LOL It's fun seeing you getting Taiwan and Hong Kong mixed up. So I'm just gonna repost my comment from last video. here's some pointers for next time: Taiwan has more motorcycles. and when i say more, i mean MORE. Hong Kong has british like license plates. White in front, Yellow at the back. And yea, all three use traditional chinese writing, so the writing WILL look the same. You've got to look at the street signs. if it's black and white like in britain, and has English names, it's Hong Kong. If it's green it's usually Taiwan. Hong Kong's more urban, so if its sort of rural/less big roads its usually New Territories, but those part are not as dense like in Taiwan. Taiwan's houses/residential area looks more JAPANESE because it was occupied in WW2 for quite some time. if you see motorcycles in Hong Kong, its usually expensive and very rare to see them. If its the urban part of Macau, it's VERY Portuguese. I mean you'll see the paved roads and think am i in portugal? The smaller island of macau is filled with new casinos (north) and VERY rural houses (south) :) and yeah i know this cuz i live in hk
Public transportation in the large swiss cities: Zürich: blue trams or blue buses Bern: Red trams or red buses Basel: green trams or green buses Geneva: White trams
Did anybody else notice that Gaffney Street was like the first street name to appear when he zoomed in?? And then he scrolled past it like three times!!
Immediately noticed Musik Basel on the far window and Gaffney street. It triggered me immensely to watch but I can forgive him since he has shown in the past he is the absolute king of this game and I know nothing.
lmao yeah, I start going all in with the accent and chatting shit like "ah there's a plane in the air, this city is known for being under the flight path" and "those trees look french" right before making a god like guess :)
#1: It looks like traditional rather than simplified Chinese, so let's go Taiwan rather than Hongkong or Singapore or something like that. Saw no further hint, went for the western part, 4586 points. #2: Also saw Trabzon, though in another place than you did. Went somewhere in the city center. 4998 points. #3: Saw Nova Scotia, but couldn't find the right city, finally went for a city I should have known was wrong (Yarmouth - even the sea is on the wrong side). Only 4271 points. #4: Saw .ch on the tram, then Basel in a shopping window. Got close: 4999 points. #5: 'Access Alaska' made me first think of Anchorage, but 'True North' made me go Fairbanks, where I saw the streetnames. 5000 points. 23854 points - I didn't beat you (I missed the Halifax one), but it's definitely a personal best that I can be proud of.
Actually Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese, but there are no buildings that look like those in the map view here in Hong Kong. Also, the English in the street name signs here are a lot bigger.
“Belediye” means municipality in Turkish and there are a lot of municipality related buildings in Turkey. great job though it was fun watching you try to pronounce turkish words:)
22,915 - very happy with this score... felt like I was in the zone... played a round and then watched you play it each time (my preferred play method)... 4633 Taiwan - picked Taichung City in the middle (previous hint about mopeds and Taiwan helped) 4999 Turkey - saw Trabzon on building and was 336m from actual location! 5000 Nova Scotia - easy once you found the Scotiabank Centre 3283 Basel - picked Dresden in Germany (saw the URL on the tram but guessed it was cut off by sign)... amazed/infuriated that you got that exactly... was beating you up until this point... 5000 Alaska - thought Anchorage, but then saw the Access Alaska sign and went Fairbanks - found exact location Good game as always - wp
I finished each round feeling pretty good about my result, and then I watched you be like "oh yeah, that smudge over there clearly says Trabzon, which is a city I've definitely heard of."
Wow the first time i see you get my country (ch) and you did really well there, also much appreciated the jodel music so that i could dance to it with my cows while you were searching for the road xD
Ekmek means bread in Turkish, it's the most commonly eaten food in Turkey. Bakyar is a name and probably doesn't have a specific meaning. Good job, congratulations!
The “Mingyi” street is actually better written as “Ming-Yi” (they are two words). And the door sign did say “花蓮市” (Hualien City) on the top of the circle, with the neighbourhood name at the bottom: “主義里” . But I guess it’s quite useless to know which neighbourhood you’re at because they don’t usually appear on google maps. So if you’re trying to aim for the exact spot, you gotta go into Hualien city and find it solely by the street name. (I’m a Taiwanese)
I've been going back and playing along with all your Urban World Videos Every time I doubt he can impress more than his last video, but he never fails to. Round 1: Went for central China, near Wuhan, got 1,502 pts Round 2: Saw .tr on end of URL on sign so guessed Turkey, northeast of Ankara, got 3,301 pts Round 3: Saw Nova Scotia sign and searched Halifax. Found Scotia Bank, got 5,000 pts Round 4: Noticed Basel on window. Searched Switzerland and Liechtenstein for Basel and found it, got 4,976 pts Round 5: Guessed northern Anchorage after seeing "Access Alaska" , got 3,897 pts Total score - 18,777 pts (didn't beat you, but am improving)
Some of these play alongs turn out very differently now with a street view in geoguessr that is a different view from when the video was recorded ... especially the last one where the image I had was VERY washed out by the sunlight.
Yeah, the Swiss one doesn't have the tram with the URL anymore, but I saw another website URL in the piano shop window (that would be behind the tram in this video). In the Alaska one you can now see a building in distance (southern direction) that says Fairbanks on top of it (with the first letter hidden behind a pole).
YOOO! FAIRBANKS! I used to live about 10 mins from that intersection; I drove on Cushman nearly every day. Recognized it immediately and was so taken aback haha. Also quick and dirty tip: If you ever know you're in america and you're not sure which state, the only two that have solid yellow license plates are NY and Alaska that I'm aware of. NY is solid yellow with a black bar at the top, and AK is just straight yellow.
