GOOGLE Maps has launched a brand new “digital treasure hunt” for UK customers – and is making a gift of free film downloads to the winners.
Created on a bespoke Google Map, the sport challenges you to find and obtain movies across the UK from the consolation of your couch.
A brand new digital ‘treasure hunt’ allows you to uncover and obtain movies across the UK on Google MapsCredit score: Google
The films, which embody “The Idea of Every part” and “Atonement”, have been hidden as pins in areas referring to the place they had been set.
Google launched the map, accessible here, as a part of its advertising marketing campaign for the brand new Google Pixel 5G smartphone.
“With the nation in lockdown and plenty of new movie releases delayed till subsequent 12 months, there may be sanctuary to be present in reliving the pleasures of favorite movies,” Google stated in a press release.
The tech titan partnered with the British Movie Institute earlier this month to curate an inventory of fifty high rewatchable British movies from the previous 50 years.
The sport is accessible to play by a bespoke Google Map
A choice of Google’s favourites from this checklist have been hidden as pins in areas throughout the map.
To seek out them, search the map for customized pin icons in a location vital to every movie.
Faucet any movie within the backside tray for a touch that can assist you discover the pin.
For 4 Weddings and a Funeral, for instance, the clue reads: “Within the phrases of David Cassidy, when he was nonetheless with the Partridge Household, I feel I really like you. And I feel you may love this theatre.”
Google Earth – the important thing information
Here is what you have to know…
- Google Earth is a pc program that gives detailed views of Earth
- It renders a 3D illustration of Earth, largely based mostly on satellite tv for pc imagery
- The app first launched on June 11, 2001
- This permits customers to see cities and landscapes from totally different angles
- The app is accessible on computer systems and cell gadgets
- In accordance with Google, the Earth program covers greater than 98% of the world
- Google additionally claims to have captured greater than 10million miles of Avenue View imagery
This prompts you to scan to the placement of the movie’s iconic “I feel I really like you” scene – London’s Southbank.
If you happen to head there on the map, you may come throughout a pin within the form of a sheep – a recurring theme from the movie.
Google’s digital quiz runs from November 25 for 2 weeks till all of the symbols of every movie are revealed in December.
Movies and their corresponding clues might be added each three days over this time and the primary folks to seek out every pin will obtain a code, permitting them to hire the movie on Google Play.
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