# o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data

<https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-28-can-o3-beat-a-geoguessr-master>

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## What Jamie wrote

Geoguessing is an interesting game that I first heard about from Tyler. Take a photo, a simple plain photo, anywhere in the world and the person sees how close they can get to figuring out where it was taken. [Geoguessr](https://www.geoguessr.com) allows you to play and compare yourself to other players. Many of them do this on YouTube so you can follow along how they "think about" figuring this out. 

So how would an LLM do with this challenge? It turns out pretty darn interesting, and just like the players on YouTube who talk through the problem you can watch the LLM work through it. It is amazing how close o3 is able to get to the guess that the expert makes. Related [Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/)

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