MESSAGE TO FANS: Thanks so much for getting me to 100,000 subscribers. You're all insane fans, the best on TH-cam and i'd be nowhere if it wasn't for you lot enjoying my content. Hope you don't mind this leisurely vid, the camping hol was unfortunately placed amid a whirlwind of activity and things were a bit rushed! See you all on monday.
Here's a tip. In Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) we have a wired tradition to paint pavement bricks and bottoms of trees white. It comes from Soviet times and supposed to look tidy, I guess. Also you might want to look up some Soviet buildings and cars, because they look very distinguishing. 13:30 There's an UAZ parked by a really Soviet panel building =) PS: Congrats on hitting 125K subscribers and more is yet to come! Cheers from Kyiv, Ukraine.
I just discovered your channel a couple days ago. I'm from Texas but I'm moving to the UK soon and I can't wait to get there! Your videos from and about the UK are really helpful. I'm worried about being a foreigner over there and not understanding references. You've been very helpful in your videos though. Cover more of England please! I have the notification bell on! :P
Russian language was already almost a 100% guarantee that it was Russia. The nature looked very distinct and not at all similar to Central Russia, based in that it could be either South by the Black Sea or Southern Far East. All the cars that were visible had a steering wheel on the right, which is a dead giveaway that they were imported from Japan, which is an extremely common practice in the Far East due to the proximity. It actually makes a lot of sense:)
Well I was watching his geoguessr videos a while back but never subscribed until the crossing Wales video came along and I needed to see it completed. The viral one with 1.3 Million views from 3 years ago is how I found him.
Started off with a 4997 score in Graz and was already prepping my "I beat you for the first time ever!" message...20 mins later, after completing five rounds, i'm sat on 6001 points. This game giveth and it taketh.
@@ezramahle1472 Well, I haven't even seen the Wales video. That is prob part of the expl, but not all. I stumbled over this channel just a few days ago. Reckon it must have been in my recommended.
Especially as the red Honda CR-V is clearly right-hand drive. Japanese import, I guess. www.google.co.uk/maps/@43.1303408,131.909093,3a,15y,199.21h,78.97t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sRXRUVj5U-bFq5LGVbmUbTA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39
@@hizisfoo good to know. I was playing the challenge and felt like an idiot for going with autralia since it was missing the blue eu plate and every car had a steering wheel on the right side.
That walking across Wales vid was legit the most entertaining (and charmingly organic and original) content I've seen on YT in a long time and this dude needs to just only walk across countries in straight lines and film it for the rest of his life now.
Feeling a bit jealous of all the people that subscribed after the Wales video who now have a whole library of cracking videos to binge through! I'm truly ecstatic over your recent success Tom, I have been checking in on the video several times a day and my heart gets all warm when I see the views and subscriber numbers growing so rapidly!
OMG, same here ! It's really awesome to see a quality channel grow over time. I knew that if he kept making videos and kept true to himself, he'd go far ! :-) Have an awesome day !
Could be a Japanese Import/Ferried, since they are left road drivers, might explain it. It's not against the law to drive a car which has a different steering wheel orientation, as long as you drive on the correct side of that country's road.
Yeah...that really threw me off on that one. I knew we were in the northern hemisphere because of the sun...so I guessed we were in Britain because of the steering wheels on the right even though it didn't look like a typical British town.
BKKGarrett but it looks like typical Russian town, and Cyrillic letters also gives a clue. But there are a lot of cities and towns in Russia with mostly right hand drive (the farther east the more such vehicles). Nothing definitely pointed to Vladivostok, so then there was a lucky lottery )
Take your time brother, no rush. The editing on the first Wales video was honestly excellent, I'd personally be thrilled to see the same level of quality for the rest of the series, no matter how long it takes to put together. I'm sure most others would agree too. Either way keep it up mate, great work
watching you since 20k subs found you by accident fell in love watching your videos whilst falling asleep (thats not an offense your videos are just calming) and now you blow up like this you deserve that man!
This is almost the first geoguessr I've done, I have just fooled around with some in Sweden with my classmate before... I found your channel just today because the video where you cross wales in a straight line came into my recommendations. Anyways, I think I was the first one to get 5 000 points on the first location, though someone got 4 999 points before me. (If I understand geoguessr correctly.) I figured it out this way: I saw that it was in a German speaking area (I have read a little German in school), and that the street names ended with "gasse", which I did not recognise. So I was pretty sure it was not in Germany. Then a saw that the license plates had the blue EU thing on their left side, so I guessed it was not in Switzerland. Then I searched for Jakomini (which I guessed was the area name) around big cities in Austria, found nothing around Vienna, then tried Graz and found it. Then I just looked for Maygasse and Schießstattgasse and found the intersection!
Pretty good guessing. But I am pretty sure that there are a decent amount of streets in germany named "Gasse" or "Gaße" (I live there :D) But you are not entirely wrong, if you see that, you are more likely in Switzerland or Austria. The green signs are also something I have never seen in Germany.
I've tried it on google translate, it can't translate to english... though ti does suggest a spelling correction, the"ei" to "ie", but still cannot translate.. My German is very rusty, haven't spoken it since1976, what does it mean? Is it something to do with shooting?
