Where in the World - A TTH Geoguessr Quiz

[John Arne]

Where am I?

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The name of the town/city will suffice, I guess.

[Spikey M]

Generic Soviet slum 102b.

[John Arne]

Not too far off.

[Spikey M]

Mongolia? Northern China? Kazakhstan? Turkmenistan?

One of the Russia/Asia border states.

[John Arne]

Mongolia? Northern China? Kazakhstan? Turkmenistan?

One of the Russia/Asia border states.

Yes, one of the bolded 3. Name of the city, please.....

[Spikey M]

Astana? Ulaanbaatar? Ashgabat?

If it's not one of them, I'm out.

[Giggles]

I’m not sure how anyone would know.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My first guess was Ulanbator or however you spell it. Silly alphabet central.

[Spikey M]

I’m not sure how anyone would know.

I knew immediately it was a Soviet satellite. I would have guessed Ukraine if it wasn't in ruins, so it had to be one of the Asian ones.

[P_3]

Astana, lads.

https://i.gyazo.com/c2a42f553ab7029c6f695fac62b8f8b0.png

[John Arne]

Astana? Ulaanbaatar? Ashgabat?

If it's not one of them, I'm out.

Correct, Astana.

[Spikey M]

I reckon the locals would love it if you put on a mankini and did lots of Borat impressions.

[Spikey M]

Also, IN YOUR FUCKING FACE WULLIE.

[Offshore Toon]

Wide roads, square buildings and not a lot happening is so Soviet. That probably stretches as far as the shit parts of Berlin.

[John Arne]

This may be a little easy...

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[Shindig]

I reckon the locals would love it if you put on a mankini and did lots of Borat impressions.

I worked with a Kazahk lass. Most of the office thought she was Polish. When you get to that end of the Soviet bloc, half of them are Asian anyway.

[Spikey M]

This may be a little easy...

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Wait, you're not actually in Kazakhstan? :nono:

[John Arne]

Wait, you're not actually in Kazakhstan? :nono:

No, have you seen the weather? Baltic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Don't recognise that and most piers are in more built up areas than that. Isle of Wight or something?

[John Arne]

Don't recognise that and most piers are in more built up areas than that. Isle of Wight or something?

You are on the right lines...

[Spikey M]

I know Wigan Pier when I see it

[John Arne]

I know Wigan Pier when I see it

What a shithole Wigan Pier was...

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[Spikey M]

R-One porn, that.

[SincereTheRebel]

Based on the road markings, the cars and those white rocks. Dover.

[John Arne]

Based on the road markings, the cars and those white rocks. Dover.

Correct coastline, wrong part of it.

[Spikey M]

Only pier I know down there is Brighton, but there's no way it's that undeveloped. Guessing it's Cornwall or Devon.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It can't be south coast, as the land appears to bend back the other way in the background. I thought Scarbados but I've been there and it doesn't have a pier like that.

The plants and buildings look more southern than northern, though. Devon? I dunno.

[John Arne]

Oops... I meant correct coastline as in the correct country/island.

It's the north west.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Can't be Blackpool. Isle of Man?

[Baz]

Morecambe.

[John Arne]

Llandudno. Home to the over 70's.

[Baz]

Come back Smjffy

[Ben]

I was going to say Llandudno but was thrown by earlier comments.

GeoGuessr :cool:

[John Arne]

Somebody else post summit.

[Spikey M]

https://i.ibb.co/JvX8qWS/article-1261756-08-E876-EC000005-DC-600-634x534.jpg

[Jimmy Floyd]

Looks a bit like Venice, except you'd have boats there and not cars.

[Ben]

Don't know how this will go. I just loaded up a game on GeoGuessr and copied five rounds.

Guess the country (and city if you can).

Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
https://i.gyazo.com/ea03400e2dc03a4f53a464056c4e287d.jpg

Round 5
https://i.gyazo.com/6270062724e22f80733ed9286f9877e2.jpg

[Spikey M]

Looks a bit like Venice, except you'd have boats there and not cars.

Basically correct, except all the gondolas have been replaced by white vans.

[Boydy]

Ben

2: Belarus?

[Ben]

No. It’s a bit of a trick I suppose, hence why the flag is so prominently displayed.

[Spikey M]

Number 4 is Belgium. Presumably Brussels.

[Ben]

Number 4 is Belgium. Presumably Brussels.

Belgium yes. Brussels no.

[SvN]

It reminds me of Blankenberge or Brugge, the only two Belgian cities I've ever been to.

[Spikey M]

Antwerp? Gent? Bruges? I don't know, Ypres? Is that even a place? I'm pretty sure it was just a German trench.

[Ben]

There’s a big clue in the picture. I’ll hold off giving the answers for a few hours.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Presumably it's Namur since it says that on the building.

5 must be Kyrgyzstan. 2 Bulgaria? 1 feels like Latin American but could equally be Spain or Italy.

[mugbull]

#1 feels like one of the Caucasian semi-autonomous states, like Chechnya. Let's say Grozny

[Manc]

2. Ukraine

[Ben]

Jim is correct with R4 and R5.

[Jimmy Floyd]

1 feels like Latin American but could equally be Spain or Italy.

Lima...

[Ben]

Yeah, did you see it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah, did you see it?

Eventually.

[Jimmy Floyd]

3 looks like somewhere the Romans have been, but no clue beyond that.

[Spikey M]

2 could be anywhere from Belarus to Belgrade to Mongolia. It's been quite the day for non-descript post-Soviet shitholes.

[Ben]

Post-Soviet shithole is what Round 2 strives to be.