@@AnCoSt1 upstate NY could be easily confused with many of its neighbors in new england imo but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just an extra layer of peace of mind when I'm playing
1. Saw Mingyi St. so went with Taipei, got about the same points as you 2. Spotted Trabzon on the building, guessed almost the exact same spot - 4995 points 3. Canadian, so this one was nice and easy - 5000 points 4. Spotted the .ch, went with Zurich so I wouldn't have to search for too long, lost out on 250 points or so 5. Worked in Fairbanks for a while, so another easy one - 5000 points Total: 24334 - not sure I'll ever beat that
For the Switzerland one, if you look around long enough and, there's actually the city, the district and the street written on some sign or other. Finally found it on the map only to see the cinema gone, the irritated me as well. Then again the program in the window was for 2015 21137 in total. thanks for the game
1 - recognised it as Taiwan, thought the street signs looked like Tainan from #6 so went there. 4,432 2 - saw a sign saying Adana, guessed there. absolutely didn't spot Trabzon nor even know that was the name of a city. 3,296 3 - all the Nova Scotia stuff made it pretty easy. 5,000 4 - got Switzerland from the .ch, guessed Zurich after some hunting around in there and Bern. never thought about Basel. (and wouldn't have found the spot anyway, since I was focusing on the closed cinema...) 4747 5 - this one had updated, some of the businesses had closed but Access Alaska was still there and there was another sign saying Fairbanks which made it piss easy. 5,000 22,475 total, definite step down from the last one but not bad imho
Round 1- I speak and read Chinese so it's a bit of an advantage, I could see from the house number sign that it said "Hualien City" so I immediately knew where to look. Unfortunately there were about 5 streets called Mingyi Street and I guessed the wrong one lol, but still 4984 points. Round 2- my big miss, the part that gave you "Trabzon" I couldn't read well, but I saw it ended with "ediyesi" and I randomly found a city on the south coast called "Side Belediyesi" so I thought it must've been there. Only got around 2700 pts because of that. Round 3- pretty easy, lots of stuff that gave away the exact location. Basically same logic as you. Round 4- I knew it was Switzerland based on the .ch as well, but spent about 10 full minutes looking around various cities and gave up and guessed Zurich. Round 5- Alaska was obvious, and luckily most of the cities in Alaska are quite small so it was easy to scan around the bigger cities and find the exact location
HAHA OH MY GOD! You landed on a street in Halifax I walk up at least once a week. It was so intense watching you almost land on the wrong street by the bell tower.
#1: Remembered the similar looking Taiwan location from last week, went for Tainan though. 4405 points. #2: Searched the downtown areas of Trabzon for an inordinate amount of time before giving up and guessing. It was a pretty good guess, 4998 points. #3: Went at it the same as you, 5000 points. #4: Totally ignored Basel and focused on Zürich, guessed there eventually. 4743 points. #5: Again, focused hard on Anchorage as Fairbanks wasn't even on my radar. This one cost me as I got only 3691 points for a total of 22837.
Fairly certain that first street is Mingyi (As in Ming-yi) rather than Mingyl, so it does sound Chinese after all. But given the potato which took the photo, I understand why the i turned into an l.
22847. 1 - Also figured out that it was Taiwan, guessed in Tainan because one of your previous challenges ended up in there. 4402. 2 - Saw the sign that said Trabzon on it, so I went for it because I know where Trabzon is (thanks EU4!). 4996. 3 - Went for Halifax because it's the capital of Nova Scotia and this is an urban world, got lucky and got 4990. 4 - I'll admit I had to look up what .ch was, I knew it was a German speaking country but didn't see anything that fit ch. Apparently it comes from the Latin name for Switzerland, Confoederatio Helvetica. It was chosen to avoid picking any favorites among the four official languages of Switzerland. Anyway, I went for Zurich and didn't even see Basel. 4747. 5 - Saw the Access Alaska, went for Anchorage because I assumed an urban world would put us in the biggest city. Way off, 3712. Could've squeezed out a few more points if I was as dedicated to scanning through every inch of the cities like you, but I'm happy with how I did.
Bit late this time, hope you still read my game, it was an interesting one. 1. With the wires my immediate reaction was southeast Asia, and seeing the English writing on the sign with 12, the last time something like that was Taiwan, the letters seem to match, so I went for Taipei. The Lane numbering did not really make sense to me and could not find 53, so I went central. 4598 points 2. It is clearly Turkey, and I see Trabzon, which I know from Trabzonspor so it probably is a city,found it quickly on the map :). now searching the exact locatation... Which did not go quickly, so I went for the centre again. 4997 points (866 meters) 3. Okay, the NOva Scotia was quite in your face. And the west is uphill and the east is water and then land again, which helps in searching the correct location. Looked in Halifax, searched for the right direction of the roads and found the hall of fame. 5000 points 4. .ch on the tram, so it is Czech Republic, but the willkommen en the buildings give such a german vibe. I really can't find anymore clues other then the city has a tram and probably is close to germany, because of some writing. So I went in Liberec by a Cinema City instead of a Pathé. You mention Switzerland, that moment I facepalmed very very very hard -_-, Czech Republic is of course cz, everythink makes so much more sense now. Still 3150 points. 5. The signs feel like they are American, but I don't think I can trust myself anymore haha. But it has to be. Was just about to complain that almost every big sign was not readable when I saw the Access Alaska. First I scanned the border, but there litterally is nothing. Zoomed in at Fairbanks and immediatly spotted a Cushmann street, if it is the right Cushmann street it is a bit scary. And there is Gaffney road. Found it within a minute after going along the whole border. 5000 points Total of 22 745 points, not bad, but looking back at the 4th I really want to cry, could have beat you if I was not keeping so stupidly to my idea of ch is Czech Republic, even with all the german writing i saw, bit disgusted about myself with that one, but in the end it was a good score to end with.
LOL I recognised the Basel location almost immediately, I ate some Burgers in the diner next to the Sushi place, and the road going upwards to Klosterberg and the green tram gave it away even before I saw the diner. I have watched a number of these urban challenges, the first time this happened. Let's see what other places I know ;-)
first time i beat you and i also beat my own PB, got 4990+ on every one except for the Basel one, i picked Zurich. Taiwan one was pretty lucky to be honest, it looked more like the east coast to me but i wasn't sure at all 24,727
"Ming Yi Street" and the red on the sides of the roads means no parking in Taiwan. Almost all Taiwanese address signs say the name of the street in Chinese and English. Only very old and countryside ones dont.
