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The Global Puzzle

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Average rating: 3
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$14.99
Club Price: $13.49

Item #RR103

Did you know the average individual knows where only 18 of the world's 193 countries are located?

A Broader View decided they wanted to do something to improve this statistic, so they created The Global Puzzle, a unique 600-piece puzzle that has proven to increase its users' geography knowledge by an average of 472% after completing the puzzle only one time.

Global PuzzleHow The Puzzle Works

The Global Puzzle is an outstanding geography aid because the pieces are actually shaped like the countries, which means you have to figure out where every country is located in order to complete the puzzle!

The Global Puzzle includes:

  • All 193 countries and their capitals
  • All 50 states of the U.S. and their capitals
  • All 13 territories and provinces of Canada and their capitals

In addition, the puzzle also includes dozens of geography facts about the countries printed within the oceans' borders.

Three feet wide, 600 pieces. For ages 9 and up.


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Geography,
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Average rating: 3
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3 out of 5 stars by ANNE-MARIE G on 2008-10-02
Pros: You do learn a lot of names and places from doing this puzzle (I discovered that a country I thought was in Asia is actually in South America!). The country facts in the ocean save you from endless expanses of plain blue. Neutral: Some very small countries share a puzzle piece and some large countries are spread across more than one piece. This doesn't bother me. Con: Because the country pieces follow national borders, they don't interlock. This makes it very hard to keep the pieces in place once you have fitted them. The problem is exacerbated by the little shards created at the corners of some pieces by the cutting process; they snag on adjacent pieces and displace them. Not only do you have to keep readjusting the pieces, but the shape of the remaining space is often wrong. My 12yo finds it extremely frustrating and my 9yo wouldn't even attempt it. Overall: Pleasingly educational, but not as much fun as anticipated. Not recommended for young children or the impatient.

3 out of 5 stars by STEPHANIE R on 2008-09-08
Every country does not have its own puzzle piece, (sometimes more than one country is on a piece) in spite of how the description is written. It's a good puzzle, just not as good as it sounds.