Hey, everyone! Hope you enjoyed the video! We posted a 25-minute extended cut of this video over on our Patreon where the gang guessed six extra states! An example of this shown at 9:01, where Callyann and Aidan try to match up the sheet of their current state and accidentally mix it up with one that you can see them guess on Patreon! 😂 You can also find over 100 extended cuts on there as well! 😁 TRY.media/Patreon
Interesting note to relay to a team of TRYers, New England is not a state. It's a region comprising Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Yes, very nice for knowing the word “gerrymandering”, but… gerrymanders don’t change the shape of a state as implied. But he knew the word, so… bottoms up!
@@dalehoustman4737😅😅 Right!? Props to him for knowing the word, but when the state lines were drawn over a hundred years ago, it still wasn't a thing! 😅
I was trying to figure out which state Colin thought Mississippi abutted. The closest of those that had been done was Florida, but it borders only Alabama and Georgia.
@@TheTRYChannel how have I been watching since leather jacket guy was a regular and just now heard you guys have a Patreon. I guess I'm not the fan I thought I was. Lol
The jagged edges of the US states will normally be because of water, river, lakes or oceans. I think you guys did great, always enjoy watching. Thanks!!
Straight lines in the East: If there are no natural borders, just draw a straight line if absolutely necessary. Straight lines in the West: Fuck it, just draw a bunch of squares.
@@stuckinDetroit65Technially there are non contiguous bits of Minnesota and Kentucky due to an accident in drawing the Canadian border and a change in the path of a river respectively. But they're small.
@@cwg73160 To be fair, most people only think of Manhattan and the Boroughs when they think of New York. Upstate is almost completely unknown to most people.
Aidan’s very earnest “that’s where my wife is from… I was just there…” nearly killed me! 😂 7:01 I’d love to make fun of them for not knowing the states… but to be fair, they were drunk and still got more correct than I would sober if quizzed on Irish provinces and counties! 🤷🏻♂️😂🤪
@@jlambe19 I meant it more as a reaction to the TRY Channel member who had no idea that Louisiana is on the opposite end of the United States. But I understand how you took it. And that's okay.
@@hughfuller8416I kid you not I was born in Alabama but with my family moved to Massachusetts and lived their for 8 years, moved back to Bama and on my first day of high school I told someone I was from New England and they asked if I ever met the Queen…
American working on a light buzz... and I only got 6. Missed MS, KS, and NC ETA: I'm impressed that the crew knows enough state names to even guess! I can only name about a half-dozen counties in Ireland (and some might be in Northern Ireland, so I'll accept Saskatchewan as one of their answers). 😉
All us Michiganders SCREAMING, "THAT'S MICHIGAN" after all the other states ... We are shaped by 4 of the 5 Great Lakes. We are the MITTEN STATE. Bless you all because I think I can identify the countries of Great Britain, but I would be LOST with the provinces of Ireland. ❤️❤️❤️ Love your content. Keep up the good work!
Go, Callyann and Aidan! Great try, all! Ciara, I've lived in the States all my life; I got 5 right. I wouldn't get any correct if I had to name the provinces of Ireland, and there are only four. Just sayin', y'all were awesome!
This was definitely the hard-mode version of guessing American states. They were all shown at the same size, giving no indication of how large they were in comparison to each other, which is a surprisingly big deal. Then you picked one of our 'rectangle' states, which even Americans get confused if we don't see them in the context of the whole map. You didn't even include Texas or California, which are probably are most well-known states, shape-wise. This was a legitimately hard task, and I'm impressed how well all the tryers did. I mean, if you tried to get Americans to guess 'nations of the British Isles' we wouldn't do much better...especially if you threw in the weird stuff like the Isle of Man!
LOL I love how he said for michigan that it is "around the Great Lakes". Being from Michigan I had to laugh out loud and came up with a ton of rebuttals like... It is literally the Great Lake State It isnt really around the Great Lakes per say Do you mean the Great Lakes are around it?
It's more like the Great Lakes _are around Michigan._ Or borders 4 of the 5, after all. And only NY and Wisconsin also border more than one (both border 2, though not the same 2). _Edit: I forgot Michigan borders Lake Erie, too._
This is why I think Americans deserve a little lenience on recognizing countries of the world. We've basically got 50 places here at home that we're expected to recognize so adding 44 more is as unreasonable as expecting any given European to recognize Kansas. Especially since many will likely never visit most of them (countries or states) nor need to recognize them for any purpose beyond idly discussing world events.
