Two wins - each in 8 moves ... !

Here are two examples where tactics one the day - very rapidly ... !!  

The first game is a Budapest Defense with a Smothered Mate Trap:

Game (1)



It's also worth mentioning that chess.com rates my performance 100% ! 

The second game is an example of a Discovered Attack: 

Game (2)

Admittedly, these wins were against weaker opponents, however I had a third win against a player who was appreciatively higher graded than me on FIDE Online Arena.  This theme was The Trapped Piece



Game (3)

So, if you are tactically minded, you will naturally be searching for patterns, or ways of creating those patterns and traps that your opponent might easily fall into unwittingly.  It's easy when you know how!