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

Such a fun game and you learn something while you play. Can be as simple or complex as you please.

Excelente producto, muy bien empacado, llegó antes de lo previsto.

Full disclosure: I have never used this set to actually play a game, but rather to use as a study aid for a geography course. In that capacity, they were extremely useful and effective, and I can absolutely vouch for them as a learning tool. They are handsome-looking cards, complete with pertinent "vital statistics", and the coordinating map helps one locate each country with ease.

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This has been a fantastic resource for giving my homeschooled kids a MUCH better grasp of world geography than I learned in public school. In an hour a week over the last couple of months, they've learned the majority of the countries in Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and we're moving on soon to Asia and Africa. It's been a good springboard to more in-depth study of countries, but I like how it forces you into an understanding of the relative sizes and positions of places- even if my kids can't point exactly to a country, they quickly learn a sense for where to look, which I consider one of the more important goals in teaching geography. The game play is snappy (essential for not losing your mind when playing with children) and the challenges and breadth of information mean it's still fun to play after you've learned every country in a region. The capital cities make for good quizzes when we're away from the table (am I the only homeschool parent who quizzes their kids when they're acting up??).As I see it, there are only two downsides. One is that I now know things I never wanted or intended to know, like the comparative areas of Honduras and Guatemala. The other is that our deck isn't complete, so I've had to make some replacement cards. We had an extra of Tanzania, Thailand, Eswatini, Suriname, Switzerland and Sweden, and we were missing Germany, France, Estonia, Finland, Fiji and Georgia.

My 30 year old daughter had a stroke, and her memory and speech was affected. This card game has been fantastic for her recovery. It gives us something to try to bounce off and guess about the countries from the info on the cards. We don't use it precisely as the game is meant to be played, but instead ask questions of the handful of cards we hand to each person playing. It is educational, good for memory and general knowledge... and makes it clear what you need to brush up on. Very good product.

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.

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:AFRICAGabonGhanaGambiaWestern Sahara (understood)Somalialand (understood)EthiopiaASIAGeorgiaEast TimorTaiwan (China? Understand)EUROPE:FinlandGermanyEstoniaFranceKosovoDUPLICATES:TogoTanzaniaEswatiniSyriaThailandTajikistanSwedenSwitzerlandSuriname