Tbh, as another British guy I initially thought the same, but seeing the state house was right by, I realised it was something to do with the revolutionary war. Cant remember what. The British opens fire on the public if I'm right?
@@jako1234567890jako That's correct. (It wasn't exactly a massacre anyway, only one person was killed and the colonists actually started it by throwing rocks, but the American press hyped the hell out of it.)
@@lhaviland8602 5 deaths (Crispus Attucks, James Carr, Samuel Gray. Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell) 6 injured. John Adams actually defended the British soldiers in their trial, and did so successfully. The crowd was throwing rocks and ice chunks, and Captain Preston was standing in front of his soldiers. Many in the crowd shouted fire, taunting the troops, and in the confusion, a scattered volley was fired, which Preston tried to suppress. The image that was in your history book (the hyping the hell out of it image) was engraved by none other than Paul Revere. It's a small world and it was even smaller back then!
He hadn't a chance to make a perfect score on this round so he opted for a compromise between two possible countries. I don't find anything wrong about it.
@@tomco7514 but his two countries were Germany and Luxembourg, so following the "license plate rule" he should have gone for Germany. And he is always going for as better score as possible in every round,no matter the total score
@@SuperPuris If he picked Germany, he would get less pojnt and he certainly had France in his mind as well... as I wrote, he did a compromise and got quite a good amount of points, so not a huge mistake.
Anyone else get so frustrated when your mouse is on the exact spot on the map and you don't notice? 😂😂😂 I was screaming inside during Kenya when it was hovering on Hotel Radiance like "JUST CLICK THE DAMN MAP"
Came so close last time but completely bollocked it in the last 2 rounds. Let's do better. Round 1 - Immediately recognized Korean, not much else tho, thought about going central to be safe, but I figured there'd be a bunch more spots in Seoul, I was wrong. 4548 points Round 2 - Well very convenient to find the city and the spot in the city without even scrolling around lmao. Couldn't find the Sports Club, so I hit it somewhere in central Boston, near the closest "plaza" named place i could find. Somehow got it within 1.5km. 4995 points. I imagine you 5000'd this one. (yep) Round 3 - Yes! Sioux Falls, I know that's in South Dakota (thanks Fargo), for some reason my brain thought "main ave" was the big yellow Ave on google maps, not the literal main ave, don't know why I didn't look more carefully, but that was just 200 meters away thankfully. Great Western Bank threw me off too. 4999 points. Round 4 - Found the nice little Mumbasa Food Market, started looking for big streets in Mumbasa that ran SW to NE, figured it looked like the main street so I clicked on that after looking at it for a bit, didn't have the patience to really look for everything. But if I had just zoomed in one step closer, I'd have seen the Diamond Trust Bank, as I only clicked 225 meters away. 4999 points. This is going rather fucking well lol, but so is it for you, I hope the slightly better Korea guess is still enough to be ahead. Round 5 - This is exactly what I feared. Random spot where you can't read anything so you have to go on pure intuition, which you're always better at. Almost went for my home country of Romania seeing the red font license plate and the yellow circle thing on the Audi (those are both used quite a lot here). But the road signs were clearly different, then I looked at the rest of the cars and got a British-Northern French vibe, didn't really look German to me, the road signs look different there, also the buildings aren't very German either. Steering wheels are on the correct side tho, so I decided on France, went for Nantes. Was even more Northern French apparently. 4092 points. IF YOU'RE GOING FOR LUXEMBOURG I THINK I'VE GOT YOU BEAT! Holy fuck I've finally done it. 23633 total points, championed through your 3 perfect scores, and I beat your intuition for once. this is great. I am highly satisfied by the lack of South America 'cause I'd have probably pissed away South America rounds again lol. (first thing I see after refreshing is another comment that got a higher score than me, FUCK. gotta do better next time)
23912 Points. Good Round. -------- Guess 1: I picked a side road in Seoul. 4506 (145.8 km) Guess 2: I was able to find the sports club east of downtown Boston. 5000 (0.9m) Guess 3: I found the sign with Sioux Falls. 11th & Main. 5000 (5.3m) Guess 4: I found the sign for the Mombasa Sweet Mart. Looked for a large road going northwest. 5000 (5.4m) Guess 5: Looked like France. I picked an alley in Paris. 4406 (177 km)
Nice job. I got 23815 with pretty much the same story, except the last one I went with Orleans just below Paris cause I thought it looked like a smaller place. Couldn't believe he didn't go for France on the last one, I thought it was pretty obviously French
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob.
My scores: Round 1: Knew it was Korean so I went in Incheon. 4521. Round 2: Found Boston Sports Club on the map, Boom. 5000. Round 3: Easy Peasy. Found 11th and then Main. 5000 again. Round 4: Got Mombasa, but couldn't get the exact location. 4998. Round 5: Knew it was France, and Oddly enough, I went in Rouen. 4748. FINAL: 24267, and I'm currently the leader! Hope that can stay.
Weird playing this a few years on because the places have changed, so there are different clues. The 'Downtown Sioux Falls' sign isn't in view anymore so I was really excited I got it only to go back and watch him talk about how easy it was lol
I started playing GeoGuessr in October 2020 and i'm just starting wathcing those play along videos. That's funny playing the same map 2 years later because a lot of points have really changed, especially the firt one in South Koea.
On the last round the number plates above the garage doors was blurred for Tom, but I could read the letter F on my attempt. In another playalong Riga, Latvia was a relatively easy round for him, while I was dropped on top of a hill with not much to look at. Sad, that these playalongs are not comparable because of these constant changes.
I’m playing in 2022, I was so happy to get 5000 on the Sioux Falls round just from the DTSF signs, because I’ve heard of Sioux Falls from a song (I realised it’s hardly San Francisco). And then back in 2019 or whenever the place was sprayed right onto a cabinet! It’s definitely not there in the 2022 imagery 😅
24025, which I was pleased with! Chose southern England for the last one (got fooled by the English "STOP" sign), which meant I was only about 100km off! Great vid as usual Wizard.
playing along in 2023: 1. thought to myself its obviously korea just no idea where...didn't go for Seoul because i know thats a huge place and it didn't have that vibe lol so went for Daejeon = 1.2 Miles!? 2. Boston sports club, looked in downtown boston found bowdoin put it all together = 9 Yards perfect score 3. Updated imagery, saw a poster for a theatre that looked like it said washington pavillion or something so i went for Washington, nothing about Sioux on mine = 1070 Miles :( 4. I got Kenya mombassa but couldn't find perfect spot on the map = 3 Miles 5. was thrown off by english street signs and european number plates, went for brighton just based on the vibe of the streets and buildings = 93 miles total = 20,934
I was fuming in Kenya round when you couldnt see Hotel Radiance and in France round when you went for Luxembourg and I was sure that after last few Luxembourg round you would look for yellow car plates. All in all, amazing score
YES! FINALLY I BEAT YOU!! round 1 i went exactly in the same korean neighbourhood as you, just 10 points more round 2, 3 and 4 quite easy with the signs and writings all around round 5 i knew it was France from the start, went for the heartland right near Orleans, a bunch of points more than you. This was a fun one!
Round 1: Out of pure interest I bothered to learn to read Korean some time ago (it's not as difficult as it looks, by the way!) so I was able to read the writing on the building to the northwest, which I think read "Taepyong billa". It looked like an office building, and "Taepyong" vaguely sounded to me like a placename (maybe because of "Pyong"-yang?), so I kept that in mind. I could find no other clues, so, just to be on the safe side, I randomly zoomed in on a central city in South Korea, namely Daejeon. But right then I noticed a neighbourhood called Taepyeong... could this really be it? Based on the diagonal road to the south I found a suitable location... and here we were! - 5000 points Round 2: Boston Sports Clubs gave the city away, and a "Bowd..." sign behind some leaves slightly further left made pinpointing near the Bowdoin metro station easier! - 5000 points Round 3: Well, that was quite straightforward... if you know where Sioux Falls is at least! - 5000 points Round 4: So, a central street in Mombasa... I was lucky enough to spot Hotel Radiance quite easily - 5000 points Round 5: All I could tell by the architecture was that this was probably France, so I just went for Orleans... not too lucky this time! - 4265 points Total: 24265 points. Quite an interesting selection of cities overall!
Great job on Round 1! I also learned hangeul once and tried to check if any of the writing contains a recognizable city name but I didn't have the luck to zoom into Daejeon and find the Taepyeong district there. Instead I just went for a random guess in Seoul like nearly everyone else.
We should convince our guy to learn some Hanguel and go for a perfect score round in S. Korea. As a wise man said, it takes only an afternoon for a man to master it, and no less than a week for an "idiot" to do the same.
7:38 lol no, youre about 250 years off on that one. Its when some british soldiers fired on an "aggresive" crowd, a couple of years before the revolutionary war
24,443! Pleased with that one! Round 1 - Clocked it was Korea straight away, went with Daejeon because it was fairly central in Korea - hedged my bets, fluked it - got within 1 mile! Round 2 - Obviously knew it was Boston, but couldn't find the sports club , went north of the city and got within a mile or 2 Round 3 - Found Sioux Falls (took me much longer than it took you), then found the junction pretty quickly. Round 4 - Worked out it was Marassa in Kenya (obviously). But couldn't find the exact spot, but got pretty close, within a mile or 2. Round 5 - I thought it was France, and thought it looked like it was near the coast for some reason; but the Stop sign being in English threw me off (surprised you didn't mention that). So I went with Jersey, paid off as it's relatively close to La Harve. Happy with that one.
It's interesting stumbling across this series a few years later, a lot of the images are updated now with slightly different clues to the ones Tom had. Makes for an interesting challenge!
Wow I did pretty good I think, with 23943 1. Recognized Korean letters and went for Seoul, being in the North (snowy). 4509 2. I spent so much time looking for the darn sports club and ended up clicking really near. 4995. 3. Easy one. 5000 4. Could have searched a long time like I did in Boston, but got lucky and nailed it. 5000. 5. I live in Paris so I recognized France immediately, and hesitated between Normandy and Paris suburbs. I went for Versailles. 4439.
1. Yup, Korea. I was pretty torn between going north and elsewhere. Ended up going for the outskirts of Seoul due to the snow. It is kinda surprising how far south the snow can go in Korea. Guess that's why they're pretty good at some winter sports. 2. Boston can be tricky, was happy to find that Sports Club pretty quickly 3. Sioux (sue) Falls. Like you said, a gimme. 4. Mombasa. Took too long to find that hotel, but I did eventually. 5. Guessed Lille in France, was torn between France and Belgium. The 2nd Empire buildings seemed pretty French to me, even though I've never been to France, but I clicked near the border with Belgium just to be safe. Final total of 23,718.
