Who Knows Where? - The Global Location Guessing Family Board Game

This is a really REALLY good game for everyone. After seeing it recommended on a ‘best games’ website, I’m really glad I bought it. The basic game is easy: roll the dice, go around the outside of the board. The colour you land on dictates what question you are asked on the card. And as each card has 6 questions on each side, plus easy and hard options, they are going to last for ages. When the question has been asked, everyone gets a turn to answer. But the best bit is, you don’t have to say anything, you put your piece on the map to show where you think the answer is. But even that has flexibility as there are two different maps, one with labels one without, and pieces that cover four squares or ones that cover just one square to force you to be more precise. But whoa-betide the person who just copies the person before him, because you can lose points if you do the same as someone else and both of you get it wrong. Points can then be awarded for exact answers or closest to depending on who’s playing. With the kids we play closest too with the big counters, easy cards and labelled map (takes about 20-30 minutes to play) but with a group of adults in teams playing with hard cards, small counters and no labels it can be fun for hours. It’s highly entertaining, it’s interesting, it’s educational and you don’t have to know anything about geography to play it (though you will by the time you’ve finished). I don’t usually write reviews on Amazon and certainly not this long, but when you’re buying a board game at this price, you want to make sure it’s worth it. And this game would be good value, even if it was double the price. Just buy it, you certainly won’t be sorry.

I bought this game for my partner who loves travel and world geography, and we played over Christmas and New Year. The gameplay is fairly simple - you move your playing piece around the edge of the board by throwing a dice and are asked questions for each square you land on; if you then get the question correct you can move on another two spaces. The twist is that the questions require everyone playing to pin point the answer on the world map. If you have no idea, you can choose to copy another player - but they're wrong, you'll then have to move back two spaces. There are lots of options for making the game easier or harder, as the board is double-sided and so are the question cards, with easier or harder options on each side, plus there are two types of map marker, large and small, so you can choose how accurately you want to pin point locations in your answer. We played this game with just two of us and it was fine, although people who prefer complex game play with lots of strategy, as opposed to an emphasis on quiz questions, might find it repetitive. I imagine if you play with several people you get some very varied location guesses. My only complaint is that the question cards are very busy and the answers are grid references, which can be a bit fiddly to check on the map board (especially if you've had a couple of drinks), but overall, great fun if travel, geography and capital cities are your favourite quiz subjects.

This is a great little game for anyone of any age or knowledge of the world. For a board game, this has A LOT of depth to it; you can play with the large pyramids with the easy board and easy questions for a very child-friendly version, or play with the small cubes with the hard questions on the hard map for an almost impossible game that even seasoned travellers struggle with. We preferred the easy board and easy questions initially but using the harder cubes to mark the locations, but after playing a few times we now prefer the harder questions on the easy board or easy questions on the harder board, always with the small cubes. There is however quite a difference between the two sets of questions; ‘where is Paris’ (easy) and ‘where is Phnom Penh’ (hard) for example. Most of the hard questions are literally impossible but after playing a few times you get used to them a bit more and learn. The game does take considerably longer with the hard questions but it still doesn’t become boring. The only major drawback with this game, and it is quite an oversight, is that ridiculously the two maps are printed using a ridiculous ratio that looks terrible. As a result, Europe is tiny (despite the huge number of locations to find there), and the vast majority of the board is empty sea and Southern hemisphere ocean and Antarctica! Unless a question hidden in the depths of the game we are yet to find asks where MH270 is, there is absolutely no point in all the wasted space! I understand that’s because the cubes are the same size, but it doesn’t work well at all. In the easy game, the cubes end up covering multiple countries in Europe and you can’t really ever get a question wrong. Please please change the maps so they are stretched more in the vertical direction - then this really would be a 5* game. Also, I would award more ‘moves forward’ for a correct answer, because simply moving forward 2 spaces for getting a difficult location correct is just wiped-out by the next player throwing a 5 or 6 for example.

It’s great! I was looking for a present for parents for Christmas who are very tricky to buy for, got recommended this and it’s great! I was initially worried if it would be too easy/hard but there are so many ways you can adapt the game to your knowledge level including the country/satellite maps, easy/hard questions and the size of counters your use - it’s perfect. Even due to the grid layout places you think you know where they are e.g. London your have to look carefully as it might be on the edge of a grid square! Really enjoyable game and very little waiting around with every player guessing (nearly) every go. Would highly recommend for all ages.

Great game and lots of options to change it up

There are two versions of this game in the same box and even better, they use the same board. The easy version is on one side and the more advanced or difficult version is over the other side. We enjoyed playing it as the easy version but you will find that accuracy is key to this game as where you position your counter. HAS to be precise and I mean precise. This could and will lead to challenges in the game but if the counter does not cover the correct square then it doesn’t count, you may need to be firm with this with ALL players (yourself included) . That said, it is a fun game and once the accuracy element is understood and accepted you will hopefully enjoy it and maybe even learn something into the bargain. We do recommend it and plan on persecuting our family with it as well

We've only played this game once so I can't say much about replayability, but my family (adults and children) thoroughly enjoyed this game and I think the variety in difficulty levels (political vs geographic map, large pyramids vs small cubes) will keep this game being fun for a very long time! As recommended by the instructions (and because of playing with small children, 6 & 8) we started by playing on the political map with the large pyramids and with the easy questions, and even though me and my wife have very good geographical knowledge there was still a good number of questions where we had no idea of the answer, so there is plenty to learn for the adults. The easy questions were of course harder for the children, but they were relevant enough for their level of knowledge that they could make some educated guesses (with some hints provided here and there). And because the game has a mechanism which can punish just blindly copying other people, but also makes sure that people don't fall too far behind, it was a fun and satisfying game for everyone. I'd say this game can be fun for any group of people, even groups of adults, but I think it's especially great for teaching children more about the world. Great fun!

This game used a awkward strectched map design that was unfamiliar and hard to use. You are trying to guess location so why not use a more familiar srandard mercator map that has not been stretched out horizontally.

Muy divertido para jugar en familia, desde 11 a 80 años disfrutamos mucho. Lo único que me gustaría que fuera para al menos 6 personas.

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Great game

Fun for all ages, and all levels of geographical knowledge as well as Trivia knowledge. Everyone who has played really likes it, and in fact I ordered 3 more for gifts.

Definitely learning plenty about geography outside the usual big cities. Lots of question cards, not going to run out any time soon.