Geoguessr - 10 Country Challenge #15

[@simoncassel4030]

"I'm thinking close to norway because i see a hill" lol

[@KTBFFHCFC1905]

Simon Cassel tbf I’ve not seen a hill anywhere outside of Norway haha

[@JV-the-Tossh]

*Deluxe Malt Whisky* "Some kind of craft beer"... I mean, that's a bit rude, I'm sure they've tried their best with that Ugandan whiskey! :D

[@MegaPhester]

Hawaii and Guam are part of the same country though!

[@jaycajones]

Guam is a US territory. It's not an independent country.

[@ymoot]

@@jaycajones thats what he is saying

[@kongchangfan2237]

i like the fact, the he doesnt count them to USA! in my oppinion its just ridiculous the keep up these colonial occupations

[@aiskkanasojajshw1329]

Well Hawaii is part of the USA and the USA owns Guam so technically that counts

[@JV-the-Tossh]

This. Guam is totally part of the USA, so that would have counted. Bumping this so he sees it.

[@vanisso]

@@JV-the-Tossh is greenland denmark ?

[@cappew22]

@@vanisso Sure is. The challange is to get 10 countries in a row, what else would it count as? And yeah, he should count Guam as the US for sure.

[@OtKH00]

@@vanisso Well you also have to think about culture and how that influences things. Hence why it is a country challenge is you can see things like how people operate, cars, and buildings. Guam has an American culture, follows most of our laws, and is very clearly American. While every place in America is unique you can clearly see that Guam is American so in this case, yes. Guam should count as America.

[@eyolfos]

@@vanisso It's debatable, but they are represented in the Danish parliament, so, yes, I suppose.

[@macclownn]

I love how you're sat there asking us "It looks like Luxembourg, doesn't it?" and I'm just sat here with absolutely no idea how you're guessing most of these.

[@fatbob1999]

he's mad talented

[@googleisbad9724]

Yellow car plates in Europe are a good sign it's Luxembourg or Netherlands

[@DNBENTHUSIAST]

@@googleisbad9724 and the netherlands is ultra flat so if you see even a little bit of a hilly landscape its instantly luxembourg

[@Apfelstrudl]

Luxemburg also seems extremely overrepresented at this mode.

[@Lezzirk1]

that was way to topical for taiwan. Everything about this screamed indonesia. The flag, the burned fields, the train tracks

[@TheGadgetPanda]

He had it from the get go, then you could just hear him talk himself out of it. Was a bit painful to watch.

[@killercaos123]

The bridge was WAYYYY to decrepit to be in Taiwan.

[@danielguimaraes8300]

Also that was way too flat to be taiwan

[@GamerOfGames110]

@@TheGadgetPanda ikr I was like “It’s Indonesia!”

[@Fede3141592]

As for the "missed" France guess: the reversed shape of the roof of the building is a very good hint of the fact that in that place it can't possibly snow much (ruling out most of the East Europe countries you listed). As for the rest, brilliant stuff!

[@kurtis1151]

I honestly can't believe you went for Taiwan.... They were driving on the left, it was tropical, it was poor, and there was a god damn Indonesian flag.

[@elamb2017]

It was a blurry red flag that could easily have been Taiwan. Of course it seems obvious after the fact. You should make some videos like these so we can see how well you do.

[@hizisfoo]

Yeah, I was surprised too. That looked nothing like Taiwan.

[@cjwhite7801]

E Lamb no that flag looked nothing like Taiwan…

[@lauraqueentint]

@@elamb2017 lol no. it was too tropical for taiwan and that flag is very OBVIOUSLY Indonesian. as a person who have been to taiwan multiple times, i can tell you for a FACT that that round did NOT look like taiwan at all.

[@elamb2017]

@@lauraqueentint I'm just talking about the flag. I don't care where you've been. If you're pretending that this puu.sh/Dp2eK/6dd74d2d2a.jpg is "obviously" anything then you're lying.

[@umiupbeat2720]

You should just make a compilation of weird intros in chronological order to show your slowly degrading state...maybe you met a witch in wales who cursed you? 😂

[@WannesDeBacker]

guam is the USA

[@clutchgawd9546]

How’d you get so good at geography!?!? I am just dumbfounded, this was brilliant! BRAVO!!!!

[@Dr.Kornelius]

He's been playing this for years. I get better just by watching the videos :)

[@Amghannam]

It's practice and looking at maps and stuff. For instance when I was 11, I heard about Croatia and I was like wtf is that country, so I looked at a map, and I was like wtf are all these countries I've never heard of, so I started looking at world maps. A couple of years later I basically knew every single country capital, country flag and many unknown cities I can locate on a map.

