Insane 5 mile guess from a single letter! - I saw the sign #2 [PLAY ALONG]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- More fun on this new map, including a crazy guess in round 2 which put me 5 miles from the marker and all I really had to go on was the letter K. Perfect score still up for grabs, if not, last week's effort of 24,127.
PLAY ALONG: Play your round, put your marker down, then switch tabs back to TH-cam to watch my attempt and the result. This way you don't ruin the game or the video!
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Quick tip for the first map: If you think you're in France, check the phone number. If it's 10 digits (2X5) and start with 01,02,03,04,05 then you're in France. Then cut the map in 4
If it starts with 01: Paris
If it starts with 02: North West
If it starts with 03: North East
If it starts with 04: South East
If it starts with 05: South West
Thanks for tip...
06 or 07 or +33 are portable phones numbers so if you see them you know you're in France
@@drearyfying249 07 is uk
France has angered me so much, thanks for this!
300 like 5th reply
"You wouldn't get a 'vla' in Greece would you."
This man has clearly never had souvlaki...
What is souvlaki?
Truuu
@@joshbowen6668 Souvlaki is meat on a skewer. Mostly pork but can be other meats and can also contain vegetable pieces like onion and peppers.
@@V0r4xiz what a coincidence! I'm curently eating souvlakis haha
@@V0r4xiz that's relatively popular in the us, but we call them kebabs
Tickles me every time when the music during the sped up bits is stereotypical for the country he’s searching 😆
You referenced the fella's comment that the clue is always directly in front of you and then proceeded to forget all about it 🤣
the main clue is in front, but often there could be clues eslewhere aswell (like the bus in equador)
Guayaquil is a huge city in Ecuador!
Not so huge
Were fake barça plays
It's a giant city
Fernando Bock With around 3.1 Million people, it’s a pretty huge city
@@fernandobock1971 It's the 10th biggest city in South America and alternates with Quito as the most populous. Definitely huge.
There are texts that are impossible for me to read, that he can read perfectly and then there are words that I can read perfectly but he has no idea what it says...
17:38 Meteor monasteries in Northern Greece. Awesome place to visit, I recommend.
The second guess was unbelievable! I'm from *that* country (no spoilers) and even I would've gone for a different country. But slavic suburban places kinda look the same everywhere so...
Hey ... I don't think so. That signs around rail crossing are typically Czech. I was damn sure it is CZE as I saw them. Furthermore, look at the wall on the west, seems like some hop is growing there.
I had a vague idea of somewhere in that region in Europe, but when I played it I moved a bit and found a .cz address on a sign
@@michalptacek97 we have similar signs in Ukraine too, and I also saw them in Poland and Latvia, so I think it was not so obvious. I was thinking about Estonia or Latvia from the whole picture
Bruh it looks like around here in Canada but with an European feel!
There was two things because of that I was quite sure it is Czech rep. First is rail crossing and second more important is bottom part of lantern pole.
Geowizard: is able to read small, blurry text of distant signs with ease
Also Geowizard: can't read easily understandable, clearer text on the back of a bus
i thought that too.
"I couldn't find a decent enough sized city beggining with K"
Košice, the 2nd biggest city in Slovakia literally written in big bold on that map: Am I a joke to you?
lol
he was looking for something smallish
"is this russian?"
The Cyrillic alphabet: are you seeing this bro
The Greek alphabet: I am bro
In your defense a couple of letters are the same or similar
that triangular letter was a giveaway
On 1 of the signs for a shop it has a image of the things greeks used to wear on there heads
There were also a couple of Sigmas and the landscape screamed greek
it's quite easy to check the language on the map and compare the letters though
yeah for an expert at this he probably should know what the two languages look like lol
Bingo list -
-ice cream truck
-golfers
-police car with sirens on
-someone in costume
-tractor
-Sainsbury’s
-American truck
-run down town
-train
-someone lying on a bench
Train would be too easy! And what if the man on the bench was telling the truth?
