I got way too confused on most of these rounds.. CAPITAL CITIES #4 [PLAY ALONG]

[@lakemmm]

That siren gag made me laugh hysterically, never change Tom

[@Stellar-Cowboy]

Lol took me a while to understand

[@Philafxs]

If only he had an orange jumpsuit lying around to return in.

[@LychkovIA]

I was afraid the joke would get old now that he's doing it like the third time, but Tom made it it funnier than before somehow! xD

[@Legpierna]

I dont get it lol anyone care to explain?

[@alleghanyonce]

@@Legpierna There was a police siren outside his house so he acted like they were looking for him.

[@Siggvard]

4:04 Tom's recent straigh line mission happened to lead him through a top secret military base which he sucessfully managed to sneak his way through with the help of a portable ladder and an unmatched ability to talk his way through complicated situations. Now the police force and the military throughout the country is looking for him.

[@timo4938]

He did seem paranoid like he had a reason to believe they were after him.

[@cptunderpantz9273]

I thought that was the look of a wanted man!

[@ticksunbs4944]

OH NO 😳

[@thingswelike]

I thought the joke was getting old, but I guess not everyone has seen it. First I remember was just after the police had actually just been in touch with him about the railway crossing in the Scotland mission.

[@chxrry-_-]

What's the name of the video

[@justtrying44]

Gets dropped in South Sudan, immediately sees "Chinese Supermarket" Gets dropped in Bulgaria, immediately sees "Swedish Barber Shop" These are definitely on purpose lmao

[@kjdude8765]

Guy rocking a Detroit t-shirt at a Swedish Barbershop in Bulgaria....what a connected world.

[@davidcontreras1451]

Tom: Obviously it’s in Russian Bulgaria: And I took that personally

[@WilliamAndrea]

The correct term is "Cyrillic"

[@mrdimitroff]

Poor Mapna

[@a.n.6374]

I was so hyped when I saw my city, but then hearing this for the gazillion-th time....

[@sonyablade3001]

I'm Russian and there are people in Russia who just straight up calling any language with Latin writing system an English, but those are usually people who saw other countries on pictures at best, every time i'm surprised he's still calling Cyrillic languages Russian while obviously knowing about other countries better than average person.

[@lifeproofminds]

​@@sonyablade3001 I have a question for you - do you understand Bulgarian completely? Because I know Russian somewhat and many times it's hard to determine which one is it. In my mind Bulgarian is Russian but some words sound funny and some words have different endings.

[@luuk777w]

The Chinese influence in the Juba round has probably to do with the fact that China is heavily investing in African countries. Those people probably are Chinese workers and live temporary in that building the photo is taken from. The supermarket is also for them, that is why it is all written in Chinese.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Basically Africa is China's China

[@sonyablade3001]

@@davidwalker3626 yeah i was actually shocked when i learned of many crimes he committed, thought he was a good guy who was developing China, laying a fundament for its economic boom. The truth is the opposite, he somehow managed to destroy any potential it had during his reign and making the country even less developed, literally trampling it into African level, keeping it a third world country for as long as he could til his death.

[@thisguy976]

@@sonyablade3001 He was worse than Hitler.

[@tigervalley62]

Here my innocent arse thought it was tourists....

[@Josh-js3uw]

@@sonyablade3001 who?

[@keenanlarsen1639]

Lost 1 point: "I've monumentally f*cked up" I still think you're pretty incredible at this. This capital city series is fun regardless.

[@quackmyduck1508]

upload variety i have been waiting weeks for a video that isnt capital cities...

[@youshimimi]

*"The Qatar, yeah, you would have got that'* Thank you for always believing in me Tom. Of course I absolutely didn't get it, but I do appreciate your vote of confidence!

