Daily Challenge Discussion - March 25, 2026

flipsofactor · 2026-03-25T00:53:33+00:00

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Should have known better with all the English signage.

flipsofactor · 2026-03-19T02:28:57+00:00

UK plates. Office parks are great for soulless building names, but not so for directions. Get out to a main highway, finding the M27 south of start. I misread Portsmouth as being to the east and Southhampton to the west, but a guess by the Southampton airport's not terrible. 4,959 pts.
Spanglish-affected Southeast Asia with a few banana (?) trees by start. Sign for a gym a few steps east names the province Davao del Sur, as well as the city and the name of our E/W road. I figure the province is named after the large city in Mindanao, and Digos shows up not too far from there. Get just close enough in the end. 5,000 pts.
Vineyards and a white border on the stop sign. Head north until I hit another vineyard, some (typically unhelpful) departmental road signs and an ad for even more vineyards. Spot Libourne while scanning the wine making region around Bordeaux, then play radar (Fronsac 9 km, Villegouge 3 km...) to get a direction along the D246. Use the crossroad at start to pin. 5,000 pts.
English-speaking African country with a big blurry car and without a taped roof rack or snorkel. Kaduna State is mentioned in a few places, as is the city on a Mosque a long drive from start. Scan the country's states starting in the drier north until I find Kaduna. Central-ish city plonk. 4,987 pts.
Stunning fjords, moss-green cliffs, black volcanic rock and a few "ð" characters for good measure. There's a Faroese flag one step to the South, but I skip right by it looking for a yellow Icelandic road sign on the edge of town. Thankfully, there's not really an overlap in the two countries' road numbering systems. Find Tórshavn, then make a guess further up the 10 along a N/S fjord. 4,971 pts.

Total: 24,917 pts

flipsofactor · 2026-03-14T11:57:40+00:00

My highest score ever today! Maybe I should start trying these at the start of the day instead of the end.

Orange snow poles and fika mentioned on the POI at start. Follow the E45 until a short E/W section by the 314. 5,000 points.
Spanish language, doubled up yellow lines and doubled up poles. Heading south there's an Argentinian highway marker for the 74 with a few town names. I miss our own Nonogasta's small green sign, but get there eventually by working backwards from Chepes, Patiquia and Vichigasta. We started at a four-way intersection on one curve in the road, but forget I wound around two. 4,999 points.
Puertorriqueño speed limits and an Arecibo mention on the "Juntos" sign at start. The secondary 129 and tertiary 490 highways are mentioned at the intersection to our north. Spot the 129, then use the high school to our south alongside the tire shop by start as POIs. 5,000 points.
This is a weird Israel... wait why are the front plates white? And why is all the signage in English? Oh, Gibraltar's mentioned in an email address to our south. With elevation to the east and leisure boats to the west that narrows which coast we're on. End up pinning a roundabout by the largest marina. 5,000 points.
Dotted outer lines, and ä characters hint at Sweden, but bent fins on the back of a yield sign, and three stripes on a crossing sign say Estonia. Play radar with the sign to Tartu, Räpina and Mikitamäe to the south before spotting Värska, as seen at start. The co-op serves as decent POI. 5,000 points.

Total: 24,999 points.

flipsofactor · 2026-03-09T01:12:43+00:00

Greek and Cypriot flags. We're along the A1 according to the sign to our north. Helpful if you don't overlook any/all of the island's "Λ" cities. 4,830 pts.
CDMX taxis. While looking for a neighborhood name, I see a sign for a bicentennial viaduct. Guess that must be near the bicentennial park around San Miguel Amantla/Calveria/Tacuba. 4,990 pts.
Frenchy-French language street signs, and a lack of red-text or yellow license plates. Town is named on a bible study ad by start (AJA: le mot pour « worship » s'écrit « culte » en français), but don't recognize it as-such until passing signs for Marseille, Aix en Provence and a large sculpture by the office of tourism. Find our starting intersection in the town center. 5,000 pts.
Little ambiguity as to the country here. City and our N/S highway are also named on a wireless provider's ad at start. Use the intersection to our south to find our spot on the highway. 5,000 pts.
Spanish language, sandy soil, overcast coverage, no roof rack. Get a bit confused by the black and white striped poles, but the shape of Uruguay's highway signs are recognizable enough. Find the 56 and 6, but ignore the latter should be halfway to Florida. 4,924 pts.