[@julianbroker581]

these intros are getting better and better.

[@AuroraLightsMC]

Aw man, I was sure you saw the “Uganda Museum” when you were scrolling into Kampala.

[@TheWindspeed36]

Couple of tips for Aus vs NZ - NZ have black on white number plates whereas Australia is mixed; NSW with yellow, Victoria with blue on white or white on black, QLD with red/brown on white, NT with red on white etc. Also - NZ, due to limited space generally has very narrow roads and especially up north is quite hilly, Auckland specifically being built on volcanoes.

[@chloefossard4604]

I've recently been watching (nearly all) your videos and you considerably increased my time spend on GeoGuessr, keep up having fun on the game and entertaining us in the meantime!! Also tip : the numbers on Belgian number plates are red, the French ones are black. Also French number plates are much wider than Belgian ones, and sometimes they're yellow at the rear (but not all the time)

[@imutig3451]

I'm litterally getting better at geography by just watching your videos. For example, now when you say "that could be... (insert a country)" I always know where it is on the map (ok that's not very good, but I couldn't do that before with some countries)

[@Brigister]

GeoWizard: * starts panicking* ok remain calm whERE'S THE SUN

[@nikolabachovski1561]

That Bulgaria guess!!

[@ianbent0n]

It was kinda obvious. Bulgaria is one of the few countries that was mapped in winter so there's always snow on the ground, they have a lot of roads with no lines that look like exactly that, and the mountains are in the southwest of the country. Not sure why it took him so long tbh.

[@nikolabachovski1561]

I am Bulgarian and wouldn't have gotten it right, it was near a famous ski resort

[@ianbent0n]

@@nikolabachovski1561 Do you play Geoguessr? If you see snow on the ground in Europe, it's almost always either Bulgaria or Hungary, and Hungary has no mountains like that.

[@nikolabachovski1561]

I play geoguessr, primarily urban world and average 20k but on diverse world Im bad like 12k. Good to know the snow thing

[@alextgordon]

Red and white flag, driving on the left, tropical, must be taiwan.

[@bena6575]

been here since 300 subs and crazy to see how much better at analyzing you’ve gotten. awesome job man, great game

[@robbehijzen7290]

I love this 10 country challenge, keep it up. i also try to not look at how much time is left so i dont know when the video is going to end xD.

[@_yellow]

I swear, I have seen someone play the first location before. Add this to your list, norway has yellow stripes in the middle of the road.

[@mwickholm]

Finland too, and that round in Sweden couldn't be Finland because we don't have dashed sidelines.

[@karenlimongelli1718]

@@mwickholm The US in some places pass it to so....

[@Debre.]

And Norway only has dotted lines on the side of the road if there is no centerline. So it couldn't be less similar to Sweden.

[@95BWG]

@@mwickholm Finland only has yellow solids though.

[@mwickholm]

@@95BWG We actually have short sections of dashed yellow lines in the middle of the road. Before the solid yellow starts, there are ten dashed yellow lines. to mark that the no overtaking zone will start. Example: www.google.fi/maps/@60.083966,23.6601851,3a,75y,309.14h,57.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smzW5mQpOL3I08wy9WmY6-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[@ralfedsson9258]

you can easily tell the difference between sweden and norway by looking at the road markings

[@nickhunziker9731]

ralf edsson northern Norway and some places in eastern Norway also have the same broken white lines on the side as Sweden does. Also sometimes you’ll see it in the Netherlands and Iceland.

[@Erikkbb]

Norway got broken white lines if there isn't a centerline. You see them on narrow roads. The centerline is also always yellow, unlike Sweden where it is always white.

[@nickhunziker9731]

Erik B Excellent tip. Thank you my friend!

[@kurtis1151]

I always thought Norway had yellow lines in the center

[@kungkristian4669]

Quick tip for separating Norway from Sweden is to look on the middle road marking that separates the different traffic lanes. If the marking is white, it’s Sweden, if it’s yellow; it’s norway.

[@Ynysmydwr]

6:30-8:00 NZ v. Australia. Some tips: NZ has oblong supplementary plate (GIVE WAY) beneath roundabout entrance sign. Australia doesn't. NZ has painted triangle on the road surface on the roundabout approach. Australia doesn't. NZ has a solid line across roads joining the roundabout. Australia has a thick broken line. NZ generally uses white posts for traffic signs; Australia grey. That pink surfacing on the roundabout and splitter islands is very common in Australia.