To be fair, the TRYers should have a list of the names of the 50 states so they can at least take an educated guess as the what the name might be. I'm from New York but even I don't know all of the 50 states by their shape; however, I do know the names of them. Very great effort TRYers! You're all winners in my book! 🍻
I went to school upstate.. we had a song in 4th grade to memorize them.. 5th grade was the capitals. I graduated before the department of education took over.
In Michigan we use our hands as a map to tell people where we live in the state. If you put your right hand in front of you with your palm facing towards you that is the lower peninsula. If you put your left hand above it horizontally that is the upper peninsula.
I'm from michigan, and I live in Rhode Island now. Occasionally I will see a car with a Michigan sticker on it. And I pull up and I tried the hand thing. If they just look at me, I know that they only went to school there😅
Many Western states are geometric shapes (esp. rectangles) because there aren’t a lot of natural boundaries like rivers. In fact there’s a region called the four-corners where the corners of 4 more-or-less rectangular states meet in one spot.
Only 2 states are rectangles. Utah has all straight borders but isn't a rectangle or parallelogram. The rest all have some squiggle to their boundary from a river or coastline. Spend 30 min studying a map and you'll see it's the western states that are easiest
As an American, I congratulate all of the contestants. They did at least as well as any of my countrymen, and better than many. While under the influence no less. Well done.
Pshhh! I only f'ed up Kansas thinking it was North Dakota, and I'm at least half-drunk! ..but I only drink because you're still more correct than I want to admit. 😭
Exactly, we had to memorize the entire map, and some we memorized by shape, others by where they are in relation to other states, the coasts, intl borders, etc.
As a person from Michigan and a die hard fan of the channel, I was so excited to see Michigan be included:). Also I’m so impressed at how all of you did! I guarantee you most Americans can barely name a city or two in Ireland, let alone pick out a county by shape! So cool, so much fun, I really like these kinds of videos!
I knew the states, kind a, when they are attached to the others. Yet these images 🙉 wow! some of the detail of our states 🙊 look like THAT?! I knew that teeny tiny one ( RI ) when it is in its location with the others standing about. I don't remember it ever being big enough (on test even) to see those fiddly islands. 😁 😢
I'm indeed an American citizen and got them all, however I can't blame you guys for not getting them all! If you asked me to guess the shape of county Mayo or Clare I wouldn't have the slightest clue!
Callyann has a special gift. I've seen it in other videos as well. She can read minds. It's uncanny. She'd make a good police detective, an attorney, a psychologist and so on.
US here, I mixed up one Kansas not Nebraska, my bad. As you go west there are a number of nearly rectangular or ,get ready Seamus square no tiny missing bits, Massachusetts is recognizable as it is mostly a rectangle but Cape Cod juts into the Atlantic for about 90 miles in a fish hook shape. A side note for the scale of things ,I've been to Ireland, Galway to Dublin and back is a distance I've driven for a Pink Floyd concert, a day trip. Note the combined area of the Great lakes would completely cover the entire UK and have some left over.
Don't feel bad. I can easily identify all the states on a US map, but the single shape threw me on a couple, and I couldn't identify anything in Ireland just from the shape.
Born and raised in Michigan. The middle states are the hardest to remember, so don't feel bad at all. I think it would be great to hold Ireland over some of the states to show just how big some state are.
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland) and all of Ireland = 93,410 square miles (241930.79 square kilometers). Texas = 261,231 square miles (676585.184 square kilometers).
To be fair, a helluva lot of Americans can't name them either. Some of the videos quizzing Gen Z are truly frightening. I'm old, and we grew up playing with maps, so I got 8 of the 9. Sometimes the states in the midwest all look the same to me. (Sorry, Kansas, and I even lived there when I was really young.)
I'm in Missouri next to Kansas and I said, sheepishly, "Montana?" The NE can be appear as a jumble of small, irregular shapes, but so much of Mountain West is just a grid to me.
Ah, the Patriots and their Flying Elvis mascot. Who knew anyone in Ireland even looked at it? I would not know anything about Irish geography, so I'm impressed that the Tryers even knew so many names.
Nebraska, Iowa, Rectanglo……speaking as someone who lives in Nebraska, I can say any one of your answers would be completely understandable. Kansas shares a border with Nebraska and is pretty close to Iowa. They’re all basically similar in that they’re boring agricultural, flyover states. Rectanglo would be a good name for any of them….😂😂😂
I overheard a lady on a flight once say she was so happy to be back over Wisconsin because she couldn't understand why the great plains states would make such square fields and destroy the land that way. It's because those states provide food for 50+% of the world let alone the US. And the complaint of they're such boring states to drive through. Well, get off the interstate and explore the regular highways. I also live in Nebraska, but there is so much more to it than the interstate and Omaha and Lincoln. Yes. Lots of fields and no discernable terrain features save along the Missouri river and around Scottsbluff area but the people are super friendly and there is lots to explore.
