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

[Bo Diddley]

Only question was where within the Kremlin that ridiculous meeting table was.

Yeah I got lucky on that one.

45,243

10000 pts 0 yrs off - 18.4 m - Gimme
9940 pts 0 yrs off - 2.5 km - Almost went with Soho, but stayed closer to Kensington. A little lucky on the year.
7259 pts 7 yrs off - 641.3 km - I was in Budapest, and guessed to recent.
8846 pts 5 yrs off - 2.1 km - Easy to get Paris, but just a little late.
9198 pts 1 yrs off - 252.3 km - Almost went up in Scotland and settled down in Bristol.

[PaloAltoCougar]

46,725. My two oldest daughters and I decided to play together via FaceTime and had a lot of fun. They scored even higher than I, but we helped each other quite a bit.

1) 9996 pts. 0 years off. - 161.2 m. Only question was where within the Kremlin that ridiculous meeting table was.
2) 9858 pts. 1 yrs off - 4.5 km
3) 7481 pts 8 yrs. off. -1.2 km. The language on a sign or two is Romanian. Absence of smartphones made me guess too early
4) 9782 pts 2 yrs off - 900.4 m. A definite Latin Quarter vibe, with a Mansard roof variant in the background. Fashions helped my daughters get close on the year.
5) 9628 pts. 1 yrs off - 56.5 km. Central to northern England look with the buildings. A daughter was aware of the Futuro home thing from the early '70s.

[beefytee]

41,500 - Some tough ones today.... And one easy one.

1) 9992 pts 0 yrs off - 386.5 m - The easy one.
2) 9212 pts 4 yrs off - 4.2 km - I saw Kensington Road on one of the signs and guess London. I was a few years too early. I was going to go way earlier until I looked at some of the car models.
3) 5962 pts 6 yrs off - 1876.7 km - First sign I see is French, so I'm assuming this is a French team. Didn't notice the closely related Latin words weren't French until the result. Guessed too early.
4)9235 pts 4 yrs off - 2.8 km - Second guess at Paris is correct. Lots of different languages on the signs, but French seemed the most prevalent. A few years too late.
5) 7099 pts 4 yrs off - 1401.9 km - Lots of fuzzy stuff in the photo. Only word I could make out was Futuro, which I'm assuming is Spanish or Italian... maybe Portuguese. I did think the buildings on the hill looked English, but I wasn't sure of anything on this. Guessed a few years early and went with Barcelona

[Bo Diddley]

42,302


10000 pts 0 yrs off - 2.7 m - Gimme. It helps that I've been there. Probably the closest I've pinned so far.
4962 pts 1 yrs off - 9562.3 km - Picked Thailand.
9481 pts 2 yrs off - 54.8 km - Picked Amsterdarn.
8975 pts 0 yrs off - 524.5 km - Picked Berlin.
8884 pts 5 yrs off - 790.4 m - I threw caution to the wind with 2024. But she's got her jacket off in Helsinki so it's probably summertime in that photo.

[beefytee]

42,705 - Four pretty straightforward ones and one unforgiving one. I consistently guessed late today.

1) 10000 pts 0 yrs off - 2.8 m - We've had this location before, so that was easy. The only thing easier was the year listed on the sign.
2) 3912 pts 5 yrs off - 8718.1 km - Only big clue that I found here was the cars driving on the left-hand side. I was thinking it was most likely around India or Indonesia. I picked Kuala Lumpur. There was a generic English sign "DEO Games" or something, but I dismissed that as I thought it could be anywhere. I didn't see any other clues that pointed to NZ. I'm sure I missed something. I guess the one boy does look Polynesian.
3) 9563 pts 3 yrs off - 1.1 km - It said Hague on their hats.
4) 9934 pts 0 yrs off - 2.9 km - Had the city and year written on the photo.
5) 9296 pts 4 yrs off - 213.9 m - I didn't realize she had been PM for so long. Most of what I heard, I thought was pretty recent, but time does fly.

[PaloAltoCougar]

46,789

1) 9471 pts. 3 yrs. off - 20.6 km. Says Jersey but couldn't make out where
2) 9591 pts. 3 yrs off - 456.9 m
3) 8328 pts. 6 yrs. off - 3.2 km
4) 9853 pts. 0 yrs. off - 11.8 km Guessed correctly it was the Icelandic volcano shutdown. Picked the wrong airport...
5) 9600 pts. 3 yrs. off - 38.3 m

[beefytee]

40,467

1) 5317 pts 3 yrs off - 3915.3 km - I had no idea and didn't pick out Jersey on the sign. I thought the safest bet was Hollywood area. I recognized Oceans 11, though.
2) 6989 pts 13 yrs off - 557.5 m - Said Cologne (in German) on the ship. I too noticed the mustache fashion and move the date later about a decade based on it.
3) 9943 pts 1 yrs off - 343.8 m - Based the time on the laptops that were in the shot. It looked like a decade ago or so. Didn't think I could find Optiver on the map, so I didn't search too hard and just dropped it in the city.
4) 10000 pts 0 yrs off - 19.5 m - Woohoo! Some luck here on the date. I did only see one cell phone and though fuzzy, it looked older. I considered an Icelandic eruption but had no idea of the year that may have occurred.
5) 8218 pts 5 yrs off - 181.9 km - This is where my trip to London will help me out. I went with Wolverhampton.

