British guy attempts to draw outlines of all US STATES from memory (amusing results)

[@GeoWizard]

I wanna hear your best names for my newly created states in the comments also, surely it's shrank? I reckon the film got it wrong..

[@SouthEastSkateUK]

Shrank is correct. Shrunk would only correctly be used if you want the past participle. i.e: "I shrank New York" or "I have shrunk New York".

[@Professional_yapper_official]

Deseret

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

You had an average score of 69. Nice.

[@distractme]

How much can you zoom in on this? Could you have zoomed in to find the national borders?

[@hugequiz]

Tenntucky and Kennessee

[@robaphone251]

Love that Tom zoomed in to find the Columbia because he knows it's the border between Orreygone and Washington, but not to find the Mississippi River which provides the border (or partial border) for like 10(?) states

[@sean7879Outdoor]

The ensuing hilarity of calling out the columbia as the border too but then not actually using it to draw the border...

[@shadowseek27]

surely he pronounces it something closer to orreygun

[@rogink]

@@shadowseek27 It's because the Yanks pronounce oregano a funny way :)

[@lucy101]

@@roginkthe only difference is which syllable is stressed 😉 OR-eh-gun o-REH-gunno

[@garyholt8315]

or the Ohio r.

[@iantimesten]

The ten newest states: Newtah (UT) Northvada (NV) Panhandleton (TX) Mesabi (MN) Wisconsout (WI) Sans Serifia (LA) The Cumberland Void (KY,TN) Fingerlakeshire (NY) Up-upstate (NY) The Montpelier Exclusionary Zone (VT)

[@jima1135]

Fingerlakeshire is already called Western New York, so as to not be confused by those city folk down in the corner of the state

[@discostoo]

Those 13 stripes and 60 stars. *salutes*

[@Nayte08]

These are A tier names 😂

[@arctikavenger]

Cumberland void 😭

[@Solwa54]

Considering you missed basically the whole of Utah, I'd just call the state Utah.

[@taylorjackson5960]

He had the shape right but upside down and in the wrong spot. So close Tom. In all fairness, as an American I think there are a number of states he would do better than me on.

[@ianmahaney5140]

And the Utah he drew could be Mormania

[@Utonian21]

@@ianmahaney5140 true, Idaho is more mormon than Utah in some places

[@ResistTheGreatReplacementEU]

At least he got the salt lake

[@AntroyYearha]

Let's call that state Oraygone

[@jmpattillo]

They should vote on a referendum

[@sputukgmail]

Oh-hay-gone? The disappearing state - only appears when you least expect it?

[@mikecronis]

I believe they pronounce it "Oar-' aH -G'n" there. Similar to "OR + again".

[@adamkwalczyk]

UTAHLLME

[@EWEasternWind]

NewTa

[@glendankers129]

Were you recording though?

[@GeoWizard]

we can only presume so!

[@Sympanet]

@@GeoWizardyou kept us at the edge of our seats the entire episode to find out if you were, and I think that’s the right move for engagement.

[@pigggy2313]

@@SympanetI haven’t gotten to that part yet don’t spoil it

[@AnRuixuan]

As a New Yorker who has spent most of my life in NYC and spent a few years upstate, your drawing of New York had me dying.

[@Salutmoicestraf]

What is the ADK?

[@korg47237]

bro fr that is how city people would draw NY state LMAO

[@samsowden]

knew enough to know buffalo was the end, but placed it at rochester...

[@schiebrecaps]

@@Salutmoicestrafit’s the Adirondack mountains/forest, one of the most beautiful parts of the country in my opinion

[@RaeaXo]

Took us finger lakers completely out of New York into limbo

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Great effort mate! You got the Illinois borders around Chicago right and that's all that counts in my eyes ;)

[@JamesTundra]

the rest of illinois disliked this post 💀

[@zobiwankenobi77]

Nothing if not consistent, CG 😂

[@2apur]

As a Chicagoan that outline was hilarious.

[@alexmijo]

@@JamesTundra all 9 of them

[@fattdamon5342]

As an American, I was chuckling at times. And then I realized how poorly I would do at a lot of these. And then I realized how much worse I'd do outside of the US. And then I shut my mouth, lol.

[@ArchieStiglitz]

Yeah I wanna see you do the European map ;)

[@Liqudus]

That section of Utah that was missing is seriously the most beautiful part of the entire country. Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Arches are all must visit places.

