Zig zag , first off thank you for this free educational geoguessr content . it’d be really helpful if you made a map with South Africa, Australia , NZ , Tasmania, etc, and used a deductive method (ie process of elimination) to rule out the limited list of countries.
Really nice idea for a series! Funnily enough the Australia guide is on our list of guides that needs improvement. Definitely not the most popular choice, but I would be really interested to eventually hear your thoughts on Sweden.
zigzag i really appreciate you just doing what you want and helping your fans instead of just making all of the videos that would get most views. thank you so much
It would be nice if he explained properly. I have 30 questions from just this video that he did not explain. Now I have to go and look for another video to get the answer.
It's Australia with more green, more sheep, and bollards that are basically identical EXCEPT that the reflector goes all the way to the sides (as opposed to the panel with solid border in the Aussie ones). Also, NZ has different road markings and different phone numbers.
@@PiikachUwU_OSRS Little bopeep had lost her sheep and didn't know where to find them. A search revealed they were in the next field with a dirty old kiwi them 🙂🙂
looking forward to this series! Ok even though it's a small country I think you kinda have to do Uruguay next or at least soon for obvious reasons. Especially since you're super good at it
I can't explain how useful this is. I know you don't get that many views on this channel compared to the main one, but the people who watch these will be part of the community long term to a much bigger degree. This will make learning countries super easy for me as I will watch the videos, note down what I need to learn, then practice between videos and revise as needed. Once you get through like 20 countries I'm sure my rating will improve by like 50%. I'm so excited and looking forward to put in the work :D
This is truly terrific. Love the educational content in this channel rather than just content of you playing with little explanation. If you aim at us intermediate players, please be heavy on how to region guess within the country.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of these could really be two videos - an introductory one like this and then one that reviews/consolidates the previous and doubles down on the region guessing. For many viewers, there's already a lot to take in with just one of these videos. (Or if he made one longer video that did all of that, but he split it into two shorter ones.)
Great concept Oscar, love for you to keep it going, like that you go through all the plonkit tips and rating them. Only suggestio I have is could we increase the bitrate of the recording? I don't know how possilbe that is with youtube gatekeeping high bitrate but would help with the quality when panning around
I appreciate videos that are aimed at the intermediate players. Have you considered doing coaching videos or other content with intermediate players. I don’t see anyone doing it and there are a lot of us in that category that could benefit from more than Ghana tape and outer line colors 😂.
10:30 queensland has black markings on the majority of poles in the state I'm pretty sure. I recall getting a location in mount isa with stobie poles that had those markings on the poles, and have seen them on poles in northern cities too
Trust the trees! Not a geoguessr, but I do got some tree knowledge. The waxier leaf tree near Taree is a brush box (lophostemon). It’s an east coast rainforest tree, but also mass planted as suburban street trees til ~1980s, used line up to 20% of middle ring Perth streets. The dense veg (inc spiky boys & ferns) is coastal tree swamp, I found it the easiest round by far! The dominant tree is paperbark (melaleuca), super distinctive with the thick white peeling bark, & means it’s regularly waterlogged. You do get paperbark thickets in SW WA, but not with tall straight trees & dense understory. Plus you can see lianas or vines, so it’s an ecotone with littoral rainforest, which SW WA definitely does not have. There is also paperbark dominated coastal tree swamp in northern QLD (& invasive in Florida), but the structure just looks different to me. So it’s definitely east coast, & probably subtropical. From just first glance at the vegetation, I’d say +90% chance between Caloundra & Maryborough, under 5km from the coast, with an outside chance of being K’gari, northern NSW, or weird looking regrowth in northern QLD. I’ve seen it growing just like that along Rainbow Beach Rd, so I would have guessed there. Didn’t get a good look, but the needle trees are probably sheoaks (casuarina, named after the leaves looking like cassowary feathers). If you see them, you’re almost certainly Aus-Pacific islands-SE Asia region, or Madagascar - they’re a Gondwanan family, whereas the pine family conifers were exclusively Laurasian (northern hemisphere) in their natural distribution.
5:44 south australia has more than one number plate aswell, there are white on black variants around, and the number plates dont always hav an S at the start. as cars registered in the 2000s most likely had the letters first, then numbers with no S number plate. in terms of variants, a small one is at the bottom it would say south australia - festival state.
