Happy new year everyone! A bit of pain and suffering never hurt anyone. If you'd like to see me suffer for 10 minutes straight in a freezing ice bath, head over to patreon to watch my charity plunge in full: www.patreon.com/geowizard Or simply head over to my Instagram page to watch a funny snippet: instagram.com/geowizardofficial/?hl=en It's all in the name of raising money for Cancer care in Wales and any donations are extremely welcome! www.justgiving.com/page/kenneth-goddard-1694721683728
@@hattrickster33 imagine a parallel world where there is a 24/7 camera running where we can get these reactions every time, would be gold, he did say that over the years there has only been about 6-7 instances of no recording tho
Hey, thanks for checking out my map! If you don't hate me too much by now, please check out some of my other maps as well! If you love spectacular views, you'll really enjoy the map Masterpieces Of The Earth.
As an amateur player, I love watching your videos cause you don't play like a freaking computer. Feels more human and relatable to take your time, be utterly confused and get it wrong sometimes lol.
Sounds strange to say but I have never laughed longer over a bit of GeoWizard than the little sequence wherein Tom saw another one of those motherfucking birds staring out at him like a thug, him saying "What you've never heard of that?" when scrolling in to Nelsons Island and then finishing it off with "Maybe we've battled the French over these tiny dots in the sea"
They were almost all tropical places near the equator. On a mercator map projection, it might not seem that far away when you're used to Europe but the distances are bigger than you think.
@@vaaggasje You are right, but the scoring here is intentionally more punishing as well. You can technically get a score of 0 while in the correct country in several places on this map, which is not possible in any country on normal world map scoring.
The scoring formula is calculated based on the two locations that are farthest apart from each other. So something like a city or country map would have a very low score threshold, whereas something like this map would be a bit lower than a world map.
I think it'd be awesome if you played on the "An Unofficial Street World" map by David Walker. That map has 5000 locations from almost every country in the world, with all locations on a road to look like regular Geoguessr. It's basically what Geoguessr would be like if it had every country.
Hey Tom! I liked seeing the "Disturbing Backstories" map that you played & mentioned before, or the "Photospheres in Obscure Countries" as that felt rewarding with the detective work involved.
I love photospheres of obscure countries, I still think about one of his majorly impressive finds in that. Of a volcanic caldera on an island, if I remember correctly, which I may not
3:14 the sign has a price in THB (baht) meaning it's almost definitely gonna be thailand - dive sites strongly implies koh samui or koh tao. I think this is the first time I could have done better than the geowizard himself
3:38 German *diving* school, not teaching school. 😉 Happy New Year and loads of good luck, health, happiness and wishes coming true for you in 2024. 🍀 I love this channel, especially your straight line missions and that kind of stuff. It's always fun to watch! 👍
Crazy that Zigzag managed to get more than 14000 without panning or zooming. No idea what clues he's using to get even close to the right guess for those locations.
I liked it :) I dont care i watch everything you do ^^ But as you said it, those Maps with Tragedys/ Disturbing Background Stories are interesting aswell.
The scoring multiplier is based on how spread out the locations are. All of these locations are tropical so the points drop off is faster compared to the World map or other maps that have locations all around the world. You can see this when you play Country maps. The smaller the country the more accurate you have to be for the same score.
17:26 "I wonder if we can tell how Neanderthal someone was from their footprint" wtf Tom 😂 Thinking there are Neanderthals walking around on some tropical island
I played this map about a dozen times after watching Oscar play. My scores ranged from 1200 to 11000 with an average of about 4300. The 11000 game was only because I had a couple of repeats that I actually remembered. Thanks for the video, Tom! You got me into this game. It's nice to have you back.
As much as I enjoy your adventures and other things, I really miss the old school GeoGuessr videos, so this one was a nice suprise. I just really miss the randomly playing GG to get back into the groove videos, trying to beat your PB, etc. The most fun lately I have with the Maprunner. It has something of everything, so I find it quite entertaining and enjoyed your video about it. I personally just need more GeoGuessr again
This is my favorite format of your videos. Me and my wife are watching your videos in the evenings on TV and try guessing too :D Make more, please. Perfect pacing.
