[HN Gopher] Where in the USA is this?
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Where in the USA is this?
Author : chippy
Score : 260 points
Date : 2023-07-03 16:18 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| cliff_badger wrote:
| If anyone knows the creator of this site, they might want to fix
| the bug of being able to get a different `frame` of reference on
| all of the images.
|
| Wiki commons may be a great place to find images, but they do too
| good of a job naming things.
| elil17 wrote:
| Some of the photos were actually taken about a thousand feet from
| the zone where you were marked "correct". I clicked right on top
| of the dam for my fifth guess and it showed me being 0.2 miles
| off.
| atdrummond wrote:
| Not sure if I should be happy or upset with my result.
| https://ibb.co/x5DSh04
| spacemanspiff01 wrote:
| [dead]
| uhtred wrote:
| open the image in a new tab and there are often some serious
| clues in the filename- is this cheating?
|
| I actually did it initially to be able to zoom in and see if I
| could read the guy's badge on his shirt
| wincy wrote:
| That's fun. Although a picture indoors seems unfair. Somehow I
| knew one of the pictures had to be West Virginia and got within
| 40 miles. But the indoor one I got the exact opposite of the
| country because how are you supposed to tell? Literally all
| convention centers in the US have the same walls and awful garish
| carpeting.
| royalewithchees wrote:
| Indoor photos can still provide good clues. I had no idea where
| the first picture was. I guessed somewhere in Vermont. But that
| second picture had me guess West Virginia because David
| McKinley was in the photo.
| wincy wrote:
| Ah thanks for the info! Yes that would likely substantially
| narrow it down, I didn't recognize him but there was at least
| a clue.
| xenospn wrote:
| I absolutely love this! Got to 107 miles on the first try :)
| giantrobot wrote:
| You almost had me, covert dataset labeling company. Where's the
| input box to tell you what Transformer I would be based on my
| name and zip code?
|
| Most /s but also maybe not.
| phobotics wrote:
| This is really cool, great project. I thought the instructions
| were clear, especially as it obviously follows in the trend of
| Wordle style games.
|
| Don't understand the people complaining about the game when it's
| their own lack of reading comprehension failing them.
| hackeraccount wrote:
| 165 miles. Started off 200 miles away but became obsessed with
| PA. and never really got closer
| cbfrench wrote:
| Got 0 mi on my first guess because I thought "That's [state]" and
| then picked a random spot on the [other state] side of the state
| since it had that feel. I feel like I might as well quit at this
| point, lol.
|
| Edited out spoilers.
| ryukoposting wrote:
| Went purely on feel and got 40mi on my first guess, and I felt
| pretty good about that! Took a couple silly guesses because I
| didn't see that the picture changes after each guess - the
| [geological formation] in the later photos should have been a
| dead giveaway.
| tkanarsky wrote:
| Lol same, I was like "yeah this is Appalachia for sure, why not
| WV", clicked somewhere in the middle of the state, and got 14
| miles :)
| nwatson wrote:
| I thought "Kentucky" and was 200 away on first guess.
| hughesjj wrote:
| PA for me, it's like all the wrong guesses are just
| triangulating on the "most Appalachian" place lol
| irrational wrote:
| Same, though I clicked in the middle of the name "West
| Virginia" and was 34 miles away.
| ethbr0 wrote:
| Spoiler alert? :P
| kdmccormick wrote:
| Read the article before reading the comments? ;)
| j_m_b wrote:
| My best guess was 9 miles away!
| Arainach wrote:
| It's an interesting site, but why do so many of these guessing
| games have single page applications without state in the URL?
|
| https://guessthe.game/ functions the same way - please include
| the day in the URL so that if I want to go back through your
| backlog (or show someone something from your backlog) it's easy.
|
| If I snoop the traffic and watch the redirects I sometimes can:
|
| https://guessthe.game/?fpg=110
|
| But this site makes it even more obnoxious:
|
| https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=i135v&rs=x0hdn&upc=9a...
|
| Really? UUID? (side note: that's not a UUID)
| choward wrote:
| What's adds to that annoyance is that the only way to navigate
| the games is a "prev" link. There's no way to jump directly to
| a game or go to the next game. This means every day it becomes
| more time consuming to get to the first game. And if you
| accidentally refresh the page, have fun!
