A popular online geography game is taking players around the globe, one Google Street View image at a time. John Yang speaks with Trevor Rainbolt, perhaps the game’s most famous player, for a look ...

GeoGuessr is an internet phenomenon with a very simple premise: you’re dropped somewhere and you need to figure out where you are. The closer you get to the target location, the more points you get.

The panic starts to set in. The other four states in his GeoGuessr run went smoothly. So much so, in fact, that Gavin, more commonly known as Chicago Geographer, was a few minutes ahead of his desired ...