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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.

City Building themed games with Pattern Building

Animals themed games with Pattern Building

Pattern Building and Area Majority / Influence games

Patterns: A Mandala Game

Kingdom Builder (2nd Edition)

Roam - Gem Maps

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

Mille Fiori: Masterpieces Expansion

Holi: Festival of Colors

Pattern Building games published by Matagot

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...

The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector, a half-blind monk, by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt.You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig ...

The year is 2055. A group of entrepreneurs sets track to create the most advanced city on the whole planet. A city that can sustain itself in terms of energy and food production, that is a cluster for scientific development where man and nature bond ...

Solo / Solitaire Game with Pattern Building

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

The Isle of Cats: Late Arrivals Expansion

Ecosystem: Coral Reef

Skulls of Sedlec - Crown of Bones Expansion

Ubongo: The Brain Game to Go

Ecosystem: Savanna

Molehill Meadows

Calico - Kickstarter Promo Cats

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 and End Game Bonuses games

Life of the Amazonia

WILD: Serengeti

Azul: Queen's Garden

AQUA: Biodiversity in the Oceans

Gingerbread House

Azul - Summer Pavilion

Perfect Wave, The

Pattern Building and Auction/Bidding 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....

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...

A Card Game of piecing things together for 2 to 5 Players!Remember that old wallpaper we used to have? In that one room? With the funky colors and those weird sunburst patterns or whatever? Okay, good, because that's what we're doing. That Old Wallpaper...

Pattern Building and Slide / Push games

Pattern Building and Partially overlapping cards games

Codex Naturalis

Honshu (2017 Edition)

Pack-O-Game: HUE - A Colorful Tile Game

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 Set Collection games

Finest Fish, The

Dreamwell (Deluxe Edition)

Abstract Game with Pattern Building

Shifting Stones

Pattern Building games published by Hobby Japan

Pattern Building and Push Your Luck games

Race to the Raft is a cooperative path building and tile laying social puzzle board game for 1 - 4 players.In the game, you play the role of the disorientated island cats who are lost on the smoke-filled island. Nothing seems to be where it once was...

Assume the role of one of Earth's most powerful Heroines as you settle their disputes with each other through excessive firepower! Use your actions to form patterns, clear your board of bullets, and assault the opponent! Keep up dealing with the curtain...

Style counts for everything in this fast-paced hack ‘n’ slash board game for 1-4 players. Take control of an iconic Devil Hunter – Dante, Nero, Trish, or V – and build impressive attack combos as you face down waves of increasingly powerful monsters...

Assume the role of the universes' most powerful heroines as you settle their disputes with excessive firepower! Use actions to form patterns, clear bullets from your sight, and bombard the opponent! Deal with the curtain of bullets coming at you each...

Pattern Building games published by (Self-Published)

Agueda: City of Umbrellas

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...

20 to 40 minutes

Pattern Building

Worker Placement

Pattern Building games published by Next Move Games

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...

Crystal Mosaic enhances the gameplay experience by providing an organized, clean look to the player boards. Newly designed double-sided player boards are included in the box offering exciting challenges for even the most diehard Azul fan! Mechanisms:...

Azul: Crystal Mosaic Expansion

Pattern Building games published by Gen-X Games

Star Scrappers: Orbital by Jacob Fryxelius, the designer of Terraforming Mars, is based on his Space Station card game, which has been mechanically streamlined, updated and re-themed to fit the Star Scrappers universe - a space western setting created...

Star Scrappers - Orbital

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

Cooperative Game with Pattern Building

Sixty seconds, two players, one city.Team up, work together, and strategize to build your city. But you’ve got sixty seconds, so you better work fast. Draw tiles and place them at the same time, work together to complete building goals, and protect ...

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...

In Hey Yo, you all play cards to a shared music chart so that you can ideally create solid rhythms and score points. The game includes a small dedicated device that you can use to accompany the gameplay, with players needing to play a card when the music...

Strategy Game with Pattern Building

Dice Game with Pattern Building

In Runika and the Six-Sided Spellbooks, you play as a student at Luniorn’s Academy for the Arcane Arts. Roll dice, form them into rune-like patterns on your board to earn the respect of your teachers, and harness the power of the elements to graduate...

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...

Qwinto is the rousing, fast-paced dice game from the people who brought you Quixx, where one person rolls and everyone takes their turn! But be sure to think fast. Players must fill their colored rows as quickly and cleverly as possible to snag the most...

Pattern Building games published by Super Meeple

Recto Verso

<>Communication, Collaboration, and Speed!Each round, two partners must construct a building as quickly as possible. But each one can only see the design and building from one side: one sees the front and the other sees the back! So prepare the stopwatch...

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Pattern Building