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Puzzle#101

Geoguessr

Released: 2026-02-13

Google Street View Image
Country Flag

Romania

Lat: 45.02611466050701

Lng: 26.80850913447941

See on Google Street View


6
Models Tested
207.8km
Avg. Distance
4510.8
Avg. Score
6
LLM Providers

Key:

Attempt
Solution

Score Threshold:

>4400
>2000
<2000

meta-llama/llama-4-maverick

meta

Score: 4784

Distance: 88km

Lat: 45.02611466050701

Lng: 26.80850913447941


Reasoning:

The image appears to be a residential street scene with houses and a fence, suggesting a rural or suburban area. The style of the houses, with their pitched roofs and surrounding greenery, is consistent with Eastern European or Balkan architecture. The presence of a dirt yard and a simple metal gate also suggests a rural or semi-rural location. Based on these features, I am guessing that the location is in a country such as Romania or Bulgaria, possibly in a rural area near a city. The coordinates 44.433333, 26.066667 correspond to a location in Romania, near the city of Bucharest.


x-ai/grok-4-fast

x-ai

Score: 4274

Distance: 314km

Lat: 45.02611466050701

Lng: 26.80850913447941


Reasoning:

The image depicts a rural residential area with white plaster concrete block fences, wooden gates, red-tiled roofs on modest houses, mature trees, and a mix of asphalt road with dirt edges. This architecture and landscape are characteristic of Transylvania in Romania, particularly suburban or village areas near Cluj-Napoca. The utility poles and clear blue sky with cumulus clouds align with Central European summer conditions. Matching visual elements like the specific house shapes and fence design to Google Street View imagery points to this location.


anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5

anthropic

Score: 4423

Distance: 245km

Lat: 45.02611466050701

Lng: 26.80850913447941


Reasoning:

This image shows a rural Eastern European residential area with characteristics typical of Moldova or Romania. Key indicators include: 1) The architectural style of the houses with brick/concrete construction and metal roofing, 2) The unpaved/partially paved rural road with white road markings, 3) The wooden utility poles with power lines, 4) The rural settlement pattern with scattered houses behind fences, 5) The landscape with lush green vegetation and flat to gently rolling terrain, 6) The overall development level and infrastructure typical of rural Moldova/Eastern Romania. The house construction style, fence design, and road conditions are particularly characteristic of rural Moldova around the Ialoveni or similar districts north/northeast of Chișinău.


google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025

google

Score: 4713

Distance: 118km

Lat: 45.02611466050701

Lng: 26.80850913447941


Reasoning:

The architecture, particularly the two-story house with the wooden loft/balcony, the unfinished nature of the dwellings (grey/stucco concrete), and the distinct heavy, pre-cast modular concrete fence with decorative relief, are all highly characteristic features of rural and suburban areas in Romania (and some other parts of the Balkans/Eastern Europe). The rectangular concrete utility pole is also common in this region. The dry, dusty roadside environment and the presence of deciduous trees suggest a temperate climate, likely in the summer. Based overwhelmingly on the unique fencing style and housing construction, the location is confidently placed in Romania, specifically the southern plain (e.g., Giurgiu or Teleorman counties), which has many such low-density settlements.


openai/gpt-5-image-mini

openai

Score: 4298

Distance: 303km

Lat: 45.02611466050701

Lng: 26.80850913447941


Reasoning:

Rural Eastern European look — low single‑storey homes with red metal roofs, arched veranda, and decorative prefabricated concrete fence panels common in Romania/Moldova. Road edge marked with short white rectangles (typical on secondary roads in Romania/Moldova) and simple wooden utility poles with multiple wires. Dry summer vegetation and building styles match Moldovan villages around Orhei, so I place the image in a village near Orhei, Moldova (approx. 47.365, 28.820).


qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking

qwen

Score: 4573

Distance: 179km

Lat: 45.02611466050701

Lng: 26.80850913447941


Reasoning:

The architectural style of the house with wooden upper structure, stone fence, and rural road is characteristic of Romanian rural areas, particularly in Transylvania. The clear sky, vegetation, and road design align with typical conditions in regions like Sighișoara, Romania. Coordinates are estimated based on common street view locations in this area.


Methodology Note

Each model receives the same Google Street View image. Models are tasked with guessing the location of the image using only visual clues from the street view. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.

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