If you are looking for an original game for the holidays, you love geography and you are looking for a treasure hunt, Geoguessr may be for you. This online game, developed from screenshots from Street view - the Google tool allowing you to visualize any place in the world thanks to its GPS coordinates - can even be an opportunity to measure yourself against your relatives.
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Clues to spot in the landscape
The principle is simple: you are "parachuted" in a place, completely at random and you have to guess where you are. How? 'Or' What ? By locating the brands of cars, the signs on the road, the plans, the signs ... As in the Google tool, it is possible to move around a bit, and therefore go and read a sign at the end of the street, for example. But you still have to be able to place the name of the locality that you discover there!
Because it is not enough to type the name of the place where you think you are once the investigation is complete: you have to position a pushpin on a world map. The closer it is to where the images were actually taken, the more points you earn.
Research time limited or not
The game can be played in pairs, each in turn, and whether or not to limit the time for clues. The basic version is free, while the "premium" allows access to specific parameters: to be "parachuted" only in capitals, or on Formula 1 circuits, for example.
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Be aware that if the game can be a light occupation for your summer, it is taken very seriously by some users, who play without moving, only with the first image that offers them Geoguessr, even if it is in the middle of a forest. The clues then become extremely tenuous: types of trees, orientation of the sun, etc.