The World Game - Geography Card Game - Educational Games for Kids, Family and Adults - Cool Learning Gift Idea for Teenage Boys & Girls 8-12 with Map

Love the game!

This product is billed as a game but that is not why I like it so much. Perhaps the idea is that learning can be a fun experience like a game but if a game is thought of as a competition then this is not how I see this product. I was able to learn all the 194 countries and, at this point, almost all the capitals and that was my reason for buying the cards. By the way, the cards are beautifully made and the flags look very good. Learning the countries was accomplished using my favorite method, the memory palace. You can look that up on YouTube. The first thing I did was to sort the alphabetically arranged cards to number order. Then I memorized the countries in a set of 100 and then 94 because my memory palace has 100 stations. Then by going through the cards I associated the countries and capitals. The only difficulty was when the capital was an unfamiliar name but those are becoming locked in with practice. The big payoff comes when using the map that comes with the cards. The map shows only the numbers. Since I know the number of every country I can identify every country on the map. With practice I should be able to look at any map and pick out the countries. I'm don't have a really good method to memorize the flags. For that I recommend the app Seterra which is a great way to learn all the maps. Using the cards and the app you can become proficient at recognizing the flags. It is somewhat helpful to have the population and square milage of the countries to give an idea of relative sizes. I have no idea what to do with the highest point. There is also the feature of giving the number of surrounding countries. That could be very interesting for someone who is able to visualize the map. More power to anyone that can make a game out of this. I think if it were just knowing the capitals of the countries there would be a lot of ties. I suppose if you found a comfortable way to cover the names you could compete on learning the flags. In any case this is a very useful, attractive educational tool.

Super fun game! Played with our 7 and 12 year old sons who are obsessed with geography and it was a hit. **Helpful advice- this is essentially the SAME game as the board game The World Game.** We bought each- one for each son and then realized they were made by the same company, use the same cards and basically have the same game play. We decided one would be our “travel” version and the other we’d just keep at home. But I wouldn’t spend the money again on both since they’re the same

Our family recently purchased The World Game. This review reflects us (three adults) having played it several times. We'd say it's fun in a learning-is-fun kind of way. The cards are well made, and included with the set is a map of the world of good, sturdy paper. One of the nice things about the game is that you can modify play in a variety of ways. The rules as provided, while fine, need not limit how you want to approach learning about other countries. For instance, we initially began playing with a mix of cards representing countries from all over the globe...pretty challenging unless you're already good at geography, which we are not (yet)! So instead, we'll work on countries one continent at a time. But that's just one example of how you can do your own thing. Also, we've noticed that the game's creator listens to suggestions from players. He fulfilled the wish of one online commenter by sending a pdf of countries in alphabetical order with their corresponding numerical designation on the game's map. We got that list when we purchased the game. And actually, we made our own list too, arranging the countries in numerical order so we can immediately find the name of any country on the map. Another addition we intend to make on our spreadsheet is primary languages spoken (data we will obtain through our own research). So, obviously, there are lots of ways you can expand on The World Game if you like. It is a cool little learning tool.

My son asked for this game as a gift so i got it for him. We just played for the first time, and at the start it was a little confusing. The rules are pretty complex and it was tough at first to follow along. But once we got the hang of it, we had a lot of fun. My son is obsessed with this kind of stuff so he really got to show off his knowledge. I'm NOT as good so he really kicked my butt!

Awesome. My son loves it.

My little cousin loved it he was excited to get it for Christmas

Like any trivia game, most people don’t play following the rules, so we’re just picking up a card and covering the country and playing guess the country based on the flag. However, since we’re using it for school it’s disappointing that it’s so incomplete. I understand countries missing such as Kosovo or Western Sahara or Somalialand when they’re still in dispute over whether or not it’s a country of its own but there are well-known countries missing like Germany and France. I wish I would have laid them all out when we first got it so I could return it. I hope the seller will contact me and offer the missing cards. There are a couple that I actually wish we did have duplicates on, like Turkey & Russia, since they fall under both Europe and Asia so I could have a card for each continent. One last thing—I wish there were extra space in the box to place your discard cards after you’ve used them. Instead the compartments are only big enough to fit the full deck. It’d be nice if it was a long narrow box where you could put the used card at the back of the box, if that makes sense. Missing countries: AFRICA Gabon Ghana Gambia Western Sahara (understood) Somalialand (understood) Ethiopia ASIA Georgia East Timor Taiwan (China? Understand) EUROPE: Finland Germany Estonia France Kosovo DUPLICATES: Togo Tanzania Eswatini Syria Thailand Tajikistan Sweden Switzerland Suriname