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Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by baw-bag » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 11:51 PM UTC

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #48

sundarurfriend wrote: post #39

Scrolling with the mouse on the image (no Ctrl or anything, just scroll) zooms into the section of the image you're on, for anyone else trying "Open image in new tab" or other ways to zoom in. I'm a big GeoGuessr fan, and had heard of TimeGuessr occasionally in those circles. I'd assumed it would be mostly pictures from the USA and so wasn't massively interested, and from trying it out now, I wasn't too far off: most…

> Scrolling with the mouse once again nobody cares about laptop users :/

It's not that. They changed recently to 100% zoom. It used to be much more fine. Zoom in a little, Zoom out a little. For the past week, it's been max zoom in either direction. Kinda annoying.

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by osigurdson » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 1:54 AM UTC

It should be called "locationguessr" imo since that is what you are guessing.

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by diego_moita » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 2:41 AM UTC

osigurdson wrote: post #52

It should be called "locationguessr" imo since that is what you are guessing.

There's an year slider on the bottom right. You're supposed to guess the year too.

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by nisse72 » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 2:45 AM UTC

I guessed 2021 for one photo which turned out to be Joe Biden's inauguration fireworks. It tells me I was 20 years off?

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by elwell » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 3:10 AM UTC

That was really fun; I was pleasantly surprised with 43,165. Trusting intuition worked well.

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by gandalfgreybeer » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 3:30 AM UTC

osigurdson wrote: post #52

It should be called "locationguessr" imo since that is what you are guessing.

Just in case you enjoyed this, and based on you using “locationguessr”, I’d recommend looking up Geoguessr :)

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by mkl » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 4:35 AM UTC

tasuki wrote: post #49

eastbound wrote: post #7

I find the UX of Whichyr much better, but it doesn’t have the geographical component. But you see your final ranking on a gaussian curve and it’s fun! https://whichyr.com/ And here are other games in that style of 5-minutes cultural guesses: https://framed.wtf/ https://gaps.wtf/ https://sutom.nocle.fr/ https://globle.org/ ? https://worldlegame.io/ ? https://flagle.gg/ https://phrazle.gg/ https://numberle.org/ Not wor…

I'm at 200 tries for the "Guess a wikipedia page" thing, completely exhausted, and not getting anywhere. Very frustrating, yet I can't bring myself to abandon it...

Took me 115. I guessed lots of general filler words to work out the structure of some sentences, and guessed lots of general subject words to find a few hits. The grey words that it fills in when they're related can be a bit misleading. I didn't get a single sentence complete before guessing the article.

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by sundarurfriend » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 5:03 AM UTC

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #48

sundarurfriend wrote: post #39

Scrolling with the mouse on the image (no Ctrl or anything, just scroll) zooms into the section of the image you're on, for anyone else trying "Open image in new tab" or other ways to zoom in. I'm a big GeoGuessr fan, and had heard of TimeGuessr occasionally in those circles. I'd assumed it would be mostly pictures from the USA and so wasn't massively interested, and from trying it out now, I wasn't too far off: most…

> Scrolling with the mouse once again nobody cares about laptop users :/

I myself am on a laptop actually :D but with a bluetooth mouse connected.

Does yours not have two-finger drag on the touchpad be equivalent to a scroll? That also seems to work on this website, although of course it's a bit more inconvenient than using an actual mouse.

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by sundarurfriend » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 5:09 AM UTC

baw-bag wrote: post #50

sundarurfriend wrote: post #39

Scrolling with the mouse on the image (no Ctrl or anything, just scroll) zooms into the section of the image you're on, for anyone else trying "Open image in new tab" or other ways to zoom in. I'm a big GeoGuessr fan, and had heard of TimeGuessr occasionally in those circles. I'd assumed it would be mostly pictures from the USA and so wasn't massively interested, and from trying it out now, I wasn't too far off: most…

Its not true! I have been playing TimeGuessr for 11 months, I do it before bed. I have been all over, I personally really struggle between Vietnam and Thailand and got even that wrong with Cambodia. I am simply ignorant but it's not just rich countries.

That's good to know. I just tried another game, and got: Belgium, Denmark, USA, UK, USA. Not exactly the variety I'd hoped for! But I'll try it out occasionally and see if I ever get lucky with an interesting round.

Re: TimeGuessr

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Post by wdutch » Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 6:45 AM UTC

elwell wrote: post #55

That was really fun; I was pleasantly surprised with 43,165. Trusting intuition worked well.

Oh nicely done! There was me thinking I'd done well with 38,332 / 50,000. It'd be nice if the site itself showed how well you did relative to others but I can't see anything like that, maybe I'm missing it.