Ah man ... you could be Basel on the sign behind the bus you zoomed in at when you were checking the url !! Still incredible though Keep up the great vids
This was my attempt: 1: Writing looks Chinese and the climate looks quite warm, so probably the southern part of China. Guessed Ghuanzou. 2723 points. 2: Writing is Turkish. Spotted the sign with Trabzon on it, which gave away the city. 4996 points. 3: The Nova Scotia signs kinda gave it away. Decided to look in Halifax first, and found the Scotiabank Centre. 5000 points! 4: Writing is German, but the website on the tram end in .ch, so must be Switzerland. Didn't find any other clues, so I guessed Bern. 4764 points. 5: Spotted the Alaska sign. Decided to look around in Anchorage, but couldn't find anymore clues. Guessed somewhere in Anchorage. 3715 points. 21198 points total. Not too bad.
This one was pretty great! 1. Kinda bullshit to start off with. Taiwan was pretty obvious, especially after last time. I got it slightly closer - 98 km. 2. This one was a fun one! Trebzon immediatly reminded me of Trebizond, so I found the city very quickly. Then it was just a painful scrolling to find the weird shaped building, but I did find it so a perfect score. 3. This one was interesting. Took a bit of looking around, not gonna lie but I did find it so another perfect one. 4. UGH. I can't fucking believe you. I looked around nearly every large city in Switzerland for like 15 minutes trying to find it and eventually gave up and put it in Zurych. And the worst thing is that I distinctly remember seeing the Irish Pub place when scrolling around in Basel. FUCK. 5. Thank god Alaska has only two cities. Anchorage yielded no results so Fairbanks it was. A third perfect score! Despite this being a mindblowingly great game I am still kinda mad about the Switzerland. If I had gotten it I think I would have had a better score than you. This was I was 100 points behind. Great, great game and video.
LOOOOVE these. 21971 final score. 1. Really tough one. I forget how to differentiate between Hong Kong and Taiwan but I feel like that's what I'm going between. I decided on Taiwan, and I decided against Taipei and went with a city just southwest of it. 4600. Beat 'em, good start. 2. Tough one, for me. I can't identify the language, and I decided on Turkey, and went near Istanbul. I don't have great reasons for doing it. OMG. I hate him for seeing that Trabzon. God DAMN. Fuck turkey for being huge, I get 2641. Turkey is forever a challenge for me. 3. Fairly easy to find, noticed the water to the east-ish, obviously Nova Scotia, so we find the Scotiabank centre. Done. He'll 5k it. 5000 for me. 4. Germany? No. there's a .ch domain. For a second, I thought there was more to this domain - but if you peek in the glass of the sushi place, you can see it is just .ch. Now, Germany would have .de, right, so me, the American, thinking, what in blazes is .ch with all this german-sounding stuff around, and a little bit of english? Switzerland? Well what's their domain... I didn't know. I left it. I thought it was some non-traditional domain. Then, I zoom in to Liechtenstein. Obviously, it's not Liechtenstein, but I see the border of Liechtenstein and Switzerland - Schweiz. OF COURSE. There's the ch. Thus we are in Switzerland. I'm so dumb, sorry. I went Lucerne out of geographical centrality I couldn't find the exact locale. I hate him for finding the exact again, that's unfair. I should have looked harder. 4730 for me. 5. Alaska. Initially thought anchorage, looked around briefly and didn't find cushman/gaffney, so then i tried Juneau, then Wasilla (cuz palin), then I went to Fairbanks. Saw it immediately. Easy 5000.
It bugged me that i couldn't see the end of the link in the 4th one as well, but if you look closely in one of the windows you can see the reflection of the tram and the link so you can see that it is the end of the link.
1st: Northern Germany (4506 points). I saw, what I thought was the Swedish language on top of the Vattenfall, but I also saw the German language pasted on the wall of the apartment. So I thought there was Swedish influence, but in a German country, so I went north. 2nd: Stockholm (2157 points). Thought the language was Swedish, but Nah. 3rd: Colombo (4993 points). I thought it was somewhere random in India until I Saw the Sri Lanka sign. Guessed Colombo, because this city seemed massive. 4th: Tijuana (4976 points). I had the landscape of a suburb in LA, except it screamed the third world, so I went to Mexico and clicked the western side of TJ. 5th: (4998 points). Saw the SacPark parking signs and immediately connected that to Sacramento. Total: 21630
21065 points :) :/ so-so 1. I saw the Chinese religious art and thought from the slightly poor infrastructure that it would be Taiwan. I didn't think to look at the symbols against the city names and guessed Taichung city near the center of the island. 2. I recognized the Turkish language and tried to find a city name but didn't find Trabzon and guessed Ankara, again because of centrality. 3. I have been to Halifax, so once I found the WW1 memorial on the hill I got the 5000 points in seconds. 4. I saw German writing and thought of Germany and Austria. I have been to Vienna and thought from the spruced up city that I should guess there. I completely forgot to consider Switzerland! 5. I saw the US flag, then an Alaska sign. After that it took only about 5 minutes of prodding around Anchorage and Fairbanks to get the 5000.
1- Remembered the last video and went Taiwan, went same city as last time too but got wrong side-- 4.4k points 2- Saw Trabzon and recognised the football team, looked for AGES for the city and found it, but couldn't for the life of me find my way through all the mosques and supermarkets so went in the centre, and got -- 4997 points 3-Knew it was Canada bc of ScotiaBank, but was thinking football stadiums and then ended up clicking near toronto to be 'safe', didn't even know about Nova Scotia.-- 2.8k 4. Was s confused and then found the german looking sign way too late lol, zoomed into Munich and saw 'cultural centre' and thought that looks perfect, couldn't find the street name so guessed near it ,, got -- 4000 points , lol 5-
21572, my best one yet without moving 1. Went for Taiwan because of the english writing, just clicked in the middle. 4545 2. Saw Trebzon written on many different places so that must be the city, found it by complete coincidence and clicked very near the spot. Lucky guess. 4997 3. It was practically a gift, went straight to the capital city and found the location. 5000 4. Like an absolute idiot, I went for Czech Republic instead of Switzerland. In my defense (if there is any) I didn't know the .ch and I didn't even remember the .cz. 3323 5. Saw the Alaska sign, looked for the streets in Anchorage, gave up and just clicked a random spot in there. 3707 Still kicking myself for that idiotic fourth round. Oh well, it's experience for next time!
