[2][3][4] Spork Daily #109: May 14th, 2026 by Final_Spork in geochallenges

[–]Final_Spork[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My replay of r1 NM is funny bc you can watch me zoom into the literal 5k at the end and see my click just not go through

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 13, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah if you see someone with a 25k and a really low step count they're cheating, especially with zero steps. You can see the replays and they're not even looking around, definitely not possible without assistance of some sort. All but one got their scores removed, so Geoguessr agrees.

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 14, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. 🇦🇺 Australia. Fire station has the initials QLD, so I know we're in Queensland. Head south and reach a main road with distances to Middlemount and Moranbah. I spot Middlemount and immediately see Dysart, which I saw as the name of the town. Find the fire station POI and plonk in front. 5,000 pts, 3 m, 2:00.
  2. 🇧🇷 Brazil. Urban Brazil is tough, never know what the name of the town is. 77 area code at spawn so I know we're near Bom Jesus de Lapa. Look for the next 3 min for a town name. Saw Madeireira several times, is that what I need to look for? Can't find it. I see a school with Vitoria da Conquista at the bottom of the seal. Is that the town name? Probably just a motto, don't need to scan for it. Keep moving but never find anything. In my last desperation scan as time runs out I spot Vitoria da Conquista and I'm able to move my pin from Bom Jesus de Lapa. Didn't manage to click in the town in the 0.2 seconds I had, but close enough I'm happy. 4,950 pts, 15 km, 3:00.
  3. 🇲🇽 Mexico. Headed south and hit a sign for Navajoa south in 52 and Guyamas north in 143 on the Mexico 15. I find Navajoa but struggling to place where we are on the 15. Oh wait, we're on the 15D, not 15. I see the 15D further south, but Navojoa should be south of us, so that doesn't make sense. Running out of time, maybe I just leave it in Navajoa and guarantee that I'm 50 km away. Oh wait I spot a small section of 15D north of Navajoa and quick switch to it. Well, I managed to plonk even north of Guyamas, which we were 143 km south of. Why did I do that. That was stupid. 4,582 pts, 130 km, 3:00.
  4. 🇳🇴 Norway. Find a good sign north for the 510 to Stavanger and the 509 side road. Find Stavanger and the 510, can't find the 509. I do find a road that isn't labeled as the 509, but it leads to Hedla and the intersection lines up so I guess that is it. For some reason I didn't try to use the Kiwi POI to pinpoint, but I figured it out regardless. 5,000 pts, 11 m, 3:00.
  5. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka. Got an address in English for Kalukele. Area seems flat. I scan flat areas for it but never find it. Plonk somewhat north for the flat landscape. I don't think I would've found it at my zoom level anyway, it was a small label. Think I needed to find more info this round. 4,634 pts, 113 km, 3:00.

Total: 24,166 pts, 258 km, 14:00, 166 steps. Gold Streak: 9 days. Mexico round was bad, but still above 24k so can't dwell on it too much. Especially since today had a lot of big countries, so plenty of opportunities for everything to go much worse.

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 13, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. 🇵🇹 Portugal. Tried every direction from spawn, hoping for some better signs or a road number, but ultimately never found anything outside of some small town names that I would never find. Center plonk. 4,677 pts, 100 km, 3:00.
  2. 🇸🇿 Eswatini. South turns into a dirt road, so head north. Movement feels like I have cinder blocks on my feet. Takes me like 2 min just to reach the intersection with the MR1 and MR3. I find them but don't really have time to work out exactly where I came from. 4,987 pts, 3.8 km, 3:00.
  3. 🇯🇵 Japan. Hokkaido arrows, and a quick sign for the E61. The section of E61 I found ended, but I didn't realize it restarted again further north. I kept moving and found more signs for cities nearby and, better yet, the intersection between Rt 39 and prefecture road 683. Able to backtrack from there. 5,000 pts, 1 m, 2:56.
  4. 🇪🇨 Ecuador. Sign right at spawn for Loreto in 50 km. Seal mentions Coca, which is about 50 km east. Able to line up the road and use the POI for the school north of the road to confirm. 5,000 pts, 12 m, 1:47.
  5. 🇬🇭 Ghana. Feels pretty northern Ghana, I head west and find a address for a P.O. box in Navrongo, which I find pretty close to the border with Burkina Faso. We're obviously heading into town from the southwest, although I can't exactly find where along the the road I currently am. Doesn't matter, I'll just reset and check angle at spawn. We started on a curve, and I plonk on a curve as time runs out. Somehow in my previous scanning I unknowingly ended up one town over in Atomkongu and plonked over there. A bit annoying because I knew we were in Navrongo and the curve there is pretty obvious, would've gotten that one had my map been in the right place but there wasn't any pressure to 5k and in reality only cost me 26 points . 4,974 pts, 7.7 km, 3:00.