This is a hard map alright but probably a good one for people like me that sometimes guess based on vegetation, soil, geology, and topography (I'm an enviromental science major). I'm nowhere near as good as you, but at 5:05 I did think Japan, the presence of ferns, and a thick but not humid forest does hint towards Japan and not something closer to the equator
Yeah this totally reminded me of some trails I walked in Japan, not entirely sure what gave it away for me but the plant types, very high humidity + the cobbles made me think of Japan.
I've studied geology, oceanography, geomorphology and related stuff, but virtually nothing about the living stuff like plants. Give me a barren place, and I can often squeeze out a decent guess, but deep in the jungle, I'm lost.
Love how pleased you where with the 4 pointer in the last game :) I was guessing half way around the world from where most of them were :D Happy new year
I'd like to see you do more on this map, for sure. You always improve, and it would be interesting to see what kind of clues you would start to harness as you got to know what to look for, and then excel..
Love watching Tom play some Geoguessr no matter what he plays and especially this one after watching Oscar go at it, super fun! I think something that would be absolutely fun to watch you try is getting a country streak of 10 on a normal map like "A Community World" which is basically the next best average map after Diverse World vanished.
hey Tom, love your channel, loved watching you struggle through this. Watching some other players on this map became almost boring though, just one impenetrable jungle after another. I think it's more interesting when there's something more than just foliage. Cheers, happy new year!
Great video! Id love to see a playthrough of the disturbing backstories map, that one was great! Sidenote: just to clarify, Henderson island is NOT the main island of the Pitcairn Islands (the name of the main one is in fact Pitcairn Island and is south-west of Henderson I believe). For some reason the pitcairn islands name on google maps is placed on that island, leading you to believe its the main one, despite it being unpopulated and completely flat, its a coral island I believe. The populated ‘Pitcairn Island’ itself is very mountainous and far smaller.
I can often find places just from picture's and general description. But this is always impressive that just picture with almost nothing in it and no description/context, you know to find things.
This is really funny because I'm currently in the process of writing my dissertation on movements of sharks in the British Indian Ocean Territory... I think your Geoguesser is telling me to get on with my work...
would love to see you play more geoguessr, currently binge watching your old videos, but this map is probably not that interesting since the only way to get solid score is by playing so much that rounds start repeating and your start to memorize all locations… would love to see more videos where your knowledge shows
I too had never heard of the Eagle Islands. According to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Islands), the larger of the two islands is only 2.45 sq. km, and once had a coconut plantation and a small settlement of plantation workers. However, since 1998 the islands are part of a nature reserve, and it is forbidden to land on the islands or anchor a boat nearby.
Given the Neandertal, which gives its name to the Neanderthals, is near Düsseldorf in Germany I don't think that was going to help you on that beach Tom ;)!
I instantly recognised Ko Tao on that Thailand round having only been there a month ago. The THB on the sign is the Thai currency and there is diving schools literally everywhere in Ko Tao so that's a dead giveaway if it somehow crops up again!
I dont know how, but when he got the Pitcairn Island round I knew it was it lol. Think its from the very very limited google coverage of the island and I checked it out the other day and they're usually under those cliff like structures
Happy New Year! Hope you had a lot of quality time with the people close to you. I showed my father your "How Not to Travel America" series over Christmas, and he's now totally hooked and sends me links to your new uploads. We're both so impressed by how you balance geoguessr wizardry and unending charisma. My friend, by year's end if you haven't purchased new pads for your Beyerdynamics, I'll send some to you from here in the States - cheers from Atlanta, GA! edit - Vanuatu? LMAO No chance
I think it'd be very interesting for you to play this With moving! I get the impression that most of those locations it won't be a gimme even then, and would likely be more figuring it out, and less guessing.
Bro you so good, love your videos genuinely , like really really no joke your sick man your really good and funny I really want to meet you one day, you seem like a really nice guy, much love -kacper
THB on the sign at the dive school = Thai Baht. Useful to brush up on world currencies for signage. Also, check out that flower in the Vanuatu one - yowza! Would like a closer look at that one.
