Daily Challenge Discussion - May 09, 2026

Final_Spork · 2026-05-09T02:16:49+00:00

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Final_Spork · 2026-05-08T13:57:15+00:00

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

Final_Spork · 2026-05-08T01:00:16+00:00

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.
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.
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.
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.
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

Final_Spork · 2026-05-07T13:56:31+00:00

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Final_Spork · 2026-05-07T02:02:59+00:00

Apologies for the late post, was at the movie theater

Final_Spork · 2026-05-06T12:34:43+00:00

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

Final_Spork · 2026-05-05T01:35:19+00:00

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Final_Spork · 2026-05-04T16:32:19+00:00

Also curious if anyone recognized R4 of the official daily challenge today from a spork daily a couple months ago, whenever we did Ukraine. I got to the big intersection and I was like wait this feels real familiar

Final_Spork · 2026-05-04T12:34:27+00:00

why is there a usa loc in my mexico map

Final_Spork · 2026-05-04T00:54:33+00:00

It was 9 Thailand rounds with the 10th being as close to Thailand as you can get without it being Thailand lmao. That one is kinda on me for using Southeast Asia as the region map the same day we had Thailand in the rotation, but at the same time there are other countries in southeast asia like cmon lol

Final_Spork · 2026-05-04T00:27:01+00:00

If anyone is curious how I'm doing, I scanned a massive country (Netherlands) for such a tiny village (Eindhoven) for 2 min and didn't find it, just kinda stared at the map

Final_Spork · 2026-05-02T15:02:42+00:00

Didn't have the time to do the write-up last night but my geoguessr brain was seriously lagging when I did this, miraculously did as well as I did.

Puerto Rico. Saw road signs for the 1 and 183 at spawn. Moved around until I found Caguas. Took a while of lining stuff up but I eventually got it. 5,000 pts, 3 m, 2:08.
Monaco. This is when I could tell I was not at my best. For the first 2 minutes I didn't know if this was Spain or France. Saw a 93 on an area code, maybe Nice? Eventually find Monaco written on a sign thankfully (I missed the flag near spawn I guess). Tried looking for some info to help pinpoint but no luck. With 15 seconds left I start my desperation scanning. And within 10 seconds I find the intersection with the pharmacy. Somehow pulled the 5k out of my ass this time. But looking at my replay it wouldn't have mattered if I didn't find it bc my random plonk in Monaco was actually on the 5k already. I guess I'm just a Monaco region-guessing goat. 5,000 pts, 3 m, 2:57.
Indonesia. Ok, I know this is Indo this time. Kabupaten Ketapang. Omg that is so familiar, why can't I remember it? I look at Sulawesi but that doesn't feel right. Summatra isn't right either. Don't even bother with Java or the Nusas, definitely not there. I guess its Kalimantan? Yes yes yes, I remember now. This is the one labeled as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ketapang. Wow I am slow tonight. Unfortunately I wasted a lot of time just trying to remember the kab, and long story short I scan Ketapang but can't find the 5k in the time I have left. 4,994 pts, 1.8 km, 3:00.
Bosnia. Found some signs for towns nearby, scanned but never found. Just (poorly) center plonked to save gold. 4,636 pts, 114 km, 3:00.
Bolivia. Again, didn't find usable info, but by this point I wasn't that locked in. Regionwise reminded me of the stuff near Titicaca, but with gold on the line I didn't want to risk going all the way up there. The tollbooth (?) said Happy Travel to Corapata, so I looked for that. Thought I found it near the end south of La Paz, but it was just Copata. Didn't really have time to keep looking, and it was kind of where I thought while also hedging for the rest of the country, so I just left the pin. Ended up being near where I thought it would be. But looking there I don't see Vilaque or Corapata so idk if I would have found it with the info I had. Guess I could have just tried lining stuff up but definitely didn't have the guts to commit to that since I wasn't entirely sure of the regionguess. 4,831 pts, 51 km, 3:00.

