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[beefytee]

44,459 -- I was on pace for my best score ever until the last one did me dirty.

1)
9998 pts
0 yrs off - 82.0 m -- Well, they gave the street, and I figured it was a world cup year. I almost picked 1970 until I made out 1966 on the boot.

2)
9653 pts
2 yrs off - 11.8 km -- Found Radstadt and the other places and tried to triangulate. Got lucky being close with the year.

3)
9800 pts
2 yrs off - 9.8 m -- Wasn't familiar with the Tokyo dome but figured, it would be easy enough to spot from satellite. Sure enough, scanning Tokyo, there it was.

4)
9996 pts
0 yrs off - 179.0 m -- Saw "Loredo Motors" in the background and the registration sticker with the year on the 2 cars.

5)
5012 pts
0 yrs off - 17178.7 km -- Figured it was a rugby match. Sure the flag in the background could have/might have been Wales, but I went with the straightforward guess, dropping a pin near the soccer and Aussie rules stadiums in Sydney. Saw 1999 on the rugby shirts.

[Pelado]

39,519

1)9950 pts
1 yrs off - 3.4 m - I stayed just down the street from here when I was there for the Queen's funeral. I think this is the closest I've gotten on location.

2)9182 pts
3 yrs off - 79.6 km - In the neighborhood. I picked down on the Austria/Italy border.

3)9707 pts
2 yrs off - 4.6 km - I picked the Japan National Stadium. Not too far off on location or time.

4)8168 pts
5 yrs off - 232.2 km - I was up in San Antonio and five years too late. I need to study cars more.

5)2512 pts
9 yrs off - 17177.6 km - Was going strong until I stumbled here. I was in Sidney and nine years too early.

46, 259
Nice rebound from yesterday.

10000 - 0yr 14m - Year on the hood of car and location on the building behind the car
9553 - 3yr 1.7km - After yesterday I did a bit more map scouring until I found one of the mentioned cities and then looked for others to get a route.
8398 - 6yr 85.6m - Tokyo Dome, but picked too late
9100 - 1yr 349km - Went with Austin since most protests go to the capital
9208 - 0yr 292km - Almost went Sydney until I saw the green flag in the background. Upon further reflection I should have known it was Wales instead of Ireland, but after yesterday, I am ok.

32970

7499 - 8 years, 57.2 m - saw the location, missed the year on the hood of the car, went too early

8824 - 5 years, 3.5 km - found each of the towns named on the map but miscalculated a bit on the highway junction. Went with the default 1962 after missing the wrong direction on the previous one. don't remember which direction I missed on the year.

7278 - 9 years, 30.5 km - Scanned Japan for a city name that corresponded with what was on the flag without success, selected a spot outside Tokyo as a hedge. Think I went too recent.

6857 - 8 years, 142.7 km - Cheated on this one and still missed it. Googled Starr County Texas and selected a random spot in the biggest town I saw in the county limits - Rio Grande City. Went too late.

2512 - 9 years, 17108.0 km - Unlike Bo, I wasn't going strong (though stronger than usual for me). Like Bo, I was nine years early and in Australia (though Melbourne instead of Sydney).

[Bo Diddley]

2512 - 9 years, 17108.0 km - Unlike Bo, I wasn't going strong (though stronger than usual for me). Like Bo, I was nine years early and in Australia (though Melbourne instead of Sydney).

[PaloAltoCougar]

42,502. Got a perfecto on 1 and was on my way to a great score but joined the rest of you in Australia. Essentially a 5.000 point penalty.

[BigPiney]

42,502. Got a perfecto on 1 and was on my way to a great score but joined the rest of you in Australia. Essentially a 5.000 point penalty.

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36,550

[Bo Diddley]

46,331 - This one was made for me.

1)9950 pts
1 yrs off - 3.0 m - Easy to pinpoint this one with satellite. A year too early.

2)9766 pts
1 yrs off - 21.0 km - I recognized the landscape and then was able to get close with a name on the sign. A little lucky to just be a year late.

3)9073 pts
0 yrs off - 427.2 km - I picked Paris. Partial car in the background clued me in on the year.

4)9322 pts
0 yrs off - 177.6 km - I was up in Krakow, but looked like the lead up to WWII.

5)8220 pts
4 yrs off - 579.5 km - Not too far off on time, and it was anyone's guess where in the UK this electronics shop was. I picked London.

[beefytee]

44,101

1)
9989 pts
0 yrs off - 532.2 m -- Didn't find the exact place but found one close to the actual one.

2)
9745 pts
1 yrs off - 26.3 km -- Figured it would be close to Az Zubayr since Al Zubair sounded similar.

3)
9799 pts
2 yrs off - 73.2 m -- Confederation of Helvetica means Switzerland, I was able to find the building with its unique roof profile in Bern.

4)
5685 pts
19 yrs off - 53.7 km -- The shield on the one flag looked like the one on the Slovakian flag. I found Roznava on the map and picked there. I thought the soldiers looked WW1 not WW2 and ignored all the cars.

