I taught myself (with help from the internet} the Cyrillic alphabet three years ago specifically because I was growing tired of perfect games going to hell because of a destination in Russia or Ukraine. I'm still studying Russian. It is all part of the beauty of Geoguessr.
I just posted a much longer answer along the same lines :) Almost the same here, I went and learnt Cyrillic to be able to read along with everything that youtuber "Bald and Bankrupt" films, but still. Yep, learnt it in an evening, then repeatedly exercised by literally stopping at every new Cyrillic word or sentence in his videos, trying to pronounce it and then typing it phonetically into Google Translate to see if I had it right (it will not only translate but also try to guess what Cyrillic word you meant). Just a few hours of study and I can now pronounce a Russian news article to my Russian colleague in a way that he can actually understand what I'm saying. Sure, he'll laugh at my pronunciation and my total ignorance of the actual content, but still.
I scrolled down to type exactly that and your comment was the first one I saw. He should definitely do that, you don't even need to know russian, just reading it out makes so many things at least understandable.
I've learned cyrrilic this summer just by travelling some eastern european countries and it could definitely help in some cases in geogeussr, but it did not help me in this specific round.
@@BadgerStyler As well as Austrian (yep, Austrian; the German German word is "Kasse"). I think we exported it in monarchy times because of all the Slavic lands we possessed. The Russians then back in the late 1800s were very eager to incorporate German sounding words into their language.
You are going to and already have achieved great things! I love that you are bringing what you did with Wales to a larger scale and I only wish you a great rest of your career on TH-cam
@@gosnooky I don't disagree necessarily, but let's face it, that is what Arabic shouted in the distance would sound like for anyone that doesn't speak it hehe.
My scores (pretty proud of this one): 1. 3996 - Recognised Kyrgyzstan from 'Bishkek Petroleum', looked for a town called 'Kassa', obviously didn't find one so just dropped the pin in a random town. 2. 5000 - Recognised Tunisia from French sounding words + arabic script, searched in Tunis for 'Planete Cafe' for ages, almost gave up, then decided to quickly check some other towns, found it almost immediately in Bizerte. 3. 5000 - This was ridiculously lucky. I guessed Yekaterinburg from the sign which seemed to be advertising something about a 100th anniversary of something to do with Tsar Nicolas II. I guessed that this could be his death, which was in Yekaterinburg in 1918, so I looked for a large road running east-west through Yekaterinburg, dropped my pin and happened to be just 50m away. 4. 5000 - Initially thought Little Italy in Manhatten, then decided the street layout was wrong for NYC, so started looking in Boston. Found an area with a lot of Italian restaurants, then found 'Regina Pizzeria'. 5. 5000 - Looked through every fricken city in South America to find one with a big fuck off volcano south of it, eventually found the right city and used street names to get the full points. Total - 23996
It's easy to cheat on this game, so there is no way to prove it. However is it that unbelievable? Looks like just good work. You can distrust everyone all the time and get right sometimes, but what's the point.
@@amir3515 it's impossible to prove, hence you have to distrust everyone who plays this game then. I could show you proof of 50.000 on any map you want, of course fake. I also know other cheat methods that I have never used myself. At the end of the day this game is really about improving your game and having fun. You can never be 100% sure that others don't cheat, but if their story makes sense, why doubt it?
The satisfying feeling when everything you wanted to tell him has already been said by other people :D thanks! I can only add that learning the cyrillic alphabet is really easy, it took me just a few days of minimal effort while I was in Serbia. And yes, you had that Guatemala round before :)
My scores: #1: Like you went for Kyrgyzstan based on Bishkek oil (Kacca by the way is Kassa, which means cash desk), but I went a bit farther south than you. 4246 points #2: Had no idea what country it was apart from being Arabic-speaking. Went for Cairo, Egypt. 1104 points. #3: Somehow thought Czar Nicholas II as an emperor of Austria, so I went for Lviv :( 835 points. #4: Didn't know which US cities would have a big Italian population, went for New York City. 4079 points. #5: Guatemala never crossed my mind. Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia was what I thought of. Went for Quito. 1100 points. 11364 points... Had hoped for better.
I'm gonna start adding my scores for the playalong too. I was so proud of going to Algiers in round 2 and near Boston in round 4, but he blew me away each time :D
@@Brekekekiwi It's really helpful to know which countries have streetview and which not. There aren't many arabic countries with street view, and neither egypt nor algeria count to them. Only Tunisia, Jordan, UAE and Palestine have street view and with the french influence and the black license plates given in this round it was clear that this location could only be in Tunisia. Next time you see a Tunisian location, you will get it right for sure :)
You looked right at the Guatemalan flag like 3 times and never noticed it. It's on the roof on the right side of the street when looking towards the volcano
Pierre Miniggio Glad to hear! I can‘t speak any language that utilizes the alphabet, but it‘s still super helpful. A sign that says letter for letter “SUPERFOSFAT” will probably not make anyone consider it as a city name anymore :D
The Google Streetcar has a roofrack in more isolated countries, where you need to carry more supplies with you (not really a problem in big urban areas, like NYC). So knowing where on Google Maps the car had a roofrack when travelling can narrow down your options significantly :)
In all of Central and South America there's only Guatemala with the roof rack. Same thing in Mongolia (where there's also boxes on the roof visible as well) and Ghana. There's only a handful of these countries that show these racks and if you know the landscape (cold Mongolian desert, tropical African forests and Latin American architecture along with Spanish) it's very easy to disatinguish these. But don't confuse it with the shape of the car that's sometimes visible. Here you'll most likely be in a US or British overseas territory (like the the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico or Bermuda)!
