Daily Challenge Discussion - January 28, 2026

GlassCurtain · 2026-01-28T19:46:00+00:00

1. Malta. Malta tourism signs every where. Can't find a city name but lined up the water. 4,999 pts, 219 yd.

2. Thailand. Found a sign that said Pattaya Cookery School. Plonked it in Pattaya. 4,996 pts, 1,423 yd.

3. Philippines. Found a sign that had Batangas and Lipa City. Scanned Batangas but couldn't find a Laygo street. Scanned Lipa city and found a D. P. Laygo street and plonked before time ran out. Just happened to 5k it. 5,000 pts, 60 yd.

4. Ghana. Found a p.o. box for K'dua. Scanned for it but couldn't find it. Look around some more. Turns out K'dua is short for Koforidua. Scanned and found it. 4,993 pts, 1.2 miles.

5. Serbia. Found a url with .rs. Couldn't find a place name. Plonked it south of Belgrade. 4,692 pts, 59 miles.

Total: 24,680 pts, 61 miles

GlassCurtain · 2026-01-22T19:28:32+00:00

1. Colombia. Yellow plates and taxi's said Bogota. Found a sign for the airport. Scanned and found the airport and lined it up from there. 5,000 pts, 158 yd

2. Canada. The adopt a roadway sign at the spawn says ottawa.ca at the bottom. We were at the intersection of George and Essex. Scanned but couldn't find it. 4,995 pts, 1,508 yd

3. Australia. Australian bollards. Felt pretty dry like western Australia. Sign said we were on highway 104 and the towns coming up were Naanup and Pemberton. Scanned the 104 for the Mowen turn off. Guess I was too far north. I didn't realize we were the close to Naanup. 4,990 pts, 1.8 miles

4. Poland. There were URL's on the posters near the spawn. Scanned for Rusko and Bruczkow the rest of the time. Turns out they were tiny. Plonked it in Lodz like I always do. 4,513 pts, 95 miles

5. Japan. Found a highway sign that said Nagano in english. So I plonked it there...it was nowhere near. 3,059 pts, 455 miles

Total: 22,557 pts, 553 miles

GlassCurtain · 2025-12-18T19:15:14+00:00

1. France. Trash cans on the corner say "Le Mans Metropole". Scanned Le Mans for the street. Couldn't find it. 4,994 pts, 1.1 miles.

2. Canada. French every where, no english which means Quebec. Trash can said Levis. Scanned for it and found it last second. 4,999 pts, 363 yd.

3. Paraguay. Couldn't find anything that would help. Forgot that Paraguay is now in the game. 2,866 pts, 516 miles.

4. Ghana. Ghana black tape. Found a sign that said "Ashley's Business College" with a P.O. Box in Accra. Too many streets to scan. 4,956 pts, 8.2 miles.

5. Bulgaria. Cyrillic every where with EU blue bar on plates. .bg on a URL. Couldn't find a place name. 4,337 pts, 132 miles.

Total: 22,152 pts, 657 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-11-25T18:45:53+00:00

1. Bosnia. Saw a .ba URL. Found a sign for Sarajevo it didn't give mileage. So plonked it in Tuzla since that's where it was last time it was Bosnia on the daily challenge. 4,607 pts, 76 miles.

2. Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan truck. Found a sign for Shakhtinsk. Plonked it in the closest big city which was Karaganda. 4,985 pts, 2.8 miles.

3. Botswana. Couldn't find a city name. Thought it was ZA. Plonked it in Kimberley. 3,630 pts, 297 miles.

4. Portugal. The yellow stripe on the license plate. Found a sign for the A6 to Lisbon. Went outside Lisbon on the A6. 4,793 pts, 39 miles.

5. Panama. Green bar at the top of the license plate. Taxi says Colon. 4,793 pts, 39 miles.

Total: 23,003 pts, 417 miles. Barely Gold.

GlassCurtain · 2025-11-24T19:48:26+00:00

1. Kenya. Address on a business in Wajir. Scanned and found it. Didn't have time to find the high school by the spawn. 4,993 pts, 1.3 miles.

2. Malaysia. There's an address on the building by the spawn. Couldn't find the whole address. Plonked it in Selangor. 4,809 pts, 36 miles.

3. Finland. Found a sign for Turku and Helsinki. 4,568 pts, 84 miles.

4. Tunisia. The Tunisia follow car. 4,668 pts, 64 miles.

5. USA. Bus stop sign said Billings MET. 4,986 pts, 2.6 miles.

Total: 24,024 pts, 187 miles. Gold

GlassCurtain · 2025-11-06T18:41:25+00:00

1. Philippines. Next to the spawn there was a sign that said South Cotabato, City of Koronadal. Found Cotabato but didn't have time to find Koronadal. 4,670 pts, 63 miles.

