The World GameGeography 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.

My son is obsessed with geography - including going to geography bees. This was a Christmas gift and he loves playing the game both with people and by himself! The customer service is fantastic - we were missing a card and they replaced it for us. If you have a geography lover in your live, get it!

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.

I am a Geography NERD! I'll admit it! I bought this for me and my friend to play. We are both 50+. This was fun! We laughed a lot at how much we DID NOT know. We are learning and laughing. Great fun and I would 100% recommend!

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.

I've traveled all over the world.... years (can I emphasize YEARS) ago. Was humbling to play with my kids and mother. They thought I knew all the answers. How did I forget so many capitals and locations... and cities I've been in? And the flags... hmmm... we played a modified version of this for my kiddos. Also, they could pick "who has less surrounding countries" or "who has the lowest highest altitude" "least population" so it wasn't the biggest = best. (That made it MUCH more fun when we started doing that.)Reminded me of many facts I had forgotten. And kids got a hit out of learning and guessing.My 7 year old was on the brinks of not really being able to play with much meaning. We managed. But my 11 yo was much more fun. My mom was super fun. She also gave hints and (although that's not allowed), it was more fun, too!My teen that is not at all interested in family games was still just not interested.So good game. Not magical, but educational and fun. We've played it multiple times. It's also nice and small, so could travel well.Oh, and because it's so random that Slovenia is #1 country (what's the background story behind that??), whoever gets it wins that round automatically. That also makes it more fun and highlights a country that is rather overlooked.

Fun game to play with the family and kids!