“This man needs to work for the CIA”: Fans react as Geoguessr pro Rainbolt finds secret NYC pizza spot locals tried to gatekeep

Some people use Google Maps to find their way to the grocery store. Rainbolt uses it to track down a pizza joint in New York that locals were desperate to keep hidden.

The Geoguessr wizard is back at it again, but this time not with flags, road signs, or foreign alleyways, but with a slice of New York’s best-kept pizza secret. And yes, he found it using just a few visual clues and what we assume is a sixth sense trained by years of extreme online sleuthing.

Geoguessr pro Rainbolt cracks NYC pizza mystery

It all started when a New Yorker posted a photo of a “10/10” pizza slice from a mysterious spot, carefully avoiding any clues about its location. The reason? He didn’t want the place to blow up like his last favorite spot, thanks to Dave Portnoy’s viral review.

Enter Rainbolt. The man saw the challenge, squinted at the pixels, zoomed into blurry brickwork, and boom, challenge accepted. What followed was nothing short of detective work that would make Sherlock Holmes order a pie in celebration.

Using just the photo and some vague background context, Rainbolt pieced together the location. Within no time, he revealed the exact pizza joint. Internet: shocked. Locals: slightly devastated. Pizza: probably still delicious.

The original post wasn’t even meant to be a puzzle. The local just wanted to flex a secret favorite without setting off a tourist stampede. But the internet had other plans, especially once Rainbolt got involved.

People were in awe of his digital detective skills. Others couldn’t get over how casual he made it all seem. Some users joked that the man could easily land a job at the CIA or FBI with those abilities.

A user summed up the mood:

“This man can earn a fortune working as a secret agent for FBI/CIA.”

Another chimed in:

“That dude is freakishly good at doing that.”

And of course, the internet never misses a chance to roast, joke, and side-eye:

“Bro look like an android from a phone game.”

Not everyone was sold on the pizza itself, though. One skeptical user added:

“Looks like regular mediocre NYC pizza.”

But for many, it wasn’t even about the pizza anymore, it was about watching someone track down a near-unfindable spot with Google Street View like it was an Olympic sport.

As one user perfectly put it:

“No pizza secrets remain hidden.”

This isn’t the first time Rainbolt has stunned the internet with his powers. He’s built an online rep as that guy who can guess the most random location in the world from a half-second clip of a tree and a trash can.

But this latest episode has taken things to another level. It’s one thing to recognize Kazakhstan from a sidewalk curb. It’s another to track down a New York pizza place that’s practically in witness protection.

The real kicker? Rainbolt is not even from NYC. He just used screenshots, intuition, and a whole lot of browser tabs to locate the pizza joint. The man is basically a one-person surveillance team.

While the rest of us struggle to remember which subway line takes us downtown, Rainbolt is out here solving culinary cold cases like it’s his day job.

Whether you think the pizza was worth the hype or not, one thing’s for sure: nothing is truly secret when the internet and Rainbolt are on the case.

And to the local trying to keep the place low-key... sorry, bro. The pizza’s out of the bag.

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