[@Davinium117]

As a Canadian I'd like to thank you for giving us a bunch more land

[@perspective8369]

Like you don’t have enough land 😂

[@FlipCanon23]

“Got a little bit of land there if anybody wants it”. Literally made me laugh

[@anya7014]

I like how he said Lake Michigan right and then corrected himself and said it wrong

[@notsofestive]

was looking for this hahaha

[@Ojisan642]

Idaho is a tough spawn. I wouldn’t be able to do it well without really thinking through the borders of all the surrounding states.

[@Bnio]

Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border would have been a good guide to get started.

[@spikedmo]

Yeah I thought oh this wouldn't be that bad start with the obvious states then fill in the square ones but this is brutal.

[@shievapretty7463]

Idaho is the best state (tied with Oregon), everyone should know it!

[@nickbob2003]

Id say its a middle of the road spawn. An easy way to remember its shape is that it kinda looks like an I. Same with Louisiana being an L

[@PirateOfPlayTime]

28:00 the new state would be Deseret, which was the original name of the area that the mormons proposed when they moved there

[@AtticusRex]

I came to the comments just to see if someone had already made this point. Since I'm not the first, I'll just add the bit of trivia that Deseret is a reference to the Book of Mormon that means "beehive". EDIT: correcting myself. It means "honeybee" not beehive. Confused it with the state nickname for a second.

[@Utonian21]

it's weird to think that in an alternate universe Salt Lake City and Los Angeles would be in the same state. Vegas, too, I think

[@nathanweiss5174]

The irony of naming it Deseret when it includes everything of Utah except the Salt Lake area

[@titanwarlordgaming]

@@AtticusRexNever would've lasted considering the PTSD the feds had with the California gold rush, they did not want to relinquish so much land to a potentially wealthy state like CA. Let alone their disputes with the federal governments going so far that they illegally immigrated to at the time Mexico to continue their illegal practices.

[@berbold]

Hawaii and Alaska have left messages

[@pangadajski7687]

Puerto Rico didn't, because they don't have a right to leave messages

[@Oregonduck09]

He'd still get a 95 on Hawaii somehow lol

[@Pamani_]

9:23 English man draws straight lines on a map, classic

[@jima1135]

😂🤣😂🤣☠☠☠

[@seethrough_treeshrew]

Underrated comment 🧐📐

[@Glidus]

You just KNOW things are gonna get crazy when Tom hits you with the (Amusing Results) in the title

[@saltgamer7895]

you might be one of the last people I'd expect to comment on this video.

[@nisseheim4996]

"KZbinr disappears while trying to cross Westeros in a straight line. Last seen near Moat Cailin."

[@globesurfer122]

glimbus blesses us with his presence

[@Glidus]

@@saltgamer7895 you know nothing

[@ianspottiswood2419]

Glimbus please I've been waiting for the Battle of the Bastards pisstake for so long. I remember the day the s6e8 pisstake came out cuz I was so excited that e9 was the next one... PLEASE.

[@3indyfan]

As a Utahn, it was hilarious to see you somehow miss the entirety of the state. Also, I laughed for like 30 minutes straight when you did Tennessee 😂 the way you just drew a random blob without even giving a crap about the shape was hilarious

[@3indyfan]

And then redoing the blob, somehow even worse 😂

[@marktimpson4250]

Fun fact: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico are the only 4 states that meet at a point, so that may help with that area in the future! Also, that area of Utah has many major national parks, so we can just call it govt land

[@henrydegroff4282]

As a Utahn, upside down Utah mostly in Idaho killed me 😂

[@theREALhillshum]

Like he got the rather unique bit of the shape pretty much spot on but purely by accident

[@samliedtke578]

Funny thing is Salt Lake is still in the state. Despite missing most of Utah, he got most Utahns

[@salemwildfire]

Devil's advocate, you got the spirit of most of the states spot on. Placement was off, but you had a good idea of rough shape and general location for many of the states. Except New York. I don't think I could name all 50 states, let alone place them accurately.

[@DavidWalton-g8w]

Umm, West Virginia? 😂

[@salemwildfire]

@@DavidWalton-g8wThere's too many Virginias anyways, to be fair.

[@durabelle]

This is what I thought too. I would have certainly gotten some zeros there, even though I've spent waaay too much time on Sporcle geography quizzes and can locate and name all the states. It's completely different to recognise a state from actual outlines and to draw one from memory. A bit like with languages, I can understand enough to read books in Spanish and Dutch but can't put together a coherent sentence of my own in either language.

