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[Copelius]

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.

[PaloAltoCougar]

47,166 Helpful clues for every location, and lucky not to be too far off on the dates...

1) 9800 pts
2 yrs off -- 49.3 m. Easy to get close.

2) 9563 pts
3 yrs off - 1 km A sign and what looks like a Corvair helped a lot

3) 9158 pts.
3 yrs off - 85.4 km Signage suggest a region near Austria but not Austria

4) 9135 pts
4 yrs off 886.16.3 km Didn't recognize the actual event

5) 9510 pts
1 yrs off - 84.9 km. Shoes and haircut were the giveaways (thought I typed the correct year but the bar must have slipped)

[Bo Diddley]

35,606

[beefytee]

35,450 -- Lots of old pictures making the years very tough.

1)
6994 pts
14 yrs off - 289.6 m -- Not much there that gives the date away. I got a "Boy in the Boat" vibe having seen the movie recently, so I went with 1938. I completely missed the Washington monument until I was about to put in a random guess. Luckily, I saw it in time.

2)
8043 pts
7 yrs off - 64.4 km -- Saw the signs to Germany and Zurich. Couldn't make out much else in there on the signs. I picked just outside Zurich. Picked too early. Going through it again, I see it says Basel on the sign.

3)
6177 pts
13 yrs off - 323.4 km -- Was not sure on any of this. I went with Prague. I think I picked too early.

4)
9674 pts
2 yrs off - 6.6 km -- I need to remember there are a lot of related photos that recur. Just guessed at LA. All the top-siders help me narrow down the year.

5)
4562 pts
26 yrs off - 84.4 km -- I thought the picture he was holding up might be Lenin. The Helmet looked WW1 to me. He was wearing what looked like wooden clogs, so I picked WW1 and Amsterdam.

[BigPiney]

42,601

[Bo Diddley]

Going through it again, I see it says Basel on the sign.

I totally overlooked that. I reasoned it out successfully from the road signs.

[Copelius]

36,439
1)9940 pts
1 yrs off- 505.2 m Washington Monument, lucky guess on year

2)6993 pts
12 yrs off- 331.0 m Nice sign but the bug and bus threw me off. In retrospect the construction and architecture should have gotten me closer on time.

3)9308 pts
1 yrs off- 142.4 km Right country and cars in posters helped me realize how early but went with Budapest.

4)5971 pts
13 yrs off- 528.6 km Guessed up near the bay area because the trees in the distant background didn't look like palms. Went way too early

5)4227 pts
27 yrs off- 273.4 km Just picked in the middle of Germany, but the open collars on the uniforms pushed me into the 70s even though the kids clothes didn't appear that late.

[beefytee]

42,164 -- One bad apple ruined my run today.

1)
9998 pts
0 yrs off - 108.2 m -- Year was a given here. I got pretty close with the Griffen St. clue.

2)
9948 pts
1 yrs off - 92.9 m -- I knew this was Munich and zooming in on the map, the subway station popped right out. In the reflection I saw someone wearing earbuds and someone wearing a mask, but only one person, so I assumed it was very recent.

3)
3412 pts
6 yrs off - 6995.1 km -- Ouch. The writing looked Spanish to me, although I struggle to differentiate Portuguese and Italian. Went with Madrid, as I thought Miriam Solovieff would have mostly played in Europe. When I see fancy cars from the 50's though, I always think Cuba. Wish I would have at least picked that close.

4)
8867 pts
0 yrs off - 633.1 km -- Cyrillic. Looked Russian and it hasn't been outside of Moscow until now. I have picked St Petersburg plenty in the past but picked Moscow this time. Lucky guess on the year.

5)
9939 pts
1 yrs off - 546.4 m -- Lucky guess on the correct airport in Israel.

[PaloAltoCougar]

42,970


1) 9990 pts
0 yrs off -- 496.2m. Unsure where along the route the photo was taken, but a very memorable day, Could have guessed the time within a few minutes..

