Game created and playtested by a family of eight will continue its story alongside fellow family-created card game Elimino
Pattern Pursuit®, a family strategy card game that began with hand-drawn cards around a family table, is starting a new chapter with Wishing Well Games, the family-owned game company behind Elimino.
Pattern Pursuit was created in 2019 by a family of eight who knew firsthand how difficult it could be to find games that six kids of very different ages could all enjoy together.
Games had always been a big part of their family life. They frequently invented their own “house rules” to make favorite games more fun, and after discovering that friends enjoyed those changes too, they began wondering if they could create a game of their own.
What followed was a lot of trial and error.
Early ideas were drawn by hand on blank playing cards, tested around the family table, changed, and tested again. Some concepts lasted. Plenty were scrapped. Eventually, one of those experiments developed into an early version of what would become Pattern Pursuit.
The family continued refining the game through countless rounds of play. When they felt they had something worth sharing, they ordered prototypes and handed them out to friends and neighbors for honest feedback. More changes followed.
Eventually, a graphic designer helped turn the homemade prototype into a professionally designed game. The family researched manufacturers, ordered samples, selected a production partner and took the leap of placing their first real order.
When the finished games arrived, the moment was a little surreal.
“I can’t believe that we did this!” one of the children said.
For the next six years, the family sold Pattern Pursuit through PatternPursuit.com, Amazon and children’s entrepreneur markets, while watching something that started at their kitchen table make its way into other families’ game nights.
But during those same years, their children were growing up.
When Pattern Pursuit was first created, the six kids were 15, 14, 10, 8, 6 and 2. As schedules became busier and life moved into a different season, the family began to realize that the game needed more time and attention than they could continue to give it.
Then an unlikely connection happened over Christmas.
The family bought a copy of Elimino, another family-created card game, as a Christmas gift. They enjoyed the game, but they were especially drawn to the story behind it. Elimino had also grown out of a family’s love of playing games together.
They reached out to the family behind Elimino and quickly found they had a lot in common.
That conversation eventually led to Wishing Well Games becoming the new home for Pattern Pursuit.
For both families, the fit felt natural: two games created around family tables, by families who wanted to make game night more fun for everyone at the table.
Now Pattern Pursuit will continue reaching new players alongside Elimino, giving more families another reason to put away the screens, sit down together and play.
What started in 2019 with blank cards, markers and six kids gathered around a table gets to keep going — just with a new family helping write the next chapter.
About Pattern Pursuit
Pattern Pursuit is an easy-to-learn family strategy card game built around visual thinking, competition and player interaction. Players race to complete their designs while using strategic moves to disrupt their opponents. Designed for kids, teens, parents and grandparents to enjoy together, Pattern Pursuit combines simple rules with enough strategy to keep players coming back for another round.