On the occasion of Mother’s Day, we have prepared a special review of board games for you, in which our editors remember games – often very specific – with their mothers.
The cottage
Cottage – we create our own floor plan in your single-family house. We select furniture, helpers, and even create a roof according to our own wishes. A very nice board game to play with your mother. Mechanically it is simple, but on the other hand, designing your own perfect home is not easy at all. I know that I will always persuade my mother to play a game at The House , because with this game we will definitely have a great time and have a good time. – Hubert Heller
Monopoly
Monopoly is a cult game, but unique to me for another reason. It reminds me of childhood and a lot of emotions associated with playing developer.
The phenomenon of this game is that whenever I play it, I never get bored. This was also the case in childhood. I guess I’m no exception, because this game (patented in the 1930s!) Still wins the hearts of more and more new players. The thrill of discovering what is on the inside of the CHANCE card and what is on the same page of the SOCIAL UNION, when I was obliged to raise one of them after stepping onto a specific field, was constantly present in my heart. My mother did the same.
My mother and her unusual style of playing Monopoly irritated and amused me at the same time. For example, I was fascinated by how often she bought properties that did not match the cards in her set, and how often she left out the strategically ideal ones. You know, she had two yellow cards (Krakowskie Przedmieście, Świętokrzyska Street) and when she stood on Nowy Świat – she suddenly gave up buying it. Today I understand that my beloved parent did it because she wanted to give me a head start. I could list such situations in a dime a dozen. What apart from them reminds me of playing Monopoly togetherwith mum? Her favorite pawn – the ship! For some reason, my mother always wanted to play with this silver mode of transport. Okay, she picked a doggy every now and then. To sum up, I have very nice memories of our games, but sometimes I felt like shouting MOM! I am not such a lama! Get the color you want and start building houses and even hotels! More than once that was what I screamed. Fortunately, it worked 🙂 – Marzena Siarkiewicz
Ramses II
Unfortunately, I didn’t have many opportunities to play board games with my mother, but somewhere between games with my sister, I managed to persuade her to play a few games. The game we sat together was Ramses II . Although simple, it gave us a lot of fun. I’ve never liked memory games, but this one was the exception. First, arrange the treasures randomly and cover them with pyramids, and then try to find your way to them so as not to stumble upon the rest.
My greatest joy was playing mum, because it is known that children have the magical power to remember everything. The Ramses II has its age, but it still stands on my shelf out of sentiment. Sometimes it lands on the table, and even though I still don’t like memory games, I’m glad to still have it after each game. – Katarzyna Satława
Chinese
The Chinese was based on the Hindu game Pachisi . In 1907-1908, Josef Friedrich Schmidt simplified the principles on which the modern version is based. It was first published in 1914. The game requires a board, four pieces for each player and dice.
I recommend the game to everyone and at any age. A cult title for a nice afternoon or evening. I have a great fondness for it, because it is a family game played by my relatives for generations. My mother and I spent tens of hours playing together. Our board is so worn out that I don’t know how it still holds up in its entirety. Repeatedly patched, glued and joined, and the board is double-sided. Up to four people can play on the first, up to six people on the second. – Katarzyna Gnacikowska
Mushrooming
In my youth, i.e. in the 90s, board games were much less popular than they are today. There were probably several dozen titles available on the market, most of them not particularly different from each other. We rolled six-sided dice, moved on a fairy-tale, castle or racetrack-style board, and read instructions from individual fields, which told us to go back, go forward, make another throw or wait for a queue. One of my favorite games, Mushroom Picking, looked quite similar. In this board game, mushrooms were a variety, which had to be properly arranged. We also found out which of them were edible and which were not. It didn’t matter who reached the finish line first, but who had the most good mushrooms in the basket at the end. As I am an only child, and my friends could not always come to me, my mother often had to play with me.
She bravely endured the moment when I was bringing the box, setting everything on the table and asking her for one more round in the imaginary forest. She always found time for me. Although it happened that her role ended with a throw and returning to preparing dinner. Then I was moving her pawn and, when she couldn’t see, I cheated. She probably knew I was doing it and was just letting me win. All in all, it made me prefer to play with her than with my watchful dad, who didn’t stop at all. – Piotr Markiewicz