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I noticed she credits her son Ben with giving her "masses of help" with the books. Her son Tom must have been too busy farting around Cornwall or something.
Geoguessr pros have that highly geoguessr-specific knowledge, and that's super impressive and fun in its own right, but I love that Tom is just a guy who has lots general knowledge, lots of experience, and lots of curiosity. It's more relatable and honestly kind of inspiring, at least for me.
meta gaming and intuitive gaming are two equally impressive & different things but I would be lying if I said Tom's way wasn't the most interesting of them to watch
Yliopiston Apteekki is just a great decoy for Finland. The largest pharmacy chain in Finland that can be found in every major city in Finland. Translates to "Universitys Pharmacy".
Said Oulu on a the sign with domain :) I know you aren't as much into the GeoGuesser content but for me you are still my favorite GeoGuesser content creator - I binge watched all your content and I'm longing for more. Zigzag and Rainbolt are cool, the world cup was fun but I miss your commentary
Hi Tom, My brother and I really enjoyed your Cornwall adventure, thank you! It inspired us and we've decided to drive there next summer, to walk along the coast a few days :-)
yep, it is because they have the same etymology. The word "Slovak" is actually an exonym (=name coming from foreign language), it's from a Polish word used to describe Slovakians. Slovakians would have also called themselves something very close to Slovenians otherwise (and still do), which is just derived from "Slavic". We could have had two Slovenias, that's the only reason Slovakia is called something different, to not confuse everyone even further lol
been watching these for a while, but never played along because I assumed I needed a geoguessr subscription to play. played along for the first time today, it was really fun, thank you!
Ooooh that Finland one is the first time I've gotten a perfect score when you haven't! (You missed "Oulu" bottom left on the sign with the website). Cheers for the geoguessr content!
Yeah same, i never play geoguesser exept for these play alongs. So im really bad at asia etc, because i dont even know which countries are in the map. Oulu was one of the very few 5k rounds i ever got, and Tom somehow missed that. It was only inches next to the .fi website
You've got to remember, if the sun is North, you can still be in the Northern hemisphere if it's the Northern summer & you're South of the tropic of Cancer.
I’m originally from Finland and for the first round I was sure that it was not Helsinki and I knew it would not be any other bigger city than Turku or Oulu and was not sure which one it was. Once you went to Turku and found a diagonal street and Yliopiston Apteekki (means University Pharmacy and you have those in many cities/towns) I thought you got it, but no🎉. Either way nice to see my home country pop up every now and then. Keep up the good work Tom! Cheers!
i love how on these, i do the map and then watch you and then see clues everywhere as to the right city when watching you that I missed when i was playing it.
first time ive played along and I saw the oulu and got 4999, very disappointed Tom you are going to have to reach my level (I then guessed rwanda on malaysia)
@@ben_1very true, and additionally when it’s 4 letters in all caps like that on the sign, the proper default assumption is that it’s some city/ government organization acronym Edit: it is clear later on that he HAS heard of Oulu though 😅
Yeah, unless I knew Oulu was the name of a city, I would have ignored the word on the sign. Of course, when actually playing with a time limit, it's another matter.
GeoWizard - our beloved Tom - you definitely should be part of the GeoGuessr professional community (tournaments, commentary & desk etc.). I think it would be one of the better things for this lovely community. Not only because of pure nostalgia, but also through your pure passion and practical knowledge, while not forgetting your absolutely funny and wholesome personality.
It's so bizarre to see the place you live and walk regularly, pop up in one of your games! Happy to see lots of comments from so many people who know of Oulu!
YA, Yliopiston Apteekki, is a big pharmacy chain in Finland. if you spot it you can be sure you're in Finland. They're scatted all around Finlands biggest cities.
I was delighted to see my hometown on the first round, literally walked a block from there today! Rest of the rounds went really bad though, I actually found a 6th Avenue in Honolulu unfortunately.
Huge fan of these videos. I find your thought process way more interesting to watch than the ultra pros who just have all the obscure things memoized. Keep it up mate!
Hi Tom, I’ve recently started streaming Geoguessr and I’d rate my Geoguessr skills as next to non existent! But I’m enjoying playing and learning 😊 I’ve been watching your videos for years and I’d just watch for entertainment purposes but now I’m also watching to learn about how you study each location for clues. Great video, lots to take away 😊
Slovakia in Slovak language is “SlovEnsko”, so the adjective “Slovenskej” in the address on the apartment building is related to the country of Slovakia. Also, “papier” is “paper” in Slovak. (Not trying to be mean at all, just providing info😊)
tbf. slovenski is the slovene word for slovene, and the equivalent of slovenskej would be slovenske. i think he can be forgiven for that one. i guessed slovakia over slovenia because of the papier, but that was kind of the only clue.
