For the Sydney and Peru rounds I started a few meters down the road. For this one there are posters on the fence saying Puno not quite readable in the video but were for me. I would have had no clue where that was but by chance I have been through it on a bus 2 years ago (Arequipa to Cusco)
@@MrStratofish Us 2020 players are definately more lucky on the Peru round this time. Getting different images can be bad or good, but you kinda wish you had the same as everyone else :/
The last one SCREAMED of Vancouver. The sunny & dry summer climate, EVO car share, blue lettering on license plates, street sign style at the junction, architecture, even the gardening style. Too bad you got a very generic street. Awesome work on that Peru one & Reykjavik was just cheeky!
Yes but it was extremely tricky because it was North Vancouver, not Vancouver. I knew Vancouver's 12th ave is more narrow than the one in this game, but I never thought to check the 12th ave in NORTH vancouver, so I put my man down on Vancouver's 12th avenue. .
I found a good Geoguessr map called "A Complete World." It has every country in the world on it, even though a few are just photo spheres. Maybe it could be the next "10 Country Challenge" or 5 country challenge as it's a lot harder and quite a few are misleading due to the fact it has a lot of obscure countries on it :)
Cheers mate! I reckon it's a lot more doable than you'd think, it's just that you'd have to spend an unholy amount of time working it out.. Did you play the challenge yourself this week?
I did! Couldn't pinpoint in Iceland but was closer in R5 and got around 23600. Btw people keep commenting on my channel saying I should try and do a collab with you, just thought it would be worth mentioning lol
@@GeoWizard I think this is the one that was possible as I actually got 5000 myself on the last round. I didn't get the perfect score on round 3 and 4 but when I saw you did, I knew it was possible you could get the last one too. Especially when at the end you considered Canada, but then you let that go
Some clues you were in Vancouver: - cedar trees are almost always a West coast feature - wide streets are also a West coast thing - Americans hate the words "Lord" and "Manor" - the view of the sea to the west - mountains Everything up to Vancouver was brilliant! Loving the channel.
Anyone else watch this from Vancouver absolutely SCREAMING AT THE SCREEN? For me, even before I saw the Evos and the 604s, that particular 1970s West Coast apartment design combined with the tone of the sunlight nailed it. I guess a panorama with the mountains showing would have been too easy for this game.
Having lived in Seattle, at first I thought it was Seattle from the sun tone and trees, then the cars looked too reasonably sized (not to mention the lack of garbage in/on/near the street) to be USA, and I didn’t recognise the 604 area code from US ones so I was guessing Canada.. but probably would’ve ended up in Toronto! 😄 It’s so frustrating that they can’t google the area code of a phone number.
having grown up in vancouver, i actually screamed at the TV when i saw the 604 area code. just remember 604 and 778 are vancouver area codes, and 250 is the rest of BC better luck next time :(
Round 5, sky blue licence plates are British Columbia. The area code on the car is the same as my area code in west BC. This looks like North Vancouver to me but I'm not certain. EDIT: I KNEW IT! What a sad ending though.
My round: 1) Easy, Sydney. proceed to spend way too long focusing in on the hospital which I didn't find. Placed randomly in East Sydney and got 4998, not bad. 2) Clearly italy. Northern? Bologna idk, did okay 4331. 3) Looks like La Paz to me? Scanned around a bit but didn't want to spend too much time, placed randomly in La Paz, turns out to be Peru but fairly close 4289. Not bad. 4) Iceland, I pretty much did the exact same thing as you. Found graffafu..gur or whatever and placed a rough estimate. Managed to get the 5k, probably my best guess ever! I think not trying to get it perfectly actually helped me in this case. 5) No clue. Felt like northern US so went in Portland, kinda happy tbh. 3,677. Ended up with a record score(for this format) of 22,295. great stuff loved the vid!
In round 5, the Evo car had a .ca website on the back. Not that I can talk, I only got around 14700, with most coming from Sydney and Reykjavik which were pretty much freebies
bennikk haha whenever its Luxembourg, I recognise it in a few milliseconds as well. Most of the time I can tell where exactly but often Luxembourg spawns are in the fields so.
Two things about that first Sydney one: The East Sydney Private Hospital didn't come up on maps because it's not a practising hospital, they just kept the sign there (for historical reasons?) and include that spot in the round because that would've been a big bumsteer for many people. The Wolper Jewish Hospital isn't only for Jewish people :)
Holy shit, the 5th round is my city. The ℞ or RX is just a symbol meaning prescription, which made sense because its a health care van. Our plates have a white background and blue print, the yellow you saw was just a registration decal sticker. Evo Car Share is a car sharing service in Vancouver.
Rx means prescription. It's a pharmacy van dropping off medication. Pharmacists and doctors in the UK use 'rx' but it's generally unknown by UK patients unlike USA and Canada where it seems to be more widespread. So gutted about that last round. Can't believe my heart would start racing for a geoguessr challenge. Can't wait for the next no moving!
It's sad that the challenge link doesn't work properly anymore. I got put into a hotel room overseeing the road Geowizard was placed at in the first round. There was a partial view of the opera so I was still able to get a good guess (4,995/1.4km)
In America RX is used in place of “prescription” so that Van was a medical van and had nothing to do with the city. Just a little tip for the future. Love the videos!
The BC plate was what gave Vancouver away for me. The blue lettering really stands out, and the yellow you saw must have been the yearly registration tag. On the other hand that Icelandic guess was incredible. I swear I spent an hour scrolling Reykjavik to no avail...
Totally crushed with the last round, I was on the edge for the whole episode!! Your skills are impressing me every time, even when I think I‘ve seen it all. Can‘t wait for the next round, you‘ll do this!!!
20,560 and almost carbon copy of your game. 4 perfect rounds up until the point where Vancouver ruined my life. I had a very similar experience to you in Iceland, could not believe I got it. Love the channel Tom, keep the excellent content coming.
1. I actually ended up in a hotel room overlooking the Opera, which was quite surprising. Yay for playing ages later I guess. 4999 points because it was a weird location and I couldn't really judge where the actual location was. 2. Changed images as well, had a poster that mentioned Milan, but finding the actual place took a while. Mostly looked for Metro stations in combination with the junction layout. 5000 points. 3. I guessed further in the south, annoyingly the changed image actually had the city name on it, but with the language I wasn't sure which one would have been a place name. If I had been as sure about Peru as you were, maybe I could have made the connection. 672 points. 4. Looked mainly in the biggest city since everything else didn't seem big enough, the updated map had the name of one of the advertisements on it, so that helped. 5000 points. 5. Not much to go on, clicked somewhere in the US. 742 points. Well done on Peru in particular, that was quite some intuition and dedication on your part.
I'm playing these a few years later and the photospheres have been updated. Sydney was in a hotel room overlooking the opera house. I wonder how the matching algorithm works.
I think learning phone number area codes could prove much more valuable than trying to memorize license plates. Many vans and signs have phone numbers on them and in the last one, the 604 gave away British Columbia.
on the vancouver one I figured it was vancouver because it was similar to videos i've seen in vancouver, but I was stuck on East 12th Avenue and didnt take the time to look north for East 12 street. could've def been a perfect round along with perfect on the first sydney round but was too lazy with it ahah.
Yes - I got 25000 on this! Imagery has apparently changed in the meantime: #1 similar imagery, was easy to locate with hospital (was labelled on my map) and other signs #2 different-looking imagery, said San Siro on a sign that is also in the video I think, not hard to pinpoint then using #3 got a different image, said Puno on some half-torn posters and on an ambulance, but only "... Puerto" street sign visible - still not hard to locate in Puno [which I have actually visited, but not that particular spot] #4 different imagery, could vaguely make out 1 and 49 on road indicators and then found Isold on the map too #5 different image, but same sign visible (no phone numbers though) - very hard for me, but sloping to the west and faintly seeing a distant body of water there plus the vegetation made me think that this has to be Vancouver or Seattle, but then I could not find East 12th Street in either, so I also looked in Portland, Vancouver, WA, Everett and other places - was about to give up when I eventually found the street more by chance in North Vancouver rather than downtown Vancouver.
The Peruvian one was legitimately difficult. Sometimes knowing more isn't necessarily the best thing. I got sidetracked by Tacna into looking in the wrong province at first, because that's the southernmost province and there's even a city by that name. It turns out there are tons of roads named Tacna in different cities in Peru, and I got to Puno because a) it's a relatively well-off city of a size to support multi-story buildings, on a famous lake, and b) upon careful examination of every damn inch the white van on the left across the street has a blue bar across the top that says "virgen de la candelaria de Puno". Jr. stand for jirón, a Peruvian street composed of several irregular sections that could easily be (and possibly once were) separately named streets. It's a dead giveaway for being in Peru. I sure wish the Google blurring algorithm were a lot smarter.
