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Town
Hunt

Guess the town from Google Street View

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Free and open source. No account, no ads, no API key. One HTML file that runs in any modern browser.

Town Hunt on a TV: a Street View road with four green highway-sign answers, Valliant, Idabel, Atoka and Hugo, plus a yellow Auto pick sign

Sam is up. Alex already locked in a secret guess.

How it works

Three miles to a winner

Get dropped in

Street View puts you on a random street in a real town. Every game picks fresh spots, so it never plays the same twice.

Look around

Drag to look, click the road to walk, read the signs and license plates. Stuck on a dull field? Jump to a new street in the same town.

Lock it in

Each player secretly picks one of four towns. Then the reveal shows where you were, who got it, and a map of the spot.

Auto pick

Can't decide? Spin for it.

Hit the yellow Auto pick sign and a roulette spins across the four towns, slows down, and locks one in for you. Turn on the shot clock and it fires by itself when time runs out.

Can't pick game settings either? Surprise me spins through the town packs and rolls the rest.

The Auto pick roulette highlighting one of the four town signs in yellow

The reveal

Where were we?

After both of you lock in, you see the real town and the street address, who said what, and a map. A right answer is 100 points. Three right in a row starts a hot streak worth +25 a round.

The reveal card showing the answer town on a green sign, each player's guess, points and a map

Shot clock

30 or 60 seconds a turn. The bar drains, it beeps in the last five, then the game picks for you.

Twist rounds

Foggy Morning, Night Drive, Upside Down, Old Postcard and Tunnel Vision. Each one is worth +50.

50/50 lifeline

One per game, only when you're picking second. Knocks out two wrong towns.

Double-points final

The last round counts double, so nobody's out of it until the end.

Awards

Sharpshooter, Hot Streak, Clutch, Twist Tamer, Auto-Pilot, and Scenic Route if nobody gets one.

All-time record

The game remembers your head-to-head wins on that computer, so the rivalry carries over.

Two ways to play

Rivals or road-trip buddies

End screen: Alex wins 875 to 740, with brown award signs for Sharpshooter, Hot Streak, Clutch, Twist Tamer and Auto-Pilot
Head to Head

Take turns, keep score

5, 10 or 15 rounds. You alternate who picks first, guesses stay hidden until you've both locked in, and the final round counts double.

Road Trip mode: the scoreboard shows 7 towns cleared, two of three spare tires left and 4,210 miles driven
Road Trip

Team up, don't get stranded

Agree on one answer together. Every wrong guess is a flat tire, and three flats ends the trip. Count the towns you clear and the miles you drive, then try to beat your best trip.

Where you'll drive

136 towns in four packs

Every town was checked for Google Street View coverage. On Hard, the wrong answers are towns near the right one.

28 towns

Red River Country

Small towns of Southeast Oklahoma, North Texas and Southwest Arkansas. Hugo or Antlers? Good luck.

32 towns

All Over Oklahoma

From Guymon in the Panhandle to Tahlequah in Green Country.

44 towns

Coast to Coast

Famous US towns: Key West, Sedona, Deadwood, Bar Harbor, Marfa, Juneau and more.

32 towns

Around the World

Big cities on six continents, from Reykjavík to Cape Town to Kyoto.

Built for the TV

Couch to couch

Big type and big signs you can read from across the room. Plug a laptop into the TV, open the game in Chrome or Edge, and press F for full screen.

Play with a mouse, a keyboard, or a TV remote: arrow keys move between the signs and OK picks. Clicking into Street View sends the keys to Google; picking any answer takes them back.

1–4Pick a town
AAuto pick
HHint: shows the state or country
L50/50 lifeline
NNew street in the same town
Q ETurn left / right
M FSound on/off, full screen

Open source

Run it yourself

The whole game is one file, play.html, with no build step and no server. MIT licensed: copy it, change it, share it.

Just play

Open the hosted game. Nothing to install.

Keep a copy

Download play.html from GitHub and double-click it. It works offline from your disk, as long as the computer is online for Street View.

Add your towns

Fork the repo, add your hometown to the PACKS table, and run node tools/check-towns.mjs to confirm it has Street View. Pull requests welcome.

Grab the remote.

Start driving