Asia 2019: Geography Card Games

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Geography Card Games

ASIA 2019

GEOGRAPHY SKILLS
Country names, spatial relationships, capitals, languages, nationalities, and physical, demographic and economic data of 51 Asian nations, territories, and Australia.

LEVEL: beginner to advanced; mixed levels OK
AGES: 8 and up
PLAYERS: 2-5
GAME TIME: WAR 5-10 minutes, HOLIDAY 10-20 minutes, LINK 20-30 minutes

For players with low geographic knowledge, it is suggested that the games be learned in the following order.

GAME 1: HOLIDAY (2-5 players)
Players start at Turkey, draw a card, roll the dice, and move their piece that many spaces naming all the countries passed through. If a mistake is made the player returns to the last correctly named country. The other players can look at a map key to ensure countries are named correctly. When a player reaches their destination, the remainder of their movement is forfeited and they must wait until their next turn to start the journey home. Once back in Turkey, a new card is drawn. The game ends after a fixed number of turns.
A player may not pass through an occupied country. A player can move fewer spaces than the number on the die. Entering China or Russia ends your movement for that turn and you move at half speed on your next turn.

GAME 2: WAR (2 players)
Both players draw a card and declare their country’s name. Player 1 asks a question from the question cards. If player 2 answers correctly, or has the better rank or larger number, player 2 wins and keeps both cards. Play alternates until a fixed number of rounds is completed. Questions can be chosen by the players based on their existing geographical knowledge, or in a fixed order, or randomly. A subset of the questions to be used may be decided before play begins.

GAME 3: LINK (2-5 players)
Each round consists of 2 players drawing 1 card each and declaring their countries. Player 1 asks a question as in Game 2 WAR. The winner can either keep the card they are holding or change cards with the losing player. Then both players place a piece on their acquired country on the map board. Play now continues with player 2 and player 3. The game ends when all the country cards have been used. Points are scored for linked countries: 1 point for each contiguous country, minimum 3. Any 3 island nations (Maldives, Sri Lanka, Timor Lest, Indonesia, Australia, Philippines, Taiwan), or any 3 micro-territories (Hong Kong, Macau, Brunei, Singapore, Bahrain) scores 5 points.

Currently available (2019 editions): Europe, Asia, Africa, U.S.A, Japan.
Africa is available as a free download so you can get a sense of the quality of the product.
Also available are free downloads of all game boards (PDF and png files), and flag cards (PDF).

You can order factory-quality game cards (plastic or linen), game pieces, and game boards at CompellingGames.com.