[@luangomes2143]

I was so proud of getting st lucia right because of the flag, I didn't even see the giant "Bank of Saint Lucia" there

[@ojl5055]

I'm pretty proud that I thought the exact same thing as Tom there thinking that it couldn't be that south

[@josefanon8504]

@@luangomes2143 lmao

[@indiebekonn]

I mean there was an obvious license plate on that bus, but yea if you’re not into your licence plates it could’ve been harder

[@hunbi1875]

@@indiebekonn it says qatar on a sign

[@davidrob_]

4:02 moment had me in tears 😂😂😂, cheers for that Tom

[@mikeporecki9946]

Come on Tom, we also love the simple play along content. It's the commentary, the humor, that makes even the simplest videos great. Missions are fire, but simple GeoGuesser vids on maps like this also are.

[@ecciq]

Yes but mission videos are larger and so much more packed with original and funny content

[@thatguyguff]

17:16 As a native swede, I find the Swedish barber shop to be one of the most fascinatingly bizarre things I've ever seen.

[@astragalusson]

I think you should buy a ticket, visit that place and have a haircut or something asap! And it would be nice for us if you share your experience right back here if you don't mind :)

[@TheGovernorBG]

Bulgarian Sofia resident here. I've walked on that street quite a few times in my life and I always find it quite bizzare as well. The owner is absolutely everything else but not Swedish. But yeah, whatever pays the bills I guess.

[@ollebang]

Trodde fan inte att en swedish barbershop skulle ligga i Sofia

[@Tigzy3]

Jävligt märkligt!

[@nymphoidcruiser1501]

@@astragalusson well they're obviously not going to do that are they

[@kadosmp4]

*stares directly at an address with the word Colombo in it* 'We're bound to get some clues" Never change, Tom.

[@biggestgay639]

Tom, anything from you is interesting. Don’t stop being you, big man.

[@AxxLAfriku]

I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear bit

[@twod0ves]

@@AxxLAfriku sad

[@jonny5696]

@S O F I A Hey why are you named after the capital of Bulgaria?

[@yaakdeu1163]

Being from South Sudan 🇸🇸 couldn’t help but shout Africa

[@cooldude4643]

Xin chào!

[@S-Nova0]

Ni hao!

[@eliassanchez420wakenbake]

Same being American

[@yaakdeu1163]

@@S-Nova0 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@yaakdeu1163]

👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

[@professionalcrispreviewer]

That Juba round was infuriating to watch, great content, I lost 5 years off my life expectancy from stress, 10/10

[@daud1543]

whats with all the country Rd names? seemed odd

[@bagaboiebailey]

@@daud1543 the African countries have very little locations sometimes; just look at the Chad round from a while ago.

[@DECODEDVFX]

It was frustrating to play too. I was sure it was one of the tiny Asian/pacific nations like Tuvalu or Brunei. Normally I would have went right to Africa, but so many things were pointing towards it being Asia. Asian people in the foreground, Asian person's name on the photosphere, Asian writing on the nearest building.

[@jonahs92]

@@DECODEDVFX Welcome to Neocolonialism! 😂

[@420fedoras]

@@DECODEDVFX but then it was really flat and reasonably built up which ruled out any of the islands. I ended up looking over africa for less developed english-y countries before finding Juba and realising what the sign said

[@eray7232]

It made me laugh when Tom said “Looks pretty beautiful” while looking at the cracked buildings of Sofia

[@galaktoza]

GeoWizard: "I have embarrassed myself already in other ways" In Bulgaria: "It's obviously in Russian."

[@nageekb]

Tomfoolery is already a great word. Coming from Tom himself, it’s about as good as it gets

[@eg0u40f9]

"Is the sea that way?" Says Tom as he looks at a mountain!

[@javi5208]

First time playing along with you. Admittedly, I'm under the influence but you're right. This was way more entertaining to play along. Absolutely no idea how, but I managed to get the exact place in Juba. Cracked up listening to you go through the same confusing discoveries I did that round. Thanks for the content, Tom!

[@Acehigh44]

18:26 Finally a Bulgarian round, I've been waiting for this moment. Also, It's not Russian, but rather Bulgarian. In fact, the Bulgarian brothers Kiril and Metodiy created the cyrillic alphabet (it's named after one of the brothers) in the late 9th century. Since then, many slavic countries have been using a modified version of it. Including Russia.