Playing this 2 years later and a couple of cities are barely recognizable - all empty storefronts with the new google views. Makes it a lot harder to play with literally empty buildings and barren parking lots. The last one especially!
Round 1: last time you went hong kong and i went shanghai. this time i got closer in going hong kong and you got the country: annoying 😂 next time well both get the 5k i reckon 😂 - 2873 Round 2: found trabzon. could read on the right side of the building that its some culture centre. couldnt find it tho. also saw a sign for some shopping centre. forum or something. did find that a went too close to it - 4990 Round 3: Found nova scotia. with halifax being the first place to look it and plenty street names and such that was an easy one... 5000 Round 4: url on the tram for switzerland. basel in the tram stop. "schauspielhaus abendkasse" (meaning theatre box office) on the wall. went to look for the theatre. easy again. also annoying again, because you didnt see the 2(!) signs that said basel and basically "just" bruteforced it 😂 5000 Round 5: That took a while. alaska was simple. Didnt think further than anchorage for far too long tho. after almost locking anchorage out of desparation i went into fairbanks for "one last quick look" and found it pretty much instantly - 5000 22863 - The taiwan one now really annoys me and the turkey one are 10 unnecessarily wasted points too but apart from that im really fuckin proud of this score.
Hahaha im German and at 2:22 i was like "wow people let there stuff outside, arent they scared about burglars? And then you Said the same lol typical european :)
An interesting twist while playing this game I have come up with is to try to get as close to a certain score as possible. For example: If you wanted to get 10,000 points you wouldn't want to get too little points or too many, you want as close to 10,000 as possible.
Ok I played along well over 1 year after this video was published, and the map was actually updated in the Alaska round. Right now, it is so freaking bright that I couldnt read a single sign on anything. I couldn't read Alaska on the sign or True North so I was clueless as to where in the US i was. I assumed it was very north because of just how south the sun was, but I still guessed Minnesota and lost tons of points. Overall my best Geoguessr round anyway. But that was kinda bull crap
It was saying Kultur Merkezi on the front part of the building. I actually got 5000 on that one rather quickly. In the Switzerland one, there was a thingy in the window, at the front of the "train", that said Basel. It was a tricky one tho, didn't see it at first. Also got full points on that one. Flopped on all the other ones xD
24650 Points! Round after round i thought i was a super detective only to see you finding it as well in half the time xD But i was a slightly better in the taiwan round, those were the deciding points, hehe
13:15 Those construction signs already tell you it‘s 100% switzerland. They only exist here: www.werag.ch/baugeraete/30-baugeraete-und-maschinen-2/81-vorsignalstaender
24998 - but WITH moving. Still happy with it, lost the 2 points in turkey because I was inpatient ... ".CH" stands for "Confoederatio Helveticorum", Swiss Confederation. If we don't want to offend anyone within our small four-languaged-country we choose a latin term 😉
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If you don't have Maps, you just call GeoGuessrWizard and describe your surounding and he tells you where you are
LOL It's fun seeing you getting Taiwan and Hong Kong mixed up. So I'm just gonna repost my comment from last video.
here's some pointers for next time:
Taiwan has more motorcycles. and when i say more, i mean MORE.
Hong Kong has british like license plates. White in front, Yellow at the back.
And yea, all three use traditional chinese writing, so the writing WILL look the same. You've got to look at the street signs. if it's black and white like in britain, and has English names, it's Hong Kong. If it's green it's usually Taiwan.
Hong Kong's more urban, so if its sort of rural/less big roads its usually New Territories, but those part are not as dense like in Taiwan. Taiwan's houses/residential area looks more JAPANESE because it was occupied in WW2 for quite some time.
if you see motorcycles in Hong Kong, its usually expensive and very rare to see them.
If its the urban part of Macau, it's VERY Portuguese. I mean you'll see the paved roads and think am i in portugal?
The smaller island of macau is filled with new casinos (north) and VERY rural houses (south)
:) and yeah i know this cuz i live in hk
Very nice of you to do this for him
Public transportation in the large swiss cities:
Zürich: blue trams or blue buses
Bern: Red trams or red buses
Basel: green trams or green buses
Geneva: White trams
Except for tram 6 in Bern, which is blue, and tram 12 in Zürich which is white (not sure about other exceptions).
Did anybody else notice that Gaffney Street was like the first street name to appear when he zoomed in?? And then he scrolled past it like three times!!
It hurt me on the inside. I was actually screaming
I had it with Scotiabank but he eventually found it.
Immediately noticed Musik Basel on the far window and Gaffney street. It triggered me immensely to watch but I can forgive him since he has shown in the past he is the absolute king of this game and I know nothing.
even Homer nods
Does anyone else do commentary in their head, as if they were recording, when playing along? Just me?
I do this with every game I play. Actually, I do it for a lot of things besides games too.
lmao yeah, I start going all in with the accent and chatting shit like "ah there's a plane in the air, this city is known for being under the flight path" and "those trees look french" right before making a god like guess :)
Are we recording?
Wow, your mouse literally hovered directly on my house in downtown Anchorage. that was crazy.
I’m currently on my way
@@griffindc oh shit
@@griffindc did u guys have a good time?
@@griffindc I demand answers
@@griffindc So? How was it?
#1: It looks like traditional rather than simplified Chinese, so let's go Taiwan rather than Hongkong or Singapore or something like that. Saw no further hint, went for the western part, 4586 points.
#2: Also saw Trabzon, though in another place than you did. Went somewhere in the city center. 4998 points.
