Geoguessr: Interesting Photospheres in Obscure Countries #2 [PLAY ALONG]

[@LePondLaDuck]

“Those buggers ISIS” I’d say that’s a fair assessment of the lads.

[@rhettlanders920]

Exactly what u was going to comment lmao

[@PiousMoltar]

Too kind. Far too kind.

[@PiousMoltar]

Though "lads" is a lot worse....

[@41-Haiku]

Those ISIS guys, they're real jerks.

[@leadnitrate2194]

@@41-Haiku just like Albert Fish

[@DadgeCity]

After n years, Tom still wants to believe the compass on photospheres. Bless

[@nikolajohnnynikolajohnny]

ahahahahaha amazing

[@toffinabof1353]

Of course! I wonder if he will ever stop -__-

[@jchrizzy6995]

After all this time he still believes the Earth is round and has poles smh. North isn’t real, South is the only direction.

[@jlt131]

@@jchrizzy6995 there is one place on earth that is true; south is the only direction if you're at the north pole. if you're anywhere else, you're just silly. Also, earth isn't round, because round is a flat shape

[@MrfuckinBeilke]

That's funny af

[@Brigister]

the number plate in the Iran round actually just said "Iran" (إيران), not Tehran (تهران) but great catch with the last two letters being (ان) -an!

[@Bekirkata]

What

[@jipoudeweernink9364]

Interesting stuff, thanks for the explanation!

[@benclifford7891]

Thanks for the explanation! I was quite impressed when Tom caught on to the -an suffix

[@SomeoneBlue2]

What about the "22" below it? I thought it might be a reference to District 22 in Tehran, but it doesn't seem related.

[@gulag_gary2125]

@@SomeoneBlue2 if there’s a district 22 the car owner could live in that area thus having their vehicle registered there, but work in another district perhaps

[@dalewatt6277]

Thanks for playing my map again! Glad you enjoyed it. Just remember that it's never going to be in a "regular" Geoguessr country. Obscure only!

[@theotherone5214]

Like the obscure country of China?

[@scottblair3719]

@@theotherone5214 in Geoguessr terms, China is quite obscure. I agree, geopolitically it’s a superpower, but that’s not the definition of obscure at use here.

[@sy_2227]

Read that Tom. :D "no countries where GeoGuessr would normally take you in an average round" - 2nd round Portugal or Brasil. :D

[@pinedrops7542]

Cool map sir

[@olenilsen4660]

​@@sy_2227 Well, the streetsigns look very Portuguese, but the license plates says it can´t be. Those would be regular EU plates if so. Streetsigns also tells it can´t be Brasil, it had to be some colony still under some kind of Portuguese rule, but still not a part of Portugal because of the license plates. However, the important part is that fit chick in the turqouise top. I would add three minutes to the round because of her ;P

[@mburridge250]

As a hint for next time Tom, the map specifically chooses places that don't have Google Street view. So your time debating the likes of Brazil, Portugal, Australia etc is wasted as they're never going to be on the map! Automatically think to obscure, it'll help a lot with narrowing down. The search in Portugal and Brazil was wasted

[@jageiosjgaeiojg]

Honestly at this point I think he does some of this stuff on purpose to drive up the #engagement by making mugs like me comment about it on all of his videos

[@richarddaniels6044]

That's what helped me get the second round. Always helps to read the description of the map.

[@MrfuckinBeilke]

Brilliant

[@George_Bland]

Yeah he's playing as if it's a normal game

[@mr.nihilist1069]

it's what i love about these videos: he's got his own way of finding clues and gets obsessed enough with one detail that he ignores all else. like a unique reverse-search-engine with honestly quite a reputable successrate

[@lukasmeier]

I vouch for a straight line across Cape Verde mission

[@SwoleakhulTheBlind]

Via boat 😅

[@realtissaye]

HAH

[@luminisant]

Straight line across Vatican City

[@99Venom]

@@luminisant This should take 5 minutes xD

[@tylisirn]

@@99Venom You're gonna need some ladders...

[@th3WhiteKnight]

That Kabul round was mind bending. If it wasn't for the literal name of the city, I could've sworn it was Russia, and I am from Russia.

[@Zach-bt2ky]

Да согласен Я из Узбекистана And I thought it was Tashkent, especially because of the tree’s bottoms being painted white

[@chippyconqueror]

именно, я подумал, что это город в Сибири

[@ashugg7476]

lmao same

[@leothecat9609]

How much of Kabul was built by the Soviets?

[@ryanolsen294]

Я думал так же, как и ты.

[@paddymulvey4421]

I recognised Timgad because a couple of years ago I was looking at World Heritage sites in Algeria, which Timgad is. I remembered the lone arch surrounded by rubble and columns as being pretty distinct for Timgad. I didn't remember exactly where in Algeria the city is but I was able to find it pretty quickly on the map. It turns out that reading through random lists of things online can have real benefits!

