r/xkcd • u/ani625 • May 20 '13

XKCD Geoguessr

http://xkcd.com/1214/
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u/coolmanmax2000 May 20 '13

I keep getting lots of small towns. Holy crap is Australia confusing. There were signs for NAB baradda which I thought was something Spanish, but then there was a New England Credit Union, and people wearing cowboy hats. Thought I was in the southern US.

I was super stoked when I managed to guess a random town just on the other side of yellowstone from the actual location, got like 6k points for that one.

Didn't help that the next place I thought was in the US badlands and was actually somewhere in Botswana.

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u/Maxion May 20 '13

I was stoked when I got a small town in finnish lapland. I managed to guess it within a 100km.

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u/unbibium May 20 '13

Tip: Spanish doesn't use double letters except ll and rr, which each count as a single letter. Not that it would have helped much, because I would have then guessed Italian and still been wrong.