[@Razaak666]

Is that definitely the earliest documenting of Cyrillic? I believe it's been speculated (although never proven) that the Cyrillic alphabet has existed earlier. Considering how closely Cyrillic resembles the Greek alphabet, it would make sense that it did originate in the south of Europe.

[@hex_6590]

@@Razaak666 Yep, it is as far as I know. Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessalonica, in the eastern Roman empire. The eastern Roman empire influenced Bulgaria (and the Balkans in general) in many ways, most famously for the conversion to orthodox christianity. Bulgarian nobles even learned greek. No wonder Cyril and Methodius were influenced by the greek alphabet. Though their creation was the glagolithic alphabet. Then, their disciples, Kliment and Naum further worked on it and developed the early cyrillic alphabet in Bulgaria which had even more similarities with the greek one.

[@bakapotato5327]

@@Razaak666 Lets put it this way the original Glagolitic script was created by Cyril and Methodius who were sent to Moravia when Rastislav of Moravia requested teachers from the Eastern Roman empire who would be able to educate the moravian priest while using the slavic language. Thats why the brothers created the Glagolitic script. Later on the students of the brothers who were expelled from Moravia reached Bulgaria where they were greeted by Boris I and were put to the task of educating the Bulgarian clergy thus allowing us to conduct the religious ceremonies in our language and not Greek like it was done before. During that time two of the students, Kliment and Naum finalized the first version of the Cyrillic script. The reason the Glagolitic script was replaced was because it was a lot more complicated then the Cyrillic script. And the Cyrillic was adopted by most slavic nations. But it has to be kept in mind that every nation had its own version of the proto slavic language even before the new alphabets were created. TLDR. it looks Greek because it was made by two "Greek" linguists.

[@danicazavojcevska9618]

Kiril and Metodiy were not Bulgarian 😂

[@Acehigh44]

@@danicazavojcevska9618 They are. In fact, Macedonians are also bulgarians, you just won’t admit it. МАКЕДОНИЯ Е БЪЛГАРСКА

[@squeezyjohn1]

Every single sign including the one in the first shot says Colombo ... Tom: "maybe it's Bangladesh or India"

[@corentinfleur1829]

To be fair, these play along videos is probably my favorite content on your channel. Makes me so happy when I beat you (it's rare but it happens!) Edit: Wow I got 25k on this one, pretty happy about it!

[@discostoo]

4:04 - that paranoid fear never leaves a Brit.

[@adampezzuolo5618]

I think I have never heard Tom asking his viewers to like and subscribe. You gotta appreciate that. He is the proof that youtubers don't need to do that in every video to be successful, despite of what most of them say.

[@Zanagash]

The first round 2 seconds in I saw the word “Colombo” and that’s the capital of Sri Lanka. That might be the first time I find something before you do !😅😅 Great content as always ! And that siren gag made me laugh so hard 😂

[@DECODEDVFX]

I saw the Colombo signs before Tom too, but I certainly didn't find the street as quickly. I had to scan the map for bloody ages to find that street. Colombo is _not_ a small place.

[@MultiGerel]

@Willem Hebbe Sri Lanka has 2 capitals

[@Jedermann96]

Just thinking about the music in the straight line mission makes me excited!

[@MatthewLikesToRead]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@yeyetii4157]

YESS I CANT WAIT FOR THE straight line mission!!!

[@lukesallis4733]

Pretty sure yellow on the map means it's a commercial building rather than grey for residential

[@RobinClower]

It's more nuanced than that, but that's the gist of it. "We determine “areas of interest” [orange/yellow areas] with an algorithmic process that allows us to highlight the areas with the highest concentration of restaurants, bars and shops. In high-density areas like NYC, we use a human touch to make sure we’re showing the most active areas."

[@blake-exe]

While it's amazing when you commit great feats in geoguesser, we still love watching the play along/more casual content. It's fun to see your skill and knowledge in any random round and you're just a great entertainer overall!

[@DeadHollywoodx]

18:30 it's not "in Russian" it's in Cyrillic

[@ПавелПетков-ю8ь]

And Cyrillic in invented in Bulgaria ;)

[@bakapotato5327]

Orr We can just say it is in Bulgarian. We know its Bulgaria and saying it's in Cyrillic, while correct is like looking at what I just wrote here and saying it's in Latin.