2) 8897 pts
5 yrs off - 154.4m We just booked a hotel room near the spot, but punished for being a mere five years off

3) 5481 pts.
0 yrs off - 5097.2 km Lucky on the year, just a bit off on location

4) 8659 pts
2 yrs off 641.1 km Saw the Cyrillic letters but I always assume Russia = Moscow. Lucky date guess.

5) 9943 pts
1 yrs off - 347.6m. Airport was easy to guess; fortunate on the year

[BigPiney]

45,831

all locations under a km.

912.7 m in total

1)9993 pts
0 yrs off - 351.5 m

2)9598 pts
3 yrs off - 92.9 m looked in Berlin and then found it in Munich

3)9298 pts
4 yrs off - 93.5 m The sign said Theatro Municipal and the other looked like it said Venezuala.

4)6994 pts
11 yrs off - 277.6 m - Been there on Nevsky Prospekt , was way too early.

5)9948 pts
1 yrs off - 97.2 m - same as PAC

[RC Vikings]

TimeGuessr #291 42,746/50,000

1. 9991
0yr 473 m
2. 9798
2yr 96 m
3. 7418
8yr 3km
4. 5997
7yr 1806 km I went with Serbia, bad miss.
5. 9542
2yr 39km

[Bo Diddley]

40,126 - lots of clues on this one.

1)9997 pts
0 yrs off - 148.2 m - I was up on Elm and going the wrong direction.

2)9950 pts
1 yrs off - 29.3 m - I was there in October.

3)5012 pts
0 yrs off - 8095.8 km - nailed the year, but totally off. I missed the Venezuela reference.

4)5571 pts
5 yrs off - 2486.3 km - I need to study my alphabets. I was down in Athens instead of Leningrad.

5)9596 pts
3 yrs off - 207.0 m - Airport was pretty easy, just a little off on the time. I picked 1967, thinking people were evacuating before the war.

[Pelado]

Yesterday's was so bad relative to everyone else who posted that I didn't even share. Today's total score was even worse - 30,361.

5000 - 30 years, 26.1 m - Thought I saw someone on horseback in the distance, went pre-WWI

6737 - 1 year, 2138.9 km - Thought I was being smart with a KLM plane in Amsterdam

8187 - 5 years, 212.9 km - didn't recognize the language but looked behind the Iron Curtain, hedged with a city in Slovakia.

1537 - 20 years, 4813.4 km - maybe my worst individual score ever. Didn't recognize the language but there was plenty of English and weird names, so I went with India. Also, went way too recent.

8900 - 5 years, 8.3 m - Originally thought of Florida because where else would there be people dumb enough for flat earth proselytizing? The mountains in the background made me switch to Southern California. Once I selected the spot I realized I've actually been to that beach.

[Copelius]

39,165
7000 - 11 yrs, 12.6m I thought the sphinx looked weird. I went for the 30s not recognizing sandbags

9628 - 2yr, 18km I was one airport off

4870 - 20yrs, 630km Chose Bulgaria and way too early

8049 - 5yr, 351km Chose Ankara. too early. Ever notice how when you go to make that last slide of the year you always go in the wrong direction.

9618 - 1yr, 58km Figured LA by the mountains. Went post covid because I didn't start hearing the flat earth stuff until covid.

[beefytee]

I continue to stink it up: 31,835 -- Mostly because of years, but also missed on a couple of locations.

1)
5000 pts
34 yrs off - 4.5 m -- Guessed way too early. Got all my score from location. Couldn't pick out much that would narrow down the year range.

2)
6730 pts
14 yrs off - 42.5 km -- Picked the wrong airport and guessed way too late. The bus seemed to say Aeroflot on it and the soldiers all around led me to Moscow. I pick the airport I did because it looked like it had an old runway that was abandoned that might have been around back then.

3)
3841 pts
19 yrs off - 1318.4 km -- Guessed Sweden because of all the umlauts on the words. I guess too early as well since I picked a place outside the iron curtain.

4)
7954 pts
5 yrs off - 445.5 km -- Based on the writing I could find, I went with Bucharest. I considered Turkey, but didn't know if they allowd "Exotic Shops" there.

5)
8310 pts
7 yrs off - 4.4 km -- I figured the flat earth thing had died down since covid and other conspiracy theories had popped up.