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2013-05-13, 11:57 AM | #1 |
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GeoGuessr - How well do you know the world
Simple yet somewhat fun game. Take a google street view, and try to figure out where you are in the world. 5 rounds. Some pictures are a little easier than others.
So far, my best score is somewhere in the 7000s. I keep messing up the Australian outback ones though. http://geoguessr.com/
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2013-05-13, 12:01 PM | #2 |
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2013-05-13, 12:23 PM | #3 |
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2013-05-13, 02:28 PM | #4 |
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1st try, 13406. Getting the Grand Canyon on round 5 saved me though.
http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rhb...LDUxOTZdXX0%3D |
2013-05-13, 03:55 PM | #5 |
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Bo-friggen-yam. With a little "cheating' (i.e. driving around the street view and google searching the things I found), I broke 30,000 points.
32378 It's nice to know, if you get dropped back on Earth in a random location after the aliens are done probing you, as long as your smartphone has a signal, you won't have to act like a crazy person asking everyone "what continent is this!?"
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2013-05-13, 05:39 PM | #6 |
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"Excuse me, do you speak English?"
"Ehh, what continent do you think this is?"
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2013-05-13, 06:51 PM | #7 |
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That better be a Ferris Bueller reference.
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2013-05-13, 07:41 PM | #8 |
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Les jeux sont faits.
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2013-05-13, 09:18 PM | #9 |
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MattQuest approves of this game! Awesome
19,700 my first try, and didn't cheat too much, good times
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2013-05-14, 09:03 AM | #10 |
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I had one game last night with one of the stops at the entrance to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. That one was worth like 6000+ points without cheating.
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2013-05-14, 09:37 AM | #11 | |
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Also, there was one in Napier, NZ that I recognized without looking it up, as I had been on that very sidewalk, kinda freaked me out a little bit. Pretty cool excuse to check out different places. I like how they blur out obvious signs and text...
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2013-05-14, 09:49 AM | #12 |
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Yeah, if nothing else its fun looking at all the beautiful places in the world. Wow.
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2013-05-14, 10:03 AM | #13 | |
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Quote:
http://www.google.com/help/maps/streetview/privacy.html
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2013-05-14, 12:34 PM | #14 |
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Best so far, 24070 with some good googling, though my Mexica google isn't quite so hot.
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2013-05-14, 02:16 PM | #15 |
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It seems like 6000 or so is the highest point total? Have you seen higher?
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2013-05-14, 02:44 PM | #16 |
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I think I've had a few in the 64xx range when "cheating". And that's at like 0.002 km away... 6500 might be the max. Or maybe 7000.
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2013-05-14, 08:43 PM | #17 |
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Got 11,226 for my first try on this crappy hotel connection, no Googling, just panning a maximum of 5 views per location.
http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rhb...pudWxsfQ%3D%3D
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2013-05-14, 09:41 PM | #18 |
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OK, my second round on my second try just landed me in a plaza in Valparaiso, so I was able to get it to 0.075km for 6473 points. Total was 17,351 with a little more panning around, but still no other references but the Geoguessr.
http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rhb...NvcmUiOm51bGx9
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2013-05-14, 09:53 PM | #19 |
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.....and for my third try.....no moving or zooming at all....just panning around in a circle in the first spot......and using nothing else but the Geoguessr....10,714 boooya!
http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rhb...NvcmUiOm51bGx9
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2013-05-15, 01:02 PM | #20 |
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Easiest one so far:
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2013-05-15, 01:38 PM | #21 |
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I just did that one too. I wish I had paid a little attention because I just assumed I was on the SF side looking North, so I missed it by 2km. Compasses, how do they work!? Still got almost 25,000 points w/o cheating.
http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rhb...ZSI6bnVsbH0%3D Wait, nevermind... looks like the Golden Gate wasn't in that game, it was the game before.
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2013-05-16, 10:24 AM | #22 |
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One more random one.
By the way, my guess of Great Barrier Reef, was not right.
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2013-05-16, 01:30 PM | #23 |
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That's actually the fish tank at a Sizzler in rural Ohio.
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2013-05-16, 03:20 PM | #24 |
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15724 on my first try, but the 4th one was across from the Bellagio in Vegas, and I recognized a town name in Oregon and would have been closer but got my directions mixed up.
Looking at cars gave a lot of easy clues, though. Australia, Finland, and even South Carolina and central Oregon have "types". http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3Rhb...ZSI6bnVsbH0%3D
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