| function_seven wrote:
| I went back a couple days to #74, and laughed out loud at the
| second photo.
|
| Not sure if this link will work, but it should take you to #74:
| https://pudding.cool/games/where/?uuid=6aa7v&rs=q0hdp&upc=tu...
| obituary_latte wrote:
| I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has
| the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the
| map reliably. Or is it a different picture?
| function_seven wrote:
| It has an outline of Illinois, with a star right where the
| village is located.
|
| So I brought up the map, zoomed in on Illinois, and put my
| guess about where that star was.
| obituary_latte wrote:
| I don't get it. What's funny about the water tower? That it has
| the town name? Even with that, I couldn't find the name on the
| map reliably. Or am I looking at the wrong picture?
| irrational wrote:
| Nice of them to put a picture of the state with a star right on
| the tank.
| EugeneOZ wrote:
| Keep being US-centric.
| ydnaclementine wrote:
| > Wait, it's all Ohio?
|
| > Always has been
| agloe_dreams wrote:
| This. A vast number are in rural Ohio
| glitcher wrote:
| Even without knowing any real hints from the pictures myself, it
| was still a lot of fun for me refining each guessed location
| based solely on distances reported on previous guesses. Nice
| work.
| brezelgoring wrote:
| I got 0 mi! [1]
|
| After the first 2 I stopped attempting cities and figured the
| picture didn't matter, it was a game of triangulation.
|
| Nice game, I like it, even though I've never set foot in the US.
|
| [1] Spoilers! - https://i.imgur.com/azCWc3i.png
| jws wrote:
| 0 mi in 4 guesses. The funny part was I forgot to look at the
| photos after the first two and had to go back and look at the
| photos to see what I missed. The first photo has a bridge, so
| that informed the clicks a bit since I knew I needed a stream,
| so some help from the content.
| dh2022 wrote:
| I tried a similar approach. I only got as close as 126 miles...
| ankaAr wrote:
| 18 miles using triangulation
| dustincoates wrote:
| I got 0 miles because the first photo was exactly the kind of
| landscape I grew up with. It also helps that almost all of the
| Texas photos are sure to have a flag or the shape of Texas
| somewhere.
| yaky wrote:
| Triangulation from guesses #3 and #4 gave me the general area,
| but then picture #5 shows what feature to look for on the map.
| Got 0.5 miles.
| codetrotter wrote:
| After reading your comment (but not looking at the spoiler), I
| attempted triangulation from the get-go.
|
| I managed to get 60 mi away.
|
| I think 0 mi away is very impressive. Especially since you had
| already used some of your attempts without initially aiming for
| triangulation!
|
| Kudos to you :)
| postmodest wrote:
| I was off by 6 miles because the actual pin is off by six miles
| for the last picture.
|
| Also, as an American, the fact that I recognized the first
| picture to within 50 miles makes me sad. Our bridges should not
| look like that, even there.
| joeframbach wrote:
| Agreed. I grew up in Pittsburgh, but even after 10 years
| after moving away, I immediately recognized the first picture
| as "somewhere in West Virginia" as if instinctually.
| svachalek wrote:
| That state has a powerful Senator though, so not all the
| roads are like that. There are some ridiculously overbuilt
| highways with no traffic.
| Arn_Thor wrote:
| I've never been to the US but somehow West Virginia was my
| first guess and I got it down to zero miles eventually. I
| don't know why that state is so particularly recognizable
| TheDudeMan wrote:
| I did not even notice that it was giving me distance feedback
| after each guess.
| Izkata wrote:
| I was like "Huhm... a rural area?" and got very lucky:
| something like 1280 miles on the first guess and 0 miles on the
| second guess.
| iambateman wrote:
| Ooooh I got 99 miles on guess 3 and then started guessing 2000
| miles away because I assumed they would be distributed.
| nathancahill wrote:
| Got 23 miles on the first guess!
|
| Spoiler: https://i.imgur.com/HK6sNsf.png
| hermitdev wrote:
| I managed to get 0 mi, as well. I guessed the state based on
| the first image and was able to rapidly narrow it down from
| there. Kind of cool today's happened to be in the state I was
| born in, yet have no memories of.
