BrainBox GRE90001-R World Game, 2. Old Version

Bought after playing the game at a Christmas party. Great for kids to play along with adults. Educational but good fun.

I have bought for my niece who is 9years old and started learning English. She loves it. It was also good fun for the family

I own a couple of other titles from the series of BrainBox games, and this is just as entertaining as those. The box says up 1 to 8 players. It can definitely be played by 1, but it’s definitely more fun with multiple players – probably 3 or 4 is the optimum so you’re not waiting too long between goes.If you’ve not played them before, the premise is simple. The box contains a series of double-sided game cards, an egg-timer and an 8-sided die. A player picks a card, and gets the time afforded by a spin of the egg-timer to try and absorb all the information on the picture side of the card. This contains not only images, but also facts and figures. Take a look at my photos for an example of one of the cards.When the time is up, the player rolls the die and another player then asks the observer the corresponding numbered question on the reverse of the card. This might be a question about the facts and figures, or the image itself, and is often very simple but devilishly difficult to answer as you may have spent all your time remembering everything but the one detail you needed! All the BrainBox games have a different theme, and this one is The World, with each card focussing on a different country.It's beautiful in its simplicity and masses of fun to play. There’s also a lot of flexibility as you can allow a bit more or less time as you see fit, so can adapt the game and give more time to kids than adults if you like (or maybe the other way around!!). As there are loads of cards with eight questions on each, the game never gets old or repetitive. It’s also highly educational for children, demanding that you commit facts about different countries to memory – a lot of this will stick.Entertaining and educational – you can’t go wrong!

This is one of the best games in my opinion. Quick and easy to set up, and can last for as long (or as quick) as you like. Great for learning geography in a fun way, and also great memory exercise! The questions are sometimes funny and unexpected, which adds to the fun. I love playing this game with my 9 year old. I have also played this game with a group of adults at a party and we had an absolutely brilliant time!Basically you get a sand timer, an 8-sided dice and a bunch of thick colourful cards. The front of the cards have the map of a country, with some information about it (mostly pictorial), the flag and capital. It also shows which countries are adjacent to that country. The back of the card has 8 questions about the front of the cards. All the answers would be on the front of the card.A player (we'll call them player 1) has about 20seconds I think (on the sand timer) to examine the front of the card. At the end of that time, they pass the card to the next player and roll the dice. The next player (player 2) then asks player 1 the question at the back of the card, corresponding to the number rolled on the dice. If player 1 answers correctly, they get to keep the card. The player with the most cards at the end, wins.When we played with the adults, we asked all 8 questions, which makes it really hard to get to keep a correct card, but it was great fun!

We’ve got this expansion along with the base game; the quality is consistent across the two, however the contents and the value it adds, especially for the price, is underwhelming.(The box of the base game is suitable to accommodate the cards of the expansion set, however some significant countries are still missing, and if there’ll be another expansion, the cards from those will not fit; a minor inconvenience.)

Good quality

A great little game which is not only a whole bunch of fun but is also educational. I took this to a New Years Eve gathering and when I got this out the kids groaned because they said it looked boring. However, within 5 minutes they were all hooked and were not only having a right laugh but were also learning stuff about the world and geography. This game is actually more fun the more people play it.Grab a bunch of people, get this game out and prepare to learn and have a laugh all at the same time! Well worth the money this and you'll get tons of use out of it before you start remembering the facts. There are hundreds of cards with loads of info on each one. Great little game.

We bought this as a last minute stocking filler for our 10 year old daughter at Christmas and we've had such great fun with it. It's easy to play, great for testing your memory and a good way to learn about different countries which is brill for teaching kids about Geography. You take a card and memorise as much information on the front of the card before the timer runs out then you roll the dice and are asked the corresponding question to the number on the dice. If you answer correctly you get to keep the card if not it goes back into the pile. The one with the most cards at the end wins. The fun parts are the questions as they can be totally random, in one question it can ask you something relevant to that country or in another something silly as to what colour pants the guy is wearing in the picture. It's a fun family game that I would definitely recommend.