CSGeoguesser — the rules, the math, the landmarks.

Difficulty multipliers

Tighter time → smaller margin for misclicks → bigger payoff when you nail it. The multiplier applies to each round’s score before being added to the running total.

Spot these and you can’t miss the callout.

• Dust 2

  Mécanique Générale

  Cyan-painted shutter at T-spawn going Long. Always Outside Long — you can see it from spawn before the round starts.

• Dust 2

  Tabac

  Blue-on-cream "TABAC" stamp on a corrugated shutter. T spawn area, near the long-side gate.

• Dust 2

  Ayman Adam Cyber Club

  Blue + yellow graffiti reading "CYBER CLUB" with an arrow. Points away from A-site under the platform — you're Under A.

• Dust 2

  Internet Cyber

  Blue cartoon man at a desktop above "CYBER" in stylized blue. Short stairs leading up to A short.

• Dust 2

  Lipstick mural

  Red lipstick mark on a corrugated shutter. Top of mid CT-side — the "dental clinic" wall.

• Dust 2

  Rue de la Kasbah

  Blue street sign with "Rue de la Kasbah" in white. Bombsite B near the back wall.

FAQ

• Why is part of the screenshot dimmed?

  CS2 renders an in-game radar circle in the top-left of every screen plus a callout text label below it ("Mid Doors", "Outside Long", etc.) — both leak the answer for free. We mask that ~26%×30% region with a dark gradient + small "HUD hidden" tag so the puzzle stays a puzzle. The rest of the screenshot — the actual scene — is untouched.

• I clicked exactly where the player is on the radar but the answer dot is far off?

  Spot coordinates are hand-tuned to match the standalone radar PNG, and tuning errors happen. Visit /csgeo/dust2/calibration/ to see every answer dot overlaid on the map at once — if a label sits where the wrong building is, drop a note via /about/#contribute with the spot id and which direction it should move.

• How is the score calculated?

  Each round you click on the minimap; we measure the Euclidean distance between your guess and the answer position (both in 0–1 normalized minimap coordinates). The base score is 1000 × e^(-7.5 × distance) — exponential decay, so a perfect click is 1000, half-map distance is ~30, and full-map is ~0. Difficulty multiplier (0.7× / 1.0× / 1.5× / 2.0×) applies on top.

• What's "Daily mode"?

  Daily mode picks the same 5 locations for every player who plays today. The seed is the YYYY-MM-DD UTC date passed through FNV-1a → mulberry32. So you can compare your score to friends without coordinating which spots — they got the same set.

• Why does the timer matter?

  Each round has a per-difficulty time limit. At 0:00 we auto-submit whatever guess you have (or 0 if you haven't placed one). Tighter time settings carry a bigger score multiplier — you take more risk for more reward.

• Does multiplayer work cross-device?

  Not yet. v1 uses BroadcastChannel which only syncs across tabs on the same device — open this page in two tabs to playtest. Cross-device WebSocket lands when we deploy a Node socket backend; the client protocol is already typed and ready (RoomMessage events).

• How do I add my own screenshots?

  Drop in-game screenshots at /apps/public-tools/public/screenshots/<map>/, add a real CS2 minimap PNG at /public/minimaps/<map>.webp, and append entries to data/cs2-locations.ts with normalized 0–1 minimap coords. The /csgeo/<map>/ page lights up automatically when 5+ locations exist.

• Where are my best scores saved?

  localStorage on this device only. Per-map best scores at cs2apps:csgeo-best, per-location best rounds at cs2apps:csgeo-location-pb, daily streak at cs2apps:csgeo-streak. Nothing leaves your browser.

All CSGeoguesser surfaces

The full feature set in one place. See /csgeo/index/ for an exhaustive site map including every spot permalink.