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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

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

Runika and the Six-Sided Spellbooks

Paint the Roses

Catacombs Cubes

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends - Nethervoid Expansion Deck

Strategy Game with Pattern Recognition

Inhuman Conditions

Zendo (2nd Edition)

Pack-O-Game: SOW - Reap What You Grow

Tokyo Series - Jutaku

Whoosh - Bounty Hunters

Dungeons & Dragons - The Yawning Portal

Pax - Transhumanity

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

Dice Game with Pattern Recognition

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...

The Kingdom is in grave danger once again, but our mighty adventurers are nowhere to be found. The King has stepped in and offered to pay any mercenary for taking up arms against the darkness. This quest falls on the shoulders of four mercenaries, each...

Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin

Pattern Recognition and Paper-and-Pencil 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...

A Narrative Puzzle Adventure in Four PartsThreads of Fate is a remastered version of PostCurious' acclaimed debut game, The Tale of Ord. Blending escape rooms, board games, and interactive fiction, Threads of Fate will have players progressing through...

120 to 180 mins

In The Cursed Dollhouse, players will explore a mysterious three-dimensional Dollhouse, solving highly challenging puzzles in search of a way to escape.Five rooms, each containing objects to investigate, secret items to discover, and multiple puzzles...

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 ...

Team-Based Game with Pattern Recognition

When we are children, there is a feeling of wonder and accomplishment that comes from visual recognition, being able to identify someone or something with just a look. Pantone: The Game recaptures this feeling in a competitive and fun game in which ...

On the double! In this game of fast reflexes, quickly reveal cards featuring over 100 dazzling designs. Spot an identical pair and race to grab the match. But beware - some patterns are deceivingly close and others can be stolen if a third match appears...

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...

Pit Crew is a lightning-fast game where up to three teams of players must work together to get their race car back onto the track as quickly as possible. There are no turns in Pit Crew, as cards can be played at any time, but teams need to work together...

Pattern Recognition games published by Albi

Gloobz are adorable creatures, but they wreak havoc everywhere they go: catch them quick! According to what the current player says, catch the figurines whose shape or colors appear the most or the least on the current card. Each correct figurine caught...

Fast, simple, effective, Gobbit will undoubtedly be unanimous around you. Built on the known patterns of the food chain (the biggest eat the smallest), the concept is simple: depending on whether you are prey or predator, hit! Hit, hit, hit! On the ...

Pattern Recognition games published by Korea Boardgames Co., Ltd.

Spot It! Disney 100th Anniversary

Spot It! Disney Princess

Carcassonne (2022 Edition)

Checkpoint Charlie - K-Nines

Pattern Recognition games published by Rebel Sp. z o.o.

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.

One key is a light and smart game for all kinds of players. It provides a fresh new cooperative experience based on visual association and deduction, with uniquely shaped and richly illustrated cards. One key is best played with its free app. It features...

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...

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...

Word Game themed games with Pattern Recognition

Rosetta - The Lost Language

Codenames: Disney Family Edition

Codenames - Harry Potter

A Message From the Stars

Pattern Recognition and Memory games

Codenames - Marvel

Codenames - The Simpsons

Braintopia - Beyond

Gobblet! (Wood Box Edition)

Purrrlock Holmes - Furriarty's Trail

Pattern Recognition and Dexterity games

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...

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...

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 games published by ADC Blackfire Entertainment

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 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...

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...

Pattern Recognition games designed by Oleksandr Nevskiy

Dear Conrad,Egypt is overflowing with marvels and mysterious ancient energies. Since I arrived, my psychic powers have flourished and my sixth sense has never been so keen. I am finally beginning to understand the uneasiness that has been bothering me...

Will you dare to cross the threshold of the haunted Mysterium Manor?In this asymmetric cooperative game, one player adopts the role of the ghost and others play as psychics. All players share the same goal of shedding light on the strange circumstances...

Rochester, New York, USAMonday, February 11th, 1924Sir Conrad Mac DowellDuchy of WarwickDearest Conrad,I have barely arrived home, and yet here I am with pen in hand. I spent the whole journey back reading the cards to check that we were successful. ...

Welcome to Mysterium Park!...with its cotton candies, its circus, and its dark secrets.The park's former director has disappeared, but the investigation came to nothing. Since that night, weird things are happening on the fairground. As psychics, you...

Pattern Recognition games published by Pegasus Spiele

5211 - Azul Special Edition

Skyrockets: Festivals of Fire

Stars are Right, The

Humor themed games with Pattern Recognition

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...

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...

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 ...

"You're looking well, darling. One lump or two?"It's the most sought-after invitation of the year: Dinoton Abbey for high tea. Now you're all gussied up in your finery and ready for some tea and chit-chat. One problem: You can't remember anyone's name...

Pattern Recognition games published by Mandoo Games

Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Giulia Ghigini

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...

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...

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 ...

Pattern Recognition games illustrated by Víctor Pérez Corbella

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

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 ...

Cooperative Game

Mystery / Crime

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition games published by テンデイズゲームズ(TendaysGames)

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 games illustrated by Levi Hastings

Salem

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

Simultaneous Action Selection

Pattern Recognition games published by Matagot

Pattern Recognition games published by Lucrum Games

Pattern Recognition and Die Icon Resolution games

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

Cthulhu has been awakened, and now, it’s time to eat! The Ancient One spreads his tentacles and devours anything he can grab! Sticky Cthulhu takes the fun of Sticky Chameleon in a version more insane than ever!Roll the dice, catch (and eat) the Cultists...

Pattern Recognition and Auction: Turn Order Until Pass games

Zillionaires Road Trip USA

Bid, bluff and buy up America’s legendary roadside real estate! As one of the five richest people in history, you already own all the big stuff in America. We’re talking the Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, The Chrysler Building…you’ve got ‘em all...

Area Majority / Influence

Auction: Turn Order Until Pass

Auction/Bidding