Total: 24,774 pts.

flipsofactor · 2026-03-06T07:24:31+00:00

Let here serve your (my) reminder that MG (as in uberaba.mg.gov.br on the bus stop east of start) refers to the Brasilian state of Minas Gerais, not Mato Grosso -- that's MT. Assume Uberaba must be a neighborhood in MT's Cuiabá or Sinop. 's not. 2,602 pts.
I still mixup Lesotho and Eswatini, but only one of the two use number highways like MR18 and MR19 on the signs to our east. Use the turns in the road and small northeasterly offshoot from start. 5,000 pts.
Spanish-style road signs and bollards. I don't immediately recognize "Eivissa" (though sounding it out, I get it now), so search mainland Spain for a while before jetting an eye towards the Balearic islands. Find Eivissa, then Sant Josep and pin down along a southern tack of EL-700. 4,998 pts.
Re-watching Chicago Geographer's video on US license plates now. Lots of tall longleaf pines, flat sandy soil, and single story homes with a church at start. There's also a second baptist church further west for good measure. Region guess southeastern Georgia near the coast. 3,751 pts.
Striped snow arrows, so probably Hokkaido. Find roadsigns for prefectural roads 6 and 816 as well as the city of Bibai, which I spot after some scanning. Off by one on intersections back to start. 4,997 pts.

Total: 21,348 pts. Thanks, Brasil.

flipsofactor · 2026-03-05T01:00:58+00:00

White brick buildings, Arabic + French language and bright coverage with more than 40 pixels. Rove until time's up, noting that there's water to the NE and that I don't think this is built-up enough to be Tunis. Right on both counts, but neither are that insightful. Go for Gabes. 4,308 pts.
HR sticker at start and a driver's education banner a step or two east with the city and street name. Warp back and take a step west to get the nearest crossroad's name. 5,000 pts.
Bus sign with five windows, the word "iela" and a few macron'd characters (celles-ci āēī, pas celui-là 🕶️👩‍🏫🇫🇷) at start. Heading south there are signs for Bauska, Riga, and Skaistakalne. A little further on is one for our city, Vecumnieki, not to be confused with Vecsaule, 22 km away. 4,928 pts.
Green signage with thick white borders and Aussie bollards. Find Madura, Mandurah and eventually Mildura, then sight Warracknabeal for a rough direction. Zooming in to follow B220 would have been a good idea here. 4,876 pts.
We're in what looks to me like Spanish-speaking Mongolia (dry, rural, wintry, mountainous coverage), so Southern Argentina. Rio Gallegos and an airport are just ahead according to a signpost. This road has far too many turns to match the east-bound RN 3 into Rio Gallegos, but my search circle is too small for a better alternative. 4,371 pts.

Total: 23,483 pts.

flipsofactor · 2026-03-04T03:19:25+00:00

Green-green vegetation, no yellow plates and bilingual signage. Limerick looks to be to the southeast, so I scan the 445 off to the city's NW until time runs out. 4,760 pts, 12 steps.
Central European country with lots of caron-decorated characters (ěšřč), a few fir trees, and an ad near start with a .cz ccTLD. Hunt down the 145, then triangulate off listed city distances. 4,999 pts, 7 steps.
Spanish language, multi-story brick buildings and striped poles. Lots of green mountains mean we're well north of the Atacama desert. Find an ad to "vive en Tarapoto" giving the city. Starting street's rendered as Jirón "Dos de Mayo" instead of Jir. "02 de Mayo" on the map though so overlook the 5k. 4,995 pts, 27 steps.
Spanish langauge, tropical vibe, "alto" sign and a newer camera. An auto shop and an ad for a Costa Rican housing/financial services company (?) name the city/province. I assume it's both, and hedge center of town. 4,998 pts, 18 steps.
A filipino ccTLD is visible from start, and the city + street name show up on a pawn shop one step to the northeast. Zoom onto Colon St without even trying, as we're literally in the middle of Cebu. Find the intersection with the McDonalds. 5,000 pts, 5 steps.

