Internet Interest: GeoGuessr
Hey Guys,
You might have already seen this but i thought it was kind of fun. It's just a game where you guess where a google streetview is in the world. http://www.geoguessr.com/ Anyway I thought i was terrible at geography but turns out from enough TopGear I'm good at placing many roadsigns. Also not too bad at looking at hints from language and shop names. Anyway my first score was http://bit.ly/ZTP0C8 and i'm sure you're all more clever, so give it a go! |
04:40pm 13/05/13 Permalink
the very fist image i get is a dirt road...
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04:45pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Very internetsing!
Game finished! You got 8742 points in total |
04:54pm 13/05/13 Permalink
the very fist image i get is a dirt road... So was mine, but it was a dirt road that off in the distance i could see a tiny cottage house which looked really quaint and english, so i guessed and turns out places in the UK isn't exactly far away from each other. There's no doubt that I got such a good score because on one of them i saw a town just south of adelaide that i could recognize. That alone gave me 6000+ points. |
05:03pm 13/05/13 Permalink
I'd be useless because I've never left my suburb.
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05:42pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Got lucky the first time I played, it dropped me down right in front of a sign that said, "Welcome to Alaska's 1st City. Ketchikan."
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05:48pm 13/05/13 Permalink
28308 http://goo.gl/AT3uX
2 Canada ones and an Australian one were easy, found town name in signs. South Africa I had to look at road signs and pick places which were the appropriate driving distance on the highway number. The Brazil one I did the same as South Africa but there are a lot less signs in that town. |
06:04pm 13/05/13 Permalink
8286
In one of them I saw a wind turbine and a light house. So I guess somewhere near Holland. I was close lol. |
06:04pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Total points: 8473
Not too bad for a first go. |
06:13pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Are you allowed to use Google Maps if you find a town name? I resisted the urge, but maybe I don't have to?
I got some good points for Russia, saw the writing and went, well I know the country at least and spammed a location for 2000 points. I failed dismally with picking a place in Northern America when it was in fact somewhere in europe. O well. All I had was a big long road and lots of tree's, maybe if I sunk a few points in Botany I'd have scored better . |
06:17pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Been playing this a bit the last couple days, really interesting game. Its best if you only use the street view to try and determine where you are IMO, you get pretty resourcefull with information. For example, I now know the style of telephone line pole used in most regional polish towns :P
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06:23pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Played a second time. First place I get I can see Japanese style writing and the ocean. Made my guess and the actual place was an island off tot he south east in a place I didn't even know there were islands.
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06:29pm 13/05/13 Permalink
wow nice game, 14k first go. Some random canada ones in the middle of the forest are bulls***
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06:45pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Played a second time. First place I get I can see Japanese style writing and the ocean. Made my guess and the actual place was an island off tot he south east in a place I didn't even know there were islands. Striker and I both got that too im guessing. I don't know why it's so popular. I also ended up in leggo world or something and guessed malaysia, but was hilariously wrong as it was the one in denmark xD |
06:45pm 13/05/13 Permalink
I had "The Big Winch" near Cooper Pedy in S.A. The picture looked dry, hot and sunbaked so guessed Northern Territory.
The Asian islands were here on googlemaps 27.149589, 141.756134. Turns out the islands are near Iwo Jima. |
06:55pm 13/05/13 Permalink
9545 second time, tried to really study the area and move around and look at signs, I got in the right ballpark each time, but you must have to be pretty spot on to get high scores in this game
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06:56pm 13/05/13 Permalink
lol
http://i.imgur.com/80MfRe4.jpg also just worked out you can use the compass to orient yourself near oceans |
07:06pm 13/05/13 Permalink
20754 I got 8 to 11 km to the target for 3 of them, but this has taken all the time since I last posted to do 5, was really studying signs and the blackness of people
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07:59pm 13/05/13 Permalink
Er lolwut!?
I got one that was half under water, Wilson island off qld I think it was. Weeird |
08:40pm 13/05/13 Permalink
first go
Game finished! You got 15647 points in total. |
09:24pm 13/05/13 Permalink
15000 is my best so far.
My lowest scoring single round was 90 points, I was about 14,000Km's out.. |
10:21pm 13/05/13 Permalink
with google
Game finished! You got 32355 points in total. they threw in come curveballs - 1 in the middle of a desert and another in the middle of russia.. that was a tough one |
10:26pm 13/05/13 Permalink
and another was in the middle of the Durban botanical gardens.. was a bit wtf driving on footpaths ftw
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10:29pm 13/05/13 Permalink
That's a decent f*****g score, that must be some seriously godlike internet warrioring down to the meter to get your points up to that. Averaging over 6200 each guess to reach that when maybe i only cracked 6k a few times in every run so far!
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11:45pm 13/05/13 Permalink
8600 first time. Guess right continent each time but guessed Greece when turkey, mexico when brazil etc. First pic i got had "Tasman" written a few placed and i guessed tasmania when it was NZ - kicking myself about that one. Also didnt know you could move from your initial spot.
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12:17am 14/05/13 Permalink
11:08am 14/05/13 Permalink
try to beef up the difficulty
I got 7560 but didnt move the camera at all 11750 when i just spin the camera around |
09:45pm 14/05/13 Permalink
http://bit.ly/13Y405r
Second game - totally lucked out by getting both an Australian and Japanese location tho |
10:01pm 14/05/13 Permalink
Got 17k on my first and probably last attempt. Got most pretty close except for one I guessed Poland instead of Russia and another Bali instead of Thailand.
I spent heaps of time tracking down my first guess which was a light house in Spain, new the name of the light house and everything yet still managed to pick the wrong area. After that I pretty much just went off the first clue available which was usually the language or a nearby name. |
01:33am 15/05/13 Permalink
try to beef up the difficultyYeh I was wondering how people were getting such high scores; I decided right from the outset that I was only going to rotate the camera and not move around (otherwise you can just move over to a sign or something that gives you massive clues) |
08:31am 15/05/13 Permalink
F*** THIS GAME AND F*** YOU FOR POSTING IT
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04:24pm 16/05/13 Permalink
Cool game, I thought my geography skills were quite good but I like totally sucked??? The first round I got 2k? I was totally off, I actually used Google Translate for some signs but it wasn't worth it so I just guess almost all of them. One of them was in Spanish and I went on Europe but it was Mexico... I got 5901 on the second try... Man lol!!!
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09:56pm 30/05/13 Permalink