Does anyone else feel so amazed be these absolutely random tiny islands? Like Nelson's Island, it's just so small and random, but it's mapped on Google. It's just crazy to think of someone going out there and walking around this isolated, inhabited space, adding pictures to Google
The first answer on the first round I was thinking I know exactly where that was because I've been there. It's good to know I would get better at you on something in geoguesser, because I know I would not get anything else
Lines that are between the tropics cover more distance per cm than lines near the north or south because of the projection so a relatively short line near the equator will give you a pretty low score.
A fun idea you eluded to in this video: You should try a regular map/mode and attempt to get the lowest possible non-zero score each round to see how low of a final score you can end with without intentionally getting zero on any individual round!
Every large country has lands that are very similar to other countries. Virtually every image could be imagined in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, etc.
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Happy new year everyone!
A bit of pain and suffering never hurt anyone. If you'd like to see me suffer for 10 minutes straight in a freezing ice bath, head over to patreon to watch my charity plunge in full: www.patreon.com/geowizard
Or simply head over to my Instagram page to watch a funny snippet: instagram.com/geowizardofficial/?hl=en
It's all in the name of raising money for Cancer care in Wales and any donations are extremely welcome!
www.justgiving.com/page/kenneth-goddard-1694721683728
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Broo doooo do a vid with Adam
I managed to get 0 points overall - no lack of trying
i think you missed the Thai currency on that board?
I can only imagine Geowizard’s face if he suffered all this then realized he wasn’t recording.
@@ahmadalwadi9156 lmfao thank you man
Something we'll never get to see 😆
@@hattrickster33 imagine a parallel world where there is a 24/7 camera running where we can get these reactions every time, would be gold, he did say that over the years there has only been about 6-7 instances of no recording tho
After all this pain I think a Wetherspoons map is in order.
ahh good memories
I second this 😭😭
"Let's try Japan... Aaand it's Uganda"
Damn, I always get those two countries confused
This map is probably the most accurately named map ever
Hey, thanks for checking out my map! If you don't hate me too much by now, please check out some of my other maps as well! If you love spectacular views, you'll really enjoy the map Masterpieces Of The Earth.
As an amateur player, I love watching your videos cause you don't play like a freaking computer. Feels more human and relatable to take your time, be utterly confused and get it wrong sometimes lol.
Sounds strange to say but I have never laughed longer over a bit of GeoWizard than the little sequence wherein Tom saw another one of those motherfucking birds staring out at him like a thug, him saying "What you've never heard of that?" when scrolling in to Nelsons Island and then finishing it off with "Maybe we've battled the French over these tiny dots in the sea"
It seems like the scoring is harsher than normal Geoguessr on this map
Yeah, it is. It wasn't hard enough with the normal scoring, I guess. :)
most maps put dummy locations at north and south pole to max out scoring but 0xgg did not for this map so scoring is harder.
They were almost all tropical places near the equator. On a mercator map projection, it might not seem that far away when you're used to Europe but the distances are bigger than you think.
@@vaaggasje You are right, but the scoring here is intentionally more punishing as well. You can technically get a score of 0 while in the correct country in several places on this map, which is not possible in any country on normal world map scoring.
The scoring formula is calculated based on the two locations that are farthest apart from each other. So something like a city or country map would have a very low score threshold, whereas something like this map would be a bit lower than a world map.
I think it'd be awesome if you played on the "An Unofficial Street World" map by David Walker. That map has 5000 locations from almost every country in the world, with all locations on a road to look like regular Geoguessr. It's basically what Geoguessr would be like if it had every country.
That's a cool map. I play it now and then.
Good tip, cheers 👍
Tom: “We’re not on an island”.
“scrolls out from Borneo”
Hey Tom! I liked seeing the "Disturbing Backstories" map that you played & mentioned before, or the "Photospheres in Obscure Countries" as that felt rewarding with the detective work involved.
Disturbing backstories is the best - please make more disturbing backstories
Yes, fully agree with this!
