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[beefytee]

There was a British flag on one of the buildings, and an Air France signed as well. So I couldn’t figure out what country to choose.

I figured the one way up high was likely to be the correct one (can’t remember if it was on a high flag pole or the top of a steeple). Unfortunately I couldn’t correctly identify that one.

But yeah. Definitely a lot of conflicting signals in that photo.

[PaloAltoCougar]

48,453. This one's a lot of fun, with at least three strong perfect score possibilities.

1) 9950 pts
1 yrs off -31.7 m One of the most famous intersections in the world and obs during Lost in Translation filming

2) 9600 pts
3yrs off - 14.8km Nice having the intersection written in the side note, but a 400 point penalty for being three years off?

3) 9113 pts
0 yrs off - 386.6 km Year reference on the banner; guessed Innsbruck

4) 9790 pts.
2 yrs off -502.2m. Whenever I see lots o' Zs in the wording, I go to Warsaw. Went with the default year.

5) 10000 pts
0yrs off 25.8m. Year was easy and picked the right angle for St. Paul's

[Bo Diddley]

38,589

1)4875 pts
21 yrs off - 6.1 km - flubbed the year badly. I never saw the movie.

2)10000 pts
0 yrs off - 21.9 m - The location and full date was written at the bottom.

3)8926 pts
0 yrs off - 573.8 km - The year was on the banner. And ".de" so obviously I go with Denmark.

4)9788 pts
2 yrs off - 588.8 m - This just spoke Eastern Europe to me. I was either lucky to get Warsaw or just picking up clues subconsciously. I wanted to go with 1960, but left it on default because I was a little sticious.

5)5000 pts
24 yrs off - 30.4 m - Location was a lock, but I picked the wrong war. BTW, I love seeing how things looked a century ago.

[beefytee]

35,512 -- Even with all the gimmes today, I did terribly.

1)
6870 pts
12 yrs off - 7.4 km -- Not familiar with the film. I never recognized Bill Murray, first instinct was it looked like Ted Cruz, but dismissed that pretty quickly. I thought it might be Scarlett Johanssen but wasn't sure. I went with the cars that were way too old for this millennium.

2)
10000 pts
0 yrs off - 12.3 m -- When it gives you the city, the names of the roads at the intersection, and the exact date of the picture....

3)
9144 pts
0 yrs off - 356.0 km -- Got the year and the country from the URL on the flag. I searched high and low for an ....erhof in the Black Forests and close to the Austrian border but found nothing. Finally, just guessed close to the Austrian border. Didn't think to look in central Germany.

4)
4553 pts
17 yrs off - 946.5 km -- Saw a sign that said Roxana's. I work with a Roxana from Romania, so I picked there. Picked way too late.

5)
4945 pts
24 yrs off - 2.2 km -- Wrong war. I pay too much attention to the location and too little about the year. If I had looked closer at the fashion and such, I probably would have concluded WW1.

[Copelius]

35,864
5878 - 16yr - 5.5km - Didn't recognize Scarlett and thought Murray looked a lot younger than 2002
10000 - 0yr - 14m - like everyone else said
6642 - 10yr - 357km - didn't notice the year on the flag when deducing the country. Went souther Germany as well.
8356 - 7yr - 1.5km - The words I could read seemed Polish so I stabbed at Warsaw, but went too recent
4988 - 24yr - 589m - Wrong war.

[Lost Student]

42,635. I believe this is my first 10,000 point guess. It only took the exact intersection, city, and year being written on the photo. Like several others, I picked WWII on the last one.


1)8773 pts

5 yrs off

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6.8 km

2)10000 pts

0 yrs off

-

14.3 m

3)8931 pts

0 yrs off

-

568.8 km

4)9984 pts

0 yrs off

-

804.1 m

5)4947 pts

21 yrs off

-

2.1 km

[BigPiney]

43,840

Bombed the Warsaw one. Picked Moscow 15 years later for 4925. otherwise a very good day.

[beefytee]

40,608

1)
7500 pts
9 yrs off - 6.8 m -- Didn't go back far enough to Italy's win in the World Cup. As usual, I'm not familiar with the World Cup stuff.

