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Where in the USA is this?
- wincy 3y agoThat’s fun. Although a picture indoors seems unfair. Somehow I knew one of the pictures had to be West Virginia and got within 40 miles. But the indoor one I got the exact opposite of the country because how are you supposed to tell? Literally all convention centers in the US have the same walls and awful garish carpeting.
- royalewithchees 3y agoIndoor photos can still provide good clues. I had no idea where the first picture was. I guessed somewhere in Vermont. But that second picture had me guess West Virginia because David McKinley was in the photo.
- wincy 3y agoAh thanks for the info! Yes that would likely substantially narrow it down, I didn’t recognize him but there was at least a clue.
- hackeraccount 3y ago165 miles. Started off 200 miles away but became obsessed with PA. and never really got closer
- QuadmasterXLII 3y agoIs the idea that all pictures are the sane location? I got 17 miles, the pictures all had intense west virginia energy haha
- klyrs 3y agoI also did not read the very brief introduction. Then, some of the pictures looked similar and I got suspicious. 569, 1236, 512, 1734, 4.6 -- 4.6?? Pure luck. If you can edit out the spoiler in your comment that might be polite.
- jaywalk 3y agoYeah, completely missed the instructions as well. There's plenty of room on the page, they should at least show by default on the first visit.
- Nition 3y ago> They should at least show by default on the first visit They did for me. Firefox browser on Windows 11. Instructions were showing when I first visited and I had to close them to continue.
- timeon 3y agoFirst thing I one usually do on first visit of most pages is closing window to continue. So instead of reading the content I was searching for button to close it. Even though I knew it was not cookie pop-up!
- Severian 3y agoMy thoughts too, big WV energy (pun intended). I got 18 miles. It looks very similar to where I do a lot of camping.
- colordrops 3y agoI've never been to the states in the photos and somehow got within a few hundred miles of them. Guess my brain has had enough training data.
- soligern 3y agoYou’ve been trained by the internet
- irrational 3y agoThis is fun. My first guess was 34 miles from the place. It took four tries to get to 0. Though, I don't understand the indoor one.
- notatoad 3y agoi think it's auto-generating a problem based on geotagged pictures. the indoor one isn't supposed to be a good clue, it's just a photo that happened to be in the dataset.
- whoopdedo 3y agoCould maybe pass the pictures through an object detector. Too many faces and it skips the picture. It may already be doing it to remove pictures with words as one "clue" containing a sign would spoil it. Though I'd rather it keep the picture but blur the sign in that case.
- madcaptenor 3y agoThere are definitely pictures with signs, I've been going back through the archives.
- jamilton 3y ago#60 has a picture of a map, so I don't think it's being filtered.
- notatoad 3y agothey could, but i kinda like the wildness of it. not knowing if you're going to get a completely useless clue (or one that totally gives away the answer) is part of the charm,.
- LVB 3y agoTough clue, but I guess folks in that area (or into politics) might recognize the longtime US Representative from WV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley),
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoI got within 10 miles, pretty proud of myself. Could have probably done better with google maps showing lakes / reservors
- paxys 3y agoMy first guess was 25 miles away (!), but could only get to 11 miles in the final one.
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- fishtoaster 3y agoThis is pretty neat! Although I find myself relying far more on triangulation via the distances than I do the images.
- jamilton 3y agoSame. The image helps with a first and maybe last guess, and sometimes there's something highly identifying in the image, but triangulation would be enough if I could only accurately estimate distances. The scale on the map helps. It would be cool if the radii were drawn at the end? It would be too easy if they were drawn before, I think.
- cliff_badger 3y agoIf anyone knows the creator of this site, they might want to fix the bug of being able to get a different `frame` of reference on all of the images. Wiki commons may be a great place to find images, but they do too good of a job naming things.
- elil17 3y agoSome of the photos were actually taken about a thousand feet from the zone where you were marked "correct". I clicked right on top of the dam for my fifth guess and it showed me being 0.2 miles off.
- spacemanspiff01 3y agoSo, I did not realize these were all supposed to be the same location. I find it funny that my best guess was what appeared to me to be a Ohio conference room.