I reckon you should do a video/series where you play a game of GeoGuessr and whichever round you get the highest score on you have to travel to that exact location, would be a pretty cool series. You could use different modes of transport and complete challenges on the way
So cool to see somewhere I’m familiar with on this game. Knew right away where that was in Boston! And Regina is probably one of the most well known restaurants of the city (great pizza as well)
LOL with the last one i knew immediately that it was Antigua, because i´ve been there and the city is very unique, still amazing that you got it without knowing anything about the place though and by the way, the woman you called a "gypsy" is most definitely maya indigenous like most people in this region and wearing their traditional colorful cloth.
You've been in Antigua Guatemala more than once, yesterday I saw a video on your channel where you were moving around in the town. I recognized the cobblestones and the square pattern of the streets.
Feels good to finally see my home country in one of these challenges. I got 5k on the Tunisia round. It was very easy because the name of the city was actually written on one of those shops and then it was rather easy to pinpoint using that bank on the corner (BH) and the coffee shop.
Just a general tip, especially useful in the USA: Look down. There are a lot of manhole covers and such that say the name of the city (that was true in the Boston round as well). Also, look up, there can be good hints there as well.
Craaaazy how good you are at this game. Haha considering I got 6458 points and I even got 5k on the boston guess. I absolutely bottled every other round, Guatemala flag with san morino flag and russia with Krygstan etc. mate what a nightmare
koult45 I don’t think you know how continents work... were still on the European continent despite not being attached to the landmass. That’s like saying Japan isn’t in Asia.
My second time participating, and probably containing the luckiest guess I'll ever have. 1: Noticed the Bishkek petrol station. Guessed a random bishkek station, but not the right one. 3940 points 2: Looked mediterranean to me, and I knew that Tunisia is one of the few Arabic speaking countries with google streetview. Didn't even see the flag. Guessed near Tunis. 4680 points 3: Thought it looked like Russia, expected this round to be one of those impossible ones. But no, I randomly guessed the EXACT same road as the answer. 505.1 meters away! 4998 points 4: Italian flags in the US = NYC. 4127 points 5: I dunno mate. Bolivia? 268 points This game was almost decent until that last round. Got 18013 points in total. I still can't believe that Yekaterinburg guess.
I play Geoguessr very occasionally, and I have had two of those in the past couple of weeks - Boston and Guatemala. The Boston one is very distinctive so I remembered it. Geoguessr is no where near as random as people imagine.
For #5 noteworthy sign is stop sign. It says 'ALTO' and according to wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign#Stop_signs_around_the_world) such stop sign is used in Central America and Mexico. In South America there is 'PARE' written on stop sign. This is good to remember when playing GeoGuessr
You should learn to read Cyrillic, it's not that hard. I've learned Serbian Cyrillic (since I'm learning Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) but also know some differences between Serbian Cyrillic, Ukrainian Cyrillic and Russian Cyrillic. Also the last tsar of Russia was murdered by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, which probably explains the billboard. It would be a bit of a long shot but in theory one could figure out that it's Yekaterinburg because of that billboard, especially if one knows a bit of Russian and thus knows what the billboard says.
Kacca would sound more like Kassa than the "kakka" you said which sounds similar to the danish Kasse which means box but also means cash register as in the place you pay for stuff and seeing as it was on the building next to the petrol stands I assume that's the meaning.
I went for Jekaterinburg, because that's the city where tsar Nicolas II and his family were executed. I can't read any Russian, but it could be an ad for some kind of exhibition commemorating one century of the tsar's death (in 1918).
First time I played along... The third location was my home city so it was nice and easy 5k. Especially after my mental powers were depleted by scanning Kirgizstan for every little petrol station for over an hour. And I even did not find the exact location despite checking the right town. I was so defeated I didn`t even try with the Arabic one. Boston was easy though, right in the downtown with distinguishable Boston architecture and visible street name. But the last one destroyed me completely as there was no clues for me whatsoever, apart from the place being in Latin America. And yeah, knowing Cyrillic wasn`t any help in the first one, as there were no other clues apart from petrol company, that was also in Latin anyway.
I’ve been to Antigua, Guatemala! And I even have a painting of Water Mountain and houses that look just like that in my room! Great job with your guess!
Damn you on that Boston one! I'm from the US and knew it was either Boston (most likely) or Manhatten. I determined Boston based upon writing on the sewer man-hole cover in the street. (This is a good tip for many large American cities.) I just couldn't find the spot in Boston. My guess was 2.6 miles off. You, as usual, just fall ass backwards into the perfect guess.
Ugh. I grew up in the US, half my family lives in Boston, I've visited there countless times, and you figured out it was Boston like 5 times quicker than I did lol.