[@aidenboone7183]

the siren had me on the floor!!!! there is a reason i love this channel. down to the last second of videos, this is my personal favorite channel. the content is one of my favorite subjects ever (geography) and there is the occasional bits of funny too. you are the best Tom, keep it up!!

[@tinplategeek1058]

In Qatar, Tom "ruled it out as we cannot be that far north" then zooms out the map to show that his guess was even further north!

[@sopphi]

I'm guessing he thought the compass direction was incorrect so he chose a road that came from a different direction.

[@EmilyMarais]

I think he meant that he couldn’t be so far North as it was too close to the water, so if he was in that area of the city he needed to be further South, further from the sea

[@eltea1]

This is China! -A man that has probably never seen a glimpse of China in his entire life

[@Ben-gl6pw]

Cant wait for the next missions Tom, some of the best content on KZbin in my opinion🤝

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

Tom has to be one of the luckiest geoguessrs ever, like on the Sri Lanka one he just instantly zooms in on the street he's looking for. I've seen it quite a number of times but then again sometimes he doesn't realize he's spot on and leaves to search another area

[@benmckinlay1902]

4 perfect scores! Very pleased with myself - couldn't find the right location in Qatar so dropped 23 points there. Even so, managed to secure my best GeoGuessr performance ever! Nice to not only beat Tom's score, but also to beat it in half the time :)

[@geezy_7733]

Kinda stopped watching your videos and your channel in general lately, but I just stumbled uppon this one and saw that you reached 1M subscribers which put a big smile on my face. You deserve it all, congrats !

[@jorisv207]

4:04 crying laughing

[@Tsuma_Vento]

What was that about? I didn't catch that... Human trafficking, drugs?

[@jorisv207]

@@Tsuma_Vento all of the above

[@nathan87]

@@Tsuma_Vento crossing a motorway on foot, I think.

[@breakfastsausage]

Thanks for another Play Along, it's great fun trying to beat you or go for a perfect score. No perfect score for me this time, but I did manage to beat you! Finished with 24,982. Round 1: 5000 Round 2: 4987 Round 3: 4999 Round 4: 4996 Round 5: 5000 Very pleased with myself! Thanks for the education as usual. I always learn something new when I watch your videos. SUGGESTION: The Explorer Mode might be fun to do some videos on. You can pick a specific country where you try to get a perfect score, and you can see the map fill up with gold medals as you complete more countries.

[@TrolledBy]

Speaking of repeat rounds, last time I played this map I got 2 repeat rounds, 2 rounds I've seen you got, and the last round was made by a person called "mapping Armenia". So yeah. Kinda low replayability after certain point

[@acidfelice]

My rounds were so funny and I got so confused. I relised in the 4th round that were playing capital cities. The 3rd round was terrible because I clicked somewhere in Vietnam, not even in the capital because I didnt relise to play it. In my last round i thought were in Bosnia because of the flag, but then clicked it right on Saint Lucia. Only got 19.986 points becaue of Vietnam. Love your content, keep it up : >

[@Dennizzz119]

The 'Mapnr' actually said "Maria". The whole Street name was "бул княгиня Мария Луиза". Which translates to Princess Maria Louisa Boulevard. Spend an hour learning the alphabet Tom, it'll be a great investment :)

[@hammerth1421]

I'm not good at Cyrillic but even I could read Maria.

[@thewiseturtle]

An HOUR? More like many days. Unless you're on the autism end of the brain spectrum and love code. I've played around learning the Cyrillic letters for quite a while now due to this game, and still don't really remember most of them. Memorization or arbitrary squiggles isn't something I'm good at at all.

