XKCD

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

And my challenge back for the day. Sadly, being able to read all of the signs in A didn't help a lick.

Neither did not being able to read them

I did really poorly that time. Yikes.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Challenge!

All my guesses were on the correct continent!

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I did really poorly that time. Yikes.

Ah, you made the mistake I almost did on C.

Spoiler:

I was initially thinking Southwest too, but then I noticed that all the cars are parked on the left side of the street.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

Spoiler:

I was initially thinking Southwest too, but then I noticed that all the cars are parked on the left side of the street.

Spoiler:

I ALWAYS check that - but got distracted by the setting on that one

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Challenge!

All my guesses were on the correct continent!

I win again! Extreme luck though.

Spoiler:

C looked like American cars, they were driving on the right side and while there was a middle yellow line there was no yellow on the right edge of the road. So I was pretty sure it was Mexico. The road quality and cars pointed me to northern Mexico so I clicked randomly up there and was only 20 km off.

Also, for A I recognized the Bulgarian flag on one of the houses. Fortunately it was actually a house in Bulgaria. I almost picked something in Italy before I remembered the color order of the Italian flag.

For E, the one with all the cars in the square, the Formula 1 car said "Estonia" on the side in Cyrillic. So I hoped it was somewhat local. Sadly, it wasn't.

[Ghoulish Delight]

This one is worth doing for the first one alone, but I'm guessing Alex is going to be pretty spot on.

Spoiler:

D - I knew it wasn't Anchroage, but thought it seemed like too big a town to be Juneau. Shows what I know about Juneau

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

This one is worth doing for the first one alone, but I'm guessing Alex is going to be pretty spot on.

Spoiler:

D - I knew it wasn't Anchroage, but thought it seemed like too big a town to be Juneau. Shows what I know about Juneau

*sigh*
Lost by 33 points.

By the way, are we using the the "zoom" feature (which does not move you) or not?

[Alex]

I hadn't been (only because I didn't know I could) but Greg said "rotation and zooming only" above so I have been.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

This one is worth doing for the first one alone, but I'm guessing Alex is going to be pretty spot on.

Comments as I go just to make myself verbalize what clues I'm running off of.

Spoiler:

A. Yes, I know it is Catherine's Palace. Never been there but know it. Unfortunately I have no idea where in St. Petersburg it would be. But because of your comment I didn't settle for just picking a random spot in the city and considering it good enough. I zoomed in and started scrolling all the big parks on the map. Fortunatley got relatively lucky to notice something called Ekaterininskiy Park pretty quickly.

Nailed it to 0.015km.

B. Car driving on the left. Asians in the parking lot so probably Japan. Zoom in on that sign and yep, Japanese. Obviously coastal and mountainous which isn't much help. Based on the shadow direction (since being in Japan shadows probably tend to point northward especially since it appears to be a colder time of year) I'm going to guess it is probably an eastern coastline. But that isn't very reliable for many reasons.

So I'll go random east coast spot north of Tokyo.

And I hit it slightly closer than GD. 383km vs. 459km.

C. First thing is a Swedish flag. Signs on food truck in Scandinavian language make me confident is assuming it is actually in Sweden. Can't really see anything to help me more than that so I'll just pick a random spot on the coast. Since the weather looks nicer (though I honestly have no idea what the weather is like in various parts of Sweden during the summer) I'll go south of Stockholm.

And I miss by 262 km.

D. Well this isn't fair. Pretty sure it is Juneau since A) the store makes it clear it is Alaska and B) I've been to the biggest cities in Alaska and it doesn't really look like Fairbanks, Anchorage, or Kodiak.

Also, that street is just ringing a faint bell so I'm wondering if it is in the area we walked when were there for the Disney cruise.

Zoom in on Juneau first, yep. Egan is main drag along water. There's Egan and Main.

0.009km.

E. Ok, bridge over water. Sign in Spanish. People look more South America than Spain. Mexico or Chile (the only Spanish speaking countries I seem to ever get).

Cars are nicer so I'd guess it is nearer a city or resort area. Can't quite tell if the water looks coastal or more like a big lake. Leaning towards edge of Yucatan region due to the trees.

No. That sign doesn't say "prohibido" it says "proibito." So either it is misspelled or more likely is actually Portuguese and so this is Brazil (I usually rely on extra h's in what looks like Spanish to know I'm looking at Portuguese, so funny that it is a missing h that clues me in if I'm right). Unfortunately that isn't really an improvement in narrowing down space.

No idea where I'd find a mesa like formation in Brazil. So now just to guess something within a couple hundred miles of a big city.

Quick scan shows a lake northwest of Sao Paolo with a bridge over it. Good enough for me.

And it turns out it was another lake about 520km ENE from there but in that same circle around Sao Paulo so I'm pleased with myself.

Result

[Ghoulish Delight]

Hmm, I too shall "live tweet"...

Challenge

Spoiler:

A - cars look Eurpoey. Chuch looks Eurpoey. Lots of peaked roofs, so northern Europey. Huge building in the background looks industrial, so how about Gemany. Sure, northern Germany near the coast....

One country off, darn.

B - Fvck that's cold. Umm, can't make out the flags. Maybe some sort of science post near the pole? Greenland?

Oooooh, Svlabard, of course!

C - Howthefeckshouldiknow. One lane road, no clue on driving side. Trees seem pretty northern. Could even be Alaska. Kenai river? Sure, let's go with that.

Ooooh, so close....not. At least I was in the ballpark latitude-wise. ****

D - Fvck I really should learn to at least phonetically read Cyrillic if I'm going to keep playing this game. Don't see a dash cam, but still probably Russia, right?

Yep. Throw the dart at Moscow...and of course nowhere near.

E - Oh hey, is that Cabo? I think it's Cabo.

It's not Cabo.