Geoguessr - 20 Country Challenge - Attempt #6

[@GeoWizard]

Just thought I'd leave you a quick update: The album is still being processed by Ditto music, much to my annoyance, but should be released on all platforms tomorrow. Tomorrow I also start work on Norway, which will be released in about 4 weeks from now. Cheers everyone, leave a like!

[@Sierra-cl9xr]

Cheers 🍻

[@daconor91]

Streaming tonight?

[@ms.mittenz]

Tips for Portugal: Those houses were too big to be Portuguese. Idk how to explain, but the size of the houses gave me a polish flash back, so I was thinking more Eastern Europe. I was sure it was not Portugal, but I can see how you thought that, cause I was doubting myself at a point. But again, those houses were too big (seems like 2 or 3 generation house, we don't do it that often) Hope you do a straight line for Portugal, Iberian peninsula keeps on being an ass to you 😊

[@notabotta3901]

Brilliant, Tom!

[@smackheadsgyro]

if the album is specifically for the Norway trip it better be necro as fuck or uve bollocksed it

[@fransvandervleuten3263]

I have a Danish flag hanging outside my house in the Netherlands just in case the Google car comes taking pictures and you're playing Geoguesser in the future to f*ck your game up.

[@ms.mittenz]

Dannebrog over alt!!

[@ChoiceDK]

Hahaha, that's awesome!

[@beorlingo]

Troll level 2.0

[@sebastiancoral7094]

hahahahahahahhahaa

[@swissraver9286]

You are an evil kind of person

[@derkommentator5102]

A car is following us. Yep. It's Abuja.

[@aleccarlson492]

Lmao

[@y3ra]

two fiats, it is Italy

[@jimmym9967]

This is the funniest comment I’ve ever read

[@joefrancis1902]

@@y3ra could easily be Essex lol

[@mcray0309]

@@joefrancis1902 nah that’s Italy and your a ninny for thinking otherwise

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

Tips for distinguishing Canada from the U.S.: - U.S. usually has writing on their traffic signs, Canada almost never does. For example U.S. yield signs literally say "Yield" and railway crossings say "Rail Road Crossing", whereas in Canada both are blank because the meaning is already obvious from the ▽ or X shape. Similarly, the U.S. often has text on warning signs (yellow diamond), but Canada always uses symbols instead. If there is text, it will be on a rectangular tab below the diamond sign. - Concrete paving is extremely rare on residential streets in Canada. For that reason it is extremely unlikely that the one at 18:58 could have been in Canada. - Canada uses standard English spelling, not U.S. spelling. For example, at 7:55 it would be "Centre", not "Center". That said, you do occasionally find American spellings in Canada on commercial signs, so you need to be careful. But, if you see an American spelling on an official building like a school, community "center", etc, you know for sure it's the U.S. And if you see standard spelling anywhere you know for sure you are in Canada. - It can also be handy to learn which states or provinces have front license plates and which don't, because states and provinces across the border from each other often have the opposite rules. For example, all of the States in the plains require a front license plate, but only 1 out of 3 Provinces in the plains does. So at 1:42, given that you knew you were in the plains, you had to be in Canada. - Speed limit signs in Canada say "Maximum" whereas the ones in the U.S. say "Speed Limit". (Because "maximum" is spelt the same in both English and French, but "speed limit" isn't). The Canadian ones are also in km/h (number ending in "0") while the American ones are in mph (number ending in "0" or "5"), but I'm sure all the viewers here already knew that.

[@t.sebastiao9824]

Every Geoguessr player's last words are "I'm gonna go with Portugal"

[@oliviapg]

It's never Portugal

[@sagebrushrepair]

@@oliviapg It really isn't is it.

[@sunitafisher4758]

🌸 lol 😂

[@FlowerTrollSan]

I've fucked up many a Brazilian locations because they looked too European for me so I went with Portugal. 😅

[@kaseywarren2106]

This channel gives me the artificial sensation that I'm traveling the world.

