[HN Gopher] Where in the USA is this? ___________________________________________________________________ Where in the USA is this? Author : chippy Score : 260 points Date : 2023-07-03 16:18 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (pudding.cool) (TXT) w3m dump (pudding.cool) | cliff_badger wrote: | If anyone knows the creator of this site, they might want to fix | the bug of being able to get a different `frame` of reference on | all of the images. | | Wiki commons may be a great place to find images, but they do too | good of a job naming things. | elil17 wrote: | Some of the photos were actually taken about a thousand feet from | the zone where you were marked "correct". I clicked right on top | of the dam for my fifth guess and it showed me being 0.2 miles | off. | atdrummond wrote: | Not sure if I should be happy or upset with my result. | https://ibb.co/x5DSh04 | spacemanspiff01 wrote: | [dead] | uhtred wrote: | open the image in a new tab and there are often some serious | clues in the filename- is this cheating? | | I actually did it initially to be able to zoom in and see if I | could read the guy's badge on his shirt | wincy wrote: | That's fun. Although a picture indoors seems unfair. Somehow I | knew one of the pictures had to be West Virginia and got within | 40 miles. But the indoor one I got the exact opposite of the | country because how are you supposed to tell? Literally all | convention centers in the US have the same walls and awful garish | carpeting. | royalewithchees wrote: | Indoor photos can still provide good clues. I had no idea where | the first picture was. I guessed somewhere in Vermont. But that | second picture had me guess West Virginia because David | McKinley was in the photo. | wincy wrote: | Ah thanks for the info! Yes that would likely substantially | narrow it down, I didn't recognize him but there was at least | a clue. | xenospn wrote: | I absolutely love this! Got to 107 miles on the first try :) | giantrobot wrote: | You almost had me, covert dataset labeling company. Where's the | input box to tell you what Transformer I would be based on my | name and zip code? | | Most /s but also maybe not. | phobotics wrote: | This is really cool, great project. I thought the instructions | were clear, especially as it obviously follows in the trend of | Wordle style games. | | Don't understand the people complaining about the game when it's | their own lack of reading comprehension failing them. | hackeraccount wrote: | 165 miles. Started off 200 miles away but became obsessed with | PA. and never really got closer | cbfrench wrote: | Got 0 mi on my first guess because I thought "That's [state]" and | then picked a random spot on the [other state] side of the state | since it had that feel. I feel like I might as well quit at this | point, lol. | | Edited out spoilers. | ryukoposting wrote: | Went purely on feel and got 40mi on my first guess, and I felt | pretty good about that! Took a couple silly guesses because I | didn't see that the picture changes after each guess - the | [geological formation] in the later photos should have been a | dead giveaway. | tkanarsky wrote: | Lol same, I was like "yeah this is Appalachia for sure, why not | WV", clicked somewhere in the middle of the state, and got 14 | miles :) | nwatson wrote: | I thought "Kentucky" and was 200 away on first guess. | hughesjj wrote: | PA for me, it's like all the wrong guesses are just | triangulating on the "most Appalachian" place lol | irrational wrote: | Same, though I clicked in the middle of the name "West | Virginia" and was 34 miles away. | ethbr0 wrote: | Spoiler alert? :P | kdmccormick wrote: | Read the article before reading the comments? ;) | j_m_b wrote: | My best guess was 9 miles away! | Arainach wrote: | It's an interesting site, but why do so many of these guessing | games have single page applications without state in the URL? | | https://guessthe.game/ functions the same way - please include | the day in the URL so that if I want to go back through your | backlog (or show someone something from your backlog) it's easy. | | If I snoop the traffic and watch the redirects I sometimes can: | | https://guessthe.game/?fpg=110 | | But this site makes it even more obnoxious: | | https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=i135v&rs=x0hdn&upc=9a... | | Really? UUID? (side note: that's not a UUID) | choward wrote: | What's adds to that annoyance is that the only way to navigate | the games is a "prev" link. There's no way to jump directly to | a game or go to the next game. This means every day it becomes | more time consuming to get to the first game. And if you | accidentally refresh the page, have