5 × 60s · Game mode
Classic mode: walk the streets, then pin it
Classic is the full Geo Heist experience. You drop into a 360° GTA V panorama, walk along connected street views and pin where you think you are. It suits new players learning the map and regulars chasing a weekly best in this GTA 5 GeoGuessr-style game.
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- Rounds
- 5
- Time per round
- 60s
- Movement
- Walk freely
- Camera
- Look around, zoom
- Formats
- Solo · private lobby
How a Classic round works
Each game has 5 rounds with 60 seconds on the clock. A round starts after a 3-second countdown, and loading the scene never eats into your minute. You can turn the camera, zoom in to read a sign or plate, and walk to connected locations wherever a path exists. Returning to your starting view is always available.
Place a pin on the map when you are ready and lock it in. If the clock runs out, your latest saved pin is settled for you at the deadline; if you never placed one, the round scores 0. Pressing Space submits a selected answer, or opens and closes the map when you have none yet.
How Classic is scored
Accuracy is worth up to 5,000 points and falls off smoothly with distance: 5000 × exp(-(d/2200)^1.6), where d is your error in GTA meters. A pin 500 m off still earns about 4,550 points, 1 km off about 3,770, and 2.2 km off about 1,840. Close is very good, and exact is only slightly better.
Manual guesses also earn a speed bonus of up to 10% of your accuracy points, shrinking linearly as the 60 seconds run down. An answer settled automatically at the deadline gets no bonus. The round total is rounded once, after everything is added, so a perfect and very fast guess can approach 5,500.
Solo, party and ranked play
Classic is available solo and in an invite party. Solo runs on the exact official settings with all 3 regions (Los Santos, Countryside and Mountains) count toward a rolling 7-day leaderboard, which ranks your best completed run by average points per round. Change any rule or drop a region and the game becomes Custom: saved in your history, but not ranked.
In a party everyone plays the same location, and the answer appears once all players have guessed or the clock runs out. Hosts can set Custom rules in the lobby, such as a limit on moves per round or a travel deduction that multiplies points by exp(-travelled meters / 5000).
Classic tips
Walk toward the nearest intersection first. Street signs, green freeway signs and shop names turn a hunch into a near-certain answer faster than anything else.
Read the vegetation. Tall palms and trimmed lawns point to the Los Santos basin, dry scrub and sand to the Grand Senora Desert, and dense pines to Paleto Bay and the slopes of Mount Chiliad.
Use the skyline. If the Downtown towers are visible, their size and direction tell you roughly how far you are from the city center.
Once you know the neighborhood, pin it. Walking another 30 seconds to gain 100 meters usually costs more speed bonus than the accuracy you win back.
Let water anchor you. Sand beaches and piers suggest Vespucci or Del Perro, a concrete channel is the Los Santos River, and a large inland lake is almost always the Alamo Sea.
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