There was a good hint that suggests Round 3 had to be around Wladiwostok. When you looked at the person in the car (13:54) you could see that the car was right-hand drive as well as the other car in front of it. A lot of cars in Wladiwostok actually have right-hand drive as they are imported from Japan and South Korea. I think you noticed the amount of japanese cars and with the right-hand drive it gets even more obvious that they aren't exported for the european market.
Only recently discovered your channel, have been bingeing the series. I tried this challenge, only having played Geoguessr one time before. I didn't stand still, I walked around the maps a bit, and got 19,600 points, I'm quite happy with that given I'm a newbie. I was pretty close to everything except Vladivostok, on that one was way, way, way, off. Thanks for these challenges, I'm looking forward to playing through them!
My first perfect score, with 25 m even made on the leaderbord - but of course WITH moving and still, in Hongkong and South Africa it took me ages to get it figured out! But it was fun and I'm glad you allow us to move and spend as much time as we want, I enjoy that!
125k subscribers 🥺🥺 i’ve literally been here since feb 2018 when u had like... 2k subscribers?? just after ur first insane guesses complication came out and blew up and i’m so proud holy fuck why am i crying. anyways congratulations tom u deserve this you’re insane
Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street... fantastic... reminds me of my army days based in (then West) Germany, nice one. reminds me also of when I used to do pub quiz a few years ago... I am now in a wheelchair after an accident back in the 1990's, I mention that because it is relevant, on the pub quiz I did, 30 questions, the last was always the lyrics question, I would quote, not sing, two lines of a song and they would have to answer with the title and band. My quote was... aand here the wheelchair becomes involved... "I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair, and I'm wondering how I'll get down the stair" I'm sure you know the answer.
Every time I play along and get a horrible score on some of the rounds that seem impossible to guess for me, and think: yeah he would never get the right place. Then I watch the video and I'm amazed by how quickly he gets the right country and sometimes even the city. That Vladivostok guess was amazing to me. I was placed slightly ahead and couldn't see any Cyrillic so I guessed Portugal! haha...
On round 3: look at the steering wheels of cars, those ones were on the right, which is usually what you get in countries that drive on the left (or are very near to countries that drive on the left). If the steering wheels are on the left then thats usually countries that drive on the right, obviously.
Been here since about 26k, now you're at 126k! Bloody insane mate. In such a short amount of time as well, that mission to Wales video did wonders for your channel.
I'm happy to say I've been watching your content for 3 years now when you had ~10k subscribers. Now that the Wales video banged I'm ecstatic to see you become so successful, congratulations
1. My initial instinct was Austria. I searched around Vienna for a bit looking for that platz on the map. Didn't find anything then started looking at some German cities. Couldn't find anything, gave up and selected Berlin. 3219 points. 2. Noticed the sun was pretty far in the North. Driving on the left. I was thinking about Australia or New Zealand. Looking for a city with a Northeastern coast and went with Auckland. I did consider South Africa briefly but didn't think that was it just based on the look and feel. 0 points. 3. Saw what looked like Russian writing on the sign. No idea how to narrow it down more. Selected a point in Southern Russia and also fairly near Ukraine. Russia's too big. 47 points. 4. Definitely in the US with the mailbox. Couldn't quite read the side of the bus, but it looked like it said Charlotte to me so that's what I guessed. I considered the pacific northwest too. meh. 358 point. 5. Thank goodness for the .hk domain. I should have looked for the exact road, but just went with a random east-west road. 4995.
Could be a woosh, but there are a lot of new people on the channel now because of the Mission Across Wales, so maybe this guy just wasn't sure about the timeframe of things. Figured I'd tell them just in case.
Murauer bier! Holy shit, I got so excited when I saw that. I drank a few Murauers in Murau, Austria, whilst on a high school trip to Deutschland und Östereich many many moons ago. Having grown up in Utah, USA, I was thrilled about the drinking ages in Europe. I took LSD in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and got a tattoo in Vienna on that same trip. What a rascal.
Just thought of it, maybe helpful. But you can use Tv Satelite dishes to know where you are on the world by seeing in what direction they are pointing. Tv sattelies are always above the equator, so tv sattelie dishes always point towards the equator. It's another trick you can use alongside/in substitution of the sun trick.
Here's a tip. In Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) we have a wired tradition to paint pavement bricks and bottoms of trees white. It comes from Soviet times and supposed to look tidy, I guess. Also you might want to look up some Soviet buildings and cars, because they look very distinguishing. 13:30 There's an UAZ parked by a really Soviet panel building =) PS: Congrats on hitting 125K subscribers and more is yet to come! Cheers from Kyiv, Ukraine.
It is not for looking tidy actually. It is whitewash and it has a couple of purposes. 1) It deters ants and other pests (since it has a little lower pH) 2) It keeps the tree colder in early spring. If spring comes early and the weather warms quickly, the tree might warm up and sprout early and if the weather gets cold again it can get seriously damaged.
@@artemkatelnytskyi Yeah it's pretty common here. I'm from Hungary and we usually get an early warm spring for a few days and then the weather goes "GOTCHA!" and hailstorms destroy many old trees that just started sprouting.
In the South Africa round, my first thought was Australia with the way the streets and houses/architecture looked, maybe because of the British influence on the architecture in Australia as Tom pointed out about the red brick walls and buildings, which is also present in South Africa?
