How much do you know about the world you live in —the landmarks, the roads or the various fields? Any guesses? Here is an interesting website that will make you learn the places around the world. Play the game for as long as you can and you will be left guessing and questioning your memory and IQ.

Geoguessr is a web-based geographic discovery game designed by Anton Wallén, a Swedish IT consultant. The game uses a semi-randomised Google Street View location and requires players to guess their location in the world using only the clues visible.

GeoGuessr places the player on a series of five algorithmically determined semi-random locations around the world. The locations are limited to roads and other paths that have been photographed by Google Street View cameras, which excludes the majority of Asia and Africa, large portions of South America and most of the far north in Canada and Russia.

But still you have a modest list of countries to choose from the homepage or go random by choosing the ‘world’ category; choose a single player or challenge your friend and test his/her memory and IQ (For challenge round you need to make a Geoguessr account).

Then you are given an image and you have to make a guess about where in a specific country you will find the place. The Street View window of GeoGuessr does not provide any information beyond the street view images; the player may also move about along the roads through the normal directional controls provided by Street View. Once the player is ready to guess the location, they will place a location marker on a zoom-able Google Map.

After the placed marker is submitted as a guess, GeoGuessr reveals the true geographic location and assigns the player a score depending on how far away the player’s guess was from the true location. Scores range between 0 for a guess at the anti-pole and 5000 points if the guess is within about 150 metres of the correct location. A new location is then provided to the player, and the process repeats until the player has guessed five locations.

The site is simple yet fun to explore the various places around the world and challenge your friends too! https://geoguessr.com/

Published in Dawn, Young World, December 19th, 2015