Another fun game! Easier than usual I'd say lol. 1. Yeah, this one was a pure guesswork. My thinking was that snow means mountains so I went with some small city in a mountainous area and got a slightly better score than you. 2. Quite an easy round. I just looked for the curved building somewhere in the center and found the spot fairly quickly. 3. This one was even easier considering the insane amount of clues there. 4. Probably the easiest Africa round I ever got. I just remembered Hotel Radiant because hotels tend to pop up fairly early on the map. Also the gas station nearby. 5. Oof this one sucked but they can't all be easy. Atleast I immediatly guessed France - it just felt like France to me almost right away. But seeing no other clues I went with central France so got 3985 points. Overall 23564 so I actually managed to beat you for once! Yay! Anyway, nice video, keep up the good work!
Love this format, I think I would like it even more with like a 2-3 minute time limit. Not because you are taking too long, but just because it takes out the wondering if you could have found more by taking more time.
2450 pts WITH moving, and took me 52 minutes ... Unbelievable, some of your detective thinking without moving and still getting it spot on! Le Havre was tough even with moving, I lost most of the points in South Korea. Always fun!
Started doing these play alongs - they are great content! My scores: Round 1: Went random Seoul. 4516 - 89 miles Round 2: Couldn't find Boston Sports Club on the map, damn, but 4999 - 226 yd Round 3: Pretty simple - 5000 - 6 yd Round 4: Also got spot on - 5000 - 4 yd Round 5: Seemed France and something told me Rouen. Total guess, 4744 - 46 miles
Always love your content! Also, I got 24,063 somehow - first time I've beat you ;). I got 5,000 points on the same 3 that you did (after a lot of searching in the Kenya one). I SOMEHOW guessed the right city in South Korea (really just blind luck) and guessed in northern France for the last one (Reims, so still wrong but somewhat close). EDIT: Also, since nobody else has mentioned it, the Boston Massacre was one of the key events that preceded the American Revolutionary War where British soldiers opened fire on a mob of citizens. It's one of the biggest things taught in American history classes so I'll give you a pass on that one haha.
1. Went North in Korea because of the snow. South of Seoul. 4523 2&3: Easy rounds, 5000 on both. 4: Got Mombasa but couldn't find the exact location. Went sort of central along the main road ended up getting 4999 anyway. 5. The buildings screamed Northern France/Belgium to me. I went on the outskirts of Paris just to play the percentages. 4372 pts. Total: 23,894
1- 4595 pts - Guessed in Daegu, 73 miles off 2- 5000 pts- I started slightly more in the alley, so I found Bluefinch Pl pretty easily 3- 5000 pts- Really easy one 4- 4994 pts- Found the wrong Automobile Association of Kenya, guessed 1.1 miles off 5- 4007 pts- Guessed in Ghent, Belgium Total- 23956, first time I've done better than you
22,359. Very pleased. Round 5 killed my score. Was at a total error of 82.5 miles until that round. Had no idea where in Europe and picked Milan, Italy. I'm not sure if the chimney looked "Italian" and it gave me pause...France was my other thought. Round 1 I went for Seoul, so was a tiny bit closer than you (no snow in my image). Got 5000 each the next 3 rounds. Locations were slightly different as they were all updated. Boston was the most different since I could NOT see the the Boston pub, BUT there was a blurry Boston Police car I barely made out. The curved building was the main clue and I was right under the street sign for Bulfinch Pl. Kenya was a challenge as I was looking in Nairobi was a long time due to the Jomo Kenyatta reference and I saw the Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi. Then I saw Mombasa and got it.
Round 1: Korean writing. So many wires + snow, I guessed Seoul. 4536. Round 2: Been to Boston twice, instantly recognized Faneuil Hall. 5000. Round 3: I've driven cross country on HW90 which basically goes through the city. 5000. Round 4: Saw the city sign, couldn't be arsed to find it. Picked a N/S road in the middle. 4997. Round 5: It looked like the region where S . UK and N. France look alike. I thought the cars parked on the left meant UK. Guessed Southhampton. 4363. 23896. Fun, easy, and quick.
my score round 1- i watch lots of anime instantly recognized the place 5000 points (0m away) round two- i live in boston so i knew 5000 points (0m way) round 3-- i have cottage there so i knew 5000 points (0m way) round 4- my sisters black she lives there and i called her and asked 5000 points (0m away) round 55- i live in france and i walk scrungus my cat there everyday 5000 points (0m away) its ok im an expert dont feel down
I do love your pronunciations. I know you'd obviously prefer to say them the correct way but you also don't get to worried by it if you totally botch it. Even if we all know they're wrong it's fun listening to the attempts.
I finally beat ya! Round 1 - Knew it was Korea. No idea what city. Guessed Daejeon since it was Central-Korea to maximise my chances, and got lucky and almost nailed it. 4,985 points. Round 2 - Boston Sports Club was the big giveaway. My street view also had the Bulfinch Pl street name, so that one was easy enough. 5,000 points. Round 3 - Sioux Falls. Took me ages to remember what bloody state Sioux Falls was in, but once I found the damn city it was an easy 5,000 points. Round 4 - Basically used the same method as you to find the Mombasa location. Took a little while but all in all easy 5,000 points. Round 5 - Ballsed the last one up too. F. I knew it was in France (my street view was full of French cars), but since it was a tiny street with no distinguishing features I just chucked out a hail mary and went with Lyon. Quite far from Le Havre, unfortunately. 3,379 points. Total - 23,364 points. Would have been a great score if the last one wasn't so bad.
Here we go! First one: I recognised the Korean symbols and went for Daegu, cause it didn't look like the capital. 118 km away. 2nd: An easy round overall, clicked in the center and was 500 m away. Third: Found Sioux Falls after 2-3 mins of search through the map, 3.4 m away. Really happy with that one! 4th: Saw Mombasa sweet mart. Then I've searched for the Total station, but couldn't find it. Clicked on the wrong way( how was that the main road?) and was 1.1 km away. Final one: Tough round. Not many clues, but was sure it's Europe. Went for Dijon in France, cause I thought it's not very south. Not that close at the end, 436 km away. And a total of 23250 which is decent I guess :D
24264 1: Instantly recognized the writing as Korean. Luckily I can sometimes tell apart the Korean cities, and this one did not look like Busan, Daegu, Seoul, or Incheon. So I went with the largest centrally located remaining city, Daejeon. Was actually super close, got 4995 points. 2. Saw Boston Sports Club, Western Bank, and something that ended in "Arena". Zoomed around Boston until I found it. 3. "Mackenzie River... am I in, like, Alaska or something? Oh never mind it's Sioux Falls lol". 11th street popped right out, then went from left to right until I found its intersection with Main Street. 4. Found Mombasa, identified that the road ran NE-SW and that it was a main-street type of thing, but couldn't be bothered to find the exact location. Got 4999 though. 5. Instantly identified France by the buildings, and in fact instantly narrowed it down to two cities (Orleans and Le Havre). Don't ask how, but I'm usually good at distinguishing cities. Guessed the wrong one though, so only got 4270. Still feeling decent about it though.
The Boston image has since been updated, "Bullfinch Place" is now clearly visible on a street sign pointing down beside the sports club. Made it a little easier :)
Finally beat you! 23911 points. 1. Obviously Korea, went northish in Wonju due to the snow, 4590 points. 2. Couldn't find the right place in Boston, went fairly central and got 4994 points. 3. 5000 points. 4. Slightly different strategy than you, went looking for Hotel Radiance in the map and found it, 5000 points. 5. This felt like a wild guess, I went with northern France just based on the Citroëns and the look of the buildings. Went with Rennes, 4327 points.
Barely beat you with 23522. 1. Clicked randomly in S. Korea, it was about 26 km away. 2. Looked all over Boston but didn't find BSC, Bulfinch pl, or Webster bank (I saw one but didn't correlate). I clicked around what seemed to be the financial district and got 700 m away. 3. I took me a while to find the city, then it was easy. 15 m away. 4. I looked along what seemed to be that road and quickly found the Sweets Market, then saw the Total station. 4 m away. 5. I was clueless but from the STOP sign I assumed it was an English speaking place. I clicked in the UK, 480 km away.
For once I've been (very) good, so I'll share even though the video is a year old; it's a bit funny by the way because some pictures have now been updated so I don't necessarily get the same clues as you did back then. South Korea for example was not snowy for me. 1. Recognized South Korea from the language, not much else to go for; didn't really look like Seoul (not modern enough, maybe), went for Daejeong for no reason, 4,979 very lucky points 2. Boston, obviously. I got tired of looking around so I chose a street north of downtown, 4,998 points 3. A given; 5,000 points 4. Many clues here, fun round. I saw that the road was a two-way so probably the main street in the middle of Mombasa, and I saw the Automobile Association thing, 5,000 points 5. I'm French and it felt very... French. From the buildings actually, the cars, plus the signs are the same that I see everyday, so... Tried Paris, cloe enough, 4,405 points Total 24,382, which is actually a new record for me on Urban World!
Finally won! Round 1- Went in Suwon, gained about 100 points on you as it was slightly closer (4610) Round 2- couldn’t get it perfect, but still a 4993 Round 3, 4- 5000 Round 5- Guess Dijon in Eastern France, was sure u would catch up. Very disappointed you didn’t notice it couldn’t be Luxembourg bc of the plates, was hoping you’d go with Germany. However, my guess was still around 20 km closer, got 3658 Won 23261 to 23126. Had some close losses so cool to finally win!
I got 22 752, I also got screwed by the last round. I put east Germany so when you were saying Luxembourg I was swearing at my screen, lol. Struggled to find the part in Boston and The Korea round you got two more points than me. I'm happy with my resultsd, maybe the best I've done on 'no moving around'.
Playing along before watching the vid: Spoiler alert! R1: Korean writing everywhere. Trying to decipher it because I can read hangeul, but it doesn't give away the city we're in. The phone area code is 010 apparently, which sounds like a code you would assign to a capital, so my best guess is to go with Seoul, a bit further away from downtown. -> 4537 points. R2: "Boston Sports Clubs" sign and a sign with "Boston Police" on it, so I guess we are in Boston, Massachusetts. With all the skyscrapers around us we should also be in or next to downtown, right by a big street which is going from NW to SE and curves to the right. There are just 2 streets in downtown which fulfill these requirements and with the Boston Sports Clubs POI it was easy to choose the right one. Turns out that we are on Sudbury St, right next to the John F. Kennedy Federal Building. -> 5000 points. R3: "Welcome to Downtown Sioux Falls". Nuff said, we're in South Dakota and on the crossing of 11th Street and Main Ave. Another quick and easy round. -> 5000 points R4: Again, multiple signs stating where we are. This time it's Mombasa, Kenya. There is only one big road going from NW to SE in Mombasa, but it still took me quite long to find the POI of the nearby gas station and the hotel along the road. -> 5000 points R5: After 3 easy rounds, this one's gonna be a bit harder. It's in an EU country and cars are driving on the right. The architecture looks like it could be in Germany,. There are plenty of German cars and some French too, but the signs don't look neither German nor French. Also I don't think it would be further south because I see no A/C. I think I'm gonna guess somewhere in Belgium then, and place my marker in Liege. -> 3729 points, it actually was (Northern) France, who would have known. Edit after watching the vid: Did the wizard realy guess in Luxembourg after telling us multiple times that they have yellow license plates there? lol -> 23266 points in total. Those were 3 very easy and 2 a bit more challenging rounds but all in all a rather easy seed. Looking forward to the next play along challenge. Cheers.
