When looking at US Interstates, the numbers increase as you go north and east, and if it ends in an even number it's east-west while ending in an odd number is north-south. So the 10 freeway goes east-west across the south of the US, and the 90 goes east-west across the north. The 5 goes north-south along the west coast, and the 95 goes north-south along the east coast.
If it's a 3 digit number interstate, it's a loop that goes around a city, like loop 610 in Houston. Also, with zip codes, they start in the east and get bigger as you go west, so Maine has zip codes with 00- and Beverly Hills 90210.
And for New York, if you can see tall buildings but the street names are names and not numbers, it's most likely going to be on the southern side of the city. Especially if you're surrounded by the skyscrapers
@@CallieMasters5000 Not always- a lot of the times, 3-digit interstates are spur routes off a major interstate, not a ring road. 3-digit interstates that start with an even number are ring/bypass routes, and if it starts with an odd number it's a spur.
@@AlchemistJijo that's not entirely consistent thought. 476 for example is a spur that runs northeast from 76 and 676 goes straight through the middle of Philadelphia to connect 76 and 95
It's funny but people rarely look exactly where their mouse is pointing, unless they want to click on something. It's hard to notice it in yourself though, because when you're conscious of the pointer, you *_do_* look at it.
@@0M0rty I also noticed quickly on that map that Israel highways count upward as you go North. As he was hovering around the 800s that would have clued in that 653 was more in the middle
That last round was crazy for me. Both the New York Location and the last location are within 20 minutes of both of the places I lived in my life! Crazy that that happened. Great Job though Tom!
Future Tom returns! Edit: seeing Highcliffe primary school when tom zoomed in on birstall and then him scrolling away was heartbreaking, the pressure must have been incredible
The thing is, we all do that. We´re trying to get all possible information off of those shots, but at least when you´re in a hurry, you´re always going to miss something. Now, this is in the UK as well, so imagine how it´s going to look in eastern Europe, or any countries where you can´t even name the letters in their alphabet. This is normally a strenght for Tom, as he likes to play nonmoving, so his best trait is judging his environment. This is where he really excels. But pinpointing while moving is a whole different game.
Love this! We road tripped across the US in 2009, and stopped off at a Pizza Hut near Clinton OK. That billboard gave me flashbacks. We still talk about it to this day. One of the creepiest, dirty, middle of nowhere experiences we've ever had! - GeoSquad Edward
I also think he would save what would add up to several minutes of time per game if he learned to navigate street view using the keyboard instead of the mouse! It's basically the GeoGuesser equivalent of a male Olympic swimmer leaving all of their body hair on! 😂
I’m still working towards my perfect score in under 30 minutes! You make it look so easy, and obviously it’s all about the quality of the rounds. I can usually get 24,900’s in 25-27 minutes, or 25,000 in 35 minutes. I’ll share when when I finally accomplish my goal!
That second game, I almost immediately identified the blurred out NY plate on the blue SUV. Wild. Loving the progress! Also: in NY anything spelled Houston is pronounced "How-stun" not like the city in Texas.
lol, the pure chaos that is English pronunciation (and especially place names) strikes again. I love English as a language, but that's the one part of it that bugs me.
@@maciejbala477 New York is awful about it too. Theres a town near Rochester spelled Chili and pronounced "Chai-lie" or Skaneateles pronounced "Skinny-atlas".
Going through some of your old videos and couldn’t believe it when I saw that the school you found in Birstall is directly opposite my mum’s old bedroom from the 70s! Long time fan of your channel, absolutely loved this unexpected surprise!!
Absolutely crazy small world.. I'm from Leicester and went to highcliffe primary school, I used to live only a few streets away as soon as you clicked on it, I thought I recognise this!!!
The last round was painful. The Parfrey's Glen Area was perfectly visible about 26:25 but he forgot the name, and when he went back to remind, he zoomed out just a little bit too much so it dissapeared... and then spent the whole next minute looking for it
Yeah i't so easy to sit back, relax and find everything on the map that Tom's not catching. It's frustrating for sure - but we'd all do the same, although probably do much worse in general, if we did videos like this.
I used to go hiking in Parfrey's Glen all the time when I was a kid! It was shocking to see it pop up on one of his games, and I was even more surprised that he found Baraboo (home of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey combined Circus!)