Iowa's western border is the Missouri River and its eastern border is the Mississippi River. The north and south borders are just straight lines, except in the southeast corner which is partially defined by the Des Moines River.
Of course, as an American, I got more than 1. We have maps on every classroom with the states in different colors. On top of that, we have to know their state capitols, too. It was great fun to split into teams and compete as to which team knew them all. 🎉
Generally speaking, the westerns states have straight lines because of the homesteading during our expansion. Where as the eastern states followed natural features such as rivers. Love your channel
I LOVE it when Try Channel does videos like this, where the Try cast is playing games or answering questions... @TheTRYChannel Can we please get more videos with game playing, or trivia, or video reactions, or even video game playing with the lovely Tryers? 🙏🏼❤️
Unfair! They’d do much better if you showed the entire map and pointed to a state to name. The Tryers have demonstrated their impressive knowledge of US states previously!
To be honest some of the Great Plains states are very hard to tell apart, since they're mostly straight lines. And Wyoming and Colorado are both rectangles, so good luck guessing which is which in an isolated picture of their outlines!
You can watch the time pass as the shapes of the States change. The original 13 States are all fairly small and defined by natural features (rivers, mountain ranges, etc.) while they become more artificial and arbitrary as you go West.
@@Stevarooninot really arbitrary…sometimes they follow a line of latitude or longitude, but mostly it was to claim natural resources or be on/near a waterway.
Here are some other ideas you might want to try. Drunk people try to identify State Capitals, or Drunk People try to pronounce and guess foreign words. I'd love to see them try to pronounce this word Viszontlátásra. It's Hungarian for goodbye.
Best way to remember Louisiana is that it looks like a chewed up boot! I'm 45 and this is how this is how I was able to do ok on this challenge. 🤣 NeVada has a V! 😂😂
Loved this video! You gotta learn the states that look like something and go from there. A couple quick examples: 1) Massachusetts looks like someone making a muscle with their arm. 2) Kentucky looks like a piece of fried chicken and Tennessee is the pan it’s cooking in. 3) Michigan is a mitten for the main section. I’m sure there are others, but those are probably the easiest examples to go with.
I like how the tryers tried a couple of times to lock in Illinois. Here in Wisconsin, we've been trying to lock in Illinois for like, forever, but somebody keeps unlocking it and opening up the door. If you come to visit Wisconsin, come in the winter. It will give you an appreciation for why every extra-curricular activity we manage to come up with includes drinking alcohol.
@5:42 That squiggly bit at the bottom corner of Nevada is the Colorado River. The river forms the boundary between Nevada and Arizona, then it becomes the border between California and Arizona as it continues into Mexico. Yes, the three "corners" meet in the middle of the Colorado River.
Hey, everyone! Hope you enjoyed the video! We posted a 25-minute extended cut of this video over on our Patreon where the gang guessed six extra states! An example of this shown at 9:01, where Callyann and Aidan try to match up the sheet of their current state and accidentally mix it up with one that you can see them guess on Patreon! 😂 You can also find over 100 extended cuts on there as well! 😁 TRY.media/Patreon
I'm pretty sure you did as well as anyone in the states.
The one next to Mississippi in that clip is my home state!
If you do any more of these you should put Ireland next to the state for scale
Interesting note to relay to a team of TRYers, New England is not a state. It's a region comprising Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
to be fair you could drop me off in the middle of Ireland and i would be looking for the loch ness monster
Big brain award to Colin for jerymandering!!
A callback to our first Drunk US States video! 😎 ua-cam.com/video/eendtZeYiN8/v-deo.htmlsi=phSe_1iPripT_Wzq
@@TheTRYChannel: "Gerrymandered" by Lake Mead, the Colorado River, and Lake Mohave. . . . .
Yes, very nice for knowing the word “gerrymandering”, but… gerrymanders don’t change the shape of a state as implied. But he knew the word, so… bottoms up!
@@dalehoustman4737😅😅 Right!? Props to him for knowing the word, but when the state lines were drawn over a hundred years ago, it still wasn't a thing! 😅
The likely reality is its probably more to do with horrific stuff. Like how TX and OK are.
For the record I do love Colin and didn't bury him after this video
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If either you or LOLSY are ever in Maryland for any godforsaken reason, drinks are on me!
I thought Colin was trying to make you feel better by how close you got.
Congrats, you get to keep your wife and kid!