BENJI THE LAD define “run down”, plus that would be too easy
The French numbering system is really easy to learn and very helpful. 01 = Paris and surrounding areas, 02 = NW of the country, 03= NE, 04= SE and Corsica, 05= SW. The point at which all 4 corner zones intersect is in the very middle of the country, not around Paris
Round 1: Didn't bother looking around for Monteaux much, just clicked in the north between Amiens and Saint-Quentin. 4091 points.
Round 2: I was on a similar train of thought as you, except I went for Poland rather than Slovakia/Czechia. Clicked a place called Chojnice because GMaps annoyingly shows me the German names of places and that German name is apparently Konitz. 3604 points.
Round 3: I used the compass to find the correct street, it's the only one in Fatick that's going in a north-and-very-slightly-west direction. It only has one side street coming in at that angle without continuing on the other side, so the exact spot was relatively easy to pinpoint. 5000 points.
Round 4: Saw the church and the cliff and felt reminded of the Meteora monasteries. I knew I had seen them on GMaps before, but it took me five minutes to find them. Since we were in a town, I clicked Kalabaka nearby. Didn't even notice the graffiti before watching your video. Bit annoyed I didn't bother looking at Kalabaka more closely, since I could have easily found the exact location. 4999 points.
Round 5: I knew Babahoyo from my work for a cycling race design contest I participated in. Surprised you didn't at least know Guayaquil, once the largest city of Ecuador (Quito has caught up in recent years). 5000 points.
22,694 points overall.
Saying “insane guess” really underemphasises the genuinely incredible sleuthing you did, ruling out Romania and Slovakia and working out it was in the EU etc
Who else was screaming METEORA! at the screen at 19.00 😂 An amazing place, really nice bit of Greece that isn’t really very trodden by tourists
Beautiful!! Went there on a road trip many years ago when I was small and fell in love with the monastery carved in the rock
Regional phone codes in France are relatively easy : 01 for Paris and its region, 02 for the North-West, 03 for the North-East, 04 for the South-East and 05 for the South-West
19:40 of course it's my fault..
How dare you
A lot of places in South America, especially those in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile will have indigenous names (from Quechua) that sound like nothing you would hear in Spanish. So whenever I see those names I immediately think of the region of the former Inca empire.
And then I live in Kojetin and screaming from his pronunciation :D That was like a miracle he went from Kosice to nearby
You should have heard him actually say Kosice. I was laughing my head off when he said it in a sporcle quiz he did
i don't know what it is with english people and not understanding that *so many* languages pronounce j as y
I am delighted that I got a perfect score for Kalabaka - the sigma on the blue sign above the graffiti gave it away as Greece for me. I play each round before I watch you, so I also enjoyed the fact that you said 'look at that!' looking down the street, I said to myself 'just wait 'til you look behind you, mate' and you were as gobsmacked as I was at the place. In the end though, I still didn't beat your total score, picking the Amazon delta for the last round (because of the whacking great river you failed to spot, as well as the sun direction which made it southern hemisphere) meant I scored badly in the last round... great content as always (even if I'm a bit late to the party on this one)...
Me: * sees bus * Oh that looks like the Mexican badge
Me: * sees cities on the bottoms *
...Guayaquil...
Sreams: ECUADOR
Quevedo and Guayaquil on the bus gave it away for me as well
I was the same when i saw Guayaquil, anyone who's been to traveled to the Galapagos islands would've know this location.
@@themickcollo Or anyone who has played Geoguessr.
Aye, that was a super great clue, and the little city seen on the sign was in halfway between. It was really easy to get close to 5K.
@@theotherone5214 Well GeoWizard plays a lot and he didn't know but maybe he just didn't read the location properly. :)
It's so frustrating when you notice something Tom doesn't notice
> Tim
Tim Davies. 👌
Tim Vadies
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Yellow *Tom
Greetings from Kroměříž! :) A really beautiful unesco town, by the way, come for a beer!