I must say that I had 23266!! What a close round that was, I really enjoyed going neck and neck. I lost a couple hundred to you on the Korea pick (I had a bit farther north) but picked southern UK for the last one which got me the edge I needed.
Depending on your accent Canadian or American, Western or Eastern it can be pronounced two different ways. You got both of them correct. SEE-Ew or SOOW would be the most phonetic spell to say Sioux.
1. Saw the Korean, put it in the largest central South Korean city I could find to play it safe and got the right one. Lucky 4996 points 2. Saw Boston, searched for the winding road and managed to find the sports club. 5000 3. Saw American flag and "Sioux Falls" box. Found the city which was larger than I thought it would be. 5000 4. Signs alluded me to Mombasa, Kenya. Didn't bother looking for the bank. Placed it in the center and got 4998 5. Knew it was Europe. No idea where. Threw it down in West Germany. 3335 points 23,329 points. Not bad
23851 - the first time I've beaten you in a play along. However given I'm playing this two years after, some of the imagery and clues were different. I doubt I would have got 5000 in boston without a visible name of the lane. I got lucky to be closer in Korea (no snow in my view), 3 perfect rounds and the I had a few more french cars in the final round, except I was thrown by the "STOP" sign - I figured the french wouldn't use an english word on a sign post. I went for South England for that so scored poorly but still closer than luxembourg.
I would've gotten Boston spot on, just looking at the shape of the sports club building I realised you were one junction off when you clicked it. I wouldn't have done as well on some of the others, though. hahaha
1. Hm, Kias and Hyundais all over the place, South Korea. Looks big, but not huge, so let's just go for a decent-sized city in the centre of the country rather than one of the large metro areas. Daejeon maybe? 4984 points, can't believe it. My personal insane guess. 2. Central Boston, that much is certain. Can't find that sports club or the Webster bank. 4995 points. 3. Didn't know the exact location of Sioux Falls off the top of my head, but I do know where the Sioux are from. And luckily the cities from Urban World are large enough that you can find them on the map. 5000 points. 4. Okay, Mombasa. Big, busy road, oriented NW-SE. Not too many of those around. Found the shops on the map. 5000 points. 5. Significant German majority among the cars, but it doesn't like Germany. That stone wall, the houses, the road signs, the thin asphalt layer on top of the cobblestones. It all looks French. But those cars... maybe we're in the part of France that once was German? No, it wasn't Metz. 3647 points. So that adds up to 23626 points - exactly 500 more than you. First time playing along, and I really enjoyed it. Don't think I will be able to beat you regularly though, just got lucky in South Korea.
1- recognised the writing as Korean, so just guessed smack bang in the middle. -- 4700 points, not too shabby 2- Obviously saw Boston so eventually found it haha, knew it would be northern bc of where the big buildings were situated, could't find the sports club anywhere so just went north. but went too north ( near Harvard uni lol ) -- 4980 3- Never heard of Sioux falls. looked southern to me so went texas somewhere . 1933 points, ffs 4- Yeah found it by heading down the big long street in Mombasa -5000 5- didn't look at the cars close enough, dumb of me but put england lmao. 3800 points 20500
My score: 1. I noticed the Korean writing and went for a city near the center of South Korea, Daejeon. Bang! 4989. 2,3 and 4 had too many clues. 4997, 5000, 5000. 5. Looks like Belgium, France, Germany maybe. Couldn't see any yellow numberplates, nor numberplates with red letters, so it wasn't Belgium or Luxembourg. I ended up going for somewhere in France, but pretty close to the German border: Besançon. 3490 points Final score 23476, I beat you for once!
24010 points. this is epic. r1: guessed somewhere outside of seoul. 4624 points r2: knew it was boston but couldnt find where. 4982 points r3: knew sioux was somewere around central/northern us. tracked it down from there 5000 points r4: took me awhile to track down the actual road but still got the 5000 points r5: its just kinda felt like france but i didnt know where so i guessed paris. 4404 points
I'm so angry at myself right now, because I could have beaten you, if I hadn't completly overlooked that Sioux Falls sign. Placed the needle way over in Phoenix, Arizona. Really fatal error. 19.333 points overall.
23,926. I got extremely lucky and guessed in the right city in South Korea. Perfect scores in Boston, Sioux Falls, and Mombasa. Took a random guess in Brussels on the last round and that’s where most of my points went. Good one!
here we go! 1. japanese letters and snow. only japanese city I know by the looks is Kyoto and this isnt Kyoto. going for tokyo. What, no way those letters were Korean, there was not enough circles. ok then. 2253 points. errgh, not so good. 2. Boston sports club! Cant be arsed to find it. looks very central. 4997 points. 3. sioux falls on the sign. cant be arsed to find it on the map of usa. 3178 points. 4.Thailand? Africa? Mombasa on a shop name ok, 4998 points. 5.europe. looks like Munich area. maybe france. went for munich area. 2609 points. gg better luck next time 18035 points.
another report from the future... 1 - The church on the right had been totally redeveloped since you played, coupled with the photo being taken from further back it almost didn't look like the same place at first glance until I clocked the same little blue truck in both. Recognised the Korean text, but can't read it at all, so just guessed Seoul since it looked like the back streets of a big city. 4,510 2 - Saw Boston Sports Clubs, went straight for Boston, zoomed in on the Financial District since the buildings looked finance-y, found the exact place. 5,000 3 - This one had updated, and I thought maybe that "Welcome to Downtown Sioux Falls" box was new, and it'd be another situation like Sacramento last time where it wouldn't be there in your imagery and I'd have a massive comical advantage handed to me on a plate... sadly not. 5,000 again 4 - Saw AA Kenya, saw Mombasa Branch, also looked for Jomo Kenyatta and couldn't find it, but eventually spotted the AA after zooming round Mombasa a bit. Was in pain watching you scroll past it on the map like 5 times. 5,000 5 - The English stop sign here properly threw me. I was convinced stop signs would be in the country's language, and I saw the EU license plates, but it didn't look like the UK or Ireland at all. Malta? Does Malta speak English? Anyway it wasn't Malta. It was France. Fucked it. Apparently, stop signs are in English all across Europe. There were even more French cars than when you played, so if I hadn't been so obsessed with the stop sign I might've got closer than you >:( 1,282 Total: 20,792
Round 1: It was pretty clear south korea, due to the circles and english lettering. I could't discover the right place so i clicked on Busan. 198KM - 4341 points Round 2: White signs, skyscrapers and construction sides everywhere. Yes, we're in USA. Saw that Boston Sports Club sign, but couln't find it on the map. wild guess somewhere in Boston. 1,8 Km - 4994 points. Round 3: Again white signs everywhere, many pick-up trucks, USA again. Hell Yeah. I discovered that sign "Welcome to Downtown Sioux Falls" so, South Dakota. But for some reason i haven't checked the street names, clicked on a crossroad near the airport. 6,9 Km - 4975 points. Round 4: Well, USA the third? No, not this time. What have we got here? A lot of yellow color and some funny looking Tuk Tuk cars. Then i turned around ans saw "Mombasa Sweet Mart" I heard about Mombasa before, but couldn't remember wich country it was. Something in Africa? Found Mombasa in Kenya. Discovered the Total gas station on the map and clicked on it. But unfortunately it was the wrong gas station. 1Km - 4996 Points. Round 5: There's not much to see here, but it looks european. No yellow license plates, Audi car, so maybe Germany? These could be a tough one. Clicked on Munich. Well, It was Le Havre in France. Meh. 654,5 KM - 2716 points In total: 22022 points Round 5 has killed me :(
1. Guessed Seoul 2. About 500m off in Boston 3. 5000 points 4. 5000 points 5. Went for edge of Brighton because of a stop sign and the flint on the houses
1st round: Went for the southern part of Seoul, slightly closer but nothing to shout about. 4546 points. 2nd round: Took me ages to find a Boston sports club that also happened to be near a plaza, wasn't the right one tho. It didn't quite correlate with the map but I couldn't be fucked to keep looking at that point. 5km out, 4982 points. 3rd round: disaster, had no clue where Sioux falls was and went for North Carolina, 1642 points. 4th: Perfect score 5th: went for Poland, 1860 points :/ Disappointed tbh
First round 4458: Recognized the Korean Writing, but couldn’t can’t read Korean so I picked a random city: 4458 Round Two: 5000 Saw Boston Sports Club, took awhile to get the right spot. Round three: 5000 Sioux(Sue) Falls, recognizes the name, know what state it was in found the streets, ta-da. Round Four: 4996found the city and country name fast but couldn’t find the city for the longest time, then I searched for the Radiance Hotel until I gave up Round Five: 4432Don’t know my European buildings very well, saw the word Stop and assumed England, though I picked very southern just Incase it was France. 23723, by far my best score :D
23719 Round 1: Knew from watching these videos that circles in the writing meant Korea. Couldn't get anything else beyond that, so I guessed Seoul. Rounds 2-4: Strong clues allowed me to get them all pretty spot on Rounds 5: This one threw me for a loop. I assumed it was an English speaking country because the stop sign was in English. Shows what I know. I guessed London and fortunately wasn't too far off.
