In a game called GeoGuessr, competitors try to pinpoint where in the world a Google Street View image has been taken. Some can do it in seconds. By Kellen Browning An unremarkable stretch of highway ...

Do you know where this is? For a fun way to get through the work day, check out Geoguessr, a quirky new game that uses Google Street View to explore the world. The concept is simple: you are “dropped” ...

Few people are better than Trevor Rainbolt at identifying obscure locations online — but there’s even more joy in watching him visit them IRL. By Tomas Weber Back in 2021, a 22-year-old from Arkansas ...

Some online quiz games are rendered pointless by Google. But here’s one that would be impossible without it: GeoGuessr, a “where in the world are you?” guessing game that drops you into a Google ...

My son Kell came home from his Tufts winter break bearing a gift: an introduction to Geoguessr.com. This free internet game has actually been around since 2013, but it was new to me—and maybe even to ...

Online puzzler GeoGuessr has taken players across the globe, but its most recently revealed location is perhaps its unlikeliest yet. The game, which involves identifying real world places based on ...

Players can test how much they're familiar with the various Fortnite maps and islands by playing Fortnite Geoguessr.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's Friday afternoon, which - if you're reading this in the right timezones - means it's time to ...

An unexpected winner of the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders has been the browser-based game GeoGuessr. The concept is simple: You get parachuted onto a random Google Street View scene, where you can ...

Location-finding title GeoGuessr has gone viral, with players hunting down Google Maps locations using street signs, surrounding landscapes and more clues in professional tournaments. GeoGuessr fans ...

In April, 2013, a Swedish software engineer named Anton Wallén posted to Reddit. “Was fiddling around with backbone and Google maps API v3 and decided to make a small application,” he wrote. “Would ...