It's so much fun to play along and sometimes see the differences in the way one thinks. Athough being german I was struggling with the austrian one. There are several giveaways this isn't Germany (street signs, beer I never heard of, one way sign only saying "Einbahn" instead of "Einbahnstrasse") but I still thought "maybe it's Berlin and these are reminiscences to the GDR-times". For the south african one my very first vibe I felt was american, then I got confused by the dutch sounding sign and the general achitecture and due to lack of any other guesses went for South Africa, looked for a place that would allow a port to be NE and immediately scrolled into the right city and got it almost spot on. The russian one threw me off, I immediately got russian vibes, then I saw the Pit Stop and I don't expect to see latin signs in Russia. That small transporter/van supported my feeling for russia and the Tokio Drift car again made me question my decision. The park sign and the bag of that lady were no help either, I felt like I spotted some cyrillic letters but I wasn't too sure about it. Unfortunately I didn't notice the right hand drive cars which maybe would have lead me to Japan which would have been way closer than my guess (eastern Romania). The US broke my neck... no visual clues to which city I was in, from the pale color of the houses I felt a Miami vibe (even though I would expect to see some yellow or pink or blue) so I hoped S.P. Beach wasn't a name but rather stood for south Palm Beach. Olive Street would fit into this thought but even though I didn't find it on the map I placed my marker in Miami. Hong Kong was easy, but I nwasn't patient enough to find San Chan Road or Horae Plaza on the mep so I was 1km off. (13.455 total)
I stay up way too late watching you discover the world! In HK, I'd have looked for the McDonalds at about 22:45 just opposite where you found the website. A lot easier than looking for a narrow road.
I noticed you didn't check the manhole cover when you were trying to work out the US city. A lot of manhole covers in US cities have the city and/or state name printed on them. Not all of them, but enough to make it worth checking.
That helped me out in Boston one time but here the only thing on the manhole cover was EW EB - so no help at all. I also checked for markings on the boardwalk curbs since many americans say you often see addresses there - also no help in this one, I ended up on the wrong coast :)
Vladivostok was quite an easy guess because all the cars are Japanese and have a steering wheel on the right. They love Japanese cars (mostly used) over there since they are cheaper and good over all!
14:27 A little bit of trivia: During the car boom in the 60s and 70s, China was in a bit of a "revolution". You'd be lucky to even touch a car during that time let alone own one. By the time people could afford cars again, Japan and Korea are so far ahead that they cannot compete. So instead the Chinese government basically says that all foreign car companies that want to sell in China must partner up with a Chinese car company. So Honda is actually Honda China which is separate from Honda Japan. The only exception is Tesla who operates independently as an incentive for EVs to become mainstream in China. There are a few Chinese brands but most of them are not great. The only one that's decent is Geely who owns Volvo and Lotus.
13:55-14:05 Notice the position of the steering wheels -- not only does Vladivostok import most of its cars from nearby Japan, but the majority of them are used vehicles, i.e. built with right-hand-side steering wheels for driving on the left.
24988, my new best play along no moving score! Round 1: 2500, recognized austria due to the funky double s thing, and guessed it was a major city from the cafe's sign having english on it. couldn't find the jakomini neighborhood in vienna but found it quickly in graz Round 2: 2500, we had pretty much all the same reasoning but i latched onto port elizabeth right away, and used the compass to line it all up Round 3: 4992, figured out vladivostok from the topography and architecture and cars, but even though I scoured the map for ages, i couldn't find the right location Round 4: 2500, this one was very easy as i live in eugene, and cycle past there fairly frequently Round 5: 4996, found hong kong easily, couldn't find the road
Wizard: "China don't really make cars" Wikipedia: "The automotive industry in China has been the largest in the world measured by automobile unit production since 2008 [...] annual production of automobiles in China exceeds that of the European Union or that of the United States and Japan combined."
You really deserve all these subs and support. Keep doing Geoguessr, I’ve been binging a lot of them recently. Also, like everyone else I’m excitedly waiting for Part 2 of Walking across Whales.
Enjoy these videos! Got me hooked on the game. How come when you were trying to figure out which side of the road they drive on, instead of just looking at the steering wheels in the cars, they're all RHD! Good judgement on the location though! China make millions of cars, they are just mainly kept for the domestic market. You have sad car geeks like me squirming in our seats with a few of your make/model IDs hahaha I live in Hong Kong, HK license plates all look similar to UK ones and the street signs all look like that so remember them for future reference. And my best mate lives on Baker Street haha - spooky!
I'm new to the channel after seeing your Wales video. Looking forward to episode 3. Just subscribed after seeing this GeoGuessr. I'm genuinely amazed at your educated guesses!
HE'S POSTING THE SECOND PART OF THE MISSION ACROSS WALES VIDEO MONDAY When? Monday. July 29th. 3 days from now. Stop asking and enjoy the video, you fake fans. He literally says it within 30 seconds of the video.
Oh man, I lived in Graz and when I saw where it put you down, I immediately went to do the challenge and got 5000pts on this one, I can't believe it. Had an unfair advantage here I had such a good laugh about your Scheiß-stattgasse :D
Congratulations on all the new subscribers! You deserve it :) Another tip for identifying US states or cities that may help you as a last resort, are manhole covers. Sometimes they'll have the city name on them! They do in my city, at least.
