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Forum: Games Topic: Geoguessr.com started by: Paul Posted by Paul on Mar. 24 2015,18:08
< 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 by TheCatt on Mar. 24 2015,18:42
< 17,601 >
Posted by GORDON on Mar. 24 2015,19:32
< 19,082 >
Posted by TPRJones on Mar. 25 2015,04:30
< 10,079 >One I was only 1.7km off. But a couple of others I got the wrong continent. Posted by GORDON on Mar. 25 2015,04:54
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.
Posted by TheCatt on Mar. 25 2015,05:09
(TheCatt @ Mar. 24 2015,21:42) QUOTE < 17,601 > 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 by GORDON on Mar. 25 2015,05:18
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 by GORDON on Mar. 25 2015,05:20
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 by TPRJones on Mar. 25 2015,05:49
(GORDON @ Mar. 25 2015,06:54) QUOTE 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 by TheCatt on Mar. 25 2015,06:22
(TPRJones @ Mar. 25 2015,08:49) QUOTE (GORDON @ Mar. 25 2015,06:54) QUOTE 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 by TPRJones on Mar. 25 2015,07:10
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 by TheCatt on Mar. 25 2015,07:23
(TPRJones @ Mar. 25 2015,10:10) QUOTE 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. Posted by GORDON on Mar. 25 2015,08:34
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. |