I wonder if anyone plays this excellent game? It shows you an image and you have to work out when and where the photo was taken. The images are typically of prominent events or places and because there is no time limit I like to play detective and try my best to work out each answer. Although reverse image searching would obviously be cheating!
In today’s daily game I manage a score of 42,286 out of a possible 50,000.
Fun game!
For today’s daily it said I got 9949 out of 10,000.
There are 5 photos in each challenge, each guess is scored up to 10,000. So 4 more to go!
I must be missing something because I can’t figure out how to set the year I want to guess. It just says “1962” underneath the map and clicking on it doesn’t change anything.
You drag the ‘button’ underneath the ‘1962’. Move it to the right and the year increases; to the left, the year decreases.
Ah. Somehow it didn’t occur to me that it was a slider. My first attempt at playing the game gave me a B&W photo of suffragettes protesting in front of the White House but I couldn’t figure out how to set the date.
46,783 for today’s challenge - but that was talking a lot of time and using Google to do it as a sort of investigation because I find it a lot of fun if you have the patience.
For the second picture (of the convoy) I was a bit confused at first because they were Cadillacs and thought US but quickly realised from the cars, number plates and road markings that we were in Europe and this was a convoy of hearses. I tried looking up the police outrider uniforms around Europe - I couldn’t find a match but the Dutch uniforms were not too different. Then I spotted a road sign that had ‘A2’ on it. Quick look of Google Maps and indeed the Netherlands has ‘A’ roads. I spotted the A2 and the markings were very similar (those turn arrows were identical). So I moved the man to a bend on the A2 that looked similar near a junction. And that was it! There’s the sign! There are some white boxes! Very lucky there! The A2 is a relatively short road that goes to Eindhoven so I looked up “Eindhoven hearse convoy” and saw a news headline about bodies from MH17 being transported to military barracks near Eindhoven! Very satisfactory.
The “Tibet” one was impossible, although I couldn’t see mountains in the background so I suspected we could be in a different country. Not much sign that was India though.
I thought maybe I could find that tall building in the picture of what were clearly the recent floods in Valencia (the number plates confirmed we were in Spain), but Street View let me down but I was only a mile or two away.
The one in New York with the road signs was obviously easy to pinpoint but trying to work out what that crowd was there for was tricky, I just couldn’t work out was it was. It looked 1960’s but not a moon landing celebration. Should have just gone with the middle of the decade but my rule of thumb is that a decade’s fashion tends to lag a couple of years behind depending on the country so went late sixties.