Well done finding Binyamina ! You didn’t give up finding a sign with English characters . In fact the major road signs in Israel normally have Hebrew , Arabic and English together. Well done !
Big respect how you worked with Czech Republic location on 4:30. Congrats, from my experience for foreign speakers is Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and other Slavic countries a run killers
Tom, as an Israeli sub to your channel, I felt your pain through the battle for Binyamina yet was happy to see Israel popping up (it's quite rare!)... As a tip for later encounters with confusing hebrew, you should know that generally the first digit of road numbers in Israel (in 2-3 digits routes) are higher in the north and decreasing as you go south. For example, 6 for the general area south of Haifa and north of Hadera. Yet, routes with only one digit doesn't follow that rule and connect intercity destinations.
Tom - I lived in Baraboo, Wisconsin for 10 years in the 2000's - and went and walked around Parfrey's Glenn a couple of times because it was on the way to my children's Charter school in Merrimac, Wisconsin! Imagine my excitement to realize you are virtually traveling down a road I used to drive every morning. (P.S. Baraboo is the historic Winter home of the Famous Ringling Bros. Circus where a Circus World Museum still remains).
Seeing Houston in NYC was heartbreaking seeing him search so long since it's basically their main street in downtown manhattan. The area "SOHO" is literally meaning "south of houston"
It's was so painful. I don't really understand how anyone who's played map and geoguesser games doesn't know at least some of the major named streets in Manhattan. Especially the ones that lend themselves to the actual name of neighbourhoods.
@@vegancam look, he knows random german named neighbourhoods in Austria.... for non americans manhattan is not that familiar except broadway and wall street.
Tom isn't just some random "non American", he's a highly skilled Geoguessr player and I would expect him to know a major delineating street in Manhattan in the same way I'd expect him to know the Arrondissements in Paris or whether he was in west or east Berlin due to the architecture of the houses. This is basic stuff.
For future reference, "kraj" (pronounced 'cry') is an administrative region in the Czech Republic (and other Slavic nations too). A lot are named after their biggest city, so even if you're in a village there you can identify the region by looking for something saying the 'kraj'.
WISCONSIN LETS GOOOO!!! Good job on it tom, merrimac (where parfreys glen is) has a lot of cool nature areas around it and a ferry runs constantly from one side of lake wisconsin to the other until it starts to freeze over
Some pointless associated trivia: - Houston St. is the Ho in SoHo (South of Houston), which I assume most people have heard of. - The street in NYC is pronounced House Ton vs. the city in Texas (Hew ston). I suppose you could not get further apart in US accents between the two, so not surprising they are different.
Was going to make a comment saying this about SoHo. And I think its very ironic that he got Houston Street and City of Houston in the same game. What are the chances of that.
Oh fck, the Plzen round got me, i am in the exact spot right now in a vacation, waiting for my girlfriend who is visiting a tee shop around that Tennis Court and i was boring waiting and open this, blowing my mind
Loved the "Russia or shabby US" description of Houston. Houstonians their see as beautiful city - and while there are lovely areas - a lot of Houston looks like just like McGowen and Emancipation - you say shabby, I say bleak.
Interesting U.S. fact: you got pretty lucky on finding the exact spot so quickly on the 40. It’s the 3rd longest interstate in the U.S. and runs from Wilmington, North Carolina all the way to Barstow, California.
Whenever you have an interstate number and a mile marker it's very easy to figure out where you are. The exit numbers/mileage markers are how far you are from the border (or the start of the highway if it begins in the state).
I live in Wisconsin and that area around Devil's Lake and Baraboo is a huge summer tourism area. It's very beautiful, and zipping through it on a google streetview certainly doesn't do it justice.
US even-numbered interstate highways are numbered from south to north along basically 0-100 (so the road of course runs east/west) US odd-numbered interstate highways are numbered from west to east mile markers start from the south/west entry into the state so when you see mile marker 77 on I-40 you know you're 77 miles from the western border of some mid-latitude state also some US cities lay out street names A-Z in one direction and 1-9 in the other direction
Hey man, been watching these last few videos and thinking we prefer the normal waffling Tom of your thoughts during the videos, rather than the narration over the top. We tend to find it more entertaining and enjoyable, as your sense of humour gets more of a chance to shine
My family used to live near Loughborough. As soon as I saw the sign that says it, I ran and told my grandmother. I love it when someone mentions places I'm from.