@@purple_purpur7379but the architecture is typical of central Eastern Europe as opposed to the alps or the Balkans. These commie blocks had Czechoslovakia/Hungary written all over them (in this case, literally, lol)
That LA round is the first time I've ever gotten a perfect score on your challenge when you haven't, but the first four rounds I didn't have the same luck... fair play mate! great vid
Ahh man, that was a challenging game. I fell for the Slovenia red herring, and got California but ended up going San Jose for some reason. But I've been loving these Balanced urban world play alongs, please don't stop them!
I got OULU from the writing on the sign, I got KL because I decided it wasn't Johor Bahru, I got Surabaya by a lucky guess, and I recognized LA. I took the bait and went Slovenia on that round. Still 23K! The sticker on the Toyota Prius says "I ❤ HYBRIDS"
Always enjoy your content. Your Cornwell trek was great. Thank you. Just FYI, something for your vast GeoWizard mental database. In the last location which was Los Angeles, the "Monthly Parking" sign had the phone # Area Code 213. This is the original area code for the LA Area and retained by LA proper and other cities in the general area of LA. The outlying cities were changed to area codes 818 (north-Burbank), 626 (east-Pasadena), Always greatful for your wonderful content.
I’m from LA and knew where it was right away, however it was quite odd and very misleading due to the recently cut trees and very overcast and unusually wintery day. I’m impressed Tom.
I was stoked to get a perfect score first round then see what happened to you! I think that's the first time I've ever beaten you on a round score! I screwed up the Indonesian round, stupidly picking Perth, Australia for that one. I also managed to narrow down LA as the last city, if you have a zoom in you can actually see the South Korean flag, so that helped me out... but you still beat me overall. I got 17108. I always have fun on these. Onya Tom!
"Low number" area codes were given to American cities with large populations (NYC 212, LA 213, Chicago 312, etc.) because back in "the day" they were dialed with pulse dialing, meaning that if you had the cities that were called most often have low numbers, you would save time because it would take a lower amount of pulses to list out the area code.
Round 1: Said the city name on the board where the URL was, 5k'd Round 2: Risked it by going on the other Malaysian island instead of where it was, big backfire Round 3: Jakarta's streets didn't look uniform enough compared to where we were, and there were no mountains north for Bandung so I went Surabaya, near 5k Round 4: Translated Slovenskej to Slovenia, went as far west as I could, terrible round Round 5: Found it was 6th street in LA, near 5k Beat you by less than 100 pts!
it's quite impressive how good you still are despite not really uploading geoguessr a lot anymore. Or you're just a really lucky guesser Anyways quite enjoyable to finally see another geography video again. Been a while since the last one unfortunately
@3:48 Yliopiston Apteekki = Pharmacy of University. While it is owned by the University of Helsinki, they have stores in most bigger cities in Finland. The advertisement board on the ground where you picked up the .fi URL actually revealed the city as well. Other than the first round (helped by having home ground advantage) my game was absolutely miserable. Didn't get a single country right after that, and didn't even manage to double my score in the last four rounds.
Cannot believe a city I lived in finally draws! Lived in Oulu for many months; you were right in front of the main mall; thanks to which shopping in winter is still doable!
We really had the opposite experience on this one Tom. I got the Oulo round super quickly - the street advert you looked at literally said Oulu! But man, the rest I had no chance on. Well, I got the continents right (even if I *almost* went Canada on the Indonesia round, because I thought it said Calgary on the lorry at first..). I even fell for the Slovenia bait. And man, the weather being overcast really threw me off it being LA. The architechture did imply it, but the weather was so shit that I ultimately ened up guessing on the east coast.