Now tell us, what did you win?
Btw yeah I also agree I don’t know why we decided to just make so many states some form of square or rectangle
9:44 Oh my gosh when Arkansas became Mississippi... hilarious. 😂😂😂
That state is featured in the extended cut on Patreon where the gang guess 6 extra states. They mixed them up after holding both of them at 9:01. 😂
I know! I was like wait, they have Arkansas!!!
Basically, it's the same thing. It's the South. It's all F-ed up down here.
I was trying to figure out which state Colin thought Mississippi abutted. The closest of those that had been done was Florida, but it borders only Alabama and Georgia.
@@TheTRYChannel how have I been watching since leather jacket guy was a regular and just now heard you guys have a Patreon. I guess I'm not the fan I thought I was. Lol
The best part of this is Callyann and Aidan getting Mississippi "correct" whilst holding up, what is clearly an outline of Arkansas.
The jagged edges of the US states will normally be because of water, river, lakes or oceans. I think you guys did great, always enjoy watching. Thanks!!
Straight lines in the East: If there are no natural borders, just draw a straight line if absolutely necessary. Straight lines in the West: Fuck it, just draw a bunch of squares.
That works often till you get to Montana whose face is not due to a river.
Thank you for including the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a lot of people forget it exists!
Seriously... Rabbit jumping over a mitten; How on Earth can you NOT know Michigan? It is the ONLY 2 part State here!
@@stuckinDetroit65Technially there are non contiguous bits of Minnesota and Kentucky due to an accident in drawing the Canadian border and a change in the path of a river respectively. But they're small.
@@stuckinDetroit65 How on Earth do you NOT know New York?
Never forget Da Yoop! ❤
@@cwg73160 To be fair, most people only think of Manhattan and the Boroughs when they think of New York.
Upstate is almost completely unknown to most people.
callyann proudly shouting TEXAS at the New York picture made me chuckle ❤ sending much love from Wisconsin!
Haha that was hilarious! I was imagining all the Texans watching and just groaning 😂
One of the two thumb states
Aidan’s very earnest “that’s where my wife is from… I was just there…” nearly killed me! 😂 7:01
I’d love to make fun of them for not knowing the states… but to be fair, they were drunk and still got more correct than I would sober if quizzed on Irish provinces and counties! 🤷🏻♂️😂🤪
but to be honest states in the US are like countries in Europe so not really that same as "county cork"
@@reed13k73 OK… but the sad fact is that most Americans wouldn’t even be able to identify different European countries! 😱🤦🏻♂️😭
To be fair that was a very stretched out NC. It wasn't a great print. I didn't get it and I can draw map of the US from memory.
@@FortheBudgies No, that's what it looks like; I don't see that it's stretched at all.
@@reed13k73 Ok, how many Russian oblasts do you know? How about provinces in China or Canada?
Aidan and Callyann got VICIOUSLY SASSY😂😂😂
I had to replay when he said "we're going to girl boss him" 😅😅
"Viciously Sassy" was the name of my band in college!!!
@@davewhitmore1958 Can confirm. I was the merch guy
The 51st state. NEW England 😂😂😂 6:15
As a Marylander, I appreciate Lolsy thinking that we were ever that big.
Western Maryland checking in, gotta concur hahaha
Maryland isn't called "America in miniature" without the miniature bit.
@@Satchmo10th True, enough.
Maryland should have been one they had to guess as it's hands down the weirdest shaped state.
MoCo represent!
Seamus is absolutely hysterical 😂😂😂😂😂😂
"The United States has surreptitiously taken the Canadian province of Saskatchewan." Not bloody likely.🤣
We could in minutes...literally.
And it was Louisiana that he was calling Saskatchewan. Next door to Mississippi. On the Gulf of Mexico. Next door to Texas.
@@jameswilson7790 Okay, thanks. For stating.The obvious.
@@jlambe19 I meant it more as a reaction to the TRY Channel member who had no idea that Louisiana is on the opposite end of the United States. But I understand how you took it. And that's okay.
@@jlambe19 You guys tried that in Quebec once, didnt turn out too well for you.
Ciara's logic on New York is SPECTACULAR😅😅
I thought it was funny that she thought Long Island was Manhattan. But she did about as well with the states as I would do identifying Irish counties.
It’s always hilarious to watch foreigners do these. Drunk foreigners. That’s gold. New England isn’t a state.
Most sober Americans couldn't do much better. But that wouldn't be hilarious -- just sad.
@@michaelhoward142 agreed.