It would be cool to go over Argentina, I went there on vacation so the landscape is pretty recognizable for me and it seems easy to learn landscape wise, but I feel like I’m not that good at guessing around the panhandle vs capital and I don’t really know the metas
i notice a big one that i see alot of peope get confused on, they mentioned Sydney street signs but Newcastle is very unique. Any street sign (white) with a brown strip on the top is in Newcaste. You can spot it instantly and can save you heaps of time. Many occasions i've seen people guess Sydney bc of other NSW based clues but competely missed the mark because of the street sign that is very recognisable and everywhere in Newcastle. (Blue signs are in Lake Macquarie, immediate south of Newcastle) Also if you get stuck in North QLD, Townsville and Cairna are very distinct. Cairns is dense tropical, the mountains wrap the whole way around the city and can be seen anywhere, Townsville is like semi-tropical with palm trees but more sparse, Mt Ross is visible most the time but it is more rocky, just look it up youll know what i mean.
@zig8zag A quick correction - (not that it’s particularly relevant to game play) the the “red top, blue reflector bollards” and “blue square plate with white borders on poles” in Melbourne do not point to “drains” they indicate the location of fire hydrants. (Something far more important to locate quickly in an emergency) 🚨 🔥
France & especially Germany are tough to region-guess, those would be really helpful. I also have trouble telling the Andean nations apart (Ecu, Per, Bol, west Arg especially but sometimes even Col, Chi too), so any of those are good too.
Interesting to see some of the unique government features. Although "In Rockhampton you get these sticking out of the ground mountains." - Not sure I found that tip that helpful.
Left hand drive is safer. Until left handedness becomes the predominant way then that is true. Napoleon and anti England is the reason for right hand drive
"We've got wooden poles so we know it's not going to be south Australia".... ? How? Such a seemingly big piece of info did not seem to be explained in the Metas section at the start of the video. The other thing which I feel you missed - you mention people should learn the few super huge roads that run through the middle of the country.... then just didn't give any pointers for either learning those roads or how to recognise them. Overall though seems a good idea for a vid series.
Nice of you to bring zi8gzag as an expert guest 😊
Not to be rude but this is si8zag's 2nd channel
@@loklokli2410 Hope it's sarcasm because mine definitely was
@@rajajinnah6749 sarcasm was defenitly it because mine hope is loklokli2410 😢😢😢
Brasil ❤
Zig zag , first off thank you for this free educational geoguessr content . it’d be really helpful if you made a map with South Africa, Australia , NZ , Tasmania, etc, and used a deductive method (ie process of elimination) to rule out the limited list of countries.
I love this idea! And I think it would be fantastic to do it for other groups of often-confused countries in the future.
Tasmania is part of Australia
Argentina 🙏
Really nice idea for a series! Funnily enough the Australia guide is on our list of guides that needs improvement. Definitely not the most popular choice, but I would be really interested to eventually hear your thoughts on Sweden.
I think I speak for a lot of people when I say we need an india guide
just look for trash on the ground 👍
Languages, pretty easy to match on the map. Only helps for moving games tho
zigzag i really appreciate you just doing what you want and helping your fans instead of just making all of the videos that would get most views. thank you so much
geoguessr explained finally explaining
It would be nice if he explained properly. I have 30 questions from just this video that he did not explain. Now I have to go and look for another video to get the answer.
Yesss excited for this series! Going to be so fun + so much to go over.
Let's not go too far away from Australia and do New Zealand for the next video.
Zigzag please wait a little with nz cause i am currently in the works of updating it!!
It's Australia with more green, more sheep, and bollards that are basically identical EXCEPT that the reflector goes all the way to the sides (as opposed to the panel with solid border in the Aussie ones). Also, NZ has different road markings and different phone numbers.
Sheep
@@andyturbo It's more the people behind the sheep that make the difference, tbf
@@PiikachUwU_OSRS Little bopeep had lost her sheep and didn't know where to find them. A search revealed they were in the next field with a dirty old kiwi them 🙂🙂
Lets go new series!!
I: go to UA-cam to find a video on how to regioguess Australia.
Zigzag: released a new video on how to regioness Australia 2 hours ago
35:56 A nice little piece of meta is that all other states and territories are jealous of Queensland.
Please consider bringing in other pros for countries they specialize in, like Angelo for Mexico, RC for Peru, finbarr for Russia
Great idea. Or at least some supplementary follow-up videos featuring country-experts after he's done his own casual introduction.
wake up babe new zigzag australia guide just dropped
"Babe" ? Weird way to call yourself
0:30 I could really use some help on liechtenstein
looking forward to this series! Ok even though it's a small country I think you kinda have to do Uruguay next or at least soon for obvious reasons. Especially since you're super good at it
Why tho bcz Uruguay is gonna get gen4 soon so it might be useless
Liechtenstein for next video :)
Was so waiting for this!❤❤
I can't explain how useful this is. I know you don't get that many views on this channel compared to the main one, but the people who watch these will be part of the community long term to a much bigger degree.