Reminds me of an old joke: A guy at a bar announces to everybody that he can identify any beer or drink. Bartender pours him a drink, the guy sips it and instantly names the brand of beer. This happens several more times with different drinks before the guys takes a sip and spits it out, screaming "This isn't beer! This is piss!". The bartender responded "True, but WHOSE piss is it from?! Name the guy!".
@@ellispiper6313 Tom can find any location from any trivial details, but wouldn't it be something if he could identify whose house it is?! If he said "Oh, that's Mary & Bob's house!", now THAT would be incredible. 😁
Your commentary is fascinating, since you make it after the video is done, but you still narrate like you are not sure what is happening next. Is this intentional, if so nice job, makes the thinking process relatable
Same! and him miss pronouncing rothley and thinking thurmaston and thurcaston are the same place. as soon as i saw highcliffe i was like no wayyyy so funny.
The road numbers in Israel seem quite logical, just like they are in USA. Single digit: National Roads, Double digit: Inter-City roads, three digits: regional, four digits: Local roads. Often even numbers are south-north, odd are west to east. And the biggest: as a general rule: for highways with the same number of digits, numbers from south to north, and from west to east. Thus, Highways 12 and 13 are located in the far south of Israel, whereas Highways 98 and 99 meet near Mount Hermon in the far northeast of the country (there are exceptions).
@GeaWizard Israel road numbers are pretty meaningful. Odd numbered (1, 3, , 55...) roads go usually east to west, while even numbered (2, 4, 40, 90, 6...) go north to south. Highways are single digit (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...), main roads are double digits (40, 55, 35, 25) going into smaller roads that are triple digit (431, 444, 531...) but can still be quite large and lastly going to 4 digits are municipal/regional roads. multiple digit road numbers tend to inherit their first digits from the bigger roads around them. So, 55 will be close to 5, 431 to 4 and 40, 722 to 70. Lastly the first digit tend to increase going towards north / east. i.e. going west you'll get 2 -> 20 -> 4 -> 40 -> 6 -> 60 -> 90. going north you'll get: 3 -> 5 -> 65 -> 75 -> 85 -> 89 with many more in between. All that to say that seeing route 653 you can assume it's more northern then most and it's probably around some big 60's routes. It should be north to the 50's and south to the 70's and that's a pretty narrow space by that point. You also know it's going east-west because it's odd numbered. The main exception is route 1 which is the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem road and is in the top part of Israel.
In the US if you see an interstate that has three numbers such as the 494, 275, 475... These are bypasses around large cities. They are on the interstate that the last two numbers are so for 494 the main interstate is 94. And for 275 and 475 the main interstate is 75. So if you see a three number interstate look for one that is the last two numbers! It will make it so much quicker.
Hearing you say Houston like the city multiple times saddens my New York heart. Commonly mispronounced shibboleth but the street in Manhattan is "How-ston"
I usually try to learn the alphabet for places I travel to but found Hebrew so difficult! It's the lack of vowels that completely throws me off, I usually have no issue learning to read things but Israel's the only place where I just couldn't get it in my thick brain.
It's crazy that I had no clue where the last place was, but could tell it was the UK, and within seconds thought 'looks similar to Birstall' having lived near it for so long, as soon as I saw the signs I smiled. Just to confuse you, Thurmaston and Thurcaston are two seperate areas, and pronunciation is Rowthlee. Similar to Houston in NYC they love to confuse, it's pronounced Howston - althought spelt the same as the city.
I was motivated to sign up for this today (thanks to you - not sure if you can claim any points for me joining). I have played quite a bit of Timeguessr so it was time. I am struggling. Not to find the places as they are easy (I'm playing the easy mode), but there I wondered if there were any videos online that you could recommend for a totally green noob, in terms of technical aspects, hints etc. Also can I play without the clock, obviously not for points, but just to practice?
It's excruciating watching him faff about talking about if he could only find the town name, while the name Binyamina is plastered EVERYWHERE but only in Hebrew, lolololol
Houston (as others have pointed out HOW-ston) is a major landmark street in Manhattan along with Canal street. They would be important to learn. Soho and a number of other areas are named after where they are in relation to it (South of Houston) and they delineate the boundaries of neighbourhoods like Chinatown and Little Italy.
