Geoguessr.com

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:08 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:42 pm

17,601

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Post by **GORDON** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:32 pm

19,082

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:30 am

10,079

One I was only 1.7km off. But a couple of others I got the wrong continent.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:54 am

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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Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:09 am

TheCatt wrote: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.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:18 am

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.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:20 am

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.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:49 am

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:22 am

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.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:10 am

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:23 am

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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Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:34 am

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.