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MESSAGE TO FANS: Thanks so much for getting me to 100,000 subscribers. You're all insane fans, the best on TH-cam and i'd be nowhere if it wasn't for you lot enjoying my content. Hope you don't mind this leisurely vid, the camping hol was unfortunately placed amid a whirlwind of activity and things were a bit rushed! See you all on monday.
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Here's a tip. In Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) we have a wired tradition to paint pavement bricks and bottoms of trees white. It comes from Soviet times and supposed to look tidy, I guess.
Also you might want to look up some Soviet buildings and cars, because they look very distinguishing.
13:30 There's an UAZ parked by a really Soviet panel building =)
PS: Congrats on hitting 125K subscribers and more is yet to come!
Cheers from Kyiv, Ukraine.
You really had a spike in recent days/weeks. Amazing, congrats!
I just discovered your channel a couple days ago. I'm from Texas but I'm moving to the UK soon and I can't wait to get there! Your videos from and about the UK are really helpful. I'm worried about being a foreigner over there and not understanding references. You've been very helpful in your videos though. Cover more of England please! I have the notification bell on! :P
A tip: Switzerland doesn't use the sign ß , they use ss instead. If you encounter ß you can be 99% confident it is Germany/Austria :)
Was going to say the same thing.
Or Luxembourg I guess, but probably only streets named after German people would have a ß
@@blanco7726 Or eastern Belgium ;)
That was my point 2 :)
@@redda2 *used to use. That's why they can't use it now.
*sees a "pit-stop" fast food on a one way road*
GeoWizard : this is Vladivostok
Honestly, its the ones like these that make me think he's cheating.
@@jmandjm but how tho
Russian language was already almost a 100% guarantee that it was Russia. The nature looked very distinct and not at all similar to Central Russia, based in that it could be either South by the Black Sea or Southern Far East. All the cars that were visible had a steering wheel on the right, which is a dead giveaway that they were imported from Japan, which is an extremely common practice in the Far East due to the proximity. It actually makes a lot of sense:)
he clearly explained his reasons 3 times over, Evan
So you think we in Russia don’t know English, huh? We’ve got lots of signs in English. But frankly speaking, I would never have guessed vladivostok
Can't wait for the next Wales episode. Congrats on all the support you've gotten recently, well deserved!
Same
first time i stuck through a 30min+ video
Would love to know when to expect it!
@@DanWilliamsKILLR0Y Monday (or Tuesday if you live elsewhere)
@@chikennuget3634 Same, lmao.
Until TH-cam recommended me the Wales video I had no idea this game or channel existed... now I'm addicted to both
I knew the game but hadnt subscribed yet
Mortal Wombat Yeah, I'm doing both too. It's really a lot of fun.
Same story! Found it this morning, it's all I've done all day..
Same. Popped up in my recommended videos.
*gets dropped in a dark hole
"judging by the grains of dirt, we are definitely in Iraq"
Only the real OGs remember him playing geoguessr
Luuk Willems he’s playing geoguessr right now... not hard to remember
wish he would play geuguessr again :(
🙋♂️
FlagMan r/ihavereddit
Well I was watching his geoguessr videos a while back but never subscribed until the crossing Wales video came along and I needed to see it completed. The viral one with 1.3 Million views from 3 years ago is how I found him.
Started off with a 4997 score in Graz and was already prepping my "I beat you for the first time ever!" message...20 mins later, after completing five rounds, i'm sat on 6001 points. This game giveth and it taketh.
I subbed last week and you had 60k and now you have 125k madness
its the wales video.
131k
@@ezramahle1472 That's why I'm here. Hope he does more of that kind of stuff in the future too.
@@ezramahle1472 Well, I haven't even seen the Wales video. That is prob part of the expl, but not all. I stumbled over this channel just a few days ago. Reckon it must have been in my recommended.
@@steveneggleston236 147k
Hello from Vladivostok. :) Can't believe it came up. That was an amazing guess.
Я сам сначала Россию не узнал, а он хорош)
Especially as the red Honda CR-V is clearly right-hand drive. Japanese import, I guess. www.google.co.uk/maps/@43.1303408,131.909093,3a,15y,199.21h,78.97t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sRXRUVj5U-bFq5LGVbmUbTA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i39
@@jonathanrichards593 They all are. Something around 90% of all cars here are from Japan with right-sided wheel.
@@hizisfoo good to know. I was playing the challenge and felt like an idiot for going with autralia since it was missing the blue eu plate and every car had a steering wheel on the right side.
Idea for a new format: Blackjack format. Get as close to 21.000 without going over, no moving on diverse world for instance
This is a great idea id love to see that
Tom? 125k? This is INSANE mate. So proud of you man!
Wales video brought in SO MANY PEOPLE!
I'm from the Wales video, subbed. And now he has 193k
God Dangit, you GAINED 70000 SUBS JUST BECAUSE OF MISSION ACROSS WALES!
Can you believe it, Tom?
Juannope wow he really did I didn’t believe you at first 😂
he's gonna have an issue that soon most of his subs won't actually be here for Geoguessr, and his videos will still get as many views as they used to.
