Have you ever ever dreamed of enjoying GeoGuessr in actual life? Properly, maintain on to your hats, as a result of the brand new actuality present Vacation spot X (airing within the US and the UK) is an interactive geoguessing sport which you could really play your self – proper from your personal dwelling.
In Vacation spot X, contestants are whisked away on a bus with blacked-out home windows, dropped at secret areas throughout Europe, and challenged to unravel cryptic clues to determine precisely the place they’re. It’s half journey journey, half thriller, and half geography problem – and right here’s the most effective bit: you possibly can take part on-line.
The Vacation spot X Recreation enables you to play alongside in actual time. You’ll sort out geography quiz questions, and with each right reply, your guessing space on an interactive map shrinks by 100 kilometers. Then, you’ll get a GeoGuessr-style picture clue of a well-known European landmark. Determine it, and your search zone narrows once more.
A brand new Vacation spot X Recreation is launched for every episode, difficult you to establish that episode’s location. When you play whereas an episode airs, you possibly can even earn a particular “LIVE” badge by discovering the placement earlier than the contestants do.
To play Vacation spot X, you’ll have to check in to the BBC’s iPlayer – so that you have to be a UK TV licence payer to play.
I feel it additionally helps to look at the present whereas enjoying. I attempted the sport with out having seen the episode, and though I answered each quiz query accurately and recognized the landmark, my guessing circle nonetheless coated half of Europe. With out the additional context from the present itself, it was just about not possible to pinpoint final night time’s location. Presumably if I had watched the present I might have had many extra clues to assist me in my quest.
