The San Francisco Waterfront Challenge, a new weekly “identify-the-photo” game, is giving prizes to waterfront-savvy locals and visitors. The challenge starts at noon on Wednesday, on April 20^th. The photo challenge is a celebration of San Francisco’s lively waterfront and a promotion for the San Francisco Waterfront website and mobile application.

Here’s how it works:

• Each Wednesday at noon for the next for six months, a photo taken somewhere along San Francisco’s waterfront, from the Golden Gate Bridge to AT&T Park, will be posted online at San Francisco Waterfront. SF Waterfront Challenge rules are on the website.
• The first person who identifies the location where the photo was taken wins that week’s prize. Answers must be emailed to challenge@sf-waterfront.com.

Sponsored by Knuckles at the Wharf/Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf, the Red and White Fleet, and Eclipse at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, the San Francisco Waterfront Challenge will award one prize each week. Prizes range from two free tickets for a Red and White Fleet Bay Cruise to free appetizers at the restaurants.

All photos used in the contest can also be found in the 5-star rated San Francisco Waterfront iPhone app, so that even people who have never set foot in the City by the Bay can participate.

Winners will be announced each week on the San Francisco Waterfront website.

England: Most regions (but specifically Cornwall, Devon, Kent, Cambridge, Oxford, Yorkshire, Bristol); London.

Wales: Cardiff.

Scotland: general country guide, and Glasgow.

Ireland: general country guide, and Dublin, Belfast, County Cork, County Wicklow, County Galway, County Kerry, Northern Ireland.

Norway: general country guide, and Oslo, Bergen, fjords.

Sweden: general country guide, and Stockholm.

Finland: general country guide, and Helsinki.

Denmark: general country guide, and Copenhagen.

Netherlands: general country guide, and Amsterdam.

Belgium: general country guide, and Bruges.

Germany: Bavaria, Rhine River Valley, Romantic Road, Black Forest, Dresden-Leipzig-Saxony.

Austria: general country guide.

Switzerland: general country guide, and Zurich, Gstaad, St Moritz, Davos-Klosters, the Alps.

Italy: general country guide, and Amalfi Coast, Emilia-Romagna, Abruzzi, the Italian Riviera & Cinque Terre, Ravenna, the Alps, Sicily & Palermo, Sardinia.

France: Normandy, Brittany, Limoges, Loire Valley, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Provence, Nice, Beaujolais, Lyon, Grenoble, the Rhone Valley, Dijon & Bourgogne, Reims, Champagne, Strasbourg & Alsace, Mont Blanc & the Alps, Corsica.

Spain: Granada, Cordoba, Toledo, Valencia, Madrid, Malaga & the Costa del Sol, Mallorca, Tenerife & the Canary Islands.

Portugal: general country guide, and Lisbon, Algarve, Porto & the wine region,

Greece: island chains; Mykonos, Santorini, Patmos, Naxos, Rhodes, Corfu, Kos, and Crete.

Hungary: Budapest

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Read the rest of Miller’s article on Salon.com.