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You know it's tough when Tom yells "don't come in" instead of "get in"
"I thought it was Russia but it was just a shabbier part of the US" made me laugh out loud.
And of course that was Houston.
When looking at US Interstates, the numbers increase as you go north and east, and if it ends in an even number it's east-west while ending in an odd number is north-south. So the 10 freeway goes east-west across the south of the US, and the 90 goes east-west across the north. The 5 goes north-south along the west coast, and the 95 goes north-south along the east coast.
If it's a 3 digit number interstate, it's a loop that goes around a city, like loop 610 in Houston. Also, with zip codes, they start in the east and get bigger as you go west, so Maine has zip codes with 00- and Beverly Hills 90210.
And for New York, if you can see tall buildings but the street names are names and not numbers, it's most likely going to be on the southern side of the city. Especially if you're surrounded by the skyscrapers
@@CallieMasters5000 Not always- a lot of the times, 3-digit interstates are spur routes off a major interstate, not a ring road. 3-digit interstates that start with an even number are ring/bypass routes, and if it starts with an odd number it's a spur.
People have given him these tips every time they come up and he never learns :)
@@AlchemistJijo that's not entirely consistent thought. 476 for example is a spur that runs northeast from 76 and 676 goes straight through the middle of Philadelphia to connect 76 and 95
Classic Tom move: Obliviously hovers his mouse over "Highcliffe Primary School", the exact location he was looking for. 13:43.
I immediately saw that too! 🤦🏻♂️
It's funny but people rarely look exactly where their mouse is pointing, unless they want to click on something. It's hard to notice it in yourself though, because when you're conscious of the pointer, you *_do_* look at it.
Same with the Israel round at 21:51, with his mouse near 653 and the town he was looking for
@@razzle_dazzle exactly - when you're panning a map, you're not looking at the pointer.
@@0M0rty I also noticed quickly on that map that Israel highways count upward as you go North. As he was hovering around the 800s that would have clued in that 653 was more in the middle
You really capture the spirit of the game. The stress and then the release when finding the location. Well done Tom!
Are you the official account socials?
That last round was crazy for me. Both the New York Location and the last location are within 20 minutes of both of the places I lived in my life! Crazy that that happened. Great Job though Tom!
That's.. Crazy!
Future Tom returns!
Edit: seeing Highcliffe primary school when tom zoomed in on birstall and then him scrolling away was heartbreaking, the pressure must have been incredible
i have noticed he often doesnt spot place names on the map hes looking for when visible.
And the same thing happened in Israel
The thing is, we all do that. We´re trying to get all possible information off of those shots, but at least when you´re in a hurry, you´re always going to miss something. Now, this is in the UK as well, so imagine how it´s going to look in eastern Europe, or any countries where you can´t even name the letters in their alphabet. This is normally a strenght for Tom, as he likes to play nonmoving, so his best trait is judging his environment. This is where he really excels. But pinpointing while moving is a whole different game.
its the only bad part of his videos!
13:45
first ever patreon I've signed up for, that's why he's the goat
Agreed
Your patronage made him the goat?
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Me as well. I couldn't wait that extra day for another episode of HNTTA, it was just that good.
Absolutely loving the return of regular geoguessr content. Great rounds, looking forward to that sub 10min run!
Love this! We road tripped across the US in 2009, and stopped off at a Pizza Hut near Clinton OK. That billboard gave me flashbacks. We still talk about it to this day. One of the creepiest, dirty, middle of nowhere experiences we've ever had! - GeoSquad Edward
i really like the future-Tom narration, it's often more informative than present-Tom.
Even one of Tom's time period versions has a different personality. 🤔
My favourite is past Tom. Hasn't been on the channel yet but boy, he's a rascal, that one.
Dont forget about the checkpoint feature Tom! Couldve used it for Parfrey's Glen!
I also think he would save what would add up to several minutes of time per game if he learned to navigate street view using the keyboard instead of the mouse! It's basically the GeoGuesser equivalent of a male Olympic swimmer leaving all of their body hair on! 😂
@@LHyoutube how do you use the keyboard?