I did fairly well with 24,928 points and some luck: R1 Said Oulo on the poster which you missed; then straightforward 5k with the name of the mall and the pharmacy. R2 Fairly clear Malaysia with black pole sticker. Skyscraper made me lean KL and I found somewhere matching with the alignment but it was 7.5 km off. R3 Indonesia (front plate on motorbike). Quite industrial so Java is likely but it didn't seem to be big enough for Jakarta. There was a paved road and I have heard of Surabaya pavement so I went there (maybe lucky, not even sure whether this was the Surabaya pavement). The white houses looked quite distinct, maybe something to remember. Couldn't find a matching street. R4 Slovakia due to "Slovenskej" and looks. A lot of green to the East so I thought Bratislava was a bit less likely so I went to Kosice. Spent most of the time scanning there but didn't find something matching. With time low I just moved to the next town, Presov, which also happened to have a lot of the right angles. And I found a Slovensko street immediately and then also something that kind of matched but it was wrong as we were actually on Matice Slovenskej street. It probably actually said this on the building but due to stitching glitch it wasn't visible well. Anyway, quite happy with the result being just 1.3 km off. R5 The "South Coast Towing" sign had two four letter abbreviations starting with L.A. on it so I was quite confident on the city. Also found 6th street and the mountains North but couldn't find the street we spawned on as I couldn't see any POIs with the names we saw. 462 m off.
A very North American specific knowledge - Area Codes (the first three digits in a 10 digit phone number) were originally assigned by population, with the higher populations having lower (quicker to dial) numbers. So NYC was 212, LA was 213, Chicago was 312, Detroit was 313 etc. if you can remember the first four or five, that makes it easier to narrow down. When the last round started and that 212 number came up, I was yelling “ELL-AYY” to my phone. Never been there but that was the only hint I had.
It definitely had a GTA 5 feel to me. Though I was thrown off it being a bit west of downtown since I always assumed LA is just 5 skyscrapers in downtown and then nothing but single family suburbs for hundreds of miles with a dozen freeways in between.
i was ahead of you for most of it! i got a perfect score for the oulu round. i got a 4950 in the malaysia round; i decided it was malaysia based on the license plates and then figured it was kl for the same reason you did. i guessed britain in the fourth round (yeah i know.) and then on the last round, i realized it was slovakia because of the "papier" (which slovenia doesn't have for paper, they have "papir"), and i figured it wasn't bratislava because it was too flat, and i was in prešov initially and i changed it last minute to košice. close enough. and then on the last one i just kinda fucked up i was looking at the biggest cities to see if they could fit the numbered streets + north south grid, but i didn't see the palm tree and it didn't look tropical so i skipped la and went chicago. anyway, this was fun!
@ParaditeRs Oulu is known among cyclists and urban planners as basically the ideal counterexample to "but you can't build bike lanes in snowy places, nobody will use them"
NotJustBikes has made a very popular video about the cycling infrastructure and winter cycling in Oulu, so quite a few people have heard of it outside of Finland too 😄 But as a Finn I'm always happy when someone even recognises the language. (The only thing Tom gets minus points from me for was calling Finland Scandinavian, for some stupid reason most of the British people I've met have been taught that in school. Quite a few of them have ended up googling it only to find out they're wrong. Finland is a Nordic country yes, but not Scandinavian.)
@@bryndayy I could be wrong but when the codes were set up they would have been on dial phones. The big city's numbers mean that it takes less time to dial as the 1s, 2s and 3s are at the top of the ring.
@@darrensmith3337 yeah, then actually, it would make sense that the original commenter meant ALL digits, not just the numbers themselves. So 208 wouldn't count because 8 isn't a low number
1. Figured the language was Finnish, saw on the bottom left of the bike sign 'Oulu' and knew that was a city, looked at pedestrian areas, found the "Apteekki" got all 5000 pts 2. Had no idea but it felt Malaysian [MBPO - I also thought the M could stand for Malaysia], took a wild guess with Kuala Lumpur and got 4925 3. Really had no clues other than it looked Southeast Asian, guessed in Kuching, Malaysia and got 2396 4. Saw "Slovenska" on the building and guessed in Slovenia [Maribor] but it turned out to be Slovakia - 3487. 5. Felt like USA, saw palm trees in the background and "south coast" so knew it was a southern city by the coast - thought Florida at first but the bike lanes made me think California - the blurred license plates looked more like California than Florida. GUessed San Diego but it was in Los Angeles - 4376 TOTAL: 20,184
I love Hybrid because it was a hybrid car. Blue strip at the front of the licencce plates, tells me were in Europe and Papier propably the word paper in another language, maybe france.
4:00 to me that actually felt unfair 😂 despite what some conmenters remarked about the city name being visible somewhere And boy that last one, deserved a Get In!
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I noticed she credits her son Ben with giving her "masses of help" with the books. Her son Tom must have been too busy farting around Cornwall or something.
