# Geoguessr **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 20, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831 "2013-05-20T16:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/1 "2013-05-20T16:06:25Z")
Anyone else playing? I got a bit of a high score today for me today, without any googling, [here](http://www.geoguessr.com?v=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%3D). ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/2 "2013-05-20T16:38:29Z")
This is fantastic. The points really ramp up when you’re extremely close. Nailing Hong Kong was clutch there. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/3 "2013-05-20T17:03:17Z")
Lotsa fun. I usually read the SDMB during lunchtime, but today I filled the time with Geoguessr. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/4 "2013-05-20T17:55:27Z")
11241 (after about 10 goes of it…). This is pretty cool. Lots of Australian bush in there… ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/5 "2013-05-20T17:59:10Z")
There’s a lot of Australian bush 🙂 I actually went for quite a few games before it gave me any, and since then I’ve had loads. The quirks of the random number generator, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/6 "2013-05-20T18:02:31Z")
Nice. I’m sharing this with my kids at school tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/7 "2013-05-20T18:18:21Z")
Inspired by [today’s xkcd cartoon](http://xkcd.com/1214/) perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/8 "2013-05-20T18:41:02Z")
[This idea may have come from the dope](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686352), although it’s probably the sort of thing that people can come up with independently. eta: My personal best is 12606 at the moment. It sucks nailing one or two and then biffing one. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/9 "2013-05-20T18:58:11Z")
Are we not supposed to use google? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/10 "2013-05-20T19:11:52Z")
I got stuck with one that was just a single panoramic photo of a beach in Malta. No ability to move, or see any other pictures. On the plus side, the guy included his attractive girlfriend in the shot, so it wasn’t a total loss. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/11 "2013-05-20T19:14:55Z")
I got one that was right on a big sign that said “Port Hardy” and scrolling around there were street signs, i nailed that one about .0006km away. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/12 "2013-05-20T19:20:06Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > [This idea may have come from the dope](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686352) Googling [“mapcrunch game”](https://www.google.com/search?q=mapcrunch+game&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=) brings up a whole host of previous mentions of making a game out of [mapcrunch.com](http://mapcrunch.com), including reference of the site’s creator doing so for the purposes of making it a game. Not only that, there seems to be a huge subcommunity dedicated to the game on Tumblr. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/13 "2013-05-20T20:06:43Z")
Oh my gosh - I didn’t realize you could drive around! This changes everything. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/14 "2013-05-20T20:12:23Z")
Freaking Australia, man. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/15 "2013-05-20T21:34:03Z")
It’s not just Australia. Middle of nowhere 2-lane highway somewhere in the southwest US is pretty brutal too. Or middle of nowhere 2-lane highway somewhere in the boreal forest in Canada. Oops, missed by 3500km. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/16 "2013-05-20T21:38:48Z")
I just scored 27,554 points which I believe is my personal best. I also got one .004 KM away. In other words, ~12 feet. It was worth 6,479 points. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/17 "2013-05-20T21:50:29Z")
I got around 32,000 the other day after getting five signed intersections in a row. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/18 "2013-05-20T22:16:17Z")
It’s more fun using Google than just guessing I think. Just got 29950, and would have got over 30k if I knew my Cyrillic alphabet and hadn’t thought I was in Volzhky instead of across the river in Volgograd. 😛 Need to start paying more attention to where my starting point is before I drive around though. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/19 "2013-05-20T22:23:04Z")
Woot! Just got 14,665. I was helped by one of the places, where a simple scroll showed a big sign for “Ketchikan, Alaska’s First City.” Or something close to that. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831/20 "2013-05-20T22:59:48Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > Woot! Just got 14,665. I was helped by one of the places, where a simple scroll showed a big sign for “Ketchikan, Alaska’s First City.” Or something close to that. Don’t feel bad. We’re cheating to get 32k. Which I just did, in spite of one of the locations being on top of a ski hill in South Korea with no way to drive around looking for signs. Just lucky that googling ‘ski hill in korea’ put me 2.5km from the panaroma shot. Oddly enough, one of my locations was also in Ketchikan. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geoguessr/658831.md?page=2)