[@Itza-Me]

@@thewiseturtle Wtf does autism and code have to do with learning an alphabet... It's not even that every person with autism is a linguistic genius or loves coding lol

[@thewiseturtle]

@@Itza-Me The autistic brain is the one that is hyper detail oriented and focused on code. It's why we have brilliant mathematicians and linguists and programmers and engineers, because they really love studying the detailed patterns of basic systems, especially artificial ones (human made stuff). All kids are great at learning alphabets, at very low levels of consciousness, as the very young brain is very open to everything like a blank slate (with obvious genetic variations), but as adults, some brains love to study such things more intentionally at higher levels of consciousness to make theories about the patterns. Also, note that folks in the autism corner of the multidimensional spectrum of brain types are very common, maybe up to 1/3 of humans. Very few are ever labeled as "having autism" as that tends to feel extreme, as compared to the more normal level of geekiness of those who just like to focus on studying small details in systems (especially artificial ones).

[@DeronMeranda]

Though if you're just learning the Cyrillic alphabet and not a language, you can only "transliterate" it, not "translate" it. So that reads as "Bul knyaginya Mariya Luiza"-the "princess" part would be totally lost on you. Fortunately there are many words in common with English so you can sometimes guess a few words, and personal names are usually spelled just like they're pronounced.

[@erikfeys6756]

A swedish barber, in Bulgaria, with a Detroit Michigan shirt on. thats a unicorn if I've ever seen one

[@danielundefined3361]

YES PERFECT SCORE! I don't usually do this well but this was somehow... manageable. Even the round which was close to the airport.

[@andreaspetkov5714]

Love seeing my capital in your videos! (Sofia) Just a small sidenote, the language is not Russian but Bulgarian, same family of alphabets (cyrrilic) tho so I get the confusion. The cyrrilic alphabet actually originates in Bulgaria as an adaptation of the glagloic greek alphabet. Anyways, awesome content as always!

[@IsakSZN-es6uj]

This map is so fun, I can’t wait for the next straight line mission 😍

[@mburridge250]

The Qatar round was so jarring😂he even identified the road being directly north to the city centre, and then selected a road that placed the city centre south east. Unlucky, love the content as always!!!

[@youshimimi]

The Capitals are my favorite to watch currently. Hope you will do many more!

[@johnboi8346]

Been watching you for a while on and off but that police gag got me subscribing!

[@bertberw8653]

I'm glad you got back on track on the Juba round, because I was starting to have an anxiety crisis watching you look around China and Vietnam for the obvious South Sudanese capital

[@MouseTai1]

Yeah, "obvious". For a country that exists like 10 years :) The name of its capital hasn't fully reached the public conscience around the world.

[@zeigknoechelbruder]

@@MouseTai1 True, but for people doing a lot of geography quizzes etc its obvious - probably not as much for geoguessr players :D

[@danielsecrest5018]

Did this before watching. Hilariaous to see you go through all of the same mistakes with the 3rd round. My first thought was North Korea too :) Eventually realized the people looked north african and found Juba on the map. Wonderful round.

[@janelle3711]

my best challenge so far ! 19,988 points for me ! Round 1: 4989, Round 2: 4999, and then a shamful TWO points on round 3..., Round 4: 4998, and lastly i ended on a high note with a perfect 5000 on round 5! super pleased with myself ! gotta admit though that knowing all 197 flags of the world did help :P

[@liambuckingham3337]

Sounds similar to me. Perfect score on the last, decent scores for 3 of the others, and then about as far away as possible on round 3!

[@janelle3711]

@@liambuckingham3337 right !! I got so confused by the quite obvious African environment but then a Chinese store on the third round ?? Caught me off guard!

[@chipandchap100]

Sounds similar to me. My text would be: my best challenge so far ! 20,250 points for me ! Round 1: circa 4988, Round 2: circa 4998, and then a shamful circa 360 points on round 3..., Round 4: circa 4998, and lastly i ended on a high note with a perfect 5000 on round 5! super pleased with myself ! gotta admit though that I googled the .lk domain (Sri Lanka) which obviously was cheating ...

[@aarohimehendale8333]

I was having the worst day and this video made me so SO happy! Thank you for your brilliance, GeoWizard.

