came from the wizard and subbed. while the wizard is a bit more entertaining, a bit more banter and chill to have on in the background, your sheer knowledge and speed at the game is astounding. good job man
You definitely are skilled at this, the Bhutan round was something else. That said there are so many brutal rounds where all you can see is some wasteland and you have to hope you dont get that.
0:56 -- Those junction markers (white pillar with a red band) are unmistakably French. Also (a pedant writes), _dépannage_ does not mean breakdown, but breakdown *recovery/repair* 😉 6:45 -- Those yellow-and-white stripey box patterns on the road surface are always in S. Korea, in my experience, though I'm never too sure _exactly_ what they mean. I would guess it's simply "slow down". It's not specifically tied to the pedestrian crossing ahead, because that's indicated (as in Japan) by a painted white diamond on the carriageway. (Another decider: the triangular warning signs have a yellow background in Korea, a white one in Taiwan.)
Came from the Wizard. It’s like a gift from God, another Englishman being super sick at geoguesser. You might even be better. Maybe explain more of your thought process? Just for entertainment value, but I’m definitely subbed and glad I found the channel.
@@GeographyChallenges i just want to let you know that i am here for you as a person not just your geography skills, and im sure the other OG subs are too 😏
Thanks! I have improved a fair bit, but country streaks were fairly new at this point and as they've developed, the community in general has learned a lot more about how to recognise countries. Quite weird watching old country streak attempts now that quite a lot of people have become really good at them!
Damn that's some pretty crazy guesswork. And not just correct, but also insanely quickly... "Yeah this is nice and easy this is Israel", meanwhile I had no idea and would've probably guessed Florida or something. And the Bhutan one... Hats off!
Lol, in a second you say ah, obviously Bangladesh....haha, obviously yeah. It was obvious to me too, I swear. Turned out its Bhutan, and you called it before seeing the sign which makes that guess insane. Impressive game.
Traffic sign hints: 3:55 That property marker is only found in Alberta, and tells you which highway you're on. In this case, it's the secondary highway 881 Hope this helps!
Could take a note out of GW's book and add 5-10 minutes of blank video at the end, that way we don't know when you're about to lose the streak. Watching that 13th round I knew you'd lost it as there was only 30 seconds of video left! Very good try though. Also the contrast between your no-nonesense, speedy guesses and GW's slow ramble filled guesses are hilarious to me haha
Wish you'd explain your guesses a bit more. Half of these I couldn't follow in the slightest. "Well, that's clearly Guatemala and this is definitely Israel" looking at a road and some trees for 3.5 seconds. Uh, okay? Is there a middle ground between GW searching 8 countries for a specific hotel or steet name for 9 minutes and you clicking a country after half a blink? That'd be great :D
Came from GW. As you say, the sun was no use. Obviously it moves between the tropics ~24deg either side of the equator, which is quite a wide area (nearly the entire length of africa), so can be noticeably north and south for most African countries depending on time of year.
Canada -- FYI CO-OP is a co-operative federation that has stores in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia. They also have feed plants and gas stations (and an oil refinery). So seeing a CO-OP sign means you're in western Canada.
You did very well. Maybe you should have thought about which side of the road they were driving, on the last round. You had that guy on a bicycle in view. At least it was something to consider. I didn't think about it myself, before I watched that last round again.
Uganda has way redder soil. When i first saw it i thought Lesotho or Ghana/Senegal, but then i saw the car driving left. But ye the other side of the road had some holes so that's why. Thats a red herring by Mapper.
Traffic sign hints: 0:56 -- Very obvious French junction marker-post (white with a red band) and fire hydrant, but you got it a few seconds later anyway! 4:11 -- Yes, Canadian speed-limit signs have one line of text ('MAXIMUM') at the top; US ones have 'SPEED LIMIT' spread over two lines. 7:12 -- Taiwanese warning signs have white backgrounds; South Korean ones (as here) have yellow. The chequerboard pattern on the road surface at the crossing (7:07) is another South Korean clue.
Wow, first time I see my own country in GeoGuessr (Israel)... Great job with identifying it. What gave it away? Because as a resident I could obviously see that.