"Mom"? You're English. Say it properly. Where is your English pride?
Play An Unofficial Street World mate, you will not regret it!
Hi Tom please create a playlist of ALL VIDEOS as under current changes to UA-cam we cant see your most recent back videos by date
11:48 "I love hybrid" of course, it's on a hybrid!
It made me feel insane listening to him try to work that out incorrectly 😂
Came here to post this!
"I love Hyundai"
this could be a good sticker for Toyota
Hopefully not "KY jelly"
It was so obvious
You just don’t get “how many Skodas are there” with other Geoguessr UA-camrs and that’s why we love you Tom
And he missed half of them 😂
You don’t get “Sweeping round the corner with Uri Gellar” or “dad clobber” either. Great Tom moments in this one.
Geoguessr pros have that highly geoguessr-specific knowledge, and that's super impressive and fun in its own right, but I love that Tom is just a guy who has lots general knowledge, lots of experience, and lots of curiosity. It's more relatable and honestly kind of inspiring, at least for me.
@@crusadeagainsttomatoes2518No worries, he added some non Skodas to the list so it was about right in the end.😅
meta gaming and intuitive gaming are two equally impressive & different things but I would be lying if I said Tom's way wasn't the most interesting of them to watch
9:46 - Ah yes, the three main types of propulsion: combustion, full electric, and... _kyros._
Yliopiston Apteekki is just a great decoy for Finland. The largest pharmacy chain in Finland that can be found in every major city in Finland. Translates to "Universitys Pharmacy".
In Dutch it's apotheek. I've had found the wrong one, I placed a helsinki one
Ha ha! I assumed it meant Youth Hostel! I thought the YA looks really like the international Youth Hostel logo
The Boots of Finland!
it said Oulo on the sign he was looking at ;(
7:31 tom becomes a baby for a moment
LOL
glad i wasnt the only one who heard that. he does have a baby now so he mustve learned the language.
the " I love hybrid" sign was the only damn thing I could read
strange he can always perfectly read the text thats like 2 pixels that i could never dream of reading but whenever i get it he doesnt have a clue
He just never thought anyone could have that written on their car
I think sometimes us watching it on a smaller screen actually helps see blurry text. It can be a bit easier to read zoomed out.
Said Oulu on a the sign with domain :) I know you aren't as much into the GeoGuesser content but for me you are still my favorite GeoGuesser content creator - I binge watched all your content and I'm longing for more. Zigzag and Rainbolt are cool, the world cup was fun but I miss your commentary
Hi Tom,
My brother and I really enjoyed your Cornwall adventure, thank you! It inspired us and we've decided to drive there next summer, to walk along the coast a few days :-)
That's awesome, I'm very inspired too, might do the same from the NL
Pro tip: slovensko means Slovakian in Slovakian. As if the two countries weren’t easy enough to confuse already
disgusting langauge
Slovensko means Slovakia, not Slovakian.
2:27 Pro tip: Finland is not in Scandinavia!
@@mardyjane7664 oh right, but point is, it doesn’t mean Slovenia
yep, it is because they have the same etymology. The word "Slovak" is actually an exonym (=name coming from foreign language), it's from a Polish word used to describe Slovakians. Slovakians would have also called themselves something very close to Slovenians otherwise (and still do), which is just derived from "Slavic". We could have had two Slovenias, that's the only reason Slovakia is called something different, to not confuse everyone even further lol
09:44 It's "I love hybrid" Standard sticker on Toyotas.
"That's such dad clobber"
Looking forward to seeing you dressed like that next video then Tom ;)
been watching these for a while, but never played along because I assumed I needed a geoguessr subscription to play. played along for the first time today, it was really fun, thank you!
Ooooh that Finland one is the first time I've gotten a perfect score when you haven't! (You missed "Oulu" bottom left on the sign with the website). Cheers for the geoguessr content!
It's the only round I 5k'd. But, I was shockingly close in the Malaysia round. Not even close in the last 3 rounds tho.
Yeah same, i never play geoguesser exept for these play alongs. So im really bad at asia etc, because i dont even know which countries are in the map.
Oulu was one of the very few 5k rounds i ever got, and Tom somehow missed that. It was only inches next to the .fi website
2:27 Pro tip: Finland is not in Scandinavia!
jep, torille!!!
@@Nilguiri it is
You've got to remember, if the sun is North, you can still be in the Northern hemisphere if it's the Northern summer & you're South of the tropic of Cancer.