[@vojvoda-draza]

There's an almost exactly same one in Libya

[@Box0rz]

@@vojvoda-draza You mean Leptis Magna? That's where I placed my marker, even though I was quite sure it wasn't it. Got over 3k points tho, so it's ok.

[@vincentmaltais507]

I thought it was somewhere near Italy, but only 700 km off

[@NotSkander]

If im remembering right, the algeria ruin was the first big page spread of some unit in my ancient history 5th grade class. lived near lots of roman ruins before, and in portugal, but the double island tanked my score

[@dogcatdogable]

There are similar sites in Tunisia, I knew it was that part of the world because I went on a package holiday there lol

[@LuciusVulpes]

The fact that I fully remember the photosphere Tom mentions at 0:41 despite the video being almost a year old just shows how fucked we felt from finding out it wasn't Spain.

[@Destroy666x]

Obscure countries according to Tom: Portugal, Australia, Canada, Brazil. I guess some could be called that because of remote areas that they have, but not really compared to Cape Verde, they are rather known.

[@averagebeetle]

Tbf to Tom, the signs in Cabo Verde are exactly the same as in Portugal (which I also wasn't aware) and obviously it's the same language. The plates and the houses didn't look like anything you see in Portugal but just based on the signs it would be worth it to check out Portugal, mainly the islands as some might find them obscure. It got me confused as a native so I'm really not surprised Tom played it this way

[@mftmss7086]

@@averagebeetle it's pretty evident that whenever he plays this map he totally forgets the "obscure" part. but tbh I don't know if Afghanistan could be considered obscure.

[@Destroy666x]

@@mftmss7086 depends on how you look at it. It's pretty popular now due to political reasons, but when it comes to tourism and geographical features, I wouldn't really say it's too known.

[@ultraL2]

@@mftmss7086 it’s obscure because it’s not in regular google maps

[@mftmss7086]

@@ultraL2 oh ok, makes sense

[@miguelmelo96]

I am Portuguese and was just as confused as you haha. The signs are definitely like the ones we have at Portugal but at the same time the streets didn`t looked familiar at all, not even with the islands. Also, I know Brasil signs are different, so yeah no worries mate, that was a tough one

[@williamianson2281]

This makes me even happier that I guessed cabo Verde so early, think it's probably the first time I've beaten the wizard to a location

[@beaverones41]

Having been to Cape Verde my mind instantly went there when I saw that location.

[@NunoTeixeiraChannel]

Yea, same. Had no idea.

[@oliveiraqmatouoleao]

I like using cars as a reference, we never had those Land Cruisers in Brasil, also black license plates, can't be Brasil or Portugal. Straight away i've thought of Cabo Verde, and it had a very island ish feel, so i ruled out Angola and Moçambique. The second Cabo Verde tho, picked the Aral Sea lol, looked like one of the non dried out locations.

[@laihug]

Yes, same. I had no ideia that Cabo Verde has the same signs as Portugal. Always learning! The names weren't familiar, I do some games in geoguessr PT maps and nothing came out. Very tuff really, congrats! 👏

[@Jigen]

I'd love to see you attempt ''A Pinpointable Rural World'' one day for a challenge, it's a map based on locations with no signs nearby, but possible to pinpoint precisly based on the surrounding landscape :)

[@alamcho]

Tom: "Are we recording?" me, obviously watching the video: "boy I hope he is"

[@zactorbeam3809]

Honestly mate, You are a great inspiration to me. Over the last 2 years you have reignited my passion for geography and made me very hopeful to be able to travel in the future. You talk about a thanks for the hours of editing. Thank you.

[@heeryanus]

Every time Tom checks if hes recording I get this feeling in my stomach that this time he will not be..

[@vickylee456]

Underrated comment

[@freerangeboogara]

Honestly, I've never actually played along with Tom on any of these videos, I watch them simply because I find them to be extremely interesting

[@Lord7979]

This is a fun map please do more! Can't wait til you're done editing so we can see the mission as well as more GeoDetective as well! Keep up the good work Tom!

[@Adalbertinhu]

That "it's bloody Cabo Verde" reminded my of the old "it's bloody Eswatini" round when you were on for a pretty good score. Good old Tom never changes!