I did subscribe, but I would love for you to do a little more explanation of your thinking - even when you consider the guesses to be obvious. As many others, I came from GW and us new subscribers haven't seen all your tutorials and the like.
Can someone explain why Guatemala is so easy to recognize? Also, I think it's amusing that you can't remember the Jordan flag, yet later in the same video you said "Those signs scream South Korea". How are you recognizing a blurry sign and not a national flag, the way you go about it is interesting.
@@GeographyChallenges I meant Bob, to me Wizard has a stereotypical Black Country accent and you have a more generic Southern England accent which I find hard to pin down.
On the last one, there is actually a banner of Ghana flags on the truck to the south, the same flag you'd just seen on the last map. red/yellow/green with a black star th-cam.com/video/nRr0D1SwN1c/w-d-xo.html Weird given the absolute arcane nature of some guesses like the Bhutan one to lose when there's a flag lol
How can you tell the difference between India and Bangladesh? Or even harder India and Sri Lanka? I used to live in South India and Sri Lanka looks the same.
Yep you’re right, but what I mean is that if you see Bengali you’re either in Bangladesh or NE India which narrows the odds in the favour of Bangladesh given that there is barely any streetview in NE India (more coverage in Delhi/Mumbai)
Geography Challenges dude you’re literally a beast it sounds like you have a bunch of background knowledge that almost no one has.. almost all of the guesses in the games in this episode you were like “oh this seems like “____” and it was usually right.. lmao
@@GeographyChallenges good question. seemed a bit shy. just own the fact you make class youtube videos. throw a bit of banter in there. no need to race through the rounds. that kinda thing. how are you if i may ask?
Honestly mate anyone who knows a lot about geoguessr knows that these rounds are guessable for a good player. I share challenge links for a lot of the games I play in my videos, so I do challenge rather than play by default. Very weird to accuse someone of cheating when you obviously don’t really know what you’re talking about. Just out of interest how would clicking “challenge” mean I could possibly cheat?
Just tune in to www.twitch.tv/geographychallenges some time with us and get a good lesson on how to play the game, live. No worries, you can whine about cheating in the chat there too.
I have thought about this and yes with skilful enough editing, and having the same game open in another session by using the challenge URL you could cheat - but to what end? Do I think he is doing that ? No not a chance.
came from the wizard and subbed. while the wizard is a bit more entertaining, a bit more banter and chill to have on in the background, your sheer knowledge and speed at the game is astounding. good job man
Thank you
Same here bud
literally what? how are you so good at this? The Bhutan guess was insane!
Thanks - played a lot
Timestamp?
When The Wizard said that you know what you're doing, he wasn't wrong!
*Some of the time
Messing it up in the semi finals, couldn't be more English than that
Fuming!!
Ouch!
Who else came from the Wizard?
Tom is screwed!
I was already here before actualy
@@alternativeglasto I agree this guy is so good :)
Me
Good video, came from GeoguessrWizard. Bit of feedback would be to explain your reasons more, which I think would make it more interesting.
Will definitely do more of that. In some of my videos I explain it in detail, but in others I whizz through some rounds a bit
You definitely are skilled at this, the Bhutan round was something else. That said there are so many brutal rounds where all you can see is some wasteland and you have to hope you dont get that.
Thank you
When there are bars on the Google car in Africa it's between Kenya, Ghana, Senegal and national parks in South Africa :D
Great tip thanks
And Kenya and Uganda Drive left. They were on the right. Not a lot of red soil in Senegal so def Ghana
"#3 which is quite obviously Bangladesh"
Ah... yeah... obviously!
After a decent amount of practice!
The Bhutan guess was mental.
Thanks
0:56 -- Those junction markers (white pillar with a red band) are unmistakably French. Also (a pedant writes), _dépannage_ does not mean breakdown, but breakdown *recovery/repair* 😉
6:45 -- Those yellow-and-white stripey box patterns on the road surface are always in S. Korea, in my experience, though I'm never too sure _exactly_ what they mean. I would guess it's simply "slow down". It's not specifically tied to the pedestrian crossing ahead, because that's indicated (as in Japan) by a painted white diamond on the carriageway.