Yeah, I also thought Tom knew that. At least one time he should be punished by making this assumption to question this "fact"
I’m originally from Finland and for the first round I was sure that it was not Helsinki and I knew it would not be any other bigger city than Turku or Oulu and was not sure which one it was. Once you went to Turku and found a diagonal street and Yliopiston Apteekki (means University Pharmacy and you have those in many cities/towns) I thought you got it, but no🎉. Either way nice to see my home country pop up every now and then. Keep up the good work Tom! Cheers!
i love how on these, i do the map and then watch you and then see clues everywhere as to the right city when watching you that I missed when i was playing it.
Missing the clearly written OULU on the first round made me want to shout at him
and the .fl at first. I was screaming :D
I missed it too, I didn't know it was a city so I ignored it.
first time ive played along and I saw the oulu and got 4999, very disappointed Tom you are going to have to reach my level (I then guessed rwanda on malaysia)
I honestly missed it too. Could not read that sign for some reason
At some point random meaningless letters aren't helpful. It's so different than most languages that it's really not helpful
1:56 when we all collectively scream "Tom, Ouluuu!!!" at our screens for the rest of the round
tbf if you don't know Oulu as a city it's just another Finnish word amongst a whole bunch of other Finnish words.
@@ben_1yeah honestly looking at that having never heard of Oulu before, I would have assumed Oulu was the brand sponsoring that sign
@@ben_1very true, and additionally when it’s 4 letters in all caps like that on the sign, the proper default assumption is that it’s some city/ government organization acronym
Edit: it is clear later on that he HAS heard of Oulu though 😅
Yes, I did, but only after I played the challenge myself, because I never heard about Oulu before😅
Yeah, unless I knew Oulu was the name of a city, I would have ignored the word on the sign. Of course, when actually playing with a time limit, it's another matter.
Thank you Tom, your ‘classic geoguessr’ videos always take me back to a different time in my life. Fan since basically the very beginning here
GeoWizard - our beloved Tom - you definitely should be part of the GeoGuessr professional community (tournaments, commentary & desk etc.). I think it would be one of the better things for this lovely community. Not only because of pure nostalgia, but also through your pure passion and practical knowledge, while not forgetting your absolutely funny and wholesome personality.
It's so bizarre to see the place you live and walk regularly, pop up in one of your games!
Happy to see lots of comments from so many people who know of Oulu!
Love that first guess. It's like you've found the Finnish version of a Boots store on a random high street. 😂😂
Yessssss more GeoGuessr!!! Would love to see duels from you again :) my favorite
Those apartment buildings are all over California now. As soon as I saw the 213 area code, I knew it was LA. Also, as a Prius driver, I knew it was "I
YA, Yliopiston Apteekki, is a big pharmacy chain in Finland. if you spot it you can be sure you're in Finland. They're scatted all around Finlands biggest cities.
I love this kind of video, Tom! I would happily watch them daily or every other day, or just more frequently really. Cheers
I was delighted to see my hometown on the first round, literally walked a block from there today! Rest of the rounds went really bad though, I actually found a 6th Avenue in Honolulu unfortunately.
Huge fan of these videos. I find your thought process way more interesting to watch than the ultra pros who just have all the obscure things memoized. Keep it up mate!
Yes, we are recording!
Tom, since Google has mapped the ocean floor I feel you have to take it. I'm going to call it. Ocean floor guesser, bloody lovely!
Hi Tom, I’ve recently started streaming Geoguessr and I’d rate my Geoguessr skills as next to non existent! But I’m enjoying playing and learning 😊 I’ve been watching your videos for years and I’d just watch for entertainment purposes but now I’m also watching to learn about how you study each location for clues. Great video, lots to take away 😊
Love these as much as the adventures. Good stuff, thanks Tom
Was just refreshing yt and i got you! That's a lucky day!
Slovakia in Slovak language is “SlovEnsko”, so the adjective “Slovenskej” in the address on the apartment building is related to the country of Slovakia. Also, “papier” is “paper” in Slovak. (Not trying to be mean at all, just providing info😊)
Oh interesting. I've not reached that part yet of the video but I assume he made the same mistake as me (went slovenia).
was yelling this at the screen
Also I feel like streets named after neighboring countries are way more common than streets named after their own country.
tbf. slovenski is the slovene word for slovene, and the equivalent of slovenskej would be slovenske. i think he can be forgiven for that one. i guessed slovakia over slovenia because of the papier, but that was kind of the only clue.