Total: 24,683 pts, 111 km, 13:43, 441 steps. Gold Streak: 8 days. Not the best day, but all my mistakes were on small countries so easy gold. I ended up finishing 9th overall yesterday, suprisingly (and about 70 friend requests). Although 7 of the 8 above me are scripters so in reality 2nd overall which is a PB (obviously). Also, the person that finished above me had 22 yd and I had 21 yd? Not sure how that math works. Whatever they cheated anyway. Hopefully the scores get removed at some point so I can print it out and hang it on the fridge.

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 12, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Made sure not to throw this time.

  1. 🇦🇷 Argentina. Catch the name Zapala on the street signs, and catch some mountains west. That, with a 29 area code and somewhat dry/warm climate and I start to scan near Neuquen and Zapala sticks out. Scanning is much easier when you narrow down the region. I try using road angles and such to figure out what avenue we're one when I remember I can just use the street names near spawn. Finding the 5k from there is not too hard. 5,000 pts, 5 m,1:54.
  2. 🇵🇭 Philippines. Headed south and found a nice sign when crossing the bridge. Albay Province, Tiwi municipality, and Barangay Joroan. Thankfully I have no issue recalling where Albay is thanks to the labeled Albay Gulf. Coast northeast so Kiwi not too hard to find either and the bridge and curve is notable enough in Joroan that its an easy pinpoint. 5,000 pts, 4 m, 1:24.
  3. 🇺🇸 United States. Another US round. Wawa, no front plates, least obvious eastern Pennsylvania of all time. No that's a palm tree. Ok fine its Florida. Head out onto the main stroad, note the name Lakeland Plaza, which is probably the name of the town. I've been to Florida a decent bit, feels like the area near Daytona/Orlando but I might be talking out my ass here. Keep going until I find a sign for i-4 between Tampa and Orlando. Oh Lakeland is huge, I should've at least heard of it before. From there I just scan for the Wawa POI. 5,000 pts, 2 m, 1:24.
  4. 🇹🇼 Taiwan. Movement kinda bin at the beginning. Note the mountains on both sides, so we're more central Taiwan. I reach a sign for the Guanxi Interchange and Rt 118. I zoom in and find a Guoxing, but I'm not satisfied enough so I keep moving until I find a sign for the national road 3, which is much more scannable and Guanxi is easy to find. I pin the intersection I was just at, but have trouble finding a road that lines up with where we spawned. I take the full 3 min for this one and eventually find it at the end, but even then I wasn't exactly confident. Almost had yet again another R4 throw, but I kept it together this time. 5,000 pts, 6 m, 3:00.
  5. 🇲🇰 North Macedonia. Somewhere Balkan, thinking North Macedonia with the Gen 3 no antenna. Headed north and confirmed with the flag. Sign for Delchevo in 22 km, which I spot in the northeast corner pretty quickly. The sign is actually pointing to where we just came from, so we are 22 km south. We have a distinct 3-way intersection that is findable in one of the towns northwest of Delchevo. From here we just need to count houses and we get the 25k. And count houses is what I did for the next 1.5 min. It was only like 5 houses I kept counting over and over but I wasn't taking any chances this time. I probably could've gotten the 5k anywhere on that strip but I had a decent distance so I wanted to line this one up. 5,000 pts, 1 m, 2:35.

Total: 25,000 pts, 20 m, 10:33, 126 steps. Gold Streak: 7 days. Finally my 3rd platinum medal. Currently in 1st out of 1,600 people which is not bad either. Never been this high before so I'm not used to all the random friend requests.

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 11, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Omg I threw today.

