Guess the location. It's super addictive.

[fire_of_avalon]

First game, first guess (SPOILER)

EDIT: So on my second guess I did way less good. I couldn't move around at all on the map, the people were all cut-off and all I could see was a McDonald's sign and mountains. So I think AHA NORTH AMERICA and the mountains we weird so I picked a strange range in Idaho. NOPE. Guatemala.

On my third one I landed in Russia, right beside a church that looked half abandoned with a huge red sign with a website on it. Went to the website and used google translate to find the exact location of the church.

For the fourth I knew I was in the NW USA because of 1) White people in puffy jackets 2) rocky mountains and dead pine trees. I looked around until I saw a sign for Lake Marie and discovered I was in Oregon! BUT NOT REALLY BECAUSE THERE'S ALSO A FREAKING LAKE MARIE IN WYOMING. That smurfer.

Okay. Number five. Pressure is on. And there's ski poles. Snow. And no roads at all. Only context clues are some smurfer in yellow pants. I hate my life. But wait. There's a sign behind me. I'm back in Russia! I looked for the most well known ski resort and picked it because smurf you, it's 1am and... well. I was in the right country. Just the wrong side. And Russia is a massive smurfing country. So here. http://url.geoguessr.com/3Fmz 17,521 points. Grr.

[Shorty]

This game is the worst and I hate it. I'm stuck in smurfing God's Country, Africa on a dirt road that I am pretty sure is taking me in circles. And the natives on the side of the road aren't helping me with directions!

edit: smurf YOU BOTSWANA

[Pumpkin]

I saw an LCBO sign on one of the maps. Being from Ontario, I know that's the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Go me!

[Sir Lancealot]

Guessed a place was near Canberra. It was in Mississippi, 14585 km away. Ugh.

[Denmark]

i really have nothing better to do on a thursday night:
1. Some kind of cool-looking church. Can't find identifying information, other than a woman dressed kind of Russian-y. TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF THE CHURCH AND USE GOOGLE REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH TO FIND IT.
Your guess was 0.033 km from the correct location and gave 6476 points.

2. Farmland (livestock not crops), probably America. Foliage kind of suggests New England. No front license plates on cars. Oh god this place is so far from ANYTHING NOTABLE and the only signs I can find are super blurry. These are some low-res images. Only readable sign is for "Linda's Pet Grooming", and a sign for county road 79x. Quick Google search shows one on County Road 791 in Etowah, TN. Find in Google Maps, surrounding area seems to all match up.
Your guess was 0.035 km from the correct location and gave 6476 points.

3. DIRT ROAD IN A DESERT. Mountains to west and south/southwest-ish. Geoguessr is really testing me. Head down the road a ways, see a saguaro. YES I CAN NARROW IT DOWN. Dead end heading that direction, let's go back to the start and try the other direction. I want this to be in Arizona but I have been clicking down this road for like half an hour and NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. THE ROAD HASN'T EVEN ENDED YET. OMG THERE'S A RANCH. If only I could read the sign. Keep following the road. I FOUND STREET SIGNS. I FINALLY FOUND STREET SIGNS THAT I CAN READ. It's in Arizona! Near Yuma! I'm way far away from my starting location though. Oh, on the way I had passed this place with a boat in the middle of the desert. Let's return to start location and find it. Ok? Ok.
Your guess was 0.023 km from the correct location and gave 6477 points.
(that one took at least an hour of searching)

4. One-lane road, next to a river or something. It's beautiful. Found a road sign, apparently it's in Norway. trout. That means it's in one of the fjords. Ugh. Welp, this will be fun! Thankfully, I know which road I'm on, and for the most part it goes north/south. But for the part I care about, it goes east/west! This helps me narrow it down some. Oh, the place I have to find is in spring but the place I clicked is winter. Good old Norway. It really looks like where I have to be though. Let's just keep getting closer and closer. I'm looking at the rocks on the side of the road and the reflection of the sun on the water to get this as close as possible.
...an hour of distraction and playing around later...
Your guess was 0.01 km from the correct location and gave 6478 points.

5. OMG IT'S A FOUR-LANE DIVIDED HIGHWAY. This MUST be somewhere in America. East-west road, start by facing west. I see a sign for state highway 647 but can't make out what state. Going the other way, I see it says "FM 1160" on a road sign, which, with help from Google, narrows it to someplace in Texas. Not very hard to find, really.
Your guess was 0.009 km from the correct location and gave 6478 points.

Game finished!
You got 32385 points in total.
Total distance away from correct locations: 0.11km
Total time researching: about 4 or 5 hours because I hate myself (I was also distracted during part of this time)

for some reason i can't get the "click to get share url" to work but i'll just screencap my final map to show that they were all provably close: click here

i'm never playing this game again, plz give me reps

[fire_of_avalon]

....man, smurf you, Denny! I was reasonably proud of my 17k but now you done ruint that.