- cbfrench 3y agoGot 0 mi on my first guess because I thought “That’s [state]” and then picked a random spot on the [other state] side of the state since it had that feel. I feel like I might as well quit at this point, lol. Edited out spoilers.
- tkanarsky 3y agoLol same, I was like "yeah this is Appalachia for sure, why not WV", clicked somewhere in the middle of the state, and got 14 miles :)
- nwatson 3y agoI thought "Kentucky" and was 200 away on first guess.
- hughesjj 3y agoPA for me, it's like all the wrong guesses are just triangulating on the "most Appalachian" place lol
- irrational 3y agoSame, though I clicked in the middle of the name “West Virginia” and was 34 miles away.
- ethbr0 3y agoSpoiler alert? :P
- kdmccormick 3y agoRead the article before reading the comments? ;)
- ryukoposting 3y agoWent purely on feel and got 40mi on my first guess, and I felt pretty good about that! Took a couple silly guesses because I didn't see that the picture changes after each guess - the [geological formation] in the later photos should have been a dead giveaway.
- apocalyptic0n3 3y agoHundreds of hours of Geoguessr had me within 30 miles on the first guess despite having never been there. This is an interesting take on the concept.
- cpeterso 3y agoThe original “where in the world?” location guessing game is GeoGuesser from 2013. There are competitions and some pro competitors can pinpoint locations within feet, though some rules allow the player to browse Google Maps in a separate window. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoGuessr https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoGuessr
- avgcorrection 3y agoRules? That sounds like a kind of Honor Rule since it seems impossible to enforce. I think it’s better to play with a time limit instead in order to make aids impractical. Of course in a duel or something you can just start the countdown after the first guess is made.
- bloodyludi 3y agoNot the same location for me. 194 miles apart: First picture showed Stouts Mill Bridge https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8 https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8 Last one Deer Creek Dam https://goo.gl/maps/u5zxGmby74X7JMWi7 https://goo.gl/maps/u5zxGmby74X7JMWi7
- lelandbatey 3y agoThe attribution on the first image shows that it's apparently the Burnsville Bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnsville_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnsville_Bridge It seems that these two bridges just happen to have almost the exact same construction and type of trees around. However, you can see that in the first image from the parent article that there are four houses in the background, and if we look up the bridge attributed to the first image in the parent, it has those same four houses in the background: https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 Compare to the wikipedia photo used in the parent article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jp... The Stouts Mill Bridge does not have those same four houses in the background, it has a different set of buildings in a different arrangement near it: https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8 https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8
- im_down_w_otp 3y agoWell, today I learned that I'm very good at identifying that something is in West Virginia.
- qalmakka 3y agoI've been playing this (https://wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr/ https://wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr/) for a while now, it's nice albeit a bit hard at times. There's also a worldwide version.
- giantrobot 3y agoYou almost had me, covert dataset labeling company. Where's the input box to tell you what Transformer I would be based on my name and zip code? Most /s but also maybe not.
- whoopdedo 3y agoI like the map picking a lot better than naming the country in WhereTaken[1]. The US version is even easier because you only need to guess the state. [1] https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/ https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/
- ajmurmann 3y agoThe cool thing with wheretaken and worldle is that I've learned a lot about countries and their borders. If I could pick on a map, I wonder if I'd retained how things look in certain parts of the world, but not what country they are in. Another awesome game for anyone who is into geography and, in this case econ: https://oec.world/en/tradle/ https://oec.world/en/tradle/
- davidw 3y agoSo everyone got the same pictures? Seems kind of non-random in terms of where the locations were, too. Nothing from the west coast in 5 photos?
- wholinator2 3y agoDon't know if everyone got the same pictures, but I believe it's like a wordle type game where you get 5 guesses to get the correct location, all the images are for the same location, and every day they release a new 5 image puzzle. You click and it tells you how far away from the location each click is which honestly allowed me to get within 30 miles by the end of every set cause I could just triangulate approximately where it wanted me to click.
