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Paul 
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Posted on: Mar. 24 2015,18:08 |
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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.
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TheCatt
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Posted on: Mar. 24 2015,18:42 |
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GORDON
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Posted on: Mar. 24 2015,19:32 |
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TPRJones
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2015,04:30 |
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10,079
One I was only 1.7km off. But a couple of others I got the wrong continent.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2015,04:54 |
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One of them I figured out the country, but had to go miles and miles down the road to find a road sign. Â Another I got trickfucked because there were two of those towns in the same country.
Edited by GORDON on Mar. 25 2015,04:55
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GORDON
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2015,05:18 |
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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.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2015,05:20 |
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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.
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TheCatt
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(TPRJones @ Mar. 25 2015,08:49)
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(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. Â 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? Â 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.
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TPRJones
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2015,07:10 |
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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.
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TheCatt
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(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. Â My furthest was 245.7 yards away.
Hah. Â I didn't move around at all, and got 9.6miles on the first one. Â 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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GORDON
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2015,08:34 |
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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.
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