Yesss. I've just beat you (which is rare). The difference was i went to Ufa in Russia :) But i've went to New York in the Boston round , and other town in Guatemala. Still though managed to get a 21118 score.
When you make statements like "I'm sure this is Boston" within 10 seconds of looking at a random street in the US , or because the Google car has a roof rack it means it's Guatemala... it would be great if you could give your reasoning.
I didn't do well overall but got 5k on the last one. I knew it was at least a medium sized town directly north of a volcano with the streets running north-south. Took a bit of scanning from Peru up through Mexico then back to Guatemala, but it was possible to quickly discount towns that didn't fit those parameters.
For goodness' sake Tom, learn to read Cyrillic :D C is S. Kacca is Kassa --> register :D Learning a few letters is far quicker and more useful than learning 3-5 iterations of 50 US state number plates :D
I have been watching all of your videos for months now and I knew you sounded like someone I recognise. You sound like Daniel from Coronation Street (I know you aren't from Manchester but still haha)
The St Anthony's feast sign is gone on the newest Google maps but you can see City of Boston on a electrical service box so I still got a perfect score on that round. Didn't do well on the Russia round, 20,162.
Alright, here is a guide to a perfect score! It took me quite some time and probably a bit of luck, but I made it this time! Round 1: "Bishkek Petroleum" is a confirmation that this is Kyrgyzstan, but it's not Bishkek itself, as there are big mountains to the north. The orientation of the mountains more or less did the trick here, as there was a range seemingly extending west-to-east over to the north and NE-SW to the south, which, as the Wizard points out in retrospect, you can also see on the map in the east of Kyrgyzstan. The petrol station was marked on the map in Karakol making for a good start. Round 2: Tunisia judging by the combination of French and Arabic and, of course, the flag in the distance. It was not a small city, but it didn't look as big and chaotic as Tunis either. I think the big cities to the south also tend to have a slightly more deserty feel, although I did take the time to look at Sousse or Kairouan to see if any intersection fit. Eventually I zoomed in on Bizerte, and spotted the Planete Cafe and the crossroads with the diagonal street also branching off to the east. Round 3: "Evil doesn't defeat evil, but only love" was the message for today, apparently somehow related to Nicholas II. I saw many Asian cars around and there even was what looked like a Japanese restaurant nearby, so I spent quite a lot of time scanning the cities of the Russian Far East for a large road with a west-to-east orientation gently bending to the north, in the absence of other meaningful clues. Not surprisingly, I found nothing, but I decided to take a final look at Yekaterinburg, the city where Nicholas II was executed by the Bolsheviks, just in case the billboard had a regional connection. And, to my excitement, here was the kind of road I was looking for, along with the outlines of buildings (generally accurate in Russia) looking promisingly similar. And, indeed, it was correct! Round 4: An Italian neighbourhood in an American city, it seems. There are few cities with buildings that old in America, so Boston was my first thought as well. Indeed, the irregular, dense street grid in the center suggested a preserved old city, and the "Lavanderia" was the first clue I saw that matched perfectly. Round 5: The architecture looked like the old cities in the mountains of Latin America, but it was a bit too lush to be the Andes, and the volcano in close proximity made me think of Guatemala. I spotted it on the map pretty much in the same random way as the Wizard, except I looked at the street names too :) Total: 25000 points!
I am pretty sure you hat the Guatemala one on a previous video. Think you did move around in that one. This place looked so distinct and so familiar to me, I remembered it definitely was Guatemala. When I saw the name of the city I was dead sure. Does anyone remember what video that was in? (Maybe 6 months ago or something)
Huh, what a coincidence. I actually got exactly the same number of points as you on round 3 for guessing Volgograd, which is also 870 miles away from Yekaterinburg.
You should do a real version of geoguessr!! Like get taken blindfolded to a random destination, and then, with a limited amount of steps, have to figure out where you are! How awesome wouldn't that be?
I propose you make a video series where you learn russian alphabet. So many times u make me laugh when u think its the place of the name but its something random like kacca which means till/place where u pay.
hopefully you do more outdoors videos in the future ! That series was a blast but im not really into these geoguessr videos , i probably will unsub to clear my feed but ill keep an eye and ill be back if theres more outdoors on this channel !
I was choosing between Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Tyumen but for some reason decided on Yekaterinburg. It just felt more Yekaterinburgy than the others
The "C" in Cyrillic script is the equivalent of an "S" in Latin script so with my limited linguistic knowledge, I would guess "Kacca" is like the German "Kasse" which means checkout.
The tunisia one had a sign saying bizerte, would you consider maybe bringing people that can read arabic or/and cyrillic maybe to help you out reading the signs? I wouldn't consider that cheating, they would be like only reading the signs for you as they are there right in front of you, it's just too bad that you can't read them, ofc I could have suggested for you to learn how to read some of the foreign languages but that you be a fetch
Actually Central, not South, America -- I knew that because of the STOP sign that said ALTO (it's usually PARE in South America). But anyway he got there brilliantly in the end, despite not spotting the Guatemalan flag (no, I didn't see it either -- before reading these comments!). I would have guessed Mexico, but then I'm pretty hopeless at these "no moving around" challenges (still can't resist them, though) -- so very well done as ever, GeoWizard!