I love photospheres of obscure countries, I still think about one of his majorly impressive finds in that. Of a volcanic caldera on an island, if I remember correctly, which I may not
@@ifesbobthekillerpolarbear2013 yea that one was really cool, I liked the algerian one a lot, opened our eyes to how big the world really is
"Hey, I got 4 points, that's not the worst!"
Atleast its not worse than 0 points
The power of optimism
3:14 the sign has a price in THB (baht) meaning it's almost definitely gonna be thailand - dive sites strongly implies koh samui or koh tao. I think this is the first time I could have done better than the geowizard himself
Yes. Also it says German diving school not teaching school. I love how he said that with such confidence 😂
i didn't even realise it was the cliff jumping spot in ko tao and i've been there last september 🤦🏼♂😭 the scenery looked familiar tho
The brother went in Burma too classic GW moment
15:11 that “oo look at that” has me crying idk why
3:38 German *diving* school, not teaching school. 😉
Happy New Year and loads of good luck, health, happiness and wishes coming true for you in 2024. 🍀 I love this channel, especially your straight line missions and that kind of stuff. It's always fun to watch! 👍
cool man, is nice
Disturbing backstories series has been quite enjoyable! Love the historical aspect
Crazy that Zigzag managed to get more than 14000 without panning or zooming. No idea what clues he's using to get even close to the right guess for those locations.
Soil, vegetation and also zigzag is godlike
I managed 24.5k NMPZ
@@maximaaln4155 crazy. Are you a geoguessr genius or just got lucky?
Native dingus sizes.
@@aspzxhe spammed the map for repeats
7:18 The 100plus bottle gave it right away, ayo! 100% Malaysia and the north facing coast screams Borneo.
I liked it :)
I dont care i watch everything you do ^^
But as you said it, those Maps with Tragedys/ Disturbing Background Stories are interesting aswell.
The scoring multiplier is based on how spread out the locations are. All of these locations are tropical so the points drop off is faster compared to the World map or other maps that have locations all around the world. You can see this when you play Country maps. The smaller the country the more accurate you have to be for the same score.
17:26 "I wonder if we can tell how Neanderthal someone was from their footprint" wtf Tom 😂 Thinking there are Neanderthals walking around on some tropical island
I played this map about a dozen times after watching Oscar play. My scores ranged from 1200 to 11000 with an average of about 4300. The 11000 game was only because I had a couple of repeats that I actually remembered. Thanks for the video, Tom! You got me into this game. It's nice to have you back.
As much as I enjoy your adventures and other things, I really miss the old school GeoGuessr videos, so this one was a nice suprise. I just really miss the randomly playing GG to get back into the groove videos, trying to beat your PB, etc. The most fun lately I have with the Maprunner. It has something of everything, so I find it quite entertaining and enjoyed your video about it. I personally just need more GeoGuessr again
At first I was frustrated by this video but then I became fascinated by all the little islands!
“I’ve never got a score that bad since I’ve tried to get 0” 😂😂😂😂
This is my favorite format of your videos. Me and my wife are watching your videos in the evenings on TV and try guessing too :D Make more, please. Perfect pacing.
Tom you're absolutely bloody brilliant. Got alot of time for you. Love from Shropshire
Love your videos tom I watch all your missions and adventures, this is the 1st time watching a video from you in this format
This is a hard map alright but probably a good one for people like me that sometimes guess based on vegetation, soil, geology, and topography (I'm an enviromental science major). I'm nowhere near as good as you, but at 5:05 I did think Japan, the presence of ferns, and a thick but not humid forest does hint towards Japan and not something closer to the equator
I also thought Japan, not sure what about it, but if you watch enough anime you kinda get the vibe of these abandoned shrine paths lol
Yeah this totally reminded me of some trails I walked in Japan, not entirely sure what gave it away for me but the plant types, very high humidity + the cobbles made me think of Japan.
I want to see Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't play this map
I've studied geology, oceanography, geomorphology and related stuff, but virtually nothing about the living stuff like plants. Give me a barren place, and I can often squeeze out a decent guess, but deep in the jungle, I'm lost.