Hynek Zatloukal no I don’t think I will
Аt 16:02, the sign on the tent says "DELTA". That used to be a Greek ice cream maker and owner of a dairy. Some of the best ice creams you could ever have during the 90s in Bulgaria. In the early 2000s, Nestle bought their business unfortunately. Apart from the latter, Greek language is pretty obvious. It has symbols which are simply not present in other Balkan countries.
Round 1 - guessed Montreux in Switzerland 'cause I'm a derp. 3675
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Round 2 - First thought was Poland, but I happened to see a town in Lithuania that started with K and went for it. Big, big mistake. 2990.
Round 3 - As I was scrolling around Senegal I saw the border for Fatick provence and then found the city. I looked for a north-south street with an intersection that matched the image and actually managed to get the exact spot. 2m off! 5000.
Round 4 - The fonts on the signs made me thing of Greece right away. Spent ages scrolling through the mountains of Greece looking for Kalabaka but couldn't find it. Eventually guessed near Kalamata 'cause that seemed close. Should have just guessed in the middle of the country. 4118.
Round 5 - Saw Guayaquil in the back of the bus early on and guessed Ecuador (Guayaquil has been in the news recently). Soon as I zoomed in I saw Babahoyo. Guessed on the biggest road heading north into Babahoyo from Guayaquil but was a bit too far south. 4994.
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign! Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
9:58
*cries in Kosice*
He was looking for something way smaller (and for *really* good reason).
omg, in the second round you put the marker literally 50 meters from my house (moravska 3158, kromeriz). anyway, great guess, congrats!
Those rocks in 4 were a part of Meteora. Pretty cool place I didn't know about until googling.
Chaz Domingo i've been there and it was so frustrating to see him not going for greece lmao
2nd round actually amazing!! I live like 10 miles from Kojetin, outstanding!! from Romania to being 5 miles off, thats my HATS OFF!! it felt like CZ, but like that. god damn you Tom! gg
Kosice is pretty annoyed by your blindness...
hledal menší město než Košice, hádám
@@LPSLolla hľadal viac miest začínajúcich sa na K
I'm pretty sure he saw it. The place was too big to pick I guess
Kosice was miles away?
Kosice was not a good pick. Just because you can spot the bleating city that starts with a K doesn't mean that's what he was looking for. Literally look at the spot he was at. Does that look like he's in the middle (or even outskirts) of a colossal-sized city?
Guten Tag Herr General Geografie Lehrer
“Good day General Mr. Geography [whatever Lehrer means]”
Aah ok it means to teach
@@elliot7753 It means teacher.
Hey
I'm American (and live in Asia), so you took a bit lead on me with the French and Czech rounds. But, as you stuffed up Mexico and Greece, I made a great come back and barely beat you with 20,809.
The 4th round was pretty easy to me but that's probably because I'm Greek. But in general Kalabaka is a pretty famous place, mostly because of that rocks that you saw which are called Meteora (Linkin Park's album is named after them). There are also monasteries up in these rocks and it's a very touristy area.
Also, the street name wasn't Vlad, it was Vlahava and the graffiti (the red OSFP letters) was the initials of Olympiacos (the football club).
That brought back memories of traveling around Athens, lot of the graffiti was Football related. Meteora was beautiful the monasteries i still wonder how they built them back in the day..
Sign: says monteauux
Geowizard: AH WERE IN MONTREAUX
Thanks for the likes peoples!!!
At least not: "Ah sun, we're in Chile"
Lol I was shouting "theres no fucking R" at the screen (aside from the extra u)
We all came out to Montreaux on the lake Geneva shoreline
He keeps mispronouncing it. There's no A in MONTREUX
Half of these replies are mouth-breathers but the other half are reasonable men of culture.
You were at Meteora, one of the most well known places in the world, there in Greece ;)
When I saw it i was really surprised I'd never seen it before, looks very iconic, i'm surprised it's not more well known
Immediataly when he turned around I saw its Meteora.
The monasteries of Meteora are amazing and kinda crazy at the same time! well worth the visit.
I've been there, and at the monastery at the top!
When I was watching the video I freaked out a little because I realized I’ve been there in that
exact spot before. Pretty cool.
