GeoGessr - score challenge!

http://bit.ly/19nORjJ

My score is shitty for this one so I expect a trouncing from other ilxors, I'm particularly interested to see if anyone gets number 3 spot on.

The only thing I'm learning from this game is that EVERYWHERE is nicer than where I live.

better than mine, I got 11785:

http://bit.ly/1aa02Mv

oh wait, don't click on that link if you want to play cos it shows the right answers. d'oh, sorry

8729. I never bounced back from getting the first one so wrong. You're good Ste.

11516, your score's pretty impressive

11182. It was the fourth one that screwed me up. Because pagodas.

^
http://bit.ly/19y4FNx

10818
http://bit.ly/11Etohe

http://bit.ly/14uJZTp

Didn't even try with this, just wanted to get through it so I could post the challenge so you could all see the ghostly floating half-woman in the first picture.

9057. very impressive. what protocol are you using? i used "allowed to spin around, not allowed to move."

I'm using moving & googling any visible road signs/shops etc. Anything's fair game really, and well done if you can get anything out of the interminable stretches of landmark-free road.

i will spin but not move

this game makes me sick with how beautiful the entire world is except here

12060 on the first one

not sure what the ruined monastery/abbey etc is

ive never bothered searching roadsigns &c

hmm really thought some of you were going to nail these ones.

With Ailsa. I move a lot, I constantly look for signs that will give me a hint. Unfortunately most are illegible. Big rivers can help, if you already have an inkling as to what country its in.

Don't know how I got so close to that last one though, think it was pure luck.

Looks like there are challenges with time limits, which I guess prevents people from moving too much.

I got spot on with the first one, well, within 1km on the first one of the first one, because I walked around, found a library, and googled it. Enterprising! Then I gave up after being a gazillion miles out on the second one.

I went back and zoomed in on the answer to the monastery/abbey thing and then googled stuff about the place where it was, and now I have learned something.

25318 on the first one (no googling, just moving around)
http://bit.ly/14WLLi7

well done!

I just had one that put me in the middle of some kind of fun-fair

12198 points - I didn't know you could move around though, just guessed on the basis of the initial view.

My favourite so far was one that put me underwater with turtles on the great barrier reef.

I spin around, dont move and definitely never google anything

31563 points. I move and Google.

http://bit.ly/123dMAs

That was a really nice one, just enough clues to work with, some nice scenery, and I beat you http://bit.ly/14sKXiP

is there a way to make the target map bigger? it seems ridiculously fiddly.

and I beat ailsa (32389 points)

xpost - no, all you do is zoom in

*all you can do

People who google clues to GeoGessr are animals

^^^

did you cheat, grampsy? how did you get within 0.008 km of some spot in the middle of nowhere in Tasmania?

― unregistered, Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:06 AM (1 month ago)

anyone care to beat my unimpressive score (11811 points)? don't cheat like Grampsy!

― unregistered, Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:49 PM (1 month ago)

xpost - Grampsy seems to be ok with googling street signs, but it's frowned upon by those of us who are not Frauds.

― unregistered, Saturday, May 25, 2013 3:06 PM (1 month ago)

I have become the thing I once hated (i.e. Grampsy) :((

Damn this is hard though. I don't know how people can be so precise unless they're googling. I got 4/5 pretty close and still got just over 9000. One of these days I'll manage to finish a round without blowing thousands of points thanks to [nation redacted]

in an effort to free myself from the pernicious influence of Grampsy, I got my highest score without cheating: 15624 points.

http://bit.ly/123p2N3

12343

xp 12028 by just moving but not Googling. I apparently don't know where the University of [Redacted] is, and really screwed up #4.

http://bit.ly/18g9mO3

18806 without googling - if I never see a feature-free bit of long road ever again in this game, it won't be a moment too soon.

http://bit.ly/14t0TBC

erm 9007, didn't even google!

oh damn that was the score for the other one, i accidentally clicked on the url which shows the answers for the next one.

10061. Yet again I mixed up [redacted] and [redacted].

10760 with an intercontinental disaster, pretty bad

i usually aim for something in the 11000s, ok with that. Top scores have reached 17k+ a couple times, I don't think i'll ever top 20 though!