| jb1991 wrote:
| I must have missed the part in the instructions where all the
| photos are from the same place. Is that what you mean by
| triangulation?
| aidos wrote:
| They are, yeah. I didn't realise to start with. I played a
| couple of older games and managed to get 0 miles on one too -
| though there was a hint in the second photo that got me
| within 12 miles and it was easier find it from there.
| brezelgoring wrote:
| Yes, you can use a ruler and the scale to get closer with
| each guess, regardless of what the picture shows. I use the
| built in drawing app on Linux Mint.
|
| Here is another attempt, with my triangulation circles
| written (don't judge me)
|
| Attempt: https://i.imgur.com/Hz3c37c.png
| SomewhatLikely wrote:
| To help others understand, This image shows that there's
| only two possible locations left where all the circles
| intersect. Because the game gives exact distance to the
| target the correct answer must be on the circles.
| CSMastermind wrote:
| I really wish it was easier to zoom in on the photos to find
| clues. Also the maps being used for the game were rough for me.
| Lacking details, town names, clear rivers unless you're way
| zoomed in, etc. Google maps would be a much better choice imo.
| apocalyptic0n3 wrote:
| Hundreds of hours of Geoguessr had me within 30 miles on the
| first guess despite having never been there. This is an
| interesting take on the concept.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| My first guess hit 17 miles from the mark.
|
| Maybe that's because I've been there...
| irrational wrote:
| This is fun. My first guess was 34 miles from the place. It took
| four tries to get to 0. Though, I don't understand the indoor
| one.
| notatoad wrote:
| i think it's auto-generating a problem based on geotagged
| pictures. the indoor one isn't supposed to be a good clue, it's
| just a photo that happened to be in the dataset.
| whoopdedo wrote:
| Could maybe pass the pictures through an object detector. Too
| many faces and it skips the picture. It may already be doing
| it to remove pictures with words as one "clue" containing a
| sign would spoil it. Though I'd rather it keep the picture
| but blur the sign in that case.
| madcaptenor wrote:
| There are definitely pictures with signs, I've been going
| back through the archives.
| jamilton wrote:
| #60 has a picture of a map, so I don't think it's being
| filtered.
| LVB wrote:
| Tough clue, but I guess folks in that area (or into politics)
| might recognize the longtime US Representative from WV
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McKinley),
| SoftTalker wrote:
| I didn't recognize him but figured something about that bunch
| of overweight white men said Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, or WV
| to me.
| stygiansonic wrote:
| I am guessing Trevor Rainbolt would dominate this:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rainbolt
| mythrwy wrote:
| Spoiler alert: Viewing source of the photos told exactly where
| the image was from. (all West Virginia). So I got 35 miles, then
| 0 miles.
| wing-_-nuts wrote:
| I got within 10 miles, pretty proud of myself. Could have
| probably done better with google maps showing lakes / reservors
| joker_minmax wrote:
| I got one of them within 34 miles. Not my fault Appalachia has a
| look to it
|
| Edit: wait, they're all the same place? I was confused on that
| point. I thought each was a different state.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| yea i think i jumped passed the instructions and thought all
| the pictures were different places
|
| got 64 (i think it's the rusty bridges...)
| chiph wrote:
| It's a daily puzzle. So everyone gets the same one today.
| bloodyludi wrote:
| Not the same location for me. 194 miles apart: First picture
| showed Stouts Mill Bridge https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8
| Last one Deer Creek Dam https://goo.gl/maps/u5zxGmby74X7JMWi7
| lelandbatey wrote:
| The attribution on the first image shows that it's apparently
| the Burnsville Bridge:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnsville_Bridge
|
| It seems that these two bridges just happen to have almost the
| exact same construction and type of trees around. However, you
| can see that in the first image from the parent article that
| there are four houses in the background, and if we look up the
| bridge attributed to the first image in the parent, it has
| those same four houses in the background:
| https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 Compare to the wikipedia
| photo used in the parent article:
| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jp...