That walking across Wales vid was legit the most entertaining (and charmingly organic and original) content I've seen on YT in a long time and this dude needs to just only walk across countries in straight lines and film it for the rest of his life now.
@@leokastenberg800 I discovered him because of the Wales video, subscribed, and I love the geoguessing videos. I'm sure there's more like me
@@dellerbeller definitely not the only one!!
If you come across Murauer beer again: Mur is the river going through Graz so you can be fairly certain that you are in the southeast of austria
Ooh good clue
Welcome new subscribers, enjoy your stay. And those crazy guesses are completely normal on this channel.
do you mean that he is just *that* good?!
i'm absolutely befuddled
Hes crazy good.
@@christopherreimer9951 no kiddin'
Came for the mission across Wales. Stayed for the geoguessr
found and subscribed to you after watching the wales video, we want part two! More of that content please!!!!!
Bore off
Was subscribed before. Then Wales straight line was probably the most entertaining video i have seen in a while
@@samuelcook4362 Yeah its the same for me
"Scheißgasse" one of my best moments as a german
Feeling a bit jealous of all the people that subscribed after the Wales video who now have a whole library of cracking videos to binge through!
I'm truly ecstatic over your recent success Tom, I have been checking in on the video several times a day and my heart gets all warm when I see the views and subscriber numbers growing so rapidly!
I love your American impression 😂 Don’t talk to my boys Brad and Jason like that!
Been here since the beginning, so proud of how far you’ve come !!! 125 K subs woohoo :))
OMG, same here ! It's really awesome to see a quality channel grow over time. I knew that if he kept making videos and kept true to himself, he'd go far ! :-)
Have an awesome day !
I did the biggest double-take seeing your sub count suddenly up by over 50k. XD
He gained 70k+ subscribers from his Wales video holy shit
It is crazy how big you’re getting after the Wales video. You deserve every sub tho
That Vladivostok thing was weird. That guy in the car was definitly sitting on the right, but in russia they drive on the right, not on the left
Could be a Japanese Import/Ferried, since they are left road drivers, might explain it. It's not against the law to drive a car which has a different steering wheel orientation, as long as you drive on the correct side of that country's road.
A bunch of the cars had the steering wheel. I guess they must be direct Japanese imports but very strange for so many of the cars to be that way.
Yeah...that really threw me off on that one. I knew we were in the northern hemisphere because of the sun...so I guessed we were in Britain because of the steering wheels on the right even though it didn't look like a typical British town.
BKKGarrett but it looks like typical Russian town, and Cyrillic letters also gives a clue. But there are a lot of cities and towns in Russia with mostly right hand drive (the farther east the more such vehicles). Nothing definitely pointed to Vladivostok, so then there was a lucky lottery )
So proud of you for the Wales vid but please don’t stop the Geoguessr content, some of us are here primarily for it!!!
Why would he?
Walter Clements happens to content creators all the time 🧐
Take your time brother, no rush. The editing on the first Wales video was honestly excellent, I'd personally be thrilled to see the same level of quality for the rest of the series, no matter how long it takes to put together. I'm sure most others would agree too. Either way keep it up mate, great work
watching you since 20k subs found you by accident fell in love watching your videos whilst falling asleep (thats not an offense your videos are just calming) and now you blow up like this you deserve that man!
This is almost the first geoguessr I've done, I have just fooled around with some in Sweden with my classmate before... I found your channel just today because the video where you cross wales in a straight line came into my recommendations. Anyways, I think I was the first one to get 5 000 points on the first location, though someone got 4 999 points before me. (If I understand geoguessr correctly.) I figured it out this way: I saw that it was in a German speaking area (I have read a little German in school), and that the street names ended with "gasse", which I did not recognise. So I was pretty sure it was not in Germany. Then a saw that the license plates had the blue EU thing on their left side, so I guessed it was not in Switzerland. Then I searched for Jakomini (which I guessed was the area name) around big cities in Austria, found nothing around Vienna, then tried Graz and found it. Then I just looked for Maygasse and Schießstattgasse and found the intersection!
Pretty good guessing. But I am pretty sure that there are a decent amount of streets in germany named "Gasse" or "Gaße" (I live there :D)
But you are not entirely wrong, if you see that, you are more likely in Switzerland or Austria. The green signs are also something I have never seen in Germany.
I'm so exited for the next Wales episode. I've honestly never felt so impatient in my life.
His American accent is the equivalent of when an American does a British accent by going "Ello gov'na fancy a cup of tea?"
2:50 “Scheißstattgasse” 😂
I've tried it on google translate, it can't translate to english... though ti does suggest a spelling correction, the"ei" to "ie", but still cannot translate..
My German is very rusty, haven't spoken it since1976, what does it mean?
Is it something to do with shooting?
Hugo Rune at least „schießen“ = „to shoot“
@@duro2528 stattgasse means 'instead of', so does it mean "shoot instead of"?
@@duro2528 or could it be "shooting alley"?
Hugo Rune according to Google „Schießstatt“ goes back to the 18./19. Century, meaning shooting range..
There was a good hint that suggests Round 3 had to be around Wladiwostok. When you looked at the person in the car (13:54) you could see that the car was right-hand drive as well as the other car in front of it. A lot of cars in Wladiwostok actually have right-hand drive as they are imported from Japan and South Korea. I think you noticed the amount of japanese cars and with the right-hand drive it gets even more obvious that they aren't exported for the european market.