1) Went for a northern city in Korea as well because of the snow. Went for Seoul. 4516 2) Obviously Boston. Looked for a curved main road and found it quickly. Full 5000 3) Went west coast after a lot of searching. Didn't look inland once otherwise I'd have seen the city label. 1167 4) Saw Mombasa on the sweet shop sign but couldnt match up the location on the map. A few roads away. 4998 5) Went for France but went southern as I thought it could be Italy as well. 2825 18506 overall. Still not beaten the wizard but getting better
1. I am not really an Asia expert, letters look Korean to me. And I went north as well, for a location somewhere in Bucheon. 4513 points 2. Immediately saw the Boston Sports Clubs, so went for Boston as well. Couldn't find a good location on the map to match the location and not much other, but with the highrise in the south I went a little north of the center. And of course you are able to find it on the map... Still got 4988 points though. 3. First thought was, if I can find out the city, the exact location shouldn't be too hard, as 11th street and main avenue should be easy to find. And then the informational electric cabinet thingy seems to give a good hind, unfortunately I have never heard of Sloux Falls, but it sounds a bit french (close to Canada maybe) and a Great Western Bank, so I went searching in the northwest. And apparently I drifted a bit of to the east, and then suddenly there it was Sioux Falls, so apparently is was an i and not an l, but I don't care I found it :), and of course you found it in a second, but luckily it is not time limited :p. 5000 points 4. Saw Mombasa on the building, had to dig deep in my memory which African country that was, but it came to me quickly it is Kenya, and then when looking at the other side, it says Kenya of course. And apparantly Mombasa is quite small, found the location quite quickly on the main road with the shops etc shown on the map (that's new, for the first time I found it quicker than you did). So another 5000 points 5. First though was: shit. Second though was: Italy maybe, then when looking around and seeing more french cars and the french forbidden to turn left sign I had a third thought: France. And since we are almost tied at this point I have to do a bit better, but there really are few clues on this one. It is not very flat, so not very far to the north probably, but it could be everywhere. In the end I settles safe, so went in the middle for Orléans. So now wait and see what you'll do. After seeing your score I am doubting of my safe bet is close enough, I am looking now, it is .... 4273. Closer then I thought :) All in all a nice score from me I think with a total of 23774, and I got to beat the wizard for once.
played again in june 2020, the streetview got updated and there's a swastika in the windows of this this brown building, lol! 1:47 Round 1: 4978 I recognized the writing immediately and it was the only clue I had... then I aimed for a town that doesn't look rich.. total luck! Round 2: 4996 Saw Boston sports club, pretty straight forward.. searched in the map but didn't find. Round 3: 1357 I had no idea, went for Philadelphia ... could have searched for a bit in the map for big cities Round 4: 5000 GET IN! saw Kenya, saw Munbasa and searched in the main avenue... looked in the map for 15 mins and still didn't find... put the mark right in the middle and GET IN! Round 5: 4040: had no clue, I saw the blue mark in the car's license plates and saw the stop sign in english... I went to UK, cambridge 20.371, nice game!
Neck and neck until the last round and you only just beat me WITH A LUXEMBOURG GUESS. I guessed in France but further away than you unfortunately. Jammy bugger!
#1: Korean text, can't read anything but I'm going Seoul, can't go wrong picking the biggest city by far, right? Turns out you can. 4513 points, not mad though. Places with writing systems you can't read always make for a bit of a crapshoot. #2: I scan the map of Boston for a few minutes, starting in the downtown area but don't zoom in enough to reveal the bank or the sports club. End up guessing 1 km south. Still 4997 points. No big loss. #3: We have a large crossing with road names and a sign telling us the name of the city. This looks like a slam dunk if only I can find Sioux Falls on the map. I think I remember that there is a close relationship between Sioux and Dakota, so that's where I go - and that's where it is. From there, finding the crossing is no challenge. 5000 points, ez pz. #4: Good thing it says "Kenya" and "Mombasa" on large signs or I'd been totally lost xD I go scanning for the Hotel Radiance because it feels like hotels are some of the best landmarks on Google Maps, and I find it pretty quickly. Another 5000 points. Geoguessr is playing nice today. #5: Oof. So much for playing nice. Not one readable word in sight, except for "Citroën" on the back of a car, which reinforces the French vibes I'd been getting from the place. I'll have to guess the city, so I bet on Lyon and am pretty far off. Only 3391 points. Summary: 22901 points. Looks quite good at face value, but nothing special given the overall low difficulty. The last one was a bit of a bummer, guessing further north I could have been pushing 24000 but oh well.
got 22874. France really messed me up. I went Lyon which was way off. For the life of me I thought the street in mombasa was going northwest not northeast. I couldn't find the exact location but got close. Edit: Also you're american accent is pretty good, but it's so weird to hear it coming from you.
23,455 my first win against you. playing a year after these were made means we often have different images and clues, although this one was fairly similar.
Why the last one couldn't be Germany: The STOP sign looks different (I think it's the font and the border) and in Germany we don't have no-left-turn-signs. Instead in this case we would have a right-turn-only-sign (blue with white arrow to the left).
- 23926 1. recognised korean and figured it'd probably be Seoul, was punished for my arrogance. - 4489 - 151.1km 2. gee i wonder what clued me in here. guessed boston, couldn't find the sports club but used building layout to pick somewhere close. - 4499 - 225.5m 3. thought sioux falls was in indiana. i knew how to pronounce though it and felt like a smug cunt. couldn't find it so scrolled around a bit and found it in S. Dakota. Was also confused by the yellow road not being main street but found it in the end. - 5000 - 6.6m 4. again, thank you blessed geoguessr god for your bountiful clues. basically same process as you, found DBT first. - 5000 - 3.7m 5. looked french. literally my only thought process. guessed Le Mans because why the fuck not. pretty close - 4438 - 167km good round!
jeez what a game i had also. 1st game : Agreed with the logic and went north in Korea, for Seoul. got slightly further than you at 144km - 4512 2nd game: Saw Boston sports club and dived into Boston. The main road was curved and i found it within 30 secs due to luck. 1.9m - 5000 3rd game: Couldn't for the life of me find Sioux falls and went for Boise Idaho. 802km bugger - 2820 4th game: Found Mombasa pretty easily and tried for a while to pinpoint but couldn't so i clicked on the main road and what do you know. 597m - 4998 5th game: For some reason i thought Britain, I'm from NZ so i don't really know tbh. Went into Oxford and got pretty lucky actually. 269km - 4125 Over all i got 21455, if i hadn't faffed the 3rd one i think i would've beat 23126 but oh well. Good fun.
playin along! Super fun, keep these up!!!!! 1. Korean, snow on the ground, I went northern. Seoul, that's northern. 4513 2. Bastin. I'm from closeby, but I think everyone will get a very good score. 5000. was difficult to locate exactly, i just ended up guessing approximately where i thought it was, ended up being close enough. And NO Tom, the Boston Massacre site is the... wait for it... site of the Boston Massacre, the famous 1770 event that acted as a precursor to the American Revolution. Snowball fight turns into dead colonists. British soldiers at fault? 3. Got some easy ones so far. Sioux Falls. South Dakota. Easy peasy. intersection of 11th and main. 6.6 m away, 5000. Dude the Sioux indians.... come on, Tom! Pronounced Soo Falls. 4. Holy crap could it be easier. Mombasa, Kenya, I found the hotel on a quick look, 5000 again. 5. Here's the geoguessr I know. Tough one, figured it had to france or italy or switzerland. Ended up going Lyon, 3390. Surprised, I thought it was definitely more italy-ish, so i went closer to the southeast france. I'm obviously, considering it's Le Havre, far northwest coast haha. See what he does. This round is going to separate the men from the boys. Or the women from the girls. It's 2019. Ah, Damn! He thinks Luxembourg, but still beats me. This was a fairly easy round. I think a LOAD of people are going to have very similar scores. Anyone worth their weight should have 3 near 5Ks, then a 4500ish for the South Korea, and then the last one you may mess up on. Getting exactly Daejeon, South Korea for round 1 and then northwest france-ish (maybe Rouen, Paris even, reasonably, doesn't have to be Le Havre) is what is going to put the winners narrowly over the top. Thus, almost everyone's going to have 20K+, at least.
23,582 - very happy with this score :) some very kind signage helped - just guessed Reims instead of Le Havre for the last round (same-ish latitude). Can't understand why you didn't go France in the last round - but I'm not complaining... I beat the big GW :P
Played along: 1. Not sure about the writing: is it Japanese or Korean? Looked on the map, looks more like Korean so I went with Seoul. Wrong city. I got 4518 points, the exact same score as you. 2. So... Boston Sports Clubs, so I hope it IS Boston. Found the sports club on the map, but somehow I managed to not get 5000 points... 4999 p. 3. USA again. Saw 'Great Western Bank' and 'Welcome to Sioux Falls'. I've got no idea where that is, but it's probably in the western part of the country. I scanned the west coast for a while, but couldn't find it. Clicked somewhere randomly around San Francisco in complete despair. Of course I was completely wrong. 1031 points. 4. 'Automobile Association of Kenya'. Also found the place name, Mombasa, at Hotel Radiance. 5000 points on this round! 5. Ooh this is a tough one. It looks like France to me. Clicked somewhere southern France. Oops, it was actually waaay up north. 3129 points. Total score = 18667. Not bad, not good either. But it was fun as always.
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"Boston massacre site. Was that the marathon thing".
-Some British guy.
Tbh, as another British guy I initially thought the same, but seeing the state house was right by, I realised it was something to do with the revolutionary war. Cant remember what. The British opens fire on the public if I'm right?
@@jako1234567890jako That's correct. (It wasn't exactly a massacre anyway, only one person was killed and the colonists actually started it by throwing rocks, but the American press hyped the hell out of it.)
@@lhaviland8602 5 deaths (Crispus Attucks, James Carr, Samuel Gray. Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell) 6 injured. John Adams actually defended the British soldiers in their trial, and did so successfully. The crowd was throwing rocks and ice chunks, and Captain Preston was standing in front of his soldiers. Many in the crowd shouted fire, taunting the troops, and in the confusion, a scattered volley was fired, which Preston tried to suppress. The image that was in your history book (the hyping the hell out of it image) was engraved by none other than Paul Revere. It's a small world and it was even smaller back then!
@@DrDoom-ph4gi very interesting, thank you. We have shameful education about our history in America in the UK...
@@danjeory3659 if your education was about how you colonized and pillaged half the world then you would never learn maths or science...
FYI Sioux is pronounced like "Sue". They're a Native American tribe
Us brits aren't as trigger happy with siouxing everyone as American's ;)
MishMash don’t make me sew yew
@@MishMash95 That's a good one. Now, let's talk about Iowa. LOL. I-O-wah
Why'd you click Luxembourg, there were no yellow number plates.
That's what threw me off. I could't tell why but I was sure it must be either germany or france. It was the number plates.
After few recent Luxembourg rounds and after talking abput yellow plates, Im surprised he went for it
He hadn't a chance to make a perfect score on this round so he opted for a compromise between two possible countries. I don't find anything wrong about it.
@@tomco7514 but his two countries were Germany and Luxembourg, so following the "license plate rule" he should have gone for Germany. And he is always going for as better score as possible in every round,no matter the total score
@@SuperPuris If he picked Germany, he would get less pojnt and he certainly had France in his mind as well... as I wrote, he did a compromise and got quite a good amount of points, so not a huge mistake.