#3: Saw Nova Scotia, but couldn't find the right city, finally went for a city I should have known was wrong (Yarmouth - even the sea is on the wrong side). Only 4271 points.
#4: Saw .ch on the tram, then Basel in a shopping window. Got close: 4999 points.
#5: 'Access Alaska' made me first think of Anchorage, but 'True North' made me go Fairbanks, where I saw the streetnames. 5000 points.
23854 points - I didn't beat you (I missed the Halifax one), but it's definitely a personal best that I can be proud of.
great effort Andre.
Actually Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese, but there are no buildings that look like those in the map view here in Hong Kong. Also, the English in the street name signs here are a lot bigger.
@@lhilaryl Thanks for the correction, will try to remember that
“Belediye” means municipality in Turkish and there are a lot of municipality related buildings in Turkey. great job though it was fun watching you try to pronounce turkish words:)
I almost had a heart attack, after 20 german words "well It could be Geneva"
You finally got it right bravo!
22,915 - very happy with this score... felt like I was in the zone... played a round and then watched you play it each time (my preferred play method)...
4633 Taiwan - picked Taichung City in the middle (previous hint about mopeds and Taiwan helped)
4999 Turkey - saw Trabzon on building and was 336m from actual location!
5000 Nova Scotia - easy once you found the Scotiabank Centre
3283 Basel - picked Dresden in Germany (saw the URL on the tram but guessed it was cut off by sign)... amazed/infuriated that you got that exactly... was beating you up until this point...
5000 Alaska - thought Anchorage, but then saw the Access Alaska sign and went Fairbanks - found exact location
Good game as always - wp
I finished each round feeling pretty good about my result, and then I watched you be like "oh yeah, that smudge over there clearly says Trabzon, which is a city I've definitely heard of."
ahahaha
Wow the first time i see you get my country (ch) and you did really well there, also much appreciated the jodel music so that i could dance to it with my cows while you were searching for the road xD
First time seeing a web link ending with .ch. guess I’m ignorant
And ch I'm guessing is for Confederatio Helvetica...?
@@vinrod4 yup
Ekmek means bread in Turkish, it's the most commonly eaten food in Turkey. Bakyar is a name and probably doesn't have a specific meaning. Good job, congratulations!
Probably your best one yet! Great stuff.
Did not expect my hometown, Halifax, to show up . Was killing me inside when he spent all that time searching in the North End
17:10 very nice music choice
Dude...that definitely says Mingyi
i am single and ready to mingyi
The “Mingyi” street is actually better written as “Ming-Yi” (they are two words). And the door sign did say “花蓮市” (Hualien City) on the top of the circle, with the neighbourhood name at the bottom: “主義里” .
But I guess it’s quite useless to know which neighbourhood you’re at because they don’t usually appear on google maps. So if you’re trying to aim for the exact spot, you gotta go into Hualien city and find it solely by the street name.
(I’m a Taiwanese)
If you have ever watched Trailer Park Boys you would have spotted Halifax straight away.
Me on the first round: "Mingyi, sounds Chinese, can't be China, must be Taiwan, better choose Japan." Damn it.
I did the same, so I just gave up and watched the rest of the video lol
These are just insane man, so entertaining to watch!
I've been going back and playing along with all your Urban World Videos
Every time I doubt he can impress more than his last video, but he never fails to.
Round 1: Went for central China, near Wuhan, got 1,502 pts
Round 2: Saw .tr on end of URL on sign so guessed Turkey, northeast of Ankara, got 3,301 pts
Round 3: Saw Nova Scotia sign and searched Halifax. Found Scotia Bank, got 5,000 pts
Round 4: Noticed Basel on window. Searched Switzerland and Liechtenstein for Basel and found it, got 4,976 pts
Round 5: Guessed northern Anchorage after seeing "Access Alaska" , got 3,897 pts
Total score - 18,777 pts (didn't beat you, but am improving)
no google street view in mainland China, so if you see Chinese characters it can only be Macau, Hong Kong or Taiwan
Some of these play alongs turn out very differently now with a street view in geoguessr that is a different view from when the video was recorded ... especially the last one where the image I had was VERY washed out by the sunlight.
Yeah, the Swiss one doesn't have the tram with the URL anymore, but I saw another website URL in the piano shop window (that would be behind the tram in this video). In the Alaska one you can now see a building in distance (southern direction) that says Fairbanks on top of it (with the first letter hidden behind a pole).
YOOO! FAIRBANKS! I used to live about 10 mins from that intersection; I drove on Cushman nearly every day. Recognized it immediately and was so taken aback haha.
Also quick and dirty tip: If you ever know you're in america and you're not sure which state, the only two that have solid yellow license plates are NY and Alaska that I'm aware of. NY is solid yellow with a black bar at the top, and AK is just straight yellow.
if you're in NY or AK, you shouldn't have to look at a black bar to figure it out! Very distinct locations lmao
@@AnCoSt1 upstate NY could be easily confused with many of its neighbors in new england imo but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just an extra layer of peace of mind when I'm playing
@@5705HU oh absolutely NY can be confused with NH VT CT MA PA without a doubt. but I think it'd be hard to confuse NY with AK, is what I was saying.
1. Saw Mingyi St. so went with Taipei, got about the same points as you
2. Spotted Trabzon on the building, guessed almost the exact same spot - 4995 points
3. Canadian, so this one was nice and easy - 5000 points
4. Spotted the .ch, went with Zurich so I wouldn't have to search for too long, lost out on 250 points or so
5. Worked in Fairbanks for a while, so another easy one - 5000 points
Total: 24334 - not sure I'll ever beat that
16:00 Ah fuck off with the jodeling :D Cheers from Switzerland and awesome score, couldn't even beat you in the Switzerland round...
