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Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by shusaku »

eagleinparadise wrote: post #125
bhaney wrote: post #60

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 ha…

My first guess was 19 miles away and I totally thought they were in 5 different locations. I had lived in Pittsburgh for a short time and knew exactly those iron bridges were probably WV/Pittsburgh area.

My film watching history had me 100% convinced it was Madison County.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by allannienhuis »

ethbr0 wrote: post #132
anonu wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OTOH I understood the instructions immediately. This is a fundamental issue in UX. Some users will know right away and others will not. Maybe a better sentence structure? Maybe something like "Guess the 1 location where all these photos were taken" (?) From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway. So its possible that an even better UX is one where the user figures out what they ca…

> From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway. This fascinated me ~90s computer gaming. There were clear camps of "people who always read the manual" and "people who never never read the manual."

for some, reading the manual was also fun. For most, reading the manual was an admission of failure.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by ke88y »

yossi_peti wrote: post #67

Theoretically, if you choose the first two points at random, then you have a 50-50 chance of guessing right on the third guess (the two circles from the first two guesses have at most two intersecting points) and should always get the correct answer on the 4th guess.

You can make up your own scoring system based upon the first two distances, with a high penalty (negative points) for needing the 4th guess.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by gwillen »

eagleinparadise wrote: post #125
bhaney wrote: post #60

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 ha…

My first guess was 19 miles away and I totally thought they were in 5 different locations. I had lived in Pittsburgh for a short time and knew exactly those iron bridges were probably WV/Pittsburgh area.

Hah, yes, I had the exact same reaction. "Looks like Pittsburgh, but not quite. Also kind of looks like Virginia... let's split the difference."

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by Dalewyn »

ethbr0 wrote: post #132
anonu wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OTOH I understood the instructions immediately. This is a fundamental issue in UX. Some users will know right away and others will not. Maybe a better sentence structure? Maybe something like "Guess the 1 location where all these photos were taken" (?) From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway. So its possible that an even better UX is one where the user figures out what they ca…

> From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway. This fascinated me ~90s computer gaming. There were clear camps of "people who always read the manual" and "people who never never read the manual."

This exists everywhere. People who knows their stuff read the manual, those who don't didn't.

Especially common are the people who get others to read the manual for them and answer all their questions, because they themselves obviously have no time to be reading them but more than enough time to grab some unfortunate sod to do so.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by sio8ohPi »

steezeburger wrote: post #122
supportengineer wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there were five guesses, I thought they would be five different photos from five different geographic locations

Wordle is similar though and doesn't seem to suffer from this ambiguity. Is it because the ui feedback from Wordle makes it more clear you're guessing the same word? I thought it was pretty clear here with the distance.

Obviously Wordle is uninteresting if you're only allowed one guess.

This game reminds me very much of chronophoto (https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html), which prompts with photos from different years, and so I was expecting it to work more like that.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by LanceH »

anonu wrote: post #89
bhaney wrote: post #60

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 ha…

OTOH I understood the instructions immediately. This is a fundamental issue in UX. Some users will know right away and others will not. Maybe a better sentence structure? Maybe something like "Guess the 1 location where all these photos were taken" (?) From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway. So its possible that an even better UX is one where the user figures out what they ca…

I think some crowd that come to this come from geoguesser which will have 5 locations in a row.

Re: Where in the USA is this?

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Post by MetaMalone »

bhaney wrote: post #60

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 ha…

FWIW this made sense to me right away
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