This will make learning countries super easy for me as I will watch the videos, note down what I need to learn, then practice between videos and revise as needed. Once you get through like 20 countries I'm sure my rating will improve by like 50%.
I'm so excited and looking forward to put in the work :D
Thanks for the tips!
I definitely needed this series as an intermediate player! thanks for doing the geoguessr explaining :)
gascoyne just got gen 4 but luckily the boot survives on a couple of roads
russia or brasil would be sick
This is truly terrific. Love the educational content in this channel rather than just content of you playing with little explanation. If you aim at us intermediate players, please be heavy on how to region guess within the country.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of these could really be two videos - an introductory one like this and then one that reviews/consolidates the previous and doubles down on the region guessing. For many viewers, there's already a lot to take in with just one of these videos. (Or if he made one longer video that did all of that, but he split it into two shorter ones.)
Great concept Oscar, love for you to keep it going, like that you go through all the plonkit tips and rating them. Only suggestio I have is could we increase the bitrate of the recording? I don't know how possilbe that is with youtube gatekeeping high bitrate but would help with the quality when panning around
I appreciate videos that are aimed at the intermediate players. Have you considered doing coaching videos or other content with intermediate players. I don’t see anyone doing it and there are a lot of us in that category that could benefit from more than Ghana tape and outer line colors 😂.
Finally the home turf
Congrats on the country streak of 30, you made it look effortless
Love this! I feel like i get more from listening someone go through these than me trying to do it all myself.
I find it funny after explaining all the plonkit metas, you proceeded to get almost none of them and explained everything on vegetation and vibes
10:30 queensland has black markings on the majority of poles in the state I'm pretty sure. I recall getting a location in mount isa with stobie poles that had those markings on the poles, and have seen them on poles in northern cities too
Trust the trees! Not a geoguessr, but I do got some tree knowledge.
The waxier leaf tree near Taree is a brush box (lophostemon). It’s an east coast rainforest tree, but also mass planted as suburban street trees til ~1980s, used line up to 20% of middle ring Perth streets.
The dense veg (inc spiky boys & ferns) is coastal tree swamp, I found it the easiest round by far! The dominant tree is paperbark (melaleuca), super distinctive with the thick white peeling bark, & means it’s regularly waterlogged. You do get paperbark thickets in SW WA, but not with tall straight trees & dense understory. Plus you can see lianas or vines, so it’s an ecotone with littoral rainforest, which SW WA definitely does not have. There is also paperbark dominated coastal tree swamp in northern QLD (& invasive in Florida), but the structure just looks different to me. So it’s definitely east coast, & probably subtropical. From just first glance at the vegetation, I’d say +90% chance between Caloundra & Maryborough, under 5km from the coast, with an outside chance of being K’gari, northern NSW, or weird looking regrowth in northern QLD. I’ve seen it growing just like that along Rainbow Beach Rd, so I would have guessed there.
Didn’t get a good look, but the needle trees are probably sheoaks (casuarina, named after the leaves looking like cassowary feathers). If you see them, you’re almost certainly Aus-Pacific islands-SE Asia region, or Madagascar - they’re a Gondwanan family, whereas the pine family conifers were exclusively Laurasian (northern hemisphere) in their natural distribution.
Tomorrow I'd like to have the Geoguessr Explained guide to mastering Arg pls
Bro just today I startet practicing Aus, there couldn't have been a better time for this vid
I'm Australian, what do you mean starting Aus?. This is boring. 😊
@@heatherfruin5050 I was practicing the country
5:44 south australia has more than one number plate aswell, there are white on black variants around, and the number plates dont always hav an S at the start. as cars registered in the 2000s most likely had the letters first, then numbers with no S number plate. in terms of variants, a small one is at the bottom it would say south australia - festival state.
Looking forward to learning more, Oscar!