There are going to be at least 4 journey across Wales episodes?! I'm excited.
he said in a community post there would be 10
@@iliasbaker3870 10 or a million, ill watch all xD
I'm from Vienna & I've never been to Graz, but I knew there's a district called Jakomini & that's why I figured it out xD
Only recently discovered your channel, have been bingeing the series. I tried this challenge, only having played Geoguessr one time before. I didn't stand still, I walked around the maps a bit, and got 19,600 points, I'm quite happy with that given I'm a newbie. I was pretty close to everything except Vladivostok, on that one was way, way, way, off. Thanks for these challenges, I'm looking forward to playing through them!
"That tree is kind of.... Westcoasty."
My first perfect score, with 25 m even made on the leaderbord - but of course WITH moving and still, in Hongkong and South Africa it took me ages to get it figured out! But it was fun and I'm glad you allow us to move and spend as much time as we want, I enjoy that!
Just had a look at your subscriber count and couldn't believe it, Tom.
My man got himself 100,000 (well deserved) subs.
Congratulations mate.
i never knew geoguessr had a community until i saw ur wales video. Now every night before i sleep iwatch a few of your videos very calming.
Tip for German-speaking countries: if you see the double s or “ß” it can’t be Switzerland as they don’t use it.
Germany definitely has SS
Him:"oh look at that wall it must be south africa"
Me: *lets see, that must be somewhere in america*
13624 here. Really blew it on the south Africa and america guess, and about the same as you on the Graz one. all the rest I was practically spot on.
16:35 hahaha that’s the apartment complex 13th and olive. Stayed there for a year when i went to college in Eugene!
125k subscribers 🥺🥺 i’ve literally been here since feb 2018 when u had like... 2k subscribers?? just after ur first insane guesses complication came out and blew up and i’m so proud holy fuck why am i crying.
anyways congratulations tom u deserve this you’re insane
Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street... fantastic... reminds me of my army days based in (then West) Germany, nice one.
reminds me also of when I used to do pub quiz a few years ago...
I am now in a wheelchair after an accident back in the 1990's, I mention that because it is relevant, on the pub quiz I did, 30 questions, the last was always the lyrics question, I would quote, not sing, two lines of a song and they would have to answer with the title and band.
My quote was... aand here the wheelchair becomes involved...
"I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair, and I'm wondering how I'll get down the stair"
I'm sure you know the answer.
Every time I play along and get a horrible score on some of the rounds that seem impossible to guess for me, and think: yeah he would never get the right place. Then I watch the video and I'm amazed by how quickly he gets the right country and sometimes even the city. That Vladivostok guess was amazing to me. I was placed slightly ahead and couldn't see any Cyrillic so I guessed Portugal! haha...
Crazy, was randomly going through your urban world videos and was shocked to see my home town of Eugene, OR on here. Can't believe you almost got it.
17:16 "Mustang". No more needs to be said...
the guy know the places with a photo but don't recognize a dodge ... shame on you
Well deserved growth. Been watching you for well over a year now, glad to see how far you’ve come.
living in Innsbruck for 3 weeks is just a holiday Tom. This is the second video I have watched today you mention it in!!! :)
Came from straight line vid.
Stayed for Geoguesser vids.
same here, though im convinved he's cheating on geoguessr.
On round 3: look at the steering wheels of cars, those ones were on the right, which is usually what you get in countries that drive on the left (or are very near to countries that drive on the left). If the steering wheels are on the left then thats usually countries that drive on the right, obviously.
For GRAZ: the grafitti underneath the "Schiessstattgasse" sign reads "Sturm!", which one could corelate to the local soccer team "Sturm Graz" ;)
That Wales video got me subbed. What an amazing idea and the fact that you execute it so well makes for instant world-class content
Been here since about 26k, now you're at 126k! Bloody insane mate.
In such a short amount of time as well, that mission to Wales video did wonders for your channel.
I'm happy to say I've been watching your content for 3 years now when you had ~10k subscribers. Now that the Wales video banged I'm ecstatic to see you become so successful, congratulations
1. My initial instinct was Austria. I searched around Vienna for a bit looking for that platz on the map. Didn't find anything then started looking at some German cities. Couldn't find anything, gave up and selected Berlin. 3219 points.
2. Noticed the sun was pretty far in the North. Driving on the left. I was thinking about Australia or New Zealand. Looking for a city with a Northeastern coast and went with Auckland. I did consider South Africa briefly but didn't think that was it just based on the look and feel. 0 points.
3. Saw what looked like Russian writing on the sign. No idea how to narrow it down more. Selected a point in Southern Russia and also fairly near Ukraine. Russia's too big. 47 points.
4. Definitely in the US with the mailbox. Couldn't quite read the side of the bus, but it looked like it said Charlotte to me so that's what I guessed. I considered the pacific northwest too. meh. 358 point.
5. Thank goodness for the .hk domain. I should have looked for the exact road, but just went with a random east-west road. 4995.
What are the odds this is being uploaded while he’s stuck in a hedge row
Very low, since the actual recording of the mission across Wales finished months ago.