|
| The Stouts Mill Bridge does not have those same four houses in
| the background, it has a different set of buildings in a
| different arrangement near it:
| https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| I got 63 miles on my first guess
| cpeterso wrote:
| The original "where in the world?" location guessing game is
| GeoGuesser from 2013. There are competitions and some pro
| competitors can pinpoint locations within feet, though some rules
| allow the player to browse Google Maps in a separate window.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoGuessr
| QuadmasterXLII wrote:
| Is the idea that all pictures are the sane location? I got 17
| miles, the pictures all had intense west virginia energy haha
| klyrs wrote:
| I also did not read the very brief introduction. Then, some of
| the pictures looked similar and I got suspicious.
|
| 569, 1236, 512, 1734, 4.6 -- 4.6?? Pure luck.
|
| If you can edit out the spoiler in your comment that might be
| polite.
| jaywalk wrote:
| Yeah, completely missed the instructions as well. There's
| plenty of room on the page, they should at least show by
| default on the first visit.
| Nition wrote:
| > They should at least show by default on the first visit
|
| They did for me. Firefox browser on Windows 11.
| Instructions were showing when I first visited and I had to
| close them to continue.
| Severian wrote:
| My thoughts too, big WV energy (pun intended). I got 18 miles.
| It looks very similar to where I do a lot of camping.
| cm2012 wrote:
| Would have been too easy if there were any political signs
| lol. 14 miles for me.
| paxys wrote:
| My first guess was 25 miles away (!), but could only get to 11
| miles in the final one.
| [deleted]
| fishtoaster wrote:
| This is pretty neat! Although I find myself relying far more on
| triangulation via the distances than I do the images.
| jamilton wrote:
| Same. The image helps with a first and maybe last guess, and
| sometimes there's something highly identifying in the image,
| but triangulation would be enough if I could only accurately
| estimate distances. The scale on the map helps.
|
| It would be cool if the radii were drawn at the end? It would
| be too easy if they were drawn before, I think.
| doodlebugging wrote:
| Alright. I went all the way back to the first one. It was pretty
| easy to triangulate some of them. Some of them have clues to
| location in the photos. It was fun.
|
| I would like to point out some issues with the scale displayed.
| There are quite a few cases where the scale only changes when you
| shift the map so your guess could be affected by an incorrect
| scale. The first location was one example. After I guessed the
| location from the first photo (it's pretty obvious if you have
| been out there) I made a second guess that cut the error by about
| half. My third guess was inside the radius which appeared to be
| about 5 miles even though the actual location plotted as correct
| was well outside any point that could've been triangulated from
| the first two guesses. I suspect the scale was not correct since
| moving the map by grabbing it updated the scale.
|
| I managed to get quite a few of the 75 or so available by the
| third guess. I got a couple on the second guess since I
| recognized the geology of the area. All in all when you miss by
| 0.02 miles I think it is close enough. This makes me think the
| error radius changes based on the individual photo since I had
| narrowed the location to within 0.04 miles on one California
| location and wasted two picks narrowing the location while still
| remaining outside the "correct" radius.
|
| Pretty fun stuff. Thank you sir. May I have another?
| yossi_peti wrote:
| Theoretically, if you choose the first two points at random, then
| you have a 50-50 chance of guessing right on the third guess (the
| two circles from the first two guesses have at most two
| intersecting points) and should always get the correct answer on
| the 4th guess.
| colordrops wrote:
| I've never been to the states in the photos and somehow got
| within a few hundred miles of them. Guess my brain has had enough
| training data.
| soligern wrote:
| You've been trained by the internet
| sircastor wrote:
| I played Wordle like a lot of people did early on, and bailed
| around the time NYT bought it. Since I've found a couple of games
| in the same theme that I've enjoyed - once guessing the movie
| from single frames, and one (featured here!) where you're playing
| a Scrabble word against "Dad" which is a fun gimmick.
|
| I like this one too. It requires a little bit of context-clue-
| sluething, some logical deduction, and best guesses.
| w-m wrote:
| Got within 75 miles on the first try, even though I have only
| been to the US once in my life (and nowhere near there). Of
| course that's partially just a lucky guess. But it made me ponder
| the giant influence of American TV and movies on my life. Playing
| the same game with China for example, I would have been
| completely and utterly lost.
