I beat you finally! Got lucky on a couple.
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Can people who score close to perfect points explain themselves? How do you know these:
1. VANCOUVER
3. Bergen - Norway
3. Bergen - Norway
Ha!Well done mate, I am chuffed for you.
For Bergen, I seen a Norway flag on the boat, but the town looked too small to be Oslo so I took a punt on Bergen cause I went to college with a girl from there.
Knew it was somewhere in Canada and we've already had a Toronto. And the port couldnt look much more scandi if it tried, but it's clearly not Oslo.
The combination of "Royal" stuff and American-looking stuff made it Canada. Then I searched Ottawa for any of the big buildings there. It became clear that there were several Walmart Supercentres, and they were on the map at quite a low zoom. That made it easy to check each one for other similarities to the spot. After Ottawa I took a look at Toronto, and found many there. Then with 30s left I quickly panned over to Vancouver, just in case, and I found the specific spot (I think the Royal whatever-it-was gave it away).
For Bergen I immediately knew it was Norway, because that's what Norway looks like. Then it was simply a matter of figuring out where the ocean was in relation to the camera and matching it to the bigger Norwegian cities (though I was pretty sure it wasn't Oslo to begin with). I was pretty sure I found the exact spot, because of how everything lined up, and I ended up 2m away.
On the guess immediately after these two I got 2 points for thinking South Africa was Jamaica, so it's swings and roundabouts.
For Bergen I immediately knew it was Norway, because that's what Norway looks like. Then it was simply a matter of figuring out where the ocean was in relation to the camera and matching it to the bigger Norwegian cities (though I was pretty sure it wasn't Oslo to begin with). I was pretty sure I found the exact spot, because of how everything lined up, and I ended up 2m away.
On the guess immediately after these two I got 2 points for thinking South Africa was Jamaica, so it's swings and roundabouts.
Lies, all lies!
15,099. Number five saved me, got 108 miles away.
Just had the vague knowledge that Ghana's flag has a star in the back of my mind
10,236. Absolutely useless, but then 3 and 4 were somehow good guesses. Fluking my way through!
1 - There's a sign saying "your first aider is" but then the thing is blank, so now I'm not going to be able to sleep. Anyway I got 10,251 points overall.
11,570.
It's a good job I never did geography at school. Or maybe I should have, I dunno.
I assume where @Dante is getting 5x 5,000 thats via lots of googling of places etc?
Nah, Dante is actually Michael Palin.
I just don’t see the point of cheating in a fun comp
TBF I'd say using clues in order to try and track down locations makes it more fun, otherwise you're just making random guesses most of the time. It's like a detective game vs just random clicking.
Obviously if there's a way to find the answer out without doing any kind of work then that's just flat out cheating and ruining it.
Geo “guesser” - I’d say things like spotting the type of cars, flora, natural features, road markings or signs, language, architecure, etc is all part of the game in guessing. Zooming in on the name of a shop or phone number, etc and googling it to find the exact location - not so much.
Is this why you've been beating me so often?
Fair enough. I suppose the important way no matter how it's played is that everyone follows the same rules so that everyone can play equally.
No I am just much smarter than you.
Yeah that's the main thing really isn't it. If everyone is following the same rules then the game is fun no matter what.
I personally prefer the looking at the environment and not leaving the geoguessr tab, as otherwise everyone can look up stuff to get it bang on and unless it's in the wilderness we'll just have everyone getting max points.
Didn't we set a rule that you can't leave the game tab? So if you see the name of the village, you can search for that village on the map by zooming in and moving around if you want, but you can't just go google exactly where that town is.
Yeah not sure everyone will have seen it though.
Yeah, that's how we play. You only interact with the GeoGuessr tab. I can see the fun in playing an "all tools" round sometimes, but everyone obviously "has" to follow the same rules. Ultimately people can play however they want, though. Just don't pass yourself off as some kind of genius like Olly does if you use other tools. He is a genius, but most people aren't.
Came here excited for the bump thinking someone had posted another fix. Sad!
Battle Royale, will start it at 7pm (20 minutes from now) if the interest is there
https://www.geoguessr.com/battle-royale/be777469-4d9c-438e-b5a4-c3084f1dd5c0
https://www.geoguessr.com/battle-royale/be777469-4d9c-438e-b5a4-c3084f1dd5c0
I can play.
Well that was fun 
AGA: Always Guess Ghana
I didn't know how it worked and clicked Ghana but not Guess.Aw I forgot.
That area of Norway looked gorgeous.
Can join now
Guessed Finland, Sweden, and then Norway. Knew it was one of them.
Narrator: Olly never did join....
Feck sorry, will join next one.Did you mean 7:20?
I did, sorry. Time zones and all that
There was a .lt on a sign on the building down the road.
I went the wrong way and accidentally clicked myself down a country lane
Tunisia gets me every time.