This kind of geoguessr content is so refreshing after seeing so much of the new 'memorize every google car and bollard' style. Fair play to them but it's just not as entertaining
Watching you zoom in on Sudan saying "Do they speak French? Yes they do." Then proceeding to read all the english words and saying "There we go, moving on" got me good 😂
The "Trze-" word ("trzeźwości") you were looking for in Poland was "sobriety" lol. Btw, "in" in Polish is "w" so if you see this word usually the next one will be the name of the city. (it was there on the left board "w Suwałkach")
That’s interesting to know about “w” being “in.” I saw “Wdzięcność i misja” and would’ve searched the map for Misja. Clearly, my small Swedish knowledge is more powerful than my small Polish knowledge.
Might you also comment about whether the locals pronounce Nevis with a long E? Geowizard used a short E and he's no dummy, but still anyone including yours truly could get it wrong.
@@redplanet2720 Recognising the joke - the island was named by Spanish explorers as Isla de Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, in reference to a 4th century miracle. There's an idea that they chose the name because Nevis' summit is nearly always shrouded in white clouds.
I got a perfect score on the last one, and I don't speak Polish. Basically I figured that Konkatedra probably meant Cathedral, which would mean the name of the cathedral is what immediately follows it (Pw. Sw. Aleksandra). Saint Aleksandra Cathedral or something like that. This also fit with it being in large letters on the front of the church, which you can just barely make out. I then noticed that on two of the signs the name of the church was followed (in full or partially) by 'w Suwalkach', which I figured could mean 'in Suwalkach'. So then I took a look on the map for a place named Suwalkach and pretty quickly noticed Suwalki. Zoomed in and it was right there on the main square. Interestingly the only rounds I got a perfect score on were that and the Nigeria round, which were the rounds you didn't get a perfect score on. Final score was 24,886.
Same I dont understand Polish but had a right look around for something along the lines of Suwalkach, almost gave up about a dozen times but managed to find Suwalki and got my first 25000. That was a really fun Geo detective game tbf.
@@cuccieo9 generally, I think Tom prefers the challenge of not being able to move. Quite a few others also like the added challenge, which is where the categories of No Move, No Zoom and No Pan come from!
I'm genuinely amazed by how you found out the brazilian round after completely ignoring the "Eu ♡ Pará" (I love Pará) sign, which said the name of the state.
Being Polish and watching you do the last round was PAINFUL! I wanted to help you so so bad. I just wanted to point to words and scream "This Tom! This helps!"
Love these videos. Recently I've been watching a bit of rainbolt and it's so funny how he sees a pole and immidiately goes oh thats Poland, zooms on map, smashes keyboard, gets high score, nice lets go and second round it goes and over and over and then theres Tom... mmm what do we have here, beautiful people, I like the vibes, what do we think is going on here? Boat is probably delayed, man that sucks, these guys right here look american or do they? What are we thinking... I love it :D
Tom never stop making these videos. You have the best content on geoguesser since the beginning. A lot of other UA-camrs use meta things like poles etc but I love the way you play the game in the original way it’s meant to play. You have the most entertaining videos for sure so keep it up man
Some people use poles? Like, they know the design of telephone poles in different areas to narrow it down? Can you share a video with that, that sounds interesting
@@BrendanGeormer if you have tiktok you can watch a guy named Georainbolt, he has some UA-cam videos too. I love watching him but I prefer the older play style. Basically he looks at poles on the side of the road and other things to get places instantly
do the poles count as meta? i'm more of a "vibes-based" geoguessr player, like tom, but i think knowing the poles is fair play. the kind of meta that's actual geoguessr meta to me is knowing like "austria has a gen 4 camera" and "sri lanka car has the france flag colours"
I initially thought it was Paraguay, or the Parana river. Spent forever looking at cities up and down that river before deciding to check Brazil, and cleverly looking at the state names. You can imagine how happy I was seeing Para right there!
13:30 Zooming in on the crane to find a poster of the same crane…craneception! I half expected the writing on the poster to appear underneath the real crane when you zoomed back out.
@@帥勾克里斯 it says in red Narodowy Kongres Trzeźwości 2017? ... (National Congress of Sobriety 2017?) and then in grey Ku trzeźwości narodu (Towards the sobriety of the nation) - probably motto of the congress and then i think is its program
I love how weirded out Tom is by the Mogadishu round. Welcome to the world of diplomacy, where you can enjoy fine dining in a country that also has an ongoing multi-layered civil war, frequent terrorist attacks and modern piracy so bad that it caused the only instance of basically all major national armed forces cooperating in a single mission.
As Polish speaker, the last one was a lot of fun to watch :D Especialy as you said „the city name isn’t here” as you literaly had your coursor on the name xD (Suwałki).
@@ILoveMyBeard001 tbh it's not the smallest city but it isn't a big one either, it always shows up on meteorological maps because it's the coldest place in Poland usually and is pretty detached from other cities when we talk about proximity
I don't speak polish, but even I heard of Suwalki and that it's somewhere in the northeastern region of Poland. I woudn't have known the carribean flag, but I am a bit puzzled that brits often seem to know not much about Europe, maybe apart from France and Spain.
You made my day with the Poland bit :-D "Najswietszego" -"The most holy" - that sounds like a place name! Loved it. And I really enjoy your Geoguesser videos! EDIT: and Chopin! Thank you!
Catholic represent: adoration of the blessed sacrament. The poster even had a photo of a monstrance. I conclude that Tom is definitely not a Catholic! 😂
Tom not understanding how the rippling of a sign can affect how the letters on it look is both fantastic and frustrating. EDIT: Yes he found out woohoooo EXTRA EDIT: Now if only he knew how a capital letter L looked
Person from Czechia here. I was DYING on the last round, you trying to figure out and translate those Polish words and going off of how many letter "z" were in the town name was absolutely hilarious. Nigeria round and the Thank vs Chad and Garden vs Qaroc made me anxiety-sweat. Great job, Tom. Love your videos. Always great fun.