You need to try out Seterra and their map quizzes. They're by far the best map quiz program I've tried. Here's the 193 UN member states: online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3199 Under the map on "pin" you can choose to make it more difficult by not lighting up the countries you've already completed, by picking "Pin (hard)", if you want
18787 points I rushed the game a bit. 1. Bishkek sign made me put it in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan I even found a junction that correlated lol but it was 300 km away in Karakol 2. I saw Arabic and French which screams Tunisia, saw a Tunisian flag, and went for the northernmost city I could find which was Bizerte, got it right. 3. I spent 20 minutes trying to work out which Russian city I was in, noticed a lot of Toyotas Lexuses, Nissans etc and for a laugh went for Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, that way I didn't feel bad when it was western Russia lol. 4. I recognized Boston and found Regina Pizzeria in seconds and got 5000 pts. 5. I eventually stumbled upon a Guatemalan flag and didn't think it was a big enough place to be Guatemala City and guessed in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala City would have been closer.
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5:24: "Is that the place that we're at?" (looking at a sign in cyrillic). Well... I somehow doubt the town is called "Super Phosphate" :D :D :D
you never know with Soviets and their town naming
@@Mocsk LMAO )
I doubt it could be cash desk :)
Considering there's a town called Asbest (Asbestos) why not?
@@Gameboygenius Haha, so true :)
Касса ("Kassa") IS just a "cash register", or shop, you've guessed right the first time :)
its called ''Kassa'' in swedish aswell
“Cassa” in Italian
and Finnish
Kasa in polish
"Kasse" in german
I feel like if you learned Cyrillic it would make it much easier to guess a big chunk of the countries
Definitely, and it's not that hard either, I learnt it fluently in just 1 week
I taught myself (with help from the internet} the Cyrillic alphabet three years ago specifically because I was growing tired of perfect games going to hell because of a destination in Russia or Ukraine. I'm still studying Russian. It is all part of the beauty of Geoguessr.
I just posted a much longer answer along the same lines :) Almost the same here, I went and learnt Cyrillic to be able to read along with everything that youtuber "Bald and Bankrupt" films, but still. Yep, learnt it in an evening, then repeatedly exercised by literally stopping at every new Cyrillic word or sentence in his videos, trying to pronounce it and then typing it phonetically into Google Translate to see if I had it right (it will not only translate but also try to guess what Cyrillic word you meant). Just a few hours of study and I can now pronounce a Russian news article to my Russian colleague in a way that he can actually understand what I'm saying. Sure, he'll laugh at my pronunciation and my total ignorance of the actual content, but still.
I scrolled down to type exactly that and your comment was the first one I saw. He should definitely do that, you don't even need to know russian, just reading it out makes so many things at least understandable.
I've learned cyrrilic this summer just by travelling some eastern european countries and it could definitely help in some cases in geogeussr, but it did not help me in this specific round.
Looking at the word "Checkout" in Russian and other Slavic languages (касса): "That must be the place!"
Kassa in Dutch too
@@BadgerStyler As well as Austrian (yep, Austrian; the German German word is "Kasse"). I think we exported it in monarchy times because of all the Slavic lands we possessed. The Russians then back in the late 1800s were very eager to incorporate German sounding words into their language.
@@BadgerStyler in Finnish also.
@@BadgerStyler Norwegian as well. The plague killed norse language and we imported german merchant words like this one.
You are going to and already have achieved great things! I love that you are bringing what you did with Wales to a larger scale and I only wish you a great rest of your career on TH-cam
6:55 lmao. Tom never fails to make me laugh.
I laughed too. A bit culturally insensitive, but still funny as hell.
@@gosnooky Implying sh*tskins have culture.
@@gosnooky I don't disagree necessarily, but let's face it, that is what Arabic shouted in the distance would sound like for anyone that doesn't speak it hehe.
i come back from a break from youtube and you went from 20k subs to +300k, that is pogs
His travelling across Wales in a straight line series blew up. That's how I found this channel. It's great!
@@0Rosina0 Same that's how I found his channel :P
Unfortunatly the majority of those new subs will only watch his survival-videos instead of his actual main content
Klaas Klever I'm not sure about that, to be honest.
6:55 literally killed me, couldn't stop laughing
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Same
rip
Cracked me up too 😂😂
My scores (pretty proud of this one):
1. 3996 - Recognised Kyrgyzstan from 'Bishkek Petroleum', looked for a town called 'Kassa', obviously didn't find one so just dropped the pin in a random town.
2. 5000 - Recognised Tunisia from French sounding words + arabic script, searched in Tunis for 'Planete Cafe' for ages, almost gave up, then decided to quickly check some other towns, found it almost immediately in Bizerte.
3. 5000 - This was ridiculously lucky. I guessed Yekaterinburg from the sign which seemed to be advertising something about a 100th anniversary of something to do with Tsar Nicolas II. I guessed that this could be his death, which was in Yekaterinburg in 1918, so I looked for a large road running east-west through Yekaterinburg, dropped my pin and happened to be just 50m away.
