Rancho

The board game Rancho is the younger sister of the well-known and acclaimed game Super Farmer, which was designed by Karol Borsuk (an eminent Polish mathematician and professor at Warsaw University) in 1943 during World War II. After the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, the university was closed and the professor lost his job. He came up with the idea to sell the game to financially support his family. In occupied Warsaw, «Hodowla zwierzÄ…tek» («Little animal farm») – as the game was then known – became extremely popular. After the end of the war, the game was forgotten and it reappeared on store shelves only in the 1990s through Granna.

Rancho, designed by Michael Stajszczak, was made to honor the memory of Karol Borsuk and to commemorate the success of «Hodowla zwierzÄ…tek», a.k.a. Super Farmer. Rancho expands the possibilities which Karol Borsuk’s original game presented to players as now farmers must not only exchange