@@hughfuller8416I kid you not I was born in Alabama but with my family moved to Massachusetts and lived their for 8 years, moved back to Bama and on my first day of high school I told someone I was from New England and they asked if I ever met the Queen…
@@andrewft31 😂😂😂 that’s a good one.
Aye, But it should have been (Spoken like a true Northwesterner here LOL )
“Probably gerrymandering or something” fucking awesome
be more awesome if it was anywhere near being correct.
Justine is my absolute favorite. Thank you for always making me laugh! To all the Try channel Bless you all for the joy you bring!
I've got asthma!
New York like "pssst! I'm Wyoming!"
"That's Alaska!"
North Carolina: Visible Confusion
I'm sober and live in the U.S. and only got 5 of the states right!😅 Well done Callyann and Aidan!
Sober American here too and I missed 2. I was not at all confident though.😂
yep..sober American as well....7/9
Same. I wasn't keeping track, but I missed a couple. (Square states are *hard* okay?) Happy to see my own mitten-shaped state represented, too.
@CantonDem13 Hey, I got that one right!
American working on a light buzz... and I only got 6. Missed MS, KS, and NC
ETA: I'm impressed that the crew knows enough state names to even guess! I can only name about a half-dozen counties in Ireland (and some might be in Northern Ireland, so I'll accept Saskatchewan as one of their answers). 😉
All us Michiganders SCREAMING, "THAT'S MICHIGAN" after all the other states ... We are shaped by 4 of the 5 Great Lakes. We are the MITTEN STATE. Bless you all because I think I can identify the countries of Great Britain, but I would be LOST with the provinces of Ireland. ❤️❤️❤️ Love your content. Keep up the good work!
As a sober American who missed two of these, I'm impressed with you guys.
I’m a sober American and got like 2 😂
Right??? I missed more than two. I'm impressed! 😂
Go, Callyann and Aidan! Great try, all! Ciara, I've lived in the States all my life; I got 5 right. I wouldn't get any correct if I had to name the provinces of Ireland, and there are only four. Just sayin', y'all were awesome!
Do the counties! Do the counties!
This was definitely the hard-mode version of guessing American states. They were all shown at the same size, giving no indication of how large they were in comparison to each other, which is a surprisingly big deal. Then you picked one of our 'rectangle' states, which even Americans get confused if we don't see them in the context of the whole map. You didn't even include Texas or California, which are probably are most well-known states, shape-wise. This was a legitimately hard task, and I'm impressed how well all the tryers did. I mean, if you tried to get Americans to guess 'nations of the British Isles' we wouldn't do much better...especially if you threw in the weird stuff like the Isle of Man!
LOL I love how he said for michigan that it is "around the Great Lakes". Being from Michigan I had to laugh out loud and came up with a ton of rebuttals like...
It is literally the Great Lake State
It isnt really around the Great Lakes per say
Do you mean the Great Lakes are around it?
Michigan - the state that is giving the rest of the world a high five
It's more like the Great Lakes _are around Michigan._ Or borders 4 of the 5, after all.
And only NY and Wisconsin also border more than one (both border 2, though not the same 2).
_Edit: I forgot Michigan borders Lake Erie, too._
per se
Callianne scoring on Rhode Island was impressive. A lot of Americans don't know what Rhode Island looks like.
History is my thing 😂
This is why I think Americans deserve a little lenience on recognizing countries of the world. We've basically got 50 places here at home that we're expected to recognize so adding 44 more is as unreasonable as expecting any given European to recognize Kansas. Especially since many will likely never visit most of them (countries or states) nor need to recognize them for any purpose beyond idly discussing world events.
To be fair, the TRYers should have a list of the names of the 50 states so they can at least take an educated guess as the what the name might be. I'm from New York but even I don't know all of the 50 states by their shape; however, I do know the names of them. Very great effort TRYers! You're all winners in my book! 🍻
I went to school upstate.. we had a song in 4th grade to memorize them.. 5th grade was the capitals. I graduated before the department of education took over.
In Michigan we use our hands as a map to tell people where we live in the state.
If you put your right hand in front of you with your palm facing towards you that is the lower peninsula.
If you put your left hand above it horizontally that is the upper peninsula.
I'm from michigan, and I live in Rhode Island now. Occasionally I will see a car with a Michigan sticker on it. And I pull up and I tried the hand thing. If they just look at me, I know that they only went to school there😅
Ciara and Justine on a girls night in Miami?? I’m in!! Bring Callyann and Lolsy too! One thing… I’m not a girl, does that matter?
But would the city survive?
New reality show.TRYing to survive America.
@@LJGreni Sh*t up and take my money!!!!!
I’m a girl and in Miami, COME PLAY! I’m not sure I’d survive the two of them, but it would be worth it.