4. 5000 - Initially thought Little Italy in Manhatten, then decided the street layout was wrong for NYC, so started looking in Boston. Found an area with a lot of Italian restaurants, then found 'Regina Pizzeria'.
5. 5000 - Looked through every fricken city in South America to find one with a big fuck off volcano south of it, eventually found the right city and used street names to get the full points.
Total - 23996
Do you have proof of this? Sounds too good to be true
@@Rocketmanrun of course he has no proof..
It's easy to cheat on this game, so there is no way to prove it. However is it that unbelievable? Looks like just good work. You can distrust everyone all the time and get right sometimes, but what's the point.
@@avienated better to distrust when no evidence is provided
@@amir3515 it's impossible to prove, hence you have to distrust everyone who plays this game then. I could show you proof of 50.000 on any map you want, of course fake. I also know other cheat methods that I have never used myself. At the end of the day this game is really about improving your game and having fun. You can never be 100% sure that others don't cheat, but if their story makes sense, why doubt it?
So cool to finally immediately recognize a place in your videos! I lived in Antigua, Guatemala for quite a while and I’m glad you got it!
The satisfying feeling when everything you wanted to tell him has already been said by other people :D thanks!
I can only add that learning the cyrillic alphabet is really easy, it took me just a few days of minimal effort while I was in Serbia. And yes, you had that Guatemala round before :)
My scores:
#1: Like you went for Kyrgyzstan based on Bishkek oil (Kacca by the way is Kassa, which means cash desk), but I went a bit farther south than you. 4246 points
#2: Had no idea what country it was apart from being Arabic-speaking. Went for Cairo, Egypt. 1104 points.
#3: Somehow thought Czar Nicholas II as an emperor of Austria, so I went for Lviv :( 835 points.
#4: Didn't know which US cities would have a big Italian population, went for New York City. 4079 points.
#5: Guatemala never crossed my mind. Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia was what I thought of. Went for Quito. 1100 points.
11364 points... Had hoped for better.
I'm gonna start adding my scores for the playalong too. I was so proud of going to Algiers in round 2 and near Boston in round 4, but he blew me away each time :D
@@Brekekekiwi It's really helpful to know which countries have streetview and which not. There aren't many arabic countries with street view, and neither egypt nor algeria count to them. Only Tunisia, Jordan, UAE and Palestine have street view and with the french influence and the black license plates given in this round it was clear that this location could only be in Tunisia. Next time you see a Tunisian location, you will get it right for sure :)
Yekaterinburg is actually where Nicolas II and his family were killed!
A holy site
good riddance
You looked right at the Guatemalan flag like 3 times and never noticed it. It's on the roof on the right side of the street when looking towards the volcano
i screamed every time he hovered over it and didnt mention it lol
I don't see it
He was staring right at it when he said "any clues as to which country" 😂
Invest 30 minutes into learning the cyrillic alphabet and you save yourself a lot of troubles in the future. It‘s really easy.
Thanks for the tip. I actually just looked it up after reading your comment, it really is not as hard as I would have thought! :o
Pierre Miniggio Glad to hear! I can‘t speak any language that utilizes the alphabet, but it‘s still super helpful. A sign that says letter for letter “SUPERFOSFAT” will probably not make anyone consider it as a city name anymore :D
True, but I don't think it would have helped much on this game?
@@avienated It doesn't help at all. I was thinking Krasnodar and got even worse score than GW.
Hey, learning Cyrillic could be way more easier and useful in geoguessr than learning US number plates, just saying
Its killing me how you deduced Guatemala from the car having a roof rack. Am I missing a big piece insider knowledge here?!
The Google Streetcar has a roofrack in more isolated countries, where you need to carry more supplies with you (not really a problem in big urban areas, like NYC). So knowing where on Google Maps the car had a roofrack when travelling can narrow down your options significantly :)
Mongolia and some African countries usually. I didn't know about Guatemala.
@@davidholden3386 thank you!
In all of Central and South America there's only Guatemala with the roof rack. Same thing in Mongolia (where there's also boxes on the roof visible as well) and Ghana. There's only a handful of these countries that show these racks and if you know the landscape (cold Mongolian desert, tropical African forests and Latin American architecture along with Spanish) it's very easy to disatinguish these.
But don't confuse it with the shape of the car that's sometimes visible. Here you'll most likely be in a US or British overseas territory (like the the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico or Bermuda)!
Bruh there's a guatemalan flag
For future reference, in central asian countries cyrillic and latin alphabets are often used interchangeably.
I reckon you should do a video/series where you play a game of GeoGuessr and whichever round you get the highest score on you have to travel to that exact location, would be a pretty cool series. You could use different modes of transport and complete challenges on the way
So cool to see somewhere I’m familiar with on this game. Knew right away where that was in Boston! And Regina is probably one of the most well known restaurants of the city (great pizza as well)
LOL with the last one i knew immediately that it was Antigua, because i´ve been there and the city is very unique, still amazing that you got it without knowing anything about the place though and by the way, the woman you called a "gypsy" is most definitely maya indigenous like most people in this region and wearing their traditional colorful cloth.
You've been in Antigua Guatemala more than once, yesterday I saw a video on your channel where you were moving around in the town. I recognized the cobblestones and the square pattern of the streets.