Round 1: Apparently Sidney has more than one road called William st. so it threw me off a little bit but ended finding it after a while. 5000 points. Round 2: Big city with Metro. Convinced myself early on that we were in Napoli because of the Zurich stamp on the post. Napoli played against Zurich FC very recently for Europa League. I did a quick search in all the other cities with metros, but the metro station name didn't correlate with anything on that place so after looking a lot i just settled with somewhere in Napoli. Could've find it if i had associated it with North Italy :( 3129 points. Round 3: Thought we were in Peru as well. Also found the other "Tacna" in the complete opposite direction, curiously. After looking a lot, ended up going with Ayacucho, as every road there started with "Jr." and the mountains kinda correlated, despite not finding the road. 3404 points. Round 4: Also went for around Reykjavik, was already frustated as well, just went in a random road, didn't bother too much to look where we were exactly. 4980 points. Round 5: Clicked in Portland. 3699 points. Total: 20212 points
I actually recognized Peru and the city immediately since I lived there for a year (Peru, not the city, been there travelling though). Jr. is short for Jirón and ist just like street or avenue in english-speaking countries, so finding more "Jr."s does not mean a lot unfortunately :)
Amazing guesswork! Tip for the future: Tacna is a city in Peru close to the chilean border, so in southeast Peru, most cities have a Tacna street. Jr. is short for Jirón and means no more than street or avenue in english-speaking countries, so you were completely right to ignore it :) I was actually facepalming when you showed "Hospedaje" on the map and on the sign because that just means "Hostel" and that part of Puno consists of 80% hostels, but I'm glad you picked the right one by chance!
RX generally means pharmacy, but sometimes it can more broadly mean healthcare in general. When I saw the phone number on the van with the 604 prefix I was screaming "Vancouver!" at my monitor but obviously you didn't hear me. I'll try louder next time. Maybe when you're done with license plates you can move on to telephone area codes! Kidding (sort of) as there are hundreds of them throughout North America. But it might be worth adding that to your list of things to pay attention to and keep track of, as its very common for commercial vehicles and buildings over here to have phone numbers written on them. Some prefixes like 800-, 855-, 866-, 877-, and 888- aren't area specific but most are.
17:06!!! I searched over 30 minutes for Jr. Tacna. Found it in a bunch of towns all over Peru (btw, there is a banner on a building saying Peru, you missed it.) Then I kind gave up and settled on Huancayo or so. I din't 'Guess' yet and watched your video a bit further and you first mention Puno. And I'm thinking "Puno... Puno! I don't think I checked Puno" So I go in and FIND IT!!!! You wizard! Then I go back to your video and you zoom in very shortly on Puno. 17:06, your cursor is literally on the spot!!! I'm thinking NO WAY!!!! But to my satisfaction, you do zoom out again and waist (only) 4 minutes searching. At least that tells me you are half human. ;) But you find it as well. Congrats!
Aw man! That last one! 604- was the area code on the car. I looked it up ones and found this is BC area code. And I was going for Vancouver. But only found the inner-city East 12th str. But my gut said this was North West America. So I went for Spokane. Which means, Mr. Wizard guy.... I BEAT YOU!!!!!
this challenge is really something 1) very easy. thought it was somewhere in UK until i found sydney and .au. 5000 2) this is my most bizzare near correct guess. sometimes i can't distinguish between italian and french (although i know they're really different). first i thought it's paris because i naively consider paris disneyland as a clue, so i looked at paris. later on i realized and was pretty sure that these words are actually italian, so i looked at rome first. but soon i realized that the picture at the map resembles a town of mode, which can be either paris and milan. i looked at milan, hoping i can find "piazza castello", and finally found it after a long search. but what i found is something really different than the map, so at that point i gave up and picked anywhere at the piazza castello, and only got 4996. 3) now this is kinda challenging. found the clue of peru, but i didn't bother finding the road in the city other than lima. so i just picked what i found. 2691 4) this time i really wonder what country uses ".is" domain. i was pretty sure it's iceland, but i need to verify. then i looked at the map, looking for countries that fit for ".is" domain, and concluded that iceland is the fittest, so i go for iceland anyway. but i couldn't find the exact place, so i ended up picking somewhere more eastern. 3739 5) this is a total fuck up. having very few clue, i just guessed somewhere in eastern USA. 338 so my total score will be 16764
got my first no-moving perfect score on this one!!! 1 - Saw the sign pointing to Canberra and Wollongong first, figured from it being a big looking city that was close to those two, could only be Sydney. Then saw the hospital and spent ages looking for it up and down Williams Street before eventually finding it (it's been added to the map but you still have to be zoomed in pretty far). 5000! 2. Got different imagery here, there was a sign for Milan Fashion Week which was fortunate. Then looked for metro stations on big junctions in Milan before finding the right one. 5000!! 3. Again, different imagery and I couldn't see either Tacna street sign, but did see Puno on a taxi and Peru on a banner, so found the city pretty quickly. Then I spotted "Jr. Tacna" on a shop sign, but spent a long time looking for it since most of the businesses didn't match up. Got there in the end. 5000! 4. The sign to the north wasn't blurred for me, so I quite helpfully could see the direction, distance and road number to Reykjavik and Mosfellsbaer. Plus one of the businesses on the left actually appears on the map now. Those things combined made it fairly easy. 5000! 5. Different imagery again, I think it was from the same time but a different position - I saw .ca on a car which made all the difference since it tipped me off to Canada. Couldn't read the sign you saw but made out East 12th Street on another. It looked like there were mountains or at least hills in the west, fortunately there aren't many big cities in Canada, so I checked them all for mountains in the west and a grid layout with numbered streets going east-west, eventually found North Vancouver after some fruitless pissing around in Calgary. Pinpointed the exact spot on East 12th St thanks to the little roundabout and size of the buildings to the south. 5000! total: 25,000! oh my god
Awesome one. First perfect score for me ! Vancouver was the hardest : I’ve never been to canada but the roundabout are not commun in US. Then I hunted for cities with streets numbered and oriented West-East. Turns out there aren’t many. To finish the shape of the building helped me.
I think you need to memorize area codes - 604 covers southwest British Columbia. Other codes cover from parts of a city to whole US states and Canadian territories/provinces.
1: Easy 5000 points 2: Clearly Northern Italy. Cities with Metro systems there are the big 3 Milan, Turin, Genoa as well as Brescia. Ruled out Brescia because I don't think there are such massive squares. Started to look in Milan for Metro stations at squares near the city center with multiple roads leading to them. Found it relatively quickly, 5000 points. 3: Looking at the clothes of the local people it was Peru or Bolivia. In Peru I found a city called Tacna, confirming to me that we were in Peru. Mountains to the South made me rule out Lima relatively confidently. Looked in Arrequipa, didn't find a Tacna road there. Looked in Cuzco, found one, but it didn't really match up with the layout. Didn't want to continue searching (probably wouldn't have checked Puno anyways), went for Tacna road in Cuzco and got 3959 4: Iceland. Relatively flat and very built up means Reykjavik/Kopavogur/Hafnafjördur area. Looked for some of the businesses that were next to the road. Didn't find them, made a guess and was only 1 mile off. 4993 points. 5: Same thought as you. Went for Albany, NY. Disappointingly only 332 points.
I played along and for some reason in the Peru one I was in a slightly different position than you and there was a sign that said "Peru" so it made it easier for me.
