Thinking board games

[becs]

I know deserve to be shot for thinking about Christmas!

I'd like to buy my Mam and Dad some board games that Dad can play to help work his mind after his stroke. He likes number or shape puzzles best. Needs to be games he can play one handed as it's not looking likely that he'll get use of his left arm in the near future.

Anyone got any sensible suggestions?

 

[Epping]

Cant beat scrabble

Has he got enough mobility to do a jigsaw

 

[jacko100]

Cluedo?

 

[Hongkongphooey]

I'm sure they do a Countdown board game Becs.

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

Cant beat scrabble

Yeah, he can make believe that the letters are numbers and imagine that the tiles are different shapes...

 

[Arkle]

I can't think of many number based board games except dominoes (if that counts as a board game) or the related triominoes (3 sided doms). I guess most strategic board games have a mathematical element to them.

Would any of the German board games (Ticket to Ride, Carcassone, Settlers of Catan etc.) be suitable? I can't remember how easy they'd be to play one handed.

 

[Mark]

Stratego is class if they can both get into it.

 

[PrisonBroken]

Never played any but provided he is right handed possibly one of these

Quinto: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2366
Number Boggle: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/28129
Equate: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2499
Smath: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/9938

Finding them might prove a challenge by the looks of the age of the games like

Have ordered equate like, scrabble with numbers... finally a scrabble I can beat the missus at.

 

[monkeytassle]

battleships?

 

[raindog]

Bezique or Cribbage are great 2 player card games

 

[Steak Pie]

Poleconomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poleconomy

 

[PrisonBroken]

battleships?

Add in 1 teleport per game for added spice

 

[peachy]

i haven t played it but Blockus has been recommended. I think that is a shape puzzle/game.

 

[Arkle]

Poleconomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poleconomy

Used to play that with mates ages ago. Quite similar to Monopoly...

 

[Alan BStard]

Querkle would be right up your dads street, ticks all the boxes.

 

[errant]

Would any of the German board games (Ticket to Ride, Carcassone, Settlers of Catan etc.) be suitable? I can't remember how easy they'd be to play one handed.

that looks class... where's my anorak & thermos...

 

[shields_supporter]

Board games can become very competitive and I'd worry that after a physical disfunction, this may cause wider issues.

How about those 3d jigsaw puzzle things - like Palace of Westminster for example- whereby can be done one handed p, with two active hands or using one 'dormant' hand as a piece holder while thinking where the hell it goes?

 

[C14R4NSAFC]

Bop it extreme ... Oh shit

 

[Dark Traveller]

I know deserve to be shot for thinking about Christmas!

I'd like to buy my Mam and Dad some board games that Dad can play to help work his mind after his stroke. He likes number or shape puzzles best. Needs to be games he can play one handed as it's not looking likely that he'll get use of his left arm in the near future.

Anyone got any sensible suggestions?

Depending on what you want spend, but what about a tablet device?

Puzzle games like Scrabble can then be downloaded as app form, I give my Mam my old tablet (iPad) and she loves it. She cannot use a computer but no problem with the pad. She has osteoarthritis and is limited in her movement, before getting the tablet she would just very much vegetate because she could not move about.

Now she spends her time playing scrabble, solitaire, angry birds and a few other puzzle types.

 

[becs]

Depending on what you want spend, but what about a tablet device?

He's got the bigger size Kindle but he doesn't seem that into it.

He can't get up to his study, so we wired his desktop PC into the tele downstairs and he can manage the keyboard and mouse with one hand to read stuff on the internet.