2)
9987 pts
0 yrs off - 650.8 m -- The toughest Canadian one so far. The biggest clue was that the street sign was in English and French. You don't get that in most of Canada, mostly in nationally controlled locations like national parks. That led me to Ottawa.

3)
7500 pts
10 yrs off - 6.2 m -- Didn't realize that LBJ died so soon after he was in office. I was thinking RFK or MLK and considered 1968, but saw the presidential flag, so I went with 1963 and JFK, ignoring that it looked like Nixon was standing there in the front.

4)
6741 pts
5 yrs off - 1317.8 km -- Went with Sweden instead of Hungary.

5)
8880 pts
5 yrs off - 994.6 m -- Hurried through the newspapers and thought it was when Churchill took over for Chamberlain. Had I read through them closer, I would have realized it was talking about Churchill and the Tories losing ground to Labour. The Chamberlain headline was the one that caught my eye and through me off.

[Bo Diddley]

43,529

1)7488 pts
9 yrs off - 614.2 m - Guessed too early, but picked up enough clues that it was London.

2)9768 pts
1 yrs off - 20.6 m - wrong side of Tokyo.

3)8926 pts
3 yrs off - 5.4 km - Caracas was on one of the signs.

4)6963 pts
14 yrs off - 1.0 km - Picked way too early. Should have left it on default.

5)9832 pts
0 yrs off - 16.9 km - I forgot where WB Studios are, but got close enough.

[Copelius]

42,670

4986 - 3yr - 5571km - Didn't pick up on the london clues, based on video camera, I figured turn of century.
9824 - 1yr - 6.6km - One of the cars screamed mid 70s. Random far away stab on Tokyo
9652 - 2yr - 12km - Almost went with Spain, but at the last minute saw the sign with Caracas
8209 - 6yr - 22km - I hate when it is close to default and you slide the wrong way.
9999 - 0yr - 59.5m - WB and guessed 75. Didn't realize it was Pink Floyd cover until the reveal.

[beefytee]

40,770 -- Got pretty much every location. Did terribly on the years.

1)
9708 pts
2 yrs off - 4.5 km -- Figured it was London, with the Union Jack in the background and some red double decker buses. Camcorders told me close to the relative year.

2)
6904 pts
15 yrs off - 4.8 km -- After the Lost in Translation picture with what appeared to be older cars caused me to guess way too recently for this one.

3)
7375 pts
8 yrs off - 6.1 km -- It said Caracas on a sign and there seemed to be Spanish stuff. I guessed too recently though.

4)
8384 pts
6 yrs off - 805.5 m -- Didn't we just have a photo similar to this one that was at the Tel Aviv airport? Guessed too early.

5)
8399 pts
6 yrs off - 65.9 m -- Not familiar with the album cover. Suits and hairdos looked start of the 80's to me.

[beefytee]

43,529
2)9768 pts
1 yrs off - 20.6 m - wrong side of Tokyo.

That's pretty close for the wrong side of a large city.

[Bo Diddley]

That's pretty close for the wrong side of a large city.

I have pretty high standards.

[Donuthole]

47,454. New record for me. Biggest miss was that I guessed 1979 on the Pink Floyd album cover. (I also didn't realize it was an album cover, but I did recognize the WB studios lot in the background.

[Pelado]

37357

3412 - 7 years, 8755.5 km - missed all the London clues. Thought they might be looking at some kind of movie star in/near LA

8850 - 5 years, 1.9 km - some of the signage looked like Japanese characters, a little late on the cars

6112 - 14 years, 387.7 km - Overthought the sign with Caracas and Maracaibo. Thought it might be a ferry that went to both from a third location, so I was planning to select the port in Aruba but accidentally zoomed in on the peninsula thinking it was Aruba (and surprised it wasn't an island). My error got me closer than my Aruba guess would have. Just went with the default 1962 again.

9530 - 2 years, 42.5 km - Didn't see an airport around Jerusalem, so just selected a random spot near Jerusalem. Default 1962 wasn't terrible.

9453 - 3 years, 11.7 km - Didn't catch any Warner Bros. clues but looked like a studio lot so just went with a spot near downtown LA.