Stack the Countries®

My family first downloaded this game around 2012 or 2013, when I was about 11-12 and my brother was 8-9. (I just bought it for my new iPad, partially to revisit nostalgia, but partially to brush up on stuff I’ve forgotten.) My brother, who has autism, hyper-fixated a lot on this game, and he can now identify every country, the flags, name every capital city, and identify what countries border each other, all thanks to Stack The Countries. He has been able to have conversations with people about his geographical knowledge, which is SO significant for an autistic kid. While my memorization abilities are nowhere near as strong, I still credit this game with my ability to recognize countries that nobody around me seems to know about. For the longest time, I was baffled at how little most people seem to know about basic geography. Then I remembered that most people didn’t play this game for hours as a kid, and I am now convinced that this game is better than our education system! I realize this is a very personal anecdote and may not reflect everyone’s experience, but this game truly means so much to me and my family! So thank you so much for the memories, the education, and the knowledge that will stay with us for a long time! Edit: I found a bug! In Map It, Turkey is not only placed in Europe, but it’s placed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. While I’m sure the citizens of Turkey would love more beaches to swim in, I don’t think this is how they’ll achieve this!

story time: Background: I was interested at a young age in geography and understanding world how we currently know it. it was the 5th grade, I was in a social studies class where my generation was lucky to have school ipads and the teacher had us play stack the states one day as apart of the learning curriculum which was fantastic, One of the other students had asked for clarification if it was stack the countries or states and she had responded saying “ no that one is to hard for our grade level they may let u in high school” You know I had to try it since i learned from the states one. I got it and played it all the time on car rides which without wifi gave me the time to learn and push forward in my pursuit of knowledge. Review and Aftermath: I learned every single countries capital(‘s) and locations from many landmarks and regions from this app I gained skills in problem solving when I didn’t know the answer by associating the questions language, geography and gained skills on estimating probability. When I finished learning all this I moved on to History, how it really became there. It had a affect on who I am today maybe a seemingly small one but I took the direction that was incentivized. Thank you 🙏🏼 ❤️

I love it, but you could add French Guiana, Kosovo, Greenland(I know it's a territory but it is still worth adding), Western Sahara(owned by Morocco but still worth adding). Some other things are add England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland to complete the UK but you can still have the UK ( when you earn countries you need to unlock the countries of the UK to make up the UK but you can still use UK and it's countries on the staking part), make Russia bigger because it is smaller than Canada, USA, Australia, and China in the game, add Antarctica in "the world" part as a rare place you can unlock and if you unlock it then you can use it in "the world", and my last request is that for "the world" you make the map world map instead of a random continent, so "the world" actually goes by the title. Anyway I love this game and I will love it even more if this stuff is added, thanks.