5)
8883 pts
1 yrs off - 567.4 km -- Saw "IOC" over in the corner. The Andy Murray tennis match didn't have the Olympic style scoreboard style and icons, but I decided to go London 2012 anyways. You had to know they wouldn't do 2 in London though.

[Pelado]

35736

9940 - 1 year, 495 m - Thought it was Trafalgar Square, which I haven't been to instead of Piccadilly Circus, which I have. Lucky on the year.

5821 - 17 years, 19.8 km - Seemed pretty obviously in Iraq and the talk of the port made me drop the pin on the road nearest the sea.

8421 - 5 years, 94.8 km - Cheated to find out it was a palace in Switzerland and then plopped the pin in Zurich. My first inclination was somewhere it Italy. A bit late, but not as late as I was initially thinking.

4092 - 28 years, 407.8 km - The car decorated with flowers and the soldiers made me think of Franz Ferdinand so I considered Austria but the names on the signs didn't look German so I compared the cities in Hungary to the names on the signs and those didn't look right, either. Romania had plenty of cities/towns with similar spellings, so I just plopped the pin in the middle of Romania. Was still in the mindset of pre-WWI, and didn't fully consider the age of the car or anything else.

7462 - 7 years, 437.6 km - With the pound sign I figured it must be the UK but not London again, so went with Birmingham. The IOC copyright made me think it must be an Olympic year. The HD-ready TVs for sale made me think either 2004 or 2008. Went with the worse guess of the two since I thought they were phasing out of HD-ready by 2008.

[beefytee]

40,982

1)
9599 pts
3 yrs off - 57.0 m -- I thought I had seen this already on timeguessr (not in the daily ones). I guessed too early.
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2)
5304 pts
17 yrs off - 195.7 km -- Went with Zagreb. I need to remember that Yugoslavia, up until their civil war wasn't time warped by like the rest of eastern Europe. I always guess too late.

3)
9596 pts
3 yrs off - 222.6 m -- Looked to be hilly, so I guessed it was San Fransisco and not somewhere like New York.

4)
6500 pts
10 yrs off - 500.2 km -- This one was super tough. It looked like there was some version of the Red Ensign flag. Most of the countries like South Africa and Bermuda drive on the left side of the road and this looked like the right side. I decided to go with Toronto as Canada had a version of the Red Ensign as their flag until the 60s. I never would have guessed this was Montreal. I guessed 10 years too late.

5)
9983 pts
0 yrs off - 825.7 m -- This was pretty straightforward for me. I have been just catching up on The Crown.

[Bo Diddley]

47,070 - Pretty good day for me. Possibly an all-time high score.

1)9600 pts
3 yrs off - 40.4 m - Easy location, just a little too early.

2)8752 pts
3 yrs off - 348.4 km - Picked Rome.

3)9796 pts
2 yrs off - 199.9 m - The buildings weren't tall enough for NYC, so I went with San Francisco.

4)8922 pts
1 yrs off - 528.3 km - Park Avenue got me picking NYC. I figured the flags were on an embassy or something.

5)10000 pts
0 yrs off - 16.7 m - I know this location so well. You can see the Admiralty Arch in the background and knew about how far down he'd be standing. The year was a gimme as well.

[PaloAltoCougar]

39,724 Worse on distance than time for a change.

1) 5012 pts
0yrs off - 8968.8 km. Just a tad off on distance--lucky on the year

2) 7558 pts
1 yrs off - 1783.4 km Wrong country's independence celebration. Didn't know the flag.

3) 9826 pts
1yrs off - 6km

4) 9830 pts
0 yrs off - 17.6 km

5). 7498 pts
10 yrs off -77.5 m I recognized Freddy Mercury at Wembley, and yet went with a date AFTER he died.

[Pelado]

I got 35k yesterday. Biggest miss geographically was Guessing London instead of Montreal. I also picked Rome (or maybe another Italian city) instead of Croatia.

[Bo Diddley]

41,704

1)5372 pts
3 yrs off - 3641.6 km - I was stumped on location. Picked Jerusalem.

2)9950 pts
1 yrs off - 21.9 m - I knew the flag, and satellite easily dialed me in to the spot.

3)9263 pts
1 yrs off - 187.0 km - I was up in Rome.

4)7170 pts
4 yrs off - 1259.2 km - I was down in Cape Town and a little early.

5)9949 pts
1 yrs off - 70.3 m - Easy to get Wembly. I think this concert is the one that was in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody.

[beefytee]

39,072

1)
4962 pts
1 yrs off - 8632.7 km -- I was thinking Mexico or Central America. Went with Guatemala. Saw a cell phone that helped nail down the year. The jumper had some nice shoes!

2)
9568 pts
1 yrs off - 70.5 km -- One of the Cyrillic signs looked like it spelled Armenia. I picked the city of Vanadzor.

3)
6315 pts
13 yrs off - 185.4 km -- Went with Rome and picked way too early.

4)
8230 pts
6 yrs off - 17.6 km -- I picked Soweto a few years too late.

5)
9997 pts
0 yrs off - 155.1 m -- Pretty straightforward. The We are the World doc helped me remember the year.

[BigPiney]

39,247

went with mexico on the first one and Romania for the second.