@@elin_ My guess is that vowels are expensive and consonants are discounted with z, c and s being bought in bulk and just being stuck together for good measure. Szczecin? Wytrzyszka? Rdziostów??
@@elin_ It's just like in English there is ridiculous amount of H, with all those sh's, ch's, th's, gh's. Are those H's pronounced? No, because they are parts of digraphs. Same as Z's are in Polish, they're just there to create new sounds out of other letters.
@@elin_ Oh, I didn't take it as an insult for Polish language:) I just wanted to be informative and compared structures of written Polish to English. Yes, it look silly at the first sight with all the Z's, when someone is learning to read Polish it might be difficult at first for the brain to use to it even when one knows what those Z's do. Z generally softens everything and we love to do it in Polish, so if you take away all those softening Z's out of words most of them will start to look familiar, i.e. in names (brackets for how it would look like not softened) like Grzegorz (Gregor), Krzyszof (Krystof), Katarzyna (Kataryna), Szczepan (here CZ is for softened T, so Stepan), etc. Same with any other word.
Haven't ever clicked a video quicker than when this one popped up. Was sorely missing some GeoGuesser from the Wizard himself, good to see you detective-ing again Tom 😁
Managed to get a perfect score on this one! Warning: spoilers below! 1) Saw the St. Kitts & Nevis on the boat rather quickly, couldn't for the love of me remember where that was again. It doesn't really help that when you're zoomed in far enough, the name of the country disappears on the map and is replaced by Basseterre, so I scrolled across it at least three times. 34m, 3:50 2) Got the "University of" but couldn't figure out the last part. I did recognize the "Zoological garden" bit though ;). Turns out, you can walk a few steps here! On the furthest point you can reach, the Nigerian flag becomes apparent and it also more clearly states University of Ilorin. Scanning Ilorin for the zoological garden took ages until I thought "perhaps it's on the edge of town. Then, I had him almost instantly. 46m, 23:09 3) "Pará, wasn't that a Brazilian state?" Turns out, yes it is. Took quite a bit of scanning to find possible spots alongside the various waterways but eventually zoomed in on Belém. This is another one of the rounds where you could move a bit and I found the Valeverde Turismo boats on the map before I found anything else. Got the right side of the buildings. 4m, 9:45 4) My round went just about the same way as yours. Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, scan a bit, figure out "this is probably an upscale place", look a bit closer at the beach areas, there it is. 5m, 5:38 5) Another round where you could move around. I like visiting churches so I took some time exploring the inside of this church. Some nice stained glass windows, I recommend it! I somehow was able to "break free" of the linked photospheres and enter normal car world. Is that cheating? Perhaps, perhaps not, you tell me. Found the town name written on a van, somehow immediately spotted the town when I went into the map. Easy find once I got that. 2m, 9:22 (of which about 5-6 minuters gazing at the church)
The Polish town with 4 Z letters (Szczebrzeszyn) is a part of a popular tounge twister - W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie - In Szczebrzeszyn, a beetle buzzes in the reed and Szczebrzeszyn is known for it.
It's so stressful sometimes watching these videos. When he was scanning the map in Brazil i was shouting at the screen. At 14:29 he literally has the cursor on "State of Para" and then proceeds to scan the rest of Brazil, Portugal and Cape Verde. 🙈
as much as I love geowizard I dont think he could do well in those tournaments. Those players in the tournaments know every meta thing possible while Tom is more of a traditional player.
@@akashpanday3583 I think so as well but I do find rainbolts tournaments and other content very good. But they are 2 very different geoguessr player types
We Slavs really do have advantage in GeoGessr. The languages are different enough and can be easily identified, but similar enough to mostly understand what is on the signs. Especially if you can also read cyrilic.
Exactly what I was thinking in the last round! Although for me I'm Croatian so never learnt to read cyrilic but many of my older family members who grew up in Yugoslavia times can :)
This was one of my better detective rounds so far. No 5Ks, but got close a couple of times. 1. Couldn't recognize the flag but saw St. Kitts and Nevis on the boat. Ruled out Charlestown based on the compass and size of the city. Settled for Basseterre, but went slightly west of the actual dock (I thought it was the bigger dock with the cruise ship). 4998 points 2. Followed a very similar thought process to you, even initially misreading "garden" as "qaroch". Figured it would be sub-Saharan Africa but not too far south based on the vibe, complexion of the people and the presence of muslim clothing. Ruled out Senegal, Chad and Mali based on the lack of French. Ruled out Mauritania and both Sudans based on the place names not matching up (I couldn't quite make out "Ilorin" but I could clearly see the middle letters "lori"). Came across Ilorin while scanning Nigeria and quickly found the university campus, but I couldn't find the zoological garden. Plonked it down somewhere within the campus. 4987 points. 3. My worst round of the bunch. Didn't catch the Portuguese clue and thought that "para" was referring to either the Paraguay or Paraná river. Plonked it down in Asunción near the docks. 989 points. 4. Scanned Mogadishu for a few minutes but couldn't find the guest house. Was also surprised and somewhat discouraged by the sheer amount of hotels and resorts in that city. Plonked it down near the centre. 4982 points. 5. Recognized the Polish but didn't catch the city clue. Plonked it in Włocławek due it being central, having a similar name to one of the words I read on the posters and having a church of a similar size. 4205 points. Overall score: 20161. If I had caught the Brazil clue I estimate I would've gotten something like 23-24K.
I was screaming at the screen for you to read Pará on the map, which is the state, but at least you got it (almost) spot on again never fails to amaze me
goat of the geoguessr community. doesn’t matter if you’re not getting the location in like 0.5 seconds. the pure amount of stuff you have done for the geoguessr community is immeasurable, and this specific type of gameplay is also so refreshing and important to see as just as valuable and impressive as the pro speed running players. tom, you are the goat. thank you.
Those methods came about because of the competitive modes of Geoguessr. I do respect those who memorize the cars and things, but I completely agree with you that the old language, fauna, flora and geography skills is how the game is meant to be played.
