Gift Guide - For Grandparents

If you're looking for a gift for your grandparents, this gift guide is for you! We've rounded up some classic board games that are not only quick to learn, but also include strategy and exciting elements.

Why give board games to grandparents? It is often talked about how important physical activity is to maintain energy in the body and ensure its full functioning, but activities for the mind are just as important. Board games help keep your mind sharp and improve your cognitive abilities. Older people who engage in mentally challenging activities train their memory and keep their minds alert. As a result, the risk of mental illness is reduced.

• Puzzles
• Classics (chess, checkers, checkers, etc.)
• Triple dominoes
• Quoridor and Onitama
• Smart games: Anti-virus
• Katamino
• Scrabble

First, let's look at the puzzles . Brain Games offers a wide selection of puzzles, from the smallest to those consisting of 12,000 pieces. Our wide range includes traditional puzzles, breakout puzzles, 3D puzzles, detailed Jan van Haasteren puzzles and more. They are available in various sizes and shapes.

Whether you're into landscape, city or cartoon puzzles, we've got something for you!

Of course, we cannot fail to mention the classics - chess, checkers, Chinese checkers (halmu), backgammon (backgammon) and others. Since these are classics that are hundreds of years old, it is very likely that a grandparent has already played these games and this would make a great gift to bring back the love of the game.

All of these games are available in a variety of sizes, as individual games or bundles that include multiple games in one.

Various newer versions of classic games are also available. If the usual domino gets boring or seems too simple, then we recommend you to try "Triple-domino" or trimino, in which there are triangles with three values ​​instead of the usual dice.

If traditional classical games have exhausted themselves, consider modern abstract games . They are available in many different ways - but they are all strategic as one. For example, "Quoridor" , where your goal is to reach your opponent's baseline while preventing your opponent from reaching yours, but there is a catch - you move your piece on your turn, or you move a wall to create a maze on the square. Disrupt your opponent's plans and make your own best way to victory!

Another great abstract game with a modern twist is Onitama . It is similar to classic chess, only the available moves are determined by five randomly selected cards. Each time you will choose a different combination, so every game will be different.

Each of the players receives two move cards, which determine how they can move. The fifth card is left in the middle and is taken by the player after his turn, replacing the one he just used. Players must carefully plan their moves to prevent their opponent from gaining victory in one of two ways - by killing the other player's sensei, or by bringing their own sensei to the opponent's throne.

Those who like to tackle challenges alone will enjoy Smart Games, a system of mind-blowing games. Games are available for different ages and with different degrees of difficulty.

A great example is Anti-Virus , which challenges your mind while you fight against a virus. This game is actually much more challenging than it might seem at first glance. The task book gives the starting position of the game dice, and the player's task is to eradicate the red virus from the playing field. Dice can be moved on the playing field in a special way: they cannot be lifted, they can only be moved diagonally and in groups! 60 challenges will keep you in good physical and mental shape. Once you start playing, you won't want to stop!

Does it seem too simple? In that case, you need "Katamino" . In essence, this game is similar to Smart Games, but with more levels of difficulty and challenges. More than 500 tasks will take over you while you try to arrange the wooden cubes in different combinations.

Are you still looking for something more social? Try Scrabble ! This is a classic word building game where your task is to place letters on the square to form different words and earn points. This game is available with us in Latvian, Russian and English, so you will be able to find the one that suits you best.