About MapsGuessr
MapsGuessr is a geography guessing game built around observation, exploration and competition.
Each round places you somewhere in the world using real-world Street View imagery. Your task is to study the environment, identify geographic clues and place your guess on the world map.
Explore the world
Roads, architecture, landscapes, road markings, signs, languages, vegetation and infrastructure can all provide clues about where you are.
MapsGuessr turns those clues into a simple challenge: explore the location, decide where you think you are, and make your guess.
Distance determines your score
After each guess, MapsGuessr compares your selected position with the actual location. The closer your guess is, the higher your round score.
At the end of the game, scores from all rounds are combined into your final result.
Several ways to play
Solo
Practice geography at your own pace and improve your ability to recognize places around the world.
Quick Match
Compete against another MapsGuessr player in a shared geography challenge. Both players receive the same locations, making each match a direct test of geographic knowledge and observation.
Private games
Create a private room and invite friends using a room code. Everyone plays the same locations and competes on the same leaderboard.
Built for fair competition
Multiplayer scoring, round timing and game results are determined by the MapsGuessr server rather than by the browser.
This keeps players synchronized and helps ensure that everybody competes under the same game rules.
About the project and its guides
MapsGuessr brings solo practice, private rooms and ranked matches together in a geography game. The guides explain its controls and location selection, and offer exercises for reading clues. Teaching examples are labeled so you can distinguish them from actual game results.
Found an unclear instruction or an incorrect explanation? Send the page address and the detail that needs checking to the maintainer. Reports about failed rounds are especially useful when they include the time, game mode and device.
How to use the field guides
The learning pages focus on decisions you can practice: what a sign actually tells you, how your viewing direction changes left and right, and which observations distinguish nearby map locations. Exercises include an answer and an explanation of the rejected alternatives.
Invented place names and original diagrams are labeled as teaching examples. They do not document real game results or promise that a place is in the location pool. Scoring examples describe the game's current distance rule. A plausible clue is presented with its limits so you can test the reasoning rather than memorize an unsupported certainty.
Start with the practice path. If an explanation is unclear or does not match what happens in a round, use the contact below and include the page or game mode.
Contact the maintainer
For questions, bug reports or feedback about MapsGuessr, email nasserelb10@gmail.com. For a game problem, include the game mode, your browser and what happened. Do not send your password or sign-in codes.