Can I just say, and you should take this as a compliment, why not, Tom - I think you'd make a great Bertram Wooster from the P.G. Wodehouse Bertie and Jeeves novels. Something about your air that tells me you'd fit the part well. If you haven't read the novels, they're a riot waiting to be encountered, I'd highly recommend them. Sheer comic genius. And great stuff, by the way. Cheers, Tom! Absolutely love your content :)
Just re-watched that video because I've found out about playing along. And specially the third round in Brazil was just fascinating, how you found that without moving around, RESPECT 👍!
When you were zooming in an out of Brazil, you should have noticed the big state of Pará so I had a brief look around. Didn't take long to find it in Belém, it's quite well marked really. 😅
Hi Tom. Had a lot of fun playing along. I almost got a perfect score but could not justify spending so much time looking for that Nigerian zoo. In the Brazil round I figured if Para wasn't a city then it must be a state. Matched up the coast line with the compass until I found those dock restaurants. The Poland round was quite hard. Didn't have much luck until I saw Suwalki on the map. I thought it looked too familiar to Suwalkach to not be related. Looking forward to next weeks video. Thanks!
24,999 points. On the last one I saw Suwalkach, immediately my mind went to Suwalki, thought the -ch might just be a suffix. I was lucky to know Suwalki as I hitchhiked from Tallinn to Warsaw this June and Suwalki was the place I got to from Kaunas. I only went to a grocery store so the city centre wasn't familiar to me, but the name was enough.
You're right about "-ach" being a suffix, it's the plural form of the locative case (not the singular because Suwałki is a city with a plural name). The preceding "w" means "in".
When you said at the beginning "It's not St. Kitts and Nevis" I was hoping I had a shot. Alas ... not even close. But watching you trying to read that banner in Nigeria was hilarious! ;)
Nice to see you again, Tom!* (*with the tone of an old relative who doesn't think you visit enough) 1. 5000p. Easy one to start! 2. 4989p. Didn't have time looking around, but proud I went straight for Nigeria (the english-islamic combo and the look of the guys were the reasons i went looking i Nigeria. Didn't see the name of the photographer). 3. 3340p. Saw the whitebrownish water behind that motorboat and understood it was a huge river, in Brazil, state of Pará. Ruled out Manaus, then Belem (because of the coast angle) and reluctantly decided to go for Santarem. Bummer. 4. 5000p. Quick beachside scan and there it was. 5. 3770p. Saw the polish Ł, but didn't have time to figure out excatly where. So I plonked in Krakow.
the last one got me tbh (beyond it being in poland), but watching your playthrough after I noticed "w suwalkach" (in suwalki) on the board. If only I saw that while playing...
Alright I have to brag... I think this was the best game of Geoguessr I've ever played. Got a perfect score without moving in 32 min total. Odd (and fun!) to watch Tom struggle for once in rounds I had no problem with. Something about this Geodectective format really jives with my brain. I don't know Polish but recognized that "Aleksandra" was likely the saint the church was named after (considering it sounded non-Polish and appeared in multiple places). Following that logic, I figured "Parafi pw. sw. Aleksandra w Suwelkach" probably translated to "St. Aleksandra Parish of Suwelkach," or something along those lines. Started scanning the map for Suwelkach and luckily decided to start north and work my way down, so I found Suwelki pretty quickly. Went straight into the main park and found the church immediately. Glad I didn't struggle on that last round, because I'd have fought forever to preserve that perfect score if I had to :P
8:57 British man scrolling through Africa: "There we go, we've eliminated a country". 🤨 The clue for me on the Nigeria round was the photographer. Dayo Oyiniola is about as stereotypical a Nigerian name as I can think of. The currency (which I now know is called Naira) also seemed to fit as Tom said.
Also some people already commented but there was "w Suwałkach" on one of the left posters, that means "in Suwałki" Hope it'll come in handy in the future for more polish tortures
Came here as a geoguessr fan, but loved the adventure series! Oh and you found Szczebrzeszyn our tongetwister city! W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie! - In Szczebrzeszyn cane beetle sounds!
The fun thing about Suwałki is that anybody who has driven to Europe from the Baltic states or vice versa will probably know it. The strip of land between the Russian Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus that constitutes the border between Lithuania and Poland is called the Suwałki Gap or the Suwałki corridor and is the sole land connection of the Baltic states with the rest of the EU. For me personally Suwałki is way easier to find on a map than Schengen.
Little tip for Poland, 22:36. If you see "w" and next word starting with a capital letter its probably a city name. ("w" stands for "in") But watch out because city name can have different ending then on a sign. for example: City "Warszawa", Sign "w Warszawie" City "Kraków", Sign "w Krakowie" City "Suwałki", Sign "w Suwałkach... etc.
Newsflash! Here in Finland, on channel "Nelonen" there is a new show starting in september called "suorinta reittiä" wich roughly translates to "with the straightest line". Perhaps there is someone working within that media company that is a fan of your content 😁
We noticed that too and we were like "Nelonen is copying GeoWizard!!!". Might just have to watch an episode to see how similar it is..🤔 They should definitely credit Tom since it's his idea!🤭
I Denmark we has a first season of that show i sep 2020, and season 2 this spring. So its catching on :) two teams of two celebs competing against each others on a 5-8 km trek across a city
The Poland round would've been possible with the knowledge of the infamous Suwalk Gap, which was largely discussed around the Cold War and after that. It is presumed to be the route through which Warsaw Pact forces and NATO would clash.
For the polish round, on the white paper it was written Parija Aleksandar w Suwałkach, which is the name of the church, but also "w Suwałkach" meaning "in Suwałki" gave away the city
Small suggestion: if you want us to play along with no-moving, either set it in the Geoguessr game setup or write it in the UA-cam video description. I started your video but then paused it right when you brought up the first location so as not to spoil my play along, then followed the play along link in the description, did all five rounds, came back and watched your video. Trouble is, the play along let us move, so I did, and that was pretty critical in my scoring the perfect 25k. The first round was easy; on the second round if you moved slightly you got a Nigerian flag and a clearly readable name of the university; the third round let you move a little bit although I didn't get much new information that way; the fourth round you couldn't move and so it was just a matter of searching Mogadishu for ages to find the right place; in the fifth round you could move and just on the other side of the little park square there were signs from which it was much easier to discern the name of the town in Poland where we were. So I beat you today, but I was playing with easier rules because the rules weren't made clear. I suspect if I had played it no-moving I might have still got the first four rounds but probably not that fifth. As always, thanks for the fun challenge, though!