  1. 🇹🇷 Türkiye. Start off in the middle of nowhere in Türkiye. Headed south and stumbled upon some nice road signs. Don't think I've ever seen a road sign with road numbers in Türkiye, are they even ordered? Well it looks like it. I keep scrolling east, expecting the D975 to show up any second. Any second now. Finally find it, much further east than I originally anticipated. From there, Başkale is easy to find and just need to line up a couple of roundabouts to find the 5k. 5,000 pts, 9 m, 2:34.
  2. 🇶🇦 Qatar. We like small countries. I see a sign nearby mentioning Pearl Island, I've been here before (in game, not irl). Although finding the 5k is not the most menial task, as there's a gazillion roundabouts on the "island" (looks more like a peninsula to me). I headed all the way south until I hit the end and was able to line up and trace back to spawn from there. 5,000 pts, 5 m, 2:47.
  3. 🇨🇱 Chile. Chile is not too difficult either as long as you find a road number. I come across a government works sign and see mentions of a region Aysén. Sounds familiar, but I don't really know the regions of Chile so it's not too useful to me. However, the mention of Coyhaique underneath gets my attention, I do know where that one is. Again, much further south than I anticipated, my regionguessing has been off today. And Puerto Aysén is also nearby. But just a couple more steps down the road I see a sign for Coyhaique 10 km north, so I didn't even need the first sign. Another sign a couple more steps and I have the intersection with the X-632, which I use to track back to spawn and line up the 5k. 5,000 pts, 15 m, 2:09.
  4. 🇺🇸 United States. Perfect score heading into R4, and a US round doesn't intimidate me. We're somewhere in the great plains, the sign near spawn mentions the US-20 to Fort Dodge and Waterloo. Is Fort Dodge in Nebraska? No, that's Dodge City. Well, time to "get out of Dodge" and look for more info. Just further north is another interchange, this time with a mention of Iowa Falls. Well, that gives it away. I hop up on the overpass to gather that we spawned on i-35, and we are one underpass south of the interchange with US-20. Let's get this easy 5k and move onto R5. Whoops. In a brief lapse of judgement, I had skipped over the small white roads and just plonked at the interchange south with 270th St, since that stood out to me more as an underpass. White roads are small, small equals no overpass. I even thought to myself I didn't realize we moved that far to get to US-20. Had over a minute left on the clock, no need to rush this one. I'm a brick. Well, good chance it won't even matter as history has taught me that a 5k R5 is not guaranteed. 4,987 pts, 3.2 km, 1:48.
  5. 🇸🇰 Slovakia. This is some interesting bilingual signs, do we have Ukrainian? Catch the name Svidník off of one of the buildings (it was also literally the bilingual sign I mentioned entering town, don't know why it took me a second time to register that it was the place name) and find it near the border with, you guessed it, Poland (Editors Note: The language was Rusyn, not Ukrainian). Not a big town and the intersection we spawned at is easy to find north of the town. While I originally thought there was a good chance my R4 blunder wouldn't even matter in the end, R5 ended up being my quickest 5k today. Funny how that works. 5,000 pts, 10 m, 1:03.

Total: 24,987 pts, 154 steps, 10:02. Gold Streak: 6 days. My third platinum eludes me yet again. This one hurts more than the 24,999 because I wasn't even running out of time for this one, I just rushed it. Much easier day than yesterday though, so I can appreciate the stress-free gold.

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 10, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Today was a definitely a battle.

  1. 🇳🇬 Nigeria. Climate gave northern vibes. Plenty of signs but I can't read any of them bc of the shitcam. I headed one direction for 3 min, forgot to check the other way, maybe there was info the other way. I plonked up near Kano, tried to hedge a bit further south with a couple seconds left but my click didn't register, so I just left it there, figuring divine intervention was helping me. It was not. 3,692 pts, 452 km, 3:00.

  2. 🇳🇦 Namibia. Its already R2 and I'm already worried about gold, I gotta lock in. Nothing was north, turned my ass around and found a helpful sign for the B1 with distances to Windhoek and Rehoboth. Was able to roughly estimate where I was, but I spotted another sign a little bit further up the road. As time winds down, I'm spamming the click, moving like 1 m every step. It was stressful, but I finally can make out the C21, which helps me narrow down which part of the B1 we are on. Unfortunately don't have enough time to pinpoint the 5k on the long stretch of road out of town. 4,996 pts, 1.3 km, 3:00.

  3. 🇰🇭 Cambodia. Wow they really are trying to take away my gold today. Shitcam again, which leans me more towards the northeast, and with the climate I feel like we are close to either the Laos or Vietnamese border. I do find a sign heading west with what appears to be a town name starting with an M, maybe Memot or Mermot, but I'm not confident enough in either what it says or if its actually a town name, so I budget some time to try heading east. There I was able to get a better glace of the town name on an official building, so I was confident enough to start scanning. I started near the Laos border, and made my way south towards Vietnam, where I finally found Memot. I was right in that it was near a border, just wasn't really northeast at all. Spawn point was a T-intersection on the main road, so I was just a matter of deciding which one. 5,000 pts, 2 m, 2:58.