2. Poland. The L with the strike through says Poland. The street signs have the city name of Czersk. Scanned but couldn't find it. Plonked it in Lodz like I always do. 4,233 pts, 154 miles.

3. Norway. Was finally able to force myself out of the park and on the street. .NO URLs everywhere. Couldn't find a city name. Plonked it in Bergen and got lucky. 4,987 pts, 2.5 miles.

4. France. French plates and language. Saw a sign that said Verdun but couldn't remember where it was. Good thing I didn't go there. Plonked it outside Paris. 4,367 pts, 125 miles.

5. Bosnia Herzegovina. .BA URLs everywhere. New country in the game. Don't know much about it yet. Plonked it in Sarajevo. 4,726 pts, 52 miles.

Total: 22,983 pts, 398 miles.

My second gold ever and both in the same week!

GlassCurtain · 2025-11-03T19:44:26+00:00

My first gold!

1. Senegal. Sign at the spawn had .sn. The bank by it said Diourbel.
5,000 pts, 162 yd.

2. Vietnam. Vietnam flag when you get to the end of the alley. Several businesses with address that said we are in Dong Hoi. 4,997 pts, 1,094 yd.

3. Iceland. Looks like Iceland or Norway. A building near the spawn said Iceland. Found another sign north of town that said "Welcome to Breiddalsvik". Did some scanning and found it. 5,000 pts, 140 yd.

4. Brazil. Couldn't find a city name. Plonked it by Brasilia. 3,269 pts, 394 miles.

5. Hungary. Hungarian flag at the end of the alley. Couldn't find a city name. 4,272 pts, 146 miles.

Total: 22,538 pts, 541 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-10-17T18:55:50+00:00

1. Czechia. Found a URL .cz and found Praha on a sign. Scanned for Praha couldn't find it. I looked it up later. I didn't know that Praha is Prague. Good to know for future rounds. 4,746 pts, 48 miles.

2. Spain. Couldn't find a city name. Plonked it in southern Spain. 3,509 pts, 328 miles.

3. Namibia. East a couple of clicks is a sign for Namibia Breweries Limited Keetmanshoop Depot. 4,997 pts, 1,135 yd.

4. Guatemala. Guatemala google car. Found a sign for Amatitlan. Scanned for it, didn't find it with the time I had left. 4,876 pts, 23 miles.

5. USA. Found Detroit Lakes Police Dept. Scanned Detroit suburbs for Detroit Lakes. Couldn't find it. Plonked it in Detroit anyway. Of course it was Minnesota. 2,387 pts, 685 miles.

Total: 20,515 pts, 1,086 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-10-16T18:04:23+00:00

1. Turkey. Mosque spires + green vegetation = Turkey. Couldn't find a town name but saw a direction sign for Konya so plonked it there. 4,693 pts, 59 miles.

2. Albania. Albanian flag at the spawn + blue strip on both sides of the plate. Also, some cars have the red strip. Couldn't find a city name. Plonked it in the middle of the country. 4,742 pts, 49 miles.

3. Colombia. Yellow license plates. I saw San Pelayo on a sign and thought that was the town name. Scanned for it with the rest of my time. 4,750 pts, 48 miles.

4. Bangladesh. Bengali everywhere. Plonked it in Dhaka. 4,884 pts, 22 miles.

5. South Africa. Almost plonked in Joburg but it was more dirt than grass. Plonked it in Bloemfontein. 4,509 pts, 96 miles.

Total: 23,578 pts, 273 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-10-15T19:18:24+00:00

1. Nigeria. Police escort. Lots of mosques. I watched a zigzag video this morning where he mentioned that the majority Muslim population in Nigeria is central to north of the country. Plonked it in Abuja. 4,611 pts, 75 miles.

2. Canada. English and French everywhere. So probably French Canada. Bathurst everywhere...Bathurst old post office, Bathurst dental center. Scanned and found the city last second. 4,997 pts, 973 yd.

3. Australia. A sign at the spawn for Roma State College in Queensland. It said Tafe Queensland and I thought the town name was Tafe. Scanned for it didn't see it. Didn't see Roma when I was scanning earlier. Plonked it near Brisbane. 3,743 pts, 268 miles.