[@daveontomas7495]

Yes it’s like experiencing it vicariously through someone who is experiencing it vicariously

[@garethvers1384]

It gives me the artificial sensation that I have friends

[@beorlingo]

Dude, don't place yourself in front of the compass! How are we gonna guess along without a compass!!?? How about the Tom lad in the upper left corner!?

[@sagebrushrepair]

Yeah the camera view is just a bit bigger, blocking the compass this time round. My heart sank when north macedonia came up. Looks a lovely place though.

[@comfortsnail6342]

Agreed would block out less of the landscape for us watchers who dont play along

[@freelander]

I'm honestly not sure why we need the face cam at all. I'm not trying to be rude, I just don't think it adds anything to the game, and just takes away from our view of the landscape.

[@bricksburger5409]

@@freelander I don’t mind which but I like the personality of the face cam

[@dudee499]

Do you need to see his face at all?

[@throwaway756]

*_Black tape exists_* GeoWizard: *IT'S GHANA*

[@akseli7029]

6:31 A good thing to remember is that Italy car plates have blue on both sides

[@Hubert4515]

and are a little bit smaller than other plates :D

[@marcjohnson3553]

hg only the front plates though !

[@yusufackgoz8009]

Albania and France too

[@dolfinthesecond]

@@yusufackgoz8009 Yeah, I thought it was just Italy when I played geoguessr and I saw that the plates had blue on both sides and immediately guessed Italyand it was France

[@Ventilatueur]

Hey Tom thanks for the great content! Some of those guesses are insane! I like seing the face cam, it's nice, but I'd also like to see the compass... Do you think the face cam could be in the upper left corner?

[@aspzx]

Yeah in other videos he shifts the face cam a little to the right in order to reveal the compass.

[@find127]

“Roller coaster tycoon 2-esque” 😂😂 Tom you’re great

[@yellow-v56]

Noone: GeoWizard: Oh black tape, gotta be Ghana

[@lloydmorganmoore7810]

What does this mean? I've only recently started watching, does the camera car always have black tape on in the Ghana images?

[@obhmusic]

@@lloydmorganmoore7810 yes.

[@elijennings]

@@lloydmorganmoore7810 if I recall right, the only google car that drove through and mapped Ghana was just the one, and that one had that black tape on the roof rack.

[@Nightey]

Front right tape is Ghana, back right tape is Réunion ;)

[@607]

Lloyd Morgan Moore No, that's not what it means. :P It's the other way around. Anyway, @yellow: what do you mean by the meme format? I think this is one of the things viewers are most likely to notice.

[@waltermcdonough]

that 13 meters guess in iceland was so quick! damn

[@gamerxd6149]

Noone: GeoWizard: Oh black tape, gotta be Ghana

[@breno-0000]

At 14:44

[@chriskaprys]

Far fewer streets to view 😉

[@adampettitt8058]

Love the videos Tom, only videos I look forward to seeing on KZbin these days. Relatable humour and just chilled out and not overhyped thumbnails etc. Keep it up🙌

[@sagebrushrepair]

Same, along with Machine Thinking, but we haven't had a video since my wife was featured in one.

[@jmitbitw]

The Philippines drives on the right.

[@oliviapg]

@@xFLX__ yes

[@xFLX__]

@@oliviapg ok, i thought they did drive on the left, to make sure i googled. first thing google shows is saying left, i have been baited, ty google :)

[@daviddechamplain5718]

Easiest way to remember is it's a former US colony.

[@oliviapg]

@@daviddechamplain5718 I just remember that in SE Asia, only Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia are on the left.

[@eray7232]

"Got nothing else it's gotta be Finland"

[@bentleyv1233]

"Mason County Schools man" I can't get enough of your American accent LMAO

[@bioLarzen]

That one in the middle of Italy that totally looked like by the sea is, actually, accurate - had to go and check myself, as it did, indeed, look 100% a beach... It wasn't. Probably just an extra foggy day...

[@AgainstTad]

I went to high school at the place on your second attempt, first round 4/5! Class of 2014 Mason County, WV. Point Pleasant, WV to be more specific. Crazy it would land there!