(Another decider: the triangular warning signs have a yellow background in Korea, a white one in Taiwan.)
Came from the Wizard. It’s like a gift from God, another Englishman being super sick at geoguesser. You might even be better. Maybe explain more of your thought process? Just for entertainment value, but I’m definitely subbed and glad I found the channel.
Glad to have you, I will definitely explain in more detail in the next vid
Who else was here before the wizard 🙏 this is my guy right here
About 634 legends
@@GeographyChallenges i just want to let you know that i am here for you as a person not just your geography skills, and im sure the other OG subs are too 😏
Thanks AB
Damn dude! you're amazing at this! can't wait to watch more of your videos.
Thanks Wes
Subbed and you have 10 months of content I can binge! 👌 You are so good at this game you should make a guide for sure.
Ireland is the only coutry in europe that has those yellow diamond american/se asian/australian warning signs.
Good tip!
Long time subscriber. Congrats on the shoutout from Wizard!
Thanks, appreciate the support
It's really cool seeing how far you've come since this! specially with details like the ghana tape bars and such
Thanks! I have improved a fair bit, but country streaks were fairly new at this point and as they've developed, the community in general has learned a lot more about how to recognise countries. Quite weird watching old country streak attempts now that quite a lot of people have become really good at them!
@@GeographyChallenges yeah exactly! I wasn't around at this time so it's cool but also weird seeing how it's changed
Damn that's some pretty crazy guesswork. And not just correct, but also insanely quickly... "Yeah this is nice and easy this is Israel", meanwhile I had no idea and would've probably guessed Florida or something. And the Bhutan one... Hats off!
Thank you
Thank u for being just as enjoyable to watch as the wizard ...
I'll try!
The battle we all were wating for xD! Good luck man!
Thanks my man
Lol, in a second you say ah, obviously Bangladesh....haha, obviously yeah. It was obvious to me too, I swear.
Turned out its Bhutan, and you called it before seeing the sign which makes that guess insane. Impressive game.
Bangladesh round had everything. flag, script, the people.
Bhutan has yellow license plates so of course he would get it eventually.
Thanks!
Traffic sign hints:
3:55 That property marker is only found in Alberta, and tells you which highway you're on. In this case, it's the secondary highway 881
Hope this helps!
👑
I would like to know what is so characteristic about Guatemala? I always seem to confuse it with Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia etc.
It has bars on the car
Yep, the bars
S o l d i e r What do you mean the bars on the car?
@@meshio3060 on the google car, there are iron bars on its roof, perpendicular to the car.
@@meshio3060 yeah the blurring on the car doesn't encompass the bars so they can be seen when you look down
''this is nice and easy'', please keep making vids!
I have no intention to stop!
Could take a note out of GW's book and add 5-10 minutes of blank video at the end, that way we don't know when you're about to lose the streak. Watching that 13th round I knew you'd lost it as there was only 30 seconds of video left! Very good try though.
Also the contrast between your no-nonesense, speedy guesses and GW's slow ramble filled guesses are hilarious to me haha
It is a funny contrast. Noted, I'll try and do that in future where necessary
Glad to see u finally battle the wizard, did say i knew it would happen. Talent doesnt go un seen👌
Pretty sure you mentioned it a while back!
@@GeographyChallenges i did man, like i said talent doesnt go un noticed. Up from here well done✌
The sun at the eqator does not always stand at 90°! It varies over the year and can be as low as 66,55°
Thanks for the tip
Geoguessr wizard sent me. I subbed btw and i was your 1,000th sub so that automatically makes me a very special boi😏
Very special boi indeed, thanks for subbing! Automatic GC legend
Special alright...
Wish you'd explain your guesses a bit more. Half of these I couldn't follow in the slightest. "Well, that's clearly Guatemala and this is definitely Israel" looking at a road and some trees for 3.5 seconds. Uh, okay? Is there a middle ground between GW searching 8 countries for a specific hotel or steet name for 9 minutes and you clicking a country after half a blink? That'd be great :D
Hopefully in the latest video I explained in more detail
Congrats on the Wizard shoutout!
