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Lack of grown-ups in the office means that today at work, I will mostly be playing [url= http://www.geoguessr.com/ ]Geoguessr[/url].
(*Apologies if it's old news)
Got 12441 on my first go (not braggin, or owt). I have yet to better that.
DrP - Member
7392!
7239 here
DPr
9490 first go.
Would have been a lot more if I hadnt second guessed myself and changed my first choice of Japan for New zealand 🙁
EDIT 9830 second go.
Yep, addictive.
10479 third
I always get one the wrong side of the world. Finland and Minnesota are very similar IMO 🙂
First go 8468
Got lucky with one at 169km!
10777 and I'm out - I'm sure you could do very well by moving around a bit and googling what you find (Asian text etc)
Googling would be cheating, though, wouldn't it... 😕
brilliant fun and I'm crap at it
Is it cheating to look for clues in the images?
First try I guessed Florida and it was Australia. The second two I pinpointed using signs in the picture and Google.
not at all, you should be encouraged to use all the deductive powers at your disposal
But it turns out that Serbians have exactly the same concrete telegraph poles as the French 🙁
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Thurman Merman - Member
Googling would be cheating, though, wouldn't it...
well yeah, although it is a "google game" 😐
there was a road sign with asian text on one image I opened up that otherwise could've been bloody anywhere temperate unless you can identify plant species, so that saved me quite a lot of points I reckon
and I bet you could "drive" to a roadsign on many of them (might just have a proper go at cheating)
I just got plonked in the middle of the most bleak featureless desert you could imagine.. Lol 🙂
Oh I'd say moving around is definitely cheating though.
Wow.. I just got another that looked like Western Australia, but with no clues - I guessed and was out by 131km!
10663
Fair play you don't always get any clues.. the last one was a dirt road in the middle of absolutely nowhere, but clearly at a very northerly or southerly latitude.
I think you'd do well to learn which countries have google streetview and which don't.
when I say look around I mean 360 degrees and zoom in, not move about.
12849.. damn it.. goodbye productivity.
Jeff
Oh I'd say moving around is definitely cheating though.
No, I reckon you can freely move around within the landscape and use your deductive powers. A friend of mine got lucky and was plonked right in front of shop that clearly said "Orkney Woollen Shop" on its frontage.
But typing in a place and/or business name into Google would be cheating.
12182 first attempt.
Two in North America, Mexico, Ireland and Tazzy!
What have you done to my revision!!!
Well, I've been googling for the last two. Just got plonked in front of a roadsign:
You missed with 0.04 km which gave 3172 points.
Yeeeass!
However.. I googled and got some great hits, and still only got 10k - wtf are you people doing?
how come when I get it completely wrong, like guessing USA and its New zealand I get 900 points, but when I guess Maine, and its New York I only get 2000?
Just got 6k without googling.. even then I got the same place twice. I've no idea how you lot manage to get 12k points.
meehaja I think it might have something to do with latitude rather than just distance.
Can anyone beat 0.04km?
8319 on a first go.
Didn't use any tools / cheats beyond panning around. I figure that's in the spirit of the game; if you were dropped in the middle of nowhere and asked where you were, the first thing you'd do is look around you a bit.
11545 points. One I got 0.5km away too
9060
5 different continents and I was always in/on the right one 🙂
Is it targetted? Everyone I had had sea/water and mountains and made me want to go there on holiday 🙂
Ah.. it's time related too isn't it? That's why I only got 3k points despite being right on the money, cos it too ages to google.
9909. I got better once I worked out you could zoom in on the guessing map 😳
Ha! Thought I was in the middle of nowhere - scrolled around and saw the Golden Gate Bridge. Pinpointed my position to within 0.003km!!
Genius game. THIS is what the internet was invented for.
you can scroll? I just went on the first screen! (back for more..)
I just got 300km with deductive reasoning. Steep rocky volcanic hills rising out of the sea, verdant greenery, lots of fat white tourists standing around taking pictures.. It could only be Hawaii 🙂
13108
First time, 3 in Australia, One in Canada, one in Mexico. I've never been, but by car types and landscapes I hit the right continent each time.
