You got historical chops? The Timeguessr thread (spoiler alert)

[LiveCoug]

40, 844

did poorly on some dates today. Missed detroit by picking NYC. Everything else was pretty close

[old_gregg]

thought for sure the first one was for sure the erie canal based on the reformed egyptian

[Commando]

35,684. Threw out some complete guesses. Also, I whiffed that Steven Segal would be in Russia. Nope, he'd be in Russia, alright.

[falafel]

39,585

Guessed Russia, but went for something closer to the Koreas.

NY instead of Detroir. Got Hong Kong w/in 3km and 1 year.

[Bo Diddley]

31,106

I picked Wuhan over Taipei, Mumbai over Lithuania (whiff), Belfast over Dublin, and Stockholm over Finland. And on the last pic, just as I clicked submit, I thought, oops! Wrong war, picking WWII over WWI.

[PaloAltoCougar]

43,233

The Taiwan flag shoulder patch helped on one. The lion in from of the library helped.

[Clark Addison]

34,549

A couple of good guesses, but a couple of embarrassing transpositions. I got cute and thought the IRA parade may have been Boston, and then put the book drive in the UK.

Also continue to struggle with years. Got the Helsinki subway right, but whiffed by 9 years.

[SteelBlue]

41,862 today. Picked India instead of Lithuania but at least they gifted me the year. The Helsinki pic threw me off on time, I saw the butt cut and the old bag and knew it was the 80s but then figured the Finns probably took the butt cut into the early 90s. Oops.

[Bo Diddley]

41,862 today. Picked India instead of Lithuania but at least they gifted me the year. The Helsinki pic threw me off on time, I saw the butt cut and the old bag and knew it was the 80s but then figured the Finns probably took the butt cut into the early 90s. Oops.

Glad I wasn't the only one. So you could make out the year? I couldn't make it out. I think there's a resolution difference on my work computer.

[beefytee]

39,078

1)
9883 pts
1 yrs off
2.9 km -- Love the full getup and the guy has a hole in his arm. I was thinking it was mosquito abatement.

2)
8875 pts
0 yrs off
625.3 km -- Picked Helsinki, having considered Lithuania because of the sign, but didn't think they had amphitheaters that nice in the Soviet Union at the time.

3)
5963 pts
19 yrs off
1.0 km -- Got Dublin, but thought it would have been between the WWs.

4)
4614 pts
18 yrs off
885.7 km -- Should done better on the location here, I was thinking Scandanavia or Netherlands and thought the words looked like they might have a Russian influence, but I hedged and went with Copenhagen. I picked the year way too late. Years killed me today.

5)
9743 pts
2 yrs off
2.3 km -- I recognized the lion from the NY public library. It was on the Ghostbusters trailer released yesterday. I wasn't sure where that was in NY and didn't look too closely. I found a satellite library location and picked it. Doh!

[Jeff Lebowski]

44,206

Good day for me.

[Copelius]

49,280 Ho Lee Crap

Nice rebound from a sub 30k day yesterday.
9881 - 1 yr, 3.1 km, Nice of them to include the flag. I jut dropped a pin on Taipei and picked 2020.
9545 - 0 yr, 88.7km, was between 1968 and 1988. Decided on 1988 even though the architecture looked closer to 60s so went with old soviet block.
9991 - 0 yr, 446m, IRA means Dublin, looked at ties and collars and thought late thirties.
9913 - 1 yr, 1km, I actually started on 1982 and moved it at the last second losing points. Language looked scndanavian but weird, so picked Finland.
9950 - 1 yr, 24m, I forgot that we didn't actually start sending troops until 1918. Hats on the gents helped push me to WWI instead of WWII. NY library made location easy.

[Northwestcoug]

37012
Mistook South Korea for Taiwan, somewhere more central Europe (just dropped the pin in a strategic effort to cover my bases) for Lithuania, Belfast for Dubin (and 13 years off), Finland for Sweden, and London for New York . Thought for sure that it would have been an English background for WWI.

[Jeff Lebowski]

49,280 Ho Lee Crap

Nice rebound from a sub 30k day yesterday.
9881 - 1 yr, 3.1 km, Nice of them to include the flag. I jut dropped a pin on Taipei and picked 2020.
9545 - 0 yr, 88.7km, was between 1968 and 1988. Decided on 1988 even though the architecture looked closer to 60s so went with old soviet block.
9991 - 0 yr, 446m, IRA means Dublin, looked at ties and collars and thought late thirties.
9913 - 1 yr, 1km, I actually started on 1982 and moved it at the last second losing points. Language looked scndanavian but weird, so picked Finland.
9950 - 1 yr, 24m, I forgot that we didn't actually start sending troops until 1918. Hats on the gents helped push me to WWI instead of WWII. NY library made location easy.

That's amazing.

[Copelius]

That's amazing.

I don't think I will ever have that combination of luck (75%) and knowledge (25%) again.