Small suggestion for you: when you've played one round, go to the video and watch Tom do that round. After that, play the second round and watch Tom again. I also prefer to not click the guess button, so that if you're not 100% sure you've got it right, it is more tense to see if Tom ends up in the same place as you, or at the other side of the world. Especially when it turns out you were right. You can also see if he's doing a no move or not (but with these detectives, he never moves. So keep that in mind).
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Dying at Tom reading "Garden" as "Caroch" and "Thank" as "Chad"
Thank you!
same
I thought Garden immediately. Bless you, Tom.
@@NittonNio3 Chad!
"Welcome to the Zoological Caroch of the University of North" :-D
This kind of geoguessr content is so refreshing after seeing so much of the new 'memorize every google car and bollard' style. Fair play to them but it's just not as entertaining
I agree, although the bollard thing is different to Google car meta in my opinion.
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Totally agreed. This style is way more interesting and less formulaic.
I think there’s a place for both but I totally agree with you, so much more entertainment value here
It's like comparing formula 1 racing to a 1950's car exhibit. Totally different but both are entertaining to me.
Watching you zoom in on Sudan saying "Do they speak French? Yes they do." Then proceeding to read all the english words and saying "There we go, moving on" got me good 😂
this video is so chaotic in a subtle way, I love it
He is obviously rusty, or a team from the midlands won a game of football and he was tipsy 🤣😂
I thought the same, but he actually said “thats an option” rather than moving on. His misspoke when he said french, he meant English. (I think)
Tom's denial at needing glasses is costing him some serious points!
The "Trze-" word ("trzeźwości") you were looking for in Poland was "sobriety" lol. Btw, "in" in Polish is "w" so if you see this word usually the next one will be the name of the city. (it was there on the left board "w Suwałkach")
Polish is incomprehensible I refuse to believe people actually speak it
@@Sympanet bruh! I hope u r joking
@@SievertSchreiber as a slav i fully support josh johnson. polish is a CIA psy-op and has no native speakers.
@@Sympanet I think the same and I actually do speak polish
That’s interesting to know about “w” being “in.” I saw “Wdzięcność i misja” and would’ve searched the map for Misja. Clearly, my small Swedish knowledge is more powerful than my small Polish knowledge.
To explain - St Christopher Island was shortened to St. Kit's Island in the 17th century, which then became St Kitts over time in local Creole.
ohhhh that makes sense and should've been more obvious than it was! thanks! sadly I chose the harbour at the wrong end of the ferry route. lol
Might you also comment about whether the locals pronounce Nevis with a long E? Geowizard used a short E and he's no dummy, but still anyone including yours truly could get it wrong.
@@lmiddleman Sure - Nevis is an anglicised version of Nieves, or snows in Spanish. As such it's pronounced Nee-vis, ˈniː.vɪs
@@Yggdra90 The Caribbean, well known for it's heavy snowfall, good name
@@redplanet2720 Recognising the joke - the island was named by Spanish explorers as Isla de Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, in reference to a 4th century miracle. There's an idea that they chose the name because Nevis' summit is nearly always shrouded in white clouds.
I got a perfect score on the last one, and I don't speak Polish. Basically I figured that Konkatedra probably meant Cathedral, which would mean the name of the cathedral is what immediately follows it (Pw. Sw. Aleksandra). Saint Aleksandra Cathedral or something like that. This also fit with it being in large letters on the front of the church, which you can just barely make out. I then noticed that on two of the signs the name of the church was followed (in full or partially) by 'w Suwalkach', which I figured could mean 'in Suwalkach'. So then I took a look on the map for a place named Suwalkach and pretty quickly noticed Suwalki. Zoomed in and it was right there on the main square. Interestingly the only rounds I got a perfect score on were that and the Nigeria round, which were the rounds you didn't get a perfect score on. Final score was 24,886.
Same I dont understand Polish but had a right look around for something along the lines of Suwalkach, almost gave up about a dozen times but managed to find Suwalki and got my first 25000. That was a really fun Geo detective game tbf.
I feel like his geogussr brain is drilled different to us. Looking for different clues and at the end misleading him
Am I the only one who moved? Inside the church are more hints, one sign just says suwalki on it
@@cuccieo9 generally, I think Tom prefers the challenge of not being able to move. Quite a few others also like the added challenge, which is where the categories of No Move, No Zoom and No Pan come from!
I don't speak polish too but when I saw cz in those words I went straight to prague
7:07 "Chad you" very much for another GeoGuessr video, Tom! Yay! 😉
I'm genuinely amazed by how you found out the brazilian round after completely ignoring the "Eu ♡ Pará" (I love Pará) sign, which said the name of the state.
Same here
I'm not brazilian but noticed how many time he missed "State of Pará" on the map
Looks like we're getting a straight line challenge Somalia
💀💀 New Ep. Title: “Hitchhiking with Pirates” - “How not to travel the open oceans.”
Straight line challenge at the border between north and South Korea
no roads mission Mogadishu
Dribbling a Bomb across Somalia
Being Polish and watching you do the last round was PAINFUL! I wanted to help you so so bad. I just wanted to point to words and scream "This Tom! This helps!"
My head was about to explode during that round.
Love these videos.