Feels good to finally see my home country in one of these challenges. I got 5k on the Tunisia round. It was very easy because the name of the city was actually written on one of those shops and then it was rather easy to pinpoint using that bank on the corner (BH) and the coffee shop.
“Lots of words are popping up and leaving my head regularly” I feel you
“If we end on a good one, we end good” golden
Just a general tip, especially useful in the USA: Look down. There are a lot of manhole covers and such that say the name of the city (that was true in the Boston round as well). Also, look up, there can be good hints there as well.
I panned down accidentally on that one and was pleasantly surprised!
Loved seeing Regina's Pizza in the old north end! Excellent pizza and a really wonderful neighborhood
Craaaazy how good you are at this game. Haha considering I got 6458 points and I even got 5k on the boston guess. I absolutely bottled every other round, Guatemala flag with san morino flag and russia with Krygstan etc. mate what a nightmare
2:33 An Italian would read and pronounce that "kakka", and he would probably laugh, since in italian "cacca"... means poop :)
"I am back from Europe" - You are Europe.
Brexit in a nutshell
No he's British and not European!
@@TheMarshalMurat They're still in the EU, and on the European continent :)
@@excuse_me_mister They're on an island, they are not on any continent.
koult45 I don’t think you know how continents work... were still on the European continent despite not being attached to the landmass. That’s like saying Japan isn’t in Asia.
My second time participating, and probably containing the luckiest guess I'll ever have.
1: Noticed the Bishkek petrol station. Guessed a random bishkek station, but not the right one. 3940 points
2: Looked mediterranean to me, and I knew that Tunisia is one of the few Arabic speaking countries with google streetview. Didn't even see the flag. Guessed near Tunis. 4680 points
3: Thought it looked like Russia, expected this round to be one of those impossible ones. But no, I randomly guessed the EXACT same road as the answer. 505.1 meters away! 4998 points
4: Italian flags in the US = NYC. 4127 points
5: I dunno mate. Bolivia? 268 points
This game was almost decent until that last round. Got 18013 points in total. I still can't believe that Yekaterinburg guess.
Wow, the Boston guess was amazing
I play Geoguessr very occasionally, and I have had two of those in the past couple of weeks - Boston and Guatemala. The Boston one is very distinctive so I remembered it. Geoguessr is no where near as random as people imagine.
@@alternativeglasto yeah he’s played a lot of these maps before or something similar
Hey man, I really liked that thing where YOU HIKED ACROSS AN ENTIRE FKN COUNTY IN A STRAIGHT LINE...that was pretty cool
Not that you needed it, but don't forget to check your manhole covers. City names abound!
For #5 noteworthy sign is stop sign.
It says 'ALTO' and according to wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign#Stop_signs_around_the_world) such stop sign is used in Central America and Mexico.
In South America there is 'PARE' written on stop sign.
This is good to remember when playing GeoGuessr
You should learn to read Cyrillic, it's not that hard. I've learned Serbian Cyrillic (since I'm learning Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) but also know some differences between Serbian Cyrillic, Ukrainian Cyrillic and Russian Cyrillic. Also the last tsar of Russia was murdered by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, which probably explains the billboard. It would be a bit of a long shot but in theory one could figure out that it's Yekaterinburg because of that billboard, especially if one knows a bit of Russian and thus knows what the billboard says.
I figured it out bc the only two cities I associate with tsar nicky the second was st Petersburg and Yekaterinburg and it deffo wasdnt st petes
I was so excited to beat you because I knew exactly where round 4 was without even searching, low and behold you found it within two minutes
We use the expression "use your noggin" in the USA as well. Must go way back haha
i feel dead proud whenever you say the same country as i thought about!
Yekaterinburg was where that Tsar was killed by the Communists
Nothing better than a dead Tsar
@@alexsouthard3300 cringe
@@ianmatthew138 ok now this is epic XD
@@alexsouthard3300 Nothing better than a dead Tsar? Well it turned out that there was plenty worse than a living one.
LiamE69 you sound like a lib
6:55 hahahahaha wtf I turn around one second and I hear this 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
"Is there an Italian district in Boston? Surely there is..." as he zooms in on Regina, masterful timing! hahaha
(and yes, the North End of Boston is its "little Italy"
You should do a short twitch livestream to attempt the perfect score! Maybe like 3-ish hours?
Kacca would sound more like Kassa than the "kakka" you said which sounds similar to the danish Kasse which means box but also means cash register as in the place you pay for stuff and seeing as it was on the building next to the petrol stands I assume that's the meaning.
I went for Jekaterinburg, because that's the city where tsar Nicolas II and his family were executed.
I can't read any Russian, but it could be an ad for some kind of exhibition commemorating one century of the tsar's death (in 1918).
First time I played along... The third location was my home city so it was nice and easy 5k. Especially after my mental powers were depleted by scanning Kirgizstan for every little petrol station for over an hour. And I even did not find the exact location despite checking the right town. I was so defeated I didn`t even try with the Arabic one. Boston was easy though, right in the downtown with distinguishable Boston architecture and visible street name. But the last one destroyed me completely as there was no clues for me whatsoever, apart from the place being in Latin America. And yeah, knowing Cyrillic wasn`t any help in the first one, as there were no other clues apart from petrol company, that was also in Latin anyway.
