How much for a house like this?

How good are you at guessing the value of a house based purely on its curb appeal? Well, now you can find out with my new daily challenge Street View game - Curb Value.

Each day, Curb Value loads a new set of real homes currently on the market. For every property, you’re shown a static Street View image, a frozen snapshot of the house captured by Google’s cameras. Based on what you see from the curb, your mission is to guess the home’s listing price.

You have five attempts to get within 5% of the correct price. After each guess, the game tells you whether to guess higher or lower. You’ll lose a star for each incorrect attempt, and if you miss all five, the true value is revealed along with details like the home’s location, number of bedrooms, and listing agent.

Each new property links directly to its Google Maps Street View location, so you can explore the neighborhood for yourself. One click takes you from the static image in the game straight to the interactive panorama in Google Maps - perfect for anyone who loves virtual house-hunting or geographic sleuthing.

The Mapping Behind the Game

Under the hood, Curb Value pulls property data from the TripGeo Rentcast API. Each listing includes coordinates, a Google Street View panorama ID, and a directional heading. These are used to generate a static Street View image via TripGeo’s own image API - which ensures quick loading and consistent presentation.

Because the properties refresh daily, there’s always a new challenge waiting! 

Battleships!

Curb Appeal isn't the only new game featuring on TripGeo. You can now also play the classic strategy game Battleships. Battleships is a timeless strategy game where two players face off in an intense naval battle. The objective is simple: be the first to sink all of your opponent's ships!

Obviously Battleships is outside the usual TripGeo remit of geography/map based games. The game was developed as a proof-of-concept project, using WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) for direct browser-to-browser connections. Meaning that two players can play against each other from anywhere in the world.

Keep an eye on TripGeo for some more multiplayer projects in the very near future!