@@purple_purpur7379but the architecture is typical of central Eastern Europe as opposed to the alps or the Balkans. These commie blocks had Czechoslovakia/Hungary written all over them (in this case, literally, lol)
That LA round is the first time I've ever gotten a perfect score on your challenge when you haven't, but the first four rounds I didn't have the same luck... fair play mate! great vid
9:27 It actually looks like you're turned around backwards and your head is on the wrong way round.
Yes Tom, your Tenner adventure in Cornwall was splendid. Lots of fun and scenery for us, lots of work for you in production. Most enjoyable. 👍🏻
Would really love to see more Timeguessr, rewatched them all this week and now I would like more
the "good evening everyone" is so good! cheers for the content tom
Thoroughly enjoyed the I
Your best content Tom. Please keep the geoguessr stuff coming
Hi Tom, Love your geoguessr vids! Thanks for another one
Ahh man, that was a challenging game. I fell for the Slovenia red herring, and got California but ended up going San Jose for some reason.
But I've been loving these Balanced urban world play alongs, please don't stop them!
Absolutely loved your Cornwall adventure. I’ve added it to my must visit list. I imagine Cornwall will receive many American tourists 😬
I got OULU from the writing on the sign, I got KL because I decided it wasn't Johor Bahru, I got Surabaya by a lucky guess, and I recognized LA. I took the bait and went Slovenia on that round. Still 23K! The sticker on the Toyota Prius says "I ❤ HYBRIDS"
Tom you're the GOAT for that Slovakia guess. Incredible!
Always enjoy your content. Your Cornwell trek was great. Thank you. Just FYI, something for your vast GeoWizard mental database. In the last location which was Los Angeles, the "Monthly Parking" sign had the phone # Area Code 213. This is the original area code for the LA Area and retained by LA proper and other cities in the general area of LA. The outlying cities were changed to area codes 818 (north-Burbank), 626 (east-Pasadena), Always greatful for your wonderful content.
I’m from LA and knew where it was right away, however it was quite odd and very misleading due to the recently cut trees and very overcast and unusually wintery day. I’m impressed Tom.
Also from LA and my first thought was "this is LA....wait...is it??" because of how cold and wintery it looked
7:13 those are the cube houses in Rotterdam on that fence there but call it a hunch I don't think we're in the Netherlands here.
Fantastic fun and commentary as ever keep it up Tom
I was stoked to get a perfect score first round then see what happened to you! I think that's the first time I've ever beaten you on a round score! I screwed up the Indonesian round, stupidly picking Perth, Australia for that one. I also managed to narrow down LA as the last city, if you have a zoom in you can actually see the South Korean flag, so that helped me out... but you still beat me overall. I got 17108.
I always have fun on these. Onya Tom!
The 213 area code made me think of the lyric from Regulate so i thought it had to be LA
"Low number" area codes were given to American cities with large populations (NYC 212, LA 213, Chicago 312, etc.) because back in "the day" they were dialed with pulse dialing, meaning that if you had the cities that were called most often have low numbers, you would save time because it would take a lower amount of pulses to list out the area code.
@@kyleboyd4543this is a great fact, thank you
213 for LA and 212 for NYC are two of the most commonly known area codes for the US and handy for playing Geoguessr. Surprised Tom didn't know that.
Round 1: Said the city name on the board where the URL was, 5k'd
Round 2: Risked it by going on the other Malaysian island instead of where it was, big backfire
Round 3: Jakarta's streets didn't look uniform enough compared to where we were, and there were no mountains north for Bandung so I went Surabaya, near 5k
Round 4: Translated Slovenskej to Slovenia, went as far west as I could, terrible round
Round 5: Found it was 6th street in LA, near 5k
Beat you by less than 100 pts!
Evening Tom, Happy Friday, thanks for the great videos. Really enjoyed Cornwall
This video inspired me to apply for a job for Malaysian bin positioning
it's quite impressive how good you still are despite not really uploading geoguessr a lot anymore. Or you're just a really lucky guesser
Anyways quite enjoyable to finally see another geography video again. Been a while since the last one unfortunately
@3:48 Yliopiston Apteekki = Pharmacy of University. While it is owned by the University of Helsinki, they have stores in most bigger cities in Finland. The advertisement board on the ground where you picked up the .fi URL actually revealed the city as well.
