Where Is That? Game Review

For a period of time in fourth grade, I finished every library class with the same ritual. As soon as we were released to peruse the shelves, I would walk over to the library’s globe and give it a good spin. Floating my finger above the surface, running it up and down as though drawing sine waves, I would wait for the globe to stop. Once it did, no matter where my finger was pointing, I would look for a book in the library that covered that country or region.

I have no idea how I came to start performing that ritual, and I don’t know for how long it lasted. I may be describing as a “ritual” something that I did two or three times over the course of a single month. Childhood memories are funny that way. What I do know is, I thought of that ritual for the first time in many years, and I have thought of it often, while playing Where Is That?: Europe, from publisher Fractal Juegos.

There are two modes of play included in the box, though they both boil down to the same idea: create the least useful map you’ve ever seen in your life. Each card in this box features a European city, identified by name and national flag on…

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