Disturbing backstories is the best series of maps imo would love to see more of that
I’m just so happy when you upload a new geoguessr video Tom
I just finished watching zigzag play this and the tougher sequel. This should be fun haha
Zig didn't even pan though, did he? 🤔
Oscar should have just guessed that unmarked Samoan island every round. He would have crushed! :)
@@beorlingo No, he's almost always NMPZ.
Love how pleased you where with the 4 pointer in the last game :)
I was guessing half way around the world from where most of them were :D
Happy new year
I loved this one tbh, would be very happy to see it again.
I'd like to see you do more on this map, for sure. You always improve, and it would be interesting to see what kind of clues you would start to harness as you got to know what to look for, and then excel..
Love watching Tom play some Geoguessr no matter what he plays and especially this one after watching Oscar go at it, super fun!
I think something that would be absolutely fun to watch you try is getting a country streak of 10 on a normal map like "A Community World" which is basically the next best average map after Diverse World vanished.
Would love to see some more of this
That bird on nelsons island is gonna be in my nightmares
Pain and suffering truly lives up to the name
I enjoyed it, go for the 15k, you're the best
Very relieved to find out we were indeed recording. Phew! Cheers mate!
hey Tom, love your channel, loved watching you struggle through this. Watching some other players on this map became almost boring though, just one impenetrable jungle after another. I think it's more interesting when there's something more than just foliage. Cheers, happy new year!
New year new geoguesser content by Geowizard, life is good man
I'd love to see more of this map
zigzag and geowizard becoming close with eachother is one of the best things to happen
A collab with Chicago Geographer would be quite epic as well.
One of the best and one of the least producing channels on youtube :)
Happy new year, dear Tom! Keep this great work up in 2024! Greetings from Germany!
great video! seeing someone as talented as you not do great makes me feel less pressure and to just have fun and try it myself :)
Great video! Id love to see a playthrough of the disturbing backstories map, that one was great!
Sidenote: just to clarify, Henderson island is NOT the main island of the Pitcairn Islands (the name of the main one is in fact Pitcairn Island and is south-west of Henderson I believe). For some reason the pitcairn islands name on google maps is placed on that island, leading you to believe its the main one, despite it being unpopulated and completely flat, its a coral island I believe. The populated ‘Pitcairn Island’ itself is very mountainous and far smaller.
Keep up the geoguessr vids Tom. I like the new maps but any gameplay is a great watch(battle royale, NMPZ).
I’ve been to the second place! My hotel was at that exact beach in Thailand, and the bay is where I learned to dive!
I can often find places just from picture's and general description. But this is always impressive that just picture with almost nothing in it and no description/context, you know to find things.
This is really funny because I'm currently in the process of writing my dissertation on movements of sharks in the British Indian Ocean Territory... I think your Geoguesser is telling me to get on with my work...
3:35 says “German diving school” for those wondering
I would imagine that Tom would get bit giddy seeing such long, straight lines on a map
Nah cuz the longer the straight line the more brambles he must endure
would love to see you play more geoguessr, currently binge watching your old videos, but this map is probably not that interesting since the only way to get solid score is by playing so much that rounds start repeating and your start to memorize all locations… would love to see more videos where your knowledge shows
I too had never heard of the Eagle Islands. According to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Islands), the larger of the two islands is only 2.45 sq. km, and once had a coconut plantation and a small settlement of plantation workers. However, since 1998 the islands are part of a nature reserve, and it is forbidden to land on the islands or anchor a boat nearby.
I noticed the same thing with a few of the other islands, so the location must be wrong on the map...
I enjoyed wathing this. But I‘d enjoy it even more to see all the times where you answered „no“ to „are we recording?“!
happy new year @GeoWizard bloody hell!
Definitely would be keen to see you do this again.
I love seeing the videos where you get guesses with 4 points. Now you know how the rest of us feel when playing geoguesser
Geowizard hopping on the Zigzag trend how the tables have turned I love it great vid :D
Given the Neandertal, which gives its name to the Neanderthals, is near Düsseldorf in Germany I don't think that was going to help you on that beach Tom ;)!