[@garyholt8315]

upstate new York is tough

[@tomaszencore6100]

Getinsburg

[@leafbelly]

No apology necessary. I consider myself a huge geography nerd, and an American, and I know I wouldn't have done a better job. Well, except for maybe Tennessee. lol

[@jlt131]

one must keep in mind the outline of the chef holding the plate of KFC! helps with the boot shape of louisiana, too. and the almost-straight-line-at-this-scale of the river borders up his back

[@zarzee8925]

​@jlt131 the Mississippi is east of those states; it goes along his front side, not his back

[@jlt131]

@@zarzee8925 ah, my mistake! I didn't check the map close enough (I'm also not american). Is the back line just arbitrary then?

[@acm_1028]

Tennessee got butchered!

[@zarzee8925]

@jlt131 looks like some other rivers plus some borders defined in Native American treaties. I had to look up the individual states, I didn't know either lol.

[@rjScubaSki]

You did a beautiful job outlining the state capital - Arewe, Rekordin.

[@Doylt]

Tom is leaving space on the map for the secret states, which are where Night Vale, Springfield and Townsville are.

[@Blackadder75]

and area 51

[@dertigerbauch]

And Gotham City

[@DanSchaumann]

I’m from Townsville, Queensland but I live in Montreal these days. One of my goals is to visit Townsville, North Carolina

[@GigaTrope]

I'll be 6 feet under the cold cold ground before I recognize Missouri!

[@newq]

This, but unironically (as a Kansan).

[@quannumspektrum2547]

NJ put on a bit of weight. "Follow the Delaware river Tom!" This video is too funny. Good job Tom, doubt I could do any better.

[@Bnio]

Gets excited knowing that the Columbia River forms much of Oregon's northern border. Draws a straight line anyway.

[@CraigMCox]

Utah, you hit flip on Tetris at the last second and flubbed it upside down 😂

[@karlrickysteve7163]

Been watching for years and this is my favourite video of yours; laughed the whole way through

[@ranpalm]

Starting off with Idaho is brutal. The game did you dirty on that one.

[@marcgw496]

Could definitely be worse with Arkansas or something

[@EsotericThoughts93]

@@marcgw496Arkansas has the Mississippi River and Ozarks as a border so I feel it’s def easier than Idaho lmao

[@bonniebrown5102]

This is just proof that you need to have a roadtrip in TN! We love our state (and its shape...don't think you could forget it after a trip here lol) It's very long but also short...About a 10 hour drive from Memphis (Western border) to Bristol (Northeastern Border), but only a 3 hour drive from Chattanooga (southern border) to Clarksville (Northern Border). North Carolina is directly east from us and the southern and Northern borders are pretty much the same. We used to be apart of North Carolina, but the Smokey mountains basically act as the border between us now. Kentucky is our hat lol.

[@autumnmoen2041]

Iowan here - loved seeing Iowa as a perfect square, flawless execution

[@balaclava351]

Do Africa next!

[@jammybizzle666]

We did that 200 years ago

[@Flippokid]

@@jammybizzle666 OOOOWWWW!!!!

[@BodywiseMustard]

We?

[@ArchieStiglitz]

@@BodywiseMustard The English

[@dwarftoad]

The fact that you knew where every state is in relation to its neighbors and major geographic features (except the Missisippi river and Ohio river, which are key borders, should have zoomed in and located those), and some rough shapes, is really impressive! Great job.

[@beerdrinker_6930]

I'd definitely like to see you do this with English counties! As an American, it'd be interesting to see how familiar an Englishman is with all of those fiddly little counties. I've played a few map quizzes (the Seterra quizzes) of English counties so I have a moderate familiarity with them, but most Americans have absolutely no idea about the English counties. The more geographically literate Americans would recognize some of the more well known English counties like the Yorkshire counties and the Midlands, but they still wouldn't be able to accurately place them on the map.

[@sevdasnek4650]

he said he would in the video

[@Wumf]

Some unsolicited tips: Where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet, there is a monument called Four Corners. The peninsula that you drew Delaware on is called "Delmarva" since it consists of Delaware and parts of Maryland and Virginia.

[@dustin2277]

That is the WORST Louisiana I have ever seen Tom. It's a boot shape!

[@Dovicz]

I've always thought of it as a thick L, for Louisiana. Helped me as a mnemotechnic for identifying it, I guess. But anyways, yes, that's a HORRIBLE Louisiana from Tom!

