Pinpoint (Tages-Anzeiger)
Find the day's place from its surroundings, GeoGuessr style.
Every day: A daily GeoGuessr-style game for everyone: find the location from its surroundings. New puzzle: Daily.
Pinpoint is the Tages-Anzeiger's daily geography game in the style of GeoGuessr. You look at the surroundings of a place and work out where it is, the same challenge for every reader each day.
About Pinpoint (Tages-Anzeiger)
Pinpoint is the newest game on the Tages-Anzeiger's games page, made for geography fans and billed as GeoGuessr online. The app describes it simply: find the location from its surroundings.
You study the scene for clues such as landscape, buildings and signs, then place your guess, and see how close you came.
It is one of the Tages-Anzeiger's daily games, collected under TA Spiele in the browser and in the paper's app, alongside Wortsuche, Pinpoint, Flow, Bimaru, the sudoku and the crossword. Each game has an archive of earlier days.
It suits players who enjoy GeoGuessr-style games, with a Swiss newspaper's daily twist.
How to play Pinpoint (Tages-Anzeiger)
- Open today's Pinpoint.
- Study the surroundings for clues.
- Place your guess on the map.
- See how close you were.
Tips
- Look at architecture and vegetation first.
- Language on signs narrows the region.
- Use the archive to practise.
Questions
Is it like GeoGuessr?
Yes, it is a GeoGuessr-style game.
Is it new every day?
Yes.
Is it free?
Yes.
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GeoGuessr
The game Pinpoint is modelled on
Wortsuche (Tages-Anzeiger)
The Tages-Anzeiger daily word game
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