[@NiclasFagerholm]

Great work! Its honestly gripping to watch and guess by myself! Keep it up!

[@samikarru5749]

Some useful information for the nordic countries: Finland never has dotted lines on the sides of the road. Norway only has dotted lines on the sides when there is no center line. The only country where the second round could have been was therefore Sweden.

[@kristofferjrgensborg9100]

One way to differentiate between Norway and Sweden is that Swedish roads have a white line in the middle, and Norwegian roads have a yellow line. Swedish hazard- and speed limit signs have a yellow background, when the Norwegian ones have a white background.

[@jamkillerz9488]

You can tell the portugal one by the stones they used on the street and the colour around the brick signs and bottom of the buildings, hope thats helped!

[@hugorune766]

Your comments / opinions on Cornwall and Brittany... spot on mate.... We are Gaelic/Gaulic Celtic is an invention attributed to the 1700's.

[@hippiechickie18]

One more time for the people in the back: GUAM IS PART OF THE USA!

[@Hovelax]

You literally zoomed in on the Ugandan museum, when you didn't notice it a part of me died inside.

[@Kokurorokuko]

He noticed it

[@johannesCCR]

Guam is USA, just Not a state

[@Rhangaun]

17:57 it says "Obrigado", which is Portuguese for "thank you". Good thing there was another sign to point you away from Spain :D

[@arianam9977]

Obrigado pela sua visita = Thanks for your visit (as a Spaniard, easy round😁)

[@dertfert745]

21:32 : "I've called it a wine glass with a horizontal thing on top.... ah no but it's not"... or just remember the inside hole is shaped like a diamond

[@cobravello453]

it is a heart shape

[@mattamiller2002]

Not really relevant to this particular video but when you can't figure out where the sun is you can look for satellite dishes. They usually point toward the Equator.

[@Ynysmydwr]

I think you were onto something with your French-looking electricity pylons. I probably would never even have got as far as putting Tunisia on my shortlist (I'm still learning), but once you mentioned that country as a possibility ...yes! (Tunisia being in former French north Africa, and all.) It's interesting you think of those pylônes à la française as wine glasses. With my mind running on slightly different (but still drink-related) lines, I always see them as beer-bottle openers!

[@dertfert745]

28:24 There is red & white on that flag that's furled up in the middle of the screen. Tough break, but got to go with Indonesia on that one

[@alexjamieson4013]

The way to tell the difference between NZ Australia is NZ always has clouds in the sky, NZ is also known as Aotearoa which means "land of the long white cloud"

[@DuckOfRubber]

You often point out the color of the license plate (ie UK is yellow, etc) but one of the clues you consistently miss in your videos is the shape of the license plate. European plates are not very tall and very wide. Asian countries and Australia are similar height but slightly shorter in width. US, Canadian, and Latin American plates are about twice as tall and half as wide as Europe.

[@colinmcdonald3669]

for the second France one you can add those metal phone post to the list, the difference between the french and Belgium number plates for the first time France came up the french number plates have black lettering and the Belgian number plates have red lettering

[@KilianxFire27]

The tricky part with France is that lots of regions have their architectural style (Brittany,Normandy, Northern France, Alsace, Lorraine etc..). If you know them you can clearly distinguish in what part of the country you're in

[@oguzakar6274]

22:20 If your image of Turkey is like that you should change it. Because we dont have cactuses in here and its pretty mountainy here. We have cactusus in very dry areas like close to Iraq but you cant find Mediterranean climate with desert you know

[@Ynysmydwr]

24:17 and 26:00 -- Indonesian railway signal. (Very reminiscent of old Dutch semaphores -- colonial heritage!)

[@moerfisto]

Love your vids!

[@DeronMeranda]

Look at the shapes of the license plates! The ones in US, Canda, and Mexico are more square-like whereas European ones are wide and skinny. You can learn these by looking up "Vehicle registration plate" in Wikipedia; it has lots of examples.

[@hanskarl9]

27:18 Vietnam does not have any official street view coverage, just some privately recorded stuff from Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding areas and a bunch of Photospheres, so you probably won't ever get that - just for future reference.

[@Ynysmydwr]

First #4 -- The connection with Cornwall was closer than you knew, Tom, since the French location turned out to be in the Cornouaille region of Brittany, an area settled by immigrants from Cornwall more than 1,500 years ago. By the way, there are about a quarter of a million fluent speakers of Breton. The language ain't dead yet!

[@jotha885]

Both guyana and suriname in South america drive on the left. Also, Vietnam, Philippines and Taiwan drive on the right (same also for laos, cambodia and myanmar in that region).

