Although there’s nothing quite like strolling the streets of a foreign city, the pandemic has given rise to creative new ways of escaping. One of them is a free browser-based geography game called City Guesser you can play by yourself or with friends.
You’re presented with a full-screen video (including sound) of a random city somewhere in the world. The video, usually filmed by someone walking, takes you on a tour of the city as you try to gather clues about where you are. You can keep track of how many countries you correctly identify and how accurate you are in pinpointing the exact location where the video was filmed.
Currently, City Guesser features more than 50 countries and is still expanding. (There are guidelines for submitting your own video.) It’s a great way to temporarily escape the boredom of home while also challenging your knowledge of the world.
Confession: I spent way too much time playing this. I killed at Europe (60 for 60!), did great at Asia and Monuments…and scored way more poorly at USA than I should have.
And I’m sorry, but a lot of Canadian cities look the same.