For the Switzerland one, if you look around long enough and, there's actually the city, the district and the street written on some sign or other. Finally found it on the map only to see the cinema gone, the irritated me as well. Then again the program in the window was for 2015
21137 in total. thanks for the game
1 - recognised it as Taiwan, thought the street signs looked like Tainan from #6 so went there. 4,432
2 - saw a sign saying Adana, guessed there. absolutely didn't spot Trabzon nor even know that was the name of a city. 3,296
3 - all the Nova Scotia stuff made it pretty easy. 5,000
4 - got Switzerland from the .ch, guessed Zurich after some hunting around in there and Bern. never thought about Basel. (and wouldn't have found the spot anyway, since I was focusing on the closed cinema...) 4747
5 - this one had updated, some of the businesses had closed but Access Alaska was still there and there was another sign saying Fairbanks which made it piss easy. 5,000
22,475 total, definite step down from the last one but not bad imho
always look forward to these! :D
Round 1- I speak and read Chinese so it's a bit of an advantage, I could see from the house number sign that it said "Hualien City" so I immediately knew where to look. Unfortunately there were about 5 streets called Mingyi Street and I guessed the wrong one lol, but still 4984 points.
Round 2- my big miss, the part that gave you "Trabzon" I couldn't read well, but I saw it ended with "ediyesi" and I randomly found a city on the south coast called "Side Belediyesi" so I thought it must've been there. Only got around 2700 pts because of that.
Round 3- pretty easy, lots of stuff that gave away the exact location. Basically same logic as you.
Round 4- I knew it was Switzerland based on the .ch as well, but spent about 10 full minutes looking around various cities and gave up and guessed Zurich.
Round 5- Alaska was obvious, and luckily most of the cities in Alaska are quite small so it was easy to scan around the bigger cities and find the exact location
This was the perfect play along with not much headaches
Haha that stupid backyard joke had me laughing way too hard
A hint for switzerland: The trams in Bern are Red, in Zürich they are Blue and in Basel they‘re green
HAHA OH MY GOD! You landed on a street in Halifax I walk up at least once a week. It was so intense watching you almost land on the wrong street by the bell tower.
#1: Remembered the similar looking Taiwan location from last week, went for Tainan though. 4405 points.
#2: Searched the downtown areas of Trabzon for an inordinate amount of time before giving up and guessing. It was a pretty good guess, 4998 points.
#3: Went at it the same as you, 5000 points.
#4: Totally ignored Basel and focused on Zürich, guessed there eventually. 4743 points.
#5: Again, focused hard on Anchorage as Fairbanks wasn't even on my radar. This one cost me as I got only 3691 points for a total of 22837.
Im from Nova Scotia, it was funny seeing the downtown Halifax bars sober hahaha
Fairly certain that first street is Mingyi (As in Ming-yi) rather than Mingyl, so it does sound Chinese after all.
But given the potato which took the photo, I understand why the i turned into an l.
22847.
1 - Also figured out that it was Taiwan, guessed in Tainan because one of your previous challenges ended up in there. 4402.
2 - Saw the sign that said Trabzon on it, so I went for it because I know where Trabzon is (thanks EU4!). 4996.
3 - Went for Halifax because it's the capital of Nova Scotia and this is an urban world, got lucky and got 4990.
4 - I'll admit I had to look up what .ch was, I knew it was a German speaking country but didn't see anything that fit ch. Apparently it comes from the Latin name for Switzerland, Confoederatio Helvetica. It was chosen to avoid picking any favorites among the four official languages of Switzerland. Anyway, I went for Zurich and didn't even see Basel. 4747.
5 - Saw the Access Alaska, went for Anchorage because I assumed an urban world would put us in the biggest city. Way off, 3712.
Could've squeezed out a few more points if I was as dedicated to scanning through every inch of the cities like you, but I'm happy with how I did.
Bit late this time, hope you still read my game, it was an interesting one.
1. With the wires my immediate reaction was southeast Asia, and seeing the English writing on the sign with 12, the last time something like that was Taiwan, the letters seem to match, so I went for Taipei. The Lane numbering did not really make sense to me and could not find 53, so I went central. 4598 points
2. It is clearly Turkey, and I see Trabzon, which I know from Trabzonspor so it probably is a city,found it quickly on the map :). now searching the exact locatation... Which did not go quickly, so I went for the centre again. 4997 points (866 meters)
3. Okay, the NOva Scotia was quite in your face. And the west is uphill and the east is water and then land again, which helps in searching the correct location. Looked in Halifax, searched for the right direction of the roads and found the hall of fame. 5000 points
4. .ch on the tram, so it is Czech Republic, but the willkommen en the buildings give such a german vibe. I really can't find anymore clues other then the city has a tram and probably is close to germany, because of some writing. So I went in Liberec by a Cinema City instead of a Pathé. You mention Switzerland, that moment I facepalmed very very very hard -_-, Czech Republic is of course cz, everythink makes so much more sense now. Still 3150 points.
5. The signs feel like they are American, but I don't think I can trust myself anymore haha. But it has to be. Was just about to complain that almost every big sign was not readable when I saw the Access Alaska. First I scanned the border, but there litterally is nothing. Zoomed in at Fairbanks and immediatly spotted a Cushmann street, if it is the right Cushmann street it is a bit scary. And there is Gaffney road. Found it within a minute after going along the whole border. 5000 points
Total of 22 745 points, not bad, but looking back at the 4th I really want to cry, could have beat you if I was not keeping so stupidly to my idea of ch is Czech Republic, even with all the german writing i saw, bit disgusted about myself with that one, but in the end it was a good score to end with.
Absolutely incredible game! Congratulations!
can't believe the only time i've ever beat you was on this game! i got 24676. it was all down to getting a slightly better taiwan score
You can tell when he’s having a great game cause he cracks more jokes and you can hear it in his voice
Actually if you see any asian coutry with steet names, you can always remember, that it is not Japan xD
Round 3, I've literally stood in that exact spot, I knew it was Halifax within about 5 seconds!
The orange license plates pretty much always give it away for Alaska.