[@nickbob2003]

Never heard it described as a boot. I think calling it an L shape is much more memorable

[@abyssyt2256]

I live in Tennessee and I was waiting for your attempt at that one! Lovely video. The south gets a bit confusing I must say.

[@owenstorey573]

This is really impressive considering how confusing the state borders are! Good work, as a Brit I would do nowhere near as good as this.

[@davidinark]

This was both the funniest and most painful thing to watch. Poor Tom thinks every state is either a square or a blob😂😂

[@rogo12344]

Love when he pronounces Michigan right then corrects himself and pronounces it wrong

[@brandeezyc]

I live in southwest Virginia. When you drew Tennessee I almost choked on my tongue 😂

[@bryceborgialli5090]

Definitely NEWvada

[@EWEasternWind]

Newta!

[@Utonian21]

Utah is my home state and the fact that you pretty much just flipped it upside down makes me laugh. 😂

[@Hazdazos]

Kentuckians and Tennesseans and New Yorkers: "look how you've massacred my boy" 😂

[@wfchannel4673]

surprised you didn't use rivers for borders more. the rio grande to figure out the border of texas and mexico, the colorado river for the arizona california border, and of course the mississippi give away a lot of the borders.

[@blondy2061h]

People from Buffalo: "No one cares about us they only care about downstate." Geowizard: mentions Buffalo and still misses half the state including Buffalo

[@virrepirre560]

A Certified Classic GeoWizard video 👌🏻

[@nmappraiser9926]

I suspect it would be much easier if you could select the order. Start with obvious natural boundaries like the great lakes and the Mississippi, then you can start to jigsaw puzzle the rest.

[@nickbob2003]

Except for the fact that he didnt consider the Mississippi for a single state boarder lmao

[@EUC-lid]

So, much of the original 13 colonies (the East Coast) got expanded West to the Mississippi and then chopped up into smaller states leaving all sorts of animosity in the wake. This is why I, a proud North Carolinian, all but cheered when you insisted on redrawing Tennessee as a dog turd for a second time. 10/10, would watch you attempt this again.

[@TheKeksadler]

I absolutely loved watching you struggle through the States. I think it is hilarious how when all else failed, you relied on drawing squares and straight lines on the map- just as the Founding Fathers would have intended.

[@Eldin_00]

As an American who has lived in Utah, Idaho, and Illinois, this was hilarious to watch.

[@alfiewright1396]

I've always been a huge fan of Amusing Results, so i'm super excited for this episode!

[@DavidAStubbs]

That New York draw was PAINFUL

[@mariawelych4294]

This was so funny!! I’m not sure I could do better and I’m a U.S. native. But oh, New York! You cut my city right out of existence!!😂

[@findmeinthefuture.]

If the score is really a straight average between the two subscores (% in and % of), which it seems to be, that means that for Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Utah, you would have gotten a higher score just by circling the entire United States (which would have given 100% of the state and a couple % in the state, so a little over 50 points).

[@bryceperry3060]

Hey now Missouri isn’t so bad 😂 I’d say the states around it are more obscure for sure but either way love the vids. This one had me cracking up!

[@tylerdean5020]

Honestly…many of the shapes were pretty close. Bravo.

[@isakahlqvist6888]

I'd love an episode with the English counties!

[@zacharywidener]

This was hilarious. Thanks Tom!!! Love it!!

[@wrm]

The new state is obviously called Newtah!

[@TheDeadmanTT]

I like how Tom pronounces each state correctly.

[@bestbetta]

As an American, I couldn’t count the number of times I yelled at the screen at Tom… Hilarious as always!

[@AKAMustang]

Oklahoma is pretty famous for it's cleaver shape; so that was the most entertaining for me.

[@Nooticus]

Such an entertaining video. You really are the Geography Wizard!!! Hahaha

[@matt_dobson0614]

I'm surprised that you missed the Oklahoma pan handle. Its the most distinctively-shaped state imo (that isn't on the coast).

[@findmeinthefuture.]

Shout out to the 3.5 million or so people living in the no man's land between Illinois and Wisconsin... That northern boundary to Illinois was pretty much bang on (even if the rest of the border was a mess), so it's funny to leave such a gap between the two states. If he'd trusted his Illinois border more, Wisconsin could have been a very high scorer.