fun! | function_seven wrote: | I went back a couple days to #74, and laughed out loud at the | second photo. | | Not sure if this link will work, but it should take you to #74: | https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tu... | obituary_latte wrote: | I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has | the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the | map reliably. Or is it a different picture? | function_seven wrote: | It has an outline of Illinois, with a star right where the | village is located. | | So I brought up the map, zoomed in on Illinois, and put my | guess about where that star was. | obituary_latte wrote: | I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has | the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the | map reliably. Or am I looking at the wrong picture? | irrational wrote: | Nice of them to put a picture of the state with a star right on | the tank. | EugeneOZ wrote: | Keep being US-centric. | ydnaclementine wrote: | > Wait, it's all Ohio? | | > Always has been | agloe_dreams wrote: | This. A vast number are in rural Ohio | glitcher wrote: | Even without knowing any real hints from the pictures myself, it | was still a lot of fun for me refining each guessed location | based solely on distances reported on previous guesses. Nice | work. | brezelgoring wrote: | I got 0 mi! [1] | | After the first 2 I stopped attempting cities and figured the | picture didn't matter, it was a game of triangulation. | | Nice game, I like it, even though I've never set foot in the US. | | [1] Spoilers! - https://i.imgur.com/azCWc3i.png | jws wrote: | 0 mi in 4 guesses. The funny part was I forgot to look at the | photos after the first two and had to go back and look at the | photos to see what I missed. The first photo has a bridge, so | that informed the clicks a bit since I knew I needed a stream, | so some help from the content. | dh2022 wrote: | I tried a similar approach. I only got as close as 126 miles... | ankaAr wrote: | 18 miles using triangulation | dustincoates wrote: | I got 0 miles because the first photo was exactly the kind of | landscape I grew up with. It also helps that almost all of the | Texas photos are sure to have a flag or the shape of Texas | somewhere. | yaky wrote: | Triangulation from guesses #3 and #4 gave me the general area, | but then picture #5 shows what feature to look for on the map. | Got 0.5 miles. | codetrotter wrote: | After reading your comment (but not looking at the spoiler), I | attempted triangulation from the get-go. | | I managed to get 60 mi away. | | I think 0 mi away is very impressive. Especially since you had | already used some of your attempts without initially aiming for | triangulation! | | Kudos to you :) | postmodest wrote: | I was off by 6 miles because the actual pin is off by six miles | for the last picture. | | Also, as an American, the fact that I recognized the first | picture to within 50 miles makes me sad. Our bridges should not | look like that, even there. | joeframbach wrote: | Agreed. I grew up in Pittsburgh, but even after 10 years | after moving away, I immediately recognized the first picture | as "somewhere in West Virginia" as if instinctually. | svachalek wrote: | That state has a powerful Senator though, so not all the | roads are like that. There are some ridiculously overbuilt | highways with no traffic. | Arn_Thor wrote: | I've never been to the US but somehow West Virginia was my | first guess and I got it down to zero miles eventually. I | don't know why that state is so particularly recognizable | TheDudeMan wrote: | I did not even notice that it was giving me distance feedback | after each guess. | Izkata wrote: | I was like "Huhm... a rural area?" and got very lucky: | something like 1280 miles on the first guess and 0 miles on the | second guess. | iambateman wrote: | Ooooh I got 99 miles on guess 3 and then started guessing 2000 | miles away because I assumed they would be distributed. | nathancahill wrote: | Got 23 miles on the first guess! | | Spoiler: https://i.imgur.com/HK6sNsf.png | hermitdev wrote: | I managed to get 0 mi, as well. I guessed the state based on | the first image and was able to rapidly narrow it down from | there. Kind of cool today's happened to be in the state I was | born in, yet have no memories of. | jb1991 wrote: | I must have missed the part in the instructions where all the | photos are from the same place. Is that what you mean by | triangulation? | aidos wrote: | They are, yeah. I didn't realise to start with. I played a | couple of older games and managed to get 0 miles on one too - | though there was a hint in the second photo that got me | within 12 miles and it