That first place is so odd looking. Looks like a dump but those mountains looked glorious.
I’ve been to Antigua, Guatemala! And I even have a painting of Water Mountain and houses that look just like that in my room! Great job with your guess!
Damn you on that Boston one! I'm from the US and knew it was either Boston (most likely) or Manhatten. I determined Boston based upon writing on the sewer man-hole cover in the street. (This is a good tip for many large American cities.) I just couldn't find the spot in Boston. My guess was 2.6 miles off. You, as usual, just fall ass backwards into the perfect guess.
Ugh. I grew up in the US, half my family lives in Boston, I've visited there countless times, and you figured out it was Boston like 5 times quicker than I did lol.
Yesss. I've just beat you (which is rare). The difference was i went to Ufa in Russia :)
But i've went to New York in the Boston round , and other town in Guatemala.
Still though managed to get a 21118 score.
When you make statements like "I'm sure this is Boston" within 10 seconds of looking at a random street in the US , or because the Google car has a roof rack it means it's Guatemala... it would be great if you could give your reasoning.
I didn't do well overall but got 5k on the last one. I knew it was at least a medium sized town directly north of a volcano with the streets running north-south. Took a bit of scanning from Peru up through Mexico then back to Guatemala, but it was possible to quickly discount towns that didn't fit those parameters.
What about 20 sec/round series, tom?
i dunno
Tom Smith lmfao 😂
For goodness' sake Tom, learn to read Cyrillic :D C is S. Kacca is Kassa --> register :D Learning a few letters is far quicker and more useful than learning 3-5 iterations of 50 US state number plates :D
I have been watching all of your videos for months now and I knew you sounded like someone I recognise. You sound like Daniel from Coronation Street (I know you aren't from Manchester but still haha)
The St Anthony's feast sign is gone on the newest Google maps but you can see City of Boston on a electrical service box so I still got a perfect score on that round. Didn't do well on the Russia round, 20,162.
Alright, here is a guide to a perfect score! It took me quite some time and probably a bit of luck, but I made it this time!
Round 1: "Bishkek Petroleum" is a confirmation that this is Kyrgyzstan, but it's not Bishkek itself, as there are big mountains to the north. The orientation of the mountains more or less did the trick here, as there was a range seemingly extending west-to-east over to the north and NE-SW to the south, which, as the Wizard points out in retrospect, you can also see on the map in the east of Kyrgyzstan. The petrol station was marked on the map in Karakol making for a good start.
Round 2: Tunisia judging by the combination of French and Arabic and, of course, the flag in the distance. It was not a small city, but it didn't look as big and chaotic as Tunis either. I think the big cities to the south also tend to have a slightly more deserty feel, although I did take the time to look at Sousse or Kairouan to see if any intersection fit. Eventually I zoomed in on Bizerte, and spotted the Planete Cafe and the crossroads with the diagonal street also branching off to the east.
Round 3: "Evil doesn't defeat evil, but only love" was the message for today, apparently somehow related to Nicholas II. I saw many Asian cars around and there even was what looked like a Japanese restaurant nearby, so I spent quite a lot of time scanning the cities of the Russian Far East for a large road with a west-to-east orientation gently bending to the north, in the absence of other meaningful clues. Not surprisingly, I found nothing, but I decided to take a final look at Yekaterinburg, the city where Nicholas II was executed by the Bolsheviks, just in case the billboard had a regional connection. And, to my excitement, here was the kind of road I was looking for, along with the outlines of buildings (generally accurate in Russia) looking promisingly similar. And, indeed, it was correct!
Round 4: An Italian neighbourhood in an American city, it seems. There are few cities with buildings that old in America, so Boston was my first thought as well. Indeed, the irregular, dense street grid in the center suggested a preserved old city, and the "Lavanderia" was the first clue I saw that matched perfectly.
Round 5: The architecture looked like the old cities in the mountains of Latin America, but it was a bit too lush to be the Andes, and the volcano in close proximity made me think of Guatemala. I spotted it on the map pretty much in the same random way as the Wizard, except I looked at the street names too :)
Total: 25000 points!
I am pretty sure you hat the Guatemala one on a previous video. Think you did move around in that one. This place looked so distinct and so familiar to me, I remembered it definitely was Guatemala. When I saw the name of the city I was dead sure.
Does anyone remember what video that was in? (Maybe 6 months ago or something)
you had this round before because i remember it vividly haha
I subscribed for the Wales journey. Are you planning any other such adventures? They do not have to be in a straight line.
He’s doing another one which has already been completed. Editing and narrating can take a while though.
Huh, what a coincidence. I actually got exactly the same number of points as you on round 3 for guessing Volgograd, which is also 870 miles away from Yekaterinburg.
In my last game I got exactly the same Guatemala spot! I mean, do the locations repeat? I though it was randomly generated...
One day you're gonna travel somewhere and recognise one of these places
You should do a real version of geoguessr!! Like get taken blindfolded to a random destination, and then, with a limited amount of steps, have to figure out where you are! How awesome wouldn't that be?
