Hell all around them.Salem incites the atmosphere of paranoia that held the village of Salem captive. Each player controls...

Pattern Recognition games published by Ghenos Games

The players lay out cards with different colors and numbers. After three rounds, however, only the cards of the most common color turn into points - unless the number is above the permitted limit. Otherwise the second most common color counts. Who can...

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is back with new characters and rules, On The Flip Side. This is the social card game that is going to flip your game night completely upside down! Race your friends in this hand slapping, laugh inducing, action packed version...

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is sure to bring some card slapping belly laughs to your table. The best thing about it? Anyone can play! Find out why everyone is RAVING about this TOP SELLING game and get in on the action! It’s FAST, FUN & FRIENDLY…the ...

Note: This is a Spanish-language item and contains no English components unless stated in the condition note.It’s never too late to add to your magical education, and The Fifth Ingredient expansion for Potion Explosion gives you a chance to go back ...

Murder / Mystery with Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition and Questions and Answers games

Paranormal Detectives

You open your eyes and get the biggest shock of your life - it just ended and you're a ghost, floating in the air! Terrified, you look down and your own body and discover that a strange group has gathered around your mortal remains, studying them with...

mostly positive, 70%

Cooperative Game

Mystery / Crime

Hand Management

Pattern Recognition games designed by Jordan Draper

Tokyo Series - Jutaku

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

Pattern Recognition games published by Academy Games, Inc.

Tudor

Become a Lord in the court of King Henry VIII in this worker-placement Eurogame for 2 to 4 players!Position your courtiers in audience chambers that each grant you access to a variety of game actions. Use actions to collect diplomatic resources to maneuver...

Pattern Recognition

Worker Placement

Pattern Recognition and Real-Time games

Mage Academy is closed for the summer. On the last day, you stumbled upon a tantalizing (and definitely dangerous) book: Magical Recreational Aerial Explosive Devices and You, Volume I. Magic fireworks? Yes, please.In Skyrockets, players take turns to...

Dolphin Hat games is adding a little “Ho-Ho-Ho” to their games this year! Get this Christmas themed edition of our wildly popular hand-slapping party game, TACO CAT GOAT CHEESE PIZZA. Santa Elf Cookie Candy Snowman is a perfect stocking stuffer and ...

Eerie noises wake you up in the middle of the night. OoOOoo . . .Thud. Boom.One by one, ghostly figures begin to appear from beneath your bed. You hurriedly grab all of the lucky charms that you have been collecting just for this kind of situation. Using...

Get in your way-back machine and check out the groovy stylings of Retro Loonacy. Match up the old-timey objects, like lava lamps, rotary telephone, or ray-gun, alongside older versions of things you might still know, like the skateboard, refrigerator...

Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Tony Steele

Here, Kitty, Kitty!

Here, Kitty, Kitty! is a game of cat collection. Lure cats onto your property, move them into your house, and steal cats from your neighbors as you vie to be the craziest cat person on your street!Contents:Rulebook 6 Property Cards 6 Reference Cards...

Hand Management

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition games designed by Todd Sanders

Maiden in the Forest, The

Long ago, a maiden mage was trapped in an enchanted forest ring. Through her cunning, and with the help of four magic objects, she attempts to escape her fate.This is an 18 card solitaire game using only cards, no other components needed. The object...

Area Majority / Influence

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition and Hidden Victory Points games

Pax - Transhumanity

What if Hollywood and the doomsters are wrong and the future is non-dystopian? No pandemic, zombies, or post-apocalyptic rubble? A more likely future is one in which free-market fortuneers explore the fringes of the achievable, in which scientists and...

Science Fiction

Hidden Victory Points

Pattern Recognition

Sudden Death Ending

Pattern Recognition games developed by Filip Głowacz

Dust in the Wings

After a long hike through the woods, you finally find the perfect place to set up your camera: a lush meadow. A green sea of grass rolls gently in the wind, spotted with flowers opening up to morning dew and gentle sunlight, and flocks of butterflies...

Pattern Building

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition and Drawing games

Block Party

Ready, set, BUILD! Gather your friends and family and get ready to build your blocks as best you can or take a wild guess at some cube-tastic creations. One person will be the guesser while everyone else picks a secret item from their list and gets ...

Pattern Recognition