- w0m 3y agoall 5 photos in roughly the same location I believe to help you narrow it in. Every day a new location with 5 new photos you can drill down with.
- ydnaclementine 3y ago> Wait, it's all Ohio? > Always has been
- agloe_dreams 3y agoThis. A vast number are in rural Ohio
- brezelgoring 3y agoI got 0 mi! [1] After the first 2 I stopped attempting cities and figured the picture didn't matter, it was a game of triangulation. Nice game, I like it, even though I've never set foot in the US. [1] Spoilers! - https://i.imgur.com/azCWc3i.png https://i.imgur.com/azCWc3i.png
- dh2022 3y agoI tried a similar approach. I only got as close as 126 miles...
- codetrotter 3y agoAfter reading your comment (but not looking at the spoiler), I attempted triangulation from the get-go. I managed to get 60 mi away. I think 0 mi away is very impressive. Especially since you had already used some of your attempts without initially aiming for triangulation! Kudos to you :)
- ankaAr 3y ago18 miles using triangulation
- jb1991 3y agoI must have missed the part in the instructions where all the photos are from the same place. Is that what you mean by triangulation?
- aidos 3y agoThey are, yeah. I didn’t realise to start with. I played a couple of older games and managed to get 0 miles on one too - though there was a hint in the second photo that got me within 12 miles and it was easier find it from there.
- brezelgoring 3y agoYes, you can use a ruler and the scale to get closer with each guess, regardless of what the picture shows. I use the built in drawing app on Linux Mint. Here is another attempt, with my triangulation circles written (don't judge me) Attempt: https://i.imgur.com/Hz3c37c.png https://i.imgur.com/Hz3c37c.png
- Solvency 3y agoI started at 100miles, diverted to 140 miles, then quickly narrowed into 40mi accuracy by guess 5. In under 30 seconds. Certain parts of America just have a "look". A rusty, sad, religious, whitebread, Under Armour Tucked Into My Jeans look.
- mateo411 3y agoSeems like a great picture for Bruce Springsteen's next album cover.
- mythrwy 3y agoSpoiler alert: Viewing source of the photos told exactly where the image was from. (all West Virginia). So I got 35 miles, then 0 miles.
- joker_minmax 3y agoI got one of them within 34 miles. Not my fault Appalachia has a look to it Edit: wait, they're all the same place? I was confused on that point. I thought each was a different state.
- jareklupinski 3y agoyea i think i jumped passed the instructions and thought all the pictures were different places got 64 (i think it's the rusty bridges...)
- chiph 3y agoIt's a daily puzzle. So everyone gets the same one today.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoI got 63 miles on my first guess
- bhaney 3y agoThe most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from the comments here. Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are five photos from the same place." I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't register? An opportunity to reflect on how hard it can be to properly communicate with users, I guess.
- rootusrootus 3y agoYep. I was distracted by the pretty colors I guess, because I made exactly the same error. Got a little frustrated and couldn't see the attraction of the game until I saw in the comments that all the pictures are in the same location.
- mike_hock 3y agoOh, I didn't even realize that until I read your comment. I got a lucky first guess and thought "wow, I'm good at this," and then they just kept getting worse, lol. I guess it's because that information is dropped at the wrong time, because right after that you first have to spend time on figuring out how the weird UI works so you can actually make your guess. Why does the map have to be hidden behind a button, and why does it have to cover the picture? There is so much wasted space on the screen, why not use it to show both at the same time?
- bhaney 3y agoThe siren song of a mobile-first UI
- ryandrake 3y agoThe UI is pretty bad. I have a nice 27" monitor, yet they constrain the entire game to a tiny 5" wide column down the length of my browser window. Would be great if web designers would stop imagining that I'm browsing the web with a tiny portrait phone screen.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI got: 17 Mi -> 10 Mi -> 11 Mi -> 0.3 Mi -> 0 Mi!!!
