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This puzzle is adorable. My four year old grandson is learning about country flags right now and loves this. He had a great time putting on all the stickers and finding the countries. He also loves puzzles so it was the perfect gift. Plus, it’s fun for adults.

I bought this for my 6-year-old to help her learn the U.S. states and capitals in a fun, hands-on way, and it’s been a big hit! The foam puzzle pieces are colorful and easy to handle, and the little flags for each capital city make it extra interactive. She loves putting the map together and reading the fun facts on the back of each piece.The quality is pretty good for the price, and I appreciate that it’s not just a toy—it’s genuinely educational. It kept her attention much longer than I expected, and she’s already memorized way more states than I thought possible. Definitely recommend this for young learners or as a gift for curious kids!

This Map is perfect for teaching your kids the States and Capitols. I added each states abbreviation, as my 10 year old needed to know these for a test as well. It wasn't hard at all or time consuming. They build the puzzle, add the flags which the map already has the incerts cutout where the flags go. My only regret is that I didn't find this sooner. My little ones and I enjoy doing this together. It's a lot of fun testing eachother while holding up just the shape of each state. 100% recommend! I think it would be a great item in classrooms as well.

This is not so much a game as it is a somewhat self-correcting geography test. The puzzle pieces fit surprisingly well together, in spite of the fact that they're glorified craft foam. You'll have to watch your kid place the capital flags though, and try not to let them catch you surreptitiously looking up capitals you've never heard of on your phone or mouthing the words of Wakko's United States to yourself because you forgot that Pierre is the capital of South Dakota.The little plastic flags come with sheets of stickers that have the name of a capital on one sticker and that country's/state's flag on the other. Pro tip: have an adult do the sticker placing, otherwise you'll end up with a Canadian flag with "Havana" on the other side, which is fine if you're going for really subtle political commentary, but that's probably not going to help your middle schooler pass geography tests. If they still do geography tests in middle school. I don't know; I homeschool, which is why I bought this thing in the first place.The world is, of course, a big place, and some countries are apparently more, let's say, worthy of attention than others. Europe and the US get their own maps, but not even all of the European countries get their own little flag in the proverbial sand. Some of the states had to be combined into one puzzle piece because they're so small, which led to an interesting conversation about how basically every debate in our country boils down to population density. I'd like to see a more complete version, even if the box has to be bigger.My kid made the mistake of trying to move the Europe puzzle, resulting in Central Europe falling apart in a jumbled heap that was hard to put back together. I assured him that that happens in real life every so often, so he shouldn't worry about it.Rather like in Risk, South America has roughly 6 countries of note and none of them are the beautiful islands that anyone who plays real-life Risk (basically anyone with an off-shore bank account and a close relative in politics/the military industrial complex) would go on their vacay. Venezuela was troublesome--the Caracas flag slot wasn't done right and the flag kept falling over. Maybe it's a manufacturing error, maybe it's a metaphor--you decide.Africa has only 8 flags and several countries are too small to be labeled. This is the biggest area of improvement. Again, I'd like to see a bigger version with all countries and flags. Half this continent feels like it's changed since I memorized Yakko's World, and it's embarrassing that my kids know more African geography than I do.I'd also like to see a larger breakout of the Middle East, Asia, and Oceana because I'm a product of a time when our school system acknowledged Mesopotamia for a few thousand years and then forgot it ever existed, and the only Asian country was China until WWII, and then you learned about battles but with a vague understanding of them happening "somewhere in the Pacific." A good number of countries are flagged, but not all, so I'd love to see more completeness, if nothing else because Moana 2 is coming out and I still don't really have a solid grasp of where the Heart of Tafiti was supposed to go.A note about putting the game away--I guess I guess I'm a bad American because I didn't put the ol' US of A first. I put the world in the box first, then Europe, and tucked the flags to the side. I thought tension would hold the pieces together enough to transfer the puzzle to the box, but when I went to put America on top, the states fractured faster than in the aftermath of the election of 1860, or possibly 2024. Oops. Do yourself a favor and use the enclosed cardboard to put America first, then the other puzzles, and chuck the flags in wherever they fit.In all, I'm glad I got this--it's more fun to place flags in foam than it is to write a boring geography test. My flag recognition is terrible, which I was reminded of all over again during the Olympics, so I'm sure this will help ME learn as well as my kids. I'm rather hoping the company comes out with some expansions, but a bigger set with flag slots for every country would be even better. Even if they don't, this covers a good chunk of the world's countries and is a big help for the 50 states, and that's a good start.

I received this puzzle today and I am very happy with it. I bought it so my children and I could work on geography over the summer. My children have not learned geography in school the way I did when I was a child. I think it's important and therefore, we are working on that ourselves. The flags and capitals are blank with the exception of one. I think this is a great way to help get the kids involved and learn the capitals of the different states in the US as well as countries around the world. The puzzles are made of foam and the enlarged US map did fall apart upon taking it out of the box. You should keep a cardboard under it (there is one in the box). I think this product offers a lot of educational possibility and I can't wait to get started. I have also purchased the US cards that have "magic" symbols on them that can be temporarily erased before they go back to being hidden. The cards are also from this company. I haven't received them yet, but I will review once I do. They seem to have a lot of nice learning sets and will most likely purchase more.

My kids (11 and 8) are learning their states and capitals and they have had so much fun with this! The kids helped put the stickers on the flags which reinforced learning. Once these were on, we put the states together with ease, then put the flag capitals in. The flags stay in well. The flash cards are good quality and coated with a finish to make them durable. The cards have instructions on how to play games with them if you want to. I like that they give facts and the state abbreviations to learn too. The kids also enjoyed using the rubbing pencil to discover facts on the cards. I will say it takes a bit of pressure to rub off but very doable for my kids. The rubbing comes right back in a couple seconds but it gives enough time to read before it does. The foam puzzle does have a smell to it, hopefully that will go away over time. All in all this is great and has everything I’d want in learning states and capitals! Highly recommend!

Very nice for the price

This game is Educational. However there are is some assembly required with the flags. At this price it should already put together to achieve the best value. The material is a mid grade foam. The large size puzzle piece is not for on the go play. Therefore you will need a hard base to play it on, because it is a little flimsy. It will not be durable for an on the go game. The flash card will work better for this task. The flashcards is great if you want to memorize the states and capitals. The card are on a nice quality of paper.