Board game for cultural learning that incorporates smart device with software application into game play

A board game that facilitates learning about a culture, comprising:

• a physical game board that provides game spaces for selecting questions about different aspects of the culture and a navigational or trade route through the game spaces;
• game cards that provide questions and proposed answers regarding said different aspects of the culture;
• a mobile computing device including software that adapts the mobile computing device to scan a selected game card or to receive an alphanumeric question identifier from a player for the selected game card, audibilize or display the questions, accept a player's response, determine whether the player's response is correct, provide supplementary information about the question and/or the player's response at a player's request, and provide tips or clues to the player upon request;
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• fingercuffs that a player wears when the player loses his/her turn.