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PBS News Hour - Segments

GeoGuessr star player Trevor Rainbolt's tips for success in the popular geography game

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A popular online geography game is taking players around the globe, one Google Street View image at a time. John Yang speaks with Trevor Rainbolt, perhaps the game's most famous player, for a look inside the world of GeoGuessr. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Finally tonight, a popular online geography game that takes players around the globe

0:06.1

one Google Street View image at a time.

0:09.8

Our own Puzzle Master John Yang has our look inside the world of Geogeser.

0:14.0

Would you believe that?

0:17.0

To those contexts at home, this is where we are right now.

0:20.0

Geogeses just found us.

0:25.0

At the second Geogeser World Cup in Stockholm,

0:27.5

players were virtually dropped at random spots around the world

0:31.3

and challenged to see how quickly they could identify the location.

0:35.5

Their clues were obscure details like signs, buildings, even the plants and trees.

0:41.0

The game has been described as incredibly addictive and the GeoGuesser site has tens of millions of player accounts.

0:48.0

You said that you in the general you, anyone could do this as fast as you can. I will disprove that right now.

0:55.0

I didn't say how long anyone could do it. I sat down for a round with perhaps the game's most famous player, Trevor

1:02.3

Rainbolt.

1:03.3

I'm going to put my reading glasses on for this.

1:05.6

I'm looking for road signs.

1:07.6

This looks European because of the crosswalk, the pedestrian sign.

1:11.8

We also have Birch trees, usuallych trees are kind of more colder climate in the north.

1:16.6

So, shame on me for not knowing my, uh,

1:21.6

flora. How does rainbolt play the game? All right, so round of one here, it looks

1:27.1

like it's gonna be Kurdistan. What told you it was Kurdistan? It looked like it.

1:30.8

That's Romanian. Looks like it's Eastern Romania. It looked generic to me and you said, oh, that looks like Romania.

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