It doesn't, so long as you take your shots.
Many Western states are geometric shapes (esp. rectangles) because there aren’t a lot of natural boundaries like rivers. In fact there’s a region called the four-corners where the corners of 4 more-or-less rectangular states meet in one spot.
Neither New Mexico Arizona or Utah are rectangular in shape
This isn't at all why they are square. There are many rivers and natural boundaries.
Only 2 states are rectangles. Utah has all straight borders but isn't a rectangle or parallelogram. The rest all have some squiggle to their boundary from a river or coastline. Spend 30 min studying a map and you'll see it's the western states that are easiest
Only one state that make up 4 corners is a rectangle. The other 3 have very distinct shapes.
As an American, I congratulate all of the contestants. They did at least as well as any of my countrymen, and better than many. While under the influence no less. Well done.
Pshhh! I only f'ed up Kansas thinking it was North Dakota, and I'm at least half-drunk! ..but I only drink because you're still more correct than I want to admit. 😭
I only got Kansas wrong bc i thought it was south dakota 😭😭
@@kaila8654 I said Nebraska for Kansas! 😂 Otherwise, I got them all right
To be fair, I think most of us can get confused about the squared off states. I know I do.
No. I'm under the influence and don't travel at all in the US. I got them all right. The woman were all over the place. Haha
As a North Carolinian, being called Massachusetts was....killing me. Also, you left out the outer banks! Our ocean buffer deserves respect!
As an American I can’t do most of them just by shape. Some are distinctive (Michigan looks like a mitten, etc.) but others make no sense.
Exactly, we had to memorize the entire map, and some we memorized by shape, others by where they are in relation to other states, the coasts, intl borders, etc.
As a person from Michigan and a die hard fan of the channel, I was so excited to see Michigan be included:). Also I’m so impressed at how all of you did! I guarantee you most Americans can barely name a city or two in Ireland, let alone pick out a county by shape! So cool, so much fun, I really like these kinds of videos!
I routinely tune out people pointing out geographical features of Michigan on their hands. I am part of the problem.
@@christopherscholl639 I've done that several times!
Loved Justine and Ciara Were HILARIOUS, albeit a tad inept, but Aidan and Callyann truly won the day! Great video
"I hope I see my home state and the one I live in now in one of these but what are the odds" and they delivered BOTH
"i HaVe AhStMa!!" 🤣
Lolsy: "Does the lake flow into another lake?"
Seamus (matter of fact): "The Hudson Bay."
As a Michigander I loved them guessing Michigan and the work up of logic to it.
I knew the states, kind a, when they are attached to the others. Yet these images 🙉 wow! some of the detail of our states 🙊 look like THAT?!
I knew that teeny tiny one ( RI ) when it is in its location with the others standing about. I don't remember it ever being big enough (on test even) to see those fiddly islands.
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Seamus and I started singing "Carry On My wayward Son" at literally the same moment...it was eerie! xD
My mind went directly to "Dust In The Wind" at first.
As an actual Marylander, I'm just happy to be a part of the conversation.
Yeah, at least they've heard of us...
@@Mithre that's half the battle they will come to respect us in time
Tbh I’m American and I only know a few states by geography… I’m great with flags and stuff but I can’t do that lol
I'm indeed an American citizen and got them all, however I can't blame you guys for not getting them all!
If you asked me to guess the shape of county Mayo or Clare I wouldn't have the slightest clue!
Callyann has a special gift. I've seen it in other videos as well. She can read minds. It's uncanny. She'd make a good police detective, an attorney, a psychologist and so on.
I just ask myself what state in Ireland I would know I would get 0 Keep it in that and mind you did excellent
9:22 Someone Irish saying Minnesota sounds like someone from Minnesota. That's crazy.
swedes sound like minnesotans. it is crazy.
Minnesota was settled by Nowegians, Swedes, Finns, and Irish.
US here, I mixed up one Kansas not Nebraska, my bad. As you go west there are a number of nearly rectangular or ,get ready Seamus square no tiny missing bits, Massachusetts is recognizable as it is mostly a rectangle but Cape Cod juts into the Atlantic for about 90 miles in a fish hook shape. A side note for the scale of things ,I've been to Ireland, Galway to Dublin and back is a distance I've driven for a Pink Floyd concert, a day trip. Note the combined area of the Great lakes would completely cover the entire UK and have some left over.
Don't feel bad. I can easily identify all the states on a US map, but the single shape threw me on a couple, and I couldn't identify anything in Ireland just from the shape.