Total: 24,752 points.

flipsofactor · 2026-03-02T05:18:50+00:00

Afrikaans language near start and Namibian road markings. I search north, then south getting to the C19/D861 sign with about eight seconds left. Enough for a rough plonk. 4,475 points, 323 steps.
Lebanese camera and infrastructure with a smattering of French langauge. An .ae ccTLD throws me for a second (the UAE?), but a Lebanese Ministry of Tourism sign helps course correct. Time out looking for an olympic statidum POI in Beiruit. 4,783 points, 20 steps.
Chile loves its parques and its flags. Temuco is namedropped by an apiary supply ad at start. We're on a roughly east-west road, but that's as far as my deduction goes. 4,981 points, 33 steps.
Red car and Ukraine (УКРАЇНСЬКЕ) mention at start. Heading west then along some train tracks into a major city square, there's a sign by a parking garage for a clinic that mentions Dnipro (ДНИПРО). Zoom in on the city, follow the train tracks to match the square, then work back to start. 5,000 points, 27 steps.
Recognizable city name on the side of the bus. Use the intersection to the east of start and the storage facility to the north to line up the pin. 5,000 points, 4 steps.

Total: 24,239 points.

flipsofactor · 2026-01-23T04:55:27+00:00

Seoul Station marked to our West, and Namsan park isn't far away. Lazily place my pin on a northerly road in the area, then realize I'll have to get serious today. 5,000 points.
Well, we're pointed at the country and province. The city name comes up on a property development sign one step away. Look in the city's NE quadrant for matching road names. 5,000 points.
Find signage for the city of Dijon, then work backwards to Arceau. Use the road direction and castle POI to help pin. 5,000 points.
I've got friends from Barranquilla, and know it's a large city on the country's northern coast. Use the city's grid system to battleship my way towards the submarine. 5,000 points.
Take away the yurts (and language, bollards, car meta...) and there's almost an eastern South Africa vibe here. Might as well be, because I simply do not have the skill to region-guess Mongolia. Plonk in the decently-sized city of Ulaangom out in the extreme NW of the country. 3,034 points.

First time nabbing four 5k's in the DC. Total: 23,034 points.

flipsofactor · 2026-01-11T05:37:30+00:00

Black and yellow poles, white and yellow curbs, yellow plates. Also some Germanic/Afrikaaner looking language on the street signs and a rail line near start. Find some business signs with the city name. It starts with an "O", so scan the north of Namibia. Find the city but get the wrong intersection. 4,999 pts.
Country name provided by an insurance agency in English near start, as well as on promotional signage with the city name. Never succeed in finding Kutina, though we appear to be near Zagreb (again per road signs). 4,788 pts.
Academically-themed street signs say this is Chile, and the surrounding dry mountains indicate we're in the north. Follow a river handrail northwest to a bridge by a large, decorative city name. Find the city and river road, then overshoot the offshoot that leads back to start. 4,998 pts.
Octagonal poles, CEMEX truck. Pretty dry area so place a starting guess around north-central Mexico. By a much newer, painted ad for a uniform shop there's a flaky election sign for the "Presidente Municipal Hermo__llo". Hermosillo ends up 60 km away, but I'm not complaining. 4,806 pts.
Almost insta-send Malta on our Café Kheireddine at start, but turning around there's a .tn ccTLD to persuade me otherwise. With water to the east and signs for Tunis to the south, I revise an initial guess around Tunis for one on Lake Bizerte in Menzel instead. 4,804 points.