[@coscorrodrift]

I love these anecdotes from the comments. I sometimes wish he would do like a special stream or youtube episode/podcast inviting you guys and other people in the comments in to tell some stories from those places, while virtually wandering through those streets. Kind of traveling but without moving, connecting people from all over the world.

[@wife9571]

i went to high school just up the river in marietta OH and i’ve been to point pleasant many times! i was pretty hype when i recognized the round lol

[@pdp11]

@@coscorrodrift Love the idea!

[@alstartheman]

Lol, straight line across Russia. "Sorry guys, i'll be uploading a little less Geoguessr video's this week since i'll be editing the Straight line across Russia Part 217."

[@DrewDawkins]

8:05 I genuinely thought he was referring to the 'Dollar General' sign as the flag.... He wouldn't be wrong.

[@jacobcgustafson]

We need more of the American accent. I love that the extent of your American accent is just adding the word “man” to the end of every sentence 😂

[@Asidders]

chyna

[@gydeme]

Holy Crap, at 20:40 you basically zoom in so that you can see the place I grew up on the map. I was literally staring at the image and going "man I must not know anything because this just looks like St. Louis to me"

[@chrishalper7667]

I’m from st Charles dude I was literally thinking the same shit like “on god that’s St. Louis let alone Missouri I know it” more specifically I’m from Weldon spring down highway 94 off of highway 64(40)

[@adambernabo]

Same I’m from Kirkwood and it was so weird seeing how close he was.

[@klaasqu]

I learn more about world geography in one of his videos than my entire high school education

[@cvkline]

Oh, how cool... for the Saugatuck location you can literally see the AirBnB we stayed at over a long weekend for my birthday a year ago! I've never seen anything familiar to me in all your virtual travels before. There's an amazing beach on the shore of Lake Michigan nearby.

[@ulol609]

Man is never stopping. I'm lovin' it - From Norway still waiting on the Mission across norway videos : )

[@MorningNapalm]

Really interesting series. I have now started trying these myself, although I am a total newb compared to you. I do have one tip for you though, which you don't appear to have picked up on (I could be wrong though): The US uses mph and Canada uses km/h for speed signs. This sometimes allows you to distinguish, since highway speeds are 50 in the US and 80 in Canada, for example.

[@abhishektodmal1914]

Tom, absolutely love your stuff as always, mate. I enjoy immensely watching your videos as I'm having breakfast - a bit of Geography, a bit of dry, wry English humour, and of course, the odd shennanigan. Thank you so much for all of it, mate. I wish you all the best, and cheers on what I imagine was a fantastic America trip :)

[@unnamias]

I'm super impressed you knew about us sámi people!!! I recognized that second Finland spot right away.

[@DjamieA]

To be honest. I only know about the sami people thanks to Norway's ESC 2019 song 😂

[@joshuaowen6185]

I have the movie Klaus to thank for introducing me to the Sámi people.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

I saw the Sami people in a Commando comic, if that counts.

[@chnkypolarbear]

First time I've seen a video of yours. The way you got within 15 km of some random small town in Nigeria blew my freaking mind.

[@spysick98]

if you are in a tropical region (like Sri Lanka), the sun may be either North or South of you depending on the time of year

[@olaf6127]

Visited the cafe at 5:55 as an exchange student last year, just besides a lovely ballet/art high school

[@linusfotograf]

Surely there should be at least ONE church in Sri Lanka?

[@bobdole877]

Of course there are churches in Sri Lanka! Almost 1.5 million Sri Lankan Christians. Remember that it has Dutch and Portuguese influence and was once a British colony so there are even some pretty impressive European-style churches in big cities.

[@linusfotograf]

@@bobdole877 I know. I was referring to how he decided against Sri Lanka because there was a cross in the image. Which is kinda stupid

[@rezby2051]

@@linusfotograf i knew that was Sri Lanka from the moment I saw the first image. Well because I am Sri Lankan XD

[@tigervalley62]

There is. It's just not the religion you think of when you think of that part of the world.

