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Game: How well do you know the world? Can you crack 10,000?

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If I didn't miss Odessa by 4k, coulda broke 10k

I don't know what you guys did, but I aimed for the nearest road sign to give me some sort of hint then aimed.
 
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Look at plants and the land. If you get huge open flat plains you can point at the middle of the US and get over 2000 points almost every time. If you see mountains and pine trees then you can pretty much guess the western part of North America. Canada throws me off sometimes since I'll guess one side but it'll be the other but you'll still get a lot of points. Red soil in a desert environment with eucalyptus trees? Australia. Jungles? Pretty much going to be Central America or Brazil. Anything in Europe is going to give you 2000 points almost every time. Obviously a sign will give it away or if you see that they're on the wrong side of the road.

Signs are a big help if they're in your face. Hong Kong, Russia, Greece. You can easily get 2000 points if you see a sign from these places.

The ones that mess me up are when you get no discernible features. I got some stupid field that could have been Australia or maybe southern CA but it turned out to be Botswana.
 
The questions ranch from very easy (road signs) to very difficult (only landscape with no cars). It's really a luck of the draw.

I had one that had a roadsign indicating that it is on a tiny Taiwanese island, and was only 13 km off - 5,500 points just for that one question.

But then I lost major points on landscape ones so total score was only 13,300
 
Printer Bandit said:
what would be harder is if you had no access to google.

it's easy if you can find a sign, poster, building name, etc.
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I searched for signs and whatnot, but never googled. I found an area code but didn't recognize it, but based on a few other clues wasn't too far off.


I didn't feel like spending a ton of time on one, and I guessed London region and it ended up being in Australia. Got a whopping 40 points for that guess. lmao

Overall, still ended up 10,684 without ever touching Google. I roamed around each clue for awhile but only used my brain.

Without a time limit and actually using Google to search any clues (highway numbers, etc), which would mean sometimes stumbling around for awhile to even find a searchable clue... yeah, pretty easy to get a super high score if that was the only goal.
 
yuchai said:
The questions ranch from very easy (road signs) to very difficult (only landscape with no cars). It's really a luck of the draw.

I had one that had a roadsign indicating that it is on a tiny Taiwanese island, and was only 13 km off - 5,500 points just for that one question.

But then I lost major points on landscape ones so total score was only 13,300
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You can follow the road essentially for as long as you'd like - so get to hunting down those road signs versus hoping one just lands on the starting point. 😉
 
AViking said:
Look at plants and the land. If you get huge open flat plains you can point at the middle of the US and get over 2000 points almost every time. If you see mountains and pine trees then you can pretty much guess the western part of North America. Canada throws me off sometimes since I'll guess one side but it'll be the other but you'll still get a lot of points. Red soil in a desert environment with eucalyptus trees? Australia. Jungles? Pretty much going to be Central America or Brazil. Anything in Europe is going to give you 2000 points almost every time. Obviously a sign will give it away or if you see that they're on the wrong side of the road.
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All of mine, save one, were ~desolate mountain roads, some dirt roads in the center of the park, with predominantly pine trees. So, uh...could pretty much be anywhere along the Pac coast, or even along the rockies (in one case I guessed somewhere in Colorado, when it was Alberta)

Most of those were Canadia. In one, I mistook what looked like desolate, dry Wyoming hills for high Oregon desert. I simply didn't know that part of Oregon so closely resembled that terrain.
 
destrekor said:
You can follow the road essentially for as long as you'd like - so get to hunting down those road signs versus hoping one just lands on the starting point. 😉
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what about the poor saps landing on a cruise ship in the middle of some ocean? 😀
 
I got 9330 first (and only) try.

one was definitely in US, looked like texas (ranch style houses, trucks everywhere)...was montana.

one was definitely spanish speaking, looked tropical, so I guessed south america. it was guatemala. (cost me a few points)

one had a sign for barbecue (america?!) but i pressed on, and found another sign in what I thought was cyrillic, and saw what looked like a resort. So i guessed a resort on the caspian sea. turns out the writing was greek, in bulgaria on the black sea.
 
I cheated.
I look for signs and companies and then google for geographical clues.
But damn, is it hard.

6983 at first attempt.
10381 ppoints at second attempt.
I should have become a detective looking for clues. 😎
What a incredibly fun game.
 
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Captain Howdy said:
Try the link that is in this thread. Usually the BBC is pretty on the ball, not sure why they are acting like this is something new and not a direct copy of http://www.geoguessr.com/ only made smaller and spammed with links all over the page.
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THANKS!

The link/page you supplied works fine.

(My 2nd link in my original post, WORKS OK in the UK, but I poorly described it, because I was trying to make a joke about it).

The BBC have a very firm rule, which disallows advertising on any of their (UK) TV/internet etc platforms.
That may be part of the reason why it is barred from access in the UK.
If that is the main reason why, they should have put a warning page before it, explaining the situation, and allowing UK users to proceed if they are happy to.
 
AViking said:
Ok 20K is not happening without cheating. Not a chance lol
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I broke 20k once without cheating (several times with), but I got lucky; three of my starting points were in cities and one was at a church in Nizhny Norvgorod, Russia that I'd had as a starting point quite a number of times. I had three 6,000+ rounds and another at 4,500 because I picked the wrong end of a stretch of road outside a Canadian border town. The last one was some random stretch of road that I figured was in Brazil and ended up being Australia; should've looked for a road sign on that one.

I got hooked on doing this when it was posted here last year. I pretty much never score below 9,000, and aim for 12k+. A lot of locations get recycled, and there's enormous sections of the planet that streetview doesn't cover, which is really helpful information to have. If you open Google Maps, zoom all the way out and drag the little streetview man onto the map, the shaded areas in blue are the only places this game covers; guess outside of there and you'll be wrong 100% of the time. The resolution is a giveaway too; the older looking low-res photos are primarily from the midwest USA or Australia, and you can usually tell by the trees and ballpark it for at least 2,000 or so.
 
William Gaatjes said:
I look for signs and companies and then google for geographical clues.
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Is that cheating? I had one picture that dumped me next to a truck with Brataslava on the side of it and another right next to a hotel with the city name in it. Pretty easy to figure those two out 😛
 
11,552 on my first attempt.

Kinda lost interest after round 3. This site should be renamed from "How well do you know the world?" to "How well do you know how to use Google?"

I'll try again and see if I can polish my Google skills ....
 
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