16:12 You were killing me when you were doing the Mombasa round. On the screen you had Hotel Radiance and centered on the map was Hotel Radiance.
I'm watching at work and it took all my might to not yell at the screen! It's right there!!!
I was thinking the same thing!!!
i mean he got the 5k anyway
Anyone else get so frustrated when your mouse is on the exact spot on the map and you don't notice? 😂😂😂 I was screaming inside during Kenya when it was hovering on Hotel Radiance like "JUST CLICK THE DAMN MAP"
I was doing that with Boston too! I was like "Look at that giant curved building! It's right there!"
Hotel Radiance drove me insane, too :D
Automotive association of Kenya was what I spotted !
Came so close last time but completely bollocked it in the last 2 rounds. Let's do better.
Round 1 - Immediately recognized Korean, not much else tho, thought about going central to be safe, but I figured there'd be a bunch more spots in Seoul, I was wrong. 4548 points
Round 2 - Well very convenient to find the city and the spot in the city without even scrolling around lmao. Couldn't find the Sports Club, so I hit it somewhere in central Boston, near the closest "plaza" named place i could find. Somehow got it within 1.5km. 4995 points. I imagine you 5000'd this one. (yep)
Round 3 - Yes! Sioux Falls, I know that's in South Dakota (thanks Fargo), for some reason my brain thought "main ave" was the big yellow Ave on google maps, not the literal main ave, don't know why I didn't look more carefully, but that was just 200 meters away thankfully. Great Western Bank threw me off too. 4999 points.
Round 4 - Found the nice little Mumbasa Food Market, started looking for big streets in Mumbasa that ran SW to NE, figured it looked like the main street so I clicked on that after looking at it for a bit, didn't have the patience to really look for everything. But if I had just zoomed in one step closer, I'd have seen the Diamond Trust Bank, as I only clicked 225 meters away. 4999 points. This is going rather fucking well lol, but so is it for you, I hope the slightly better Korea guess is still enough to be ahead.
Round 5 - This is exactly what I feared. Random spot where you can't read anything so you have to go on pure intuition, which you're always better at. Almost went for my home country of Romania seeing the red font license plate and the yellow circle thing on the Audi (those are both used quite a lot here). But the road signs were clearly different, then I looked at the rest of the cars and got a British-Northern French vibe, didn't really look German to me, the road signs look different there, also the buildings aren't very German either. Steering wheels are on the correct side tho, so I decided on France, went for Nantes. Was even more Northern French apparently. 4092 points. IF YOU'RE GOING FOR LUXEMBOURG I THINK I'VE GOT YOU BEAT!
Holy fuck I've finally done it. 23633 total points, championed through your 3 perfect scores, and I beat your intuition for once. this is great. I am highly satisfied by the lack of South America 'cause I'd have probably pissed away South America rounds again lol.
(first thing I see after refreshing is another comment that got a higher score than me, FUCK. gotta do better next time)
I also wanted to say Romania in the 5th round...perhaps some streets in Bucharest, Cluj or even Brasov. Well done. You've beaten me by a mile.
@@florinsimion6466 Stop sign saved me on that one, the white outline looked too big, and i think the font on them here is a bit more... blocky
23912 Points. Good Round.
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Guess 1: I picked a side road in Seoul. 4506 (145.8 km)
Guess 2: I was able to find the sports club east of downtown Boston. 5000 (0.9m)
Guess 3: I found the sign with Sioux Falls. 11th & Main. 5000 (5.3m)
Guess 4: I found the sign for the Mombasa Sweet Mart. Looked for a large road going northwest. 5000 (5.4m)
Guess 5: Looked like France. I picked an alley in Paris. 4406 (177 km)
Nice job. I got 23815 with pretty much the same story, except the last one I went with Orleans just below Paris cause I thought it looked like a smaller place. Couldn't believe he didn't go for France on the last one, I thought it was pretty obviously French
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob.
in mombasa. u were right on the “automobile association of kenya” for so ling and u never seen it
This is the comment I was looking for lol
My scores:
Round 1: Knew it was Korean so I went in Incheon. 4521.
Round 2: Found Boston Sports Club on the map, Boom. 5000.
Round 3: Easy Peasy. Found 11th and then Main. 5000 again.
Round 4: Got Mombasa, but couldn't get the exact location. 4998.
Round 5: Knew it was France, and Oddly enough, I went in Rouen. 4748.
FINAL: 24267, and I'm currently the leader! Hope that can stay.
Pretty much exactly the same for me except I went Lyon for the last one which really screwed me over.
Same, but i god 5000 in kenya and i went for Rennes
Well done friend. I finally got over the 20k threshold and I'm really happy. 24k is amazing.
you make the best content
Not Luxembourg the number plates are white
Weird playing this a few years on because the places have changed, so there are different clues. The 'Downtown Sioux Falls' sign isn't in view anymore so I was really excited I got it only to go back and watch him talk about how easy it was lol
I started playing GeoGuessr in October 2020 and i'm just starting wathcing those play along videos. That's funny playing the same map 2 years later because a lot of points have really changed, especially the firt one in South Koea.
On the last round the number plates above the garage doors was blurred for Tom, but I could read the letter F on my attempt. In another playalong Riga, Latvia was a relatively easy round for him, while I was dropped on top of a hill with not much to look at. Sad, that these playalongs are not comparable because of these constant changes.
Also the number plates finished with 76 which is Seine-Maritime (went for Yvetot- 49km off).
I’m playing in 2022, I was so happy to get 5000 on the Sioux Falls round just from the DTSF signs, because I’ve heard of Sioux Falls from a song (I realised it’s hardly San Francisco). And then back in 2019 or whenever the place was sprayed right onto a cabinet! It’s definitely not there in the 2022 imagery 😅
24025, which I was pleased with! Chose southern England for the last one (got fooled by the English "STOP" sign), which meant I was only about 100km off! Great vid as usual Wizard.
playing along in 2023:
1. thought to myself its obviously korea just no idea where...didn't go for Seoul because i know thats a huge place and it didn't have that vibe lol so went for Daejeon = 1.2 Miles!?
2. Boston sports club, looked in downtown boston found bowdoin put it all together = 9 Yards perfect score
3. Updated imagery, saw a poster for a theatre that looked like it said washington pavillion or something so i went for Washington, nothing about Sioux on mine = 1070 Miles :(
4. I got Kenya mombassa but couldn't find perfect spot on the map = 3 Miles
5. was thrown off by english street signs and european number plates, went for brighton just based on the vibe of the streets and buildings = 93 miles
total = 20,934
I was fuming in Kenya round when you couldnt see Hotel Radiance and in France round when you went for Luxembourg and I was sure that after last few Luxembourg round you would look for yellow car plates. All in all, amazing score
I guess you could say he really
*massacred* that Boston accent.
YES! FINALLY I BEAT YOU!!
round 1 i went exactly in the same korean neighbourhood as you, just 10 points more
round 2, 3 and 4 quite easy with the signs and writings all around
round 5 i knew it was France from the start, went for the heartland right near Orleans, a bunch of points more than you. This was a fun one!
Round 1: Out of pure interest I bothered to learn to read Korean some time ago (it's not as difficult as it looks, by the way!) so I was able to read the writing on the building to the northwest, which I think read "Taepyong billa". It looked like an office building, and "Taepyong" vaguely sounded to me like a placename (maybe because of "Pyong"-yang?), so I kept that in mind. I could find no other clues, so, just to be on the safe side, I randomly zoomed in on a central city in South Korea, namely Daejeon. But right then I noticed a neighbourhood called Taepyeong... could this really be it? Based on the diagonal road to the south I found a suitable location... and here we were! - 5000 points
Round 2: Boston Sports Clubs gave the city away, and a "Bowd..." sign behind some leaves slightly further left made pinpointing near the Bowdoin metro station easier! - 5000 points
Round 3: Well, that was quite straightforward... if you know where Sioux Falls is at least! - 5000 points
Round 4: So, a central street in Mombasa... I was lucky enough to spot Hotel Radiance quite easily - 5000 points
Round 5: All I could tell by the architecture was that this was probably France, so I just went for Orleans... not too lucky this time! - 4265 points
Total: 24265 points. Quite an interesting selection of cities overall!
Great job on Round 1! I also learned hangeul once and tried to check if any of the writing contains a recognizable city name but I didn't have the luck to zoom into Daejeon and find the Taepyeong district there. Instead I just went for a random guess in Seoul like nearly everyone else.
We should convince our guy to learn some Hanguel and go for a perfect score round in S. Korea. As a wise man said, it takes only an afternoon for a man to master it, and no less than a week for an "idiot" to do the same.
I can read Korean too but it's rarely that helpful, usually it doesn't give away the place name, it's mostly just the name or type of businesses
7:38 lol no, youre about 250 years off on that one. Its when some british soldiers fired on an "aggresive" crowd, a couple of years before the revolutionary war
your american accent is so spot on. makes me laugh every time!
24,443! Pleased with that one!
Round 1 - Clocked it was Korea straight away, went with Daejeon because it was fairly central in Korea - hedged my bets, fluked it - got within 1 mile!
Round 2 - Obviously knew it was Boston, but couldn't find the sports club , went north of the city and got within a mile or 2
Round 3 - Found Sioux Falls (took me much longer than it took you), then found the junction pretty quickly.
Round 4 - Worked out it was Marassa in Kenya (obviously). But couldn't find the exact spot, but got pretty close, within a mile or 2.
Round 5 - I thought it was France, and thought it looked like it was near the coast for some reason; but the Stop sign being in English threw me off (surprised you didn't mention that). So I went with Jersey, paid off as it's relatively close to La Harve.
Happy with that one.
That perfect Midwestern accent... In Boston lol. Great video though, love these
10:31: "Which state is that in?"
Zooms directly into South Dakota.
It's interesting stumbling across this series a few years later, a lot of the images are updated now with slightly different clues to the ones Tom had. Makes for an interesting challenge!
Wow I did pretty good I think, with 23943
1. Recognized Korean letters and went for Seoul, being in the North (snowy). 4509
2. I spent so much time looking for the darn sports club and ended up clicking really near. 4995.
3. Easy one. 5000
4. Could have searched a long time like I did in Boston, but got lucky and nailed it. 5000.
5. I live in Paris so I recognized France immediately, and hesitated between Normandy and Paris suburbs. I went for Versailles. 4439.
1. Yup, Korea. I was pretty torn between going north and elsewhere. Ended up going for the outskirts of Seoul due to the snow. It is kinda surprising how far south the snow can go in Korea. Guess that's why they're pretty good at some winter sports.