13:46 It wouldn't actually matter if you were looking north or south, the road would be going the same way. The compass was at about 1 o'clock in the direction you were looking. If you were looking north, that would mean you were facing about north-north-west, and if you were looking south that would mean you were looking south-south-east. Either way the road is bearing slightly north-west/south-east.
What actually happened was you got the road and compass direction mixed up. You read the road as your north, and the compass pin as the road direction. Since the compass pin was at about 1 o'clock, you thought the road was going north-north-east.
Great video as always, just wanted to clear that up since it might prevent you from worrying about which direction you are facing when figuring out road orientation in the future.
Me screaming KALABAKA I'VE BEEN THERE, finally a round my world travels have helped me on
Seeing the map it looks like The Gambia could be an interesting option for a straight line crossing. ;-)
Would entail an interesting river crossing!
A TH-camr called PPeter made a video of himself running from border to border in The Gambia with Diarrhea.
A Wacom tablet is a godsend for GeoGuessr, the pans and zooms are so smooth and real nice for the viewer. Gotta use some of that Patreon cash for the business
This was an interesting challenge, but unlike the GeoDetective challenges, "ISTS" can't really be 5k'd without moving. r1 you made the normal mistake Brits make of mispronouncing Montreux, which usually leads to confusion, but pulled out a good guess. r2 you're surely right that whoever made the map intended for the town name to be visible. r3 you misjudged the angle of the road slightly, but this was difficult to 5k even in moving mode. r4 required a leap of faith to believe that the graffiti was the name of the town. I think it was obvious that the signs were in Greek, although Vlakava (which means Romania I think - an old English name for Romania is Wallachia) is a bit odd. But it was worth doing the challenge just to find out about Greece's answer to Mount Rushmore. r5 I can't really defend you - Guayaquil is such a major city - although ISTS does start to play tricks with your mind after a while! All the best.
Thanks for the regular quality content! Keep em coming!!
Stumbled on this today. Don't really know if this is a coincidence or not but I find it funny that the bit of advice that you said you were given about the clue being in front of you is the first thing you always ignore. Babahoyo was clearly the the name of the town you were looking for but you spent so much time looking for towns with qs in them.also the name of the greek place was graffitied on the wall but you dismissed it because it was graffiti. Even though those were literally the first clues given to you. I think you just outsmarted yourself.
You beat me by 600 points; I've been to Guayaquil so I got 4995 on that one, but I thought the Czech one was Finland : P
15:10 was so great to see! I went to this exact place late last year - it even stuck you pretty close to where I stayed overnight.
Most underrated TH-camr ❌🧢
the emojis took me a second
Wait 'til you find the sudoku with only 4 numbers to start, another 25 minutes of bliss. They probably live next door to one another.
Love all your videos Tom. You've helped me immensely through this quarantine. Keep up the great work!
I love playing geoguessr as a detective. Small things I can find, like the phone number on the door at 2:50 can be traced to the exact address!
You can do that if you are using Google or something to look stuff up, but not if you are just using the game.
Current imagery for Kojetin is Aug 2019. Previous image at that same spot is actually a slightly different angle and clearly shows the town name. So there you go.....as you said.....probably updated imagery.
The reason you see Coiffeur in several places is because it means hairdresser...
I wish I had the memories like you do of wake surfing and the little train
its only down to you to make those memories for yourself bro
You are experienced at the game, but not experienced at the actual world.
Or you would have recognized the rocks on which the *Meteora Cloisters* sit.
It's probably the second most well known tourist destination in Greece. *Kalabaka* is the name of the town.
It is so recognizable. It's like seeing Stone Henge, and guessing that you're probably in Ireland.
never heard of it! heard of the acropolis, Parthenon and Olympus but not the meteora!
@@GeoWizard Likewise
15,857. That last round utterly destroyed me too.
