PatternMaster
Find hidden rules in shapes, numbers, grids, relationships, and if-then patterns across 10 distinct types.
PatternMaster is an untimed rule-finding game. Your child studies a sequence, grid, relationship, group, or conditional pattern and works out what belongs in the missing place. The answer format follows the reasoning task. A child may choose, type, tap, order, or build an answer. Across 85 levels, one visible repeat grows into interleaved number streams, multi-rule grids, four-attribute transformations, and woven logic patterns.
- 10 distinct pattern types
- Visual cycles, growth, transformations, three kinds of number sequence, matrices, analogies, classification, and conditional logic.
- Several answer formats
- The child may choose a tile, type a number, tap the odd item, or build a missing shape from its color, size, rotation, and form.
- Untimed correction
- A miss marks the correct answer. When an explanation is available and enabled, it returns to the same pattern and demonstrates the rule.
- Level range
- Levels 1-85 · Preschool through Advanced Challenge
See one complete PatternMaster problem
The app presents one pattern and one missing place. The child identifies the rule, answers in the format that fits the task, and receives an exact correction.
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Inspect the visible clues
The child compares the elements before and after the missing place and looks for what repeats or changes.
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Answer in the matching format
Depending on the type, the child chooses, types, taps, orders, or builds the missing answer.
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Check the same pattern
A miss marks the correct answer; eligible problems can reopen the unchanged pattern with its rule explained.
This example stays the same on the website so you can compare it. The app creates new problems during play.
All 10 types, each with an early and later structure
Every comparison uses an app-created problem at the stated level. The later example changes the rule structure, number of simultaneous attributes, or kind of reasoning; larger values alone do not count as progression.
Visual cycles
Continue a repeating cycle of shapes, colors, or symbols.
One alternating color becomes independent three-step cycles for both color and shape.
Visual cycles · Later challenge · Level 40 The child is viewing the task before submitting an answer.
Visual cycles · Later challenge · Grade 7 · Level 40 of 85
- What the child is solving
- What comes next in the pattern?
- What counts as correct
- teal triangleorange circleteal triangleCorrect answerpurple triangleteal moon
- Why this answer works
- The colors repeat every 3: purple, orange, teal. The shapes repeat every 3: triangle, circle, triangle. Because each cycle keeps repeating, counting your position in each group tells you the answer.
The child is viewing the task before submitting an answer.
The rule explanation stays tied to the same pattern
This Level 40 visual-cycle example shows one generated pattern, its wrong-answer state, and the explanation produced for that exact sequence.
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Build a problem for the current level
The app chooses the pattern type, rule structure, visible elements, missing place, and answer format.
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Mark the selected and correct answers
After a miss, the correction stays on the same generated problem instead of replacing it with a generic example.
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Demonstrate the rule
The explanation names the separate color and shape cycles, locates the missing position, and derives the correct tile.
- The colors repeat every 3: purple, orange, teal. The shapes repeat every 3: triangle, circle, triangle. Because each cycle keeps repeating, counting your position in each group tells you the answer.
- Position 6 in groups of 3: 6 = 2 groups of 3 exactly, so it's the last spot (spot 3), which is teal triangle. Answer: teal triangle.
What genuinely changes across the full level path
The comparisons add new rules, operations, representations, interactions, and reasoning steps. Larger numbers or longer item lists alone are not treated as proof that a challenge is harder.
Follow one visible repeat
The Level 1 example alternates one color attribute while the shape stays fixed.
Track a four-operation cycle
The Level 85 arithmetic example combines addition, negative multiplication, division, and a growing addition across repeated cycles.
Combine four grid rules
The Level 85 matrix example uses row color, column rotation, shape distribution, and a shape-to-size condition.
Separate three woven streams
The Level 85 logic example tracks independent color, size, and rotation cycles inside three interleaved shape streams.
What the child is practising in the visible task
These are bounded practice goals tied to the actions shown above, not promises that one game replaces teaching or proves mastery.
Find structure before answering
The child must identify what repeats, changes, or stays linked before choosing or building the missing item.
Hold several rules apart
Later tasks require separate number streams or visual attributes to be tracked without treating them as one noisy sequence.
Check a rule against every clue
Matrices, analogies, and odd-one-out tasks reward testing the proposed rule across rows, pairs, or classes before answering.
Fixed website examples, fresh app practice
The iPhone screenshots in this guide show reviewed examples checked against the app's current problem and answer rules. Use the controls to compare exact app states; the screenshots stay fixed so families can inspect them. At launch, the app will create new practice at the child's own level. Viewing this guide does not change app progress or earn anything toward a Screen Time unlock.
Daily browser game
A separate limited browser puzzle. It is not a generated app session that follows the child's full 85-level progression, and it awards no access points.
Try today's browser gameFull Braincove app at launch
Fresh PatternMaster problems follow the child's level and the types available there. Parents can change the number of problems in a session and choose whether eligible completed app sessions contribute toward the Screen Time unlock rules they set. Core practice can continue through a temporary connection gap; family sync, Daily, homework, and cross-device updates still need connectivity.
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