Recently I've been watching a bit of rainbolt and it's so funny how he sees a pole and immidiately goes oh thats Poland, zooms on map, smashes keyboard, gets high score, nice lets go and second round it goes and over and over and then theres Tom... mmm what do we have here, beautiful people, I like the vibes, what do we think is going on here? Boat is probably delayed, man that sucks, these guys right here look american or do they? What are we thinking... I love it :D
Tom never stop making these videos. You have the best content on geoguesser since the beginning. A lot of other UA-camrs use meta things like poles etc but I love the way you play the game in the original way it’s meant to play. You have the most entertaining videos for sure so keep it up man
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Some people use poles? Like, they know the design of telephone poles in different areas to narrow it down? Can you share a video with that, that sounds interesting
@@BrendanGeormer if you have tiktok you can watch a guy named Georainbolt, he has some UA-cam videos too. I love watching him but I prefer the older play style. Basically he looks at poles on the side of the road and other things to get places instantly
do the poles count as meta? i'm more of a "vibes-based" geoguessr player, like tom, but i think knowing the poles is fair play. the kind of meta that's actual geoguessr meta to me is knowing like "austria has a gen 4 camera" and "sri lanka car has the france flag colours"
This video definitely has plenty of Poles though.
(btw, I wholly agree)
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Sees a gigantic sign: completely ignores it
Shouting "State of Para" at a man in the Internet that can't hear me 😅
This screwed me. I thought it was EU Paralympics...I picked Portugal. Me dumb
How did he not see a giant state named Pará 😂 glad I've been there so I knew the exact place
I initially thought it was Paraguay, or the Parana river. Spent forever looking at cities up and down that river before deciding to check Brazil, and cleverly looking at the state names. You can imagine how happy I was seeing Para right there!
State of Para just staring at us and still seeing Tom scrolling to Southern Brazil pained me… but he got there in the end 🤝
It was painful haha
13:30 Zooming in on the crane to find a poster of the same crane…craneception!
I half expected the writing on the poster to appear underneath the real crane when you zoomed back out.
Hilarious, but... if only there was the same poster printed on crane on the poster on the crane
I am DYING of laughter at that Polish round 😂 The word "trzeźwości" means "of sobriety" lol
So, it's an AA meeting location?
@@stephano6793 No, I think they just have a mass for the sobriety of the nation.
@@帥勾克里斯 it says in red Narodowy Kongres Trzeźwości 2017? ... (National Congress of Sobriety 2017?) and then in grey Ku trzeźwości narodu (Towards the sobriety of the nation) - probably motto of the congress and then i think is its program
Well if the US can have a town name Intercourse, why can't Poland have a town named Sobriety.
i wanted to scream so badly at the screen when Tom kept missing the "state of Parà" when zooming in and out of Brazil
ME TOO
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My god, that mad me angry
I love how weirded out Tom is by the Mogadishu round. Welcome to the world of diplomacy, where you can enjoy fine dining in a country that also has an ongoing multi-layered civil war, frequent terrorist attacks and modern piracy so bad that it caused the only instance of basically all major national armed forces cooperating in a single mission.
What single mission are you talking about in this case?
it doesn't actually have much piracy anymore, pretty much none. It's not profitable enough anymore. There's loads in nigeria tho
@@kip741 fighting somali pirates
@@shakir1998 thanks 🙏
Pro tip from Poland "w" means "in", so if you se "xxx w zzz", most probably the "zzz" is the city and "xxx" is a thing! Great vid as always!
Good thing i'm a geoguessr and adventure head, love all the content!
How can he be so clueless and so good at the same time 😂
As Polish speaker, the last one was a lot of fun to watch :D Especialy as you said „the city name isn’t here” as you literaly had your coursor on the name xD (Suwałki).
to be fair, Suwałki isn't quite a place to find easily.
Suwałki Gap is a big NATO defense issue. He will know now 🤣
@@ILoveMyBeard001 tbh it's not the smallest city but it isn't a big one either, it always shows up on meteorological maps because it's the coldest place in Poland usually and is pretty detached from other cities when we talk about proximity
I don't speak polish, but even I heard of Suwalki and that it's somewhere in the northeastern region of Poland. I woudn't have known the carribean flag, but I am a bit puzzled that brits often seem to know not much about Europe, maybe apart from France and Spain.
You made my day with the Poland bit :-D "Najswietszego" -"The most holy" - that sounds like a place name! Loved it. And I really enjoy your Geoguesser videos! EDIT: and Chopin! Thank you!
I figured that is what it meant based off the other two words.
Catholic represent: adoration of the blessed sacrament. The poster even had a photo of a monstrance. I conclude that Tom is definitely not a Catholic! 😂
Tom not understanding how the rippling of a sign can affect how the letters on it look is both fantastic and frustrating. EDIT: Yes he found out woohoooo EXTRA EDIT: Now if only he knew how a capital letter L looked
It was hilarious. I think dribbling a football across England has scrambled his brains
He kind of seemed like an AI reading that. I had to force myself to see it as "caroch"
@@mandel94 - OMG, now I'm totally picturing that sign as a Captcha, and Tom constantly failing it because he thinks it says 'Caroch'! 😂
@@possibilityspace this made me actually LOL
Tom looked hard for sobriety and gave up xD (trzeźwość)
Person from Czechia here. I was DYING on the last round, you trying to figure out and translate those Polish words and going off of how many letter "z" were in the town name was absolutely hilarious. Nigeria round and the Thank vs Chad and Garden vs Qaroc made me anxiety-sweat. Great job, Tom. Love your videos. Always great fun.
To be fair... they do use a ridiculous amount of z in Poland xD
@@elin_ My guess is that vowels are expensive and consonants are discounted with z, c and s being bought in bulk and just being stuck together for good measure. Szczecin? Wytrzyszka? Rdziostów??
@@elin_ It's just like in English there is ridiculous amount of H, with all those sh's, ch's, th's, gh's. Are those H's pronounced? No, because they are parts of digraphs. Same as Z's are in Polish, they're just there to create new sounds out of other letters.