[@ronanfitzpatrick9596]

Love this series 🙌🏾

[@fleek6319]

OMW I can't believe it, one of the rare times I beat you!! 24971 points 1. Round - I almost gave up because I couldn't find the district Colombo 11 on the map, just Colombo 8, 9, 10 and 12 but at last I zoomed into this central area like you did, and found the street. - 5000 2. Round - Similar to you I searched Doha for ages looking for a QDB Bank and the fitting layout, and couldn't find it. Luckily I got closer than you - 4971 3. Round - I got Africa pretty quickly from the environment and people and just searched some countries around the middle of the continent, found Juba, chose the what I think is the correct junction (one more north eastern) and got 5000 points, although being on the "wrong side of the road" (clearly a mistake) too 4. Round - When I couldn't find the street after a lot of searching I focused on the layout of the roads in the centre of Sofia, found the barber shop and the pharmacy, got it in the end - 5000 5. Round - Pretty straightforward indeed - 5000 points You are fun even when you're confused Tom. Hope the coppers don't find you

[@minidini10]

24,991 points, one of the few times I beat Tom. That Juba round was so confusing. My 2 guesses in Sri Lanka and Qatar are what cost me.

[@kostadint3757]

Same result here and same two mistakes. *insert Spiderman gif*

[@LZmiljoona]

Had the same thought process as you on the Qatar round. Love these play alongs. Will also be happy to just see some simple obscure map videos. Also, 15:02 - never change, Tom ;)

[@alfredhedlund04]

17:14 As a Swede this was unexpected but really funny😂

[@sopphi]

If you turn around from the barber shop there's also a "agency for security and security" (i guess the meaning of the words is more nuanced in Bulgarian) called "VIKING" and a sign on a wall that says "GALERY VIKING". I wonder if this is just a coincidence or if this place has some significance with regard to Sweden.

[@toffe9914]

Rent spontant känns inte ”swedish barbershop” speciellt lockande

[@alfredhedlund04]

@@sopphi Oh that’s right! Hmmm, but still very weird hahahah

[@alfredhedlund04]

@@toffe9914 Njae håller med, vi är ju inte direkt känna för det… hahhaah

[@perigeedynamics5941]

I really enjoy these play alongs! Cant wait to see the missions! I searched the entirety of the Pacific looking for Juba before noticing the people on the street were African. China is investing massively in Africa for resource extraction!

[@James-712]

I wasn't the only one that struggled with the south sudan one, that was a tough one

[@MagiSwag]

I was able to pick it up from the Juba Airport sign but if you don't know capitals I can see that one being difficult

[@liambuckingham3337]

I checked every Asian capital city multiple times because I was convinced it must have been one of them. Might've faired better if the image wasn't so poor quality and I was able to make out more details on the signs.

[@SuperScraper123]

I saw the juba sign but didnt know where it was. looked all over asia like tom till I saw the african people on the road and realised its in africa somewhere. I clicked in the middle of the continent and got 4k

[@myrtonen]

Pissed me off, since I looked for ages for Colombo 11 district which wasn't on the map at all, and somehow you managed to get in there without even noticing the number 11 in the address plaques. Get in!

[@daniel_bohrer]

Don't worry, I misread "Juba" as "Jakarta" and was very confused as well. Nevertheless a fun round as always! I think it could be feasible for you to get familiarised with the cyrillic alphabet a bit, considering the huge amount of possible locations on the map that it is used in. Don't worry, it's not as hard as other scripts 😉

[@nashhamster]

I do a decent amount of country streaks so I can figure out the countries (and on this map, cities) pretty easily. But how you manage to get the spot IN the city so close always boggles my mind. good job tom

[@orichter]

That Swedish Barbarer round.. either you or GeoPeter has had that round before. Remember seeing it in a video before (and I mainly watch you two). This guess was closer though, as far as I can remember...

[@PaulEmsley]

Likewise - I remember seeing a Swedish barber before (and thinking it weird). Yes, probably with GeoPeter.

[@Solwa54]

I remember seeing it too, and I don't watch GeoPeter, so it had to be Tom.

[@Griloso]

I was looking for this comment. I knew I had seen that swedish barber shop before!

[@Crow96F]

Lost 9 points in Doha but got the full points in every other city and ended up with 24.991. Love this format, hope you'll keep playing this map!

