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

Fun game to play with the family and kids!

Awesome fun for the whole family!

Kids love it!

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

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.

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.

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