was easier find it from there. | brezelgoring wrote: | Yes, you can use a ruler and the scale to get closer with | each guess, regardless of what the picture shows. I use the | built in drawing app on Linux Mint. | | Here is another attempt, with my triangulation circles | written (don't judge me) | | Attempt: https://i.imgur.com/Hz3c37c.png | SomewhatLikely wrote: | To help others understand, This image shows that there's | only two possible locations left where all the circles | intersect. Because the game gives exact distance to the | target the correct answer must be on the circles. | CSMastermind wrote: | I really wish it was easier to zoom in on the photos to find | clues. Also the maps being used for the game were rough for me. | Lacking details, town names, clear rivers unless you're way | zoomed in, etc. Google maps would be a much better choice imo. | apocalyptic0n3 wrote: | Hundreds of hours of Geoguessr had me within 30 miles on the | first guess despite having never been there. This is an | interesting take on the concept. | ChrisMarshallNY wrote: | My first guess hit 17 miles from the mark. | | Maybe that's because I've been there... | irrational wrote: | This is fun. My first guess was 34 miles from the place. It took | four tries to get to 0. Though, I don't understand the indoor | one. | notatoad wrote: | i think it's auto-generating a problem based on geotagged | pictures. the indoor one isn't supposed to be a good clue, it's | just a photo that happened to be in the dataset. | whoopdedo wrote: | Could maybe pass the pictures through an object detector. Too | many faces and it skips the picture. It may already be doing | it to remove pictures with words as one "clue" containing a | sign would spoil it. Though I'd rather it keep the picture | but blur the sign in that case. | madcaptenor wrote: | There are definitely pictures with signs, I've been going | back through the archives. | jamilton wrote: | #60 has a picture of a map, so I don't think it's being | filtered. | LVB wrote: | Tough clue, but I guess folks in that area (or into politics) | might recognize the longtime US Representative from WV | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley), | SoftTalker wrote: | I didn't recognize him but figured something about that bunch | of overweight white men said Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, or WV | to me. | stygiansonic wrote: | I am guessing Trevor Rainbolt would dominate this: | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rainbolt | mythrwy wrote: | Spoiler alert: Viewing source of the photos told exactly where | the image was from. (all West Virginia). So I got 35 miles, then | 0 miles. | wing-_-nuts wrote: | I got within 10 miles, pretty proud of myself. Could have | probably done better with google maps showing lakes / reservors | joker_minmax wrote: | I got one of them within 34 miles. Not my fault Appalachia has a | look to it | | Edit: wait, they're all the same place? I was confused on that | point. I thought each was a different state. | jareklupinski wrote: | yea i think i jumped passed the instructions and thought all | the pictures were different places | | got 64 (i think it's the rusty bridges...) | chiph wrote: | It's a daily puzzle. So everyone gets the same one today. | bloodyludi wrote: | Not the same location for me. 194 miles apart: First picture | showed Stouts Mill Bridge https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8 | Last one Deer Creek Dam https://goo.gl/maps/u5zxGmby74X7JMWi7 | lelandbatey wrote: | The attribution on the first image shows that it's apparently | the Burnsville Bridge: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnsville_Bridge | | It seems that these two bridges just happen to have almost the | exact same construction and type of trees around. However, you | can see that in the first image from the parent article that | there are four houses in the background, and if we look up the | bridge attributed to the first image in the parent, it has | those same four houses in the background: | https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 Compare to the wikipedia | photo used in the parent article: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jp... | | The Stouts Mill Bridge does not have those same four houses in | the background, it has a different set of buildings in a | different arrangement near it: | https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8 | zoklet-enjoyer wrote: | I got 63 miles on my first guess | cpeterso wrote: | The original "where in the world?" location guessing game is | GeoGuesser from 2013. There are competitions and some pro | competitors can pinpoint locations within