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Anyone doing this? My dad put me on to it a couple of weeks ago -
https://www.thetimes.com/puzzles/quizzes-and-tease...
I've just checked and you don't need a subscription. They publish a photograph, you have to guess the year and location the photo was taken from.
Quite often there's some good visual clues; an early Renault 5 in one of the pics allowed me to get within a year for the age, other times you can use google lens to get very close for the location - other times it gives you an obviously incorrect answer, while being adamant it's correct.
Quite fun.
Today - silver, 3 years and 200 odd miles out. Boo.
https://www.thetimes.com/puzzles/quizzes-and-tease...
I've just checked and you don't need a subscription. They publish a photograph, you have to guess the year and location the photo was taken from.
Quite often there's some good visual clues; an early Renault 5 in one of the pics allowed me to get within a year for the age, other times you can use google lens to get very close for the location - other times it gives you an obviously incorrect answer, while being adamant it's correct.
Quite fun.
Today - silver, 3 years and 200 odd miles out. Boo.
There is also the same type of game at: https://whentaken.com/
I've been playing it sporadically for 6 months or so, good coffee time distraction from work.
I've been playing it sporadically for 6 months or so, good coffee time distraction from work.
As was pointed out in the game black and white photos were the norm for newspapers until quite late in the 1980s so pictures will often appear “older” than they are. Cars and people’s clothes/hairstyles are good pointers.
It’s a fun game, sobering how scenes from the 1980s and 1990s look like they’re from another age which I suppose they are now. Must be getting old
I generally do OK apart from one howler where I thought Runcorn was New York…
I didn’t realise you don’t need a subscription to play so I’ve shared the link. Such a simple fun game…
It’s a fun game, sobering how scenes from the 1980s and 1990s look like they’re from another age which I suppose they are now. Must be getting old
I generally do OK apart from one howler where I thought Runcorn was New York…
I didn’t realise you don’t need a subscription to play so I’ve shared the link. Such a simple fun game…
1 year and 882 yards out - my best so far.
@JimmyJimJim - as you're regularly getting very close distances, are you spending a fair bit of time trying to track down the location?
I'm basically just making a guess based solely on the photo, which is why I've been very wrong on quite a few.
The year really helps when you've got several car registrations in the picture.
@JimmyJimJim - as you're regularly getting very close distances, are you spending a fair bit of time trying to track down the location?
I'm basically just making a guess based solely on the photo, which is why I've been very wrong on quite a few.
The year really helps when you've got several car registrations in the picture.
The other day I managed a diamond - 1 year and 6 yards away (Checkpoint Charlie), although needed google maps to find it.
Today another diamond - 7 years and 258 yards away without using any other tools - just guessing.
On other days some of my guesses have been quite a few years, and several hundred miles away though.
Today another diamond - 7 years and 258 yards away without using any other tools - just guessing.
On other days some of my guesses have been quite a few years, and several hundred miles away though.
C n C said:
The other day I managed a diamond - 1 year and 6 yards away (Checkpoint Charlie), although needed google maps to find it.
Today another diamond - 7 years and 258 yards away without using any other tools - just guessing.
On other days some of my guesses have been quite a few years, and several hundred miles away though.
Checkpoint Charlie was 2 years and 7 yards for me. Google maps for the location, guess for the date.Today another diamond - 7 years and 258 yards away without using any other tools - just guessing.
On other days some of my guesses have been quite a few years, and several hundred miles away though.
Today was 1 year and 49 yards, and proof that the person setting the vantage point is clearly wrong.
I've had the wrong continent once, aside from that, a couple hundred miles out was my next worst. 19 years was my worst for the date, though I was within 6 yards on that one....
9 years and 17 yards for the latest, diamond.
1 Bronze
2 Silver
3 Gold
27 Diamond
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