@@blinski1 yeah I'm not Insulting polish, I just find it funny.. the amount of z and c
@@elin_ Oh, I didn't take it as an insult for Polish language:) I just wanted to be informative and compared structures of written Polish to English. Yes, it look silly at the first sight with all the Z's, when someone is learning to read Polish it might be difficult at first for the brain to use to it even when one knows what those Z's do. Z generally softens everything and we love to do it in Polish, so if you take away all those softening Z's out of words most of them will start to look familiar, i.e. in names (brackets for how it would look like not softened) like Grzegorz (Gregor), Krzyszof (Krystof), Katarzyna (Kataryna), Szczepan (here CZ is for softened T, so Stepan), etc. Same with any other word.
I love how he found the spot the Belem spot without picking up on the clue that should have made it obvious.
I was screaming every time he disregarded that sign, but at least he got there in the end
Are you speaking of the "Eu [heart] Pará" sign? Tom may still think the first word stands for the EU!
@@pbjbagel yep hahah, it’s an “Eu amo Para” sign as if you’d get like an “I love London” sign in London
@@pbjbagel Yeah! I think it's because he saw it too early then completely forgot about it, though :)
For the Brazil round, if you look closely it says EU
Haven't ever clicked a video quicker than when this one popped up. Was sorely missing some GeoGuesser from the Wizard himself, good to see you detective-ing again Tom 😁
Sign: «thank you»
Tom: «does that say Chad?»
the way you looked for trzeźwość as a city name when it really means soberty in Polish got me good not gonna lie
Absolutely love the GeoGuesser content! We’ve missed the hell out of you and hope that you do more of this in the future :)
Zoological "Garden" becomes Zoological "Quroch" ?! Professional geoguessing there Tom...
"Thank You" becomes "Chad"! At least he's Guessing
☺️ Enjoyed this!
This part made me think of an optometrist exam without my glasses on 😂
Give him some credit... He was clearly spelling it "Caroch", which is way closer.
/sarcasm
did.... did he just introduce the video with the word "babyjuice" ?! ... ... ... (I prefer the purée)
he did, just don't say it thrice
Managed to get a perfect score on this one! Warning: spoilers below!
1) Saw the St. Kitts & Nevis on the boat rather quickly, couldn't for the love of me remember where that was again. It doesn't really help that when you're zoomed in far enough, the name of the country disappears on the map and is replaced by Basseterre, so I scrolled across it at least three times. 34m, 3:50
2) Got the "University of" but couldn't figure out the last part. I did recognize the "Zoological garden" bit though ;). Turns out, you can walk a few steps here! On the furthest point you can reach, the Nigerian flag becomes apparent and it also more clearly states University of Ilorin. Scanning Ilorin for the zoological garden took ages until I thought "perhaps it's on the edge of town. Then, I had him almost instantly. 46m, 23:09
3) "Pará, wasn't that a Brazilian state?" Turns out, yes it is. Took quite a bit of scanning to find possible spots alongside the various waterways but eventually zoomed in on Belém. This is another one of the rounds where you could move a bit and I found the Valeverde Turismo boats on the map before I found anything else. Got the right side of the buildings. 4m, 9:45
4) My round went just about the same way as yours. Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, scan a bit, figure out "this is probably an upscale place", look a bit closer at the beach areas, there it is. 5m, 5:38
5) Another round where you could move around. I like visiting churches so I took some time exploring the inside of this church. Some nice stained glass windows, I recommend it! I somehow was able to "break free" of the linked photospheres and enter normal car world. Is that cheating? Perhaps, perhaps not, you tell me. Found the town name written on a van, somehow immediately spotted the town when I went into the map. Easy find once I got that. 2m, 9:22 (of which about 5-6 minuters gazing at the church)
The Polish town with 4 Z letters (Szczebrzeszyn) is a part of a popular tounge twister - W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie - In Szczebrzeszyn, a beetle buzzes in the reed and Szczebrzeszyn is known for it.
Every polish word is tongue twister.
That's easy... "W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie"
@@jwnomad it's a tongue twister not a finger twister
@@blackwhattack That's what she said
It's so stressful sometimes watching these videos. When he was scanning the map in Brazil i was shouting at the screen. At 14:29 he literally has the cursor on "State of Para" and then proceeds to scan the rest of Brazil, Portugal and Cape Verde. 🙈
Here for the usual "are we recording" stayed for the geo content
The GeoGuessr Godfather GOAT! Glad to see you back there. I would also like to see you perform in Rainbolts Tournaments, Tom!
as much as I love geowizard I dont think he could do well in those tournaments. Those players in the tournaments know every meta thing possible while Tom is more of a traditional player.
Tom's geodetective work is so much more fun to watch than people looking at grass for 0.0001 second and guessing the country.
@@akashpanday3583 I think so as well but I do find rainbolts tournaments and other content very good. But they are 2 very different geoguessr player types
Has everyone been getting rainbolt recommended to them lol
@@MrBlue11900 Basically 😂
We Slavs really do have advantage in GeoGessr. The languages are different enough and can be easily identified, but similar enough to mostly understand what is on the signs. Especially if you can also read cyrilic.
Exactly what I was thinking in the last round! Although for me I'm Croatian so never learnt to read cyrilic but many of my older family members who grew up in Yugoslavia times can :)
This was one of my better detective rounds so far. No 5Ks, but got close a couple of times.
1. Couldn't recognize the flag but saw St. Kitts and Nevis on the boat. Ruled out Charlestown based on the compass and size of the city. Settled for Basseterre, but went slightly west of the actual dock (I thought it was the bigger dock with the cruise ship). 4998 points
2. Followed a very similar thought process to you, even initially misreading "garden" as "qaroch". Figured it would be sub-Saharan Africa but not too far south based on the vibe, complexion of the people and the presence of muslim clothing. Ruled out Senegal, Chad and Mali based on the lack of French. Ruled out Mauritania and both Sudans based on the place names not matching up (I couldn't quite make out "Ilorin" but I could clearly see the middle letters "lori"). Came across Ilorin while scanning Nigeria and quickly found the university campus, but I couldn't find the zoological garden. Plonked it down somewhere within the campus. 4987 points.
