# Guess the City **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 10, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330 "2010-09-10T20:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/61 "2010-09-13T21:13:08Z")
Yours is easily TinEye-able, unfortunately. It really needs to be an original image to defeat cheats like me. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/62 "2010-09-13T22:22:23Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Yours is easily TinEye-able, unfortunately. It really needs to be an original image to defeat cheats like me. Well, you’re not supposed to use TinEye, cheaty-pants! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/63 "2010-09-14T01:12:56Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Okay, [here’s a new one](http://i53.tinypic.com/141748x.jpg). I did not take this picture because when I went through my own pictures, it seemed like every one had something easily googleable in it. I’m thinking Latin America. Am I warm? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/64 "2010-09-14T04:27:18Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Okay, [here’s a new one](http://i53.tinypic.com/141748x.jpg). I did not take this picture because when I went through my own pictures, it seemed like every one had something easily googleable in it. Okay, but how many of you are willing to live on the edge and make a guess without even opening the image? Ummm… **Oostburg, Wisconsin?** ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/65 "2010-09-14T11:13:07Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > > [@Ximenean](#): > > > > Yours is easily TinEye-able, unfortunately. It really needs to be an original image to defeat cheats like me. > > Well, you’re not supposed to use TinEye, cheaty-pants! Sure, but Googling’s cheating too then, I would have thought. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/66 "2010-09-14T13:39:34Z")
Here’s [another city that I took a picture of](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2197/2123481106_c864e4d42c.jpg). Don’t Tineye it unless you are willing to have it spoiled. This should be easier than my first: the city does have distinctive shape, which is only partly concealed by clouds. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/67 "2010-09-14T13:55:42Z")
That is surely (without any cheating) Chicago, with the Sears Tower. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/68 "2010-09-14T14:21:21Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > That is surely (without any cheating) Chicago, with the Sears Tower. Very good! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/69 "2010-09-14T16:17:35Z")
I only got one of these so far, and it was the easy one. I suck at this. You just wait til I dig up some vacation photos, then you’ll all be scracthing _your_ heads! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/70 "2010-09-14T19:17:32Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > > [@Kyla](#): > > > > Okay, [here’s a new one](http://i53.tinypic.com/141748x.jpg). I did not take this picture because when I went through my own pictures, it seemed like every one had something easily googleable in it. > > I’m thinking Latin America. Am I warm? Yes! ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/71 "2010-09-14T21:55:22Z")
[![](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) Tricky one, but there is at least one thing in the picture that may help. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/72 "2010-09-15T00:54:31Z")
> [@hammos1](#): > > [http://i53.tinypic.com/15mhc2b.jpg](http://i53.tinypic.com/15mhc2b.jpg) > Tricky one, but there is at least one thing in the picture that may help. I can’t see the “one thing”, but I think it might be Timbuktu Or at least that part of the world? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/73 "2010-09-15T02:45:19Z")
[Spoiler’s] not that big, I don’t think. I’m thinking it’s more likely on the north side of the desert. Doesn’t look like Bamako. I think the vantage point from which the picture is taken is the clue. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/74 "2010-09-15T06:40:52Z")
If you look at the hi res version of the photo, you can see that there are a couple signs in English. I…really don’t know what the heck I’m looking at. I don’t see anything that looks like a house of worship, which I find I use to help pin things down. [Another pic from my challenge city](http://i56.tinypic.com/2dufdaw.jpg). This is one I actually took, so it is not TinEye-able, but this should make it easy for the clever Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/75 "2010-09-15T06:52:51Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > If you look at the hi res version of the photo, you can see that there are a couple signs in English. I…really don’t know what the heck I’m looking at. I don’t see anything that looks like a house of worship, which I find I use to help pin things down. > > [Another pic from my challenge city](http://i56.tinypic.com/2dufdaw.jpg). This is one I actually took, so it is not TinEye-able, but this should make it easy for the clever Dopers. I’m not 100% sure, but that’s obviously a Botero, so I’m going to go with Medellin, Columbia. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/76 "2010-09-15T16:10:12Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > [Another pic from my challenge city](http://i56.tinypic.com/2dufdaw.jpg). This is one I actually took, so it is not TinEye-able, but this should make it easy for the clever Dopers. I’m not 100% sure, but that’s obviously a Botero, so I’m going to go with Medellin, Columbia. [/QUOTE] This is what I was talking about when I said that my own pictures made it too easy - they all seemed to contain works by Botero, which are all over the place in Medellin. Good work, sir. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/77 "2010-09-15T16:27:39Z")
Apparently in Medellin, the women come with price tags on them! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/78 "2010-09-15T18:57:59Z")
> [@hammos1](#): > > [http://i53.tinypic.com/15mhc2b.jpg](http://i53.tinypic.com/15mhc2b.jpg) > Tricky one, but there is at least one thing in the picture that may help. Jodhpur? It could have been taken just before the annual painting of the houses. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/79 "2010-09-15T19:10:56Z")
> [@Panurge](#): > > > [@hammos1](#): > > > > [http://i53.tinypic.com/15mhc2b.jpg](http://i53.tinypic.com/15mhc2b.jpg) > > Tricky one, but there is at least one thing in the picture that may help. > > Jodhpur? It could have been taken just before the annual painting of the houses. I was wrong - but it was quite close. I believe that the picture was taken in Jaisalmer and that the detail referred to is the Salim Singh ki Haveli ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/80 "2010-09-16T09:53:57Z")
**Panurge** , you were right the first time, it is Jodhpur. The ‘thing’ in the picture that I thought would help was the distinctive blue shade of some walls and objects. It’s normally much more apparent in photos of Jodhpur, which is known as ‘The Blue City’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330.md?page=5)