2. Boston can be tricky, was happy to find that Sports Club pretty quickly
3. Sioux (sue) Falls. Like you said, a gimme.
4. Mombasa. Took too long to find that hotel, but I did eventually.
5. Guessed Lille in France, was torn between France and Belgium. The 2nd Empire buildings seemed pretty French to me, even though I've never been to France, but I clicked near the border with Belgium just to be safe. Final total of 23,718.
Another fun game! Easier than usual I'd say lol.
1. Yeah, this one was a pure guesswork. My thinking was that snow means mountains so I went with some small city in a mountainous area and got a slightly better score than you.
2. Quite an easy round. I just looked for the curved building somewhere in the center and found the spot fairly quickly.
3. This one was even easier considering the insane amount of clues there.
4. Probably the easiest Africa round I ever got. I just remembered Hotel Radiant because hotels tend to pop up fairly early on the map. Also the gas station nearby.
5. Oof this one sucked but they can't all be easy. Atleast I immediatly guessed France - it just felt like France to me almost right away. But seeing no other clues I went with central France so got 3985 points.
Overall 23564 so I actually managed to beat you for once! Yay! Anyway, nice video, keep up the good work!
That Kenya round, how did you not see Hotel Radiance on the map? You had your mouse right on top of it ..
Yes, I beat him for once! 24,293 pts. Probably one of the easier rounds to be fair though. Great stuff Tom as always.
That third round was like "Hello dear GoeGuessr player, this is where you are" with the welcome sign and all. 😂
France -- at the end of the street there's a "no left turn" sign; in Germany that would have been a (blue) "turn right only" sign.
Love this format, I think I would like it even more with like a 2-3 minute time limit. Not because you are taking too long, but just because it takes out the wondering if you could have found more by taking more time.
2450 pts WITH moving, and took me 52 minutes ... Unbelievable, some of your detective thinking without moving and still getting it spot on! Le Havre was tough even with moving, I lost most of the points in South Korea. Always fun!
Started doing these play alongs - they are great content!
My scores:
Round 1: Went random Seoul. 4516 - 89 miles
Round 2: Couldn't find Boston Sports Club on the map, damn, but 4999 - 226 yd
Round 3: Pretty simple - 5000 - 6 yd
Round 4: Also got spot on - 5000 - 4 yd
Round 5: Seemed France and something told me Rouen. Total guess, 4744 - 46 miles
I used to live in that street in Le Havre ahah
Always love your content! Also, I got 24,063 somehow - first time I've beat you ;). I got 5,000 points on the same 3 that you did (after a lot of searching in the Kenya one). I SOMEHOW guessed the right city in South Korea (really just blind luck) and guessed in northern France for the last one (Reims, so still wrong but somewhat close).
EDIT: Also, since nobody else has mentioned it, the Boston Massacre was one of the key events that preceded the American Revolutionary War where British soldiers opened fire on a mob of citizens. It's one of the biggest things taught in American history classes so I'll give you a pass on that one haha.
1. Went North in Korea because of the snow. South of Seoul. 4523
2&3: Easy rounds, 5000 on both.
4: Got Mombasa but couldn't find the exact location. Went sort of central along the main road ended up getting 4999 anyway.
5. The buildings screamed Northern France/Belgium to me. I went on the outskirts of Paris just to play the percentages. 4372 pts.
Total: 23,894
1- 4595 pts - Guessed in Daegu, 73 miles off
2- 5000 pts- I started slightly more in the alley, so I found Bluefinch Pl pretty easily
3- 5000 pts- Really easy one
4- 4994 pts- Found the wrong Automobile Association of Kenya, guessed 1.1 miles off
5- 4007 pts- Guessed in Ghent, Belgium
Total- 23956, first time I've done better than you
22,359. Very pleased. Round 5 killed my score. Was at a total error of 82.5 miles until that round. Had no idea where in Europe and picked Milan, Italy. I'm not sure if the chimney looked "Italian" and it gave me pause...France was my other thought.
Round 1 I went for Seoul, so was a tiny bit closer than you (no snow in my image). Got 5000 each the next 3 rounds. Locations were slightly different as they were all updated. Boston was the most different since I could NOT see the the Boston pub, BUT there was a blurry Boston Police car I barely made out. The curved building was the main clue and I was right under the street sign for Bulfinch Pl. Kenya was a challenge as I was looking in Nairobi was a long time due to the Jomo Kenyatta reference and I saw the Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi. Then I saw Mombasa and got it.
I have always wondered if my city was in a GeoWizard video and this is it! So cool to see!
Round 1: Korean writing. So many wires + snow, I guessed Seoul. 4536.
Round 2: Been to Boston twice, instantly recognized Faneuil Hall. 5000.
Round 3: I've driven cross country on HW90 which basically goes through the city. 5000.
Round 4: Saw the city sign, couldn't be arsed to find it. Picked a N/S road in the middle. 4997.
Round 5: It looked like the region where S . UK and N. France look alike. I thought the cars parked on the left meant UK. Guessed Southhampton. 4363.
23896. Fun, easy, and quick.
my score
round 1- i watch lots of anime instantly recognized the place 5000 points (0m away)
round two- i live in boston so i knew 5000 points (0m way)
round 3-- i have cottage there so i knew 5000 points (0m way)
round 4- my sisters black she lives there and i called her and asked 5000 points (0m away)
round 55- i live in france and i walk scrungus my cat there everyday 5000 points (0m away)
its ok im an expert dont feel down
fucking genius
>anime
>is south korean
AnCoSt1 Same thing
16:10 It was a pain to watch you not recognizing Hotel Radiance :D
I do love your pronunciations. I know you'd obviously prefer to say them the correct way but you also don't get to worried by it if you totally botch it. Even if we all know they're wrong it's fun listening to the attempts.
I finally beat ya!
Round 1 - Knew it was Korea. No idea what city. Guessed Daejeon since it was Central-Korea to maximise my chances, and got lucky and almost nailed it. 4,985 points.
Round 2 - Boston Sports Club was the big giveaway. My street view also had the Bulfinch Pl street name, so that one was easy enough. 5,000 points.
Round 3 - Sioux Falls. Took me ages to remember what bloody state Sioux Falls was in, but once I found the damn city it was an easy 5,000 points.
Round 4 - Basically used the same method as you to find the Mombasa location. Took a little while but all in all easy 5,000 points.
Round 5 - Ballsed the last one up too. F. I knew it was in France (my street view was full of French cars), but since it was a tiny street with no distinguishing features I just chucked out a hail mary and went with Lyon. Quite far from Le Havre, unfortunately. 3,379 points.
Total - 23,364 points.
Would have been a great score if the last one wasn't so bad.
Here we go!
First one: I recognised the Korean symbols and went for Daegu, cause it didn't look like the capital. 118 km away.
2nd: An easy round overall, clicked in the center and was 500 m away.
Third: Found Sioux Falls after 2-3 mins of search through the map, 3.4 m away. Really happy with that one!
4th: Saw Mombasa sweet mart. Then I've searched for the Total station, but couldn't find it. Clicked on the wrong way( how was that the main road?) and was 1.1 km away.
Final one: Tough round. Not many clues, but was sure it's Europe. Went for Dijon in France, cause I thought it's not very south. Not that close at the end, 436 km away.
And a total of 23250 which is decent I guess :D
24264
1: Instantly recognized the writing as Korean. Luckily I can sometimes tell apart the Korean cities, and this one did not look like Busan, Daegu, Seoul, or Incheon. So I went with the largest centrally located remaining city, Daejeon. Was actually super close, got 4995 points.
2. Saw Boston Sports Club, Western Bank, and something that ended in "Arena". Zoomed around Boston until I found it.
3. "Mackenzie River... am I in, like, Alaska or something? Oh never mind it's Sioux Falls lol". 11th street popped right out, then went from left to right until I found its intersection with Main Street.
4. Found Mombasa, identified that the road ran NE-SW and that it was a main-street type of thing, but couldn't be bothered to find the exact location. Got 4999 though.
5. Instantly identified France by the buildings, and in fact instantly narrowed it down to two cities (Orleans and Le Havre). Don't ask how, but I'm usually good at distinguishing cities. Guessed the wrong one though, so only got 4270. Still feeling decent about it though.
The Boston image has since been updated, "Bullfinch Place" is now clearly visible on a street sign pointing down beside the sports club. Made it a little easier :)
Finally beat you! 23911 points.
1. Obviously Korea, went northish in Wonju due to the snow, 4590 points.
2. Couldn't find the right place in Boston, went fairly central and got 4994 points.
3. 5000 points.
4. Slightly different strategy than you, went looking for Hotel Radiance in the map and found it, 5000 points.
5. This felt like a wild guess, I went with northern France just based on the Citroëns and the look of the buildings. Went with Rennes, 4327 points.
Barely beat you with 23522.
1. Clicked randomly in S. Korea, it was about 26 km away.
2. Looked all over Boston but didn't find BSC, Bulfinch pl, or Webster bank (I saw one but didn't correlate). I clicked around what seemed to be the financial district and got 700 m away.
3. I took me a while to find the city, then it was easy. 15 m away.
4. I looked along what seemed to be that road and quickly found the Sweets Market, then saw the Total station. 4 m away.
5. I was clueless but from the STOP sign I assumed it was an English speaking place. I clicked in the UK, 480 km away.
For once I've been (very) good, so I'll share even though the video is a year old; it's a bit funny by the way because some pictures have now been updated so I don't necessarily get the same clues as you did back then. South Korea for example was not snowy for me.
1. Recognized South Korea from the language, not much else to go for; didn't really look like Seoul (not modern enough, maybe), went for Daejeong for no reason, 4,979 very lucky points
2. Boston, obviously. I got tired of looking around so I chose a street north of downtown, 4,998 points
3. A given; 5,000 points
4. Many clues here, fun round. I saw that the road was a two-way so probably the main street in the middle of Mombasa, and I saw the Automobile Association thing, 5,000 points
5. I'm French and it felt very... French. From the buildings actually, the cars, plus the signs are the same that I see everyday, so... Tried Paris, cloe enough, 4,405 points
Total 24,382, which is actually a new record for me on Urban World!
The Boston massacre was when 9 British red coats fired there muskets at rioting civilians
Sounds like a typical Saturday night in Boston
Finally won!
Round 1- Went in Suwon, gained about 100 points on you as it was slightly closer (4610)
Round 2- couldn’t get it perfect, but still a 4993
Round 3, 4- 5000
Round 5- Guess Dijon in Eastern France, was sure u would catch up. Very disappointed you didn’t notice it couldn’t be Luxembourg bc of the plates, was hoping you’d go with Germany. However, my guess was still around 20 km closer, got 3658
Won 23261 to 23126. Had some close losses so cool to finally win!
