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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:08 pm
by Paul
https://www.geoguessr.com/world/play
It takes you to five places via Google Street View. You click on a map to guess your location, and the closer your guess (by distance) the more pints you get.
My closest guess was 279.9 miles, and my top score was 10,954.
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:42 pm
by TheCatt
17,601
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:32 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:30 am
by TPRJones
10,079
One I was only 1.7km off. But a couple of others I got the wrong continent.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:54 am
by GORDON
One of them I figured out the country, but had to go miles and miles down the road to find a road sign. Another I got trickfucked because there were two of those towns in the same country.
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:09 am
by TheCatt
On this one, I did well until the last. Then it was just a sandy/dusty road that looked endless. I tried to click around a little, but found nothing. So I figured it was Australia. Unfortunately, it was Argentina.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:18 am
by GORDON
Yeah, my hardest one was just an icy road in a pine forest next to a frozen lake. I found a truck a mile away with Finnish and Scandinavian flags on it, but no real indication of where I actually was.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:20 am
by GORDON
Also, I had the same problem with the one in Japan as when I actually went to Japan: all the signs are in Japanese and not some Romance language that I can figure out. I had to straight-up just guess my one in Japan. Ended up on the opposite end of the fucking island.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:49 am
by TPRJones
GORDON wrote:One of them I figured out the country, but had to go miles and miles down the road to find a road sign. Another I got trickfucked because there were two of those towns in the same country.
Wait, you were moving around and looking stuff up online? I thought it was supposed to simulate being dropped blind in random part of the world and figuring it out without any further clues.
If you can move and look stuff up then it becomes much easier.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:22 am
by TheCatt
TPRJones wrote:GORDON wrote:One of them I figured out the country, but had to go miles and miles down the road to find a road sign. Another I got trickfucked because there were two of those towns in the same country.
Wait, you were moving around and looking stuff up online? I thought it was supposed to simulate being dropped blind in random part of the world and figuring it out without any further clues.
If you can move and look stuff up then it becomes much easier.
Yes.
And yes.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:10 am
by TPRJones
Trying again with moving around and looking stuff up, this time I got 24,999.
My closest guess was 3.7 yards from the correct location. My furthest was 245.7 yards away.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:23 am
by TheCatt
TPRJones wrote:Trying again with moving around and looking stuff up, this time I got 24,999.
My closest guess was 3.7 yards from the correct location. My furthest was 245.7 yards away.
Hah. I didn't move around at all, and got 9.6miles on the first one. I thought "Wow, this looks like places near my home in the mountains"
Turns out it was Kentucky, but close enough.
16,772 total -> No clicking.
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:34 am
by GORDON
I didn't see any rules forbidding looking around. And a couple of my spots weren't even recognizable for which hemisphere you were in. If you can't look around then it will all come down to getting lucky spots with easily recognizable landmarks.
Except for fucking Japan. They could have dropped me in front of the Welcome to Kyoto sign and I wouldn't know where I was in the country.