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Geoguessr: Addictive Google Maps Game

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by tehG l i d e, May 17, 2013.

  1. tehG l i d e

    tehG l i d e Member

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    http://geoguessr.com/

    Been playing this all night. Basically you're dropped somewhere in the world and you have to move about in Google street view and guess where you are. You're then given points based on how close you guessed to the correct destination. You're given 5 random locations in a row before you're given a final score. If you want you can then let other people challenge your score with the same locations you just guessed.

    My most recent attempt - 11578 pts
    http://www.geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3R...uZ2UiOmZhbHNlLCJjaGFsbGVuZ2VTY29yZSI6bnVsbH0=
     
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  2. Someguy1229

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  3. tehG l i d e

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    I was dropped in India and then my computer got a virus... amirite?
     
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    I looked around the town and saw signs saying South Africa. Then I saw Musina everywhere which was the name of the town. So I looked for Musina in South Africa.
     
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    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    Nice!

    First guess: Your guess was 36.867 km from the correct location and gave 4398 points. (Matamoros, Mexico)
    Second guess:Your guess was 92.426 km from the correct location and gave 3290 points. (Close to Nagano, Japan.)
    Third guess: Your guess was 221.034 km from the correct location and gave 2754 points. (Close to Santa Cruz, California, USA)
    Fourth guess: Your guess was 269.11 km from the correct location and gave 2678 points. (Close to Ireland, but in Belfast)
    Fifth guess: Your guess was 1931.241 km from the correct location and gave 1964 points. (Ogasamara?!? WTH. :grin:)

    My Game :cool: - 15084 points

    I think I did well for someone who doesn't travel a lot. I have not ever been to any other country besides Mexico and the U.S.
     
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  10. SwoLy-D

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    What do you consider "Googling"? We're actually "searching" within the map... it's legal... else you wouldn't be allowed to traverse some of the places, zoom, move about, etc. You know? :cool:

    Who is cheating, that you noticed? :confused:
     
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    I was dropped in Ethiopia and now I'm hungry.
     
  12. Commodore

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    do you get more points for guessing without moving around?
     
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    Damnit, I don't speak no Chinese.
     
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    I got dropped at a Westin which looked really familiar, and then I realized it was a Westin that I've been to in Key West. Ha.
     
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    Guesses:

    "Drove" around until I saw some truck that said something with the word MEX in it, and I had a country narrowed down, drove around a little more and couldn't find anything else to differentiate from anything else, so I guessed close to the US/Mexico border just because.

    I drove around in my next one and checked to see any sort of signs of life, came up on a sign that said Oranjerivier which I can only assume was the Orange River, which I knew was in SA, and kind of guessed as I zoomed in on the map once I located the Orange river.

    Brazil I just took a guess at it being somewhere between Rio/Sao Paolo, was totally wrong. Then I remembered seeing a sign with the name of the city but I didn't know that was a city to begin with, so it didn't help me any.

    There was absolutely no signs in the 4th one except it looked very southwest-y, specifically the shrubbery. I guessed if I was going to be anywhere near the Southwest, I might as well pick right between Arizona and NM. Turns out it was at the opposite end of NM.

    Finally, Okawa, there was a sign that said Okawa was 7km away on Highway 208, so I just followed 208, hoped I was on the correct side of the 7km distance, and actually still missed it by 8km.

    Cool game.
     

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