[@Controlledescape]

As a finnish person I would have never guessed the last one to be finland, really looked like norway to me, great guess!!

[@88porpoise]

To be fair, half of what could be seen was Norway.

[@soonerfan0161]

The Italy round, it looks like it is fairly early in the morning and there is a lake in that direction causing a lot of fog

[@alexg1778]

Not entirely related to the video, but as I was watching I just heard some rustling outside my house and my first thought was "Is that Tom Davies walking through my yard on a straight line mission?"

[@SM-zx9mx]

I just found this channel out of nowhere and it's fascinating. Never knew people had such weird hobbies. It's great!

[@ethankegley14]

19:50 I think that is a heat pump attached to that house which means cooling and heating. So this is a state that gets both cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Also, the rooves are quite peaked which means the possibility of snow. Countries where it never snows almost never have such heavily peaked rooves.

[@moldybongwater3808]

i live about 2 miles from where that location was, can confirm all of this is true

[@nwind7709]

26:48 lol wtf that's my street! ! ! ! ! ! I was kinda pissed when you say its either Italy, Spain or Portugal cuz we in Macedonia have orange roof tops as well almost 97% are orange rooftops.

[@Asidders]

Looks like a nice place :)

[@afterburn2600]

16:55 you and I just tilted our heads in unison trying to peer around the pixels xD

[@ivocorte1580]

Hello! For future reference in rounds like the one at 20:00 where you say you can't use the sun due to the hour of the day, you can always look at the orientation of architectural features in houses. I can't really say for sure if it would have been useful here because your face is on top of the compass, but usually windowed fronts of houses are facing towards the sun, either south or north depending on the hemisphere, and windowless facades like garage doors and blind walls from bathrooms and other service/private features of the house face away from the equator. Again, sometimes architects are bad architects and this won't be useful, but if you pay attention you'll notice that all the garages in the neighborhood faced the same direction, if this direction was north you could have assumed you were on the northern hemisphere, therefore resolving the issue of an unusable sun. (let us see the compass next time lol) Edit: Went ahead and checked it, turns out it's just a case of bad capitalist architects that copy and paste the same model of house 300 times on a neighborhood regardless of things like the orientation or the individual human needs each different family has. oops

[@fergaytan17]

Great video, I am from Chihuahua Mexico and I was very excited when I saw Santa Isabel, it is a place near the capital that is famous in the north for its popsicles.

[@itzvesper8344]

7:02 that second "Aversa" had a perfect Italian accent, it was the best italian accent i ever heard from a non - italian speaker

[@daviddowd1320]

It's crazy that you got a round in St. Louis! I was like this looks so freaking familiar. Turns out it was like 10 minutes from where i used to live.

[@JosHawken]

THE COMPASS LOOKS ODD IN THIS VIDEO! I thought maybe better to have facecam bottom right as it will only cover the minimap, which is useless for us. Great video as always and looking forward to that #20!! Edit: Also I think having the score in the corner is a great addition (hint hint)

[@AP-zv4vz]

Lmao why the fuck would you want to put the facecam in front of the minimap when you can put it in the top left corner where there's literally nothing ?

[@Spyder638]

You shouldn't apologize for spending a bit longer on a round! It helps obscure a guess at how well you've done using time remaining, and we all want to see you win it! Still my favorite Geoguessr series. Can't wait to see you smash that 20.

[@julesvonlipwig5209]

this is the first time i've clicked on one of his videos and i have never been more impressed in my life, he really IS a wizard, wow

[@peterhackett3815]

I absolutely love your videos. One little request is you put your video not over the compass so we can see which direction your facing aswell. Other than that keep up the amazing vids your geoguesser skills never cease to amaze me!

[@TopFloorEricc]

I was so happy when he zoomed into Grafton WV even though it was Michigan, my family is from around there. Always nice to see places you know when you’re playing Diverse World

[@tonypapas9854]

Great content, Tom. Keep doing what you're doing!