Born and raised in Michigan. The middle states are the hardest to remember, so don't feel bad at all. I think it would be great to hold Ireland over some of the states to show just how big some state are.
Next video - drunk Americans identifying counties in Ireland! :)
Most of us probably could not even name them
Good luck getting most of us to even spot Ireland correctly on a map of the British Isles!
Love it. Love how few fucks Justine gives. I’d love to see them try to identity the states on a full US map!
Us Americans love the Irish 🫶 Hilarious vid
I am amazed at how they almost always guess a state with the opposite dimensions. Tall skinny state? Must be Oklahoma. Short wide state? Illinois.
I live in Michigan and I got them all… so there.
Fellow Michigander, I also got them all! 😜
Another reason you people are insufferable...sincerely, Ohioan.
I can name the states, but couldn't do that for counties in Ireland so well done to you all for doing as well as you did.
Seamus wasn't wrong about Florida.
Just as a frame of reference, Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland) and all of Ireland can fit in Texas.
I'd like to see you try that.
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland) and all of Ireland = 93,410 square miles (241930.79 square kilometers). Texas = 261,231 square miles (676585.184 square kilometers).
To be fair, a helluva lot of Americans can't name them either. Some of the videos quizzing Gen Z are truly frightening.
I'm old, and we grew up playing with maps, so I got 8 of the 9. Sometimes the states in the midwest all look the same to me. (Sorry, Kansas, and I even lived there when I was really young.)
Wooden puzzles with all the states as the pieces 😂
@@shinner65 yep, my son even had one of those.
@@shinner65 I wonder when those went away... bring back the puzzles!
@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority probably have an app for your ipad…
I'm in Missouri next to Kansas and I said, sheepishly, "Montana?"
The NE can be appear as a jumble of small, irregular shapes, but so much of Mountain West is just a grid to me.
Ah, the Patriots and their Flying Elvis mascot. Who knew anyone in Ireland even looked at it? I would not know anything about Irish geography, so I'm impressed that the Tryers even knew so many names.
Nebraska, Iowa, Rectanglo……speaking as someone who lives in Nebraska, I can say any one of your answers would be completely understandable. Kansas shares a border with Nebraska and is pretty close to Iowa. They’re all basically similar in that they’re boring agricultural, flyover states. Rectanglo would be a good name for any of them….😂😂😂
Iowa is like a pregnant rectangelo... or maybe it just has a hernia.
As a midwesterner who moved away for work, I can tell you that you should appreciate the midwest more than you do. It's a good thing
I overheard a lady on a flight once say she was so happy to be back over Wisconsin because she couldn't understand why the great plains states would make such square fields and destroy the land that way. It's because those states provide food for 50+% of the world let alone the US. And the complaint of they're such boring states to drive through. Well, get off the interstate and explore the regular highways. I also live in Nebraska, but there is so much more to it than the interstate and Omaha and Lincoln. Yes. Lots of fields and no discernable terrain features save along the Missouri river and around Scottsbluff area but the people are super friendly and there is lots to explore.
Iowa's western border is the Missouri River and its eastern border is the Mississippi River. The north and south borders are just straight lines, except in the southeast corner which is partially defined by the Des Moines River.
Hey now, Iowa has some curve to her sides, and only the north half is as boring to drive across as Nebraska or one of the Dakotas.
Of course, as an American, I got more than 1. We have maps on every classroom with the states in different colors. On top of that, we have to know their state capitols, too. It was great fun to split into teams and compete as to which team knew them all. 🎉
Rectangliana aka Colorado & Wyoming, Almost rectangles: Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah
Funny how Europeans always denigrate Americans for not knowing European geography when none of them know anything about USA geography
As a Michigander, I can't tell you how hype I was to see our state as the last entry out of a potential 50
The UP gives it away 👍🏻
I was hyped to see my state too... but nobody came close. - Kansas😢
To be fair, if someone asked me to tell the counties of Ireland apart, I wouldn't get any of them right.
Drunk Justine is adorably funny
Generally speaking, the westerns states have straight lines because of the homesteading during our expansion. Where as the eastern states followed natural features such as rivers.
Love your channel
Good to know that you guys also love Taskmaster ❤️
Of course! It's the best! 😁
I LOVE it when Try Channel does videos like this, where the Try cast is playing games or answering questions... @TheTRYChannel Can we please get more videos with game playing, or trivia, or video reactions, or even video game playing with the lovely Tryers? 🙏🏼❤️
I had to learn these in 5th grade but to be fair I could only identify 3 Irish counties + Dublin and probably less if they were cut outs.
HILARIOUS "Tell me what you see does this remind you of your childhood". I'm laughing so hard.