[@V0r4xiz]

28:05 Yes, Vietnam has right-hand traffic. So does Cambodia.

[@mortemerb8839]

Taiwan drives on the right, Opposite of Japan. Oh and GUAM IS PART OF THE UNITED STATES! Again! As an American I do not need a passport to visit Guam.

[@Heroball299]

When you see telegraph poles like those as well as small orangey roundabouts in suburbs it's always Australia

[@Psynature]

Please do refrain from driving on the wrong side of the road round a corner when you think there's no oncoming traffic in future; someone once drove straight into me on my bike doing that, it wasn't pleasant at all believe me.

[@KrissRacing]

just a little tip, all two way roads in Norway have yellow lines in the middle

[@craigjohnson2301]

That Bulgaria guess was class

[@kongchangfan2237]

28:00 my thoughts here on taiwan/indonesia: in wouldnt you have different writing/letters in taiwan, like similar to chinese etc? in indonesia they have latin letters. still a decent run mate

[@real_Coda]

Belgian license plates have bright red numbers and a bright red edge. I'm fairly sure you should be able to see that through the blur on the plates

[@goodlife8060]

16:30 please explain the northern/Southern hemisphere rule. Isnt New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere tho? And France in northern. But he’s saying it the other way round

[@eyolfos]

I think he is referrring to where the SUN is. And, yes, the sun isn't really in either hemisphere of the earth but 8 lighminutes away, so his terminology is imprecise.

[@jtdavis62]

Yeah, that confused me at first, too, but after watching a few episodes, I realized that Tom always says "hemisphere" when he just means the compass direction. When he says, "The sun is in the northern hemisphere," he simply means the sun is in the north, signifying that the Google location is in the southern hemisphere.

[@BuMPiHD]

The first guess is one of the best ive seen

[@Keegar]

I think they way to get 10 is to do it at a faster pace. You need luck of the rounds, which can only be achieved by trying as much as possible. And there are times when you overthink things, such as guessing Czechia instead of France. Go with your gut mate!

[@tristanpeyper8043]

"Are the houses fortified" unfortunately we all knew the country he was talking about...

[@maxwalthew5641]

Tristan Peyper i had no idea

[@mfntm7192]

@@maxwalthew5641 South Africa

[@MathGeniusGD]

Hello GeoGuessrWizard! I hope your day has been going well. I just got Geoguessr Pro, and I have loved the features and the ability to create maps. I made a new map, and it is sort of like A Diverse World, but not. If you would like to, you can play it. The map is called “Stretching the Globe”, and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for the amazing hours of entertainment, keep up the awesome work! 👍

[@stevenhaskell9025]

15:04 the infamous scratch of the face when you get it wrong.

[@blanco7726]

Haha I recognised the Luxembourg one from the first frame idek how, its just a motorway exit, but I knew exactly which one it was. For Luxembourg, on land roads you have those white and black plastic poles on the side of the road every 10m or so. Dont think other countries have them. The signs that indicate close villages or the name of the current village are yellow. Motorway signs are blue. If you see a road with a name like CR-123 or CR-567 it should be Luxembourg. New-ish houses are usually white, yellow, orange or salmon. Main language for signs: French. Police cars should have the royal crest and have the colours of the flag. Dont go off car brands. In case you spawn in front of a café/bar these are the Luxembourgish beers you’ll see next to the bar name: Mousel, Diekirch, Battin or Bofferdingen. I know this is too much for you to remember lol but if you happen to remember one it could save your game haha Also it’s still Luxembourgish and never was Luxembourgian. Luxembourgers are Luxembourgish.

[@wolfclaw3366]

when you started saying that you thought the white on the flag was just sunlight glinting off a leaf i just had to shake my head considering the flag was in the shade even if the leaf was shiny and in the sun the white patch was significantly larger then any other white patches it was a a purer white then any of the other shiny plants and the white was in a shape that was a very awkward shape to just be reflected sunlight but still the number one thing was that the flag was in the shade with none of the other plants immediately around it being shiny

[@RealCadde]

Lol the uganda museum is RIGHT FRIKKIN THERE ON THE MAAAAAP! I was screaming at my screen m80!

[@BrutalTurtle]

thanks for the vid Tom. good one this week.

[@chriso3780]

I would love to play but cant get passed black screen

[@dqmir8706]

24:05 thank (think about a pun) ALLAH That was hilarious m8, appreciate your videos, keep going

[@vinrod4]

How was that a pun?