The last one looked familiar, then I realized I used to live right there lol. The yellow at the bottom of the license plates is not the license plate itself, it's a sticker. Every year we get a sticker from the insurance company that says the date in which our insurance expires. They won't always be yellow either. RX just means medical prescription or something like that. If you see cedar trees like that, you can pretty much assume it's Vancouver or Seattle. 20533, I should have trusted my gut and gone with Peru and Milan. I clicked off both of those :(
Yay oh yay, this is the first time I've beaten you Tom! Really pleased with myself here, although as a novice (this is maybe my 10th serious go at these), I did allow myself a couple of clicks in each direction on some (but not all) rounds. Here's a little breakdown: 1) I'm playing 4 years after you, and the Sydney round plonked me into a hotel room in a tall building, and not outside the East Sydney Private hospital like you had. I spun around for a while before seeing some notices on the hotel room door - I don't remember the exact wording but it had the name of the hotel and it was something like The City Inn. I then looked out of the window and saw... The Newcastle Bridge?! Huh, so we're in Newcastle. But wait! Is that the Sydney Opera House?! Holy shit yes it is. Went on the map, got my bearings, found a hotel in roughly the right position with the word Inn in its name and clicked. 631 yards away from the target for a tasty 4998 points. Awesome. 2) I had a van in front of me with a .it website on it so guessed I was in Italy (I haven't learnt the URL suffixes yet but am getting better at guessing them!) and after a quick pan round, I just felt like it was Milan. Then I zoomed into a billboard which said Milano on it. Cool. Sussed out the shape of the junction and the traffic lights and a few bits and bobs and found what I thought was the right place on the map. I had missed the whole Something-De-Fappo sign. 1.5 miles off target but 4991 points all the same. Wicked. 3) I didn't have access to the sign with the name of the road on it, but I did see PERU on one of the shop fronts so guessed Lima under the assumption that if I was wrong, I wouldn't be toooo far off. I didn't move in this round (or the Milan one) (or the Sydney one) and I found a road that lines up on the map with potential mountains in the right places. Not a zillion miles off - 533 miles off in fact, and my worst scoring round with 2717 points. Pfff. 4) I'm not even sure how I worked out this was Iceland - maybe it was the .is suffix on the website. I allowed myself two clicks south to read the road sign better - this helped! I guessed Reykjavik (surely nowhere else in Iceland has big roads like that?!) and found a junction that looked similar enough, knowing I wouldn't be too far away as long as my Reyjkavik hunch was correct. Boom, 1.2 miles away, 4993 points. Well chuffed. At this stage obviously you were doing brilliantly and I thought I'd come in behind you after missing out in Peru. BUT! 5) Something told me it was Canada. I do not know what that something was. Maybe it was the mountains in the background. Anyway, I saw the address (206 E 12th St) and then cheated a tad by nipping East for a couple of clicks. And then Jackpot - a Canadian flag! Woohoo! After that, for the first time ever, I actually applied myself and remained patient while exploring the main cities in Canada. During this time I learned where the French cities are, and where the grid-like cities are. It's great how this game educates you so much about all the geography you never learnt before. In the end I found myself back in Vancouver, frustrated now as I could not find 12th St but then.. I dunno what happened. Did I just say fuck it what's in North Vancouver? Maybe. Anyway, it turns out that what's in Vancouver is E 12th St and a mini roundabout and a perfect score for little old me. Wahey! Extremely chuffed with this after a miserable day with a sore throat and crap weather in the middle of summer and a final score of 22699. Woohoo!! Can I beat that? I reckon so, yeah, but I bet I go back to crappy old 15000s (and less) before I do. Great stuff as always Tom, cheers for being a top fella :D
The view of the white van was a well of information, but Rx is not it. Rx is a Latin derived code for Prescription. Home healthcare is a prescribed medical service. Behind the van we can see the sign for another building called Cedar Manor. Maybe the patient receiving home care lives there. Cedars tell us right away that we are on the West Coast of North America, in BC, Washington or Oregon. The phone number on the van starts with 604, which is an area code for Vancouver and surrounding areas. The vista at the end of the hill looking down and west is not snow, but the sea.
This was a great, great game! 1. Easy perfect 2. Also managed to find it. It did remind me of Milan a lot and then just a bit of scrolling gave me the right place. 3. Oh man, this one was nuts. My thinking was exactly the same. It's probably Peru. And there is the Lago thing. I didn't bother going throught the sttreets though so I ended up picking the wrong of the two towns. Still pretty great guess. 4. Ok, this one was really a massive guessing game and I was really split between like three different roads, but I ended up picking the right one and got perfect #3! Couldn't believe it. My reaction was same as yours, lol! 5. Ok, I can't believe it but I actually managed to guess Vancouver. It gave me a very Canadian feel. The cars, the trees. I noticed the hill in the background and the whole place seemed not flat so maybe we are in a more hilly area in Canada? So I YOLO'd Vancouver and boom, amazing score. Overall I can't believe how well that went. A whopping 24833. Lots of clutches and guessing. It's kinda incredible how my GeoGuessr thought process is so incredibly similar to yours, probably because I watch your videos so much, lol.
Ended up with 17952. Round 1: Lots of good signs here, ended up with 5000 Round 2: I figured it was Italy based on the language. I saw Disneyland Paris sign, so I assumed it had to be a city in Italy near Paris. I picked Turin instead. Round 3: I couldn't read those tiny blurry signs that said Peru. I saw one of the newspapers was called Los Andes which helped narrow it down for me. I picked a point in Lima. Round 4: The language and the .is tld pointed me to Iceland. Reykjavik seemed like the only area that was built up enough to match what I was seeing. I spent a long time trying to find those building, but finally just ended up picking a larger north/south road that looked similar and ended up fairly close. Round 5: Not a lot to work with. I spent most of my time trying to figure out if I'd ever seen that area code before. I ended up picking Milwaukee. Way off. Canada never even crossed my mind.
First time I get more points than you! First 3 rounds were spot on for me, on the Peru one I read something in a car which gave me the clue it was Puno. On the Iceland one I ended up 1.7km away and on the last one I went for California. There was a 12th St. somewhere facing the right directions but I knew it was wrong because it was too short. Would have never guessed Canada tbh. Still 2000 points on that one. 22108 pts at the end.
@GeoWizard Tom, there is a good trick to figure out whether you're in State or Canada if you have cars around. Canada mandated side bumper reflectors on all of their passenger vehichles for some time in the past - you can easily see them of that old blue X-Trail in the shot at 29:23
Round 1: Easy peasy. 5000 Round 2: Figuring out it was Italy was easy enough, but I'm not good at identifying cities without something obvious. Even though I knew it almost certainly wasn't Venice, I got baited when I saw neighborhoods named Castello and San Marco next to each other. 4196. Round 3: On the hill to the north, there appeared to be some sort of pattern that reminded me of the Nazca lines. I zoomed in on Nazca and found a north-south street named Tacna. I guessed there. 3409 Round 4: Obviously Reykjavik. What kills me is I was literally considering guessing what would have been spot on, but I rejected it for some reason I don't remember and guessed elsewhere in the city. 4982 Round 5: Got a Canadian vibe, so I looked in major Canadian cities for numbered streets running east-west. Guessed in Saskatoon. Rejected Vancouver because east-west roads there are avenues, not streets, but the location was in NORTH Vancouver, which I didn't even consider at all. 2138 Total score: 19725
I'm usually always wrong, but I could tell it was either Seattle or Vancouver based on the large hill in the distance on that last one. I was leaning more towards Vancouver as the plates were on the front of the cars (as well as the back) and that's usually rare in the States.
A good bit of knowledge that would aid in these a ton is knowing area codes for us/canada. Even just knowing which are us/canada would have ruled a lot out. Theres not an unreal number of them, and since plates are blurred and numbers aren't its the next best thing. I think Canada has 8 in total.. if i can count correctly.
Man, this is a total aside from the game and video but I really hope one day you'll tell some of your stories and perhaps share footage of your travels, you seem like a very interesting man and you throw in these off hand comments about your journeys and it makes me yearn for more detail! They all sound equally fascinating.
Overall: 21271/25000. Solid game. Round 1: 5000. Saw the Sydney bus immediately. Then I found the "Vaucluse" sign. Since signs usually are for roads that lead TO a place (as opposed to indicating that we are there itself), I started searching south of Vaucluse in Sydney for a Williams St. Eventually I found it, and then I looked for a Robinson St and got it bang on. One of the best rounds I've ever had in An Urban World. Round 2: 3559. Saw the Italian, saw "Piazza Castello". Wasn't sure if it was Rome or Milan. I zoomed in on both and found Piazzas everywhere but not this one. Went with Rome, was Milan. Can't complain. Round 3: 2714. Found the blurry sign that said "La nueva sonrisa del Peru", so I started looking near the mountainous regions of Lima. I looked for Jr Tacna everywhere but I couldn't find it. I guessed in the southern part of Lima in the end. Absolutely shite guess but there was no additional info so I guess that's the best I could have hoped for. I didn't think we were that close to water... impressive detective work on your end! Round 4: 5000. Saw the .is website, guessed Iceland. Zoomed in and started looking for a highway running N-S near Reykjavik with the city to the north and the west. None of the yellow dual-carriageways seemed to be populated with stores, so I started looking for white ones. Eventually I found a suitable one the same way you did. Round 5: 4998. Car said evo dot ca, so we were in Canada. Also saw "EAST 12TH STREET" so we were in a city, probably either Toronto or Vancouver (since they both speak English). Toronto seemed to use only named streets/avenues while the northern part of Vancouver indeed uses numbered streets. So I searched for 12th St E and zoomed in. The roundabout was clearly to our east, so I guessed about halfway to the west of it. But I wasn't sure which of the two roundabouts it was. Turns out it was the further one, so I got close but no cigar.
