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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22234 Posts
This is... strangely addicting.
http://geoguessr.com/
Basically it shows you google street view images and allows you to zoom in/out, pan, and move around a little bit. Based on what you see, you're supposed to guess where in the world you can find that picture. There are 5 different images that you have to guess before the game ends, and you can start again.
Basics of the game for those too lazy to try and understand it:
1. You get an image. Look at it to find clues.
2. Left click + hold to pan around
3. Click on the arrows to move in one direction
4. Mouse wheel or +/- bar to zoom in and out
5. Once you have a guess, click on the map and press "Make guess"
Sounds simple, but some of the pictures are really hard. Some are easy, but it's fun trying to solve where you are! Try it out and share how many points you've gotten
So far the most I've gotten is 23400.
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This is actually pretty awesome! It's also like a little peek into the world of some other place on the Earth 
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Pretty interesting and definitely strangely enjoyable. Got 9600 on my first play. It's kind of hard though because at least two of my pictures were just open fields or something and pretty much nothing unique from what I could find.
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some of them are hard... i managed to get 6k for one pic and then a 2k for the next :|
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The golden rule is: whenever you have no clue where you are (and there are no signs around), bet on Australia.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22234 Posts
On May 20 2013 15:07 RezJ wrote:
The golden rule is: whenever you have no clue where you are (and there are no signs around), bet on Australia.
Actually I've only once had to guess Australia.
One random field I got was in Ukraine (which I got near enough because the copyright was in Cyrillic - big clue) and one was in the US, which I randomly guessed right.
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Yeh Chobopeon or some other misc TL affiliate tweeted about this a few days ago, it's a really cool (and addictive) game.
Most I've gotten is 11k so far.
On May 20 2013 15:07 RezJ wrote:
The golden rule is: whenever you have no clue where you are (and there are no signs around), bet on Australia.
*yup so long as the land is flat, generally
though I can p easily pick out Australian flora as it's quite distinctive from the US.
Other golden rule is if the place looks a bit cheap and dodgy and there's some palm trees around, it's probably not hawaii or a tropical island, but Brazil.
Also has anyone else got the random picture underwater with the turtles and coral in the Great Barrier Reef? I got it twice in one round once lmao.
It also helps to know which countries have been mapped by google, tend to get European contries pretty damn rarely (except a few Moscow).
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I got 11314
2 of mine were really tough because they were just a really open field with nothing at all. One of them was all snow so I guessed Canada and the other one was just grass so I guessed USA. Got them both pretty close =)
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Had some fun playing this earlier, the scoring seems a bit wonky though. Being off by about 500km seems to be only worth about twice the points of being off by over 2000, and when one is being off by one or two states, and the other puts you on another continent, that doesn't feel quite right.
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I was just off by 1km because I've actually been to the place in the picture. Ha!
Did terribly aside from that though. 6.5k of my 12k score was all on that... This is dangerously addictive, I have an exam in a few hours.
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Love it! Playing it now! The appearance of south america and philipines confused me..
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You got 11328 points in total. this is really neat!
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This is pretty cool, apparently there isn't always snow in Alaska. And I somehow got Austria right even though I only found signs that were in english.
Last guess fucked me when I guessed Lousiana as Australia and got 71 points, 11048 total.
I love these bad quality desert shots where you can't even read the signs, oh well 14466 that will do, got lucky with getting a finnish location.
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I managed 17795 with lucky cities and some google usage. Massively screwed one up and only got 200 points for it :/.
Proof
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Game finished! You got 10028 points in total.
I was in the ballpark area for each one, was always about 2000km out (the next country over lol). Not bad for someone that's only really explored Australia
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Awww, doesn't work for mac. Poot.
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Some of those feel close to impossible:
Some town, a sign nearby in Russian. Distance between West and East Russia over 6000 km...
Also, what do you guess when you have a picture with nothing around! No cars, no buildings, no hills, not even a fucking road! Just some trees...
It's also fun when you get some place where you see some signs in Portuguese/Spanish. South America and Spain/Portugal are quite a bit apart...
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14675
One of my best plays. I found a sign that said "Perth: 557" but the only distance on that scale that I have for reference is 3000 miles across the US, so I literally stuck a piece of paper on the screen and marked it off about where I thought 557km would be, followed the major marked road East of Perth that far, and ended up 15km off, so that was a big part of it.
Also, googling stuff is cheating! It's all about your own knowledge.
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Just got a picture from the Midway islands. That's in the middle of the Pacific ocean... I was "only" ~8800 km away..
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EPT
