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Fun game, although a couple of them are just total guesses

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10248.....and that included me accidentally hitting the Make Guess button before picking a site.

 

The one on my phone has a timer, which seems better....can't just tap down the road and find a sign.

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Thanks postm'n, loadsa fun. I feel like friggin' uhhh...Quantum Leap ova heah. :thumbsup:

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posty, this is an awesome game if you enjoy sussing schidtt out. :thumbsup: I was playing it all weekend. The rules I set for myself are basically no google - you can only use what's provided on the screen. And if you're willing to drive around enough, you can usually NAIL the location within a few yards and get full credit.

 

It would be so much easier if google maps didn't fuzz out license plates. :mad: Also the "zoom in" option seems to be disabled, which would help with a lot of signage, which is often just frustratingly too small to read.

 

Here was one of my favorites: I was plopped somewhere in rural bumfock USA. Crops, American flags, farm houses. I was sure it was somewhere in the south, like Georgia or South Carolina. Got some street names and two town names - Montgomery and Reading Township. But I still had no idea what state (it was obviously not Montgomery, Alabama). Early on, I saw a mailbox that had a white "S" on it, but didn't think much of it - I thought it might be the initial of the homeowner. After a lot of driving around, I saw the same "S" on another mailbox. And they kind of looked like the "S" in patweisers' avatar. I thought there was no way this could be Michigan, but I drilled into the map and paged around, and there it was, Montgomery...and nearby, Reading! I never would have guessed it was a northern state. From there I found the roads and traced back to my starting point.

 

Question for you - do you think the sites are totally random, or do the gamemasters pick spots that have just enough clues to lead you to a precise guess? I have to think that they scout them out at least a little, because they do place limits on the roads you can explore, and how far you can go.

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Wow! Lots of fun. I got lucky with the first two guesses and got socked into playing on this Surface tablet which sux.

 

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rounded:

 

225 miles

25 miles

2400 miles

775 miles

950 miles

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And I did want to travel this summer. :thumbsup:

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Coworker and I had an idea for a very similar game a couple years ago.

 

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I mistook South Africa for rural New Mexico.

 

:D

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