I actually ended up beating your score! Pretty happy about that but I think your score was more well-deserved since you got 4/5 bang on whereas I had only 3/5 mostly right. I guess the last one did you in, man. Sorry about that =/
604 is basically Vancouver’s area code for the last one and we’ve been there millions of times and few times for minor hockey tournaments and to visit family
Hey could you please make more perfect score videos, like you did for UK, Spain, Netherlands. There are still so many interesting countries you could try to get 25000. They are my favourite videos on your channel.
Really enjoy your videos. I'd like to see more stadium guesses, or even as a Eurovision fan myself, a round in which you guess where each host city arena is (there are a few GeoGuessr created maps for it). Regardless, I'll watch anything to be fair.
I got 24,998 (-2 points for Iceland, see below) 1. Sydney on the hospital, Kings Cross, Robinson St. got me there, a quickie. 2. I saw a poster for the San Siro (home stadium for AC Milan); and the Piazza Castello sign and the Metro station got me into the right neighborhood, then the intersection was unique enough to pinpoint the spot 3. My imagery was different to Tom's, I saw "Puno" on several signs and happened upon the town with that while scanning the map (after looking in Lima for a long time). I could barely see part of the sign for the cross street to the north, Ave del Puerto, and a blurry version of the Tacna street sign, which got me home 4. I did just what Tom did, identified the .IS website, guessed Rekj, found the blurry sign that had Grafarvogur (and Grafarholt) on it. But my mistake was that I put myself on the wrong side of that junction, a bit to the north, 500m away. I was a bit frustrated that the buildings weren't labeled, and after a LONG search, I just threw down a guess on that divided road because it looked about right. Frustrating. 5. I saw the snowy mountains to the west, so I just looked in about 8 different cities in western North America that had mountains in that direction, discounting ones without an east-west numbered street system. Got to Vancouver, and almost gave up, but I popped up to North Vancouver on a lark and saw it: E 12th st, roundabout just to the east, long buildings on both sides of the street. I didn't think it could be right, but it was! 1m away, blind luck. This is by FAR the best I've ever done on one of these (Urban Play Alongs with Tom) after about 6 tries. It definitely takes a bit of luck!
As soon as I saw area code 604 I knew you were in Vancouver, B.C. (I know way too much about area codes lol. But I remember that one in particular from when I lived in Washington state.) This was really impressive until you got to Vancouver, but 4 perfect scores out of 5 aren't bad to be fair.
I played the challenge before watching the video - it's so interesting to then see how people pick up on different clues, lol. For 1- I figured out it was Australia bc I turned around immediately after starting the round and saw a rugby ad for the Wallabies 😂 and the road signs loaded better for me, so I spent a while looking around in Canberra, before even noticing the 'East Sydney' sign. 2- I guessed Milan on a hunch too, before looking around at all the metro stops near the castello. 3- The camera mapping is slightly different now, so got a bit more info from the street sign, and I spotted a bit of graffiti (I think? I saw the name and it distantly 4- absolutely flubbed it because I got tired of looking at Iceland so just randomly clicked on a N-S road on the west of the island (was v v v far off lol) 5- based on absolutely nothing, I decided it was Canada rather than the US just bc the street had a ?? friendlier?? vibe to it.... couldn't guess any further without moving (which I did in the end, just to see)
fantastic job! You saw the westfield tower in the first guess in Sydney. Stuck out like a sore thumb on the map! Your analytical skills are highly impressive nonetheless!
I was so sad when you said you were gonna guess Vermont. You haven't learned the plate yet, but it's all green. definitely one of the most distinctive plates.
25000 :-) It was interesting to see how nearly all the Streetview imagery/mapping has been updated in the last 18 months. That made r3 slightly easier, since I could see that the other street was called Av. del Puerto, which made me think of Lake Titicaca; and in r4 some of the business names are now on the map. I was slightly surprised you didn't get r5 - it felt like the Pacific Northwest, and if you zoom into Vancouver you can see quite a few roundabouts, which I know are rare in the US. Any road up, thanks for inspiring me to get a no-moving 25k.
almost got a perfect score with no moving, but flummoxed by Iceland. Sydney & Milan I worked out pretty much as you did. Peru, I also went for the lake, and found a poster that said Puno, then found the Tacna road. Vancouver was actually the easiest one for me; the Canada website on the back of the Evo car and the similarity of the landscape to where I live in Oregon made me go for BC, and North Vancouver is the only part with East-West numbered "Streets" (as opposed to avenues) but with iceland, I searched for half an hour and then decided to move to read the sign, so while I did get 5000, I can't really count that
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Disneyland Paris: I'm about to end this man's whole career.
Geoguessr Wizard: I think we're in Italy.
Disneyland Paris: Sacré bleu!
Blue Side Züri (Zurich) was another one
@@rob6129 That place looks way too dirty to be Zürich.
@@ohmnesia exactly, i live in the zurich outskirts. Also zurich has no metros
@@hypercarspotters1227 zurich is stained and it's not my fault...
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"i don't even know if I'm in Bolivia or Peru"
*randomly zoomes in the exact city you're looking for*
I would have guessed the Philippines, rotfl.
and I randomly selected that position in the video before scrolling to comments
For the Sydney and Peru rounds I started a few meters down the road. For this one there are posters on the fence saying Puno not quite readable in the video but were for me. I would have had no clue where that was but by chance I have been through it on a bus 2 years ago (Arequipa to Cusco)
There is literaly 1 city around the only lake bigger than a puddle in Peru, pretty easy guess
@@MrStratofish Us 2020 players are definately more lucky on the Peru round this time. Getting different images can be bad or good, but you kinda wish you had the same as everyone else :/
RX meant medical prescription on that van
And Montana is the model of the van he was looking at, not the state.
Thank you sir, after the last guess i was hoping someone will answer it in the comment section
Was screaming the whole time
it sounded french to me like a town named rouxeau or something like that so i guessed quebec
That Disneyland Paris sign would have ruined me if I saw that before I saw any of words that were obviously Italian
Same lol
Yeah....
haha I saw that and the italian words and figured it must be in north of Italy
The last one SCREAMED of Vancouver. The sunny & dry summer climate, EVO car share, blue lettering on license plates, street sign style at the junction, architecture, even the gardening style. Too bad you got a very generic street. Awesome work on that Peru one & Reykjavik was just cheeky!
not to mention 604 area code on the van
also "evo.ca" on the back of the car.
“Lord” on apartment meant it was in the Commonwealth
Yes but it was extremely tricky because it was North Vancouver, not Vancouver. I knew Vancouver's 12th ave is more narrow than the one in this game, but I never thought to check the 12th ave in NORTH vancouver, so I put my man down on Vancouver's 12th avenue. .
For Vancouver it's easy if you see EVO car sharing cars, they're only there.
dnfire17 theyre in montreal too. Im in montreal right now and i saw them today
@@raxxer1234 licence plates are blurred out for the most part though :/
VionicBlue Uh. Reread the comment again.
The 604 gave it away for me
One of the cars had a BCAA label too
I found a good Geoguessr map called "A Complete World." It has every country in the world on it, even though a few are just photo spheres. Maybe it could be the next "10 Country Challenge" or 5 country challenge as it's a lot harder and quite a few are misleading due to the fact it has a lot of obscure countries on it :)
Last round was absolutely devastating, I was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole video, great stuff.
Great job in Iceland man. I am desperate to get a 25k no moving on Urban World but you just need a really lucky seed (like 1 in 1000)
Cheers mate! I reckon it's a lot more doable than you'd think, it's just that you'd have to spend an unholy amount of time working it out.. Did you play the challenge yourself this week?