@@frenchfreys i'm wondering too...
@@frenchfreys you can wasd to move on geoguessr, but idk if that’s what he means
@@LHyoutube honestly the keyboard controls can be so janky that it often doesn't save time at all
I’m still working towards my perfect score in under 30 minutes! You make it look so easy, and obviously it’s all about the quality of the rounds. I can usually get 24,900’s in 25-27 minutes, or 25,000 in 35 minutes. I’ll share when when I finally accomplish my goal!
Love the geoguessr content, rekindling the 2016 memories.
Add the timer on the bottom in future videos, as if to create suspense!
That second game, I almost immediately identified the blurred out NY plate on the blue SUV. Wild. Loving the progress! Also: in NY anything spelled Houston is pronounced "How-stun" not like the city in Texas.
lol, the pure chaos that is English pronunciation (and especially place names) strikes again. I love English as a language, but that's the one part of it that bugs me.
@@maciejbala477 New York is awful about it too. Theres a town near Rochester spelled Chili and pronounced "Chai-lie" or Skaneateles pronounced "Skinny-atlas".
It's crazy after years of watching your videos you finally zoomed into my hometown.
20:03 "This is gonna be hard. And I know it's gonna be long." - GeoWizard 2023
Sounds like some ad for some porn I'm about to watch
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seeing the highcliffe primary school at 13:43 hurt me inside
Keep trying Tom! It's a pleasure watching you play any geoguessr mode. Big fan from Spain :D
Keep up this content Tom. I can't stop myself from clicking on all the videos you post!
Going through some of your old videos and couldn’t believe it when I saw that the school you found in Birstall is directly opposite my mum’s old bedroom from the 70s! Long time fan of your channel, absolutely loved this unexpected surprise!!
I'm from Clinton! Knew where this was before even watching the video, love your channel.
Definitely really enjoying this new style of video with you narrating it!
18:58 - "Economic corridor" is a pretty damn optimistic description on that road sign! 😂
Absolutely crazy small world.. I'm from Leicester and went to highcliffe primary school, I used to live only a few streets away as soon as you clicked on it, I thought I recognise this!!!
The last round was painful. The Parfrey's Glen Area was perfectly visible about 26:25 but he forgot the name, and when he went back to remind, he zoomed out just a little bit too much so it dissapeared... and then spent the whole next minute looking for it
Yeah i't so easy to sit back, relax and find everything on the map that Tom's not catching. It's frustrating for sure - but we'd all do the same, although probably do much worse in general, if we did videos like this.
I used to go hiking in Parfrey's Glen all the time when I was a kid!
It was shocking to see it pop up on one of his games, and I was even more surprised that he found Baraboo (home of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey combined Circus!)
I live in Baraboo and frequent Parfreys Glen!
@@izsakbessenyei801 Devils Lake looks far more impressive in person than just on Google maps!
It was actually visible before that. It first appears around 25:52
Well done finding Binyamina ! You didn’t give up finding a sign with English characters . In fact the major road signs in Israel normally have Hebrew , Arabic and English together. Well done !
When you see highways in Israel in the hundreds, numbers go up from South to North so 653 (and Binyamina soon after) could have been easier to find
Big respect how you worked with Czech Republic location on 4:30.
Congrats, from my experience for foreign speakers is Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and other Slavic countries a run killers
Great video. I love the casual and competitive GeoGuesser videos.
3:55 - Missed spotting a rather massive Hotel/Gastronomy college of some sort there which would doubtless have been on the map...
As someone who's been to Devils Lake numerous times, that was a joy to watch at the end. 10 minutes or not still a great video!
Tom, as an Israeli sub to your channel, I felt your pain through the battle for Binyamina yet was happy to see Israel popping up (it's quite rare!)...
As a tip for later encounters with confusing hebrew, you should know that generally the first digit of road numbers in Israel (in 2-3 digits routes) are higher in the north and decreasing as you go south. For example, 6 for the general area south of Haifa and north of Hadera. Yet, routes with only one digit doesn't follow that rule and connect intercity destinations.