10:50 Angry looking building there
heyyy i saw my hometown as you were looking around the map on round 5 lmao
- Spoilers -
round 1: Looked around for Monteaux, couldn’t find it. guessed near Montauban, got around 3600 pts.
round 2: i cheated. went further up and looked at the blue street sign and realized it’s probably czech. got like 4500 pts.
round 3: found fatick, placed the cursor just a bit farther than tom.
round 4: looked at the street signs and realized it’s greece, found kalabaka really quickly and looked around for the street name. found it, found the church, realized i was in a very known area in greece, 5000 pts.
round 5: the sign looked spanish. looked at the sun and saw we were in the southern hemisphere. looked at the bus, saw guayaquil and realized we were in ecuador. looked around between that and quevedo (from the bus) for babahoyo, found it but couldn’t get the exact street. 4999 pts.
Today on things that never happened...
Jarsin09RC you can go to the challenge on geoguessr and find me in the score list. 64th place. 23,271 pts. it’s literally there. stop hating on people you don’t know, it ain’t cute
as macedonian myself, I was screaming greece mate, cant you just see the greek letters
this is a great map, i have a lot of fun playing it myself and then watch you do it (and stress out cause i already know where it is)
would love more vids with this map :) have a good evening!
For #2, good for you that yxou missed Kosice in Slovakia - starts with K, much bigger than where you ended up - and it was on the screen for long econds ;)
That said... whoever made this map erally though that lone K is really a clue? That's borderline sadistic...
You need to learn the difference between Greek and Cyrillic alphabets! It was so obvious it was Greece based on the writing.
And for the last round I was convinced it was Mexico as well until I saw the names on the bus. I knew Guayaquil was one of Ecuador's biggest cities so I looked around there and saw there was a N-S route between Guayaquil and Quevedo and then found the town on the sign.
I usually can man, don't know what happened. Didn't see enough of those distinctive Greek A's and O's, and the Vlad really threw me off along with a few other things! Definitely rusty..
The mountains in greece are meteora, they are known for the monasteries build on the top of the cliffs. Quite a dramatic view and definitly worth a visit.
Straight line The Gambia!!!
Did my first 5000 ponits on the Greek one (got 0 meters also). Overall 19 151, my best one, pretty proud of it.
Oh my god! I have been to Kalambaka this summer, it's an amazing place!
I got 1 meter away on the Greece guess! Good game Tom :D I got 19,025
Might actually be a half decent idea to have a look at some general area codes for different countries...
At ~4:30 when he says 'Well, I can't find it.' Isn't that Montereau on the left side of the map, toward the center?
yup, just saw that too, haha, But, it wasnt the right place anyway.
Great job on the first four, but bad miss on "Guayaquil". It's one of the cities that are heavily affected by Covid-19 in South America and it's been all over the news recently.
#4 and #5 I knew the places right away.
Meteora! How can you not know that place. Guayaquil is Ecuador's second largest city. It has been in the news a lot recently.
Dude, I can never make it to your streams. They stream at 4-5am my time.
I can only watch the play backs.
I do love the videos though. Just sad I can't play along
I got 21 278, might be my first time beating your score. I couldn't make an insane guess on the second one, but I did find the greek city and I went Colombia for the last round
I've noticed he often gets the direction of the roads wrong as he lines his camera up with the road, and judges the direction of the compass when he should be doing it the other way around. Lining the compass up, and judging the direction of the road.
that just clicked with me today, I got Senegal one perfect
21,550. I had a couple of sucky rounds to start but I did get a perfect score in Senegal! The road was running northwest, not northeast, and there's only about one such road in town. You could see the south end of the road and there was another road coming in diagonally from the southwest, those were enough to pin it down.
I love how you say "Kojetín" 🤣
Nobody :
GeoWizard after searching place in map :Same again guys can't find tha
The "V" you saw in "Vlad" was actually a Y shape, or a capital upsilon in the Greek alphabet, but hard to spot!
No it was the street name: Vlachava. You can see it several times on the map when he zooms in after the location is revealed.
Paddy Mulvey But is there a 'v' in Modern Greek?