- Arainach 3y agoIt's an interesting site, but why do so many of these guessing games have single page applications without state in the URL? https://guessthe.game/ https://guessthe.game/ functions the same way - please include the day in the URL so that if I want to go back through your backlog (or show someone something from your backlog) it's easy. If I snoop the traffic and watch the redirects I sometimes can: https://guessthe.game/?fpg=110 https://guessthe.game/?fpg=110 But this site makes it even more obnoxious: https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=i135v&rs=x0hdn&upc=9a1u2 https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=i135v&rs=x0hdn&upc=9a... Really? UUID? (side note: that's not a UUID)
- choward 3y agoWhat's adds to that annoyance is that the only way to navigate the games is a "prev" link. There's no way to jump directly to a game or go to the next game. This means every day it becomes more time consuming to get to the first game. And if you accidentally refresh the page, have fun!
- nop_slide 3y agoI made a skateboarding video version and ensured it was URL driven via a date query param. You can also view all the previous games easily. URL driven-ness is such a great ux feature I also get annoyed when sites don’t use it. https://skateboardle.com https://skateboardle.com
- jorisboris 3y agonoob question, but which frameworks would you recommend to use instead? I'm using React because it's easy to re-use components. Which alternatives are there for that?
- Arainach 3y agoI would expect all frameworks to have support for URL parameters. For React I've used react-router for this: https://ui.dev/react-router-url-parameters https://ui.dev/react-router-url-parameters
- function_seven 3y agoI went back a couple days to #74, and laughed out loud at the second photo. Not sure if this link will work, but it should take you to #74: https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tuey0 https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tu...
- irrational 3y agoNice of them to put a picture of the state with a star right on the tank.
- obituary_latte 3y agoI don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the map reliably. Or is it a different picture?
- function_seven 3y agoIt has an outline of Illinois, with a star right where the village is located. So I brought up the map, zoomed in on Illinois, and put my guess about where that star was.
- obituary_latte 3y agoAh heh, I missed that. Funny indeed :)
- obituary_latte 3y agoI don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the map reliably. Or am I looking at the wrong picture?
- sircastor 3y agoI played Wordle like a lot of people did early on, and bailed around the time NYT bought it. Since I've found a couple of games in the same theme that I've enjoyed - once guessing the movie from single frames, and one (featured here!) where you're playing a Scrabble word against "Dad" which is a fun gimmick. I like this one too. It requires a little bit of context-clue-sluething, some logical deduction, and best guesses.
- yossi_peti 3y agoTheoretically, if you choose the first two points at random, then you have a 50-50 chance of guessing right on the third guess (the two circles from the first two guesses have at most two intersecting points) and should always get the correct answer on the 4th guess.
- ke88y 3y agoYou can make up your own scoring system based upon the first two distances, with a high penalty (negative points) for needing the 4th guess.
- olyjohn 3y agoPerfect game to play with your phone on the shitter.
- atdrummond 3y agoNot sure if I should be happy or upset with my result. https://ibb.co/x5DSh04 https://ibb.co/x5DSh04
- uhtred 3y agoopen the image in a new tab and there are often some serious clues in the filename- is this cheating? I actually did it initially to be able to zoom in and see if I could read the guy's badge on his shirt
- w-m 3y agoGot within 75 miles on the first try, even though I have only been to the US once in my life (and nowhere near there). Of course that’s partially just a lucky guess. But it made me ponder the giant influence of American TV and movies on my life. Playing the same game with China for example, I would have been completely and utterly lost.
- Barrin92 3y agodon't think it's just a lucky guess, same for me. Only been to the us once, looked at it for five seconds and just thought 'somewhere near Pittsburgh' and got within 50 miles. The North-East of the US in general seems very recognizable. I sometimes play Geoguessr when I'm bored and it's always places in the South of the US that seem much harder to guess.
- w-m 3y agoFWIW, today's puzzle seems particularly straightforward. I've since tried a few of the earlier ones, and sometimes was on the wrong side of the country altogether for the first try.