@@RothRocks2000 r/woooosh
Could be a woosh, but there are a lot of new people on the channel now because of the Mission Across Wales, so maybe this guy just wasn't sure about the timeframe of things. Figured I'd tell them just in case.
RothRocks2000 yeah it was a woosh but I understand the logic 😂
@@biglezmate3830 shut up this isnt reddit
I was way too excited to see my town, a street I drive on every day, on here! Hello from Eugene!
Greetings from Graz! Just killing some time until the release of your crossing Wales in a straight line video part III :D
Murauer bier! Holy shit, I got so excited when I saw that. I drank a few Murauers in Murau, Austria, whilst on a high school trip to Deutschland und Östereich many many moons ago. Having grown up in Utah, USA, I was thrilled about the drinking ages in Europe.
I took LSD in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and got a tattoo in Vienna on that same trip. What a rascal.
3 out of 5 of those guesses almost could make the cut for insane guesses compilation.
Just thought of it, maybe helpful. But you can use Tv Satelite dishes to know where you are on the world by seeing in what direction they are pointing. Tv sattelies are always above the equator, so tv sattelie dishes always point towards the equator. It's another trick you can use alongside/in substitution of the sun trick.
That's a Dodge Challenger not a Mustang. Anyway, congrats on 100k
Also a Lexus gx470, not a Honda CR-V
@@landerpridgen9512 yep, noticed that too lol
Hauling 100lbs steel beams, certified truck of the year by motortrends
And pretty certain that Jason was female.
He's GeoWizard, definitely not CarWizard.
Here's a tip. In Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) we have a wired tradition to paint pavement bricks and bottoms of trees white. It comes from Soviet times and supposed to look tidy, I guess.
Also you might want to look up some Soviet buildings and cars, because they look very distinguishing.
13:30 There's an UAZ parked by a really Soviet panel building =)
PS: Congrats on hitting 125K subscribers and more is yet to come!
Cheers from Kyiv, Ukraine.
It is not for looking tidy actually. It is whitewash and it has a couple of purposes.
1) It deters ants and other pests (since it has a little lower pH)
2) It keeps the tree colder in early spring. If spring comes early and the weather warms quickly, the tree might warm up and sprout early and if the weather gets cold again it can get seriously damaged.
@@gergoturan4033 Yes, exactly. It's what I was told as a kid, but didn't mention here. Do you practice it in your country, and where are you from?
@@artemkatelnytskyi Yeah it's pretty common here. I'm from Hungary and we usually get an early warm spring for a few days and then the weather goes "GOTCHA!" and hailstorms destroy many old trees that just started sprouting.
@@gergoturan4033 it's good to know
In the South Africa round, my first thought was Australia with the way the streets and houses/architecture looked, maybe because of the British influence on the architecture in Australia as Tom pointed out about the red brick walls and buildings, which is also present in South Africa?
Just found the channel from the Wales journey vid, what a legend. Keep up the content mate!
It's so much fun to play along and sometimes see the differences in the way one thinks. Athough being german I was struggling with the austrian one. There are several giveaways this isn't Germany (street signs, beer I never heard of, one way sign only saying "Einbahn" instead of "Einbahnstrasse") but I still thought "maybe it's Berlin and these are reminiscences to the GDR-times".
For the south african one my very first vibe I felt was american, then I got confused by the dutch sounding sign and the general achitecture and due to lack of any other guesses went for South Africa, looked for a place that would allow a port to be NE and immediately scrolled into the right city and got it almost spot on.
The russian one threw me off, I immediately got russian vibes, then I saw the Pit Stop and I don't expect to see latin signs in Russia. That small transporter/van supported my feeling for russia and the Tokio Drift car again made me question my decision. The park sign and the bag of that lady were no help either, I felt like I spotted some cyrillic letters but I wasn't too sure about it. Unfortunately I didn't notice the right hand drive cars which maybe would have lead me to Japan which would have been way closer than my guess (eastern Romania).
The US broke my neck... no visual clues to which city I was in, from the pale color of the houses I felt a Miami vibe (even though I would expect to see some yellow or pink or blue) so I hoped S.P. Beach wasn't a name but rather stood for south Palm Beach. Olive Street would fit into this thought but even though I didn't find it on the map I placed my marker in Miami.
Hong Kong was easy, but I nwasn't patient enough to find San Chan Road or Horae Plaza on the mep so I was 1km off. (13.455 total)
I stay up way too late watching you discover the world! In HK, I'd have looked for the McDonalds at about 22:45 just opposite where you found the website. A lot easier than looking for a narrow road.
Straight line challenge from north Scotland to south England next? 😉
Calum that’s just too much xD
I noticed you didn't check the manhole cover when you were trying to work out the US city. A lot of manhole covers in US cities have the city and/or state name printed on them. Not all of them, but enough to make it worth checking.
That helped me out in Boston one time but here the only thing on the manhole cover was EW EB - so no help at all. I also checked for markings on the boardwalk curbs since many americans say you often see addresses there - also no help in this one, I ended up on the wrong coast :)
Vladivostok was quite an easy guess because all the cars are Japanese and have a steering wheel on the right. They love Japanese cars (mostly used) over there since they are cheaper and good over all!
Congrats from France for all these new subs. it is well deserved. I subbed a year ago, your videos are always interesting and entertaining
Nobody:
GeoWizard: Hmmm this hill looks Russian
I guess this is the types of comments we'll see heaps of from now on..
