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Published August 12, 2015 Updated March 01, 2022

World Tour

World Tour Quiz Game published by Tactic Group for Finnair involves recognising flags from different countries and their locations on the map.

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Spectrum World Tour Quiz Game

Spectrum World Tour Quiz is a card game published by Tactic Group for Finnair. The game involves recognising flags from different independent countries and their locations on the map. The pack contains 48 different flags, pictures of Finnair’s airplanes and also includes The Rules in three different languages.

The reverse of each flag has a map of the respective country with its capital city and the name of the continent to which it belongs.

Above: the pack contains photos of Finnair’s airplanes which are removed before play, also a total of 48 flag cards with maps and country names on the reverse plus 3 rules cards in a tuckbox.

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Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.


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