[@makayla946]

Fond du Lac is now at the Wisconsin-Illinois border

[@nickbob2003]

Yeah I thought he was going to do well with wisconsin since it boarders the mississippi and his illinois northern boarder was good. Man was I surprised when he didn't even include Milwaukee lmao

[@aquafina82]

As someone watching from Wisconsin , you did admirably Tom

[@nickbob2003]

we didnt want milwaukee anyways... although I also live in the newly created no mans land lol

[@snak4716]

straight line England, can't wait!!!!!

[@Oregonduck09]

As an Oregonian, i love when you mention us as your "favorite" state.

[@andreasm2466]

This video had me wheezing. Please do this for the rest of the world as well

[@feasible]

As an American, I do think this game is much harder than the Europe one because of the the lack of coastal borders for reference points. I also think the order in which the game chose the states was extra brutal, and if you could choose the order in which you did them it'd be much easier because it would be easier to work from the coasts in, again because those reference points are so necessary.

[@feasible]

Although yeah as others have said, really could have taken better advantage of the Mississippi River. But also I have a horrifically bad visual memory so I'm aware of just how much of a struggle something like this can be.

[@adkk793]

Northern NY here! Canada is 20 minutes away!

[@themoviedealers]

Good job. I definitely couldn't draw the borders of Walthamstoweshire or whatever.

[@Quentin-w7q]

The Oklahoma panhandle should just become a new state named “Panhandle” since Tom forgot it existed lol

[@meh_nerd533]

Great Wisconsin effort! You cut off the bottom and gave us some of the UP 😅

[@Adam-ou1qp]

Oh my god, I have not laughed this hard at a video in literally years. I don't know what it was exactly, but just you going through them at the end with the green overlay absolutely killed me. This is one of the most magical videos I've seen in so long. Holy shit, what a ride.

[@Flippokid]

I don't think I could even place 5 in the right spot, let alone draw their shape. Good job.

[@carriem2115]

when you started out with mini idaho i knew this video was going to be golden

[@Melkbuisje12]

I think if you remembered the four corner states (Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico) and like the little chef (where Louisiana is the chef's feet, Arkansas is the pants, Missouri is it's body, Iowa is the head, Wisconsin is the chef's hat, Tennessee is the pan and Kentucky is the chicken) you would have done better. These are mine ways to remember which state is where

[@alppegemen]

I watched the entire video with the expectation of comparing with the original lines at the end :D

[@z_man22]

Honestly this is pretty impressive

[@punk105]

After drawing Indiana lmao. Aside from NY, you did well, and maybe Utah. That new state would be a dry lake bed lmao

[@pyritenightmare]

I love everything about 180-degree Utah

[@Utonian21]

The lake is the pivot point

[@whitcwa]

You did better than 95% of my fellow Americans would. Don't worry about those big central states. We call them flyover states.

[@LucasTrikas]

Considering the entire American population? I’d say better than 99% at least

[@obroni]

Mr. Burns: "Slow down there maestro, there's a NEW Mexico?"

[@lowfuel6089]

Yank here, and wanted to say nice job! I think you did better than probably 80% of the people who actually live here.

[@shrimpflea]

At least.

[@SxCD34TH]

As a person that grew up in Minnesota, I can say that is how a lot of people who live in the south part of Minnesota would draw the state 😂

[@juntadna]

You should zoom in more. Can see the rivers that make up the borders better.

[@yui654321]

Petition to make these state drawings into a poster(s)

[@peterholzer4481]

It would be interesting to combine all the answers and compare the result to the actual state borders. Do the errors of different people cancel out or are there some systematic errors that "everybody" makes?

[@PrevailingFreedom]

Tom, you never formally announced Straight Line England to your public channel.. only on Patreon. Your recent mentioning is no doubt surprising a lot of people lol.

[@rockdoctor767]

Honestly if you had reversed and flipped utah it would’ve been perfect. I’d call that blank space West Colorado because it’s mostly Rockies and the Colorado plateau.

[@chaerflrt]

watching this as an american was crazy 😭 new york was insane

[@bjhsinspiressteam1830]

“I think if you asked everyone around the world to point to Missouri… I think they would struggle”. You sir have a future career in comedy!!

[@Rubrickety]

“Louisiana… it all comes flooding back.” Too soon, Tom! 😂

[@Nayte08]

Man I didn’t even catch that 😂😭

[@kal2489]

"New Oz", an imaginary state for very special wizard.

[@arvibi3084]

Quiz: Please draw this state. Tom: Draws a rectangle.