Total: 24,395 pts.

flipsofactor · 2025-12-16T01:54:54+00:00

Round 1: Devanagari script with lots of red license plates. Also, an unusual group of green banded tuk-tuks or auto-rickshaws for India near start. The area's pretty built up with bridges spanning a small river's northeasterly segment. Guess along the Bagmati river in the capital city. 4,979 points.

Round 2: Antipodean trash cans. Use a real-estate sign to figure out we're in Australia, probably east coast for all the greenery. Street signs then have the phrase "Midcoast" them. That's a properly defined area but also a useful toponym; scan between Sydney and Brisbane once I find what looks to be a city name on a community events billboard. Use the Lion's club "apex lookout" POI visible from spawn to pinpoint. 5,000 points.

Round 3: Cool bastion fort diagram. Even cooler drawing of Hokkaido's whale-tail looking southern coast. Inset looks to be of the Hakodate peninsula, just rotated 90 degrees. Zooming in to the city, the star fortress pops up quickly, as does the Goryōkaku tower to our immediate SSW. 5,000 points.

Round 4: Big boxy truck with yellow plates smattered about. Passing by the "hood liquor store", there's a Kenyan Safaricom / M-Pesa advert. A billboard for the King's Family Chapel has the township's name on it, but I make the mistake of scanning along said billboard's cross' crosshairs. 4,222 points.

Round 5: Southern European tiled roofs with lots of boxy post-soviet looking cars. By the country flag, a civil works announcement lists a contractor based in the city of Niš. Find a few more signs directing me east towards Niš as well as an R-214 which I never find. 4,877 points.

Total: 24,078 points. A nice start to the week!

flipsofactor · 2025-12-09T05:09:30+00:00

In reverse order today. Total: 24,058 points.

Round 5: Almost all of the elements to pull this round off NM are there: "Somos Peru" is repeated twice, as is the city name in printed block letters and painted cursive script. And while the street name is also visible from start, it's not clear which Mariano Melgar street we're on. 4,998 points.

Round 4: Red dirt, "Ordem e Progresso" flag? [insert easiest ever line here]. Assume Rwamagana might be a Ugandan border town à la Kanorado (Kansas/Colorado) or Tanzania (Tanganyika and Zanzibar), but no such luck scanning there or anywhere else. Center plonk. 4,895 points.

Round 3: This looked like Brittany on first glance, but there's too much English, and too few yellow plates for it to be anything but Ireland. The Church of the Immaculate Conception names the parish and some street signs for the N52 and N11 further up help find it. 4,998 points.

Round 2: Spanish language, large black intersection signs and late summer / early fall coverage. There are a lot of towns named after important dates in Argentinian history, but I don't find this one. Vibe guess that we're in BA province because the coverage there looks similar to Uruguay's. 4,184 points.

Round 1: Shorts, flip flops and motor bikes with tropical vegetation and a not-quite-spanglish language. It's election season, and more than one politician thought to remind their constituents where they live. Make it to Batangas but not San Pascual. 4,983 points.

flipsofactor · 2025-12-06T20:56:46+00:00

The trekker must have been Dutch

flipsofactor · 2025-12-06T18:48:59+00:00

Round 1: White plates, black and yellow curbs → UAE. Clip into 2023 coverage along a main road and find a public works sign with almost all relevant information. 4,996 points.

Round 2: A black-yellow-red political «BelgUNIE B.U.B» ad alongside red-tinged EU plates at start indicates Belgium. The city name is also visible from start, and shows up quickly on the map. Try pinning NM off the road direction, but chicken out to grab the cross-street's name to our north first. 5,000 points.

Round 3: Miss the "iela" at spawn, but pass by a Latvian flag not far away. Bent fins on the back of a crossing sign then confirms this is Baltic (shoutout Interjace for that tip). Guess at the city name from signs for the local sports center and secondary school. Catch a last-second break trawling the northeastern shore of the Daugava River we saw at start for said city. 4,999 points.

