6 ways to play GeoGames

How to play

Cooperative team orientation: two or more teammates start apart in a city and must meet using only visual references and communication.

Roles

Key rules

• Two or more players on the same team start apart in Street View and must describe their surroundings to find each other.
• The host can configure minimum separation, maximum separation, meeting radius, time limit, and manual hints.
• The host chooses the victory condition: two teammates meeting can be enough, or the whole team can be required to meet.
• The key is good communication: street names, landmarks, shops, signs, intersections, direction of travel, and any recognizable reference.

How to play

Cooperative team rally: one person drives in Street View and another guides from the map to complete checkpoints.

Roles

Key rules

• The Driver moves in Street View; the Co-driver checks the map, checkpoints, and team position.
• Checkpoints can be completed in any order and count when the team enters the configured radius.
• The host can adjust the number of checkpoints, radius, maximum distance between objectives, initial separation, time, and hints.
• The team that best completes the route by combining clear communication, map reading, and efficient driving wins.

How to play

Asymmetric chase inside a bounded area: robbers flee while police coordinate the capture.

Roles

Key rules

• There must be at least one robber and one police officer. Robbers try to survive until time runs out without leaving the configured circle.
• Police must coordinate to locate robbers and enter the capture radius.
• Hints can temporarily reveal a robber’s position; traps immobilize them and make them visible if they pass nearby.
• It works best if police divide areas and block exits, while robbers use turns, parallel streets, and alternative routes to mislead them.

How to play

Individual orientation challenge: search for proximity-based objectives in Street View and improve your own record.

Roles

Key rules

• Each player competes against their own record: try to complete the challenge with less time, less distance, and more precision.
• Objectives are not always shown as direct markers: they are discovered by proximity when passing nearby.
• The host can configure the number of objects, detection radius, maximum distance, manual hints, and automatic hints. By default, there is no round time limit.
• The result serves as a personal record to compare attempts: completed objectives, distance traveled, time, and precision.

How to play

Hide and Seek with Street View: each player saves a location and then everyone tries to discover where the others hid.

Roles

Key rules

• The hiding phase starts in Street View: each player looks for a valid panorama, saves their hiding spot, and waits for the rest.
• Then everyone simultaneously tries to discover the active target’s hiding spot by marking the map.
• The host can configure rounds, maximum hiding time, discovery time, movement, rival visibility, and NMPZ.
• Scoring follows a GeoGuessr-style logic: the closer the mark is to the real hiding spot, the more points the player gets.

How to play

Geographic bingo: everyone receives the same configurable board and must save panoramas that prove they found each item.

Roles

Key rules

• The host can choose 2x2, 2x3, 3x3, or 3x4 size, plus Map or Street View Only view.
• Easy difficulty avoids specific flags and advanced meta clues; Hard uses the full deck; Manual lets the host edit each square before starting.
• The ending condition can be Full board, Line, or Time. In Time mode, completing the board does not end the game until the clock runs out.
• You may use a search engine to get a visual reference or understand what a word means, but not to look for a specific location, coordinates, streets or exact places where to find it.
• At the end, each marked location is voted on. The player who marked it cannot vote on their own mark. If Yes or No reaches a normal majority, the review closes without waiting for everyone; only a tie is decided by the host. If the host does not participate, the mark is accepted.