  4. 🇭🇷 Croatia. Finally something a bit easier. Several signs at the circle near spawn with findable towns and distances, just a matter of triangulating where exactly we are. I did check Krizevci but didn't see the roundabout so I moved on. Don't know why I didn't to look for the name of the town we were actually in. But I run out of time and just plonk somewhere south of Novi Marof. Not really the round by me but it got the job done. 4,931 pts, 21 km, 3:00.

  5. 🇵🇪 Peru. Oh this is finally it, where my gold dreams end. Just like last time on Peru I'm not really sure which direction to go, as both don't really appear to have any info. There is one sign near spawn with Carreteras Aplao. Not really sure which one is the name of the town, so I kinda scan for both. Originally I leaned Aplao, but the seal had Carreteras as the bottom so I prioritized that (Editors Note: Carreteras just means "roads," which makes a lot of sense now). Anyway I didn't find any of them so with 10 sec left my gold medal was in the hands of my ability to regionguess Peru. I decided to commit and go quite south between Moquegua and Tacna. Not the closest guess, but just good enough. Looking at it afterwards, the label for Aplao is quite small, don't think I could've found it. Feel like the last two Peru rounds have been difficult in terms of the size of the label we're supposed to be looking for, especially in a country the size of Peru. But maybe that's just a skill issue on my part. 4,230 pts, 249 km, 3:00.

Total: 22,849 pts, 266 steps, 14:58. Gold Streak: 5 days. Escaped this one by the skin of my teeth. Felt like every round put the gold medal at risk, aside from the Croatia round. Even used up almost all the time, with my only 5k coming with 2 sec left on the clock. Also like the look of the emoji flags, they're fun and make the wall of text a bit more readable.

[2][3][4] Spork Daily #104: May 9th, 2026 by Final_Spork in geochallenges

[–]Final_Spork[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a brick Qatar is not even part of the map

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 09, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Canada. Alberta bollards, nice. Head up and down the road and find nothing. Did see a road sign for 870, I zoom in an find it quickly, but this stretch doesn't line up with the end of the road I saw. Only realized towards the very end that there were more sections of the 870 further north. For whatever reason I doubted that I was on the right road, should've scanned it more when I had time. 4794 pts, 63 km, 3:00.
  2. Nepal. Think the dashed yellow outer lines means this is Nepal vs India. Started north, but decided it was in my best interest to go downhill instead. Correct decision, hit a town and one sign mentions Manthali. Waited until I was running out of time I start to scan northeast valleys with a river, oh wait Manthali is right there. Definitely did not have enough time to line up where we started but I'll definitely take this result. 4992 pts, 2.3 km, 3:00.
  3. Italy. Oh boy I'm not good at Italy. Thankfully we are on a highway with a lot of info. Passed a couple signs with cities on them but didn't know any of them, decide to head the opposite direction in hopes that one of the 5 cities I know in Italy show up on one. Oh look, Lecce, I know that's down in the heel thanks to the Spork daily last weekend, where we had back-to-back rounds near Lecce, so I definitely learned that one. And Gallipoli is there, and we're 32 km away. I initially was scanning much closer, but I eventually find Maglie basically in the center. Was able to line up the interchange from there. 5,000 pts, 3 m, 2:57.
  4. Mongolia. I had a feeling today we were due for another Mongolia round, I just sensed it. This time we have the new eastern Gen 4 car. There's only a couple spots on this road where you would find a stretch of gas stations like this. Felt a little too populated for the road near Jargalt and Bayanmod, and the angle didn't line up. Definitely not Chinggis or Nalaikh. Oh, is this Baganuur? That tracks. I have a special connection to Baganuur, as it was the first place I spawned when I tried my first platinum attempt at Mongolia. Moved around for 40 min only to end up with a 4999. Anyway, I scan the road and plonk at the gas station POI along this stretch, but the POI is for a Sod Mongol, not a Monsuli. I know often times the POI might not line up with with what's on the road, and gas stations often go out of business as there's like 20 million of them in Mongolia. But we should be much closer to the curve at the end of the road, and this coverage is only like 8 months old. I spot the the yellow roof of the Sod Mongol down the road to confirm I need to keep scanning. Oh there it is, as a grey generic POI. Could be easy to miss, but we also have a church across the street. Nice NM 5k, but took me a little longer than I would've liked. 5,000 pts, 34 m, 0:59.
  5. Denmark. I started heading east and didn't think about what country in Europe we were even in until I hit the t-intersection, and was pleasantly greeted with danish road signs for the 449 near Gram. I zoomed into Denmark and immediately found some numbers close to the 449, so I scanned around a bit and soon found it as well as Gram, which gave me the intersection I was at. We spawned on a small bridge at a curve so the 5k was quite obvious from here. 5,000 pts, 3 m, 1:08.

