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

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.

Love the game!

Fantastic game - one of the best I have bought - your kids will learn some geography! Easy to play for kids age range 8-14 yo in our household :) good value in my opinion.

Got this product for my aunt as a birthday gift and it was a lot of fun playing it with the family. So, I had to get it for myself as well. If you want to have a fun guessing where countries are, their capital city, and what their flag is, along with other factoids about them, then I highly recommend getting this game.

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!

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.

My daughter and her family love the game!

The game is great. Unfortunately the one I ordered was clearly a return.