I did! Couldn't pinpoint in Iceland but was closer in R5 and got around 23600. Btw people keep commenting on my channel saying I should try and do a collab with you, just thought it would be worth mentioning lol
@@GeoWizard I think this is the one that was possible as I actually got 5000 myself on the last round. I didn't get the perfect score on round 3 and 4 but when I saw you did, I knew it was possible you could get the last one too. Especially when at the end you considered Canada, but then you let that go
@@GeographyChallenges I'm not ruling out a Collab, I think that would be really fun, we will see how we go ;)
Cool! Give us a shout at some point if you fancy it
My hometown was the last round!! I saw the location and immediately knew where it was. Easy 5000 points
I saw the Evo car and knew immediately. I used to live on 18th Street!
Same here lol. Saw the registration plates, seemed familiar. Saw the 604 on the car and knew it was Vancouver straight away!
RX... Ryan aleXander - of course!
Your work on the Peru and Iceland rounds were fucking amazing dude. I'm impressed
Thanks mate!
He cheated obviously
@@williambrindley5470 Just because he is better than you at something does not mean he cheated.
@@williambrindley5470 lmfao i bet youre just bad
Some clues you were in Vancouver:
- cedar trees are almost always a West coast feature
- wide streets are also a West coast thing
- Americans hate the words "Lord" and "Manor"
- the view of the sea to the west
- mountains
Everything up to Vancouver was brilliant! Loving the channel.
There was no sea
Anyone else watch this from Vancouver absolutely SCREAMING AT THE SCREEN? For me, even before I saw the Evos and the 604s, that particular 1970s West Coast apartment design combined with the tone of the sunlight nailed it. I guess a panorama with the mountains showing would have been too easy for this game.
It was a visceral experience to see something so aggressively vancouver
Having lived in Seattle, at first I thought it was Seattle from the sun tone and trees, then the cars looked too reasonably sized (not to mention the lack of garbage in/on/near the street) to be USA, and I didn’t recognise the 604 area code from US ones so I was guessing Canada.. but probably would’ve ended up in Toronto! 😄 It’s so frustrating that they can’t google the area code of a phone number.
Yes! I landed right in that Milan place a few days ago. I must say I was absolutely hypnotized on how beautiful that place and its surroundings are.
having grown up in vancouver, i actually screamed at the TV when i saw the 604 area code. just remember 604 and 778 are vancouver area codes, and 250 is the rest of BC
better luck next time :(
area codes would probably be a better study guide than licence plates, for "an urban world" at least
Round 5, sky blue licence plates are British Columbia. The area code on the car is the same as my area code in west BC. This looks like North Vancouver to me but I'm not certain.
EDIT: I KNEW IT! What a sad ending though.
My round:
1) Easy, Sydney. proceed to spend way too long focusing in on the hospital which I didn't find. Placed randomly in East Sydney and got 4998, not bad.
2) Clearly italy. Northern? Bologna idk, did okay 4331.
3) Looks like La Paz to me? Scanned around a bit but didn't want to spend too much time, placed randomly in La Paz, turns out to be Peru but fairly close 4289. Not bad.
4) Iceland, I pretty much did the exact same thing as you. Found graffafu..gur or whatever and placed a rough estimate. Managed to get the 5k, probably my best guess ever! I think not trying to get it perfectly actually helped me in this case.
5) No clue. Felt like northern US so went in Portland, kinda happy tbh. 3,677.
Ended up with a record score(for this format) of 22,295. great stuff loved the vid!
Nice dude, i’d wanna play geoguessr but i don’t wanna pay :/
@@hypercarspotters1227 You can play the challenges for free (like the link in the description), that's what I do
The tower you first saw was Centrepoint Tower which is a very famous landmark. I couldn’t believe when you just ignored it after that.
In round 5, the Evo car had a .ca website on the back. Not that I can talk, I only got around 14700, with most coming from Sydney and Reykjavik which were pretty much freebies
The whole point is he cant move, so he cant see the .ca
one of your best mr wizard. remarkable work, congrats
Im icelandic. Saw in 0.5sec where you were. Good job mate
bennikk haha whenever its Luxembourg, I recognise it in a few milliseconds as well. Most of the time I can tell where exactly but often Luxembourg spawns are in the fields so.
Mjólkursamsalann
I think if he learned phone number area codes in the US it would give him a huge advantage.
Two things about that first Sydney one:
The East Sydney Private Hospital didn't come up on maps because it's not a practising hospital, they just kept the sign there (for historical reasons?) and include that spot in the round because that would've been a big bumsteer for many people.
The Wolper Jewish Hospital isn't only for Jewish people :)
Holy shit, the 5th round is my city. The ℞ or RX is just a symbol meaning prescription, which made sense because its a health care van. Our plates have a white background and blue print, the yellow you saw was just a registration decal sticker. Evo Car Share is a car sharing service in Vancouver.
I watch his vids especially at night because his voice is so soothing lol
Rx means prescription. It's a pharmacy van dropping off medication. Pharmacists and doctors in the UK use 'rx' but it's generally unknown by UK patients unlike USA and Canada where it seems to be more widespread. So gutted about that last round. Can't believe my heart would start racing for a geoguessr challenge. Can't wait for the next no moving!
Just wanted to give you a heads up, “Rx” signifies prescription drugs/pharmaceuticals
Thought that was universal meaning lol
It's sad that the challenge link doesn't work properly anymore. I got put into a hotel room overseeing the road Geowizard was placed at in the first round. There was a partial view of the opera so I was still able to get a good guess (4,995/1.4km)
In America RX is used in place of “prescription” so that Van was a medical van and had nothing to do with the city. Just a little tip for the future. Love the videos!
@Fester Blats America as in North America
The BC plate was what gave Vancouver away for me. The blue lettering really stands out, and the yellow you saw must have been the yearly registration tag.
On the other hand that Icelandic guess was incredible. I swear I spent an hour scrolling Reykjavik to no avail...
Yes the yellow sticker was the yearly registration. They change colours every year
Totally crushed with the last round, I was on the edge for the whole episode!! Your skills are impressing me every time, even when I think I‘ve seen it all. Can‘t wait for the next round, you‘ll do this!!!
It's crazy to think that I live just down the street of the road you were at in Sydney. Mental!
20,560 and almost carbon copy of your game. 4 perfect rounds up until the point where Vancouver ruined my life. I had a very similar experience to you in Iceland, could not believe I got it. Love the channel Tom, keep the excellent content coming.
1. I actually ended up in a hotel room overlooking the Opera, which was quite surprising. Yay for playing ages later I guess. 4999 points because it was a weird location and I couldn't really judge where the actual location was.
2. Changed images as well, had a poster that mentioned Milan, but finding the actual place took a while. Mostly looked for Metro stations in combination with the junction layout. 5000 points.
3. I guessed further in the south, annoyingly the changed image actually had the city name on it, but with the language I wasn't sure which one would have been a place name. If I had been as sure about Peru as you were, maybe I could have made the connection. 672 points.
4. Looked mainly in the biggest city since everything else didn't seem big enough, the updated map had the name of one of the advertisements on it, so that helped. 5000 points.
5. Not much to go on, clicked somewhere in the US. 742 points.
Well done on Peru in particular, that was quite some intuition and dedication on your part.
I'm playing these a few years later and the photospheres have been updated. Sydney was in a hotel room overlooking the opera house. I wonder how the matching algorithm works.
First :) Got number 2 in 10 seconds, I've walked past this place so many times in my life, a very popular spot in Milan.
I think learning phone number area codes could prove much more valuable than trying to memorize license plates. Many vans and signs have phone numbers on them and in the last one, the 604 gave away British Columbia.
all the vancouverites shouting at the last one hahaha. If only he knew the 604 area code and EVO cars
on the vancouver one I figured it was vancouver because it was similar to videos i've seen in vancouver, but I was stuck on East 12th Avenue and didnt take the time to look north for East 12 street. could've def been a perfect round along with perfect on the first sydney round but was too lazy with it ahah.
Yes - I got 25000 on this! Imagery has apparently changed in the meantime:
#1 similar imagery, was easy to locate with hospital (was labelled on my map) and other signs
#2 different-looking imagery, said San Siro on a sign that is also in the video I think, not hard to pinpoint then using
#3 got a different image, said Puno on some half-torn posters and on an ambulance, but only "... Puerto" street sign visible - still not hard to locate in Puno [which I have actually visited, but not that particular spot]
#4 different imagery, could vaguely make out 1 and 49 on road indicators and then found Isold on the map too
#5 different image, but same sign visible (no phone numbers though) - very hard for me, but sloping to the west and faintly seeing a distant body of water there plus the vegetation made me think that this has to be Vancouver or Seattle, but then I could not find East 12th Street in either, so I also looked in Portland, Vancouver, WA, Everett and other places - was about to give up when I eventually found the street more by chance in North Vancouver rather than downtown Vancouver.
