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The Geo Guesser Game (Original Post) Yavin4 Jun 2013 OP
Hey I'm doing pretty well I think 10924 points sharp_stick Jun 2013 #1
Fun aint it. n/t Yavin4 Jun 2013 #2
I feel like a failure Xyzse Jun 2013 #3
here's mine geardaddy Jun 2013 #4
I've found moving down the road quite a bit helps a lot charlie and algernon Jun 2013 #5
I'm a beast!!! Chan790 Jun 2013 #6
You are my navigator Yavin4 Jun 2013 #7
No, I was a NatGeo Geography Bee semi-finalist in middle school though. Chan790 Jun 2013 #8
Nice n/t Yavin4 Jun 2013 #10
I got a forest road in Saskatchewan. bluedigger Jun 2013 #11
I got an aquaduct with high arches, expanses of fields, sheep marzipanni Jun 2013 #12
I recommend this game handmade34 Jun 2013 #9

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
3. I feel like a failure
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 01:50 PM
Jun 2013

You got 8167 points in total

All except for one, I got at the right continent...
One was a picture of just a small bridge that could just be any where from where I am to any where at all.

It was in Australia.

10333 on my next try.

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
5. I've found moving down the road quite a bit helps a lot
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 02:55 PM
Jun 2013

I end up hopping down the down road until I come to a street sign, business, etc that can at least tell me the language. Got lucky and found signs to a couple towns in some of them.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
8. No, I was a NatGeo Geography Bee semi-finalist in middle school though.
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 04:22 PM
Jun 2013

I just clicked until I found landmarks...usually road signs with the names of cities on them, then it's just a matter of using the zoomable map they give you to find the general location. It's a process of elimination thing...identify a country, then a region, then a city, then an area in the city, then a landmark. That game probably took me close to an hour.

I happened to get 3 really easy ones though: a major public park in Brazil, a famous statue in a city in the French Riviera that was founded as a commune and a tourist-destination promenade in Japan. The other two were a bridge on a river in NSW (and the name of the river is right on the bridge which made it easy to find on the pinpoint-map)(that was the one I got closest. 0.12km) and the other was Indiana which was easy once I got a few km down the road and saw a on-ramp for the interstate and a distance to Indianapolis. (That was the one I was farthest off on, 19.4km)

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
11. I got a forest road in Saskatchewan.
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 05:05 PM
Jun 2013

And someplace in the Outback. The Rock of Gibraltar wasn't too hard, though.

marzipanni

(6,011 posts)
12. I got an aquaduct with high arches, expanses of fields, sheep
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 05:34 PM
Jun 2013

A historical marker 1875-1993, I think it said. I initially thought England, then zoomed in on a utility truck which had 'New Zealand'
printed on it among other graphics. So I guessed New Zealand....oh. no! England it was.

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