3. My worst round of the bunch. Didn't catch the Portuguese clue and thought that "para" was referring to either the Paraguay or Paraná river. Plonked it down in Asunción near the docks. 989 points.
4. Scanned Mogadishu for a few minutes but couldn't find the guest house. Was also surprised and somewhat discouraged by the sheer amount of hotels and resorts in that city. Plonked it down near the centre. 4982 points.
5. Recognized the Polish but didn't catch the city clue. Plonked it in Włocławek due it being central, having a similar name to one of the words I read on the posters and having a church of a similar size. 4205 points.
Overall score: 20161. If I had caught the Brazil clue I estimate I would've gotten something like 23-24K.
Dude the things you say and the way you generally talk in these vids is so funny and entertaining
I was screaming at the screen for you to read Pará on the map, which is the state, but at least you got it (almost) spot on again never fails to amaze me
I enjoy the adventure stuff but this is what I love watching. Please never stop doing these videos Tom!
i’ve been watching all the pro tournament players in the meanwhile but as soon he he uploads i come back to my first love, tom davies
Let’s goo!! We needed this 🙌🏽
goat of the geoguessr community. doesn’t matter if you’re not getting the location in like 0.5 seconds. the pure amount of stuff you have done for the geoguessr community is immeasurable, and this specific type of gameplay is also so refreshing and important to see as just as valuable and impressive as the pro speed running players. tom, you are the goat. thank you.
I hope you release more geodetective videos Tom, thank you for this one
Honestly the only youtuber I'd sit and watch for 29 minutes straight
I love how Tom plays geoguessr the way it should be played, using geography skills not silly billiards or metas
Those methods came about because of the competitive modes of Geoguessr. I do respect those who memorize the cars and things, but I completely agree with you that the old language, fauna, flora and geography skills is how the game is meant to be played.
Well, he does memorize the flags. I consider that "meta" since it's intentional memorization, rather than natural memory.
there are many ways to play the game
@@thewiseturtle The difference being, knowing flags is useful general knowledge outside of Geoguessr, ballards or Google cars not so much.
@@thewiseturtle Flags are not specific to Google earth but a part of the real world? I would not consider that meta.
Please Tom, more of this play along videos! Love them!
You were so close with Poland! Polish declinations got You, "w Suwałkach" means "in Suwałki"
fans of geopolitics know Suwalki gap
What a great video I’m so happy you are back much love
I absolutely fell for the "Charlestown" red herring you expertly avoided! Well done!
Love Geoguessr content! I'm also looking forward to the dribbling challenge, glad to know it's coming up next
As a Pole it was hilarious to watch your attempt at the last location. Love you Tom
Can I just say, and you should take this as a compliment, why not, Tom - I think you'd make a great Bertram Wooster from the P.G. Wodehouse Bertie and Jeeves novels. Something about your air that tells me you'd fit the part well. If you haven't read the novels, they're a riot waiting to be encountered, I'd highly recommend them. Sheer comic genius. And great stuff, by the way. Cheers, Tom! Absolutely love your content :)
Just re-watched that video because I've found out about playing along. And specially the third round in Brazil was just fascinating, how you found that without moving around, RESPECT 👍!
When you were zooming in an out of Brazil, you should have noticed the big state of Pará so I had a brief look around. Didn't take long to find it in Belém, it's quite well marked really. 😅
Hi Tom. Had a lot of fun playing along. I almost got a perfect score but could not justify spending so much time looking for that Nigerian zoo. In the Brazil round I figured if Para wasn't a city then it must be a state. Matched up the coast line with the compass until I found those dock restaurants. The Poland round was quite hard. Didn't have much luck until I saw Suwalki on the map. I thought it looked too familiar to Suwalkach to not be related. Looking forward to next weeks video. Thanks!
Chopin. Nice :)
Great video. I miss your Geoguessr detective work, but you haven't lost your touch at all.
great video as usual, best geoguessr channel
24,999 points. On the last one I saw Suwalkach, immediately my mind went to Suwalki, thought the -ch might just be a suffix. I was lucky to know Suwalki as I hitchhiked from Tallinn to Warsaw this June and Suwalki was the place I got to from Kaunas. I only went to a grocery store so the city centre wasn't familiar to me, but the name was enough.
You're right about "-ach" being a suffix, it's the plural form of the locative case (not the singular because Suwałki is a city with a plural name). The preceding "w" means "in".
Yesssss your geoguessr videos are my favourite!! it's way more entertaining than a speedrun imo
So glad you played Chopin during your Poland searching
i needed this today
I need you today, Adam
When you said at the beginning "It's not St. Kitts and Nevis" I was hoping I had a shot. Alas ... not even close. But watching you trying to read that banner in Nigeria was hilarious! ;)
Nice to see you again, Tom!*
(*with the tone of an old relative who doesn't think you visit enough)
1. 5000p. Easy one to start!
2. 4989p. Didn't have time looking around, but proud I went straight for Nigeria (the english-islamic combo and the look of the guys were the reasons i went looking i Nigeria. Didn't see the name of the photographer).
3. 3340p. Saw the whitebrownish water behind that motorboat and understood it was a huge river, in Brazil, state of Pará. Ruled out Manaus, then Belem (because of the coast angle) and reluctantly decided to go for Santarem. Bummer.
4. 5000p. Quick beachside scan and there it was.
5. 3770p. Saw the polish Ł, but didn't have time to figure out excatly where. So I plonked in Krakow.
"Raaahhh!!!... Fuck, said the lion." Solid quote.
Tom. Missed you man. Hope the break did you well. Glad to have you back.
I’m always so excited to see your videos! I love seeing you pop up in my subs tab
the last one got me tbh (beyond it being in poland), but watching your playthrough after I noticed "w suwalkach" (in suwalki) on the board. If only I saw that while playing...
Alright I have to brag... I think this was the best game of Geoguessr I've ever played. Got a perfect score without moving in 32 min total. Odd (and fun!) to watch Tom struggle for once in rounds I had no problem with. Something about this Geodectective format really jives with my brain.
