Wednesday, May 29, 2013

GeoGuessr - Where in the World are You?

In the pre-internet era we often had to resort to inventing our own games. Some of my favorites involved guessing countries based only on their flags (world maps were great for that), or naming countries with names starting with a specific letter. Sure... after a few game sessions we would run out of countries and we'd have to move on to other themes... but I still hold fond memories of those games.

Now, thanks to Google Maps and street view, we can have a much broader game board spanning the entire world and that will put your geolocation detective mind to work. In GeoGuessr you're dropped somewhere around the world, and you'll have to figure out where on a world map. The further you are from the correct spot the less points you get, and you have five rounds to go.

In the end, you'll get your score and a link you can use to challenge your friends to see if they can do any better than you for the exact same spots. Feel like having a go? Then try and see if you can do better than my - almost - 12,000 points! ;)

2 comments:

  1. You won the challenge with 16401 points against 11984.

    And the last 2 are pure guesses :)

    http://geoguessr.com/?v=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%3D%3D

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    1. All it takes is an australian spot being placed somewhere else... and we're done. :)

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