Top Territory Trumps

2024 is the Year of Map Games. 

We are only 4 days into 2024 and already we have been blessed with:

Timeguessr - a game involving identifying the time and location of vintage photographs

Tubebusters - help find London's abandoned 'ghost' tube stations 

Travle - a daily challenge to connect locations on a map *

To trump them all now comes Territory Trumps - a fun new geography game which pits the countries of the world against each other.

Maps Mania readers of a certain age will probably remember playing the popular card game Top Trumps during their childhood. Top Trumps is a classic card game that has been around since 1978 and is still going strong. It's a simple but addictive card game using themed decks of cars. Each deck is themed around a particular topic like dinosaurs, superheroes, or sports stars. Each card features a different character or item, along with a set of statistics related to the theme. 

The actual game of Top Trumps involves the two players flipping over the top card of their deck and comparing a player chosen stat. The player with the higher stat wins the round and takes both cards. The game continues until one player has all the cards. 

Territory Trumps follows the traditional rules of Top Trumps. In Territory Trumps each card represents a country of the world. On each card the country's Average Temperature, Calling Code, Life Expectancy, Population and Total Area are listed. Each time a card flips you have to pick which of these stats will beat the corresponding stat on the computer's card. Pick correctly and you win the computer's card. Pick incorrectly and the computer wins.

* Disclaimer: none of these games may have actually been released in 2024