Other than the first round (helped by having home ground advantage) my game was absolutely miserable. Didn't get a single country right after that, and didn't even manage to double my score in the last four rounds.
5:10 - "F**k your Honda Civic, I've a horse outside!" - Blindboy Boatclub
another great vid Tom. Slightly dampened as always by so many cheaters in the play along!
as someone from los angeles that was incredibly funny to watch haha
1:54 The advertising board literally showed Oulu as the place name - that's assuming a mental link would have been made to the answer :D
Love the play alongs.
Cannot believe a city I lived in finally draws! Lived in Oulu for many months; you were right in front of the main mall; thanks to which shopping in winter is still doable!
We really had the opposite experience on this one Tom. I got the Oulo round super quickly - the street advert you looked at literally said Oulu!
But man, the rest I had no chance on. Well, I got the continents right (even if I *almost* went Canada on the Indonesia round, because I thought it said Calgary on the lorry at first..). I even fell for the Slovenia bait. And man, the weather being overcast really threw me off it being LA. The architechture did imply it, but the weather was so shit that I ultimately ened up guessing on the east coast.
Love this format 😊😊
What an exciting first round! I lived in an apartment on top of that mall for 3 years. Nicest apartment I've had.
I did fairly well with 24,928 points and some luck:
R1 Said Oulo on the poster which you missed; then straightforward 5k with the name of the mall and the pharmacy.
R2 Fairly clear Malaysia with black pole sticker. Skyscraper made me lean KL and I found somewhere matching with the alignment but it was 7.5 km off.
R3 Indonesia (front plate on motorbike). Quite industrial so Java is likely but it didn't seem to be big enough for Jakarta. There was a paved road and I have heard of Surabaya pavement so I went there (maybe lucky, not even sure whether this was the Surabaya pavement). The white houses looked quite distinct, maybe something to remember. Couldn't find a matching street.
R4 Slovakia due to "Slovenskej" and looks. A lot of green to the East so I thought Bratislava was a bit less likely so I went to Kosice. Spent most of the time scanning there but didn't find something matching. With time low I just moved to the next town, Presov, which also happened to have a lot of the right angles. And I found a Slovensko street immediately and then also something that kind of matched but it was wrong as we were actually on Matice Slovenskej street. It probably actually said this on the building but due to stitching glitch it wasn't visible well. Anyway, quite happy with the result being just 1.3 km off.
R5 The "South Coast Towing" sign had two four letter abbreviations starting with L.A. on it so I was quite confident on the city. Also found 6th street and the mountains North but couldn't find the street we spawned on as I couldn't see any POIs with the names we saw. 462 m off.
On the 4th round, there is a reserved parking space for a license plate starting PO, which implies the city, so it's actually quite doable..
I enjoyed your journeys, but it's great to see the guessr video's as well. Sry about the books, I already have a book :)
"I love KY" - Tom aka GeoWizard
A very North American specific knowledge - Area Codes (the first three digits in a 10 digit phone number) were originally assigned by population, with the higher populations having lower (quicker to dial) numbers. So NYC was 212, LA was 213, Chicago was 312, Detroit was 313 etc. if you can remember the first four or five, that makes it easier to narrow down. When the last round started and that 212 number came up, I was yelling “ELL-AYY” to my phone. Never been there but that was the only hint I had.
" get in , are we recording yeeeeeeeeeeeessss
You bell sniff "
The LA one had me because I knew at first glance. So glad you pulled it off at the end haha
213 .... instant answer.
The signs, the apartments, the palm trees, the hills, the bank building. Ah home.
It definitely had a GTA 5 feel to me. Though I was thrown off it being a bit west of downtown since I always assumed LA is just 5 skyscrapers in downtown and then nothing but single family suburbs for hundreds of miles with a dozen freeways in between.
i was ahead of you for most of it!
i got a perfect score for the oulu round. i got a 4950 in the malaysia round; i decided it was malaysia based on the license plates and then figured it was kl for the same reason you did. i guessed britain in the fourth round (yeah i know.) and then on the last round, i realized it was slovakia because of the "papier" (which slovenia doesn't have for paper, they have "papir"), and i figured it wasn't bratislava because it was too flat, and i was in prešov initially and i changed it last minute to košice. close enough. and then on the last one i just kinda fucked up i was looking at the biggest cities to see if they could fit the numbered streets + north south grid, but i didn't see the palm tree and it didn't look tropical so i skipped la and went chicago.
anyway, this was fun!