feet, though some rules | allow the player to browse Google Maps in a separate window. | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoGuessr | QuadmasterXLII wrote: | Is the idea that all pictures are the sane location? I got 17 | miles, the pictures all had intense west virginia energy haha | klyrs wrote: | I also did not read the very brief introduction. Then, some of | the pictures looked similar and I got suspicious. | | 569, 1236, 512, 1734, 4.6 -- 4.6?? Pure luck. | | If you can edit out the spoiler in your comment that might be | polite. | jaywalk wrote: | Yeah, completely missed the instructions as well. There's | plenty of room on the page, they should at least show by | default on the first visit. | Nition wrote: | > They should at least show by default on the first visit | | They did for me. Firefox browser on Windows 11. | Instructions were showing when I first visited and I had to | close them to continue. | Severian wrote: | My thoughts too, big WV energy (pun intended). I got 18 miles. | It looks very similar to where I do a lot of camping. | cm2012 wrote: | Would have been too easy if there were any political signs | lol. 14 miles for me. | paxys wrote: | My first guess was 25 miles away (!), but could only get to 11 | miles in the final one. | [deleted] | fishtoaster wrote: | This is pretty neat! Although I find myself relying far more on | triangulation via the distances than I do the images. | jamilton wrote: | Same. The image helps with a first and maybe last guess, and | sometimes there's something highly identifying in the image, | but triangulation would be enough if I could only accurately | estimate distances. The scale on the map helps. | | It would be cool if the radii were drawn at the end? It would | be too easy if they were drawn before, I think. | doodlebugging wrote: | Alright. I went all the way back to the first one. It was pretty | easy to triangulate some of them. Some of them have clues to | location in the photos. It was fun. | | I would like to point out some issues with the scale displayed. | There are quite a few cases where the scale only changes when you | shift the map so your guess could be affected by an incorrect | scale. The first location was one example. After I guessed the | location from the first photo (it's pretty obvious if you have | been out there) I made a second guess that cut the error by about | half. My third guess was inside the radius which appeared to be | about 5 miles even though the actual location plotted as correct | was well outside any point that could've been triangulated from | the first two guesses. I suspect the scale was not correct since | moving the map by grabbing it updated the scale. | | I managed to get quite a few of the 75 or so available by the | third guess. I got a couple on the second guess since I | recognized the geology of the area. All in all when you miss by | 0.02 miles I think it is close enough. This makes me think the | error radius changes based on the individual photo since I had | narrowed the location to within 0.04 miles on one California | location and wasted two picks narrowing the location while still | remaining outside the "correct" radius. | | Pretty fun stuff. Thank you sir. May I have another? | yossi_peti wrote: | Theoretically, if you choose the first two points at random, then | you have a 50-50 chance of guessing right on the third guess (the | two circles from the first two guesses have at most two | intersecting points) and should always get the correct answer on | the 4th guess. | colordrops wrote: | I've never been to the states in the photos and somehow got | within a few hundred miles of them. Guess my brain has had enough | training data. | soligern wrote: | You've been trained by the internet | sircastor wrote: | I played Wordle like a lot of people did early on, and bailed | around the time NYT bought it. Since I've found a couple of games | in the same theme that I've enjoyed - once guessing the movie | from single frames, and one (featured here!) where you're playing | a Scrabble word against "Dad" which is a fun gimmick. | | I like this one too. It requires a little bit of context-clue- | sluething, some logical deduction, and best guesses. | w-m wrote: | Got within 75 miles on the first try, even though I have only | been to the US once in my life (and nowhere near there). Of | course that's partially just a lucky guess. But it made me ponder | the giant influence of American TV and movies on my life. Playing | the same game with China for example, I would have been | completely and utterly lost. | Barrin92 wrote: | don't think it's just a lucky guess, same for me. Only been to | the us once, looked at it