| Barrin92 wrote:
| don't think it's just a lucky guess, same for me. Only been to
| the us once, looked at it for five seconds and just thought
| 'somewhere near Pittsburgh' and got within 50 miles. The North-
| East of the US in general seems very recognizable. I sometimes
| play Geoguessr when I'm bored and it's always places in the
| South of the US that seem much harder to guess.
| w-m wrote:
| FWIW, today's puzzle seems particularly straightforward. I've
| since tried a few of the earlier ones, and sometimes was on
| the wrong side of the country altogether for the first try.
| whoopdedo wrote:
| I like the map picking a lot better than naming the country in
| WhereTaken[1]. The US version is even easier because you only
| need to guess the state.
|
| [1] https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/
| ajmurmann wrote:
| The cool thing with wheretaken and worldle is that I've learned
| a lot about countries and their borders. If I could pick on a
| map, I wonder if I'd retained how things look in certain parts
| of the world, but not what country they are in.
|
| Another awesome game for anyone who is into geography and, in
| this case econ: https://oec.world/en/tradle/
| im_down_w_otp wrote:
| Well, today I learned that I'm very good at identifying that
| something is in West Virginia.
| s0maticsec wrote:
| The hacker in me couldn't help but view the image source, easily
| found the location. I know it's cheating but I wanted to get it
| right within 5 guesses lol
| badrabbit wrote:
| I've never been to the location/state but I got 56Mi on first
| try, best guess 23Mi. I can't tell you what about any of the pics
| made me think it was that state. It just felt like it.
| [deleted]
| davidw wrote:
| So everyone got the same pictures? Seems kind of non-random in
| terms of where the locations were, too. Nothing from the west
| coast in 5 photos?
| w0m wrote:
| all 5 photos in roughly the same location I believe to help you
| narrow it in. Every day a new location with 5 new photos you
| can drill down with.
| wholinator2 wrote:
| Don't know if everyone got the same pictures, but I believe
| it's like a wordle type game where you get 5 guesses to get the
| correct location, all the images are for the same location, and
| every day they release a new 5 image puzzle. You click and it
| tells you how far away from the location each click is which
| honestly allowed me to get within 30 miles by the end of every
| set cause I could just triangulate approximately where it
| wanted me to click.
| qalmakka wrote:
| I've been playing this (https://wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr/) for a
| while now, it's nice albeit a bit hard at times. There's also a
| worldwide version.
| aendruk wrote:
| The photo was too small so first thing I did was open it in a new
| tab only to have the game spoiled by the URL as the image had
| been hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons.
| Solvency wrote:
| I started at 100miles, diverted to 140 miles, then quickly
| narrowed into 40mi accuracy by guess 5. In under 30 seconds.
|
| Certain parts of America just have a "look".
|
| A rusty, sad, religious, whitebread, Under Armour Tucked Into My
| Jeans look.
| mateo411 wrote:
| Seems like a great picture for Bruce Springsteen's next album
| cover.
| olyjohn wrote:
| Perfect game to play with your phone on the shitter.
| alexb_ wrote:
| Oh god, after reading the comments I'm so upset that they were
| all from the same place. I got 1.7 miles away on the FIRST GUESS!
| and I fucked it up....
| bhaney wrote:
| The most interesting part of this to me is the UX feedback from
| the comments here.
|
| Many people, myself included, say they had no idea at first that
| the photos were all meant to be from the same location, even
| though the very first sentence of the instructions was "There are
| five photos from the same place."
|
| I'm pretty sure I read the instructions, I guess that just didn't
| register? An opportunity to reflect on how hard it can be to
| properly communicate with users, I guess.
| supportengineer wrote:
| Because there were five guesses, I thought they would be five
| different photos from five different geographic locations
| steezeburger wrote:
| Wordle is similar though and doesn't seem to suffer from this
| ambiguity. Is it because the ui feedback from Wordle makes it
| more clear you're guessing the same word? I thought it was
| pretty clear here with the distance.
| stronglikedan wrote:
| You think that's bad. I guessed in three, after realizing the
| first two photos had the name of the town in them!
| hoistbypetard wrote:
| Wow. Yes. Same here.
| tuxone wrote:
| I see it as a combination of distraction and being eager to
| consume something. Everything in the page (and before that, in
| the link title) screams "this is a game" yet Start was pressed
| without reading the 33-words down the bold How to play. A U
| issue more than UX.