@@uicosole yeah, these annoy me quite a bit, but i guess im not forced to go through them so whatever
14:27 A little bit of trivia:
During the car boom in the 60s and 70s, China was in a bit of a "revolution". You'd be lucky to even touch a car during that time let alone own one. By the time people could afford cars again, Japan and Korea are so far ahead that they cannot compete. So instead the Chinese government basically says that all foreign car companies that want to sell in China must partner up with a Chinese car company. So Honda is actually Honda China which is separate from Honda Japan. The only exception is Tesla who operates independently as an incentive for EVs to become mainstream in China.
There are a few Chinese brands but most of them are not great. The only one that's decent is Geely who owns Volvo and Lotus.
"shit-town-street" ... very nice video again! thanks for the many hours of hilarious content (:
I've been here since like 1k subs and it really makes me happy being here with you along your youtube journey and all the successes you've had.
Been here since 28k subs and I gotta say you’ve earned all the recognition you’re getting! Amazing content, great humor and even education!
Who recognized the round at 16:30 in the new urban world #24 and had to find the video he played this round in. Found it! Haha.
istg sameeee
I thought I was going crazy
Me too! What are the chances!? Just a tiny bit further along the same street!
13:55-14:05 Notice the position of the steering wheels -- not only does Vladivostok import most of its cars from nearby Japan, but the majority of them are used vehicles, i.e. built with right-hand-side steering wheels for driving on the left.
I watched your first geoguessr video but I became a bigger fan when you started your Wales series
Been subbed for about a year and half now. So happy to see your channel growing at the rate it is
Damn! Started so well. Just got 1.5km in Graz, then guessed right South Africa and gone completely bust in the next rounds. Such a good start
Omg very impressive, possibly one of the most entertaining videos I’ve watched on TH-cam you are very good
24988, my new best play along no moving score!
Round 1: 2500, recognized austria due to the funky double s thing, and guessed it was a major city from the cafe's sign having english on it. couldn't find the jakomini neighborhood in vienna but found it quickly in graz
Round 2: 2500, we had pretty much all the same reasoning but i latched onto port elizabeth right away, and used the compass to line it all up
Round 3: 4992, figured out vladivostok from the topography and architecture and cars, but even though I scoured the map for ages, i couldn't find the right location
Round 4: 2500, this one was very easy as i live in eugene, and cycle past there fairly frequently
Round 5: 4996, found hong kong easily, couldn't find the road
My boy is finally blowing up, I love it. Congrats my friend you deserve it, be proud!
17:18 "This guy in his Mustang" ... Haha it´s a Challenger :P
That Vladivostok guess was mental.
Wizard: "China don't really make cars"
Wikipedia: "The automotive industry in China has been the largest in the world measured by automobile unit production since 2008 [...] annual production of automobiles in China exceeds that of the European Union or that of the United States and Japan combined."
There’s no way. I stayed in that exact hotel once in Eugene (the HOME sign you passed over) I’m absolutely shook.
You really deserve all these subs and support. Keep doing Geoguessr, I’ve been binging a lot of them recently.
Also, like everyone else I’m excitedly waiting for Part 2 of Walking across Whales.
Enjoy these videos! Got me hooked on the game. How come when you were trying to figure out which side of the road they drive on, instead of just looking at the steering wheels in the cars, they're all RHD! Good judgement on the location though! China make millions of cars, they are just mainly kept for the domestic market. You have sad car geeks like me squirming in our seats with a few of your make/model IDs hahaha I live in Hong Kong, HK license plates all look similar to UK ones and the street signs all look like that so remember them for future reference. And my best mate lives on Baker Street haha - spooky!
GeoWizard: I wanted to go somewhere that wasn't the capital
Me: You definitely don't know the capital of Oregon
Love when he does the American accent, I’m like yeah pretty accurate
I'm new to the channel after seeing your Wales video. Looking forward to episode 3. Just subscribed after seeing this GeoGuessr. I'm genuinely amazed at your educated guesses!
@17:06... HEY I'm a Jason, this is offensive, I'm not a gear head 😂 j/k, gave me a good laugh. Love the vids!
HE'S POSTING THE SECOND PART OF THE MISSION ACROSS WALES VIDEO MONDAY
When? Monday. July 29th. 3 days from now.
Stop asking and enjoy the video, you fake fans. He literally says it within 30 seconds of the video.
Hayley they r new fans not fake!!
@@oggo7317 they're both. Because instead of appreciating the video he put (which they clearly didn't watch) they're asking about the wales thing.
Hayley ok i see what u mean
Yo dude, love your walking in a straight line through wales vid, got me to sub, excited for the next part!! All the best dude
Oh man, I lived in Graz and when I saw where it put you down, I immediately went to do the challenge and got 5000pts on this one, I can't believe it. Had an unfair advantage here
I had such a good laugh about your Scheiß-stattgasse :D
His weird music droppings are funny. I'm glad Tom knows 'Baker Street' by Gerry Rafferty......he knows some classics. :)
Congratulations on all the new subscribers! You deserve it :)
Another tip for identifying US states or cities that may help you as a last resort, are manhole covers. Sometimes they'll have the city name on them! They do in my city, at least.