for five seconds and just thought | 'somewhere near Pittsburgh' and got within 50 miles. The North- | East of the US in general seems very recognizable. I sometimes | play Geoguessr when I'm bored and it's always places in the | South of the US that seem much harder to guess. | w-m wrote: | FWIW, today's puzzle seems particularly straightforward. I've | since tried a few of the earlier ones, and sometimes was on | the wrong side of the country altogether for the first try. | whoopdedo wrote: | I like the map picking a lot better than naming the country in | WhereTaken[1]. The US version is even easier because you only | need to guess the state. | | [1] https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/ | ajmurmann wrote: | The cool thing with wheretaken and worldle is that I've learned | a lot about countries and their borders. If I could pick on a | map, I wonder if I'd retained how things look in certain parts | of the world, but not what country they are in. | | Another awesome game for anyone who is into geography and, in | this case econ: https://oec.world/en/tradle/ | im_down_w_otp wrote: | Well, today I learned that I'm very good at identifying that | something is in West Virginia. | s0maticsec wrote: | The hacker in me couldn't help but view the image source, easily | found the location. I know it's cheating but I wanted to get it | right within 5 guesses lol | badrabbit wrote: | I've never been to the location/state but I got 56Mi on first | try, best guess 23Mi. I can't tell you what about any of the pics | made me think it was that state. It just felt like it. | [deleted] | davidw wrote: | So everyone got the same pictures? Seems kind of non-random in | terms of where the locations were, too. Nothing from the west | coast in 5 photos? | w0m wrote: | all 5 photos in roughly the same location I believe to help you | narrow it in. Every day a new location with 5 new photos you | can drill down with. | wholinator2 wrote: | Don't know if everyone got the same pictures, but I believe | it's like a wordle type game where you get 5 guesses to get the | correct location, all the images are for the same location, and | every day they release a new 5 image puzzle. You click and it | tells you how far away from the location each click is which | honestly allowed me to get within 30 miles by the end of every | set cause I could just triangulate approximately where it | wanted me to click. | qalmakka wrote: | I've been playing this (https://wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr/) for a | while now, it's nice albeit a bit hard at times. There's also a | worldwide version. | aendruk wrote: | The photo was too small so first thing I did was open it in a new | tab only to have the game spoiled by the URL as the image had | been hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons. | Solvency wrote: | I started at 100miles, diverted to 140 miles, then quickly | narrowed into 40mi accuracy by guess 5. In under 30 seconds. | | Certain parts of America just have a "look". | | A rusty, sad, religious, whitebread, Under Armour Tucked Into My | Jeans look. | mateo411 wrote: | Seems like a great picture for Bruce Springsteen's next album | cover. | olyjohn wrote: | Perfect game to play with your phone on the shitter. | alexb_ wrote: | Oh god, after reading the comments I'm so upset that they were | all from the same place. I got 1.7 miles away on the FIRST GUESS! | and I fucked it up.... | bhaney wrote: | The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from | the comments here. | | Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that | the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even | though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are | five photos from the same place." | | I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't | register? An opportunity to reflect on how hard it can be to | properly communicate with users, I guess. | supportengineer wrote: | Because there were five guesses, I thought they would be five | different photos from five different geographic locations | steezeburger wrote: | Wordle is similar though and doesn't seem to suffer from this | ambiguity. Is it because the ui feedback from Wordle makes it | more clear you're guessing the same word? I thought it was | pretty clear here with the distance. | stronglikedan wrote: | You think that's bad. I guessed in three, after realizing the | first two photos had the name of the town in them! | hoistbypetard wrote: | Wow. Yes. Same here. | tuxone wrote: | I see it as a combination of distraction and being eager to | consume something. Everything in the page (and before that, in | the link title) screams "this is a