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sundarurfriend
baw-bag
Its not true!
I have been playing TimeGuessr for 11 months, I do it before bed.
I have been all over, I personally really struggle between Vietnam and Thailand and got even that wrong with Cambodia. I am simply ignorant but it's not just rich countries.
sundarurfriend
That's good to know. I just tried another game, and got: Belgium, Denmark, USA, UK, USA. Not exactly the variety I'd hoped for! But I'll try it out occasionally and see if I ever get lucky with an interesting round.
InitialLastName
I don't know, my pictures definitely biased towards "cameras are accessible in these places" but I had modern Nepal and Bangladesh, as well as 1930's Finland.
fnky
First game, the places I got was:
- Argentina - Belarus – I guessed Poland, because the picture dipicted Polish soliders right after WII - Poland - France - Finland
NooneAtAll3
> Scrolling with the mouse
once again nobody cares about laptop users :/
sundarurfriend
I myself am on a laptop actually :D but with a bluetooth mouse connected.
Does yours not have two-finger drag on the touchpad be equivalent to a scroll? That also seems to work on this website, although of course it's a bit more inconvenient than using an actual mouse.
baw-bag
It's not that. They changed recently to 100% zoom. It used to be much more fine. Zoom in a little, Zoom out a little. For the past week, it's been max zoom in either direction. Kinda annoying.
mmahemoff
This is fun! I didn't immediately notice the time slider and thought it was just GeoGuessr with historical pictures, but the time element adds a whole new dimension.
xeonmc
Should probably be renamed to “Spacetime Guesser”
eastbound
I find the UX of Whichyr much better, but it doesn’t have the geographical component. But you see your final ranking on a gaussian curve and it’s fun!
And here are other games in that style of 5-minutes cultural guesses:
Not working currently but guess a historical moment: https://www.historle.com/?#
Guess a wikipedia page: https://pedantle.certitudes.org
tasuki
I'm at 200 tries for the "Guess a wikipedia page" thing, completely exhausted, and not getting anywhere. Very frustrating, yet I can't bring myself to abandon it...
mkl
Took me 115. I guessed lots of general filler words to work out the structure of some sentences, and guessed lots of general subject words to find a few hits. The grey words that it fills in when they're related can be a bit misleading. I didn't get a single sentence complete before guessing the article.
Jordan-117
Love their selection of photos more than the competition -- more likely to contain giveaways like a famous location from an unusual angle or a subtle date, so it feels more like detective work than guesswork. Just wish it reset at midnight local.
me_bx
The game 'Whentaken' [1] follows the exact same concept.
Just mentioning in case people are interested in alternatives / slightly different UX.
JimDabell
Also whichyr: https://whichyr.com
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715024
motoxpro
whichyr is awesome. I feel terrible about myself that I am systematically below average.
SamBam
Fun! I was surprised how often I was 1 year off and in the right city for things that I was just guessing about.
On small error I found: there's a photo that's outside Piazza Navona in Rome in the 30s, which it lists as being 700 meters away at Piazza Venezia. I know I'm correct -- I lived a street away from there.
hdjrudni
Maybe it moved 700m since the 30s? =)
captn3m0
I couldn’t figure out how the time picker worked (and that there was a time picker) till the third round when I realised I was being penalized. Got 34k still.
trebligdivad
I'm glad you figured it out...I don't see a map to put a pin into.
tesuto
Out of curiosity, I wonder why the game chose Apple Maps. I would have expected OpenStreetMap. Interesting choice.
brahma-dev
This is how it renders for me. https://imgur.com/a/kJmNMUR
alexkearns
Not quite the same but we created a timeline ordering game for US presidents: https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/1842261/US-Presiden...
You can also use our app to create timeline ordering games on subjects of your own choosing.
pmxi
This is really cool.
However, my first photo said "Times Square, NY" in the corner, with a copyright for 1908 which gave it all away.
cosmodev
I just clicked to take a quick look, and suddenly found myself playing it's a simple but surprisingly enjoyable game
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Scrolling with the mouse on the image (no Ctrl or anything, just scroll) zooms into the section of the image you're on, for anyone else trying "Open image in new tab" or other ways to zoom in.
I'm a big GeoGuessr fan, and had heard of TimeGuessr occasionally in those circles. I'd assumed it would be mostly pictures from the USA and so wasn't massively interested, and from trying it out now, I wasn't too far off: most of the images were from the US and Western Europe, and every single picture so far has been from a rich country. There are obvious reasons for that, and it's not a bad thing in some absolute terms, but it makes it kinda boring for me - the big appeal of GeoGuessr for me is that you routinely get dropped off in a country that you don't often think of, and momentarily get to see and imagine life through their eyes.
Maybe over time, TimeGuessr will also accumulate images from more varied places - or maybe one of the alternatives mentioned in this thread (whentaken and whichyr) already do better in that regard?