I got 22 752, I also got screwed by the last round. I put east Germany so when you were saying Luxembourg I was swearing at my screen, lol. Struggled to find the part in Boston and The Korea round you got two more points than me. I'm happy with my resultsd, maybe the best I've done on 'no moving around'.
This is the 1st time I've finally beaten you. It was only by 50 points but still, I'll take it.
Playing along before watching the vid: Spoiler alert!
R1: Korean writing everywhere. Trying to decipher it because I can read hangeul, but it doesn't give away the city we're in. The phone area code is 010 apparently, which sounds like a code you would assign to a capital, so my best guess is to go with Seoul, a bit further away from downtown.
-> 4537 points.
R2: "Boston Sports Clubs" sign and a sign with "Boston Police" on it, so I guess we are in Boston, Massachusetts. With all the skyscrapers around us we should also be in or next to downtown, right by a big street which is going from NW to SE and curves to the right. There are just 2 streets in downtown which fulfill these requirements and with the Boston Sports Clubs POI it was easy to choose the right one. Turns out that we are on Sudbury St, right next to the John F. Kennedy Federal Building.
-> 5000 points.
R3: "Welcome to Downtown Sioux Falls". Nuff said, we're in South Dakota and on the crossing of 11th Street and Main Ave. Another quick and easy round.
-> 5000 points
R4: Again, multiple signs stating where we are. This time it's Mombasa, Kenya. There is only one big road going from NW to SE in Mombasa, but it still took me quite long to find the POI of the nearby gas station and the hotel along the road.
-> 5000 points
R5: After 3 easy rounds, this one's gonna be a bit harder. It's in an EU country and cars are driving on the right. The architecture looks like it could be in Germany,. There are plenty of German cars and some French too, but the signs don't look neither German nor French. Also I don't think it would be further south because I see no A/C. I think I'm gonna guess somewhere in Belgium then, and place my marker in Liege.
-> 3729 points, it actually was (Northern) France, who would have known. Edit after watching the vid: Did the wizard realy guess in Luxembourg after telling us multiple times that they have yellow license plates there? lol
-> 23266 points in total. Those were 3 very easy and 2 a bit more challenging rounds but all in all a rather easy seed. Looking forward to the next play along challenge. Cheers.
I must say that I had 23266!! What a close round that was, I really enjoyed going neck and neck. I lost a couple hundred to you on the Korea pick (I had a bit farther north) but picked southern UK for the last one which got me the edge I needed.
Depending on your accent Canadian or American, Western or Eastern it can be pronounced two different ways. You got both of them correct. SEE-Ew or SOOW would be the most phonetic spell to say Sioux.
Fun to see my town of Boston on here. Do a Hometown episode on Boston.
OMG That Kenya scrolling...
1. Saw the Korean, put it in the largest central South Korean city I could find to play it safe and got the right one. Lucky 4996 points
2. Saw Boston, searched for the winding road and managed to find the sports club. 5000
3. Saw American flag and "Sioux Falls" box. Found the city which was larger than I thought it would be. 5000
4. Signs alluded me to Mombasa, Kenya. Didn't bother looking for the bank. Placed it in the center and got 4998
5. Knew it was Europe. No idea where. Threw it down in West Germany. 3335 points
23,329 points. Not bad
23851 - the first time I've beaten you in a play along. However given I'm playing this two years after, some of the imagery and clues were different. I doubt I would have got 5000 in boston without a visible name of the lane. I got lucky to be closer in Korea (no snow in my view), 3 perfect rounds and the I had a few more french cars in the final round, except I was thrown by the "STOP" sign - I figured the french wouldn't use an english word on a sign post. I went for South England for that so scored poorly but still closer than luxembourg.
I would've gotten Boston spot on, just looking at the shape of the sports club building I realised you were one junction off when you clicked it. I wouldn't have done as well on some of the others, though. hahaha
1. Hm, Kias and Hyundais all over the place, South Korea. Looks big, but not huge, so let's just go for a decent-sized city in the centre of the country rather than one of the large metro areas. Daejeon maybe? 4984 points, can't believe it. My personal insane guess.
2. Central Boston, that much is certain. Can't find that sports club or the Webster bank. 4995 points.
3. Didn't know the exact location of Sioux Falls off the top of my head, but I do know where the Sioux are from. And luckily the cities from Urban World are large enough that you can find them on the map. 5000 points.
4. Okay, Mombasa. Big, busy road, oriented NW-SE. Not too many of those around. Found the shops on the map. 5000 points.
5. Significant German majority among the cars, but it doesn't like Germany. That stone wall, the houses, the road signs, the thin asphalt layer on top of the cobblestones. It all looks French. But those cars... maybe we're in the part of France that once was German? No, it wasn't Metz. 3647 points.
So that adds up to 23626 points - exactly 500 more than you. First time playing along, and I really enjoyed it. Don't think I will be able to beat you regularly though, just got lucky in South Korea.
1- recognised the writing as Korean, so just guessed smack bang in the middle. -- 4700 points, not too shabby
2- Obviously saw Boston so eventually found it haha, knew it would be northern bc of where the big buildings were situated, could't find the sports club anywhere so just went north. but went too north ( near Harvard uni lol ) -- 4980
3- Never heard of Sioux falls. looked southern to me so went texas somewhere . 1933 points, ffs
4- Yeah found it by heading down the big long street in Mombasa -5000
5- didn't look at the cars close enough, dumb of me but put england lmao. 3800 points
20500
My score:
1. I noticed the Korean writing and went for a city near the center of South Korea, Daejeon. Bang! 4989.
2,3 and 4 had too many clues. 4997, 5000, 5000.
5. Looks like Belgium, France, Germany maybe. Couldn't see any yellow numberplates, nor numberplates with red letters, so it wasn't Belgium or Luxembourg. I ended up going for somewhere in France, but pretty close to the German border: Besançon. 3490 points
Final score 23476, I beat you for once!
My guess was France too on the last one. The size of those street signs were too small to be German ones.
Sioux Falls is like the name Sue.
24010 points. this is epic.
r1: guessed somewhere outside of seoul. 4624 points
r2: knew it was boston but couldnt find where. 4982 points
r3: knew sioux was somewere around central/northern us. tracked it down from there 5000 points
r4: took me awhile to track down the actual road but still got the 5000 points
r5: its just kinda felt like france but i didnt know where so i guessed paris. 4404 points
I'm so angry at myself right now, because I could have beaten you, if I hadn't completly overlooked that Sioux Falls sign. Placed the needle way over in Phoenix, Arizona. Really fatal error. 19.333 points overall.
23737
france was a lot more clear for me, there were two license plates over the garages that weren't blurred.
23,926. I got extremely lucky and guessed in the right city in South Korea. Perfect scores in Boston, Sioux Falls, and Mombasa. Took a random guess in Brussels on the last round and that’s where most of my points went. Good one!
"Swee Falls"
Are you even trying?
Looks like a French word, so the pronunciation is anyone's guess (If you don't know).
here we go!
1. japanese letters and snow. only japanese city I know by the looks is Kyoto and this isnt Kyoto. going for tokyo. What, no way those letters were Korean, there was not enough circles. ok then. 2253 points. errgh, not so good.
2. Boston sports club! Cant be arsed to find it. looks very central. 4997 points.
3. sioux falls on the sign. cant be arsed to find it on the map of usa. 3178 points.
4.Thailand? Africa? Mombasa on a shop name ok, 4998 points.
5.europe. looks like Munich area. maybe france. went for munich area. 2609 points.
gg better luck next time 18035 points.
Youre noob 😂. Got 24279 points
ouch. basically, if there are ANY circles, you're looking at korean. It looks very distinct from Japanese.
I Absolutely love to play along. I'll edit in my scores later
another report from the future...
1 - The church on the right had been totally redeveloped since you played, coupled with the photo being taken from further back it almost didn't look like the same place at first glance until I clocked the same little blue truck in both. Recognised the Korean text, but can't read it at all, so just guessed Seoul since it looked like the back streets of a big city. 4,510
2 - Saw Boston Sports Clubs, went straight for Boston, zoomed in on the Financial District since the buildings looked finance-y, found the exact place. 5,000
3 - This one had updated, and I thought maybe that "Welcome to Downtown Sioux Falls" box was new, and it'd be another situation like Sacramento last time where it wouldn't be there in your imagery and I'd have a massive comical advantage handed to me on a plate... sadly not. 5,000 again
4 - Saw AA Kenya, saw Mombasa Branch, also looked for Jomo Kenyatta and couldn't find it, but eventually spotted the AA after zooming round Mombasa a bit. Was in pain watching you scroll past it on the map like 5 times. 5,000
5 - The English stop sign here properly threw me. I was convinced stop signs would be in the country's language, and I saw the EU license plates, but it didn't look like the UK or Ireland at all. Malta? Does Malta speak English? Anyway it wasn't Malta. It was France. Fucked it. Apparently, stop signs are in English all across Europe. There were even more French cars than when you played, so if I hadn't been so obsessed with the stop sign I might've got closer than you >:( 1,282
Total: 20,792
I got my best score at 22,995 and still couldn't beat this guy. +GeoWizard, you're too good
Round 1:
It was pretty clear south korea, due to the circles and english lettering.
I could't discover the right place so i clicked on Busan.
198KM - 4341 points
Round 2:
White signs, skyscrapers and construction sides everywhere. Yes, we're in USA.
Saw that Boston Sports Club sign, but couln't find it on the map. wild guess somewhere in Boston.
1,8 Km - 4994 points.
Round 3:
Again white signs everywhere, many pick-up trucks, USA again. Hell Yeah.
I discovered that sign "Welcome to Downtown Sioux Falls" so, South Dakota. But for some reason i haven't checked the street names, clicked on a crossroad near the airport.
6,9 Km - 4975 points.
Round 4:
Well, USA the third? No, not this time.
What have we got here? A lot of yellow color and some funny looking Tuk Tuk cars. Then i turned around ans saw "Mombasa Sweet Mart" I heard about Mombasa before, but couldn't remember wich country it was. Something in Africa? Found Mombasa in Kenya. Discovered the Total gas station on the map and clicked on it. But unfortunately it was the wrong gas station.
1Km - 4996 Points.
Round 5:
There's not much to see here, but it looks european. No yellow license plates, Audi car, so maybe Germany? These could be a tough one. Clicked on Munich.
Well, It was Le Havre in France. Meh.
654,5 KM - 2716 points
In total: 22022 points
Round 5 has killed me :(
1. Guessed Seoul
2. About 500m off in Boston
3. 5000 points
4. 5000 points
5. Went for edge of Brighton because of a stop sign and the flint on the houses
1st round: Went for the southern part of Seoul, slightly closer but nothing to shout about. 4546 points.