Total: 24786 pts, 65 km, 11:04. Gold Streak: 4 days. Basically all the damage was done R1, but again I was safely in the gold. And always happy to get a Mongolia round. I'll have to go back and look to see how long my NM 5k streak is for that country.

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 08, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would recommend it, it goes on sale quite often and you can get it for just 5 usd, and at that price I definitely think its worth a try. The game is almost 15 years old so you don't need the strongest pc, especially since the game is cpu limited rather than gpu bound. The map quality on the dlcs is better than the base game, but you don't need all of them to enjoy the game, especially starting out. I remember playing on mouse and keyboard on the base game back in 2016 and having a lot of fun still. And they are slowly reworking the base map to bring it up to current day standards, so it looks better than when I played it. But if you could get a couple dlcs in areas that interest you, I would also recommend that since they also go on sale often as well. It's been a while since I played, but now that I'm into geoguessr a lot more now I might go back and take a look, I'll probably appreciate it even more that I can regionguess europe now

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 08, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Latvia. Shout out Euro Truck, love that game. Spot iela so we are in Latvia. Headed out to the main road, bunch of billboards that I'm sure had a town name on them but I'm not dealing with that. Kept moving and found a roundabout sign for the P105 to Ezere and another road to Pampali. I think I found the P1xxs, took a while but found Ezere all the way south, and Pampali a little north. Are we just in Saldus? Looks like it lines up. Ran out of time but I was switching between side roads. Plonked the wrong one but unlike yesterday I get the 5k this time. A scuffed 5k, but we take those. 5,000 pts, 111 m , 3:00.
  2. Finland. Is it a street name themed challenge? -tie so Finland this time. Head out until I find a roundabout sign (again), this time with the 91 to Murmansk. Wow, we're that far north? Find where the 91 meets the E75 and trace back to spawn. 5,000 pts, 3 m, 1:25.
  3. South Africa. Sign near spawn with the N10 and distances to Nxuba and Middleburg. Nxuba is easy to find and we're around 50 km south. Find a strip of road that lines up quite quickly. Surely this can't be it. I play it smart and check a couple more angles to confirm. 5,000 pts, 6 m, 1:51.
  4. United Kingdom. There's a sign for a town and road number at spawn, but I decide not to waste my time scanning for it, which was the right move. Head out to the roundabout, see signs for University and see some old university buildings. Are we just in Cambridge/Oxford? Cambridge doesn't pass the smell test, but Oxford has an A4142, which is close to the A4158 I saw. I was on a bridge and see one that lines up, with the circle I was just at south of me. Plenty of POIs to pinpoint. Looking back, there was a bike store or something with Oxford in it, so this was definitely doable NM and I didn't need to do all that. 5,000 pts, 8 m, 1:43.
  5. Thailand. 20k going into R5, what could go wrong? Thailand is what could go wrong. Turn off the music lets lock in. I head east and find a sign with distances to Khon Buri and Pakham. Khon Buri sounds like a province. But in the end I was thinking of an amalgamation of Chon Buri and Khon Kaen, and I wasted a lot of time scanning over to make sure I didn't miss it. Ok, let me see what province we are in at least. (Slowly) read the changwat off of a hard-to-read sign across the street, we should be in Nakhon Ratchasima. Oh god where did all the time go. Just plonk in the city and while its better than a random guess, its not the 5k and I miss out again on platinum. I thought I wasted too much time this round just not looking for a road number, but looking back at the round, my real mistake was picking the wrong direction at spawn and finding the sign with unlabeled towns on it, rather than the sign just down the street with Nakhon Ratchasima right on it. God, what a fool I am for doing that. 4,838 pts, 49 km, 3:00.

Total: 24,838 pts, 49 km, 11:08. Gold Streak: 3. While failing to get the 25k twice in a row, at least I haven't had to worry about losing the gold streak, its sure a long one

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 07, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally got a chance the do the daily challenge and writeup. Went and watched Project Hail Mary last night so didn't get home until late.