game" yet Start was pressed | without reading the 33-words down the bold How to play. A U | issue more than UX. | rootusrootus wrote: | Yep. I was distracted by the pretty colors I guess, because I | made exactly the same error. Got a little frustrated and | couldn't see the attraction of the game until I saw in the | comments that all the pictures are in the same location. | drsopp wrote: | My phone does not show those instructions. Firefox on iPhone | mini 12. | tuxone wrote: | Instructions do not show up again after the first visit. Try | with incognito mode. | duxup wrote: | I regularly get requests to put text or a warning on a page | that's already there. | | People just aren't good with words and will come up with all | sorts of reasons they didn't see it. | | That's not to say I'm any better, just that I get to see all | the requests and excuses. Bolder, bigger, alerts, doesn't | matter. | eagleinparadise wrote: | My first guess was 19 miles away and I totally thought they | were in 5 different locations. I had lived in Pittsburgh for a | short time and knew exactly those iron bridges were probably | WV/Pittsburgh area. | dfxm12 wrote: | Place does have many meanings, and in the context of playing a | game, there's always room for playing with stuff like that. | They could be taken from the exact same geographical | coordinates, the same city, the same state. The photos could've | all been grabbed from the same website or the place could've | been "by a river", whether that's the Monongahela River or the | Colorado River. | mike_hock wrote: | Oh, I didn't even realize that until I read your comment. I got | a lucky first guess and thought "wow, I'm good at this," and | then they just kept getting worse, lol. | | I guess it's because that information is dropped at the wrong | time, because right after that you first have to spend time on | figuring out how the weird UI works so you can actually make | your guess. Why does the map have to be hidden behind a button, | and why does it have to cover the picture? There is so much | wasted space on the screen, why not use it to show both at the | same time? | bhaney wrote: | The siren song of a mobile-first UI | ryandrake wrote: | The UI is pretty bad. I have a nice 27" monitor, yet they | constrain the entire game to a tiny 5" wide column down the | length of my browser window. Would be great if web | designers would stop imagining that I'm browsing the web | with a tiny portrait phone screen. | actionfromafar wrote: | They _just_ stopped imagining that I'm browsing on a 15" | screen! | Anon4Now wrote: | My problem was the state lines. My first guess was somewhere in | West Virginia, which happened to be right, but being from the | west coast, I had trouble eyeballing where to click for West | Virginia. | | The game is great, but I'm shouting to the wind about the | decline in quality of online maps. For example, I can barely | see roads on Google maps any more. The lines are faint and low | contrast. Zooming in doesn't help because the font remains | tiny. Map makers hate middle-aged people. | [deleted] | fatnoah wrote: | I read this post, then read the instructions, and still forgot | the second photo was the same location as the first. | wyldfire wrote: | I started to suspect that it was the same location after the | third photo. Not that the photographs themselves seemed related | but that the challenge didn't feel like a cohesive "game" | unless the distance was a hint (and not a score on the single | attempt). | murat124 wrote: | Same boat, but lucky me I got 55 miles on the 4th photo. 5th | one was 2200 miles off though. | nneonneo wrote: | If you click the question mark, you get the help page which | clarifies the data used: | | > ~500,000 geo-tagged images from Wikimedia Commons. Each day, | a random location is generated, along with five photos within | five miles. | | In a remote area, there will likely only be a few notable | landmarks nearby so you can expect to see many pictures of a | single landmark. This might be why people think the pictures | are supposed to of the same place. | anonu wrote: | OTOH I understood the instructions immediately. This is a | fundamental issue in UX. Some users will know right away and | others will not. Maybe a better sentence structure? Maybe | something like "Guess the 1 location where all these photos | were taken" (?) | | From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or | text notes anyway. So its possible that an even better UX is | one where the user figures out what they can do through | intuition rather than reading. | ethbr0 wrote: | > _From my experience, most people don 't read the | instructions or text notes anyway._ | | This fascinated me ~90s computer gaming. There were clear | camps of "people who always read the manual" and "people who | never never read the manual." | rjbwork wrote: | >From my experience, most people don't read the instructions | or text notes anyway. | | This happens in my life constantly when dealing with family | IT problems or mentoring juniors at work (and sometimes | working with seniors too!). People just do not read the | output of their computers. | pozdnyshev wrote: | [dead] | bobbylarrybobby wrote: | The issue is they're clearly not all from the same place, so | the instruction can't really register. They were all taken | within a few hundred feet of each other, but that doesn't mean | they were taken from the same place. In today's one was aerial | while another was indoors -- not the same place! | | The instructions would be better if they read "the five photos | were taken at different times, but were all taken within a few | hundred feet of each other". | ryaneager wrote: | Or "the five photos were all taken in the same town/city". | Now I know the scale I'm looking for. | wolfram74 wrote: | I dunno, they were taken at different times too, so none of | them were within thousands of miles of each other relative to | the galactic core. So that sentence is clearly not true | either. "from the same place", place ~ region or as easily | place ~ tripod position. Brevity and clarity are in tension | with each other. Gotta decide where on the pareto front you | want to be. | postmodest wrote: | Two of today's photos are from OUTSIDE the final "0 miles" | radius. | kylec wrote: | I got 19 miles away with my first guess, the map zoomed in and | I thought "that's a weird bug", zoomed it out, and then | proceeded to guess other guesses that were hundreds of miles | away. Interesting concept, but poorly communicated. | tasuki wrote: | > Interesting concept, but poorly communicated. | | It was communicated in the very first sentence of the | instructions. It's just that both you and me failed to read | the instructions. We have no one to blame but ourselves. | actionfromafar wrote: | This feels like morality vs outcomes reasoning. | | "Morally", no we don't. (Me included.) | | Say, if you are a games designer and _want_ to get the | message across, then you can start A /B testing ways to get | your point (pun mostly not intended) across more | effectively. | ethanbond wrote: | No, this is a design problem. The fact that so many missed | it is just evidence of how subtly tricky good design is. | tofof wrote: | Unimpressed by this game. The accuracy on the scale is off by as | much as 25%, as can be seen here: | https://i.imgur.com/NOvqCnV.png. As the only information you're | given other than a new photo is the distance, this is a serious | problem. | | What's worse, the 'correct' location radius doesn't even include | the locations where all the photos were taken! | | SPOILER FOR GAME #60: | | Game #60 has a clue that shows YOU ARE HERE: | https://i.imgur.com/98OXlal.png which is exactly here (google | maps [1]) https://i.imgur.com/KdN4OCh.png which corresponds | exactly to my guess location https://i.imgur.com/eCy97r6.png. | However, they claim that the correct location is here: | https://i.imgur.com/cSasI3g.png or | https://i.imgur.com/ChuisIx.jpeg (google [2]), which is actually | 9.5 miles away and outside their 5 mile radius, so it scored me | as missing by 4.5 miles. | | It's quite simply unacceptable to claim that all the photos are | of the same place and then have the exact location within the | photo not be within the accepted answer radius. Geoguesser, for | example, REQUIRES you to identify the exact location within ~150 | meters (in the worldwide mode) and they are actually correct with | that degree of precision. This error of 9.5 miles is 15,000 | meters away. | | 1: | https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3419792,-122.7415299,14.62z?... | | 2: | https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2970892,-122.5563029,1891m/d... | aaronax wrote: | Yeah they should not be using a Mercator projection if a key | part of the game is triangulation AND there is a ruler shown on | screen. | overkill28 wrote: | Yeah my first guess on #74 was 7.7 miles away (!) so I thought | for sure I would get it. But it turns out that the flag | location is actually 14 miles away according to Google Maps, | and the multiple photos "of the same place" are over 6 miles | apart. So I kept getting weird numbers for my guesses that | didn't line up with the geography. | teaearlgraycold wrote: | I got: | | 17 Mi -> 10 Mi -> 11 Mi -> 0.3 Mi -> 0 Mi!!! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-03 23:00 UTC)