Geo Guessr

Geo Guessr is the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure daily for people who like maps. Each day you get five anime screenshots, and for each one you drop a pin on a map of the real world where you think the scene is set. JoJo is unusual among long-running anime in how closely it follows real places, from foggy England and the streets of New York to Cairo, Venice, Naples and a small town in Japan that stands in for Sendai.

Every round is scored out of 5,000 by the distance in kilometres between your pin and the real place, so a full voyage is worth 25,000. For wide areas such as a desert or a country the margin is generous, for a city it is tight. There are three difficulty tiers, each with its own five pictures, and everyone gets the same voyage on the same day.

Pick a difficulty and look at the screenshot. Tap the world map to place your pin, drag to pan and pinch or scroll to zoom. Some areas, such as Italy, Egypt, Japan, England, New York, Mexico, Switzerland and Florida, let you open a region view for a closer look, and the World map button takes you back out. Press Lock in to see the real place and your score.

You get one voyage a day for each tier. A new one starts at midnight UTC, and signed-in players appear on the daily leaderboard.

Start with the part of the story. Part 1 is Victorian England, Part 2 moves through New York, Mexico, Rome, Venice and the Swiss Alps, Part 3 travels from Japan across Asia to Egypt, Part 4 stays in Morioh, Part 5 is Italy from Naples to Sardinia, and Part 6 is Florida. Naming the part usually halves the map.

Then read the scenery. Brick terraces and gas lamps point to England, skyscrapers and elevated trains to New York, canals and stone arcades to Venice, ruins and cypresses to Rome or Pompeii, pagodas and shopfronts to Hong Kong or Singapore, sand and sandstone to Egypt or Arabia, swamp and highways to Florida. Signs, vegetation and the light of the sky help narrow it further.

When a region view is available, use it. Zoom in before you commit, because a pin on the right coast of Italy can still be hundreds of kilometres off a city like Naples or Venice. If you are unsure between two places, pin between them rather than gambling on a far corner of the map.