Thank you
Came from GW. As you say, the sun was no use. Obviously it moves between the tropics ~24deg either side of the equator, which is quite a wide area (nearly the entire length of africa), so can be noticeably north and south for most African countries depending on time of year.
Always let myself get fooled by that!
„I think we‘re in Canada“
*Zooms into Europe*
Whoops
Canada -- FYI CO-OP is a co-operative federation that has stores in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia. They also have feed plants and gas stations (and an oil refinery). So seeing a CO-OP sign means you're in western Canada.
Insane how far the game has progressed in such a short amount of time
I know right
You did very well. Maybe you should have thought about which side of the road they were driving, on the last round. You had that guy on a bicycle in view. At least it was something to consider. I didn't think about it myself, before I watched that last round again.
Good tips, wish I hadn’t had such tunnel vision
@@GeographyChallenges ye the other side had some holes so car couldnt drive there
Then it's Ghana because of the bars on the Google car! :D
I was thinking somewhere in Ethiopia for that last one, never would of guessed Ghana. It’s unfortunate, but well played on the 13.
Thanks Twat Clapper!
Are you sporting some ducks quacking in the background? Cool!
Pigeons outside my window lol
*It was Ghana all along* 😨
Brilliant, mate. You already beat your daddy.
They grow up so fast 😢
I started making these vids cos I came across GW, funny how things go!
you are insane at this game
Thanks!
*Sees a house*
GC: *Ah ThIs MuSt Be SrI lAnKa*
We've come a long way haven't we GC
🤣
Would have never guessed Bhutan, incredible
Uganda has way redder soil. When i first saw it i thought Lesotho or Ghana/Senegal, but then i saw the car driving left. But ye the other side of the road had some holes so that's why. Thats a red herring by Mapper.
Episode V: Mapper Strikes Back
Traffic sign hints:
0:56 -- Very obvious French junction marker-post (white with a red band) and fire hydrant, but you got it a few seconds later anyway!
4:11 -- Yes, Canadian speed-limit signs have one line of text ('MAXIMUM') at the top; US ones have 'SPEED LIMIT' spread over two lines.
7:12 -- Taiwanese warning signs have white backgrounds; South Korean ones (as here) have yellow. The chequerboard pattern on the road surface at the crossing (7:07) is another South Korean clue.
woah you’re good
Thanks
Good job! What country are you from?
He says he's from the UK
UK, same as GW
Wow, first time I see my own country in GeoGuessr (Israel)... Great job with identifying it. What gave it away? Because as a resident I could obviously see that.
The yellow plates probably helped, along with the drier Med type climate
Bhutan guess was amazing
Gracias
No one here talking about the endless endscreen?
fine, I will do so.
Right, hello again
Hello to you
Came from the Wizard. You seem like you have a photographic memory
The sun can be in the north up to 23.5 degrees north when it's northern summer
So close to the goal :(
anyways it's impressive you got 13 in the first try damn
Thanks Oscar
@@GeographyChallenges mua! (Btw my real name is nicolas, but i find the name i put hilarious, sorry for the confusion!) :)
Dude 😂😂
;)
1000 subs 👀
Exciting!
Did gw personally challenge you? Also don't be ashamed 13 is a very respectable score
Thanks mate, yep he commented on my last country streak video
@@GeographyChallenges oh wow great to be noticed by him
y u spoil the video :(
@@pedrofernandes169 oof ouch sorry
Pedrø Fernandes same but tbf we brought it upon ourselves by being nosey and looking at the comments before the videos over lol
The disappointment in his voice😂😂😂
:(
I did subscribe, but I would love for you to do a little more explanation of your thinking - even when you consider the guesses to be obvious.
As many others, I came from GW and us new subscribers haven't seen all your tutorials and the like.
Will take that on board, thanks for subscribing!
Uganda coverage doesn't have the bars on the car roof like Ghana/Kenya/Senegal does :)
I'll try and remember this one
lmao the wizard got nothin on you
He has, I'm generally quite good at no moving games and less good at pinpointing
Can someone explain why Guatemala is so easy to recognize?
Also, I think it's amusing that you can't remember the Jordan flag, yet later in the same video you said "Those signs scream South Korea". How are you recognizing a blurry sign and not a national flag, the way you go about it is interesting.
