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

[beefytee]

47,892 -- Not sure if I've ever got a better score. I was doing great until the last 2 where I messed up the years.

1)
9948 pts
1 yrs off - 100.9 m -- Recognized the 2 presidents. There were pillars at the corner of the picture that gave me confidence it was at the Whitehouse.

2)
9997 pts
0 yrs off - 146.9 m -- Narrow downed the year based on the Datsun Brand. I was able to make out the street signs even with my limited Spanish.

3)
9990 pts
0 yrs off - 488.4 m -- Took me a minute on this one. Several English signs, "Swiss" "Israel" and even "Burma". Driving on the right side of the road. A cosmopolitan location. Looked like Paris to me. I looked around and found Place Vendom. Picked the wrong side of it though.

4)
8400 pts
6 yrs off - 25.3 m -- Driving on the left side of the road. I think we have had pictures from this street before. The Queen Victoria Building is pretty distinct, and I was able to find it pretty quickly with satellite view. I was thinking this was during the wildfires they have had, so I picked too recently.

5)
9557 pts
3 yrs off - 1.4 km -- Figured it was somewhere in Sweden. Picked too recently.

[beefytee]

And now looking it up, I see that Datsun was phased out of Europe in 1984 with only limited use until 1986, so me getting the year correct was pure luck.

[BigPiney]

47,892 -- Not sure if I've ever got a better score. I was doing great until the last 2 where I messed up the years.

1)
9948 pts
1 yrs off - 100.9 m -- Recognized the 2 presidents. There were pillars at the corner of the picture that gave me confidence it was at the Whitehouse.

2)
9997 pts
0 yrs off - 146.9 m -- Narrow downed the year based on the Datsun Brand. I was able to make out the street signs even with my limited Spanish.

3)
9990 pts
0 yrs off - 488.4 m -- Took me a minute on this one. Several English signs, "Swiss" "Israel" and even "Burma". Driving on the right side of the road. A cosmopolitan location. Looked like Paris to me. I looked around and found Place Vendom. Picked the wrong side of it though.

4)
8400 pts
6 yrs off - 25.3 m -- Driving on the left side of the road. I think we have had pictures from this street before. The Queen Victoria Building is pretty distinct, and I was able to find it pretty quickly with satellite view. I was thinking this was during the wildfires they have had, so I picked too recently.

5)
9557 pts
3 yrs off - 1.4 km -- Figured it was somewhere in Sweden. Picked too recently.

This is really good on distance. All but one in meters. I think I have done that well once before as well.

[beefytee]

This is really good on distance. All but one in meters. I think I have done that well once before as well.

If only it was measured in miles. I would have been under 1 on all of them!

[Copelius]

40,426

1)9950 pts
1 yrs off - 43.3 m This was my gimme. Impossible to be off by more than 2 years.

2)9296 pts
4 yrs off- 195.3 m Sign says Andorra, and spelling Espanya like that cannot be Spain

3)5837 pts
0 yrs off- 3313.1 km I saw Israel on one of the signs and the only other one I could make out was in English

4)10000 pts
0 yrs off- 5.7 m My saving grace on an otherwise pedestrian day. I knew that wicked was down under from 2008-2011 and recognized the QV building from my time there.

5)5343 pts
8 yrs off- 1314.0 km I immediately felt stupid on the year because I should have been in the 70s, but what made it so obvious that it was in Sweden? Edit. I just looked up ABBA and realized who was in the picture. Never made the connection, because unless I have actually seen them, I don't associate faces with most pop groups, so I still only feel stupid on the year. The cobblestone city center and architecture reminded me most of Munich.

[Bo Diddley]

5)5343 pts
8 yrs off- 1314.0 km I immediately felt stupid on the year because I should have been in the 70s, but what made it so obvious that it was in Sweden? Edit. I just looked up ABBA and realized who was in the picture. Never made the connection, because unless I have actually seen them, I don't associate faces with most pop groups, so I still only feel stupid on the year. The cobblestone city center and architecture reminded me most of Munich.

Yeah, I was a little concerned the photo might have been taken in Germany. All the furs they were wearing reinforced Sweden. I wouldn't know their faces if Mrs. Diddley wasn't such a fan.