[@elin_]

That map is so much fun! It takes a lot longer for me to figure out where I am tho 😂 I'm Swedish and the Swedish barber shop surprised me 😵😅

[@S-Nova0]

I reckon a Turkish barber shop in Bulgaria doesn't carry the same mystique as it does elsewhere in Europe. Bit like opening an English pub in Ireland!

[@CoasterKid13]

I protest! (Kidding of course). I was at the same spot as Tom on the SS round and am certain it was right, but also got 4999. First time I've beaten him though, and perfect rounds on the rest, so that was fun! Great video as always.

[@sammooney4606]

First time (after many, many attempts) beating Tom! Took me 35 minutes, but managed to get 25,000. Love this map and series.

[@suhasdara3040]

You have to be lucky or cheating to get 25k on this one because of the Juba one not being labeled correctly on the map

[@julia970y6v]

@@suhasdara3040 It's labelled close enough that you get a perfect score if you guess correctly. Tom was one block too far to the south.

[@rob2k27]

Hey Tom. Because of being addicted to these vids recently, I joined up last night and I think I was in a round with you earlier. You were very wrong ha.. Love it man, love your vids from France, previously Tamworth ☺️

[@tonictechz]

loving this series so much!

[@HeadRecieverAtHeadOffice]

Thanks Tom, I've been following the geogussr content since 30k subs

[@ngwoo]

Yellow buildings on Google Maps means they're "interesting", or basically just busier than surrounding areas.

[@simonjupiter]

Finally got a perfect score! South Sudan messed me up as well at first haha. I think you're right that the marker was wrong but it was a block further northeast than you clicked, across from those big blue rectangular buildings.

[@nicottacheese3065]

18:32 ouch that hurt

[@arvibi3084]

After watching the video, I am extremely pleased and proud that I did manage to get a perfect score on this one. Also, I had to pause at "Gotta find the country first, ah, there it is" because I was laughing too hard. Thanks for that, Tom.

[@rumxn]

18:30 just a little insight the Bulgarians actually created the so called "Кирилица" alphabet which Russians copied and claimed to be theirs. so actually Russian is Bulgarian

[@jaidynarneill]

ok power.

[@hex_6590]

Not really copied. It was meant to be an alphabet for slavs all around eastern Europe. It's just that Russia is more known to foreigners and so they think "russian" when they see cyrillic letters.

[@rnabo031]

Saints Cyril and Methodius were slavs from Macedonia.

[@hex_6590]

@@rnabo031 Slavic Macedonia didn't exist back then. The region was under byzantine rule, then bulgarian with periods where it was conquered and reconquered. For some time, Ohrid was the capital of the Bulgarian Kingdom. Besides, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessalonica in the Byzantine Empire.

[@rumxn]

@@hex_6590 yes but no there are multiple occasions where Russia acted or thought that they created the alphabet

[@Harka666]

Wow, my hometown - Sofia. Sweet! :) And by the way, we are not writing in Russian. We are using the Cyrillic Alphabet which has been developed in the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire - Pliska. It was commissioned by the Bulgarian Tsar at that time - Simeon I. So, technically the Russians are using our Alphabet and not the opposite. The street, that you've tried to pronounce is called Knyaginya (which is a Bulgarian title, similar to Princess) Maria Luisa. I hope this helped. :)

[@quinnlevy8996]

As someone who knows all the capitals, the amount of anxiety you put me through with Juba was uncalled for

[@EllenHamptonFilgo]

Perfect score! What a fun round to play. I got sidetracked by all the "Are we in Asia?" clues on that Juba round until I was able to read the sign. Fortunuately, I knew where Juba was already...

[@J55_ZR]

This has been the first time I've beaten Tom on a play-along!

[@jackt5080]

Yeah, it's my first time beating him as well. Good job!

[@julia970y6v]

My first time as well. 15 minutes total with about half of that being Sofia.

[@dirkbarbi5043]

I was literally shouting Colombo at my screen, much to the annoyance of my coworkers. :-D Love your videos.