| rootusrootus wrote:
| Yep. I was distracted by the pretty colors I guess, because I
| made exactly the same error. Got a little frustrated and
| couldn't see the attraction of the game until I saw in the
| comments that all the pictures are in the same location.
| drsopp wrote:
| My phone does not show those instructions. Firefox on iPhone
| mini 12.
| tuxone wrote:
| Instructions do not show up again after the first visit. Try
| with incognito mode.
| duxup wrote:
| I regularly get requests to put text or a warning on a page
| that's already there.
|
| People just aren't good with words and will come up with all
| sorts of reasons they didn't see it.
|
| That's not to say I'm any better, just that I get to see all
| the requests and excuses. Bolder, bigger, alerts, doesn't
| matter.
| eagleinparadise wrote:
| My first guess was 19 miles away and I totally thought they
| were in 5 different locations. I had lived in Pittsburgh for a
| short time and knew exactly those iron bridges were probably
| WV/Pittsburgh area.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Place does have many meanings, and in the context of playing a
| game, there's always room for playing with stuff like that.
| They could be taken from the exact same geographical
| coordinates, the same city, the same state. The photos could've
| all been grabbed from the same website or the place could've
| been "by a river", whether that's the Monongahela River or the
| Colorado River.
| mike_hock wrote:
| Oh, I didn't even realize that until I read your comment. I got
| a lucky first guess and thought "wow, I'm good at this," and
| then they just kept getting worse, lol.
|
| I guess it's because that information is dropped at the wrong
| time, because right after that you first have to spend time on
| figuring out how the weird UI works so you can actually make
| your guess. Why does the map have to be hidden behind a button,
| and why does it have to cover the picture? There is so much
| wasted space on the screen, why not use it to show both at the
| same time?
| bhaney wrote:
| The siren song of a mobile-first UI
| ryandrake wrote:
| The UI is pretty bad. I have a nice 27" monitor, yet they
| constrain the entire game to a tiny 5" wide column down the
| length of my browser window. Would be great if web
| designers would stop imagining that I'm browsing the web
| with a tiny portrait phone screen.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| They _just_ stopped imagining that I'm browsing on a 15"
| screen!
| Anon4Now wrote:
| My problem was the state lines. My first guess was somewhere in
| West Virginia, which happened to be right, but being from the
| west coast, I had trouble eyeballing where to click for West
| Virginia.
|
| The game is great, but I'm shouting to the wind about the
| decline in quality of online maps. For example, I can barely
| see roads on Google maps any more. The lines are faint and low
| contrast. Zooming in doesn't help because the font remains
| tiny. Map makers hate middle-aged people.
| [deleted]
| fatnoah wrote:
| I read this post, then read the instructions, and still forgot
| the second photo was the same location as the first.
| wyldfire wrote:
| I started to suspect that it was the same location after the
| third photo. Not that the photographs themselves seemed related
| but that the challenge didn't feel like a cohesive "game"
| unless the distance was a hint (and not a score on the single
| attempt).
| murat124 wrote:
| Same boat, but lucky me I got 55 miles on the 4th photo. 5th
| one was 2200 miles off though.
| nneonneo wrote:
| If you click the question mark, you get the help page which
| clarifies the data used:
|
| > ~500,000 geo-tagged images from Wikimedia Commons. Each day,
| a random location is generated, along with five photos within
| five miles.
|
| In a remote area, there will likely only be a few notable
| landmarks nearby so you can expect to see many pictures of a
| single landmark. This might be why people think the pictures
| are supposed to of the same place.
| anonu wrote:
| OTOH I understood the instructions immediately. This is a
| fundamental issue in UX. Some users will know right away and
| others will not. Maybe a better sentence structure? Maybe
| something like "Guess the 1 location where all these photos
| were taken" (?)
|
| From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or
| text notes anyway. So its possible that an even better UX is
| one where the user figures out what they can do through
| intuition rather than reading.
| ethbr0 wrote:
| > _From my experience, most people don 't read the
| instructions or text notes anyway._
|
| This fascinated me ~90s computer gaming. There were clear
| camps of "people who always read the manual" and "people who
| never never read the manual."
