Question: What is the problem with most board games you play?
Answer: There is usually only one format, and once you've figured that out there are very few variations to make the game more interesting.
Enter Who Knows Where? A board game with a myriad of difficulty settings you would be hard-pushed to get bored (or even, board, get it?? Ah of course you do!).
Who Knows Where is a geography-based trivia game that asks each player where in the world they think an event took place, an artefact was found or simply the location of a capital city.
There are two sets of questions - the "easy" set (blue) and the "hard" set (red). But the difficulty setting doesn't end there, oh no! The board itself is double-sided - one side being the "political" map, with all countries mapped out with their borders, and a topographical map which just has the land survey with no borders showing at all.
You also have two different counters to choose from for playing - a larger pyramid piece for the "easy" version and a smaller block piece to make the game a little harder. Each board is split into lines of latitude and longitude, with the larger pieces fitting into the bold squares and the smaller fitting into the squares with finer outlines.
The aim of the game is to put your playing piece on one of the squares on the board where you believe the answer is. And it's not as easy as "where is the Sistine Chapel?" or " what is the capital of the USA?" (if you know where those are, of course!). This game will level the playing field for those who aren't as well-travelled as others. Do you know where the Titanic sank? Can you identify a Nepalese temple from a single image? And even if you're playing against someone who does know these answers, you can always piggy back off of their knowledge but beware! If you put your counter on top of theirs and they're wrong, you'll be punished by being pushed back one space on the board.
And if no one has a clue? You can use your longitude or latitude cards for a hint. By playing one of these helpful hints a player who has already had their go will look at the answer and tell you which line of longitude or latitude the answer sits, which can at least narrow down which continent you need to look at!
This is a really fun game and you can learn as much as you can show off! Everybody plays every turn which moves the game along at a nice pace and there's no sense of repetition or boredom from playing a couple of games in an evening. And with over 1,000 questions it will take you some time to learn where everything is so you can work your way up through the difficulty levels. Even after playing it for a year we've not yet dared played the hard board, even with the easy questions and the easy counters!
What games have you found yourself playing time and again? Let us know in the comments!
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