I just had a long straight road. Looked like the US or Canadian midwest. Had to "travel" several miles before there was anything other than fields and dirt.
10874!
first go approx 6000 (mexican holiday resort littered with budhas and asian writing!)
Just done some serious googling to get [url= http://goo.gl/FjyDN ]15,128[/url]
12350 on my first go! Good game.
Woohoo! 13048! A little scrolling around, but no googling.
Had I not mistaken Poland for Romania I'd have done better 😀
11017 with no googling! Three of mine were in the balkans, and I just kept getting the wrong balkan.
9732 on first outing.
Top game!
9746, the fact that Finish streets looks (to me) vaguely like some US streets didn't help!
See, I'd have known the difference!
8861
This is awesome and you have completely ruined the rest of my work day.
Closest match so far was 0.024! Key West Museum.
Hang on... have they moved the Severn Bridge to Brazil?
12512!! Day ruined, no work today!
10197
11332 first go. One guess at Florida was only 50km out!
I'm really not very good at this game. I can't tell the difference between Canada and Australia.
8646 1st go
7221 2nd go
.......must leave internet
7409 🙂
closest was 30km in florida
10937
No googling, no moving. Did spin around on the spot though.
Surely googling is cheating.
Surely googling is cheating.
Damn straight 😀
10782 helps when they plonk the visitor centre at the Eden Project in front of you!!
i've now got over 11,500 a couple of times without googling but it did require a fair bit of deduction and spinning on the spot.
Also who knew there were bits of Poland that look like the south of france!
11997 no googling here.
New Zealand, somewhere in the Netherlands, couple in the US and one in Canada ( trees as far as you could see and a dead straight dirt road.... )
I may have been playing this a little too much...
Now getting the same pictures repeated 🙁 must be a limited data set of pictures - I was hoping that it would just go on for ever....
Shame about the limited pictures.
It would be great if it just gave 100% random shots. Initial shots wouldn't look as good but loads more depth to the play.
7723 points 1st go
10932 points 2nd go
1st go, no google - 9145
( http://bit.ly/10x07B0)
2nd go, with google (makes it far too easy) - 15832
( http://bit.ly/179r70K)
Good way to waste an afternoon at work!
Some are dead giveaways with google, some are most definitely not.
no google or scrolling all done with first initial screen shot i got 12656. happy with that so back to work.
I should be working but
15854 with some serious Googling. I feel a bit sad now.
11887 with no Googling. All answers in the right country 🙂
Did help that one location included the Golden Gate Bridge!
I've been getting the country bang on almost all the time - I even got Korea - but I seem unable to distinguish between Australia and South Africa often.
If the picture is devoid of signage I'm getting a few muddled up between scandinavia and canada. The middle of nowhere, Australia and the middle of nowhere America look very similar too.
I did have a right comic one where it plonked me next to a sign that said welcome to 'someplaceorother' Alaska's first city.
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Abused Google, but I was kicking myself at 0.006km away in the end
Game finished!
You got 10900 points in total.
1st in Australia (Western Australia)
2nd in South America (I chose Chile instead of Brazil)
3rd in Europe (Greece)
4th USA (Alaska)
a few thousand Km out on a couple but I didn't get the wrong continent!
Trying to play from..not moving and only guessing on where you have been plopped:
Speed game if you like.
That's a great game. My first go was 7633.
14999 with no Googling. Two really lucky guesses with the Australian Outback and the middle of New Mexico. Flippin' addictive!
12832 first go, with no googling*
Bang goes that early night.
*or other "...ing"
15370 on my third game 8)
No Googling
Bah!
Curse beginners' luck.
What I was convinced was the Stirling Ranges in Western Australia turns out to be somewhere on the US/Mexico border.
22278 google is your friend. But next go dumped in a woods and missed by 15000km! Wrong type of tree.
Got a lorry with a web address on that shortened the odds on one.
Anyone figure out where this is? 😀
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