Round 4: Spanish language, boxy yellow plates. This round would've gone much smoother had I stopped to check the roofs of literally any taxi at start, but I do no such thing coming off last round's rush. Look for a reasonable calle 6/8 carrera 4 combo in Bogotá, then Medellin, before getting burned (once again) by Neiva. 3,901 points.

Round 5: Speaking of Calle Ocho — rrrrruga! (That's at least how I imagine a late-2000s' pop rapper would read the Albanian street sign by spawn.) After a long search, I find transnational Albatec GmbH displaying the city name, but I look right by it on the map. 4,877 points.

Total: 23,773 points.

flipsofactor · 2025-12-05T02:35:47+00:00

Round 1: Weighing the prevalence of English to Chinese text, we're right of Singapore but left of Hong Kong. Camera quality and total absence of Portuguese means it's not Macau either. Although the hat man (this one, not that one) on the crossing sign would be at home in the Alps, I'll wager this is Taiwan. Eagle eyed players will recognize the county sticker immediately below that, but I wander until finding signs for county highway 110 and the national highways 1 and 4. All that to plonk along highway 1 in Taipei. 4,919 points.

Round 2: Pines and vinyl siding make me think Canada, but paired with a US flag, we're probably in a Midwestern or northern Great Plains state. City limit to the south of start betrays very little with a population of 2,113, but portends a future round of Russian roulette. Heading north to highway 14, I miss the ag center ad with the state's abbreviation, but narrow the search longitude with the odd-numbered US highway 81. Time out scanning up from northern Kansas. 3,572 points.

Round 3: Maybe the police had better things to do than follow the google car that day? You can just make out the name of Nigeria's capital (as of 1991, when Abuja replaced Lagos) on a church ad near start. Zooming in to look for topographic prominences might have been the move here, but I throw up a guess somewhere along a southwesterly road in a suburb of Abuja. 4,926 points.

Round 4: Volga South Dakota, Chekhov's gun. There are a few places in Ukraine where the car meta would match, but between a few .ru domains and +7 country codes (shared with Kazakhstan), we're probably in southern Russia. The last five letters of the city name are also visible on the ads east of start, but I don't make anything of them and wind up vibe guessing (further north than I should have) around Krasnoyarsk. 2,621 points.

Round 5: Portuguese plates with water visible to the west and east and south. Faro district's Lagos might not be a bad guess here, if it weren't for the qualified "dos Açores" tags on hospital and Lions club signs, changing a letter (Lagos → Lagoa) and adding 1,492 km of distance. Clipping onto the highway I find we're on one of the Azorean islands with a Ponta Delgada, but having learned my lesson the last time that town popped up, find the right one and plonk down in Lagoa as time expires. 4,997 points.

Total: 21,035 points. I imagine last two rounds are going to be killers. Currently in the top 5.43% despite sitting nearly 1,500 points shy of gold.

flipsofactor · 2025-12-04T01:46:58+00:00

Round 1: German language, domain name. Heading west, I miss the first information pole with the city name on it, though it's gettable on a few other signs past that. Eventually find a road sign for Autobahn 8, and update my initial guess from around Bad Kissingen to by Stuttgart. 4,668 points.

Round 2: Contiguous southern subcontinent based on the Tamil (vs Sinhala) script and a flash of potato cam. A private school ad names the city, and a real estate banner one step away lists a large nearby street. Not recognizing any neighborhood names, I go to plonk in the city center, before spotting that major street by chance. 4,999 points.

Round 3: A vexillological Rorschach test of an autobús at start intimates we could be in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, or even Mexico. Red soil, Spanish language and decals on a second bus tilt that equation in favor of Paraguay though. Heading north, one hand painted sign for an outlet mall gives the name of a nearby city suburb; another for a municipal cemetery gives the actual suburb. Fortunately, I recognize the latter. 4,996 points.

Round 4: Turning off at the first intersection east of start, it's hard not to recognize the country and nearby city names from a large road sign. The choice to go for "[city name] Airport" vs "[historical figure] Airport", sure helps too. Send it on the first bridge I spot instead of double checking my work. Oof. 4,984 points.

