Geoguesser

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:03 pm

It's my score. You're meant to improve on it.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:25 pm

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Good game.

We were close a couple of times but I struck gold with the last guess, me being a stonemason put me less than 30 miles from the correct location

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 1:27 pm

Snowfire;1448783 wrote: We were close a couple of times but I struck gold with the last guess, me being a stonemason put me less than 30 miles from the correct location
I did think the church was pretty distinctive. Getting close on that map isn't easy though. I tried for Scotland on one of them and ended up in Northern Ireland.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:13 pm

Very interesting........................what happened to the word game?

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:17 pm

Týr;1448785 wrote: I did think the church was pretty distinctive. Getting close on that map isn't easy though. I tried for Scotland on one of them and ended up in Northern Ireland.

Zoom in on the map??

I went for walks.

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Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:20 pm

You won the challenge with 20035 points against 10596.

The last one threw me a bit

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Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:52 pm

You won the challenge with 12803 points against 10596.

I was quite a bit off with the first few but just about spot on with the last one.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 3:02 pm

Kinda fun. Definitely a keeper

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 3:27 pm

LarsMac;1448797 wrote: Kinda fun. Definitely a keeper

Totally agree, I'm please to have managed the right country eacy time but the last two really bumped my score :-

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Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 20282 points against 10596.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 3:28 pm

Bruv;1448790 wrote: Very interesting........................what happened to the word game?

I guess people lost interest and the sharing stopped.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 7:45 pm

If interested, here is another challenge

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 2:47 am

LarsMac;1448826 wrote: If interested, here is another challenge

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

I lost 9231 I did get a bit lost continent wise.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:19 am

LarsMac;1448826 wrote: If interested, here is another challenge

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Challenge game finished!

You lost the challenge with 10321 points against 19764.

Not a good result!

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 9:10 am

I did much better than I thought I would considering I've hardly been anywhere.

Attached files

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 9:20 am

I ended up playing with this into the wee hours this morning.

The more you play, and the better you do, the tougher the locals become, it seems.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 9:26 am

I came close to guessing one of the Scandinavian locations was New Brunswick or Nova Scotia so I figured I was pushing my luck playing another round.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 9:36 am

LarsMac;1448838 wrote: I ended up playing with this into the wee hours this morning.

The more you play, and the better you do, the tougher the locals become, it seems.

I played a couple of times but found the places repeated themselves..................and I was still getting them wrong.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:02 pm

LarsMac;1448826 wrote: If interested, here is another challenge

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Damn - I was doing well until the final location - I thought it was Ankar Wat in Cambodia :-

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Challenge game finished!

You lost the challenge with 17766 points against 19764.

Well done, good game.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:36 am

I am becoming addicted to this........it is just a phase I am going through hopefully.

There are a lot of very straight roads in the world I have discovered.......that look much the same.

This challenge starts and finishes in water...... a pond or possibly a river......go for it.

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YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:49 am

I believe I have lost every one.

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Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:29 pm

Bruv;1448946 wrote: I am becoming addicted to this........it is just a phase I am going through hopefully.

There are a lot of very straight roads in the world I have discovered.......that look much the same.

This challenge starts and finishes in water...... a pond or possibly a river......go for it.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

How on Earth do you guess the first one? There's nothing to see and you cannot move around!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:45 pm

Bryn Mawr;1448965 wrote: How on Earth do you guess the first one? There's nothing to see and you cannot move around!

I guessed Poland for the water, seemed a good idea, and wasn't too far out.

The second one was a strange one too, foot prints in snow on a hill overlooking a town.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:27 pm

Bruv;1448968 wrote: I guessed Poland for the water, seemed a good idea, and wasn't too far out.

The second one was a strange one too, foot prints in snow on a hill overlooking a town.

I did my best :-

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Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 20788 points against 10444.

The copyright notice on the first was in Russian

The churches in the second had onion domes but not the full form but the devolved version used further west

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:08 pm

This is fun.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

I think this one is pretty easy, I think. Well the first few.

I was playing one last night, and it learned a bit about reading Cyrillic.

But I bailed out before I could save the URL and post it.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:32 am

LarsMac;1449137 wrote: This is fun.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

I think this one is pretty easy, I think. Well the first few.

I was playing one last night, and it learned a bit about reading Cyrillic.

But I bailed out before I could save the URL and post it.

I lost 11509 points to your many many more, got the continent wrong on the first one.

So many long straight dusty roads in the world, so many Spanish/Cyrillic/English countries.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Score to beat 17510

Post by **LarsMac** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:29 pm

Bruv;1449145 wrote: I lost 11509 points to your many many more, got the continent wrong on the first one.

So many long straight dusty roads in the world, so many Spanish/Cyrillic/English countries.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Score to beat 17510

Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 28177 points against 17510.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:33 am

LarsMac;1449213 wrote: Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 28177 points against 17510.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Congrats - that is an exceptional score

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:05 pm

You got 14835 points in total.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

I think I am on a hiding to nothing here.

I am a non driver, competing against somebody that is "usually on the road"

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:19 pm

Bryn Mawr;1449266 wrote: Congrats - that is an exceptional score

Thanks.

I confess that I spent probably 15 to 20 minutes each on several of the locations.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:49 pm

LarsMac;1449288 wrote: Thanks.

I confess that I spent probably 15 to 20 minutes each on several of the locations.

But some of them go so far and theres a dead end, all along dusty side roads with no clue what so ever.