Tom - I lived in Baraboo, Wisconsin for 10 years in the 2000's - and went and walked around Parfrey's Glenn a couple of times because it was on the way to my children's Charter school in Merrimac, Wisconsin! Imagine my excitement to realize you are virtually traveling down a road I used to drive every morning. (P.S. Baraboo is the historic Winter home of the Famous Ringling Bros. Circus where a Circus World Museum still remains).
Seeing Houston in NYC was heartbreaking seeing him search so long since it's basically their main street in downtown manhattan. The area "SOHO" is literally meaning "south of houston"
It's was so painful. I don't really understand how anyone who's played map and geoguesser games doesn't know at least some of the major named streets in Manhattan. Especially the ones that lend themselves to the actual name of neighbourhoods.
also not pronounced like the city in texas
@@vegancam look, he knows random german named neighbourhoods in Austria.... for non americans manhattan is not that familiar except broadway and wall street.
Tom isn't just some random "non American", he's a highly skilled Geoguessr player and I would expect him to know a major delineating street in Manhattan in the same way I'd expect him to know the Arrondissements in Paris or whether he was in west or east Berlin due to the architecture of the houses. This is basic stuff.
13:44 That feeling when you see that so needed "highcliffe highschool", literally under the cursor yet Tom's eyes were obviously elsewhere. Brutal.
I appreciate you throwing those sub-10s. I want this series to be long :)
I've never seen one yet where Tom checks and he isnt recording
For future reference, "kraj" (pronounced 'cry') is an administrative region in the Czech Republic (and other Slavic nations too). A lot are named after their biggest city, so even if you're in a village there you can identify the region by looking for something saying the 'kraj'.
it's a difficult concept for english people to spell 'j' as 'y' and not đ or ž
i really like your commentary - feels like a bit more informational there - but great video as always tom!
Loving the hardcore Geoguessr content Tom!
You were so lucky zooming into the right state on that dual carriageway. That interstate goes all the way across the US!
21:52 Gotta love his cursor moving over Binyamina
WISCONSIN LETS GOOOO!!! Good job on it tom, merrimac (where parfreys glen is) has a lot of cool nature areas around it and a ferry runs constantly from one side of lake wisconsin to the other until it starts to freeze over
Some pointless associated trivia:
- Houston St. is the Ho in SoHo (South of Houston), which I assume most people have heard of.
- The street in NYC is pronounced House Ton vs. the city in Texas (Hew ston). I suppose you could not get further apart in US accents between the two, so not surprising they are different.
Never heard of SoHo, assuming its a neighborhood in Manhattan?
To make it even worse, sometimes Brits say "Hoo-ston" instead of "Hewston" for the city, too.
Was going to make a comment saying this about SoHo. And I think its very ironic that he got Houston Street and City of Houston in the same game. What are the chances of that.
The off-hand comedic comments 'increase your IQ LOL' is what makes your channel shine above the rest for me. awesome vid tom
I love that you dont make spoilers
That's crazy about the one near Clinton Oklahoma. I work in the wind industry and we put up the turbines where he spawned
Getting closer to the 10 minute club. Whew, that takes lots of concentration and map knowledge.
Palfrey's Glen: appears on the map at 25:52
Tom: Finally locates Palfrey's Glen at 27:20.
22:45 cursor is right on Binyamina
23:07 finds Binyamina
I think this one is rougher in hindsight because the cursor was *right* there
Nice to see you in Birstall where I grew up! Did make me laugh at your pronunciation of Row-thley 😂
I still live there, the sheer pain of him mispronouncing Rothley Is catastrophic
Oh fck, the Plzen round got me, i am in the exact spot right now in a vacation, waiting for my girlfriend who is visiting a tee shop around that Tennis Court and i was boring waiting and open this, blowing my mind
"I thought it might be Russian, but, no, it's just a shabbier part of the USA."
Loved the "Russia or shabby US" description of Houston. Houstonians their see as beautiful city - and while there are lovely areas - a lot of Houston looks like just like McGowen and Emancipation - you say shabby, I say bleak.
Interesting U.S. fact: you got pretty lucky on finding the exact spot so quickly on the 40. It’s the 3rd longest interstate in the U.S. and runs from Wilmington, North Carolina all the way to Barstow, California.
agreed but he did have a strong feeling it was midwestern in the first place. To be that close so quickly though is impressive!