The Peruvian one was legitimately difficult. Sometimes knowing more isn't necessarily the best thing. I got sidetracked by Tacna into looking in the wrong province at first, because that's the southernmost province and there's even a city by that name. It turns out there are tons of roads named Tacna in different cities in Peru, and I got to Puno because a) it's a relatively well-off city of a size to support multi-story buildings, on a famous lake, and b) upon careful examination of every damn inch the white van on the left across the street has a blue bar across the top that says "virgen de la candelaria de Puno".
Jr. stand for jirón, a Peruvian street composed of several irregular sections that could easily be (and possibly once were) separately named streets. It's a dead giveaway for being in Peru.
I sure wish the Google blurring algorithm were a lot smarter.
I thought the Davies van was a sign from the geo gods that you were gonna make it 😔
Round 1: Apparently Sidney has more than one road called William st. so it threw me off a little bit but ended finding it after a while. 5000 points.
Round 2: Big city with Metro. Convinced myself early on that we were in Napoli because of the Zurich stamp on the post. Napoli played against Zurich FC very recently for Europa League. I did a quick search in all the other cities with metros, but the metro station name didn't correlate with anything on that place so after looking a lot i just settled with somewhere in Napoli. Could've find it if i had associated it with North Italy :( 3129 points.
Round 3: Thought we were in Peru as well. Also found the other "Tacna" in the complete opposite direction, curiously. After looking a lot, ended up going with Ayacucho, as every road there started with "Jr." and the mountains kinda correlated, despite not finding the road. 3404 points.
Round 4: Also went for around Reykjavik, was already frustated as well, just went in a random road, didn't bother too much to look where we were exactly. 4980 points.
Round 5: Clicked in Portland. 3699 points.
Total: 20212 points
I actually recognized Peru and the city immediately since I lived there for a year (Peru, not the city, been there travelling though). Jr. is short for Jirón and ist just like street or avenue in english-speaking countries, so finding more "Jr."s does not mean a lot unfortunately :)
Love playing along with these but its frustrating when the images I see aren't the same as yours! There was no massive red "Sydney" bus on my screen!
Amazing guesswork! Tip for the future: Tacna is a city in Peru close to the chilean border, so in southeast Peru, most cities have a Tacna street. Jr. is short for Jirón and means no more than street or avenue in english-speaking countries, so you were completely right to ignore it :)
I was actually facepalming when you showed "Hospedaje" on the map and on the sign because that just means "Hostel" and that part of Puno consists of 80% hostels, but I'm glad you picked the right one by chance!
RX generally means pharmacy, but sometimes it can more broadly mean healthcare in general. When I saw the phone number on the van with the 604 prefix I was screaming "Vancouver!" at my monitor but obviously you didn't hear me. I'll try louder next time. Maybe when you're done with license plates you can move on to telephone area codes! Kidding (sort of) as there are hundreds of them throughout North America. But it might be worth adding that to your list of things to pay attention to and keep track of, as its very common for commercial vehicles and buildings over here to have phone numbers written on them. Some prefixes like 800-, 855-, 866-, 877-, and 888- aren't area specific but most are.
17:06!!! I searched over 30 minutes for Jr. Tacna. Found it in a bunch of towns all over Peru (btw, there is a banner on a building saying Peru, you missed it.) Then I kind gave up and settled on Huancayo or so. I din't 'Guess' yet and watched your video a bit further and you first mention Puno. And I'm thinking "Puno... Puno! I don't think I checked Puno" So I go in and FIND IT!!!! You wizard! Then I go back to your video and you zoom in very shortly on Puno. 17:06, your cursor is literally on the spot!!! I'm thinking NO WAY!!!! But to my satisfaction, you do zoom out again and waist (only) 4 minutes searching. At least that tells me you are half human. ;) But you find it as well. Congrats!
Aw man! That last one!
604- was the area code on the car. I looked it up ones and found this is BC area code. And I was going for Vancouver. But only found the inner-city East 12th str. But my gut said this was North West America. So I went for Spokane. Which means, Mr. Wizard guy.... I BEAT YOU!!!!!
In the first round I got Sydney just because of the skyline on the advertisement and was very disappointed when it says Sydney on this building
this challenge is really something
1) very easy. thought it was somewhere in UK until i found sydney and .au. 5000
2) this is my most bizzare near correct guess. sometimes i can't distinguish between italian and french (although i know they're really different). first i thought it's paris because i naively consider paris disneyland as a clue, so i looked at paris. later on i realized and was pretty sure that these words are actually italian, so i looked at rome first. but soon i realized that the picture at the map resembles a town of mode, which can be either paris and milan. i looked at milan, hoping i can find "piazza castello", and finally found it after a long search. but what i found is something really different than the map, so at that point i gave up and picked anywhere at the piazza castello, and only got 4996.
3) now this is kinda challenging. found the clue of peru, but i didn't bother finding the road in the city other than lima. so i just picked what i found. 2691
4) this time i really wonder what country uses ".is" domain. i was pretty sure it's iceland, but i need to verify. then i looked at the map, looking for countries that fit for ".is" domain, and concluded that iceland is the fittest, so i go for iceland anyway. but i couldn't find the exact place, so i ended up picking somewhere more eastern. 3739
5) this is a total fuck up. having very few clue, i just guessed somewhere in eastern USA. 338
so my total score will be 16764
got my first no-moving perfect score on this one!!!
1 - Saw the sign pointing to Canberra and Wollongong first, figured from it being a big looking city that was close to those two, could only be Sydney. Then saw the hospital and spent ages looking for it up and down Williams Street before eventually finding it (it's been added to the map but you still have to be zoomed in pretty far). 5000!
2. Got different imagery here, there was a sign for Milan Fashion Week which was fortunate. Then looked for metro stations on big junctions in Milan before finding the right one. 5000!!
3. Again, different imagery and I couldn't see either Tacna street sign, but did see Puno on a taxi and Peru on a banner, so found the city pretty quickly. Then I spotted "Jr. Tacna" on a shop sign, but spent a long time looking for it since most of the businesses didn't match up. Got there in the end. 5000!
4. The sign to the north wasn't blurred for me, so I quite helpfully could see the direction, distance and road number to Reykjavik and Mosfellsbaer. Plus one of the businesses on the left actually appears on the map now. Those things combined made it fairly easy. 5000!
5. Different imagery again, I think it was from the same time but a different position - I saw .ca on a car which made all the difference since it tipped me off to Canada. Couldn't read the sign you saw but made out East 12th Street on another. It looked like there were mountains or at least hills in the west, fortunately there aren't many big cities in Canada, so I checked them all for mountains in the west and a grid layout with numbered streets going east-west, eventually found North Vancouver after some fruitless pissing around in Calgary. Pinpointed the exact spot on East 12th St thanks to the little roundabout and size of the buildings to the south. 5000!
total: 25,000! oh my god
6:00 in this one the picture has been updated and there's a bus that says "AFRICA" in big letters so I got 9 points because I put it in Cape Town
RX = prescription, like for pills from a pharmacy.
its a fancy short hand for "recipe" in Latin . . . like the recipe to cure you that a doctor recommends
Awesome one. First perfect score for me ! Vancouver was the hardest : I’ve never been to canada but the roundabout are not commun in US. Then I hunted for cities with streets numbered and oriented West-East. Turns out there aren’t many. To finish the shape of the building helped me.
I think you need to memorize area codes - 604 covers southwest British Columbia. Other codes cover from parts of a city to whole US states and Canadian territories/provinces.
@ひひ Er. A cheat book of the 335 in the USA and 41 in Canada? Maybe we can borrow Mr. Swallow's memory.
Tom reading Español is just so hilarious 😂
1: Easy 5000 points
2: Clearly Northern Italy. Cities with Metro systems there are the big 3 Milan, Turin, Genoa as well as Brescia. Ruled out Brescia because I don't think there are such massive squares. Started to look in Milan for Metro stations at squares near the city center with multiple roads leading to them. Found it relatively quickly, 5000 points.
3: Looking at the clothes of the local people it was Peru or Bolivia. In Peru I found a city called Tacna, confirming to me that we were in Peru. Mountains to the South made me rule out Lima relatively confidently. Looked in Arrequipa, didn't find a Tacna road there. Looked in Cuzco, found one, but it didn't really match up with the layout. Didn't want to continue searching (probably wouldn't have checked Puno anyways), went for Tacna road in Cuzco and got 3959
4: Iceland. Relatively flat and very built up means Reykjavik/Kopavogur/Hafnafjördur area. Looked for some of the businesses that were next to the road. Didn't find them, made a guess and was only 1 mile off. 4993 points.
