Entertaining (and addictive) Geography Game !!

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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26523

    Entertaining (and addictive) Geography Game !!

    Give this a try! You can see the world from the comfort of your armchair... and test your topographical perspicacity!!

    GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.


    Study the image (you can use the navigation tools - clicking on the white arrows in the picture, using the compass to turn the view and have a look round).

    Then click on the map on the location you think is depicted in the image (you can use the + and - keys to enlarge it, and slide the map around using the mouse/trackpad on your computer).

    When you've selected your location, click 'make guess' and it gives you the real location (enlarge the map to see exactly where it is), how far away from the right answer you were, and your score, plus another photo. You get 5 per game.

    Bons voyages!
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12234

    #2
    I just get a black screen - no picture. Have I got a Java problem?
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      #3
      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
      I just get a black screen
      me too
      but Java may be the right answer
      ho-ho

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26523

        #4
        Ah... sorry about that, maybe a Java issue, it just popped up bright and easy on my mac!
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Anna

          #5
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Ah... sorry about that, maybe a Java issue, it just popped up bright and easy on my mac!
          Perhaps you should change the title of the thread to - Fascinating game for Mac users only!!
          I also just get a black screen.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26523

            #6
            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            Perhaps you should change the title of the thread to - Fascinating game for Mac users only!!
            I also just get a black screen.
            My sister sent me the link and she is not a mac user
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              #7
              It works on my PC :smug: You have to click on the black screen
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                #8
                Not bad for my first try
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26523

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  Not bad for my first try
                  Well done! I got 13811 points for my fifth go, first time in 5 figures - including a "Your guess was 0.012 km from the correct location and gave 6478 points" for one picture which showed some road signs so I was able to get it down to a T-junction on the D4 east of Dijon...
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    #10
                    I got 1290 on my second go!! :)
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • Richard Tarleton

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      Perhaps you should change the title of the thread to - Fascinating game for Mac users only!!
                      I also just get a black screen.
                      Working OK for me on Windows Vista!

                      My first effort - a featureless plain which I guessed as the Ukraine. It was Canada.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26523

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                        Working OK for me on Windows Vista!

                        My first effort - a featureless plain which I guessed as the Ukraine. It was Canada.
                        Yes there's usually one of those in each round!! My 6000+ triumph was followed immediately by another featureless plain which I guessed Argentinian pampas but turned out to be southern Montana (near Little Bighorn, interestingly enough )....

                        PS just bagged another "Your guess was 0.015 km from the correct location and gave 6478 points" - a village in Western Brittany: hurrah for the French and their excellent road signs!!
                        Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 01-06-13, 14:54.
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37595

                          #13
                          It's like walking a straight line after you've had a few.

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                          • Richard Tarleton

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            PS just bagged another "Your guess was 0.015 km from the correct location and gave 6478 points" - a village in Western Brittany: hurrah for the French and their excellent road signs!!
                            There was an orthodox-y looking church with noticeboard in cyrillic-y looking script but too little resolution to read the name!

                            Caliban, you can always play the game on your iPad during the performance if the production is unbearable

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26523

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                              Caliban, you can always play the game on your iPad during the performance if the production is unbearable
                              Don't have an iPad... otherwise...
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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