Geoguesrr

I bloody love Geoguessr, but I am definitely a street-sign Googler. I really enjoy having a few tabs open with, say, the Sao Paolo Yellow Pages, and a list of churches called Our Lady of Whatever, and trying to narrow it down that way. What I think is great about it is that it lets you construct your own fun way of doing it - I enjoy ferreting through databases, and I bet if you were a botanist it'd be fascinating trying to do it from vegetation, etc.

Oh man, you had to remind me of this thing's existence. There goes the rest of my day!

Torgo said:

I bloody love Geoguessr, but I am definitely a street-sign Googler. I really enjoy having a few tabs open with, say, the Sao Paolo Yellow Pages, and a list of churches called Our Lady of Whatever, and trying to narrow it down that way. What I think is great about it is that it lets you construct your own fun way of doing it - I enjoy ferreting through databases, and I bet if you were a botanist it'd be fascinating trying to do it from vegetation, etc.

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The worst is when you have to be a botanist to get at least the continent after you've been dropped in some open plain.

Oh, it's a village one the border of Ukraine instead of in the middle of it!

Talk about blind luck.

Reveen said:

Oh, it's a village one the border of Ukraine instead of in the middle of it!

Talk about blind luck.

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Databases. It's kind of amazing how many signs there are in the world. Find yourself a sign in the village; learn a bit of Cyrillic; spend five minutes fascinatedly browsing Google. So much fun.

I've gotten over 20,000 a couple of times without Googling, with some very lucky guesses.

26745. I win ten internets. It helps that 4 times out of five I was neatly deposited next to road signs. And then I happened to know where Port Arthur, Lightning Ridge, Gemsbok, and Funchal are. For the fifth, anonymous but obviously Brazilian town, I was throwing darts at a map.

I love Geoguessr.

I do Google, but I try to ballpark guess first. I'm well familiar with the pay phones in Brazil now (does anybody else get Brazil an awful lot?)

Yeah, Brazil and Russia, as well as vast swathes of coniferous forest that could be Canada, Alaska, or Scandinavia. I'm interested to know how this works, actually, and whether it's truly random.

You monster, Teinz! Now that's the end of my productive afternoon.

Albedo said:

Yeah, Brazil and Russia, as well as vast swathes of coniferous forest that could be Canada, Alaska, or Scandinavia. I'm interested to know how this works, actually, and whether it's truly random.

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At least Scandinavia seems more dedicated to having consistent road signs than some other locations. And Norway's, I think, tend to be blue.

Russia (and the Ukraine) always gets me, since I can't exactly Google something in an alphabet I don't know >.> I know I've gotten Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, South Africa, Botswana, Russia, the Ukraine, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, England, and the U.S. And I think those are the only countries I've gotten, actually. I know it has to be places Google Street View has gone (so no North Korea, obviously, no Pripyat), but other than that, I don't know how they determine it algorithmically.

Big fan of Geoguessr - managed to get around 19000 points, mostly because I recognized one of the towns that popped up as one I've driven through and got within 100 meters. I then proceeded to guess the wrong continent for the next two. I've gotten pretty good at figuring out when I'm in Brazil, though.