| rjbwork wrote:
| >From my experience, most people don't read the instructions
| or text notes anyway.
|
| This happens in my life constantly when dealing with family
| IT problems or mentoring juniors at work (and sometimes
| working with seniors too!). People just do not read the
| output of their computers.
| pozdnyshev wrote:
| [dead]
| bobbylarrybobby wrote:
| The issue is they're clearly not all from the same place, so
| the instruction can't really register. They were all taken
| within a few hundred feet of each other, but that doesn't mean
| they were taken from the same place. In today's one was aerial
| while another was indoors -- not the same place!
|
| The instructions would be better if they read "the five photos
| were taken at different times, but were all taken within a few
| hundred feet of each other".
| ryaneager wrote:
| Or "the five photos were all taken in the same town/city".
| Now I know the scale I'm looking for.
| wolfram74 wrote:
| I dunno, they were taken at different times too, so none of
| them were within thousands of miles of each other relative to
| the galactic core. So that sentence is clearly not true
| either. "from the same place", place ~ region or as easily
| place ~ tripod position. Brevity and clarity are in tension
| with each other. Gotta decide where on the pareto front you
| want to be.
| postmodest wrote:
| Two of today's photos are from OUTSIDE the final "0 miles"
| radius.
| kylec wrote:
| I got 19 miles away with my first guess, the map zoomed in and
| I thought "that's a weird bug", zoomed it out, and then
| proceeded to guess other guesses that were hundreds of miles
| away. Interesting concept, but poorly communicated.
| tasuki wrote:
| > Interesting concept, but poorly communicated.
|
| It was communicated in the very first sentence of the
| instructions. It's just that both you and me failed to read
| the instructions. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| This feels like morality vs outcomes reasoning.
|
| "Morally", no we don't. (Me included.)
|
| Say, if you are a games designer and _want_ to get the
| message across, then you can start A /B testing ways to get
| your point (pun mostly not intended) across more
| effectively.
| ethanbond wrote:
| No, this is a design problem. The fact that so many missed
| it is just evidence of how subtly tricky good design is.
| tofof wrote:
| Unimpressed by this game. The accuracy on the scale is off by as
| much as 25%, as can be seen here:
| https://i.imgur.com/NOvqCnV.png. As the only information you're
| given other than a new photo is the distance, this is a serious
| problem.
|
| What's worse, the 'correct' location radius doesn't even include
| the locations where all the photos were taken!
|
| SPOILER FOR GAME #60:
|
| Game #60 has a clue that shows YOU ARE HERE:
| https://i.imgur.com/98OXlal.png which is exactly here (google
| maps [1]) https://i.imgur.com/KdN4OCh.png which corresponds
| exactly to my guess location https://i.imgur.com/eCy97r6.png.
| However, they claim that the correct location is here:
| https://i.imgur.com/cSasI3g.png or
| https://i.imgur.com/ChuisIx.jpeg (google [2]), which is actually
| 9.5 miles away and outside their 5 mile radius, so it scored me
| as missing by 4.5 miles.
|
| It's quite simply unacceptable to claim that all the photos are
| of the same place and then have the exact location within the
| photo not be within the accepted answer radius. Geoguesser, for
| example, REQUIRES you to identify the exact location within ~150
| meters (in the worldwide mode) and they are actually correct with
| that degree of precision. This error of 9.5 miles is 15,000
| meters away.
|
| 1:
| https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3419792,-122.7415299,14.62z?...
|
| 2:
| https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2970892,-122.5563029,1891m/d...
| aaronax wrote:
| Yeah they should not be using a Mercator projection if a key
| part of the game is triangulation AND there is a ruler shown on
| screen.
| overkill28 wrote:
| Yeah my first guess on #74 was 7.7 miles away (!) so I thought
| for sure I would get it. But it turns out that the flag
| location is actually 14 miles away according to Google Maps,
| and the multiple photos "of the same place" are over 6 miles
| apart. So I kept getting weird numbers for my guesses that
| didn't line up with the geography.
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| I got:
|
| 17 Mi -> 10 Mi -> 11 Mi -> 0.3 Mi -> 0 Mi!!!
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