{"id":3699,"date":"2012-02-20T22:53:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galacticmuffin.net\/day17\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:56:31","slug":"mapcrunch-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.galacticmuffin.net\/day17\/2012\/02\/mapcrunch-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapcrunch game"},"content":{"rendered":"

So last night on tumblr I saw a post that said the following:<\/p>\n

\n HEY TUMBLR, LET\u2019S PLAY A GAME<\/strong><\/p>\n

To play this game, go to MapCrunch<\/a>, select \u201chide location\u201d, make sure you have all countries unselected, and click go. What this will do is drop you in a random part of the world. It\u2019s as if you woke up on the side of a road in an unfamiliar country. The goal of the game is to find your way to an airport so you can return home. <\/p>\n

Bonus Hard Mode:<\/strong> No using outside sources, and that includes using google maps to figure out your location from signs or landmarks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought it might be fun so I thought I’d have a go. My first starting point was this:
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Took me about 10 mins of clicking to find my first sign but it was about a service stop in a language I didnt recognise. A while later I found another one.
\nI did use wikipedia to look up cities and later to check locations of airports in the countries I was in to try and help guide me a little.
\nI found a sign in the opposite direction from where I was headed that said Bucuresti which I figured meant Bucharest. So I was in Romania. When i checked a list of airports in the country…the direction i had been heading seemed to have the closer airport, so I kept heading that way.
\nYou can see I started off in quite a rural area so just imagine how much clicking down a motorway it would take to get to a city. I got bored a lot of times but was still popping over to the window with Mapcrunch right up until 2:30am or so when the electricity in my apartment block went out…AGAIN!
\nSo I went to sleep. <\/p>\n

When I got home from work today HEAPS of peeps I follow are playing this on Tumblr….and there is loads of jokes going around. Its AWESOME!<\/p>\n

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So my second attempt when I got home from work landed me here:
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Nice view but what the fuck is that thing up on the wire. Someone else was also landed in the same spot and posted a cropped version of it.
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Anyways I quickly established I was in Mexico….I randomly followed a sign and was sporadically clicking along a road for AGES (we are talking hours..while i was checking out new posts on tumblr) till I found some signage for towns and realised there was actually an airport closer to where i started so i turned around and headed back.<\/p>\n

FINALLY just a lil while ago i came across a sign saying aeropuerto!<\/p>\n

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*click click* a bit more and i came to the airport. I refuse to try and figure out whether I was in domestic or international. DUDE – I was at an airport – i will fly to a bigger international one if i have to to escape! I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO!!!<\/p>\n

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Fun times. Now can I be bothered to try again?????<\/p>\n

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