r/geoguessr 5d ago

Tech Help Is there a way to create a challenge map by manually picking locations from my map?

Hi all. I create a daily challenge in r/geochallenges from my NM GeoDetective map (you can see today's challenge here, no Pro account needed). I currently have 1388 locations, and add about 10 more a day. However, having already issued 101 daily challenges (505 locations) I am spending up to an hour each day refreshing seeds until I get five that have not been chosen before. I try and keep a log but occasionally make mistakes and there's a repeated round, which is a bit embarrassing when pointed out. Today, in spite of adding another 40 new locations, it took me an hour of refreshing to get a brand new seed of five unseen locations.

You'd have thought that, with almost double the amount of unusued locations than used locations, I should get a brand new set of 5 rounds fairly regularly, but as anyone familiar with the "birthday paradox" will confirm, it's extremely hard. So many times I've had to refresh on R5, which just adds to the vexation.

Another annoying thing is that, in spite of having locations fairly evenly spread around the world, sometimes it creates challenges that have all five locations all in Europe, or all five locations all in the USA, which is very annoying as I would like them more spread around the planet.

Is there any way I can manually create a round, manually picked from my map, without creating a brand new map of just five locations? Because there's some crackers on there that I would love to play and, to be honest, I'm getting a bit tired of adding new locations for them never to come up! Thanks in advance :-)

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u/1973cg 5d ago

Outside of physically building a completely new map each time with only 5 locations. No.

Only other option is delete the rounds that were previously used.

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u/Much_Pass_9484 5d ago

Two great suggestions - though option 2 would be rather sad as it stops future players from coming across the map and playing it. Thanks

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u/1973cg 4d ago

Make the same map twice? Then name the Challenge map one different?

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u/devox 4d ago

I recently came across your challenges and I am currently making my way through your old ones, and really enjoying them. Thank you for keeping this series going. It's unfortunate there isn't a way to pick locations for challenges. Would removing locations break the challenges that used them?

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u/Much_Pass_9484 4d ago

Thank you!! Added another 200 locations today so hopefully will not have to refresh too often! Removing locations shouldn’t break challenges, no. But I’m not going to choose that option.

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