[@dqmir8706]

@@vinrod4 well, usually he would say thank god but as the guess was made in a Muslim majority country, he instead said Allah

[@user-kc4gb2in5c]

Damir Flores doesn't make it a pun tho,,, right?

[@arianam9977]

@@user-kc4gb2in5c Seeing his surname he's probably a Spanish speaker and in Spanish "pun" is "juego de palabras" (literally: game of words), which does include that type of thing he said. So he probably just doesn't know that in English it's not exactly used in the same way as in Spanish.

[@dqmir8706]

@@arianam9977 yeah, i meant punchline

[@GodzillaNorth]

Tip: All Norwegian two- lane roads have their innerstripes yellow and the sides white. Just like the US

[@pikaJrl]

I’m pretty sure that Mapper is French. Ok his streams he has [FR]

[@ChachachaP]

Do a Guam perfect score challenge next

[@jaidynkennedy7343]

I was screaming Melbourne on that one

[@TheHellopleasee]

Was that the AOE2 farm exhaustion sound effect?

[@rambojp73]

"How big are the hills?" "It must be Luxembourg" 🤣✔

[@ILoveMyBeard001]

I would have a new challeng for you, Mr. Wizard. Moving is allowed, but only 3 times per round, or maybe 2 times if 3 is too much for you.

[@djinthemixxX]

how do you not go for indonesia :'(

[@its_alasdair_n4231]

On the first round he got it wrong He literally said it could be... Every country in Europe

[@Arcycesarz]

In my game i had that one in Bulgaria!

[@somethingboring3771]

28:50 i knew it my homeland, if you find a left side country with many of banana tree i must be Malaysia,Thailand,Indonesia,Philippine or some southeast asia, it must be

[@henri8286]

Just a little tip: Finland doesn't have those dotted lines like Sweden has.

[@bubbyberry]

love u g

[@HanduBananu]

Uganda currently has the highest drinking rate of any country on earth . . . displacing South Korea.

[@hippiechickie18]

Uganda be kidding

[@Ynysmydwr]

Australia v. New Zealand. There are several detailed differences in the signage of roundabouts, the most obvious of which is that in NZ the triangular roundabout sign itself is supplemented with a smaller rectangular plate immediately below it (reading GIVE WAY) -- see viastrada.nz/sites/default/files/inline-images/PNCC-rx.png . This plate is lacking in Australia, as in the roundabout seen in this round. (The bigger plate at the foot of each of the Australian poles is a KEEP LEFT sign -- previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/8b0995fe1882e971abb58442c2082290/ibr-305858.jpg )

[@noeg3095]

I believe catus is only present in north/South America

[@peelsreklaw]

Haha I did not expect to be reminded of Salad Fingers on this channel.

[@carolinasport1315]

You should do a ten state challenge, in the USA!

[@adambutspooky9782]

"No funny shit... Oh God this is funny shit"

[@jeff-geoguessrcz]

*To the Czech-France round* Czech Republic has concrete telegraph pillars, so i was guessing France correctly. Be careful with that

[@Untoldanimations]

man I love David firth

[@hugorune766]

re northern France, Brittany... you mentioned Celtic.... I have a problem with that, I think that was a 17C invention. I prefer Gaulic/Gaelic, there is a very close connection between Britain and Brittany.

[@username201220]

link to successful 10 country challenge video?

[@epicxiphos8269]

i feel like this guy could be hired by the military or something for photo identification

[@eazyvegas]

When will the Wales video come out?

[@jackthelad9933]

I dont get why the sun tells us which hemisphere we're in?

[@DutchDukeMan]

8:52 the blue EU on the left of the plate with the blue region number on the right was a straight give away for France

[@HanduBananu]

Guam is part of the United States . . . kind of surprised by your internal rule-set sometimes because it doesn't always seem consistent. Like if you just went by countries that are recognized by the UK then you can't consider Palestine or even Taiwan as independent. Maybe you should make a list of countries that you consider independent and if the location you choose is no on the list then figure out who controls it. I mean like are you gonna deny yourself if you choose Transinistra instead of Moldova? . . . when they finally get street view. If you are in Hong Kong but you choose Macau are you going to say that both are their own countries and not China? These are the things that keep me up at night.

[@HanduBananu]

And what about the "Countries" of the UK or Crown Dependencies . . . I mean ya gotta give yourself some slack at some level.

[@RadioactiveLobster]

Had you went with France like you first suspected, you'd have gotten 11 that time...

[@E-A-Z-Y]

That Luxembourg guess 😂

[@entertherealmofchaos]

Watching this whilst dropping the kids off 🚽.