SmartyPins

[Eraser]

Google made a game based on Google Maps. You start off with 1000 miles (or 1609 kilometers). You then get a trivia question and you have to point to the right location on the map as the answer (so a very basic example: the question is "what's the capital of Belgium" and you point at Brussels). For every mile or km you're off, you lose a mile/km. When you're out of miles/km the game ends and the number of answered questions is your score. How many questions can you answer?

http://smartypins.withgoogle.com/

[U4EA]

Hey, that's pretty cool. I got 10 on my first try with some lucky guesswork [13 on my second in just Science & Geography category].

[phantasmagoria]

20, with help from the missus

edit: 25 on the second go! the hints really help

[Eraser]

Got 9 on my first try and 17 on the second. And indeed, I got some correct ones due to the hints.

Frustrating when you know the answer but not exactly where it is though.

[Ryoki]

I suck at this

[MKJ]

So basically it's like that geoloccing game I posted like a year ago. But now it's cool cause it's by Google.

[MKJ]

It's like these hip musicians and their complicated shoes!

[Eraser]

So basically it's like that geoloccing game I posted like a year ago. But now it's cool cause it's by Google.

Not really. Geoguessr was about basically guessing where a location was based on a Streetview image. SmartyPins is a trivia game, which just feels much less random than Geoguessr. Also, the implementation of SmartyPins is just really slick, which scores Google bonus points.

[seremtan]

wow, it's fun! and educational too!

[Captain]

That's edutainment!

[seremtan]

19, then got massively shafted by Marie Curie's birthplace

Europe's bigger than it looks