Game just landed me pitchside at St James' Park, but I didn't save it.

Eric Snowden playing this game obsessively atm.

17263. probably could have done better if i hadn't rushed things. seems like something you could ace if you were willing to put in the drive & research time.

http://url.geoguessr.com/3d6V

I've noticed a few things in Australia look very American, but if you blow your guess you get dinged BIG.

My high so far is 13,000-something, and that's only because I lucked out with some signage I could google.

17263. probably could have done better if i hadn't rushed things. seems like something you could ace if you were willing to put in the drive & research time.

http://url.geoguessr.com/3d6V

― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Friday, July 5

how on earth could you done better??? I've topped 17k a couple of times but its needed me to get 2 of the 5 within 20 miles or so, i'm super happy with a 17k+ score but could never have managed it with those 5, the 2 you got close were insane - especially the one in canada, did you recognize it or something?

no, i cheated, basically. "drove" around endlessly googling place/street/business names. australia killed me cuz there was a route 1 on both coasts, and i missed manga creek in the philippines vs colorado cuz i got lazy and guessed.

in canada, i found a business i could place exactly, in okinawa a highway intersection

Oh I feel better now - I thought I had good game at this and have reached that score a couple times but those 5 were a tough bunch, I doubt I would have broke 10k for those

can't imagine i'd break 10,000 just staying in place and straight guessing. even driving around, my score would have been possible without google assistance, but not likely.

just ran a second round, w minimal driving and no google allowed. did pretty well, almost 10000. http://url.geoguessr.com/3dPV. but yeah, it's much harder this way.

I got 9455 for that one (had to cover the screen to get the challenge link)

the 3rd one in that was super hard - they were all hard in that one actually, got the first two pretty near but collapsed after that. hate getting <10K :(

duh, i just figured out that it makes more sense to post the challenge than my results. live and learn.

Challenge: http://url.geoguessr.com/3dSd

Got 11967 for this, this is prob about my average unless I know something

http://url.geoguessr.com/3dUt - again got about 9400. two shots in the dark came in very close, one missed the continent.

10636, (no driving/googling), my guesses v close to yours including the same continent mistake. seeing some interesting strategies in other's games, e.g. "hmm st petersburg or moscow, let's split the difference"

10944 - did REALLY badly but got saved by being 10km out on the last one so got 5k+ just for that

dammit! 11154

all my guesses were worse than yours apart from the last one

all my guesses were worse than yours apart from the last one

― prop forward turned celebrity chef (Ste), Friday

I effed up that last one, i KNEW the housing style wasnt right when i clicked should have taken a lil longer

woot! did very damn well on the last challenge suare posted: 19165. i allowed myself to drive, but not far. two i was able to place almost exactly, as i could identify and locate the towns. one nearly blind guess in a vast area came in only 41k off. score

was that D? Impressed you got so close with A - I should have got closer with C kicking self over that one. 19K is an amazing score tho, ive never beaten that even with 2 locations more or less dead on - tho i never move from the spot is my excuse:D

otoh, i lost the challenge unregistered posted last week, 13191 to 15624 :(

http://url.geoguessr.com/3e1y

i allow myself a fair bit of mobility, 10 clicks or so in any direction. i'll try a few never moving at all, but imagine i'll crash hard.

was that D?

yeah, figured it had to be western, but surprised to have hit it nearly dead on

i allow myself a fair bit of mobility, 10 clicks or so in any direction. i'll try a few never moving at all, but imagine i'll crash hard.

― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Friday, 5 July 2013

its good though - sure you get some low scores along the way but you start realizing you know more than you think you do - cues like soil colour, tree type, road markings

The worst for me are when you can see a roadsign for a highway or town but don't recognize it or know where it is, so it doesnt actually help you at all

challenge anyone to do as badly as i did on this one (no moving) -- 11003. lol at making the exact same mistake twice in a row. 3/5 are crazy hard tho.

only got a decent score overall cuz one is v close by

I lost, but wtf is mexico doing in [redacted]?

basically made the same mistakes as you, including the exact same guess on the last one!