Great to see you back on Geoguessr again, king 👑
I instantly recognised Ko Tao on that Thailand round having only been there a month ago. The THB on the sign is the Thai currency and there is diving schools literally everywhere in Ko Tao so that's a dead giveaway if it somehow crops up again!
loving the new channel logo
gotta love the fact that our boy Tom is a Zigzag fan ❤
I dont know how, but when he got the Pitcairn Island round I knew it was it lol. Think its from the very very limited google coverage of the island and I checked it out the other day and they're usually under those cliff like structures
That was interesting. Wouldn't mind another video on that map.
Happy New Year! Hope you had a lot of quality time with the people close to you. I showed my father your "How Not to Travel America" series over Christmas, and he's now totally hooked and sends me links to your new uploads. We're both so impressed by how you balance geoguessr wizardry and unending charisma. My friend, by year's end if you haven't purchased new pads for your Beyerdynamics, I'll send some to you from here in the States - cheers from Atlanta, GA!
edit - Vanuatu? LMAO No chance
I think it'd be very interesting for you to play this With moving! I get the impression that most of those locations it won't be a gimme even then, and would likely be more figuring it out, and less guessing.
Bro you so good, love your videos genuinely , like really really no joke your sick man your really good and funny I really want to meet you one day, you seem like a really nice guy, much love -kacper
It would be so easy to get a good score in these rounds. You just have to bring along a botanist, geologist and anthropologist to help!
THB on the sign at the dive school = Thai Baht. Useful to brush up on world currencies for signage. Also, check out that flower in the Vanuatu one - yowza! Would like a closer look at that one.
I went on a dive at this exact shop when I was in koh tao. Such a trip seeing it here lol. Koh Tao is the best place in the world to learn to dive!
This feels like being a maths major at university, getting 4 points but still being super happy about it lol
i did enjoy! would be fun to do a part 2 with a goal of 15.000 maybe
Great video! Happy new year and up the villa!
Does anyone else feel so amazed be these absolutely random tiny islands? Like Nelson's Island, it's just so small and random, but it's mapped on Google. It's just crazy to think of someone going out there and walking around this isolated, inhabited space, adding pictures to Google
This was interesting, but Disturbing Backstories is the GOAT!
The first answer on the first round I was thinking I know exactly where that was because I've been there. It's good to know I would get better at you on something in geoguesser, because I know I would not get anything else
Lines that are between the tropics cover more distance per cm than lines near the north or south because of the projection so a relatively short line near the equator will give you a pretty low score.
I'm down to more of this. Pretty interesting locations.
On the Thailand one, was the '12 00 THB' on the chalk board the price in Thai Bhat?
A fun idea you eluded to in this video: You should try a regular map/mode and attempt to get the lowest possible non-zero score each round to see how low of a final score you can end with without intentionally getting zero on any individual round!
Oh my god, I’ve been to that beach on Koh Tao in your Thailand guess! What are the chances!
disturbing back stories would be epic to see again :)
Was the mountain in Mauritius "La Morne" if it is, beautiful hike loved it myself.
As someone who went to Tanote Bay in Koh Tao it was mental to see! Best beach on the island for me 👍🏻
Tom finally experiencing what it's like to play Geoguessr as me.
Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, Nelson Island is uninhabited, yet your photo clearly had some folk working on the island.
Neanderthals were more or less across Europe and the Middle East so probably wouldn't find their footprints on a tropical beach!
On the board in Thailand it showed the price in Thai Baht. And also, tauchschule means diving school for future reference 👍😄
Every large country has lands that are very similar to other countries. Virtually every image could be imagined in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, etc.
Had a quick play before watching, 5736 on quite random guesses. Looking forward to seeing what stuff narrows it down for you.
The British Indian Ocean territory three in a row was crazy
Geowizard- Guesses Galapagos Islands
Answer- California
Geowizard- “It looks like it should be further north” 🤣
I got Kho tao straight when you said . german speaking lessons.
I hope there are going to be more Geoguessr gameplays coming!