8:35, Like this comment if you are also an American and thought that was Nebraska 😂. My sincere apologies my Kansan fellow Citizens.
Unfair! They’d do much better if you showed the entire map and pointed to a state to name. The Tryers have demonstrated their impressive knowledge of US states previously!
I want to go break maritime law w/Ciara! :P
I'd break any (and every) law with her!!!
Please do Canadian provinces next, if only to include Saskatchewan and Nunavut.
can they all tell the shapes of Ireland?? I grew up in the States and I got a couple wrong LOL
To be honest some of the Great Plains states are very hard to tell apart, since they're mostly straight lines. And Wyoming and Colorado are both rectangles, so good luck guessing which is which in an isolated picture of their outlines!
@@John_Weiss So true! Especially the ones with the 4 corners
I'm happy with the amount i got right lol
My Canadian tour guide in Europe was convinced America had 52 states. It took a bus full of yanks to convince him he was wrong.
Probably remembered hearing Obama say it
I'm from the US and like wtf is that shape! I know all their names, not shapes!
I actually did get Kansas wrong. For some reason I forgot Nebraska has a panhandle.
I love how they say New England, like it is a state lol
US must have been drawn up by people that had way too many rulers!! 😂
😅 Laurence at Lost in the Pond noticed the oh so straight lines of the western states
You can watch the time pass as the shapes of the States change. The original 13 States are all fairly small and defined by natural features (rivers, mountain ranges, etc.) while they become more artificial and arbitrary as you go West.
case in point: Colorado...
I thought the states rejected their rulers in the late 1700s....
But oddly they've still kept their system of measurement! lol
@@Stevarooninot really arbitrary…sometimes they follow a line of latitude or longitude, but mostly it was to claim natural resources or be on/near a waterway.
I will never unsee NC as the pats logo now.
That little wiggle at the bottom of Nevada is where the Colorado river border's Nevada and Arizona.
To be fair, I struggle with recognizing some states while sober. Especially midwest states and North Eastern states (new England)
Drunk Justine + Drunk Ciara = a vibe I'm an American, from Nebraska, and I got 8/9. I thought Rhode Island was Delaware.
Me as well. I missed two; couldn’t figure if it was Kansas or Nebraska so I basically flipped a coin and chose Nebraska
The size of the print out threw me off. I thought it was Delaware too.
Can't wait to see the "Putting the large puzzle of the 48 Continental United States Together while Drunk" episode
Drunk Justine is the coolest chick EVER!! Smart, beautiful, and funny as shit the triple threat that makes me want to fly to Ireland!!
Here are some other ideas you might want to try. Drunk people try to identify State Capitals, or Drunk People try to pronounce and guess foreign words. I'd love to see them try to pronounce this word Viszontlátásra. It's Hungarian for goodbye.
The lower part of Michigan is shaped like a big hand. I've seen t-shirts with pictures of that hand making various gestures.
Best way to remember Louisiana is that it looks like a chewed up boot! I'm 45 and this is how this is how I was able to do ok on this challenge. 🤣 NeVada has a V! 😂😂
I think it would be fun if the Try Channel take a trip to Las Vegas. :) These are easy states.
Dude even Americans hardly know where Michigan is. You guys killed it !
Loved this video! You gotta learn the states that look like something and go from there. A couple quick examples:
1) Massachusetts looks like someone making a muscle with their arm.
2) Kentucky looks like a piece of fried chicken and Tennessee is the pan it’s cooking in.
3) Michigan is a mitten for the main section.
I’m sure there are others, but those are probably the easiest examples to go with.
I like how the tryers tried a couple of times to lock in Illinois. Here in Wisconsin, we've been trying to lock in Illinois for like, forever, but somebody keeps unlocking it and opening up the door.
If you come to visit Wisconsin, come in the winter. It will give you an appreciation for why every extra-curricular activity we manage to come up with includes drinking alcohol.
Yah dere hey, the Lakes must be overrun right now with those fibs
Illinois refuses to stay caged
@5:42 That squiggly bit at the bottom corner of Nevada is the Colorado River. The river forms the boundary between Nevada and Arizona, then it becomes the border between California and Arizona as it continues into Mexico. Yes, the three "corners" meet in the middle of the Colorado River.
Colin, NY is NOT 2 states up from MD. It is 3/4, depending upon how one counts = MD, DE, NJ, NY...
MD -> PA -> NY
Hey there, young people! I'm glad that some of you got Michigan!
5:01 That is the loudest ANYONE has said “Yay Nevada!” Including people from Nevada. Well done, Callyann!