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

[Clark Addison]

Had you all heard of Rhyl before. Is that a famous Wales resort? I guess I should have at least thought of Wales with the spelling, but I had no idea where that was.

I guessed Wales because of the spelling but I wasn't smart enough to zoom in enough to find it, so I guessed Cardiff, about as far away as possible while still being in Wales.

[Copelius]

I guessed Wales because of the spelling but I wasn't smart enough to zoom in enough to find it, so I guessed Cardiff, about as far away as possible while still being in Wales.

Same on picking Wales based on spelling. I have definitely made full use of zoom on this game, spending way more time on it than I probably should.

[Commando]

37,282. I was lucky beyond measure picking the Sydney Opera House, but unlucky picking Atlantic City over Wales.


1) 5416 pts
0 yrs off- 5420.km

2) 8995 pts
3 yrs off- 105.0 km

3) 9992 pts
0 yrs off- 386.9 m

4) 7498 pts
8 yrs off- 116.0 m

5) 5381 pts
3 yrs off- 3597.4 km

[Bo Diddley]

Had you all heard of Rhyl before. Is that a famous Wales resort? I guess I should have at least thought of Wales with the spelling, but I had no idea where that was.

Never heard of it, but the spelling tipped me off. If you scroll in to a country slowly, you'll see the cities that pop up gradually. As I was moving in up top, Rhyl popped up, and it ended up being easier than I expected. I figured if I couldn't find the city I was just going to hedge my bet by placing the pin in the center of the country.

[Bo Diddley]

44474. Easily my highest score yet.

1) 9998 (120.3m)
2) 9439 (3 yrs, 15.2km)
3) 6268 (7 yrs, 1264km) - I just picked the center of Europe since I didn't recognize the flag
4) 9600 (3 yrs, 19.9m)
5) 9169 (3 yrs, 82.8km) - I likely lost points because of my stupid work computer--working the year slider is a pain. Wasn't it 1979?

[Northwestcoug]

26967. Oof.

No less than 1000km on any of them. Completely whiffed on all of the locations, but egregiously so on Sydney and Wales.

[chrisrenrut]

I thought the school in Oslo was the Supreme Court in the 50’s, swearing in some justice.. I was certain I’d be just meters away. Imagine my surprise. . .

[Bo Diddley]

42,663. Pretty easy one I thought.

1) 9993 (0 yrs, 326.3m)
2) 9286 (4 yrs, 690m)
3) 9795 (2 yrs, 239.7m)
4) 8592 (1 yr, 857.6km) - I picked Vienna
5) 4997 (21 yrs, 132.5m) - missing the time by 21 years was a killer.

[beefytee]

42,540

Was doing great until the last one. Got a perfect 10,000 again.

1)
9948 pts
1 yrs off
111.0 m

2)
8138 pts
4 yrs off
662.4 km (Didn't think of the Rock of Gibraltar, so I feel dumb. I did think Mediterranean island though so wasn't too far away)

3)
10000 pts
0 yrs off
47.3 m

4)
9583 pts
0 yrs off
79.3 km ( I was initially thinking France, but realized that nothing there started with K, so I went with Antwerp thinking there is a good chance it would be in the area)

5)
4871 pts
17 yrs off
628.6 km ( I picked St. Petersburg instead of Moscow. I didn't recognize anyone and picked post war, so I was way off)

[Northwestcoug]

37310.

I thought of an English/Spanish conflict and I couldn't get the Falkland Islands off my mind. But of course monkeys don't live that far south
Thought the Kremlin was in St. Petersburg, and that video camera looked like the 50's.
Did OK with the others.

[Bo Diddley]

37310.

I thought of an English/Spanish conflict and I couldn't get the Falkland Islands off my mind. But of course monkeys don't live that far south
Thought the Kremlin was in St. Petersburg, and that video camera looked like the 50's.
Did OK with the others.

Yes, that threw me off as well.

[SteelBlue]

39k today. Got all the locations correct but crushed on years. I suck at cars. That Eiffel Tower one screamed late 40s to me car wise, so I wasted an easy location. Clothing wise, Times Square looked pretty now to me, nope.

[Bo Diddley]

39k today. Got all the locations correct but crushed on years. I suck at cars. That Eiffel Tower one screamed late 40s to me car wise, so I wasted an easy location. Clothing wise, Times Square looked pretty now to me, nope.

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines. Then I saw the ad for Hero 6 and remembered about when that came out as we saw it in the theater with the fam.

[old_gregg]

44,847. ten years off on the kremlin one killed me.

[Copelius]

45,018
Picked 50's for Kremlin, but otherwise really close on all years. Only location I missed by more than a mile was the WWII. I cannot believe I confused the Dutch flag for French. If I would have just picked somewhere in the middle of Holland, I would not have been off by more than 150km in any direction.