LOL I recognised the Basel location almost immediately, I ate some Burgers in the diner next to the Sushi place, and the road going upwards to Klosterberg and the green tram gave it away even before I saw the diner. I have watched a number of these urban challenges, the first time this happened. Let's see what other places I know ;-)
first time i beat you and i also beat my own PB, got 4990+ on every one except for the Basel one, i picked Zurich. Taiwan one was pretty lucky to be honest, it looked more like the east coast to me but i wasn't sure at all
24,727
"Ming Yi Street" and the red on the sides of the roads means no parking in Taiwan. Almost all Taiwanese address signs say the name of the street in Chinese and English. Only very old and countryside ones dont.
Ah man ... you could be Basel on the sign behind the bus you zoomed in at when you were checking the url !! Still incredible though
Keep up the great vids
This was my attempt:
1: Writing looks Chinese and the climate looks quite warm, so probably the southern part of China. Guessed Ghuanzou. 2723 points.
2: Writing is Turkish. Spotted the sign with Trabzon on it, which gave away the city. 4996 points.
3: The Nova Scotia signs kinda gave it away. Decided to look in Halifax first, and found the Scotiabank Centre. 5000 points!
4: Writing is German, but the website on the tram end in .ch, so must be Switzerland. Didn't find any other clues, so I guessed Bern. 4764 points.
5: Spotted the Alaska sign. Decided to look around in Anchorage, but couldn't find anymore clues. Guessed somewhere in Anchorage. 3715 points.
21198 points total. Not too bad.
This one was pretty great!
1. Kinda bullshit to start off with. Taiwan was pretty obvious, especially after last time. I got it slightly closer - 98 km.
2. This one was a fun one! Trebzon immediatly reminded me of Trebizond, so I found the city very quickly. Then it was just a painful scrolling to find the weird shaped building, but I did find it so a perfect score.
3. This one was interesting. Took a bit of looking around, not gonna lie but I did find it so another perfect one.
4. UGH. I can't fucking believe you. I looked around nearly every large city in Switzerland for like 15 minutes trying to find it and eventually gave up and put it in Zurych. And the worst thing is that I distinctly remember seeing the Irish Pub place when scrolling around in Basel. FUCK.
5. Thank god Alaska has only two cities. Anchorage yielded no results so Fairbanks it was. A third perfect score!
Despite this being a mindblowingly great game I am still kinda mad about the Switzerland. If I had gotten it I think I would have had a better score than you. This was I was 100 points behind. Great, great game and video.
I actually think that I ate in one of those restaurants in Basel this summer, I most certainly remember the bushes and the road style too
LOOOOVE these. 21971 final score.
1. Really tough one. I forget how to differentiate between Hong Kong and Taiwan but I feel like that's what I'm going between. I decided on Taiwan, and I decided against Taipei and went with a city just southwest of it. 4600. Beat 'em, good start.
2. Tough one, for me. I can't identify the language, and I decided on Turkey, and went near Istanbul. I don't have great reasons for doing it. OMG. I hate him for seeing that Trabzon. God DAMN. Fuck turkey for being huge, I get 2641. Turkey is forever a challenge for me.
3. Fairly easy to find, noticed the water to the east-ish, obviously Nova Scotia, so we find the Scotiabank centre. Done. He'll 5k it. 5000 for me.
4. Germany? No. there's a .ch domain. For a second, I thought there was more to this domain - but if you peek in the glass of the sushi place, you can see it is just .ch. Now, Germany would have .de, right, so me, the American, thinking, what in blazes is .ch with all this german-sounding stuff around, and a little bit of english? Switzerland? Well what's their domain... I didn't know. I left it. I thought it was some non-traditional domain. Then, I zoom in to Liechtenstein. Obviously, it's not Liechtenstein, but I see the border of Liechtenstein and Switzerland - Schweiz. OF COURSE. There's the ch. Thus we are in Switzerland. I'm so dumb, sorry. I went Lucerne out of geographical centrality I couldn't find the exact locale. I hate him for finding the exact again, that's unfair. I should have looked harder. 4730 for me.
5. Alaska. Initially thought anchorage, looked around briefly and didn't find cushman/gaffney, so then i tried Juneau, then Wasilla (cuz palin), then I went to Fairbanks. Saw it immediately. Easy 5000.
Great video as always. Managed to beat you in Taiwan but you bested me in Basel and Trabzon. Love the content, keep it up! :)
Thanks mate 11:30
It bugged me that i couldn't see the end of the link in the 4th one as well, but if you look closely in one of the windows you can see the reflection of the tram and the link so you can see that it is the end of the link.
If this was a 5 countries challange I would have 5/5.
Omg I randomly watching this video and my city Halifax is in it! Love that
1st: Northern Germany (4506 points). I saw, what I thought was the Swedish language on top of the Vattenfall, but I also saw the German language pasted on the wall of the apartment. So I thought there was Swedish influence, but in a German country, so I went north.
2nd: Stockholm (2157 points). Thought the language was Swedish, but Nah.
3rd: Colombo (4993 points). I thought it was somewhere random in India until I Saw the Sri Lanka sign. Guessed Colombo, because this city seemed massive.
4th: Tijuana (4976 points). I had the landscape of a suburb in LA, except it screamed the third world, so I went to Mexico and clicked the western side of TJ.
5th: (4998 points). Saw the SacPark parking signs and immediately connected that to Sacramento.
Total: 21630
21065 points :) :/ so-so
1. I saw the Chinese religious art and thought from the slightly poor infrastructure that it would be Taiwan. I didn't think
to look at the symbols against the city names and guessed Taichung city near the center of the island.
2. I recognized the Turkish language and tried to find a city name but didn't find Trabzon and guessed Ankara, again
because of centrality.
3. I have been to Halifax, so once I found the WW1 memorial on the hill I got the 5000 points in seconds.
4. I saw German writing and thought of Germany and Austria. I have been to Vienna and thought from the spruced up
city that I should guess there. I completely forgot to consider Switzerland!
5. I saw the US flag, then an Alaska sign. After that it took only about 5 minutes of prodding around Anchorage and Fairbanks
to get the 5000.
Managed to get a perfect score in Basel, happy with that
Just zooming in right on cushman. Massive score
A dare against you, wizard, is a no-no.