Any new thoughts on whitch country you could try the straigth line challange? Denmark, Scotland, Latvia, Lichthenstain 😂 . Just wondering.
which
Denmark Would be nice. He could probably sneak over the storebælt Bridge at night😂
Oh my god Lichtenstein is hard to spell but I think that's the worst one I've seen in my life hahahah
Carlos Lorca it‘s actually Liechtenstein. Lichtenstein is a city in Germany.
he's already done one this year somewhere but we don't know where yet
The swiss beer from last week is actually called "Calanda", if you get to try it definitely give the "Glatsch" or the "Radler" a shot!
greetings from switzerland
your guesses are literally insane
The sign in round 2 was probably the blurry ad, it says Kromeriz, you got very lucky to click there without reading lol
It actually says the city's name. Kojetin. Technis Kojetin. Kromeriz is nearby.
@@chazdomingo475 Kojetin was on the building, which I guess counts as the sign, but it's not visible. Kromeriz was on the ad.
Nope, it's the big fuck-off letters on the building he found imediately. When you change the date on the StreetView (don't know if that's possible on GeoGuesser) back to Juli 2018 you can clearly read "TECHNIS Kojetin spol. s.r.o.", which is both the city and the exact spot in one sign. (Helps if you know that "spol. s.r.o." is the czech and slovak version of "LLC".) Current picture is from August 2019, so before then it was way easier.
@@usernameusername4037 normally you're allowed to move I think so you can see it
METEOR PILS oldest brewery in france and one of my favorites its from alsace i believe
Just as you said "I can't find it", it is there on the map!!!!!
Got 2 perfect rounds. Happy with that
I am from Czech Republic and would guess Poland on the second round. Never personally been to both Kojetín and Kroměříž. An insane guess though!
Brilliant mate! I love your content
can find a random junction in the middle of nowhere, but doesnt know how cyrillic looks like XD
Greerings from Czechia, pretty nice guess right there! 😀
I saw Monteaux on the place you were when you said "I cant find it"
That was a different area with a very similar name. Moneteau vs. Monteaux
21575 - finished with a 4999 and a 5000...knowledge of the Guayaquil tennis challenger in Ecuador sure helped on R5 :D
I was confussed then you began with Guten Tag because I expected a english video
Spoilers ahead!
Round 1: Monteux
Found Monteaux in France, but the wrong one, down south.
Round 2: Went Poland instead of Czech. Meh. Mad luck, bro.
Round 3: Fatick
Found Fatick, yay! Still further away than you, though...
Round 4: Kalambaka
I believe the graffiti said Kalabaka not Kalambaka? Anyway, I settled for Kalamata, which was one more letter off. Still Greece, but still fewer points than you. Shame.
Round 5: Babahoyo
Mexico got me too. Thought there was something off about the flag thingie, but I should have recignized the Ecuador registration plate. Damn!
Total Score:
17912
Not bad!
Just played this and the imagery was a tiny bit different: the bus had an unblurred white “Valencia” on it, a nice false clue.
Just a little insignificant thing. In Spanish the letter 'h' is silent. So Babahoyo would sound like Babaoyo. Anyway , love you Tom!
Just incase anyones interested the white car he thought was a Dacia, was a Mazda 323f - Just if your wondering :D
Really frustrating in round 4 that he had spotted an EU number plate, but then looked exclusively in non-EU countries!
True. And it was doable bc the alphabet in the sign was greek not Cyrillic.
Apparently the "Monteaux Coiffure" from the first location in this video decided to change their name to "Momteaux Coiffure" since Tom played his game. No wonder I didn't find it even when I glanced over Monteaux
In your defense, the van in the Greek round had a C at the end of the word which isn’t in the Greek alphabet!
I doubted Greece too for a second there.
The writing on the van was Byzantine Greek and the "Σ" letter is written as "C" in Byzantine Greek. Also this writing is only used by the church and that van had something to do with the church.
Loooow....... Everyday fricking low........ EVERYDAY FRICKING LOW!!!
I agree 😂😂😂
Just want to let you know that "Coiffure" is a *barbershop* (Thanks to Lennart)
Jaxon barbershop