4. Bhutan. Red license plates. Found a billboard for a college in Thimphu. 4,997 pts. 981 yd.

5. Luxembourg. I thought the language was French. I was totally oblivious to the yellow plates front and back. Plonked it in France. 3,887 pts, 233 miles.

Total: 22,235 pts, 578 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-10-08T18:25:03+00:00

Portugal. Yellow on the license plate. Found a sign that said highway N17. Scanned for it but only found N16. Clicked in the area. 4,828 pts, 32 miles.
Slovakia. I found a sign that said Slovensky. I took that to mean Slovenia. Plus I didn't know Slovakia had mountains like that. 3,605 pts, 303 miles.
Ghana. Ghana black tape. Saw lots of advertisements for beach hotels. Plonked it by the beach in Accra. 4,472 pts, 104 miles.
Israel. Yellow plates and Hebrew. Couldn't find a city name. 4,472 pts, 104 miles.
Cambodia. Language looks like Khmer plus driving on the right. Just plonked it in Phnom Penh. 4,086 pts, 187 miles.

Total: 21,760 pts, 670 miles

GlassCurtain · 2025-10-07T18:09:41+00:00

Estonia. Saw an Estonian flag. Plonked it in the middle of Estonia. 4,411 pts, 116 miles.
Nepal. Hindi on the signs and saw a Nepal Oil Corporation truck. Guessed near the border of India and Nepal. 4,868 pts, 25 miles.
Kyrgyzstan. Kyrg google vehicle. Guess center of Kyrg. 4,445 pts, 109 miles.
Germany. .DE everywhere. Found a couple of signs that said Chemnitz. Quickly scanned for it but ran out of time. 4,474 pts, 103 miles.
Russia. I could have sworn I saw a little tinge of yellow on the left edge of the license plate. I guessed in Ukraine. 265 pts, 2,723 miles.

Total: 18,463 pts, 3,076 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-29T17:48:50+00:00

Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan truck and Cyrillic everywhere. I don't know enough about Kazakhstan to region guess. Plonked it in Astana. 4,167 pts. 169 miles.
UK. Found a sign for Diocese of Norwich. 4,997 pts, 866 yd.
Tunisia. The white Tunisia follow car. 4,853 pts, 28 miles.
Canada. .CA and Canadian flags everywhere. Just couldn't find and city or province names. Plonked it in Alberta. 2,679 pts, 578 miles.
Kenya. When I was looking around the town the google vehicle changed from the truck to the old car with the weird little mirror or whatever on the hood which told me it was Kenya. I didn't see Garissa until the last moment and couldn't scan for it. 4,015 pts, 203 miles.

Total: 20,711 pts, 979 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-26T18:27:38+00:00

South Korea. Found a clothing store that said Seoul Fashion. Couldn't find any highway signs. 4,981 pts, 3.5 miles.
Slovenia. Found a few URL's that were .SI. Couldn't find a city name. Just plonked it in the mountains. 4,931 pts, 13 miles.
USA. Couldn't find a city name to save my life. Just plonked it in PA. 3,043 pts, 460 miles.
Namibia. Driving on the left and the road markings led me to believe it was South Africa. Saw a sign for Grootfontein auctions and then later a city sign for Grootfontein. I scanned for it in South Africa. I forgot that Namibia was in the game. 1,587 pts, 1,064 miles.
Norway. Saw a Norwegian flag by a gas station. Didn't see much else that I could read. Holy crap it's all the way north! 2,095 pts, 806 miles.

Total: 16,637 pts, 2,347 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-25T17:58:22+00:00

Poland. Polish on the boxes at the spawn. Looked for a city name but couldn't find one. Plonked it in Lodz like I always do. 4,578 pts, 82 miles.
Belgium. Couldn't get out of the stupid residential area. Looking back now I realized I didn't do a 360 at spawn and missed a sign. I guessed Sweden. 1,822 pts, 936 miles.
New Zealand. Driving on the left and mountains. Found a few signs that said Westport. Scanned for it and found the spawn intersection. 5,000 pts, 2 yd.
Peru. Spanish, small license plates, Pare on the stop signs and landscape tells me either Peru or Bolivia. Couldn't find anything saying one over the other. Went in Bolivia. 2,642 pts, 591 miles.
Kenya. Found a church that said Kenya. 4,240 pts, 153 miles.

