Die Welt: Singapur, wo liegt das nur? features gameplay similar to Deutschland: Finden Sie Minden, another Günter Burkhardt design, with players trying to locate places or landmarks on a map, but this time players will find the entire world lying before them.

To set up, players lay out six game boards, each featuring one continent with no place names on it. On a turn, players are confronted with a location, such as Dubai, Jakarta or Miami, then they all try to guess where in the world that location is. They can play it safe and choose a large block of land – scoring only a few points in the process if correct – or they can go small and pinpoint the location more precisely on one of the game boards, scoring far more points if correct, but upping their chances of scoring nothing if they miss their mark. In the end, whoever scores the most points wins.