I need a suggestion for a game to buy to play with my elderly Mom. Since I don't get out much anymore, we spend a lot of time just hanging out, and it's pretty boring. I thought I might find a couple games to buy for Christmas.

It needs to be a game for only two people to play.

She is 82. She likes Scrabble, but beats my behind so bad, it's not much fun for me. I like Boggle, but I beat her behind, no fun for her. But, in general, we do like word games.

She has no desire to learn Backgammon (which I like a lot, but know no one else who plays! I have to play my Palm Pilot) or chess.

She's ok with card games, but I would need to find a way for us to hold cards... I think their are "holders" for cards you can buy, but I don't know where to look for them locally. We have never learned to play Gin etc... but we used to play 4 handed Pinnochle a lot. Euchre bored her, but she would play. She played Hossenpepper (murdered the spelling) and Hearts too. This gives you an idea of what kinds of card games she played, if you have any of those you can recommend we could learn.

There is one game we have that we play sometimes, but be darned if I can think of the name! (I am at work so cannot check) It has a board that folds out that has the cards of a regular deck printed on it, arbitrarily, in rows. You draw cards from a pile, and then put markers on the board on a card that matches your drawn card, trying to form 5 in a row. First one to get 3 sets of 5 in a row wins. She likes it. But that's the only game we play.

The Parcheesi, Sorry, etc would be so simple she would be bored, and I've tried a friend's Trivial Pursuit, but it does not do well with only 2 - LOL!

I don't have the opportunity to get out and play games anywhere to get exposed to what is out there in person. So any help you can give would be great.

Jules