For the first one, the sign you got the internet domain from had Oulu written on the bottom left
That is great if you know that Oulu is a city beforehand 😂
@ParaditeRs Oulu is known among cyclists and urban planners as basically the ideal counterexample to "but you can't build bike lanes in snowy places, nobody will use them"
@@thespanishinquisiton8306 So you're saying it is known by nobody. Gotcha.
Urban planning is definitely a thing in most online spaces these days and I can't imagine it doesn't have a significant overlap with Geoguessr
NotJustBikes has made a very popular video about the cycling infrastructure and winter cycling in Oulu, so quite a few people have heard of it outside of Finland too 😄 But as a Finn I'm always happy when someone even recognises the language. (The only thing Tom gets minus points from me for was calling Finland Scandinavian, for some stupid reason most of the British people I've met have been taught that in school. Quite a few of them have ended up googling it only to find out they're wrong. Finland is a Nordic country yes, but not Scandinavian.)
Key for area codes in the US is the lower the numbers, the larger population of the city when they were created. NYC: 212, Chicago: 312, LA: 213.
Well I've learnt something new. Cheers !
This advice doesn't make any sense to me. For example, area code 208 is the whole state of Idaho and 304 is the state of west Virginia.
@@bryndayy I could be wrong but when the codes were set up they would have been on dial phones. The big city's numbers mean that it takes less time to dial as the 1s, 2s and 3s are at the top of the ring.
@@darrensmith3337 yeah, then actually, it would make sense that the original commenter meant ALL digits, not just the numbers themselves. So 208 wouldn't count because 8 isn't a low number
love this video format of yours
I saw the 213 area code on the building and almost started screaming "It's LA, man. It's LA!"
Tip. Mountains and palm trees in the US is California, if not Hawaii. Not tropical enough for it to be Hawaii.
Today, Tom learns that apothecaries chains are a thing ;-)
Difficult as the English word for it is pharmacy...
I mean, nah, he just had no time and it looked similar, I'm sure he'd have known that it can be a thing lol
Nice to see you in Finland Tom! Keep an eye out for the big OULU text on the sign you watched earlier!
first you would need to know what OULU is
The only one I knew, was the 213 area code. I was yelling "Koreatown, Tom!!
Yes!! An OG style vid ❤
i love your geoguessr videos
"I love KY" 🤣🤣Go on Tom.
New merch line coming soon :D
I once was stopped behind a car from Kentucky. It had a personalized license plate "KYLADY".
Maybe someone from Slovakia really likes Kentucky? (I know it says I love HYBRID)
1. Figured the language was Finnish, saw on the bottom left of the bike sign 'Oulu' and knew that was a city, looked at pedestrian areas, found the "Apteekki" got all 5000 pts
2. Had no idea but it felt Malaysian [MBPO - I also thought the M could stand for Malaysia], took a wild guess with Kuala Lumpur and got 4925
3. Really had no clues other than it looked Southeast Asian, guessed in Kuching, Malaysia and got 2396
4. Saw "Slovenska" on the building and guessed in Slovenia [Maribor] but it turned out to be Slovakia - 3487.
5. Felt like USA, saw palm trees in the background and "south coast" so knew it was a southern city by the coast - thought Florida at first but the bike lanes made me think California - the blurred license plates looked more like California than Florida. GUessed San Diego but it was in Los Angeles - 4376
TOTAL: 20,184
I used to live 2-3 blocks from that 5th location. Incredible last minute guess well done🎉
thats sum good old-fashioned play-a-long fun
Don't overtrhink it dude! Great job!
It is absolutely wild that I knew the last one instantly. That has never happened.
I 💙 Hybrid
Your eyes are going Tom!
I recognized that first spot immediately, used to live like a block away from that spot and been to that pharmacy many times
3:35 LOL
Red "Peugeot" was indeed a Skoda
I love Hybrid because it was a hybrid car. Blue strip at the front of the licencce plates, tells me were in Europe and Papier propably the word paper in another language, maybe france.
Wow, the Isle of KY, who knew P Diddy's apartment was so internationally recognized.
The Cornwall videos were probably my favourite you’ve done mate, made me want to go Cornwall, £140 on the train though no thank you robbing bastards
4:00 to me that actually felt unfair 😂 despite what some conmenters remarked about the city name being visible somewhere
And boy that last one, deserved a Get In!
Just for fun decided to check your content first time in a year, and right off the bat - my home city, Oulu.