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Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by ankaAr » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:13 PM UTC

brezelgoring wrote: post #34

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

18 miles using triangulation

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by jareklupinski » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:17 PM UTC

joker_minmax wrote: post #45

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.

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...)

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by SoftTalker » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:23 PM UTC

LVB wrote: post #49

irrational wrote: post #4

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.

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 ),

I didn't recognize him but figured something about that bunch of overweight white men said Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, or WV to me.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by jamilton » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:25 PM UTC

whoopdedo wrote: post #25

notatoad wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

#60 has a picture of a map, so I don't think it's being filtered.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by jb1991 » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:28 PM UTC

brezelgoring wrote: post #34

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

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?

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by aidos » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:31 PM UTC

jb1991 wrote: post #55

brezelgoring wrote: post #34

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

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?

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.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by iambateman » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

brezelgoring wrote: post #34

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

Ooooh I got 99 miles on guess 3 and then started guessing 2000 miles away because I assumed they would be distributed.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by chiph » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:43 PM UTC

joker_minmax wrote: post #45

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.

It's a daily puzzle. So everyone gets the same one today.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by hermitdev » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:47 PM UTC

brezelgoring wrote: post #34

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

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.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by bhaney » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 6:48 PM UTC

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.