UFO in the sky on the Taiwan map lol
I got 23,657. I had no idea that .ch was Switzerland, it really threw me off but I went for Germany. Otherwise did about as well as you did overall.
1- Remembered the last video and went Taiwan, went same city as last time too but got wrong side-- 4.4k points
2- Saw Trabzon and recognised the football team, looked for AGES for the city and found it, but couldn't for the life of me find my way through all the mosques and supermarkets so went in the centre, and got -- 4997 points
3-Knew it was Canada bc of ScotiaBank, but was thinking football stadiums and then ended up clicking near toronto to be 'safe', didn't even know about Nova Scotia.-- 2.8k
4. Was s confused and then found the german looking sign way too late lol, zoomed into Munich and saw 'cultural centre' and thought that looks perfect, couldn't find the street name so guessed near it ,, got -- 4000 points , lol
5-
In the Switzerland Part u could see Basel on the advertisment behind the train
21572, my best one yet without moving
1. Went for Taiwan because of the english writing, just clicked in the middle. 4545
2. Saw Trebzon written on many different places so that must be the city, found it by complete coincidence and clicked very near the spot. Lucky guess. 4997
3. It was practically a gift, went straight to the capital city and found the location. 5000
4. Like an absolute idiot, I went for Czech Republic instead of Switzerland. In my defense (if there is any) I didn't know the .ch and I didn't even remember the .cz. 3323
5. Saw the Alaska sign, looked for the streets in Anchorage, gave up and just clicked a random spot in there. 3707
Still kicking myself for that idiotic fourth round. Oh well, it's experience for next time!
great work man. I'm really impressed, I wouldn't have the patience lol
Playing this 2 years later and a couple of cities are barely recognizable - all empty storefronts with the new google views. Makes it a lot harder to play with literally empty buildings and barren parking lots. The last one especially!
Round 1: last time you went hong kong and i went shanghai. this time i got closer in going hong kong and you got the country: annoying 😂 next time well both get the 5k i reckon 😂 - 2873
Round 2: found trabzon. could read on the right side of the building that its some culture centre. couldnt find it tho. also saw a sign for some shopping centre. forum or something. did find that a went too close to it - 4990
Round 3: Found nova scotia. with halifax being the first place to look it and plenty street names and such that was an easy one... 5000
Round 4: url on the tram for switzerland. basel in the tram stop. "schauspielhaus abendkasse" (meaning theatre box office) on the wall. went to look for the theatre. easy again. also annoying again, because you didnt see the 2(!) signs that said basel and basically "just" bruteforced it 😂 5000
Round 5: That took a while. alaska was simple. Didnt think further than anchorage for far too long tho. after almost locking anchorage out of desparation i went into fairbanks for "one last quick look" and found it pretty much instantly - 5000
22863 - The taiwan one now really annoys me and the turkey one are 10 unnecessarily wasted points too but apart from that im really fuckin proud of this score.
Basel: green trams; Bern: red trams; Zürich: blue trams.🇨🇭
Got 23000. That Switzerland one was interesting
Hahaha im German and at 2:22 i was like "wow people let there stuff outside, arent they scared about burglars? And then you Said the same lol typical european :)
I love how welcoming the intros are :)
First round tho, literally all you need to do was find 花莲市 in Taiwan, like finding Cambridge in England. I was watching and screaming.
Bloody hell, them are pictures to me.
In the US, the word before Credit Union is always Federal. Just FYI.
The poster in the tram stop says 'Basel'
23,042 - new highscore for me ! you still beat me though !
An interesting twist while playing this game I have come up with is to try to get as close to a certain score as possible. For example: If you wanted to get 10,000 points you wouldn't want to get too little points or too many, you want as close to 10,000 as possible.
I see you're trying your hand at the "acryllic" alphabet again :)
ЛП ИRВЛП ШОRLD
LP IRVLP SHORLD
Got 22800, dropped the majority of my points on round 4 because I went in Bremen Germany
In that Basel round I saw an Fc Basel sticker on the back of a road sign
Me: Ch, ahh that must be Czechia,
Tom: Ch is Switzerland
Me: ohh lol
"welcome to the place"
Ok I played along well over 1 year after this video was published, and the map was actually updated in the Alaska round. Right now, it is so freaking bright that I couldnt read a single sign on anything. I couldn't read Alaska on the sign or True North so I was clueless as to where in the US i was. I assumed it was very north because of just how south the sun was, but I still guessed Minnesota and lost tons of points. Overall my best Geoguessr round anyway. But that was kinda bull crap
It was saying Kultur Merkezi on the front part of the building. I actually got 5000 on that one rather quickly.
In the Switzerland one, there was a thingy in the window, at the front of the "train", that said Basel. It was a tricky one tho, didn't see it at first. Also got full points on that one.
Flopped on all the other ones xD
I got an unbelieveable 24988 - makes me think I should have tried to get some of them more exact!
"CH" stands for Confoederatio Helvetica, that is, Latin for "Swiss Confederation".
Pretty sure CH stands for Confederation Helvetica.
Just what I was waiting for!
24650 Points!
Round after round i thought i was a super detective only to see you finding it as well in half the time xD
But i was a slightly better in the taiwan round, those were the deciding points, hehe
Yellow "zebra crossing" stripes are a giveaway for Switzerland.
CH = Confoederatio Helvetica (Latin for Swiss Confederation), BTW.
13:15 Those construction signs already tell you it‘s 100% switzerland. They only exist here:
www.werag.ch/baugeraete/30-baugeraete-und-maschinen-2/81-vorsignalstaender
24998 - but WITH moving. Still happy with it, lost the 2 points in turkey because I was inpatient ... ".CH" stands for "Confoederatio Helveticorum", Swiss Confederation. If we don't want to offend anyone within our small four-languaged-country we choose a latin term 😉
I was beating you the whole way untiil that last round. Kudos Tom. i got 23383 and lost.
'good gosh it's huge' that's what she said
It was bearable, thanks for asking.
CH stands for Swiss Confederation (Confédération helvétique)
We guessed within 5 meters of each other on the Turkish round