[PaloAltoCougar]

46,979 Strong on location, but just a bit off on time kept me from a stellar score

1) 9948 pts
1 yrs off -- 98.8 m. Picked the middle year of the only three years it could have been

2) 9296 pts
4 yrs off - 207.2 m My wife is still a little grumpy we drove two hours out of our way to walk on that street (always nice to add a new country to the list)

3) 9589 pts.
3 yrs off - 573.2 m. Recognized the obelisk--happy to be only slightly off with the year

4) 8883 pts
5 yrs off 886.7 m

5) 9263 pts
4 yrs off - 1.1 km. Kind of happy not to be an ABBA expert

[Pelado]

40,516

9950 - 1 year, 11.6 m

7492 - 8 years, 418.4 m - Almost selected the spot within a few meters but didn't look like the road went through there to "Espanya". I went with 1978 since my dad drove a 1978 Datsun 810 in my youth.

8830 - 5 years, 3.1 km - thought it was the Bastille monument. went with the default 1962.

4962 - 1 year, 16,994 km - As usual, didn't consider Australia. Went with a spot in the Theatre District of London. Pretty pleased on how close I was on the year, though.

9282 - 4 years, 908.2 m - picked a random spot in Stockholm in 1980.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I got 26,000 today. I doubt any of you chumps could beat that!

[Copelius]

I got 26,000 today. I doubt any of you chumps could beat that!

Were you able to get an individual score lower than my 1012 from yesterday.

[Bo Diddley]

40,996

I did this on my phone, so not easily copied. I did really well on locations, getting the right cities in all but the Ireland one where I was in Dublin. A little surprised to get within 1km of the last location in LA.

[beefytee]

45,362 -- Might be weekend brain, but I thought it was a little tougher today. So I'm pretty happy with my score.

1)
9245 pts
4 yrs off - 2.2 km -- Looked like prohibition times. The street cars were on the right side of the road so I'm thinking US. I search for Woodward in NY, NJ, and Philly for a while and then I see the "Detroit" on the other side of the streetcar.

2)
8317 pts
4 yrs off - 483.3 km -- Figured it was somewhere in Europe. I missed any clue that pointed it to Copenhagen. Saw a sign in the background that says Norsk, so I went with Oslo. Guessed too recently.

3)
9867 pts
1 yrs off - 4.0 km -- Lots of Chinese characters but saw the writing on the wall in the background that made me think, Thai, Cambodia, or Vietnam. I figured chances are it was during the Vietnam war.

4)
9185 pts
2 yrs off - 115.1 km -- Italian flags and the different country stuff were really confusing. I knew it would be Europe. I figured Ulster Bank and St. Pattrick's day would be Ireland or Northern Ireland. All the banks I saw on the map were foreign banks and I couldn't find any Ulster banks, so I went with Dublin. I also saw a kid carrying a Teletubby doll, which pushed be back into the aughts. I should have considered that probably would have been a Northern Ireland thing with the English influence and the BBC and all.

5)
8748 pts
5 yrs off - 13.1 km -- Wasn't sure when Planet of the Apes came out. I guessed too late. I guessed closer to Hollywood.

[Bo Diddley]

2)
8317 pts
4 yrs off - 483.3 km -- Figured it was somewhere in Europe. I missed any clue that pointed it to Copenhagen. Saw a sign in the background that says Norsk, so I went with Oslo. Guessed too recently.

Yeah seeing Norsk, I looked in Oslo for a couple minutes, but reasoned that some sort of Norsk Bureau was probably in another Scandinavian country, so I went with Denmark. That was probably a little lucky.

[Copelius]

29,602

Got detroit but the quality of the picture made me think oughts.
Oslo and way too late
Hanoi and post war
Dublin and 8 off. I cannot even remember if I was early or late.
LA and 1 yr late. Guessed year of release instead of year before because of the Bond one that was same year and lost 50 points.

[Lost Student]

38,021. Not great but at least I salvaged it from my worst guess ever.

1) 829 pts - 37 yrs off - 3356.6 km - I beat Cope's low score! I guessed SF in 1900.

2) 8346 pts - 2 yrs off - 954.0 km - I guessed London.

3) 9862 pts - 1 yrs off - 4.2 km

4) 9185 pts - 2 yrs off - 115.2 km - I guessed a spot in Dublin.

5) 9799 pts - 0 yrs off - 25.4 km