Yeah was thinking the same
At 5:20 he had all the information he needed: highway, state, mileage. The luck was in finding the sign.
Whenever you have an interstate number and a mile marker it's very easy to figure out where you are. The exit numbers/mileage markers are how far you are from the border (or the start of the highway if it begins in the state).
I live in Wisconsin and that area around Devil's Lake and Baraboo is a huge summer tourism area. It's very beautiful, and zipping through it on a google streetview certainly doesn't do it justice.
Not at all, such a beautiful part of our state but who would want to live in Wisconsin says literally anybody not from Wisconsin
It looked real nice to me. Wouldn't want to be there in winter though.
US even-numbered interstate highways are numbered from south to north along basically 0-100 (so the road of course runs east/west)
US odd-numbered interstate highways are numbered from west to east
mile markers start from the south/west entry into the state
so when you see mile marker 77 on I-40 you know you're 77 miles from the western border of some mid-latitude state
also some US cities lay out street names A-Z in one direction and 1-9 in the other direction
Nice video! Maybe setting checkpoints can help you, I find them really useful
Hey man, been watching these last few videos and thinking we prefer the normal waffling Tom of your thoughts during the videos, rather than the narration over the top. We tend to find it more entertaining and enjoyable, as your sense of humour gets more of a chance to shine
My family used to live near Loughborough. As soon as I saw the sign that says it, I ran and told my grandmother. I love it when someone mentions places I'm from.
Reminds me of an old joke: A guy at a bar announces to everybody that he can identify any beer or drink. Bartender pours him a drink, the guy sips it and instantly names the brand of beer. This happens several more times with different drinks before the guys takes a sip and spits it out, screaming "This isn't beer! This is piss!". The bartender responded "True, but WHOSE piss is it from?! Name the guy!".
lol what reminded you of such a joke
@@ellispiper6313 Tom can find any location from any trivial details, but wouldn't it be something if he could identify whose house it is?! If he said "Oh, that's Mary & Bob's house!", now THAT would be incredible. 😁
Mr Budweiser's? 😁
Your commentary is fascinating, since you make it after the video is done, but you still narrate like you are not sure what is happening next. Is this intentional, if so nice job, makes the thinking process relatable
I love the post commentary!
You're getting closer. You'll get it shortly.
I'm from between Leicester and Loughborough and it's the strangest thing seeing a youtuber try and navigate all the towns I'm so familiar with
Same! and him miss pronouncing rothley and thinking thurmaston and thurcaston are the same place. as soon as i saw highcliffe i was like no wayyyy so funny.
I went cycling in Binyamina last summer, you can imagine my excitement when I saw that map
I love that Tom is playing more GeoGuessr lately😊
The road numbers in Israel seem quite logical, just like they are in USA. Single digit: National Roads, Double digit: Inter-City roads, three digits: regional, four digits: Local roads. Often even numbers are south-north, odd are west to east. And the biggest: as a general rule: for highways with the same number of digits, numbers from south to north, and from west to east. Thus, Highways 12 and 13 are located in the far south of Israel, whereas Highways 98 and 99 meet near Mount Hermon in the far northeast of the country (there are exceptions).
Crazy and kind of funny to see a Braum’s billboard featured in your video. They are quite common here in central Kansas (and also OK apparently)
progress is progress, keep it up man!
@GeaWizard Israel road numbers are pretty meaningful.
Odd numbered (1, 3, , 55...) roads go usually east to west, while even numbered (2, 4, 40, 90, 6...) go north to south.
Highways are single digit (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...), main roads are double digits (40, 55, 35, 25) going into smaller roads that are triple digit (431, 444, 531...) but can still be quite large and lastly going to 4 digits are municipal/regional roads.
multiple digit road numbers tend to inherit their first digits from the bigger roads around them. So, 55 will be close to 5, 431 to 4 and 40, 722 to 70.
Lastly the first digit tend to increase going towards north / east. i.e. going west you'll get 2 -> 20 -> 4 -> 40 -> 6 -> 60 -> 90. going north you'll get: 3 -> 5 -> 65 -> 75 -> 85 -> 89 with many more in between.
All that to say that seeing route 653 you can assume it's more northern then most and it's probably around some big 60's routes. It should be north to the 50's and south to the 70's and that's a pretty narrow space by that point. You also know it's going east-west because it's odd numbered.