[Spikey M]

Has anyone actually said Russia? Let's give it a go. Russia.

[Ben]

No but you're getting closer. I don't know how well known this place is. They want to be Russia and their biggest football team pulled off a massive upset in the Champions League a couple of years ago.

[Waffdon]

Moldova.

[sheriff] Tiraspol

[Spikey M]

Based purely on their shenanigans with Armenia, I'm going to say Azerbaijan.

[Waffdon]

I’m pretty sure I’ve had that exact same round on GG for #3 on the famous landmarks round

[Ben]

Waff is right. The flag you see is Transnistria. But if you wanted to go all UN then the correct answer is Moldova.

Only R3 left to go.

[mugbull]

#1 feels like one of the Caucasian semi-autonomous states, like Chechnya. Let's say Grozny

I meant #2

[mugbull]

#3 had me thinking South America at first, but the little morose apartment blocks peeking up over the foreground buildings have me thinking Muslim. A Muslim country that tried to build up some European-looking buildings at one time or another. Casablanca?

[Ben]

It's not Casablanca. They're actually not Muslim at all.

A clue: in all other rounds guessed correctly so far, there's been a flag in the picture to help.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was going to say Split or some other ancient Balkan location. Know nothing about such places.

[Shindig]

I can't even take a stab at it. Looks European but can't really place it. Bucharest.

[thommo]

Yerevan? Or at least, somewhere Armenian.

Edit: Republic Square in Yerevan to be exact. :cool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Oh yeah, flag right in the corner.

I got incredibly good at geoguessr at one point, but then they changed it so that you had to commit to doing it all the time and I couldn't be arsed. There used to be (might still be) a football stadia round which I was ludicrously good at.

[Ben]

There we go.

[Ben]

I got incredibly good at geoguessr at one point, but then they changed it so that you had to commit to doing it all the time and I couldn't be arsed. There used to be (might still be) a football stadia round which I was ludicrously good at.

I never do the competitive stuff for that reason. Daily challenge because the wife likes to play along and then I usually do streaks or whatever community maps are popular.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The ones I enjoyed the most were when they pitched you into a nondescript forest/plains in the middle of fucking nowhere and you had to scan along for miles trying to find any sort of tiny clue. Proper brain therapy.

Having a go now and all the old tricks are coming back - look for web addresses on vans, look at bins because they often have the local council's name on. Love it.

[Shindig]

Aye, I backtrack to the nearest road sign and then decide where that place name/language is.

[Ben]

Russia is the best for that. But then also the worst because you can be proud that you figured out it was the Far East from trees and Japanese import cars but then still be 1,000 miles away.

[Shindig]

I've remembered my password so I'm currently trying to decipher street names on mailboxes. The good thing about being dumped in a residential area is there is always estate agent signs up. Even with all that, I'm six miles out. :D

[Baz]

I went the pub once at my mate cracked out geoguesser. All but me and one other lad got well involved. I just don’t see the appeal.

[mugbull]

https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/yMaX8XPLMEOE6bXl

[Ben]

ADW is horrible with a 3 min time limit. I obviously went the wrong way in R1 because I couldn't locate a town name and R3 was just nasty.

[Shindig]

I missed one because it took 3 minutes to locate any signage.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/yMaX8XPLMEOE6bXl

I had a shocker.

Round 3 could have been fucking anywhere.

[mugbull]

ADW is horrible with a 3 min time limit. I obviously went the wrong way in R1 because I couldn't locate a town name and R3 was just nasty.

I think 3 minutes is pretty good, forces you to sometimes make guesses based on landscape/vibes which is just as big a part of the game as other things

[Ben]

It is. Just ADW presents the opportunity for a regular howler which the other popular maps usually don't.

[thommo]

Pretty pleased with that, over 20k. Last one was especially satisfying, even if I didn't actually find the exact spot.


For Round 3 I just flew down the dirt road until I found a little compound. It had a truck with Spanish on the side and the landscape didn't look like Spain. Just took a punt somewhere in Mexico and got close enough.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pretty pleased with that, over 20k. Last one was especially satisfying, even if I didn't actually find the exact spot.


For Round 3 I just flew down the dirt road until I found a little compound. It had a truck with Spanish on the side and the landscape didn't look like Spain. Just took a punt somewhere in Mexico and got close enough.


You must have gone the right way then, I spent 2:50 going down the track and saw nothing bar 2 small cars.

[Ben]

I didn't even see cars. I thought the shrubs looked Spanish (NW of Madrid) and never saw anything to convince myself otherwise. If I saw cars I would have at least seen the licence plates weren't European and that would have pushed me to America.

[mugbull]

1-minute urban world: https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/8enlnP0DCQKWnJgU

[Spikey M]

Can we go back to doing it in the thread? Otherwise, take it to the Worldle thread (RIP).

[Jimmy Floyd]

I didn't even see cars. I thought the shrubs looked Spanish (NW of Madrid) and never saw anything to convince myself otherwise. If I saw cars I would have at least seen the licence plates weren't European and that would have pushed me to America.

I was thinking Spain until I saw a bloke herding goats (nice TTH reference) and that made me guess Morocco. lol.

17,000 a shabby display.

[Ben]

Can we go back to doing it in the thread? Otherwise, take it to the Worldle thread (RIP).

GeoGuessr is one of about three websites on the whole internet that's blocked at my work so someone else will need to step in if you need your fix today.

[igor_balis]

https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/QfcuRBlBRAFM6qvR

spoons

[Ben]

Speaking of GeoGuessr, the new UI they've rolled out today is fucking dreadful. It's been shit for a good year or so now anyway but this has kicked it into overdrive.