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[Pasidon]

http://geoguessr.com/

 

Geo Guessr is a game designed from the Google Map interface that will test your knowledge of the world.  In this game, you are thrown into 5 random different street views, and using the world map, you must guess where you are.  The closer you are, the more points you get.

 

This is super fun, and I think it would be groovy to deign a Revora Guessr challenge.  So familiarize yourself with the game and think of some great ideas to test the entire community in a gauntlet of geographical doom.  And post some high scores you get in the mean time.

Edited by {IP}Pasidon, 01 July 2013 - 11:38 PM.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Yeah, Robyn showed me this when I was bored a while ago. I love this thing, highly entertaining.

 

Once got it in under twenty metres, can't remember exactly. Somewhere in Sweden, I think it was.

[Bofur]

I saw it from your ask.fm, Irenë, and got a very good score.. I'll try again now.

[Bofur]

I got 9686 on my 3rd attempt, but brought down by guessing West Russia for North America :/

[Pasidon]

Russia is a real big son of a stink.  It literally has every type of landscape and architecture in it, and it's flipping the size of the moon.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

9617 points on my 2nd try.

Luckily they threw in an Australian one and I recognised the flora at once and a Nevada one which is easy to get only 300kms off of that one.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

My advice is to find road signs. I mean, in Russia and China that doesn't work, but in many places it's a good tactic.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

Don't rely on them too heavily I had one in spanish I thought yeah that's in Spain but at the last moment I chose Mexico and wouldn't you know it, it was Spain. :(

[Mathijs]

14079 points on my second try. I got lucky when I spotted a Vancouver hockey teambus on the road and managed to get within 14 kilometers of the spot.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

11491 my best score yet got yet another Australian one down to 33kms.
 

Beat that with 13266 and one of those was in Russia

[Pasidon]

I don't understand that.  Not only is Russian an incomprehensible language, with the city names dire to work out, but the landscape is just so inconsistent.  I was in a Russian coastal city that I thought was The Caribbean, and a winter terrain that I confused for Canada.  What an awful country... 

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

I recognised the lettering on one of the billboards and took a stab since most of Russia's cities are on the western side so I clicked south of Moscow and was off by like 100km.

[Pasidon]

Whaaat? You got one close to Moscow? That may be the one distinctive city.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

The embarrassing one is I had one that was grasslands with a road cutting through it I guessed the American Mid-West instead it turned out to be Charleville a place only a few hours from where I live.

[Pasidon]

Ha!  Wow...But I do wonder if you get a place just right outside your house, and how weird the stereoscopic perspective is, if you could recognize it.  I can't say fur sure I could.