The main exception is route 1 which is the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem road and is in the top part of Israel.
No way! I ran an ultramarathon at Devil's lake and Parfrey's Glen a couple years ago! First time seeing a place I know irl in one of your videos!
"3:32 in Brittain is quite painful" I've spent over 2 hours for one scene in Finland lmao
Wow, Parfrey's Glen, I love that place, it's quite a fun hike. Sad to say I didn't recognize the road until I saw the sign.
In the US if you see an interstate that has three numbers such as the 494, 275, 475... These are bypasses around large cities. They are on the interstate that the last two numbers are so for 494 the main interstate is 94. And for 275 and 475 the main interstate is 75.
So if you see a three number interstate look for one that is the last two numbers! It will make it so much quicker.
Hearing you say Houston like the city multiple times saddens my New York heart. Commonly mispronounced shibboleth but the street in Manhattan is "How-ston"
Houston being likened to russia and a "shabbier part of the US" is the best description I have heard of my hometown in awhile
20:00 if you could read hebrew you would have done this round in 10 seconds. first thing you zoomed on was the name of the city, binyamina :)
Also i was very excited to see not only Israel, but a place i've been to loads of times pop up
אני צרחתי בקול כשראיתי את זה 😂
חחחחחחחחחח כן גם אותי זה נורא הצחיק שפשוט כתוב לו בענק :"בנימינה" ואז הוא מחפש שעות בדרום הארץ בכלל חחחח
I usually try to learn the alphabet for places I travel to but found Hebrew so difficult! It's the lack of vowels that completely throws me off, I usually have no issue learning to read things but Israel's the only place where I just couldn't get it in my thick brain.
It's crazy that I had no clue where the last place was, but could tell it was the UK, and within seconds thought 'looks similar to Birstall' having lived near it for so long, as soon as I saw the signs I smiled.
Just to confuse you, Thurmaston and Thurcaston are two seperate areas, and pronunciation is Rowthlee. Similar to Houston in NYC they love to confuse, it's pronounced Howston - althought spelt the same as the city.
"corn, the vegetable substitute"
-Tom circa 2023
on 20:40 it's kind of hilarious because the city name appeared on every single sign if he could read hebrew
That's some damn good gods honest Geoguesser right there
I was motivated to sign up for this today (thanks to you - not sure if you can claim any points for me joining). I have played quite a bit of Timeguessr so it was time. I am struggling. Not to find the places as they are easy (I'm playing the easy mode), but there I wondered if there were any videos online that you could recommend for a totally green noob, in terms of technical aspects, hints etc. Also can I play without the clock, obviously not for points, but just to practice?
Nice one, Tom! 🍻
This is a lot more entertaining to watch compared to the people playing by identifying the car, the camera, the bollards and other non sense.
Your experience pleaseses me
Me, a New Yorker slowly dying inside when Tom pronounces it HUE-ston and not HOW-ston!
Great content though so it slides 👍🏼🇬🇧
I love this project! It is so entertaining and well made 🎉❤
It's excruciating watching him faff about talking about if he could only find the town name, while the name Binyamina is plastered EVERYWHERE but only in Hebrew, lolololol
Probably that's the reaction of south-east asians when we westerners get a map from let's say, India or Vietnam... lol
CGP Grey has a great video explaining how the US Interstate system is named definitely a good resource for US rounds.
Was surreal to see my old office as the first round of the second game! Fun to see Tom fall for the Houston St trap
Houston (as others have pointed out HOW-ston) is a major landmark street in Manhattan along with Canal street. They would be important to learn. Soho and a number of other areas are named after where they are in relation to it (South of Houston) and they delineate the boundaries of neighbourhoods like Chinatown and Little Italy.
Do some more traveling videos of you doing odd things across the world. The USA one and uk dribbling one were awesome thanks cheers mate😂
You can use a checkpoint and go back to start then toggle back to your last location
It actually says "Boost your child IQ" which is even more patronizing.
the voiceover to begin with gives proper pilot speaking to the cabin vibes
Nice to see a Czech town in you video :)
Those American rounds were surprinsingly very easy.
You should head out to those areas around Loughborough/Rothley. Beautiful part of the country.