[@Choekaas]

Aah, I'm missing the "ding" bell that came on everytime you were correct

[@earthfromabove5172]

23:52 Geowizard: We´ve got this river, let´s find it. Norway: Actually consist´s of rivers and lakes. :D

[@SWatchik]

I know you were making a joke about it but damn that Iceland guess was awesome

[@abbbccdde]

15:45 The summary of the whole series Tom: "It was a matter of time before I got something like this." 😄

[@ethankegley14]

30:00 lots of chimneys for fireplaces mean cold in the winter then a smattering of AC units means hot in the summer but not hot enough for every apartment to have AC. Southern Portugal does not really get cold enough in the winter to have so many fireplaces in my opinion.

[@abbbccdde]

08:30 GeoWizard with his excruciating sense of humor: "This is for five guys, not the fast-food chain." I couldn't stop laughing for 2 minutes just because the joke is simple and funny!

[@ryanrozycki4751]

7:04 God, the poorly maintained roads, the trees, the tropical feeling; this could totally be Michigan. *Saugatuck, MI*

[@guy_roh]

12:15 Is that a DEER on the roof ??

[@juiceeater545]

classic mex doggo

[@RobertMarsh1988]

I got to 19 the other day and I had mostly really easy ones. Nothing in south America. Anyone who gets over 10 with some southern equator countries is bloody good.

[@NiobProta]

fwiw, those "Novgorod" pipes you were musing about were pretty common overall in the sovjet union, seen loads of them as a child in the GDR, too, for example (albeit the beefy version, which supports a whole district)

[@emmepemme06]

Can you please try to make a perfect score in sweden! i would love that! Im from uppsala, so cheers from me and greg!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Never give up! We all know you can do it

[@thomaskorousgrough7778]

imagine if this guy was a geography teacher

[@MakoTheFrog]

12:14 Tom! you missed the dog on the roof just to the left of those red metal container thingys hahaha!

[@ethankegley14]

18:50 as far as I know the only place area in Mexico where people eat burritos is in Northern Mexico. I didn't think about it until after your guess but I was thinking north-central because of the climate.

[@ItzRetz]

I recently bought an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset and went on the VR google earth app, and holy shit is it amazing. You can fly over places and look down on them and everything's 3D, or you can go into street-view and walk around the place as if you're there yourself. It's so cool. So far I've explored places I've already visited and it's been so cool thinking back on all the great memories. I'd definitely recommend you try it out yourself sometime!

[@harrymcintosh9225]

Mate you’re actually so funny haha only you could make geoguessr consistently entertaining

[@CBTheMechanic]

21:08: The yellow background of the road sign is typical for Finland too.

[@OskarMarszalek]

I like how to this day you still struggle with South Korea vs Japan yet you are effin rainman when it comes to the Scandinavian countries. Maybe has to do with those perfect score attempts Anyways thanks for the vid GW, valiant effort as always. Loving what I've heard so far of the album as well

[@skippy2879]

Really laughed out loud at “that’s 5 guys”...

[@coscorrodrift]

it's the little things hahahaaha

[@jirichladek3380]

The last Macedonia location you were thinking of guessing Sarandë in Albania where I was on holiday in 2018. Looks fairly different than the street in Macedonia

[@Daniel-wh4px]

How was your trip to sarande

[@firstnamelastname-uw6vq]

I am from Macedonia and I personally thought it might be Macedonia from the type of fence, but it looked very decorated like a touristy place, so my guess was Albania also.

[@marshmellowmoon7990]

20:35 No wonder I immediately knew what country that was in. I live in the greater St.Louis area and my grandparents live in a neighborhood that looks identical to that.

[@erikrose4411]

5:48 you nailed it

[@Zozocheesy]

As an Australian, watching Tom confuse American suburbia with Australia was deeply offensive... love the channel Tom!

[@averypratt1300]

Much love from NYC!