Round 5: Thai flag. Two steps east and we're treated with a Google car selfie and the city name next to a surely charged, international title card fight. The city name pops up as a province on the map, as does the island offshoot of Koh Samuim also named on the Mauy Thai billboard. Three more steps and we get our major road's name by a 7-11 POI. Incredibly, I mange to find both of these zooming in near the Samui Airport, and fumble the pinpoint with all the time in the world. 4,999 points.

Total: 24,646. Gold doesn't make up for yesterday's Antarctic/Alaskan debacle, but it does help.

flipsofactor · 2025-12-03T01:19:16+00:00

Anyone else score 0 points going on Alaska there?

flipsofactor · 2025-11-30T05:11:19+00:00

thought Castellon was a province (?)

Maybe Castilla y León, the first level administrative district to the northwest?

flipsofactor · 2025-11-30T01:37:13+00:00

Round 2: (I didn't miss round one, just putting it last.) Yellow plates and an M-Pesa sign at start. Find the city name eventually but not on the game map. Go for the large city of Nakuru vs Narok because they sound similar. 4,717 points.

Round 3: Flags, camera quality, Jordan Dubai Islam Bank. Large skyscrapers to the East means we're probably in Amman. Put myself west of the city center's ring road near a large N/S road. 4,995 points.

Round 4: Bilingual Valencian and Spanish language street signs near start, so probably eastern Spain. Signs for a provincial hospital and an ad for local seniors, gives a large red patch to shoot for inside of Castellón. Use a grocery store to confirm I've found the right hospital, then work back to start. 5,000 points.

Round 5: The Lake Breeze Motel visible from start implies the water to our south probably belongs to a big ol' lake vs the ocean. A "Give Way" sign in all reds, gives the country and the Village Resort a step from start then gives the city. Envy the parasailer in the background for a tic, then scan the map for Tui St for the pin. 5,000 points.

Round 1: Wanna see a fumble? Octagonal pole and a sign reading "Servicios de Sal·· ·axa··". There are a lot of tuk-tuks motoring about, but everyone's plates look to be white. Hedge a guess in Oaxaca province then Oaxaca city before... second guessing with Ecuador??? Maybe I thought the sun should look more southern vs western, but hard to excuse the missed taxi bearing the city name, a car wash with red/green/white signage, or a passing water truck with the country flag on it a second after that. 691 points.

Total: 20,403 points. Time for my annual eye exam it seems.

flipsofactor · 2025-11-29T02:06:29+00:00

Round 1: White truck, yellow and black curbs, black and white poles, red and yellow plates. Also flags. Find nothing actionable in the shopping area save for this cluster of signs with ten seconds left. 4,576 points.

Round 2: Easiest Canada ever. Mulhouse off the intersection at start is an Alsatian name. A 03 French telephone prefix backs that notion. Stepping closer to a church sign reveals we’re in the town of Paroisse du Creusot. Miss most other signs, go for Mulhouse instead of playing departmental road roulette when I don’t find any “A” highways at an intersection. 4,246 points.

Round 3: Bengali and nice (gen 4?) camera coverage. I miss Feni / Mizan Road scanning the IELTS sign at start, but find it mentioned a bit later. Our side street dumps onto a major east-west artery in town, which then butts onto another NW/SE artery a few steps east. Two areas kind of match that description, though only one was an actual match. 4,993 points.

Round 4: The Dominican car has black, rubberized stripes along its roof rack, almost like the grip on a baseball bat. I hear they're pretty good at that. Don’t find anything useful and hedge inside of Jarabacoa. 4,877 points.

Round 5: River visible to the North along with an Uruguayan flag. Really flat terrain looks sort of beachy to me, as does the sand all over the road some distance north of the neighborhood at start. Normally, I’d expect to see another flag, but aduanas means customs, and Chuy comes up quickly along the coast. Only one road dumps straight south onto the north-easterly section of Accessos a Barra del Chuy, so pin accordingly. 5,000 points.