I don't know Polish but recognized that "Aleksandra" was likely the saint the church was named after (considering it sounded non-Polish and appeared in multiple places). Following that logic, I figured "Parafi pw. sw. Aleksandra w Suwelkach" probably translated to "St. Aleksandra Parish of Suwelkach," or something along those lines. Started scanning the map for Suwelkach and luckily decided to start north and work my way down, so I found Suwelki pretty quickly. Went straight into the main park and found the church immediately.
Glad I didn't struggle on that last round, because I'd have fought forever to preserve that perfect score if I had to :P
8:57 British man scrolling through Africa: "There we go, we've eliminated a country". 🤨
The clue for me on the Nigeria round was the photographer. Dayo Oyiniola is about as stereotypical a Nigerian name as I can think of. The currency (which I now know is called Naira) also seemed to fit as Tom said.
So happy to see you again:)))
It was fun knowing the city, and watching you look for it. Finally i knew something you didn't! >:3
Also some people already commented but there was "w Suwałkach" on one of the left posters, that means "in Suwałki"
Hope it'll come in handy in the future for more polish tortures
Thanks for doing so GeoGuessr Tom! We weird geographers absolutely miss ya
Came here as a geoguessr fan, but loved the adventure series! Oh and you found Szczebrzeszyn our tongetwister city! W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie! - In Szczebrzeszyn cane beetle sounds!
Finally! I was watching rainbolt while you were away…
Love all your content, but I like the GeoGuessr content the most!
Finally! Back at it again
Zoological Qaroch - I can see Zoological Garden, and Chad - Thank, not even English myself. Congrats :]
As Polish, I had a great time listening you struggling with last one :D
LETS GOOOOOO GEOWIZARD IS BACK
Love these videos keep them coming
Yes, he's back, get in!
Suwałki is actually a very nice place. You should visit it at some point!
Just please don't try straight line mission across Poland.
Maybe he could straight-line mission across that bit that juts into Czechia, y'know, near Kłodzko
Straight line across Hel itself, would make for a short but funny video.
The fun thing about Suwałki is that anybody who has driven to Europe from the Baltic states or vice versa will probably know it. The strip of land between the Russian Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus that constitutes the border between Lithuania and Poland is called the Suwałki Gap or the Suwałki corridor and is the sole land connection of the Baltic states with the rest of the EU. For me personally Suwałki is way easier to find on a map than Schengen.
@@lroke2947 _Schengen, if you don't know, lies on the tripoint of Luxembourg, France and Germany_
Watching the Poland one as a Polish person and seeing the town name right there on the poster is a particular brand of painful.
Would love to see more GeoDetective with your Patreon subscribers' photos they sent in
Little tip for Poland, 22:36. If you see "w" and next word starting with a capital letter its probably a city name. ("w" stands for "in") But watch out because city name can have different ending then on a sign.
for example: City "Warszawa", Sign "w Warszawie"
City "Kraków", Sign "w Krakowie"
City "Suwałki", Sign "w Suwałkach... etc.
Chad You for this video Tom.
Newsflash! Here in Finland, on channel "Nelonen" there is a new show starting in september called "suorinta reittiä" wich roughly translates to "with the straightest line". Perhaps there is someone working within that media company that is a fan of your content 😁
Ooh! I vote to get him on there
We noticed that too and we were like "Nelonen is copying GeoWizard!!!". Might just have to watch an episode to see how similar it is..🤔 They should definitely credit Tom since it's his idea!🤭
Oh btw! Did you notice that "Juusto pizzeria" on the map when Tom scrolled Somalia and Mogadishu - that's pretty funny too!😄
I Denmark we has a first season of that show i sep 2020, and season 2 this spring. So its catching on :)
two teams of two celebs competing against each others on a 5-8 km trek across a city
What? There is something like this?! I've missed this completely, cool!
waiting patiently for the day you get a 2nd monitor so you can always see if you are recording or not
Then he'd have to check that he is recording the correct monitor...
Nah, we as viewers miss out on typical GeoGuessr content when he gets a second screen.
But then we’ll never get the “are we recording, yes” again
That would ruin it for everyone
The icon on the taskbar already shows if he's recording.
The Poland round would've been possible with the knowledge of the infamous Suwalk Gap, which was largely discussed around the Cold War and after that. It is presumed to be the route through which Warsaw Pact forces and NATO would clash.
For the polish round, on the white paper it was written Parija Aleksandar w Suwałkach, which is the name of the church, but also "w Suwałkach" meaning "in Suwałki" gave away the city
Small suggestion: if you want us to play along with no-moving, either set it in the Geoguessr game setup or write it in the UA-cam video description. I started your video but then paused it right when you brought up the first location so as not to spoil my play along, then followed the play along link in the description, did all five rounds, came back and watched your video. Trouble is, the play along let us move, so I did, and that was pretty critical in my scoring the perfect 25k. The first round was easy; on the second round if you moved slightly you got a Nigerian flag and a clearly readable name of the university; the third round let you move a little bit although I didn't get much new information that way; the fourth round you couldn't move and so it was just a matter of searching Mogadishu for ages to find the right place; in the fifth round you could move and just on the other side of the little park square there were signs from which it was much easier to discern the name of the town in Poland where we were. So I beat you today, but I was playing with easier rules because the rules weren't made clear. I suspect if I had played it no-moving I might have still got the first four rounds but probably not that fifth. As always, thanks for the fun challenge, though!
Small suggestion for you: when you've played one round, go to the video and watch Tom do that round. After that, play the second round and watch Tom again. I also prefer to not click the guess button, so that if you're not 100% sure you've got it right, it is more tense to see if Tom ends up in the same place as you, or at the other side of the world. Especially when it turns out you were right.
You can also see if he's doing a no move or not (but with these detectives, he never moves. So keep that in mind).
I've been to Suwalki IRL when I happened to travel through there, so I instantly knew it was going to be there.
The sign on that African one clearly says zoological garden. And at the bottom of the sign says thank you not Chad something
Mogadishu Guest House 2 sounds like a movie title.