[@ducky_cheese]

As someone with family in Grafton I can confirm that was a good guess, the whole town looks like that

[@nadiayorc]

That West Virginia one at 8:21 is interestingly within the ingame map of Fallout 76, never actually seen it on a real map until now but I immediately recognised it (only on the overhead map). Kind of surprised how accurate the ingame map is.

[@Geo_Charlie]

I just read Street View will cover streets in Guernsey and Belarus. good news

[@cocoabluetie2]

Not good news for geoguessr players as it’s another country to recognize. They already had to deal with Austria recently.

[@jimmyjohnson2465]

If you're in a suburban area like that one it St Luis and you're unsure as to whether its Australia or not, remember that Australian bins are dark green with red or yellow lids. If you see those, you're absolutely in Australia

[@realhawaii5o]

Tip for excluding Portugal - existence of bins. Portugal has communal bins and basically nobody has those medium sized trash bins at home.

[@botliukkone7303]

21:00 yep. The "tie" is finnish, it means road

[@jolatrek]

In the Thailand vs Philippines guess, you can see the crown (?) symbol that’s on the highway signs in Thailand

[@ymcmbmx]

Love your vids! keep killin it

[@nil_shawn6107]

To differentiate between Canada in the U.S., in most suburban areas, the U.S. has mailboxes at the ends of the driveways while afaik Canada Post Postboxes all clustered together on like the main street in the neighbourhood or seomthing.

[@danielegerussi7453]

Sun rule is undeniable only when outside the tropics (further nort than the tropic of cacer or below the one of capricorn) because between them it depends on the season. (Eg you could be just above the equator and still have the sun to the north in summer) and vice versa

[@erlingpanduro5973]

Don't apologize for taking long, the nail biters are the best :)

[@kirmy1]

Tom that italian round looked like the sea, but it was actually a ground fog/mist that looked like a sea in the valley

[@ethankegley14]

12:40 not sure if other countries in Central America or South America do this but in Mexico many many "mom and pop" shops are named by a person's first name and that name will be painted to stand out. When I see that I instantly think of mexico.

[@galahad9853]

The Mexico and US ones were so easy. From the stop sign and double lines and dollar general you could tell it was the US. And in Mexico from the water tanks above the houses that are Rotoplast, the Corona and of course the Pemex. At 18:00 it’s a dead five away it’s Mexico because of the “PAN” on the side of building which is one of the political parties. The popular ones are PRI, PAN, and, PRD

[@kennexcamba2438]

Hi Tom! Love your videos. Just incase it isn’t commented yet, we drive on the right here in the Philippines much like the US. Thailand drives on the left. 😁

[@skringli]

You will get signs in both Norwegian and Sami in parts of Northern Norway, but this could not have been Norway, because of the lines on the road. We don't have the full/undotted lines at the side of the road unless there's also some kind of line in the middle. If there's no middle line, the lines on the side (if there are any) will be dotted in Norway.

[@qasim7215]

The cross aswell as the name Risvan was very obvious it was Sri Lanka! They have a pretty high Christian population

[@dynoblaze3376]

also indonesia is an islamic nation and would probably not have a building with a cross on it

[@Westcountrynordic]

I have managed to get a streak of 55 right on the Country streak but I must clarify that I did move around and took advantage of the 2 letter country codes on website addresses seen on posters and vans etc etc

[@callumkristek9886]

You look so much like Bernardo Silva 😂 love the content mate! 🇬🇧

[@chrisc4867]

"rollercoaster tycoon 2-esque landscaping" 😂

[@FingeringThings]

Everyone gangsta till he gets Vatican City

[@Mizai]

S P A M M E R

[@TUSENSLEPATAY]

16:57 you can see thai squiggles on the white sign you are zooming on :) « กม. » which means « KM » (kilometer)

[@mandarr1n]

25:45 ... that was a genuine gulp wow

[@kiandodd5670]

youd think it was just dumb luck until he constantly gets stupidly close to the correct place after 5 seconds of looking

[@liamodonovan2288]

If you can't remember which side of the road a country drives on you can check by zooming in close enough on the map that you can see the arrows on either side of a motorway