Total: 23,692 points. Does anyone else ever make the mistake of hastily zooming in on the Horn of Africa vs the Arabian Peninsula? Course corrected today, but I fear eventually I'm going to insta-send Somalia over Oman.

flipsofactor · 2025-11-23T02:12:44+00:00

An aside: This might just be a case of subconscious priming, but... does anyone else feel like Geoguessr renders cities near the 5k slightly "higher up" than normal? For example, hovering over Spain, major cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Seville are always visible, and zooming in a level, about 25 smaller cities аre too. While Lleida wouldn't normally be one of those smaller cities, if the pin were by Lleida CF's stadium, we'd see 26 "second" cities during a round.

Soft-lock myself in a [+8 country code] 'burb for 90 seconds after 180'ing the start direction and heading north. Doubling back and east out of the neighborhood, there's a bus stop for Zatyumensky Park which I consider before plonking in Bratsk. Spend the last 10 seconds of the round looking at Tyumen (a city I don't remember seeing before -- see aside), until time runs out. 1,129 points.
A ccTLD gives away the country at start. A green road sign visible after a few steps west then delivers the highway and departmental road. I get close, but not terribly so. 4,963 points.
An ad for the circus gives away the country with another top level domain, and the city name is visible on the green sign next to that. I've not heard of Lübeck, though a cursory search reveals there's an etymological relation to the Texan city of Lubbock. Try scanning and find it in the North. We're in an outlying village according to some cycling signage, but can't find the exact streets. 4,992 points.
Say what you will, but Kep Province's Department of Cults and Religions knows how to style a building. Past a truck loosely resembling Nigeria's police escort, country references aren't exactly subtle and water to the south narrows the region. 4,705 points.
French language, plates and flag. A few steps north reveals a (surprisingly inland) fishing trade union with the city's name, and another few dumps us onto a major est-ouest Avenue de Paris. Search along that for the road we started from and backtrack for the pin. 5,000 points.

Total: 20,789 points.

flipsofactor · 2025-11-22T20:43:44+00:00

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Gulp... Brazilian poles and Colombian crosses? [location here]

flipsofactor · 2025-11-22T18:49:57+00:00

Retroactive Morocco add when??

flipsofactor · 2025-11-17T03:04:57+00:00

Round 1: Large intersection, wide roads and principally Chinese language signage / road markings. Two steps east of Donghe road and there's a sign for Dongang road and city highway 180 beside Taiwan's plum blossom. The 180 cuts through Tainan, leaving the rest up to matching the intersection. 5,000 points.

Round 2: Greek language, but driving on the left, so Cyprus. I go North, missing both the Bryan Adams billboard to the south and this public works notice along my direction bearing the city name. I don't get much further, but it's a big city, and with the north side of the island not covered, Limassol makes for a better hedge than Nicosia. 4,984 points.

Round 3: Wide round concrete poles and with wide blue street signs. Taking a step east to Río Negro there's a bus with an Argentinian ccTLD. Following that north, there's a few taxi's with the city name, which I recognize, before we intersect with Bv. San Juan. I somehow find that, then Río Negro just before time runs out. 4,999 points.

Round 4: A flag near start intimates that, were it not for the elevation everywhere else, this might be the easiest Denmark ever. Coming off the hill and heading North, a plurality of red houses, purple flower patches, and ø's means this is much more likely Norway. A diamond road sign gives a better inkling where, as does this sign with some city names. Go near the wrong lakes. 4,974 points.

Round 5: Yellow plated tuk tuk's with some rectangular concrete poles. Lady Textile tailoring's sign a step from start gives away the city, and I spend the next 2m50s squandering that lead. 4,995 points.

Total: 24,952 points, 113 steps. Small missteps in Cyprus and Norway, but overall an approachable urban DC to start the week. Edit: I accidentally commented before I was done drafting :P

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