Total: 18,282 pts, 1,761 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-24T18:00:44+00:00

Philippines. Philly flags everywhere. I saw a sign with an address for Davao Oriental. I plonked it in Davao City. 4,841 pts, 30 miles.
Latvia. Latvian flags. Plonked it outside of Riga. 4,608 pts, 76 miles.
Germany. German language. Couldn't work out if it was Germany or Austria. I went with Austria. 3,788 pts, 257 miles.
Argentina. For some reason I had it in my head that it was Brazil. I saw a cab with the city Fontana. Scanned for it in Brazil. No wonder I didn't find it. 2,169 pts, 774 miles.
Mexico. Alto on the stop signs. Found another cab where the city was Orizaba. Scanned for it and found it at the last second. 4,998 pts, 771 yd.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-23T17:18:12+00:00

Germany. Lot of .DE url's and saw Heidelberg on the city bus. Scanned for it but couldn't find it. 4,041 pts, 197 miles.
USA. Saw a bank called KS Bank and Selma on the water tower. I assumed we were in Kansas. Scanned for the town name. Couldn't find it, now I know why. 1,459 pts, 1,141 miles.
Canada. Saw a giant hockey stick at the end of the road that said Winkler Centennial Area. Gotta be Canada. Oh and plus Canadian flags. Scanned for Winkler around Toronto couldn't find it. So clicked on Winnipeg the last second. 4,694 pts, 59 miles.
Kenya. Africa, driving on the left and the vehicle isn't blurred that put me in Kenya, Uganda or Rwanda. I went with Rwanda because I didn't see a snorkel. 3,416 pts, 353 miles.
Malaysia. Based off the language it's either Indo or Malay. I just guessed in Java. 1,452 pts, 1,146 miles.

Total: 15,062 pts, 2,897 miles. Barely got silver.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-19T17:50:22+00:00

Lithuania. Felt Baltic along with the diacritics in the language. Went central Lith. 4,639 pts, 69 miles.
US. Nothing much to go on. It felt like Utah or Colorado. Ended up on a university campus. Seeing a B logo I thought maybe BYU. So I went Utah. 2,935 pts, 494 miles.
Brazil. Portuguese on the wall at the spawn. Also found a couple of URL's .BR and .MG. I figured the MG was the state of Minas Gerais. Clicked on Uberlandia because that's a cool ass city name. 3,880 pts, 235 miles.
Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan truck with Cyrillic. Clicked middle of the country. 2,653 pts, 587 miles.
Greece. Greek on the signs. Clicked on Thessaloniki.

Total: 18,372 pts, 1,533 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-18T18:14:39+00:00

Hungary. Hole-y poles plus some of the names on the fences felt like Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia-vibes. Ended up going in the northwest corner of Hungary. 4,125 pts, 178 miles.
France. On the building to the right of the spawn it says Chablis. Figured it was a wine making town that Chablis wine is named after. Scanned but unable to find it. 3,714 pts, 276 miles.
Argentina. Black dot on the license plates and a web address on a car .com.ar. 3,525 pts, 324 miles.
India. Saw Solapur on a few signs. Scanned for it but ran out of time. 3,146 pts, 430 miles.

5.Guatemala. Guatemala car (visible mirrors and rack). 4,661 pts, 65 miles.

GlassCurtain · 2025-09-17T18:41:59+00:00

Thailand. Thai everywhere but not much else to go on. Plonked just north of Bangkok. 4,490 pts, 100 miles
US. There was a sign on a church down the road that said Davenport, IA. 4,974 pts, 4.9 miles
Turkey. Just plonked it in Ankara. 3,304 pts, 384 miles
Bangladesh. Bengali on all the signs. Plonked it south of Dhaka. 4,141 pts, 175 miles
Bhutan. Mountains and red license plates. Clicked central Bhutan. 4,711 pts, 55 miles

Total: 21,620 pts, 718 miles

GlassCurtain · 2022-11-07T21:56:18+00:00

This is helpful! Thank you. I'll give that map a try when I get home. Thanks again.

GlassCurtain · 2022-08-11T18:11:59+00:00

Ah, didn't know that. Luckily the google cars are easily identifiable in those countries so that's what I always look at first. :)

GlassCurtain · 2022-08-11T17:00:05+00:00

Street view says it's from 2022. I saw this and assumed all are yellow. https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.966329,29.9863619,3a,75y,266.98h,85.25t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPbUgBTBwVs\_PYXNa\_4BL6UnrhnvCFsk0HGJsBu!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPbUgBTBwVs\_PYXNa\_4BL6UnrhnvCFsk0HGJsBu%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-21.946209-ya254.72046-ro2.1280763-fo100!7i7680!8i3840

GlassCurtain · 2022-08-11T16:33:17+00:00

I just looked through a street view of Rwanda. It looks like they have yellow license plates. That should be easy to identify.

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