[@kjdude8765]

"Bombarded with clues" = surrounded by shop addresses....

[@snowballmusic5696]

Its raining at my house so I didn't hear the siren. Figured either you or I had phenomenally glitched and it really kept me on my toes, cheers mate

[@raafmaat]

at 4:05 did you just jokingly get scared by the police sirens? i liked it but it sounded like a fire alarm, so i thought u got actually scared :P

[@callumross6290]

Definitely a joke, he did it in a previous video too lol

[@xmtxx]

If you need to explain the joke, then it's way less funny. But I guess, Poe's law, go strong.

[@OmowiHY]

Something about the way you looked into the camera when you said "Castries" absolutely slayed me.

[@IHateBeingAKangaroo]

Got 24,998 points in 19 minutes. R2 was the only one i didn't find but i actually guessed on the same road somehow, it was kinda random, just guessed on a road that seemed plausible and ended up only losing 2 points. R1 - was a bit tricky because Colombo 11 didn't show up on the map, was confused for a while, but zooming in on the part where it made sense for it to be on, the road was pretty visible without needing to zoom in much. Then it was just using the JDM textiles to pinpoint. R3 - is pretty straight forward as soon as you manage to read the sign if you know where Juba is. Somehow guessed on the wrong side of the road but still got 5k R4 - the flag looked Russian to me but it made no sense because it didn't look like Russia at all plus EU plates. After a while i realized my mistake and started zooming on roads that seemed like it could be the one that we could see the name of and i actually found it on like the second or third street i zoomed on. Then it was just pinpointing using the barbershop. R5 - Pretty straighforward 5k

[@jlt131]

you beat me by just 20 pts! congrats on beating Tom, although he definitely seemed a bit off his game today! Round two is what got me as well. Just couldn't locate the right part of town, and even placed my point at a "Gate Mall" which i thought referred to the archway. ah well, great game!

[@daanbes2788]

This is the first time I got a better score than Tom! 24.986 points was my score. Good game Tom, looking forward for more PLAY ALONG videos!!!

[@krngvoltz4442]

Poggers Tom Davies

[@AtticusRex]

I finally beat Tom for the first time! Needed a perfect score and a little bit of wiggle room to do it but it feels good, man! Thanks for letting me have this one!

[@justin.porter]

“They’re taking photographs, for one” 😂

[@kostadint3757]

Managed to get 24,991 points, dropped some on the first two rounds, as I didn't bother searching for the correct place. Really enjoyable map, though! p.s. As a fellow Bulgarian, I laughed quite hard at Tom's pronunciation of the street name. As we use the Cyrillic alphabet, which has nothing in common with Latin, there is now way to read it right away. It actually translates as 'Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria' and is a boulevard. As for the barber shop, Tom correctly pointed out that they are usually Turkish or Arabic and the guy standing on the entrance is definiteny not a swede, but whatever..

[@hippletwipple2285]

"Juba International Airport. Is this Vietnam?" Oh Thomas.

[@Satu107]

I actually managed to beat you this time! Ha! Jokes aside, I couldnt find the exact street in bulgaria which upset me a bit, but ended up with a score of 24.997. The qatar round took me quite a bit but I found it with some luck. Great video as always! Keep it up

[@SaturnsRBX]

*”Congrats to everyone who is early and who found this comment!”😎*

[@antonibald123]

Made me spit my water everywhere with that siren gag

[@muffinpieceyt]

I got 24.977. perfect rounds in Sri Lanka (juba because it was incorrect) and in St. Lucia. That Qatar round i made the same mistake as Tom and went pretty far down in Doha. Bulgaria i didn't want to search for hours in this language and in the end i was a few blocks off. Great Video and well done Tom. :)

[@robertbenson4612]

The play-alongs are the best part of this channel except maybe the straight line missions.

[@jehanhendry2146]

Love your videos! Can you do some more one country challenges? I'd love to see you try a NZ map. It's got some really diverse geography for a small country and could be very interesting. Australia would be fun too if you want to please a larger audience though haha

[@funmakerkubik]

Thank you for all of your "play along" challenges. I really enjoy them.