Antigua Guatemala is one of my favorite places. It is so beautiful there.
Great job on the Boston guess
Can you please tell what adventure you did in Europe (if possible)? I can't wait for it to see on the channel!!
That guatemala guess is absolutely crazy!
Hah! I spent a week or two in Ekaterinburg. Look for the Urals, or main street.
"It's a bog-standard Kyrgyzstani guess"
lmfao
Saw a "BWS" label on a road cone, thought B is for Baltimore (but no curvy narrow streets there) or Boston (yes!)
3:20 Why are the bottom of the trees painted white? I see this a lot but whenever I ask people don't know what I'm talking about.
It's lime mixed with water to protect against the bark cracking and to deter pests. It's called whitewashing.
2:33 sorry to burst your bubble but we italians do not read "kacca" as "kaccha" xD we'd read it as "kacca" just like you xD
The Boston guess was madness
I propose you make a video series where you learn russian alphabet. So many times u make me laugh when u think its the place of the name but its something random like kacca which means till/place where u pay.
hopefully you do more outdoors videos in the future ! That series was a blast but im not really into these geoguessr videos , i probably will unsub to clear my feed but ill keep an eye and ill be back if theres more outdoors on this channel !
Did you ever come back?
I was choosing between Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Tyumen but for some reason decided on Yekaterinburg. It just felt more Yekaterinburgy than the others
that last guess was insane.
[SPOLIERS]
holy shit I guessed in Moscow for that 3rd one and got EXACTLY the same distance/points as you. :D
*ME:* This must be America
*GEOWIZ:* Boston!
*ME:* HOW THE F*CK!!!!
Since you mentioned it, In italian you would read that "Cacca" which literally means poo
The "C" in Cyrillic script is the equivalent of an "S" in Latin script so with my limited linguistic knowledge, I would guess "Kacca" is like the German "Kasse" which means checkout.
You put me down faster than ASMR (in the best way)
The tunisia one had a sign saying bizerte, would you consider maybe bringing people that can read arabic or/and cyrillic maybe to help you out reading the signs? I wouldn't consider that cheating, they would be like only reading the signs for you as they are there right in front of you, it's just too bad that you can't read them, ofc I could have suggested for you to learn how to read some of the foreign languages but that you be a fetch
They use "noggin" for head in Canada and parts of the USA too ;)
and most places in the UK. (well, everyone i've met has known the word) and i've lived all over the UK
@@ingylu do you do a vocab test on everyone you meet?
Bald and Bankrupt taught me that Kacca is cashier! I think it's pronounced Kassa
Phil Jackson aha that’s how I knew Bishkek cause he’s there atm 😂
the c makes a s sound in cyrillic
Huh we're in South America, there's mountains. Oh loot at that...we're in the right city. So good at guessing, whenever I guess I'm 2 countries over.
Actually Central, not South, America -- I knew that because of the STOP sign that said ALTO (it's usually PARE in South America). But anyway he got there brilliantly in the end, despite not spotting the Guatemalan flag (no, I didn't see it either -- before reading these comments!). I would have guessed Mexico, but then I'm pretty hopeless at these "no moving around" challenges (still can't resist them, though) -- so very well done as ever, GeoWizard!
People in Canada also call their heads “noggins” 😂😂
not if your under the age of 45 lmao
We know what a noggin is in Newcastle but we prefer the word liggie for your knapper!
Can you do an Asia round? It’s quite hard for me, but I wanna know what will you think of them
Cacca in italian means poo (pronounced kakka) so I giggled a bit at that part
Me: What an ending, huh...
*Skipping to the ending*
He survived europe! even europeans can't do that
don't even know what this means but yes
My fellow Hungarian friend - whaaaaaaaat????
(Mi mindent túlélünk ;) )
@@bioLarzen ez igaz, sok szopás árán de simán
I mean, he's from the UK... Which is in europe...
@Deborah Meltrozo, more like Pakistan or India mixed with Africa.
Ever see a movie called "the Librarian"? GeoWizard would make a great librarian.
You need to try out Seterra and their map quizzes. They're by far the best map quiz program I've tried. Here's the 193 UN member states:
online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3199
Under the map on "pin" you can choose to make it more difficult by not lighting up the countries you've already completed, by picking "Pin (hard)", if you want
19946. First 3 rounds were hard to 5k imo; r5 is quite a unique place though.
18787 points I rushed the game a bit.
1. Bishkek sign made me put it in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan I even found a junction that correlated lol but it was 300 km away in Karakol
2. I saw Arabic and French which screams Tunisia, saw a Tunisian flag, and went for the northernmost city I could find which was Bizerte, got it right.
3. I spent 20 minutes trying to work out which Russian city I was in, noticed a lot of Toyotas Lexuses, Nissans etc and for a laugh went for Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, that way I didn't feel bad when it was western Russia lol.
4. I recognized Boston and found Regina Pizzeria in seconds and got 5000 pts.
5. I eventually stumbled upon a Guatemalan flag and didn't think it was a big enough place to be Guatemala City and
guessed in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala City would have been closer.
*sees "Superphosphat"* "this might be the place"
Early as always since i have notifications on
The boston one confused me because there's a prince street in little italy new york