Geoguessr

[Eschatos]

A game where you get plunked down in a random spot in the world with Google street view, and have to point out your location on a world map with nothing more than your ability to navigate within street view to look for clues!  Get scored based on how close your guesses were!

Try it here!



My first, and so far best game. ~14,000 points.

[Versus]

good game for getting placed in the middle of nowhere

[kaese]

good game for getting placed in the middle of nowhere

Pretty much.
My Australia location was really scenic with all the nothing surrounding the road...I almost guessed Arizona because it was so barren and desert-like until I saw a speed limit of 90 (I guessed km not mi) sign.



A fun time waster, I'll keep playing.
edit: replaced with my current high score. I spent much longer exploring on this try than the other one. (also having HK as a location is too easy since the island is so small)

[A. Crow]

I'm much more impressed with that score after my first round where I was off by 200m and only got 6500 points. 

...fucking canada

[HeK]

I gave up as I had: Somewhere in Russia, Somewhere in China, Some stupid fucking tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, Somewhere in Australia.

[Eightball]

Without resorting to cheating (googling), the best I can do is about 12000. I just had a round where all 5 locations were desolate roads in Australia.

[Sogo]

Alaska is currently my worst enemy in this game.
A third of the time if I see a US roadsign or other telltale clue, it actually looks warm, so I go for southern/midsouth US, and BAM ALASKA.
And yet I've gotten within a Kilometer or two on a few fuckall desolate roads in Australia.

[FlyingMongoose]

Best score yet, but only because I got really lucky in southeast indiana...
http://goo.gl/L0uzH

[The Generic Name]

I had three places in Canada, one in Wyoming, and one near Moscow

[VeraLapsa]

Simple :3

[VeraLapsa]

Even better  ;D

http://bit.ly/143pcY8

[The Generic Name]

Yer a cheater

[VeraLapsa]

Yer a cheater

But how did I cheat's the question. Actually figuring out how to cheat it is much more fun for me then to just wildly guess which my best score was 9k when I do that.

So I pose the question to you guys, how did I cheat at this? Because I definitely did not get any of them at 0.000km.

[The Generic Name]

[quote author=The Generic Name link=topic=6978.msg268947#msg268947 date=1372805389]
Yer a cheater

But how did I cheat's the question. Actually figuring out how to cheat it is much more fun for me then to just wildly guess which my best score was 9k when I do that.

So I pose the question to you guys, how did I cheat at this? Because I definitely did not get any of them at 0.000km.
[/quote]
Google Earth.  You humped it all night and day. and then it was like:  "ANSWERS!!!"

[VeraLapsa]

[quote author=VeraLapsa link=topic=6978.msg269013#msg269013 date=1372909481]
[quote author=The Generic Name link=topic=6978.msg268947#msg268947 date=1372805389]
Yer a cheater

But how did I cheat's the question. Actually figuring out how to cheat it is much more fun for me then to just wildly guess which my best score was 9k when I do that.

So I pose the question to you guys, how did I cheat at this? Because I definitely did not get any of them at 0.000km.
[/quote]
Google Earth.  You humped it all night and day. and then it was like:  "ANSWERS!!!"

[/quote]

Not exactly lol.