5: Same thought as you. Went for Albany, NY. Disappointingly only 332 points.
I played along and for some reason in the Peru one I was in a slightly different position than you and there was a sign that said "Peru" so it made it easier for me.
The last one looked familiar, then I realized I used to live right there lol. The yellow at the bottom of the license plates is not the license plate itself, it's a sticker. Every year we get a sticker from the insurance company that says the date in which our insurance expires. They won't always be yellow either. RX just means medical prescription or something like that. If you see cedar trees like that, you can pretty much assume it's Vancouver or Seattle.
20533, I should have trusted my gut and gone with Peru and Milan. I clicked off both of those :(
As someone who's memorized Canada's area codes from working in customer service, that Vancouver round was heartbreaking 😭
The first one frustrated the hell out of me haha you saw it almost immediately and second guessed yourself
This might be one of the best games I’ve ever seen. Good work Wiz
Yay oh yay, this is the first time I've beaten you Tom! Really pleased with myself here, although as a novice (this is maybe my 10th serious go at these), I did allow myself a couple of clicks in each direction on some (but not all) rounds. Here's a little breakdown:
1) I'm playing 4 years after you, and the Sydney round plonked me into a hotel room in a tall building, and not outside the East Sydney Private hospital like you had. I spun around for a while before seeing some notices on the hotel room door - I don't remember the exact wording but it had the name of the hotel and it was something like The City Inn. I then looked out of the window and saw... The Newcastle Bridge?! Huh, so we're in Newcastle. But wait! Is that the Sydney Opera House?! Holy shit yes it is. Went on the map, got my bearings, found a hotel in roughly the right position with the word Inn in its name and clicked. 631 yards away from the target for a tasty 4998 points. Awesome.
2) I had a van in front of me with a .it website on it so guessed I was in Italy (I haven't learnt the URL suffixes yet but am getting better at guessing them!) and after a quick pan round, I just felt like it was Milan. Then I zoomed into a billboard which said Milano on it. Cool. Sussed out the shape of the junction and the traffic lights and a few bits and bobs and found what I thought was the right place on the map. I had missed the whole Something-De-Fappo sign. 1.5 miles off target but 4991 points all the same. Wicked.
3) I didn't have access to the sign with the name of the road on it, but I did see PERU on one of the shop fronts so guessed Lima under the assumption that if I was wrong, I wouldn't be toooo far off. I didn't move in this round (or the Milan one) (or the Sydney one) and I found a road that lines up on the map with potential mountains in the right places. Not a zillion miles off - 533 miles off in fact, and my worst scoring round with 2717 points. Pfff.
4) I'm not even sure how I worked out this was Iceland - maybe it was the .is suffix on the website. I allowed myself two clicks south to read the road sign better - this helped! I guessed Reykjavik (surely nowhere else in Iceland has big roads like that?!) and found a junction that looked similar enough, knowing I wouldn't be too far away as long as my Reyjkavik hunch was correct. Boom, 1.2 miles away, 4993 points. Well chuffed.
At this stage obviously you were doing brilliantly and I thought I'd come in behind you after missing out in Peru. BUT!
5) Something told me it was Canada. I do not know what that something was. Maybe it was the mountains in the background. Anyway, I saw the address (206 E 12th St) and then cheated a tad by nipping East for a couple of clicks. And then Jackpot - a Canadian flag! Woohoo! After that, for the first time ever, I actually applied myself and remained patient while exploring the main cities in Canada. During this time I learned where the French cities are, and where the grid-like cities are. It's great how this game educates you so much about all the geography you never learnt before. In the end I found myself back in Vancouver, frustrated now as I could not find 12th St but then.. I dunno what happened. Did I just say fuck it what's in North Vancouver? Maybe. Anyway, it turns out that what's in Vancouver is E 12th St and a mini roundabout and a perfect score for little old me. Wahey!
Extremely chuffed with this after a miserable day with a sore throat and crap weather in the middle of summer and a final score of 22699. Woohoo!! Can I beat that? I reckon so, yeah, but I bet I go back to crappy old 15000s (and less) before I do.
Great stuff as always Tom, cheers for being a top fella :D
The view of the white van was a well of information, but Rx is not it. Rx is a Latin derived code for Prescription. Home healthcare is a prescribed medical service. Behind the van we can see the sign for another building called Cedar Manor. Maybe the patient receiving home care lives there. Cedars tell us right away that we are on the West Coast of North America, in BC, Washington or Oregon. The phone number on the van starts with 604, which is an area code for Vancouver and surrounding areas. The vista at the end of the hill looking down and west is not snow, but the sea.
thats crazy I knew the last one almost right away, saw the EVO and old folks homes lol
This was a great, great game!
1. Easy perfect
2. Also managed to find it. It did remind me of Milan a lot and then just a bit of scrolling gave me the right place.
3. Oh man, this one was nuts. My thinking was exactly the same. It's probably Peru. And there is the Lago thing. I didn't bother going throught the sttreets though so I ended up picking the wrong of the two towns. Still pretty great guess.
4. Ok, this one was really a massive guessing game and I was really split between like three different roads, but I ended up picking the right one and got perfect #3! Couldn't believe it. My reaction was same as yours, lol!
5. Ok, I can't believe it but I actually managed to guess Vancouver. It gave me a very Canadian feel. The cars, the trees. I noticed the hill in the background and the whole place seemed not flat so maybe we are in a more hilly area in Canada? So I YOLO'd Vancouver and boom, amazing score.
Overall I can't believe how well that went. A whopping 24833. Lots of clutches and guessing. It's kinda incredible how my GeoGuessr thought process is so incredibly similar to yours, probably because I watch your videos so much, lol.
I zoomed in Sydney straight onto William street, I was set
12:28 I've walked down that exact street many times when I go Milan every year on holiday, got off at Moscova metro station few times too
Holy. Shit. Insane 3rd and 4th guesses!
Ended up with 17952.
Round 1: Lots of good signs here, ended up with 5000
Round 2: I figured it was Italy based on the language. I saw Disneyland Paris sign, so I assumed it had to be a city in Italy near Paris. I picked Turin instead.
Round 3: I couldn't read those tiny blurry signs that said Peru. I saw one of the newspapers was called Los Andes which helped narrow it down for me. I picked a point in Lima.
Round 4: The language and the .is tld pointed me to Iceland. Reykjavik seemed like the only area that was built up enough to match what I was seeing. I spent a long time trying to find those building, but finally just ended up picking a larger north/south road that looked similar and ended up fairly close.
Round 5: Not a lot to work with. I spent most of my time trying to figure out if I'd ever seen that area code before. I ended up picking Milwaukee. Way off. Canada never even crossed my mind.
Vermont might be one of the only states that doesnt have a suburban street that looks like that.
I live there, and it does.
First time I get more points than you! First 3 rounds were spot on for me, on the Peru one I read something in a car which gave me the clue it was Puno. On the Iceland one I ended up 1.7km away and on the last one I went for California. There was a 12th St. somewhere facing the right directions but I knew it was wrong because it was too short. Would have never guessed Canada tbh. Still 2000 points on that one. 22108 pts at the end.
@GeoWizard Tom, there is a good trick to figure out whether you're in State or Canada if you have cars around. Canada mandated side bumper reflectors on all of their passenger vehichles for some time in the past - you can easily see them of that old blue X-Trail in the shot at 29:23
I got the max scrore on nr. 1, 2 and nr. 4. Peru was really difficult, cannot believe you got that
Round 1: Easy peasy. 5000
Round 2: Figuring out it was Italy was easy enough, but I'm not good at identifying cities without something obvious. Even though I knew it almost certainly wasn't Venice, I got baited when I saw neighborhoods named Castello and San Marco next to each other. 4196.
Round 3: On the hill to the north, there appeared to be some sort of pattern that reminded me of the Nazca lines. I zoomed in on Nazca and found a north-south street named Tacna. I guessed there. 3409
Round 4: Obviously Reykjavik. What kills me is I was literally considering guessing what would have been spot on, but I rejected it for some reason I don't remember and guessed elsewhere in the city. 4982
Round 5: Got a Canadian vibe, so I looked in major Canadian cities for numbered streets running east-west. Guessed in Saskatoon. Rejected Vancouver because east-west roads there are avenues, not streets, but the location was in NORTH Vancouver, which I didn't even consider at all. 2138
Total score: 19725
Me, a Vancouverite watching the last round: :')
I'm usually always wrong, but I could tell it was either Seattle or Vancouver based on the large hill in the distance on that last one. I was leaning more towards Vancouver as the plates were on the front of the cars (as well as the back) and that's usually rare in the States.