[Pelado]

37645

5017 - 4 years, 3914.0 km - Thought it might be on a set in LA. A few years late.
6030 - 15 years, 470.4 km - I also went with Berlin but went mid-30s since some of the stylings reminded me of Hitler.
9300 - 4 years, 47.4 m - Really lucky placement of the pin in random downtown Sydney, a few years late.
7498 - 10 years, 84.7 m - Only cancellation event that came to mind was Covid, so a decade late.
9800 - 2 years, 2.6 m - Might be the closest I've gotten the pin, but a couple years late.

[Bo Diddley]

46,257

9829 pts 0 yrs off - 17.7 km - I was up in Newark.
8322 pts 4 yrs off - 478.2 km - I was in Berlin and a little late.
9257 pts 4 yrs off - 1.4 km - Sydney was on the board. A little late.
8899 pts 5 yrs off - 52.4 m - Polish Airlines and destinations on the board pointed to Warsaw. A little late.
9950 pts 1 yrs off - 20.1 m - Gimme. I was a year early.

[Copelius]

45,523

9759 2yr 1.3km Too close to the Arc
8400 6yr 4.7m Way too early. Part of my study of the Balkans during my Uncle Sam study abroad.
7536 3yr 1127.4km I felt like there was nothing, so I went with Paris.
9878 0yr 5.4km Way north as well
9950 1yr 3.3m The city was listed 2x. Small town so looked at satellite and got a bit lucky.

[Bo Diddley]

42,565

1)6998 pts
11 yrs off - 102.9 m - Easy location. I was too late.

2)5949 pts
17 yrs off - 2.0 km - I got Croatia from the checker board coat of arms. I added years on because I'm always guessing too early for that region. Should have left it on default.

3)9751 pts
2 yrs off - 1.8 km - I picked the right road, but still a ways off. I would have gone with 1960, but left it on default because I'm a little stitious.

4)9873 pts
0 yrs off - 6.6 km - I was too far North, otherwise super easy one.

5)9994 pts
0 yrs off - 275.4 m - This was in my mission. Leaving it on default worked out.

[Pelado]

43,051

7497 - 8 years, 133.7 m - Too early
9028 - 1 year, 422.3 km - Cars looked German so I went with Munich to hedge on other European locations. Default year.
9762 - 2 years, 1.1 km - Didn't recognize the cars or license plates and couldn't read any of the signs. The dark statue to the right looked Roman, so went with Rome in the default year.
9992 - 0 years, 396.4 m - Right outside the stock exchange on Wall Street.
6772 - 12 years, 32.1 km - The flag made me think Australia but I couldn't find a Portsmouth in Australia, so went with the Portsmouth I've been to. Post-WWII with the atom bomb warning sign, but didn't look late enough for the Vietnam War, so I went with the Korean conflict. Didn't even consider the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[beefytee]

44,212

1) 9800 pts 2 yrs off - 21.4 m - Didn't recognize the location but did recognize the drawing that help me pinpoint the exact location. I didn't see any cell phones but looked like a lot of digital cameras. That helped me get close on the year.
2) 7890 pts 1 yrs off - 1120.7 km - Didn't recognize the shields. I first thought of the UK but noticed the steering wheels were on the left side. I thought the one shield had three crowns which led me to Scandanavia, but I did look closer and saw they were wolfs heads or something. I ended up picking Copenhagen. I never would have gotten close to Zagreb. I did go look at a color photo after the fact. Really cool roof. Had I saw the red and white checker pattern, it may have led me over there. The colors probably would have led me away from Scandanavia.
3) 8359 pts 6 yrs off - 1.3 km - Didn't know much except that it was Rome. I don't remember if I was early or late.
4) 9991 pts 0 yrs off - 458.9 m - Pretty straightforward.
5) 8172 pts 6 yrs off - 31.9 km - I guessed right in Portsmouth. I didn't look far enough out to get to Midhurst or Petworth. I guessed too early. British cars always look old to me.

[Bo Diddley]

Everyone saying the year was easy - was the year displayed somewhere?

No, for me the biggest clue was the dessert camo pattern. It's what we wore that whole first year of combat. The the Universal Camo Pattern came out in 2004. UCP was really good if you were fighting in a gravel pit.

You can also start matching up generals to when they were over there, and it's likely the meeting of the minds occured shortly after pushing through Baghdad.

[Pelado]

39244

7442 - 6 years, 457.7 km - Went with Warsaw
4878 - 54 years, 5.4 km - Saw the California clues and thought SF more likely than LA. Went with the default 1962 and thus lost all time-related points
9641 - 2 years, 14.7 km - Didn't know the exact location and figured it was during the Iraq surge. Everyone saying the year was easy - was the year displayed somewhere?
7500 - 10 years, 20.3 m - Saw a sign for Durham Street just past the car rental place on the right-hand side of the street. A decade too late.
9783 - 2 years, 851.3 m - Picked the opposite side of the Empire State Building - didn't notice any captions. The picture looked more recent than WWII to me, but not so recent as to be from the late 70s gas crisis, so went toward the end of the war.