Roof Racks are a lot more common in Ghana and Senegal rather than Uganda and Kenya.
Thanks friend, I will try and remember that one
If you’re totally split between Kenya and Uganda, why wouldn’t you choose the larger country? (Even if it turns out to be Ghana :)
I just had a location where it said Chile on a wall, it was Spanish too.... it was Peru
Horrible those red herrings
@@GeographyChallenges indeed
I'm sure this guy is Wizards real life friend lol They sound pretty much identical, from the same borough.
Fortunately for him we're not
I take it you aren't from UK?
Yep I'm from UK
@@GeographyChallenges I meant Bob, to me Wizard has a stereotypical Black Country accent and you have a more generic Southern England accent which I find hard to pin down.
You are right!
On the last one, there is actually a banner of Ghana flags on the truck to the south, the same flag you'd just seen on the last map. red/yellow/green with a black star th-cam.com/video/nRr0D1SwN1c/w-d-xo.html
Weird given the absolute arcane nature of some guesses like the Bhutan one to lose when there's a flag lol
I must've completely missed it
Why do you and geoguessr wizard sound like you're from the same area
How can you tell the difference between India and Bangladesh? Or even harder India and Sri Lanka? I used to live in South India and Sri Lanka looks the same.
India has very little streetview so it’s normally Bangladesh. Also India uses yellow plates and has a greater diversity of scripts
@@GeographyChallenges Ah makes sense, although except on highway signs you don't tend to see that much mixture of scripts
Yep you’re right, but what I mean is that if you see Bengali you’re either in Bangladesh or NE India which narrows the odds in the favour of Bangladesh given that there is barely any streetview in NE India (more coverage in Delhi/Mumbai)
Is the Wizard just you in Alpha version 0.5?
I wish!
Geography Challenges dude you’re literally a beast it sounds like you have a bunch of background knowledge that almost no one has.. almost all of the guesses in the games in this episode you were like “oh this seems like “____” and it was usually right.. lmao
What's with the chickens?
A lot of pigeons hang around outside my window
what gave away isreal so easily?
Might've been the yellow plates
I have literally just been given the round at 2:30
Always feels spooky
Seriously??!!
You didn't know the meta back then or what?
I knew bits of it, but not a huge amount. Worth pointing out that community-wide knowledge of the meta has actually developed a lot since this vid
His round are really dodgy... Idk man. Like how is some place obviously Guatemala or Israel. He should explain more i think
Point taken, I’ll explain more in my next attempt. Guatemala has bars on the car, Israel has yellow plates - nothing dodgy about that in the slightest
@@GeographyChallenges ok fair enough lol
1:57 bangladesh flag
Good spot
you saved your ass on that Palestine guess hahahah
Haha exactly
fuck me you're good.
need work on the presenting tho
Thanks - what kind of thing shall I work on just for clarification?
@@GeographyChallenges good question. seemed a bit shy. just own the fact you make class youtube videos. throw a bit of banter in there. no need to race through the rounds.
that kinda thing. how are you if i may ask?
Thanks. How old am I? 27
one dislike of geoguesser wizard xD jk haha
2 now 😢
@@GeographyChallenges haha bro dont worry keep up the good work tho
This man is cheating
Please explain how
Time travel and teleportation
I sense cheatery too, kappa
I don't see how he's cheating, tbh I seem to be nearly as good as him.
He gets it so quick, there’s no way. There’s literally no way he could’ve.
This is fake. Why else would each be a challenge?
Honestly mate anyone who knows a lot about geoguessr knows that these rounds are guessable for a good player. I share challenge links for a lot of the games I play in my videos, so I do challenge rather than play by default. Very weird to accuse someone of cheating when you obviously don’t really know what you’re talking about. Just out of interest how would clicking “challenge” mean I could possibly cheat?
Just tune in to www.twitch.tv/geographychallenges some time with us and get a good lesson on how to play the game, live. No worries, you can whine about cheating in the chat there too.
I have thought about this and yes with skilful enough editing, and having the same game open in another session by using the challenge URL you could cheat - but to what end? Do I think he is doing that ? No not a chance.