Otherwise the roads go on and on and on forever in a straight line, obviously not the UK or much of Europe.

Much of North America looks like Northern Europe, much of Southern Europe looks like South America.

The Australian outback looks much like African bush, it's only what side of the road they drive can give a clue.

Is looking for signs cheating ?

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:22 pm

Bruv;1449300 wrote: But some of them go so far and theres a dead end, all along dusty side roads with no clue what so ever.

Otherwise the roads go on and on and on forever in a straight line, obviously not the UK or much of Europe.

Much of North America looks like Northern Europe, much of Southern Europe looks like South America.

The Australian outback looks much like African bush, it's only what side of the road they drive can give a clue.

Is looking for signs cheating ?

I hope not.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:26 pm

LarsMac;1449334 wrote: I hope not.

It must be surely :wah:

didn't stop me having a look though!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:29 pm

LarsMac;1449334 wrote: I hope not.
What about learning the Cyrillic alphabet ?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:57 pm

Bruv;1449339 wrote: What about learning the Cyrillic alphabet ?

You mean you don't know it?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:00 pm

I know.....of.....it.

Doesn't help much.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:24 pm

Bruv;1449339 wrote: What about learning the Cyrillic alphabet ?

Well, I found that being able to at least get the phonetics of Cyrillic figured out helps a bit.

And you can copy-paste the characters for a word into google and do a translate of the word, to get a western version of a town or city or a business.

I've started putting a time limit on my guesses, because sometimes I can wasted half an hour or more, and get no closer than I would in the first ten minutes.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:31 am

Funny you should say that.

I spent 10 minutes trying to get off a Japanese beach, up and down the shore line, noway out, knew it was Japan the speed boats had Yamaha on them(wink)

Next twenty minutes up a brand new road with men painting lines by hand, to a roundabout with four turn offs and NO sign posts and no way past it, back to the beggining to turn around then miles back to another unsigned roundabout, a road under construction with only a rough sign in spanish telling of the workers presence.

Next into an enclosed visitor site in front of a museum or something..................could have been any middle European town from Spain to Russia signs all smudged.......next one the whole scene blacks out except for the directional arrows, nothing I can do will reveal the scene.

Thats about forty minutes of my life I wont get back.

Aha Google translates Cyrillic....................off we go again...........see ya.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:55 pm

My best ever...............I think.

25176......GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:19 pm

Bruv;1449460 wrote: My best ever...............I think.

25176......GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 29553 points against 25176.

You obviously know exactly where the site is but you need to blow the map up more to get the final level of detail

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:35 pm

Bruv;1449460 wrote: My best ever...............I think.

25176......GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Nice score.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:39 pm

Bryn Mawr;1449470 wrote: GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 29553 points against 25176.

You obviously know exactly where the site is but you need to blow the map up more to get the final level of detail

Challenge game finished!

You won the challenge with 30574 points against 25176.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

I'm getting pretty good at this. But yeah, we are getting to the point that zeroing in as close as possible counts. I was under a km for four out of the five locations.

I didn't even see that little rock in the 4th. Good thing you couldn't get too far off the mark there.

You guys interested in working up to some timed games?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:01 am

Timed ?

Less than 2 hours you mean ?

You guys are zoning in on 'little rocks'?

I am struggling zoning in on hemishperes.

Let me give this some thought.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:46 pm

Here's one for y'all.

I did it in about an hour total. (there is no time limit set.)

Only clue I will offer is that knowing the differences in writing characters in Eastern Asian counties makes all the difference for one of them.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:06 pm

LarsMac;1449579 wrote: Here's one for y'all.

I did it in about an hour total. (there is no time limit set.)

Only clue I will offer is that knowing the differences in writing characters in Eastern Asian counties makes all the difference for one of them.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

That was close!

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I took about one hour twenty.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:18 pm

Bryn Mawr;1449603 wrote: That was close!

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

I took about one hour twenty.

Nice job!!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:22 pm

OK I give up, my attention span doesn't run to any length of time approaching an hour...............these days.

I am also getting the whole scene blackout in sections with only the directional arrows to be seen, and no way to get back on course.............mind I could be using that as an excuse.

I did start the last challenge but got to the last location and it all went black on me, restarting it seems like a cheat.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:47 pm

Bruv;1449616 wrote: OK I give up, my attention span doesn't run to any length of time approaching an hour...............these days.

I am also getting the whole scene blackout in sections with only the directional arrows to be seen, and no way to get back on course.............mind I could be using that as an excuse.

I did start the last challenge but got to the last location and it all went black on me, restarting it seems like a cheat.

When it happened to me I presumed that not letting you move was deliberate but the last location of the last quiz did not blank out for me so I guess not.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 11:27 am

I finally broke 30K on a score.

This is kind of fun. I have found a lot of new entries in my "Places to go" list.

It is fascinating how much alike different area of the world can look.

http://url.geoguessr.com/73k0

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 4:18 pm

Total failure 1000's of miles out in a couple of places, opposite side of the States, and different countries.......I get bored too easily, thats my excuse.

http://url.geoguessr.com/73re

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 5:47 pm

LarsMac;1451020 wrote: I finally broke 30K on a score.

This is kind of fun. I have found a lot of new entries in my "Places to go" list.

It is fascinating how much alike different area of the world can look.

http://url.geoguessr.com/73k0

Baaaad :-

You lost the challenge with 24168 points against 32323.

Maps two and five got me :-

http://url.geoguessr.com/73TQ