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GeoGuesser (http://www.geoguessr.com/)- a game of geography that's a little bit addictive.
Based on the clues in the photograph, which you can manipulate to get different angles, you have to guess where you are in the world. Five photos per challenge.
I imagine with all the well-traveled people on this forum, the scores would be better than average.
Susan
The Reaper
05-17-2013, 21:54
29,931 points.
I usually got the country and sometimes state without moving from the start point. To get the town and street took a little detective work. Especially if you couldn't read Japanese. :D
TR
Whoa, sir. I'm impressed! (I'm also glad I didn't post my own score, now.)
How many rounds did you play?
Susan
Scimitar
05-17-2013, 23:47
19,492.
Really fun stuff
Rural settings challenging
Urban settings some fun detective work
S
21,996
Would have been higher had I listened to my inner voice and gone with Norway instead of Iceland.
Addictive game. :D
The Reaper
05-18-2013, 10:02
Whoa, sir. I'm impressed! (I'm also glad I didn't post my own score, now.)
How many rounds did you play?
Susan
One round of five.
TR
Peregrino
05-18-2013, 10:13
I played the first one to figure out how it works. After that it's relatively easy to score well - especially with Google open in another window to chase down the clues. A little persistence and the ability to relate terrain to maps helps. And yes, I see how it can become addictive.
I, too, played for about 5 minutes with Google Maps open in another window - did the first three (6748 0.015km off; 6474 0.062km off; 6422 0.673km off) and closed it while ahead and to avoid another addictive Internet time sucker.
However, I may pop back in and do a few more periodically. ;)
Richard
Trapper John
05-19-2013, 17:39
27,182 points. Damn I wish I hadn't seen this. Very addictive
miclo18d
05-19-2013, 18:59
Yep, I'm totally addicted!
32053
The Reaper
05-19-2013, 20:41
32,237.
Got an easy one with a drop right in front of the Universal Studios, FL globe.
After digging through some backward valley in Romania for way too long looking for any identifying marks.
Way to easy to spend time on this. Addictive.
TR
Trapper John
05-21-2013, 08:49
Anyone come across the underwater location yet. All I could identify was a coral reef running roughly N-S, brain coral, and some unidentified tropical fish.:confused:
I won't tell you where it is, but I will tell you that it is not off the coast of Indonesia.
If anyone finds this one and figures out how to tell where the hell it is, please let me know.
Had an two easy ones: Port Arthur, TX and right in front of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Located within 0.001 km. :D
miclo18d
05-21-2013, 10:14
I ended up underwater on one but I "walked" out onto the beach and onto a street, It could be somewhere on the African Continent ;)
An underwater location !?!?!?! :confused: :eek:
Awwww com'on guys, I've got stuff to do today. :(
Trapper John
05-21-2013, 11:40
I ended up underwater on one but I "walked" out onto the beach and onto a street, It could be somewhere on the African Continent ;)
I tried to swim out by moving to shallower water (West). Maybe I didn't go far enough, couldn't tell. Definitely wasn't Africa though. If you get this one, continue moving Westerly. You gotta come out sometime. That hint probably gives this one away or at least to be within 2500 km.;)
Rumblyguts
05-21-2013, 13:47
Without the Googlefu, I'd be miserable at this.
Had one in Germany that, as I traveled down the road, the seasons changed from fall to winter...road to snowmobile tacks.
Trapper John
05-21-2013, 14:04
Without the Googlefu, I'd be miserable at this.
Had one in Germany that, as I traveled down the road, the seasons changed from fall to winter...road to snowmobile tacks.
That should've been a hint to turn around. You were going to higher elevation and probably away from the nearest town or road sign. Same goes for a river or stream, go with the flow.;)
30,257.Damnit, Requiem, I'm supposed to be running a healthcare office and not getting addicted to this! :D
My apologies, Doc. :D
It IS addictive. I'm currently stuck in a courtyard in Nepal or Tibet, or possibly China. It has two ways out, but I can't find the "walking" controls on this one. I just go in circles within the courtyard and I can see out the door beyond. :confused:
Susan (ready to give it a wild guess and go on)
Game finished!
You got 31972 points in total.
I got stuck in a small town in Estonia; I kept going in circles. I finally found an exit and a road sign.
A similar thing happened in a village in Brazil. But, I found a complete telephone number on the side of a business and called the guy and asked where he was. :D OK, I didn't do that, but I Googled it and got the address. The Google paddle wasn't very accurate and that turned out to be my largest miss.
This thing is making me dizzy.
Pat
A similar thing happened in a village in Brazil.
We just missed each other wandering on those red-dirt streets. I found a school with the name of the town on it.
S.
The Reaper
05-21-2013, 17:57
Game finished!
You got 31972 points in total.
I got stuck in a small town in Estonia; I kept going in circles. I finally found an exit and a road sign.
A similar thing happened in a village in Brazil. But, I found a complete telephone number on the side of a business and called the guy and asked where he was. :D OK, I didn't do that, but I Googled it and got the address. The Google paddle wasn't very accurate and that turned out to be my largest miss.
This thing is making me dizzy.
Pat
Same here.
I landed on an island off Estonia (with a sign nearby, good thing I Googled, I thought it was in Finnish).
Another was Manaus, Brazil where I checked out the name on a business sign and Googled it. I could read the Portuguese, just wanted to verify it was Brazil.
Very entertaining.
TR