- doodlebugging 3y agoAlright. I went all the way back to the first one. It was pretty easy to triangulate some of them. Some of them have clues to location in the photos. It was fun. I would like to point out some issues with the scale displayed. There are quite a few cases where the scale only changes when you shift the map so your guess could be affected by an incorrect scale. The first location was one example. After I guessed the location from the first photo (it's pretty obvious if you have been out there) I made a second guess that cut the error by about half. My third guess was inside the radius which appeared to be about 5 miles even though the actual location plotted as correct was well outside any point that could've been triangulated from the first two guesses. I suspect the scale was not correct since moving the map by grabbing it updated the scale. I managed to get quite a few of the 75 or so available by the third guess. I got a couple on the second guess since I recognized the geology of the area. All in all when you miss by 0.02 miles I think it is close enough. This makes me think the error radius changes based on the individual photo since I had narrowed the location to within 0.04 miles on one California location and wasted two picks narrowing the location while still remaining outside the "correct" radius. Pretty fun stuff. Thank you sir. May I have another?
- xenospn 3y agoI absolutely love this! Got to 107 miles on the first try :)
- stygiansonic 3y agoI am guessing Trevor Rainbolt would dominate this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rainbolt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rainbolt
- tofof 3y agoUnimpressed by this game. The accuracy on the scale is off by as much as 25%, as can be seen here: https://i.imgur.com/NOvqCnV.png https://i.imgur.com/NOvqCnV.png. As the only information you're given other than a new photo is the distance, this is a serious problem. What's worse, the 'correct' location radius doesn't even include the locations where all the photos were taken! SPOILER FOR GAME #60: Game #60 has a clue that shows YOU ARE HERE: https://i.imgur.com/98OXlal.png https://i.imgur.com/98OXlal.png which is exactly here (google maps [1]) https://i.imgur.com/KdN4OCh.png https://i.imgur.com/KdN4OCh.png which corresponds exactly to my guess location https://i.imgur.com/eCy97r6.png https://i.imgur.com/eCy97r6.png. However, they claim that the correct location is here: https://i.imgur.com/cSasI3g.png https://i.imgur.com/cSasI3g.png or https://i.imgur.com/ChuisIx.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ChuisIx.jpeg (google [2]), which is actually 9.5 miles away and outside their 5 mile radius, so it scored me as missing by 4.5 miles. It's quite simply unacceptable to claim that all the photos are of the same place and then have the exact location within the photo not be within the accepted answer radius. Geoguesser, for example, REQUIRES you to identify the exact location within ~150 meters (in the worldwide mode) and they are actually correct with that degree of precision. This error of 9.5 miles is 15,000 meters away. 1: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3419792,-122.7415299,14.62z?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3419792,-122.7415299,14.62z?... 2: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2970892,-122.5563029,1891m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2970892,-122.5563029,1891m/d...
- aaronax 3y agoYeah they should not be using a Mercator projection if a key part of the game is triangulation AND there is a ruler shown on screen.
- overkill28 3y agoYeah my first guess on #74 was 7.7 miles away (!) so I thought for sure I would get it. But it turns out that the flag location is actually 14 miles away according to Google Maps, and the multiple photos "of the same place" are over 6 miles apart. So I kept getting weird numbers for my guesses that didn't line up with the geography.
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- s0maticsec 3y agoThe hacker in me couldn't help but view the image source, easily found the location. I know it's cheating but I wanted to get it right within 5 guesses lol
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- EugeneOZ 3y agoKeep being US-centric.
- glitcher 3y agoEven without knowing any real hints from the pictures myself, it was still a lot of fun for me refining each guessed location based solely on distances reported on previous guesses. Nice work.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoMy first guess hit 17 miles from the mark. Maybe that's because I've been there...
- _8j50 3y agoI've never been to the location/state but I got 56Mi on first try, best guess 23Mi. I can't tell you what about any of the pics made me think it was that state. It just felt like it.
- aendruk 3y agoThe photo was too small so first thing I did was open it in a new tab only to have the game spoiled by the URL as the image had been hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons.
- phobotics 3y agoThis is really cool, great project. I thought the instructions were clear, especially as it obviously follows in the trend of Wordle style games. Don’t understand the people complaining about the game when it’s their own lack of reading comprehension failing them.
