Want to take a trip around the world in less than 80 minutes? Know about the customs as well as the landmarks of the world without leaving your chair? Become an expert on all things global while solving puzzles?

Well, National Geographic Kids’ Puzzle Book — What in the World offers you such a chance, where you can learn more about the world than any other book and have fun at the same time.

The fact-packed, fun book is a novelty, considering it is full of world travel-themed puzzles. Unlike other books on countries and continents, this one acts smartly and categorises itself not by continent, but by common sense. That way, the publishers save space they would have wasted on Antarctica and instead award it to the United Kingdom, which is different from the entire Europe, and include Oceania instead of just Australia to cover that part of the world.

That’s the division, what about the fun games, you ask? The publishers embed information about the continent or area in different kinds of puzzles. If you like to solve crosswords, then you have that in abundance, and the same goes for Sudokus, word searches, spot the difference puzzle, mazes and word wheels. Besides these brain-tickling quizzes and number games, there is information on every page in the form of ‘fact circles’, which helps you understand the world and its cultures quite easily.

All that is only equalled by a ‘Guess What’ quiz, where questions about that part of the world come with multiple choice answers. The quiz also helps you judge yourself on the basis of the answers — if you know most of them, then you are on the right track, but if you don’t, then you need to learn a lot about the world we live in.

Don’t worry if you didn’t know that Asia is the most populated continent, while Europe is the home to two of the smallest countries in the world, or that Toucans’ beaks might be large in size but aren’t heavy, or that just one difference makes Australian Football different from Rugby, then you aren’t alone.

Not many do in reality, and only those with a knack for weird knowledge do. You can be one of them if you get your hands on this book and take a trip around the world with it.

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 31st, 2026