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.
Card Game with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition and Pattern Building games
Strategy Game with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition and Roll and Write games
5er Finden
-25%
$19.99
$15.00
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
Family Game with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games published by PD-Verlag
Pictures is a quick-playing family game with very simple rules. Form the image on your secret picture card with one set of components (shoelaces, color cubes, icon cards, sticks and stones, or building blocks) in such a way that the other players guess...
Pictures
$39.95
$28.99
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
Word Game themed games with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition and Speed Matching games
Pattern Recognition games published by Cranio Creations
Pattern Recognition games published by Galápagos Jogos
Pattern Recognition games published by Magellan
Master Fox
-45%
$19.95
$11.00
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...
mixed, 60%
7 y/o +
2 to 4 players
20 minutes
Light
Children's Game
Animals
Deduction
Memory
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games published by Stronghold Games
Pattern Recognition and Deduction games
Humor themed games with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games designed by Rebecca Bleau
Science Fiction themed games with Pattern Recognition
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...
Visitor in Blackwood Grove
$20.00
$5.00
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...
Pax - Transhumanity
$95.00
$85.00
Pattern Recognition games published by Ludicus
Braintopia
$25.00
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...
mixed, 60%
8 y/o +
2 to 6 players
15 minutes
Light
Card Game
Puzzle
Memory
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games designed by Adrian Orzechowski
Paranormal Detectives
-20%
$39.99
$31.95
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%
12 y/o +
2 to 6 players
45 minutes
Light
Cooperative Game
Horror
Mystery / Crime
Acting
Deduction
Hand Management
Line Drawing
Pattern Recognition games published by Hobby World
Party Game with Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Brenna Noonan
Paint the Roses
-30%
$39.99
$28.00
Paint the Roses is a 2-5 player cooperative logic deduction game that automatically adapts to your skill during play.Set in the puzzling world of Alice in Wonderland, you and your friends are the newly appointed Royal Gardeners. You are working together...
mostly positive, 70%
11 y/o +
2 to 5 players
60 minutes
Relaxed
Strategy Game
Fantasy
Novel-based
Deduction
Communication Limits
Hexagon Grid
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition games designed by Jan Kirschner
Tudor
-25%
$59.95
$45.00
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...
mixed, 61%
12 y/o +
2 to 4 players
20 minutes
Involved
Political
Renaissance
Pattern Recognition
Set Collection
Worker Placement
Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Rory O'Connor
Rory's Story Cubes (Eco-Blister)
$11.95
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...
mixed, 60%
6 y/o +
1 to 2 players
15 minutes
Light
Dice Game
Dice Rolling
Pattern Recognition
Storytelling
Die Icon Resolution
Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Jun Sasaki
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...
DroPolter
$23.00
$16.99
We are in ancient Egypt and the pharaoh has sent for the most gifted architects in his realms. As one of the chosen architects you have to try to build the most remarkable gravesite for your pharaoh, but if your goal is too lofty or you are too slow...
Pyramid's Deadline, The
$30.00
Pattern Recognition games designed by Dustin Dobson
ROVE
$60.00
In the far reaches of space where humankind still dares not go, a sturdy ROVE — short for Results-Oriented Versatile Explorer — is often deployed. You are one such unit. Unfortunately your navigation systems malfunctioned and you were forced to make...
mostly positive, 78%
8 y/o +
1 player
15 minutes
Relaxed
Card Game
Robots
Science Fiction
Hand Management
Pattern Movement
Pattern Recognition
Square Grid
Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Paolo Vallerga
Sherlook
-21%
$18.95
$15.00
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...
mixed, 57%
10 y/o +
2 to 6 players
15 minutes
Light
Murder / Mystery
Memory
Auction/Bidding
Pattern Recognition