TimeGuessr
(timeguessr.com)319 points by stefanpie 6 days ago
319 points by stefanpie 6 days ago
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.
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.
> Scrolling with the mouse
once again nobody cares about laptop users :/
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.
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.
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.
The game 'Whentaken' [1] follows the exact same concept.
Just mentioning in case people are interested in alternatives / slightly different UX.
Also whichyr: https://whichyr.com
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715024
I'm glad you figured it out...I don't see a map to put a pin into.
There was a chalkboard menu in the picture with the date on it, but it said I was 50 years off. Meta data isn't always reliable.
I absolutely love 3 dimensional nature of the game and how carefully many images are chosen to allow for a precise spacetime localization with a bit of a research. Super enjoyable experience in startling contrast with geogessr, which I don't even want to open. Thanks a ton!
This is how it renders for me. https://imgur.com/a/kJmNMUR
Yeah I had issues with the mobile web version as well. Worked for 4 rounds but then the time selector stopped moving when I tried to select, and the map stopped loading detail when zooming in (and wouldn't let me place a pin). Started over and the same thing happened in the 3rd round.
Still a great little game though
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.
Some photos are off by at least 100 meters and it is surprising how easy a photo can be off a year so easily. I believe it happens because the easy timestamp is at the time of development, means you can easily be two years off. Also surprising how easy it is to get exact date and time of day on some of the photos.
Just played 5 rounds. I wanted to see my score as ranked against others, but u didn't do that. That's like me saying here is 800 points for your post. There is no context for the score.
The context is how close you were to the correct answer, not to your peers.
Yes, score rankings are missing. There's a leaderboard for the daily, but only shows accounts you have friended.
For reference, I tend to hover around 44k for the daily. 48k is a lucky/easy day, 40k some disaster happened. Under 40 is very rare. I like to think that would be above average, but without rankings I don't know :)
It should be called "locationguessr" imo since that is what you are guessing.
Just in case you enjoyed this, and based on you using “locationguessr”, I’d recommend looking up Geoguessr :)
There's an year slider on the bottom right. You're supposed to guess the year too.
Super fun! Would be cool to be able to challenge someone after going through a round. Also maybe clear CTA after round on way to sign up to save your score.
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
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.
I do the timeguessr daily every day almost as a ritual, it's fun, satisfying and educative.
It's also very interesting to watch people try after you've done it: how they catch on stuff you missed, their strategies to find and date things, or how they infuriatingly ignore whatever was the giveaway to you.
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?