W guide, probably
This was the perfect video id been looking for. Thanks, legend
It would be cool to go over Argentina, I went there on vacation so the landscape is pretty recognizable for me and it seems easy to learn landscape wise, but I feel like I’m not that good at guessing around the panhandle vs capital and I don’t really know the metas
i notice a big one that i see alot of peope get confused on, they mentioned Sydney street signs but Newcastle is very unique. Any street sign (white) with a brown strip on the top is in Newcaste. You can spot it instantly and can save you heaps of time. Many occasions i've seen people guess Sydney bc of other NSW based clues but competely missed the mark because of the street sign that is very recognisable and everywhere in Newcastle. (Blue signs are in Lake Macquarie, immediate south of Newcastle)
Also if you get stuck in North QLD, Townsville and Cairna are very distinct. Cairns is dense tropical, the mountains wrap the whole way around the city and can be seen anywhere, Townsville is like semi-tropical with palm trees but more sparse, Mt Ross is visible most the time but it is more rocky, just look it up youll know what i mean.
YES. im gonna love this series
yo new explainer series let's goooo!
Im an Aussie player and sometimes get dropped into rural Brazil...and omg...they have SO many Eucalypt trees, even I got confused.
@zig8zag A quick correction - (not that it’s particularly relevant to game play) the the “red top, blue reflector bollards” and “blue square plate with white borders on poles” in Melbourne do not point to “drains” they indicate the location of fire hydrants. (Something far more important to locate quickly in an emergency) 🚨 🔥
the most important way to improve is always practicing,skills and metas are always summed up from experiences
I would love to get an indepth Japan guide!
Sao Tome and Principe next
Us or russia next please 🙏
Southern California has a lot of eucalyptus but you can tell by the driving side.
Very interesting concept, I'll be following
Thank you so much for this
France & especially Germany are tough to region-guess, those would be really helpful. I also have trouble telling the Andean nations apart (Ecu, Per, Bol, west Arg especially but sometimes even Col, Chi too), so any of those are good too.
Can you do Turkey? I feel like I can never identify it or guess it right.
Russia could really do with an episode
Interesting to see some of the unique government features. Although "In Rockhampton you get these sticking out of the ground mountains." - Not sure I found that tip that helpful.
Midway Atoll🙏
France please! There's so much in the Plonkit guide it's quite overwhelming and it's very new so not many people know much about it.
Thank you for the video. It has saved my time going and reading all that. I have a question: Where is the President of Uruguay?
Brazil or Arg would be great for tomorrow :)
USA please. Region guessing is so important and really difficult atleast for me.
I feel like this probably should have been a very very very very very very very early video from zi8gzag :D
Canada 🇨🇦 plz. I’m so washed at it😅
Keep it up bro
From now on I will never screw up an Australia Guess again 😂
Millthorpe is near Orange NSW.
The harsh light!
Could you do an Indo/Philly combo video
Lets go updated aus sorta
Literally Geoguessr Explained. 😮😮
Would love a Mexico guide!
I feel like I struggle the most with Mongolia tbh
Lets go thank you
South Africa next. Maybe between this Australia vid and one on ZA I can stop mixing them up.
I love this thank you🙏🙏🙏
I need to start taking notes when watching these ✍🤓
Mad respect - from Melbourne! ✨
Surely we get Argentina or Peru next
must drove past traffic lights with the light around them in qld. sunshine coast nearish aussie world
Wow very good video, hello from sweden
geoguessr masterclass love it❤
Russia with Finn as guest?
I vote for Brazil next.
Germany. Unless I get mountains or info, I just click middle. Same with Japan
Left hand drive is safer. Until left handedness becomes the predominant way then that is true. Napoleon and anti England is the reason for right hand drive
2:26 what did he say?
What are “bait rounds” and “MPZ”
I thought this was Geo guesser explained?
I came here to learn :(
New Zealand? Maybe no chance but I'm a big fan :)
would love to see indonesia soon!
Try netherlands haha
Denmark Oink Oink 🐷🐖🥓🐽
Brazil, Tasmania, or New Zealand.
Since when is france on plonk it i didnt notice that it came
Fairly recently. Around Bolivia. You can see which country they updated recently
Russia definitely... I have no clue about 70-80% of the country (the center part)
"We've got wooden poles so we know it's not going to be south Australia".... ? How? Such a seemingly big piece of info did not seem to be explained in the Metas section at the start of the video.
The other thing which I feel you missed - you mention people should learn the few super huge roads that run through the middle of the country.... then just didn't give any pointers for either learning those roads or how to recognise them.
Overall though seems a good idea for a vid series.
click the right side of Australia challenge
I can not for the life of me guess South America successfully so I would vote for Brazil or Peru
we all need this haha
Turkey guide?
USA next vid it’s so needed
thailand would be great