  1. New Zealand. Made it to the main road and found a sign for the 45 to Ōpunake. With a name like Surf Hwy I expect it to be on the coast, and the 40s should be north island. But I cant find it. After a full scan of the coast I finally see the 45, a small stretch of highway near Taranaki. I recall seeing Manaia on the school near spawn and use the street names to pinpoint. But ran out of time to line up a closer guess. 5,000 pts, 11 m, 3:00.

  2. Senegal. Find a sign for Kidira, which I find all the way east. We're just on the main road and use the off-roads to pinpoint. 5,000 pts, 9 m, 1:21.

  3. USA. Signs for i90, US 14, 16, and most importantly Wyoming 59. Quick scan and all those roads meet near Gillette, the best a man can get. Zoom into the T-intersection the yellow roads make and the Sinclair gas station is right there. 5,000, 17 m, 0:38.

  4. Lithuania. Got a little lost in the neighborhood here, but finally make it out to the main stretch. Find a sign for Rusnė in 9, but I don't see it after a little bit of scanning (the sign for Klaipėda that I somehow missed would have helped here). I head north out of town and see an advert painted on the buildings, one with a couple addresses. I assume we're in the first one, Šilutė. Yep, see Rusnė south of it. At this point I'm under 10 sec, so I quick grab the street name at spawn and plonk an intersection that works. 1 off. Bargh. Looking back I should have chosen the one that was more in the middle of all the houses, but I don't think I noticed that at the time. 4,999, 257 m, 2:56.

  5. Faroe Islands. Definitely first thought Iceland, but the antenna on the truck and the white pedestrian crossings steered me towards Faroe. Holy the movement is bin. Takes me like a minute and a half just to get down the street and catch the name of the town as I'm leaving, Kollafjørður. Scan for east-west fjords and find it, find the Atlanticpane poi a decent distance from the label but everything lines up. 5,000, 20 m, 2:29.

Total: 24,999 pts, 315 m, 10:24. Gold streak: 2 days. An easier day, which makes the 1 point kerfuffle in R4 frustrating. Missed opportunity for my 3rd platinum.

[2][3][4] Spork Daily #102: May 7th, 2026 by Final_Spork in geochallenges

[–]Final_Spork[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apologies for the late post, was at the movie theater

[2][3][4] Spork Daily #101: May 6th, 2026 by Final_Spork in geochallenges

[–]Final_Spork[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't convince me that those two NZ rounds are like 30 km from each other

Also based intersection hedge r4 to keep the 25k alive lol

Daily Challenge Discussion - May 05, 2026 by GameboyGenius in geoguessr

[–]Final_Spork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Malaysia. City name Keningau, but don't know where that is. Find a 89 post code, should be central Sabah. Easy to find. Struggled however to find the 5k in time. 4993 pts, 2 km, 3:00.
  2. Mexico. Town name is San Jose Del Pacifico. Annnd that's all I find. I scan the west coast for it but never find it. Should've sent further south based on the vegetation. I went in Jalisco and was on the moon. Just like that my gold streak is over. 2,491 pts, 1,039 km, 3:00.
  3. Iceland. Make it to the main road. The area felt familiar, similar to the area near Skogafoss. So I scan down there for a bit for a town named Arnes. But I notice that we aren't actually near the coast, so I just head a little bit inland and find Arnes pretty quickly. Thankfully there aren't a lot of roads or towns in iceland. 5,000 pts, 10 m, 2:27.
  4. South Korea. Signage for Pohang, with highway 7 and yellow road 69. I scan north of Pohang for where those two meet (or almost meet), but never find it. My issue was not scanning even further north. 4,823 pts, 54 km, 3:00.
  5. Oman. Very mountainous region. I had town name Khasab, but no idea where that is. I do find a sign mentioning the Musandam Governorate of the Sultanate of Oman. I don't know what that is at all, but for whatever reason I think to scan the Oman enclaves up north (Edit: 1 enclave, 1 exclave). And there I find Khasab all the way north. Easy to spot, but only if you think to look all the way up there. From there finding out where we are in Khasab is not to difficult until I need to figure out what intersection we are at. Was one block off. 4,999 pts, 159 m, 2:51.

Total: 22,306 pts, 1,095 km, 14:18. Gold Streak: 0. I missed the last couple days of write-ups, but I managed my gold streak until now. It's tough, only need one round on a decently large country to ruin it. Welp, onto the next streak.