- j_m_b 3y agoMy best guess was 9 miles away!
- CSMastermind 3y agoI really wish it was easier to zoom in on the photos to find clues. Also the maps being used for the game were rough for me. Lacking details, town names, clear rivers unless you're way zoomed in, etc. Google maps would be a much better choice imo.
- paulette449 3y agoI came here to say this. I enjoyed the game but I spent more time zooming in/out of the tiny map window rather than solving the puzzle
- chrisco255 3y agoIt's pretty easy on mobile but the photos are often bad quality. They were probably taken in late 00s/early 10s, submitted to Wikimedia and never really updated with modern cameras.
- LeafItAlone 3y agoI enjoyed it as is. Rather than looking for specific details, I was looking for general feel and atmosphere with things like vegetation, architecture and building materials, and even colors. The photos provided were usually good enough for that. If you’re going for GeoGuessr accuracy, these are going to disappoint. But I don’t think this site is going quite that far.
- alexb_ 3y agoOh god, after reading the comments I'm so upset that they were all from the same place. I got 1.7 miles away on the FIRST GUESS! and I fucked it up....
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- 13of40 3y agoFor today's one, I've only been to [state] once, 20 years ago, but once I saw that bridge in the first picture I knew it was in [state].
- LeafItAlone 3y agoI’m curious: Have you spent a lot of time on the east coast in smaller towns off the coast? I live nearly 400 miles and a couple of states away and that looks just like one down my road. And there are tons like that between here and there.
- WaffleIronMaker 3y agoI managed to get within 5.4 miles, thinking that they were all different places. I didn't realize until I read the comments here.
- 8bitsrule 3y agoGreat geo-guessing, very intuitive, and today's chosen pictures have just the right amount of help. If I'd paid more attention to my intuition I wouldn't have tried Montana as a guess! When I did ... 171 miles. "I'll be back!"
- enterexit 3y ago17 miles. I don't even live in the US.
- ke88y 3y agoThat's extremely impressive. I've spent a ton of time within >100 of that first bridge and was still off by a ton. Did you use external resources? If not, how did you know with such precision (honestly central PA is as good a guess as the true answer!)?! Or was it a good guess?
- geuis 3y agoThis is a late comment. I don't understand what I'm supposed to do. On my phone, almost nothing responds to taps. It's like the interface is broken.
- anonymoustafa 3y agoI couldn't figure it out at first. I thought I would get to see all 5 photos and then make my guess. You have to make a guess after each photo. This will display the next one. You have to tap the large button at the bottom "show map to guess".
- mjsweet 3y agoNo kidding, I’m from Australia and my first guess was 155 miles from the location. My closest ended up being 140. I basically thought, “that looks like the mid west… Alabama” and had a stab! Edit: sorry I meant Nashville
- jowdones 3y agoWell the fucking thing doesn't work on my mobile phone. I clicked every button and nothing happens.
- jstanley 3y agoThe scale seems to be slightly off at very-close locations. I had 4 guesses all within 1 mile of the location, but then the flag is many times further away from my guesses than the "1 mi" scale shows. https://img.incoherency.co.uk/4472 https://img.incoherency.co.uk/4472 I like this game very much. I don't know enough about the US to play it properly, but I enjoy playing it as partly a geometry problem, and partly a case of looking for Googlable clues in the photos. There is a weakness because the images are loaded straight from Wikipedia: sometimes the filename of the image gives the location away, and even if it didn't I expect it's not too hard to get the metadata off Wikipedia given the image filename. You might say "well don't look at the filename if you don't want it spoilt", but I often want to open the image in a new tab so that I can zoom, and then I accidentally see the filename.
- 0x445442 3y agoYou can almost triangulate from the distances without even using the pictures.
- RickJWagner 3y agoFun game! Thanks to the provider.
- HDMI_Cable 3y agoIs it cheating to use Google Maps? I got to zero miles on the second guess because it was a picture of a sign, and I just looked up the church to which it referred.
- wazoox 3y agoFunnily I arrived only 18 miles from target, a place I never heard of and have absolutely no idea how it looks like :)