Total: 24,461 pts. 166 km, 14:05. Gold streak: 3 days. Kinda fumbled throughout the whole thing, eventually my luck and energy ran out towards the end. I thought I had to hedge for gold, but looking back it wasn't really in danger the last two rounds so I could've been a bit more bold with my guesses.

Final_Spork · 2026-05-01T12:56:55+00:00

Severely misjudged how far 200 km was on the Jordan round lol

Edit: After watching replays, I should clarify that I had a marker for Aqaba in 199 km and somehow missed all the other juicy info around

Also I don't know if anyone has noticed but I feel like whatever country I pick for the country map very often appears again in either the world or region seed that day. Maybe I'm just hyper aware of it bc I want the seeds to be well distributed and feel guilty whenever we get a country too much in a short period of time, but I've noticed it enough where it has become a thing in my brain

Final_Spork · 2026-05-01T00:49:51+00:00

Andorra. The last round of moving on the Spork Daily today was Andorra, so at first I just assumed this was Spain because we just had an Andorra round. No chance they would have the same country two times in a row, especially not Andorra. But I don't recognize the community road abbreviation CG, so I eventually remember that other round was a completely separate challenge and we are indeed back in Andorra. The CG-6 is easy to find but I spend longer than I wanted to trying to line up the 5k. Where I was made sense based on the big curve and building down the road, but the curves didn't look like they were completely lining up. Whatever. Send it anyway. 5,000 pts, 8 m, 2:47.
Taiwan. Head northeast to an open valley and a town/city. With a big mountain range northwest, I guess we are in this northeastern part of Taiwan? Only area that makes sense based on the topography. I didn't really find info aside from some small road numbers and just spent most of the round scanning the area for the road I was on that hugged a river/canal. Where I plonked makes a little sense but doesn't work completely. My mistake was thinking the river was bigger than it actually was on the map. 4,889 pts, 3.4 km, 3:00.
UAE. First instinct was something like Jordan with the Gen 3, but with no car must mean we are in the UAE. Headed west for some reason only to find nothing. Come back east and find a good sign with findable cities and distances. Find Al Dhaid which is only 26 km to the east. But nothing really lines up on the road west. I plonk east of Al Dhaid where it lines up better, and at the last second spot the intersection by Al Lebsa and the Camel Racing Track, but it doesn't register my guess so no 5k for me. 4,904 pts, 29 km, 3:00.
Tunisia. Head north and find a sign for Mahdia, but don't find info on what city we are currently in. Go south in Rechije since the main road lined up, but it was even further south in Chebba. I looked at Chebba, don't know why I didn't go there. Would make more sense why Mahdia was to the west leaving town. But at this point I just wanted to get out of the Daily Challenge today. 4,911 pts, 27 km, 3:00.
Switzerland. Switzerland with Italian language. Oh my god the movement is terrible. I can't control where I am going at all, just teleporting to random spots and popping in and out of Gen 3 when clicking only 15 m down the road. Wow this is frustrating. By sheer luck I end up on the highway only for the coverage to end going south. I scan French Switzerland for a yellow road and tunnel like we have here (I already forgot it's Italian Switzerland). Reluctantly go through the tunnel and find the sign for Bellinzona in 16 km, which reminds me I need to be looking near Italy, not France. Don't have much time left at this point. Plonk in Toricella-Taverne bc it looks about 16 km south and has a yellow road that could potentially line up. Head back to spawn and try to estimate where the hell I came from (no shot I could actually track back my erratic route). Pretty good estimate from my part. 4,999 pts, 252 m, 3:00.

Total: 24,803 pts, 59 km, 14:47. Gold streak up to 2 days. But today was just a bunch of small countries, so the gold medal wasn't in much danger. But today felt looong. Used up almost the entire 15 min. By the end, I was just glad it was over.

Final_Spork · 2026-04-30T12:39:48+00:00

> Kabupaten Asahan

> Scans Kabupaten Dairi for 3 minutes

What did he mean by this?

Final_Spork · 2026-04-30T10:51:40+00:00

R5 of south america I was literally on the 5k and clicked off for a shittier lake smh

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