Photo Questions
Photo questions follow the format, “Send me a photo of _____.” Valid answers are a photo that meets the full specifications of the photo question, or “I cannot answer the question,” in situations where the subject of the photograph doesn’t exist in the hiding zone. Hiders have ten minutes to answer in small and medium games, and twenty minutes to answer in large games. All photos must be sent in your phone’s normal aspect ratio. Photos are a useful way of getting a general sense of where the hider is, or for verifying that you’ve arrived at the right location, but you cannot use Google Street View to assess photos or verify stations from afar.
These are the photo questions available to seekers in small sized games:
Section titled “These are the photo questions available to seekers in small sized games:”Any Building Visible from Transit Station
Section titled “Any Building Visible from Transit Station”Must stand directly outside a station entrance. If there are multiple entrances, you may choose. Must include roof and both sides, with the top of the building in the top ⅓ of the frame.
Widest Street
Section titled “Widest Street”Must include both sides of the street; does not have to include background.
Must include the entire tree.
Tallest Structure In Your Current Sightline
Section titled “Tallest Structure In Your Current Sightline”This is the tallest building from your perspective, not the objectively tallest building. If you can see the Burj Khalifa miles and miles away, but a nearby apartment building is taller from your perspective/sightline, you would send the apartment building.
Must include top and both sides. The top must be in the top ⅓ of the frame.
Selfie mode. Phone perpendicular to ground, arm fully extended, using your phone’s default lens with no zoom.
The Sky
Section titled “The Sky”Place phone on ground, shoot directly up using your phone’s default lens with no zoom.
For medium and large sized games, add the following:
Section titled “For medium and large sized games, add the following:”Tallest Building Visible from Transit Station
Section titled “Tallest Building Visible from Transit Station”This is the tallest building from your perspective, not the objectively tallest building. If you can see the Burj Khalifa miles and miles away, but a nearby apartment building is taller from your perspective/sightline, you would send the apartment building.
Must stand directly outside a station entrance. If there are multiple entrances, you may choose. Must include roof and both sides, with the top of the building in the top ⅓ of the frame.
In general, the transit station itself cannot count as the tallest building visible from the transit station. The exception would be atop the transit station is a tall building whose purpose is unrelated to the transit station. For example, atop Grand Central Station is the MetLife building. This would count as the tallest building visible from the transit station.
Trace Nearest Street/Path
Section titled “Trace Nearest Street/Path”Street/path must be visible on mapping app; trace intersection to intersection.
This can be a little tricky to do; we have a few methods. One is to screenshot this on your phone, then use the drawing tools on your phone’s photo editing app to black out everything but the street. Another is to put a piece of paper over your phone and trace it with a pen/pencil/marker.
2 Buildings
Section titled “2 Buildings”Must include bottom and up to four stories.
Restaurant Interior
Section titled “Restaurant Interior”No zoom. Must take the picture through the window from the outside of the restaurant.
No zoom, phone perpendicular to ground. Must stand 5 feet (1.5 meters) from any obstruction.
Grocery Store Aisle
Section titled “Grocery Store Aisle”No zoom. Stand at the end of the aisle, shoot directly down.
Place of Worship
Section titled “Place of Worship”Must include a 5’ x 5’ (1.5m²) section with three distinct elements. The litmus test for the distinct elements is: if someone went to that place and found what you took a picture of, they could confidently match it, and be sure it wasn’t taken somewhere else.
Train Platform
Section titled “Train Platform”Must include a 5’ x 5’ (1.5m²) section with three distinct elements. The litmus test for the distinct elements is: if someone went to that place and found what you took a picture of, they could confidently match it, and be sure it wasn’t taken somewhere else.
For large sized games, add the following
Section titled “For large sized games, add the following”½ Mile of Streets Traced
Section titled “½ Mile of Streets Traced”Must be continuous, include 5 turns, with no doubling back. Send north-south oriented. Streets must appear on the mapping app.
As mentioned before, this can be a little tricky to do; we have a few methods. One is to screenshot this on your phone, then use the drawing tools on your phone’s photo editing app to black out everything but the street. Another is to put a piece of paper over your phone and trace with a pen/pencil/marker.
Tallest Mountain Visible from Transit Station
Section titled “Tallest Mountain Visible from Transit Station”Tallest from your perspective/sightline. If you could see Mount Everest many many miles away, but another nearby mountain looks taller from your perspective, you would send the nearby mountain.
Max 3x zoom; top of mountain must be in top ⅓ of the frame.
The Biggest Body of Water in Your Zone
Section titled “The Biggest Body of Water in Your Zone”Max 3x zoom. Must include either both sides of the body of water or the horizon. If a body of water is visible from the hider’s zone, but no part of it touches the zone, it does not count. However, if a large body of water partially touches the hider’s zone, but the part of it inside the zone is smaller than another body of water in the zone, the larger overall body of water would still be considered the largest in the zone.
5 Buildings
Section titled “5 Buildings”Must include bottom and up to four stories.
After a photo question has been answered, the hider may draw 1 card and keep 1.