Rayne
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- Joined
- Sep 3, 2004
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How to Play:
A user will look up a map on Google (in satellite mode), find a location, screen cap it without labels and post it here for everyone to guess. Please spoiler any maps larger than 800px wide.
When taking a screen cap, please make sure the 45 degree mode is disabled (as shown in the spoiler) and to make sure all distinguishing labels are off.
Once posted, users will try and guess the landmark or location indicated by the current map. The current map poster is to provide the type of location they're looking for specifically be it a city, road, object, building, body of water or other geographic feature. They must also provide the specific continent the location is featured in.
When making a guess, please do either of the following so that your guess can be confirmed quickly.
1. Quote the post (that has the picture)
2. Mention the person that posted the picture (done by putting @ in front of the username)
Additionally, the current map poster may offer a simple hint to start with, but they don't have to. They may also offer a trivia type question related to the map itself earning users extra points. This is also not mandatory.
If there are no appropriate guesses after a week, the current map poster should provide a suitable hint.
The user who gets the location right earns the chance to post the next map and some points. They may offer to pass their turn off if they don't wish to post a map. You may not pass on a map more than twice (you must post a follow up map after your third guess or subsequent maps guessed don't contribute to your score).
Scoring:
Life is no fun without a little friendly competition. Traditionally these points represent the number of maps a person has found and serve no real meaning. They still won't but to allow newer players to catch up and not feel left behind, we'll have a new scoring method where we keep track of 'seasonal' winners: players who can earn the most points over the course of 3 months.
The next rotation period will occur on March 1rst, 2012.
Point System
4 Points [Guess a map within 24 hours of being posted]
2 Points [Guess a map within a week of being posted]
1 Point [Guess a map any later than a week after being posted]
2 Points [Bonus points for any trivia questions answered]
Two tallies will be kept, the traditional one for overall maps found and the seasonal score. The overall map score will remain cumulative for the life of this thread while the seasonal score will be reset every 3 months.
Here are the locations that have been the subjects of maps so far (A big thanks to Sourcandy for compiling this!)
Code:
Location Answered by Trivia
Google Headquarters (USA) minimag Solar Panels
Wellington City (New Zealand) Hellion Beehive
British Museum (London) coolking503 15 January 1759
Busch Stadium(Missouri) Hellion Gateway Arch
The Guggenheim(Spain) Neonsands Jeff Koons' Puppy and Tulips
Bern(Switzerland) Hellion Lindt and Toblerone
New Orleans Mintaka $1.50
San Francisco Hellion April 19 1937
Roosevelt Island Rayne 2 miles
Three Mile Island Mintaka 1979
Durban Hana™ Germany Vs Australia/Fifa 2010
Vitoria(Brazil) Mintaka Deputy Darcy Castelo of Mendonça
Munich Hana™ Allianz Arena
Iguazu Falls Hana™
Incheon International Airport Hellion
Pantheon Santa Maria della Rotonda Hana™ Assassin's Creed:Brotherhood
The Diomede Islands Hellion
Sydney Opera House JJM Danish
Lord's Cricket Ground MuddyMudkip Cricket
Lugou Bridge Hana™ Beijing/2008
Beijing, China Mintaka Zhang Yimou
Castel Sant'Angelo Derier44 Floria Tosca
Mount Everest Hana™ Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay
Epidaurus Hana™ Asclepius
Musée du Louvre Hana™ Ieoh Ming Pei
Lake Gordon/Lake Pedder Rayne Lake Pedder's Earthworm
Cape Canaveral Hana™ Cape of the Cane
The Nile Derier44
Abbey Road Hellion The Beatles
Taj Mahal Mintaka Mughal/Shah Jahan
Hershey Park Hana™
Central Park Exordia [URL="http://www.catcherintherye.info/photobank/map.png"] The Catcher In the Rye [/URL]
Arecibo Observatory Hana™ Ellie
Aswan dam Exordia The Nubian Monuments
Baghdad Exordia dira'a
Carrot Tower Tsuness April 26, 1989
Black Rock Desert Hana™ The Burning Man
Pico de Orizaba Mintaka
Sidney Exordia Tae Kwon Do/Trampolining
Toledo(Spain) Hellion Emiliano García-Page Sánchez
Topkapi Palace Exordia Melina Mercouri
Lisbon Portela Airport Hana™ 118.1 MHz
Mozambique Channel Mintaka Coelacanth
Wolfe Island Hana™
Genoa Exordia
St-Basil's Cathedral Hellion
Knossos Exordia Sir Arthur John Evans
Piazza Navona Exordia Innocent X
The Kremlin Tsuness 1990
Faneuil Hall Mintaka Larry "Legend" Bird
Mackinac Island Exordia
J. Edgar Hoover building Hellion FBI
The Palais Garnier Derier44 Rossini
Nintendo of America (USA) Mintaka Playing Cards
Blackpool Hellion
The Grand Bazaar Hana™
Liberty Island Buoysel. Statue of Liberty
Stonehenge Hana™
Area 51 Exordia The Ex-Files
Jefferson Memorial Mintaka University of Virginia
Cologne(Germany) Hana™ 1996
Tower of Pisa Exordia
National Air and Space Museum Mintaka Gyo Obata
Dubai Exordia
The White House Hellion
Tokyo Bay Santabomb
Shirakawa(Gifu) Hellion Hinamizawa
Place du Panthéon Exordia Patrick Bruel
Arc de Triomphe Pokemad
Easter Island Santabomb Dutch
Bamako and the Nile Sourcandy Bamako
Maracaibo, Venezuela Exordia Moon
Chicago Sourcandy
Niagara Falls Mintaka
Miami Exordia<table><tr><td><b>Players</b></td><td><b>Maps Guessed Right (Overall)</b></td><td><b>Points Earned (Winter 2012)</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Sourcandy</td><td>19</td><td>20</td></tr>
<tr><td>exordia</td><td>15</td><td>26</td></tr></tr>
<tr><td>Mintaka</td><td>15</td><td>17</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hellion</td><td>12</td><td>10</td></tr>
<tr><td>Derier44</td><td>3</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tsuness</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rayne</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Santabomb</td><td>2</td><td>8</td></tr>
<tr><td>Buoysel.</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>coolking503</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>J J M</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>mariowie</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr>
<tr><td>minimag</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Muddy Mudkip</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Neonsands</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pokemad</td><td>1</td><td>4</td></tr>
<tr><td>Guardian of Johto</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Zhwoobatte</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr></tr>
</table>
Previous Winners:
Summer 2011 edition: Hellion
Fall 2011 edition: Sourcandy
Winter 2012 edition: exordia
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