[Denmark]

guys really why did someone have a motorboat in the middle of the desert

[Shorty]

They knew the Google Car was coming through town.

[LocoColt04]

12978 total... got EXTRA lucky with a super-obvious Germany that I dropped almost on the exact street corner.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

epicgeoguess.jpg

Denmark beats all of us though. Holy smurfing trout man.

[Jowy]

.146 km on the Nevada/Utah border for 6467 points without clever use of game mechanics or living there. The sign pointing out the name of the resort and having it appear on google maps may have assisted with that.

totally tagged Spokane with .129 on a subsequent game

[Mirage]

12978 total... got EXTRA lucky with a super-obvious Germany that I dropped almost on the exact street corner.

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

epicgeoguess.jpg

Denmark beats all of us though. Holy smurfing trout man.

Hey I can play this game in Vanadiel!

You're in batallia downs.

[Slothy]

Googling to find answers is for pansies. I'm going to try it out with only the first picture that appears to go by right now. We'll see how that goes.

EDIT: http://url.geoguessr.com/3FCN

Not the best I've done after trying this several times, but pretty close on some of them considering in some cases I had a literal dirt road and some trees to go by. Nothing like guessing based on foliage and climate and splitting the difference on a few possibilities.

As always, Australia and Africa are a complete smurfing mystery to me.

[Goldenboko]

i really have nothing better to do on a thursday night:
1. Some kind of cool-looking church. Can't find identifying information, other than a woman dressed kind of Russian-y. TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF THE CHURCH AND USE GOOGLE REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH TO FIND IT.
Your guess was 0.033 km from the correct location and gave 6476 points.

2. Farmland (livestock not crops), probably America. Foliage kind of suggests New England. No front license plates on cars. Oh god this place is so far from ANYTHING NOTABLE and the only signs I can find are super blurry. These are some low-res images. Only readable sign is for "Linda's Pet Grooming", and a sign for county road 79x. Quick Google search shows one on County Road 791 in Etowah, TN. Find in Google Maps, surrounding area seems to all match up.
Your guess was 0.035 km from the correct location and gave 6476 points.

3. DIRT ROAD IN A DESERT. Mountains to west and south/southwest-ish. Geoguessr is really testing me. Head down the road a ways, see a saguaro. YES I CAN NARROW IT DOWN. Dead end heading that direction, let's go back to the start and try the other direction. I want this to be in Arizona but I have been clicking down this road for like half an hour and NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. THE ROAD HASN'T EVEN ENDED YET. OMG THERE'S A RANCH. If only I could read the sign. Keep following the road. I FOUND STREET SIGNS. I FINALLY FOUND STREET SIGNS THAT I CAN READ. It's in Arizona! Near Yuma! I'm way far away from my starting location though. Oh, on the way I had passed this place with a boat in the middle of the desert. Let's return to start location and find it. Ok? Ok.
Your guess was 0.023 km from the correct location and gave 6477 points.
(that one took at least an hour of searching)

4. One-lane road, next to a river or something. It's beautiful. Found a road sign, apparently it's in Norway. trout. That means it's in one of the fjords. Ugh. Welp, this will be fun! Thankfully, I know which road I'm on, and for the most part it goes north/south. But for the part I care about, it goes east/west! This helps me narrow it down some. Oh, the place I have to find is in spring but the place I clicked is winter. Good old Norway. It really looks like where I have to be though. Let's just keep getting closer and closer. I'm looking at the rocks on the side of the road and the reflection of the sun on the water to get this as close as possible.
...an hour of distraction and playing around later...
Your guess was 0.01 km from the correct location and gave 6478 points.

5. OMG IT'S A FOUR-LANE DIVIDED HIGHWAY. This MUST be somewhere in America. East-west road, start by facing west. I see a sign for state highway 647 but can't make out what state. Going the other way, I see it says "FM 1160" on a road sign, which, with help from Google, narrows it to someplace in Texas. Not very hard to find, really.
Your guess was 0.009 km from the correct location and gave 6478 points.

Game finished!
You got 32385 points in total.
Total distance away from correct locations: 0.11km
Total time researching: about 4 or 5 hours because I hate myself (I was also distracted during part of this time)

for some reason i can't get the "click to get share url" to work but i'll just screencap my final map to show that they were all provably close: click here

i'm never playing this game again, plz give me reps

Reverse google image search is cheating

[Slothy]

Yeah, if you want a real challenge don't even pan the camera from it's starting position.

[Denmark]

lol u guise

i went into it trying to beat the game and get the best possible score