Just got 14884 w/ no driving but it won't give me the share url ;_;

we maintain an international view

I made exactly the same mistakes too, going for middle of continent x when it was continent y. Twice. Also, aye, wtf Mexico?

14509 for that one tho that last one was a bit of a surprise - i got lucky with knowing the area for one of them tho!

My score: http://url.geoguessr.com/3edf

challenge anyone to do as badly as i did on this one (no moving) -- 11003. lol at making the exact same mistake twice in a row. 3/5 are crazy hard tho.

no moving for me = 8398

I was almost on top of your final one, and I did much much worse on that first one (got 74 points haha)

Fancy some stress? I made a time challenge. You get 30 seconds per guess, make the guess otherwise you get 0 points.

http://url.geoguessr.com/3fvi

I got 8089 btw

(full moving and googling allowed i guess)

i had no idea you could drive around! got 15k on my first time out, have yet to score below 10k

We had our first 0 km guess on the first location of this game: http://url.geoguessr.com/3fQX (and I think our overall score is 2 away from the highest possible). Helps to zoom in on the map as much as you can when you make your guess -- otherwise you can end up off the road.

Great challenge, that one. Was pretty much spot on with all of them except the last one because I got really bored trawling through the arse end of [redacted] to find the exact spot.

http://url.geoguessr.com/3fZk

Nice score! Yeah, lots of trawling for that last one.

got 13861 on this one (no movement or googling). fun, lots to see, one outright freebie.

gah just beat me, i really messed up on the last two

got 13861 on this one (no movement or googling). fun, lots to see, one outright freebie.

― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Sunday,

I got 14232 http://url.geoguessr.com/3gZh

didnt do the one above that, no way can compete with googlers lol!

We had our first 0 km guess on the first location of this game: http://url.geoguessr.com/3fQX (and I think our overall score is 2 away from the highest possible). Helps to zoom in on the map as much as you can when you make your guess -- otherwise you can end up off the road.

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, July 6,

I had a go and did pretty well!

score of 16381 http://url.geoguessr.com/3h5F - got a spot on with the 2nd, knew the city but didnt expect to get bang on

got 13861 on this one (no movement or googling). fun, lots to see, one outright freebie.

14529. Didn't move, didn't close in enough for the freebie, just spun on the spot and guessed. Not bad for a two minute dawdle around between sets at the tennis.

http://url.geoguessr.com/3h7X

with plenty of driving/googling, i got 32384 on the challenge vt captchas posted yesterday, missing the high score by nine points. got 'em all right, but wasn't quite precise enough in my pin placement :(

enjoy both approaches to the game, blind guess from starting spot and exploratory research, though the latter ultimately comes down to time invested + to-the-millimeter exactitude. less room for luck & surprise.

^ score

also, since i couldn't get ste's timed challenge to work, here's another 30 second timer. you can drive around a bit, though you won't get far.

i got 10079, with one lucky guess, one total fail

I quite like the timed ones as i take about that much time anyway as i dont drive around or google - though when you're zooming in on the map to put the marker down feel a bit hurried then

also, since i couldn't get ste's timed challenge to work, here's another 30 second timer. you can drive around a bit, though you won't get far.

i got 10079, with one lucky guess, one total fail

― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Sunday, July 7,

My Score - 11570 http://url.geoguessr.com/3hpV

i got one that is underwater with a sea turtle staring at me. how am i supposed to do that?

I've had that one, it's lovely (if you move around, you get back on land)

i got 18,000 something but i was googling. i'm going to try this one without cheating but is it cheating that i knew it was romania because of romanian flags? i also found the prettiest place in the world somewhere in russia. i wish i had looked it up because now i lost it.

lol then i got one with a road sign in polish saying which routes to take to warsaw and 2 other cities. i was still 75 km off though. 12484 points.

is it cheating that i knew it was romania because of romanian flags

of course not surely! you guess based on what you know/surmise/estimate - thats your knowledge! cheating would have been if you had googled flags to find out which one it was