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.
Fantasy themed games with Pattern Recognition
Card Game with Pattern Recognition
Cooperative Game with Pattern Recognition

In less than 15 minutes, players must succeed in arranging as many gardens as possible, always composed of the same 36 tiles, but responding to different rules from one round to another.Everyone must deduce the rules in force by observing where the ...
Gardeners
$24.99
$12.12

Imagine telling stories that are dynamic, interactive, fun and randomly generated. Imagine never being stuck for an idea ever again.Rory’s Story Cubes: Voyages is the third Story Cubes set that inspired storytelling and creativity across the globe.Tell...
Rory's Story Cubes - Voyages
$11.49
$9.00
Pattern Recognition and Set Collection games

A strategy dice game about - making a strategy dice game!Play a game designer named "Roland Wright" in this roll-and-write game. Color in "Bits" on your board to score points in many ways, and use actions and equipment to speed up the process to qualify...
Roland Wright: The Dice Game
$24.95
$5.00

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...
Tudor
$59.95
$45.00
Pattern Recognition games designed by Jürgen P. Grunau

5er Finden
$19.99
5 dice, 5 rounds, 5ER FINDEN! Everyone races to find different FIVE shapes on their own boards and outlines them as they find them. But be careful, space is limited and every shape must contain all of the rolled symbols! Don't take too long searching...
mixed, 61%
7 y/o +
1 to 4 players
20 minutes
Light
Children's Game
Puzzle
Dice Rolling
Pattern Recognition
Roll and Write
Abstract Game with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games published by Gém Klub Kft.
Pattern Recognition and Memory games
Pattern Recognition and Dexterity games
Pattern Recognition games published by Korea Boardgames
Pattern Recognition games published by Popcorn Games
Team-Based Game with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games published by Kaissa Chess & Games
Pattern Recognition and Deduction games

Pictures Orange is the first major expansion for Pictures, the award-winning creative family game. Two new material sets and 55 cards with 110 new photos provide more variety and lasting fun.
Pictures - Orange Expansion
$29.95

Cryptid (n): a creature whose existence is disputed or unsubstantiated.You've studied the footage, connected the dots, and gathered what meager evidence you could. You're close - soon the whole world will know the truth behind the cryptid, and you will...
Cryptid
$45.00
$25.99
Pattern Recognition games designed by Lorenzo Silva

Spotlight
-20%
$24.99
$19.99
Spotlight is a cooperative game where you look for hidden pictures with a magic flashlight! Team up and go on a wild hunt for all the wacky characters hiding out there! Can you find enough to make it back home before the clock strikes bedtime?You start...
mostly positive, 74%
6 y/o +
1 to 5 players
15 minutes
Light
Children's Game
Communication Limits
Pattern Recognition
Real-Time
Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Jacqui Davis

Purrrlock Holmes - Furriarty's Trail
$45.00
Furriarty is terrorizing London and he must be stopped before he completes his plans and escapes! As a newly inducted Inspector at Scotland Pound, it's up to you to bust members of Furriarty's gang in order to get closer to the bewhiskered baddie that...
mixed, 62%
10 y/o +
2 to 5 players
20 minutes
Light
Family Game
Animals
Novel-based
Deduction
Memory
Pattern Recognition