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Am I the only person here who had no idea what Epcot was? [[Special:Contributions/203.206.118.14|203.206.118.14]] 02:21, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 
Am I the only person here who had no idea what Epcot was? [[Special:Contributions/203.206.118.14|203.206.118.14]] 02:21, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
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:Go here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epcot EPCOT]--[[Special:Contributions/145.253.244.103|145.253.244.103]] 06:49, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Not only have Statue of liberty lots of replicas, also the original is in Paris. On the other hand, I don't suppose you can mistake the original with New York replica give the size difference. -- Hkmaly (talk) 08:17, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure where you're getting that from, but the original Statue of Liberty is the one in New York. It was assembled in paris, but not as a copy of any prior existing sculpture. -- Zuffelnok (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Here is a list of replicas: Replicas of the Statue of Liberty. So it seems the original is that one in New York.--Dgbrt (talk) 18:33, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
In the Jardin du Luxembourg section of that page it states that it is the 'first' that the artist used as a model for the full size version in New York, this is probably what Hkmaly is referring to. lcarsos_a (talk) 20:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
There were models before that statue was build. But no one was big as the present to the United States. Nevertheless it's correct, the first one is not standing at NYC. And without that statue at NYC we all would not know it.--Dgbrt (talk) 21:44, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

So by being in the same country you get a few thousand points. But, then I got an easy one because the street view showed a restaurant called Vila Cha, and sure enough TripAdvisor took me to Vila Cha in Campos Do Jordao in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I double checked in a separate tab the street view of the area, and I hit the point 0.023km off, and got "only" 6477 points. For the difficulty of the game, I'd think you'd get 5 digit scores for that at least. Uctriton00 (talk) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC) uctriton00

I got the point 4 meters off, and only got about 6.5k points. --DiEvAl (talk) 20:13, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

"if you recognize Japanese characters on a sign, the nation of Japan actually encompasses an enormous area, so unless you can recognize a specific region, there's no obvious place to guess where you can hope to get high points. (Unlike somewhere like England, where guessing London is guaranteed to put you within reasonable distance from a global perspective.)" -- Japan is about three times as big as England, so I wouldn't say that Japan is "enormous" in comparison. Furthermore, since the part about Japan refers to recognition of Japanese characters, this would be equivalent to connecting signs in English to England, which apparently is not the most obvious conclusion. Jolindbe (talk) 19:26, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Nation != Country. I once had an island somewhere in the Indian Ocean where everything was in Japanese. I don't remember what it was called though. --DiEvAl (talk) 20:13, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

"For every famous object, there are countless replicas, and the vast majority of famous objects (...) exist in only one place in the world".  ??? Someone might need to clarify the meaning here, as this reads as self-contradictory to me. Also, can I guess Legoland Windsor as being (very inaccurately) half way between Billund and wherever the California one is? ;) 178.99.247.73 20:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Actually, if people quit building replicas, Cueball's score would stay the same. To actually make his score higher, people would have to go and actually destroy some replicas, or wait for them to fall into ruin. All of this assumes that Cueball isn't getting any better with practice, and isn't playing often enough to where he's actually seen the replicas enough to recognize them... 76.26.147.222 04:35, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Am I the only person here who had no idea what Epcot was? 203.206.118.14 02:21, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Go here EPCOT--145.253.244.103 06:49, 23 May 2013 (UTC)