Yay! Finally Sydney comes up! It actually startled me when it popped up first.
A good bit of knowledge that would aid in these a ton is knowing area codes for us/canada.
Even just knowing which are us/canada would have ruled a lot out.
Theres not an unreal number of them, and since plates are blurred and numbers aren't its the next best thing.
I think Canada has 8 in total.. if i can count correctly.
Man, this is a total aside from the game and video but I really hope one day you'll tell some of your stories and perhaps share footage of your travels, you seem like a very interesting man and you throw in these off hand comments about your journeys and it makes me yearn for more detail! They all sound equally fascinating.
After the licence plates, it's time to start learning the north american area codes (that van had a 604- phone number on it)!
That's how I got Vancouver too. I spent time there years ago while backpacking. Plus, not going to lie, the look of the place felt very Canadian.
I admit I didn't know the area code but if I played this much i would start learning at least the major ones.
I really enjoyed hearing you say "TITIKAKA" and "Puno" 😊
Overall: 21271/25000. Solid game.
Round 1: 5000. Saw the Sydney bus immediately. Then I found the "Vaucluse" sign. Since signs usually are for roads that lead TO a place (as opposed to indicating that we are there itself), I started searching south of Vaucluse in Sydney for a Williams St. Eventually I found it, and then I looked for a Robinson St and got it bang on. One of the best rounds I've ever had in An Urban World.
Round 2: 3559. Saw the Italian, saw "Piazza Castello". Wasn't sure if it was Rome or Milan. I zoomed in on both and found Piazzas everywhere but not this one. Went with Rome, was Milan. Can't complain.
Round 3: 2714. Found the blurry sign that said "La nueva sonrisa del Peru", so I started looking near the mountainous regions of Lima. I looked for Jr Tacna everywhere but I couldn't find it. I guessed in the southern part of Lima in the end. Absolutely shite guess but there was no additional info so I guess that's the best I could have hoped for. I didn't think we were that close to water... impressive detective work on your end!
Round 4: 5000. Saw the .is website, guessed Iceland. Zoomed in and started looking for a highway running N-S near Reykjavik with the city to the north and the west. None of the yellow dual-carriageways seemed to be populated with stores, so I started looking for white ones. Eventually I found a suitable one the same way you did.
Round 5: 4998. Car said evo dot ca, so we were in Canada. Also saw "EAST 12TH STREET" so we were in a city, probably either Toronto or Vancouver (since they both speak English). Toronto seemed to use only named streets/avenues while the northern part of Vancouver indeed uses numbered streets. So I searched for 12th St E and zoomed in. The roundabout was clearly to our east, so I guessed about halfway to the west of it. But I wasn't sure which of the two roundabouts it was. Turns out it was the further one, so I got close but no cigar.
I actually ended up beating your score! Pretty happy about that but I think your score was more well-deserved since you got 4/5 bang on whereas I had only 3/5 mostly right. I guess the last one did you in, man. Sorry about that =/
RX is the symbol for prescriptions. The business was called home healthcare. The van had a picture of a pill bottle on it.
604 is basically Vancouver’s area code for the last one and we’ve been there millions of times and few times for minor hockey tournaments and to visit family
Hey could you please make more perfect score videos, like you did for UK, Spain, Netherlands. There are still so many interesting countries you could try to get 25000. They are my favourite videos on your channel.
Definitely doing more of these in the near future now that I have more time!
Thought from the roundabout and the yellow reg sticker you'd get Vancouver for sure, great run though.
Tom: “why cant we get the name of the metro?”
Me in my head: because it doesnt trust you
Great effort Tom! Unlucky on the last one. Note there are some states that have vehicles with no plates on the front e.g Pennsylvania and Florida
Really enjoy your videos. I'd like to see more stadium guesses, or even as a Eurovision fan myself, a round in which you guess where each host city arena is (there are a few GeoGuessr created maps for it). Regardless, I'll watch anything to be fair.
17:18 Ah Pampilla Del Lago :))) This man is incredible. Please play the lottery man!
That tower in the first one is the centre point tower. Smack bang in the middle of the Sydney CBD, I’ve driven past where you were placed. 😂
I got 24,998 (-2 points for Iceland, see below)
1. Sydney on the hospital, Kings Cross, Robinson St. got me there, a quickie.
2. I saw a poster for the San Siro (home stadium for AC Milan); and the Piazza Castello sign and the Metro station got me into the right neighborhood, then the intersection was unique enough to pinpoint the spot
3. My imagery was different to Tom's, I saw "Puno" on several signs and happened upon the town with that while scanning the map (after looking in Lima for a long time). I could barely see part of the sign for the cross street to the north, Ave del Puerto, and a blurry version of the Tacna street sign, which got me home
4. I did just what Tom did, identified the .IS website, guessed Rekj, found the blurry sign that had Grafarvogur (and Grafarholt) on it. But my mistake was that I put myself on the wrong side of that junction, a bit to the north, 500m away. I was a bit frustrated that the buildings weren't labeled, and after a LONG search, I just threw down a guess on that divided road because it looked about right. Frustrating.
5. I saw the snowy mountains to the west, so I just looked in about 8 different cities in western North America that had mountains in that direction, discounting ones without an east-west numbered street system. Got to Vancouver, and almost gave up, but I popped up to North Vancouver on a lark and saw it: E 12th st, roundabout just to the east, long buildings on both sides of the street. I didn't think it could be right, but it was! 1m away, blind luck.
This is by FAR the best I've ever done on one of these (Urban Play Alongs with Tom) after about 6 tries. It definitely takes a bit of luck!
As soon as I saw area code 604 I knew you were in Vancouver, B.C. (I know way too much about area codes lol. But I remember that one in particular from when I lived in Washington state.)
This was really impressive until you got to Vancouver, but 4 perfect scores out of 5 aren't bad to be fair.
I played the challenge before watching the video - it's so interesting to then see how people pick up on different clues, lol.
For 1- I figured out it was Australia bc I turned around immediately after starting the round and saw a rugby ad for the Wallabies 😂 and the road signs loaded better for me, so I spent a while looking around in Canberra, before even noticing the 'East Sydney' sign.
2- I guessed Milan on a hunch too, before looking around at all the metro stops near the castello.
3- The camera mapping is slightly different now, so got a bit more info from the street sign, and I spotted a bit of graffiti (I think? I saw the name and it distantly
4- absolutely flubbed it because I got tired of looking at Iceland so just randomly clicked on a N-S road on the west of the island (was v v v far off lol)
5- based on absolutely nothing, I decided it was Canada rather than the US just bc the street had a ?? friendlier?? vibe to it.... couldn't guess any further without moving (which I did in the end, just to see)
Good word of advice is if you see a coast redwood, like in the last one, you are most probably on the west coast of america fairly close to the sea.
fantastic job! You saw the westfield tower in the first guess in Sydney. Stuck out like a sore thumb on the map! Your analytical skills are highly impressive nonetheless!
i totally failed at the iceland one. Impressive find mate!
I was so sad when you said you were gonna guess Vermont. You haven't learned the plate yet, but it's all green. definitely one of the most distinctive plates.
25000 :-) It was interesting to see how nearly all the Streetview imagery/mapping has been updated in the last 18 months. That made r3 slightly easier, since I could see that the other street was called Av. del Puerto, which made me think of Lake Titicaca; and in r4 some of the business names are now on the map. I was slightly surprised you didn't get r5 - it felt like the Pacific Northwest, and if you zoom into Vancouver you can see quite a few roundabouts, which I know are rare in the US. Any road up, thanks for inspiring me to get a no-moving 25k.
Learning the country calling codes can be useful
almost got a perfect score with no moving, but flummoxed by Iceland.
Sydney & Milan I worked out pretty much as you did. Peru, I also went for the lake, and found a poster that said Puno, then found the Tacna road.
Vancouver was actually the easiest one for me; the Canada website on the back of the Evo car and the similarity of the landscape to where I live in Oregon made me go for BC, and North Vancouver is the only part with East-West numbered "Streets" (as opposed to avenues)
but with iceland, I searched for half an hour and then decided to move to read the sign, so while I did get 5000, I can't really count that