2nd round: Took me ages to find a Boston sports club that also happened to be near a plaza, wasn't the right one tho. It didn't quite correlate with the map but I couldn't be fucked to keep looking at that point. 5km out, 4982 points.
3rd round: disaster, had no clue where Sioux falls was and went for North Carolina, 1642 points.
4th: Perfect score
5th: went for Poland, 1860 points :/
Disappointed tbh
First round 4458: Recognized the Korean Writing, but couldn’t can’t read Korean so I picked a random city: 4458
Round Two: 5000 Saw Boston Sports Club, took awhile to get the right spot.
Round three: 5000 Sioux(Sue) Falls, recognizes the name, know what state it was in found the streets, ta-da.
Round Four: 4996found the city and country name fast but couldn’t find the city for the longest time, then I searched for the Radiance Hotel until I gave up
Round Five: 4432Don’t know my European buildings very well, saw the word Stop and assumed England, though I picked very southern just Incase it was France.
23723, by far my best score :D
23719
Round 1: Knew from watching these videos that circles in the writing meant Korea. Couldn't get anything else beyond that, so I guessed Seoul.
Rounds 2-4: Strong clues allowed me to get them all pretty spot on
Rounds 5: This one threw me for a loop. I assumed it was an English speaking country because the stop sign was in English. Shows what I know. I guessed London and fortunately wasn't too far off.
1) Went for a northern city in Korea as well because of the snow. Went for Seoul. 4516
2) Obviously Boston. Looked for a curved main road and found it quickly. Full 5000
3) Went west coast after a lot of searching. Didn't look inland once otherwise I'd have seen the city label. 1167
4) Saw Mombasa on the sweet shop sign but couldnt match up the location on the map. A few roads away. 4998
5) Went for France but went southern as I thought it could be Italy as well. 2825
18506 overall. Still not beaten the wizard but getting better
1. I am not really an Asia expert, letters look Korean to me. And I went north as well, for a location somewhere in Bucheon. 4513 points
2. Immediately saw the Boston Sports Clubs, so went for Boston as well. Couldn't find a good location on the map to match the location and not much other, but with the highrise in the south I went a little north of the center. And of course you are able to find it on the map... Still got 4988 points though.
3. First thought was, if I can find out the city, the exact location shouldn't be too hard, as 11th street and main avenue should be easy to find. And then the informational electric cabinet thingy seems to give a good hind, unfortunately I have never heard of Sloux Falls, but it sounds a bit french (close to Canada maybe) and a Great Western Bank, so I went searching in the northwest. And apparently I drifted a bit of to the east, and then suddenly there it was Sioux Falls, so apparently is was an i and not an l, but I don't care I found it :), and of course you found it in a second, but luckily it is not time limited :p. 5000 points
4. Saw Mombasa on the building, had to dig deep in my memory which African country that was, but it came to me quickly it is Kenya, and then when looking at the other side, it says Kenya of course. And apparantly Mombasa is quite small, found the location quite quickly on the main road with the shops etc shown on the map (that's new, for the first time I found it quicker than you did). So another 5000 points
5. First though was: shit. Second though was: Italy maybe, then when looking around and seeing more french cars and the french forbidden to turn left sign I had a third thought: France. And since we are almost tied at this point I have to do a bit better, but there really are few clues on this one. It is not very flat, so not very far to the north probably, but it could be everywhere. In the end I settles safe, so went in the middle for Orléans. So now wait and see what you'll do. After seeing your score I am doubting of my safe bet is close enough, I am looking now, it is .... 4273. Closer then I thought :)
All in all a nice score from me I think with a total of 23774, and I got to beat the wizard for once.
played again in june 2020, the streetview got updated and there's a swastika in the windows of this this brown building, lol! 1:47
Round 1: 4978
I recognized the writing immediately and it was the only clue I had... then I aimed for a town that doesn't look rich.. total luck!
Round 2: 4996
Saw Boston sports club, pretty straight forward.. searched in the map but didn't find.
Round 3: 1357
I had no idea, went for Philadelphia ... could have searched for a bit in the map for big cities
Round 4: 5000 GET IN!
saw Kenya, saw Munbasa and searched in the main avenue... looked in the map for 15 mins and still didn't find... put the mark right in the middle and GET IN!
Round 5: 4040:
had no clue, I saw the blue mark in the car's license plates and saw the stop sign in english... I went to UK, cambridge
20.371, nice game!
Neck and neck until the last round and you only just beat me WITH A LUXEMBOURG GUESS. I guessed in France but further away than you unfortunately. Jammy bugger!
#1: Korean text, can't read anything but I'm going Seoul, can't go wrong picking the biggest city by far, right?
Turns out you can. 4513 points, not mad though. Places with writing systems you can't read always make for a bit of a crapshoot.
#2: I scan the map of Boston for a few minutes, starting in the downtown area but don't zoom in enough to reveal the bank or the sports club. End up guessing 1 km south. Still 4997 points. No big loss.
#3: We have a large crossing with road names and a sign telling us the name of the city. This looks like a slam dunk if only I can find Sioux Falls on the map. I think I remember that there is a close relationship between Sioux and Dakota, so that's where I go - and that's where it is. From there, finding the crossing is no challenge. 5000 points, ez pz.
#4: Good thing it says "Kenya" and "Mombasa" on large signs or I'd been totally lost xD I go scanning for the Hotel Radiance because it feels like hotels are some of the best landmarks on Google Maps, and I find it pretty quickly. Another 5000 points. Geoguessr is playing nice today.
#5: Oof. So much for playing nice. Not one readable word in sight, except for "Citroën" on the back of a car, which reinforces the French vibes I'd been getting from the place. I'll have to guess the city, so I bet on Lyon and am pretty far off. Only 3391 points.
Summary: 22901 points. Looks quite good at face value, but nothing special given the overall low difficulty. The last one was a bit of a bummer, guessing further north I could have been pushing 24000 but oh well.
got 22874. France really messed me up. I went Lyon which was way off. For the life of me I thought the street in mombasa was going northwest not northeast. I couldn't find the exact location but got close. Edit: Also you're american accent is pretty good, but it's so weird to hear it coming from you.
23,455 my first win against you. playing a year after these were made means we often have different images and clues, although this one was fairly similar.
Why the last one couldn't be Germany: The STOP sign looks different (I think it's the font and the border) and in Germany we don't have no-left-turn-signs. Instead in this case we would have a right-turn-only-sign (blue with white arrow to the left).
I played geoguessr today and the first map I've had on 'an urban world" was that korean map from your video.
- 23926
1. recognised korean and figured it'd probably be Seoul, was punished for my arrogance. - 4489 - 151.1km
2. gee i wonder what clued me in here. guessed boston, couldn't find the sports club but used building layout to pick somewhere close. - 4499 - 225.5m
3. thought sioux falls was in indiana. i knew how to pronounce though it and felt like a smug cunt. couldn't find it so scrolled around a bit and found it in S. Dakota. Was also confused by the yellow road not being main street but found it in the end. - 5000 - 6.6m
4. again, thank you blessed geoguessr god for your bountiful clues. basically same process as you, found DBT first. - 5000 - 3.7m
5. looked french. literally my only thought process. guessed Le Mans because why the fuck not. pretty close - 4438 - 167km
good round!
jeez what a game i had also.
1st game : Agreed with the logic and went north in Korea, for Seoul. got slightly further than you at 144km - 4512
2nd game: Saw Boston sports club and dived into Boston. The main road was curved and i found it within 30 secs due to luck. 1.9m - 5000
3rd game: Couldn't for the life of me find Sioux falls and went for Boise Idaho. 802km bugger - 2820
4th game: Found Mombasa pretty easily and tried for a while to pinpoint but couldn't so i clicked on the main road and what do you know. 597m - 4998
5th game: For some reason i thought Britain, I'm from NZ so i don't really know tbh. Went into Oxford and got pretty lucky actually. 269km - 4125
Over all i got 21455, if i hadn't faffed the 3rd one i think i would've beat 23126 but oh well. Good fun.
playin along! Super fun, keep these up!!!!!
1. Korean, snow on the ground, I went northern. Seoul, that's northern. 4513
2. Bastin. I'm from closeby, but I think everyone will get a very good score. 5000. was difficult to locate exactly, i just ended up guessing approximately where i thought it was, ended up being close enough. And NO Tom, the Boston Massacre site is the... wait for it... site of the Boston Massacre, the famous 1770 event that acted as a precursor to the American Revolution. Snowball fight turns into dead colonists. British soldiers at fault?
3. Got some easy ones so far. Sioux Falls. South Dakota. Easy peasy. intersection of 11th and main. 6.6 m away, 5000. Dude the Sioux indians.... come on, Tom! Pronounced Soo Falls.
4. Holy crap could it be easier. Mombasa, Kenya, I found the hotel on a quick look, 5000 again.
5. Here's the geoguessr I know. Tough one, figured it had to france or italy or switzerland. Ended up going Lyon, 3390. Surprised, I thought it was definitely more italy-ish, so i went closer to the southeast france. I'm obviously, considering it's Le Havre, far northwest coast haha. See what he does. This round is going to separate the men from the boys. Or the women from the girls. It's 2019. Ah, Damn! He thinks Luxembourg, but still beats me.
This was a fairly easy round. I think a LOAD of people are going to have very similar scores. Anyone worth their weight should have 3 near 5Ks, then a 4500ish for the South Korea, and then the last one you may mess up on. Getting exactly Daejeon, South Korea for round 1 and then northwest france-ish (maybe Rouen, Paris even, reasonably, doesn't have to be Le Havre) is what is going to put the winners narrowly over the top. Thus, almost everyone's going to have 20K+, at least.
23,582 - very happy with this score :) some very kind signage helped - just guessed Reims instead of Le Havre for the last round (same-ish latitude). Can't understand why you didn't go France in the last round - but I'm not complaining... I beat the big GW :P
Played along:
1. Not sure about the writing: is it Japanese or Korean? Looked on the map, looks more like Korean so I went with Seoul. Wrong city. I got 4518 points, the exact same score as you.
2. So... Boston Sports Clubs, so I hope it IS Boston. Found the sports club on the map, but somehow I managed to not get 5000 points... 4999 p.
3. USA again. Saw 'Great Western Bank' and 'Welcome to Sioux Falls'. I've got no idea where that is, but it's probably in the western part of the country. I scanned the west coast for a while, but couldn't find it. Clicked somewhere randomly around San Francisco in complete despair. Of course I was completely wrong. 1031 points.
4. 'Automobile Association of Kenya'. Also found the place name, Mombasa, at Hotel Radiance. 5000 points on this round!
5. Ooh this is a tough one. It looks like France to me. Clicked somewhere southern France. Oops, it was actually waaay up north. 3129 points.
Total score = 18667. Not bad, not good either. But it was fun as always.