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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/

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].

20, with help from the missus

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

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.

I suck at this

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

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

MKJ wrote: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.

wow, it's fun! and educational too!

That's edutainment!

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

Europe's bigger than it looks