[@getinwizard2877]

“Get in!” count: 1 @17:55 clean Get In. Very beautiful snow scene there. I was getting the Christmas feels for a sec

[@noeonoohno4219]

he's not gonna fugg u mate

[@its_no0dle]

my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

[@getinwizard2877]

@@noeonoohno4219 I was really hoping that would happen mate

[@miguelsa3631]

Yet

[@argir5849]

There was one at 17:58

[@alimkashani5586]

That Tehran round was the closest I've seen you get to where I live, Tom. Great job:)) I, for one, could not guess where it was at all cause the street name just said 22nd and the infamous prison was a library specializing in Law:) I was really confused as to how you found out it was Tehran but it was just kinda lucky cause the plate just said Iran and you thought it was Tehran:) Here's a tip if you ever stumble upon a non blurred registration plate like that in Iran (which is highly unlikely) If it's got 2 of the same number or a 0 in that little 2 digit section it's the capital. 11, 22 and so on, also 10, 20 and the likes of em. بیا تو!(Get in, but translated to farsi xD)

[@linollieum3742]

Palmyra still has a photosphere of the ampitheatre on maps! (can't link it on youtube). Palmyra as a whole was not fully destroyed, certain parts of it were either fully or partially targeted. The ampitheatre was mostly destroyed, but many of the tetrapylon's columns were not original so hopefully it eventually can be restored, like they are restoring other of the destroyed artifacts.

[@davidrob_]

Tom, Palmyra was a city that had essentially gone rogue from the mighty Roman Empire in 270 AD. It became independent and formed an empire that lasted for 3 years, but was eventually beaten by the Romans, whom later burnt the city down and left it in ashes.

[@Roozyj]

I got 16,008 points, so pretty close to yours! First round: I was thinking "this looks extremely Roman/Greek, but also Northern African, so it's probably somewhere near where Carthage used to be", but for some reason I then went to Egypt, thinking it has also been Roman at some point, instead of sticking to Carthage... Second round: Praia is the capital of Cape Verde, so I kinda just went with that, even though I couldn't see any of the names I saw on the signs. I didn't realise Praia was just Portuguese for Beach (I suppose), so getting the right country and only being 150 km away was a real lucky strike xD Third round: "This could be anywh-... anywhere in Kabul, Afghanistan. I zoomed in on the embassy of Pakistan, since the building was gifted by Pakistan. I stumbled upon the Kabul University, and when I couldn't find the faculty of Arts, I just plopped the marker down somewhere. Wrong building, but still over 4900 points. Fourth round: Saw it was Iran on the number plates, didn't have patience to find a place I would probably not be able to find and put the marker in the center of Teheran. Was 4.2 km away. Not bad xD Fifth round: It reminds me of a photo of Nauru I once saw, but I think most pacific islands aren't as rocky as this one. Maybe one of the Solomon Islands? I really don't have much to go on and they seem rocky. I don't think I did get any points for this one. 19,000 km away is literally the other side of the world xD

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Egypt was Roman longer than Carthage all in all so fair’s fair.

[@oliverwilson11]

I don't think anywhere in the Solomons has that kind of barren desert landscape. It's basically jungle in most places.

[@snaithobrodie]

@@oliverwilson11 yup

[@Roozyj]

@@oliverwilson11 Yeah, I looked it up later and realised the same thing, but googling the Solomon Islands in the middle of a Geoguessr game felt like cheating xD Like I said, for some reason it reminded me of Nauru

[@bradyrice6631]

For the first round, Jeanne-Pierre Garcia combined with the desert landscape and Roman amphitheater pointed me assuredly toward Algeria

[@Omega_Orion]

I don't know much about Algeria personally, but with the desert and Roman influence it felt like it had to be northern coast of Africa

[@yaakdeu1163]

There where Roman based movies shot somewhere in 🇩🇿 or 🇹🇳

[@bradyrice6631]

@@Omega_Orion definitely a cool part of the world I’ve yet to visit

[@yaakdeu1163]

@@Omega_Orion most Tunisian n Algerian are fluent in French

[@beckobert]

I guessed a roman temple in Lebanon, which once was a French Colony and is pretty arid as well. So there are certainly options, even if you find all the clues.

[@tunateun]

1st round: the photographer's name made me think of a country with French history, so I had the hunch it might be Algeria. Didn't find the right place but was 200km off. 2nd round: also searched the whole Portuguese coast, then realized it would be a more obscure lusophone country. Checked out Equatorial Guinea first but then found the place on Cape Verde. 3rd round: Got a mile off in Kabul, couldn't be bothered to search the whole city 4th round: correctly guessed Tehran, but didn't find the right location, 4km off 5th round: Guessed Western Sahara bc of the deserty coast. Could be worse.

[@Nick-hm9rh]

Honestly the straight line stuff is my favorite of your content. Its just oddly addicting

[@Wonton001]

This was one of the hardest play alongs, my god.

[@hippletwipple2285]

The point of this map is to give you places that aren't on regular street view. It's not remote areas of well known countries, it's random places in countries you don't get on regular GeoGuessr.

[@olenilsen4660]

14:00 - awesome job! I could rule out Portugal and Brasil because of road signs and license plates, but well done finding that specific place!

[@M1402_]

'Lightyears ago' seems often a bit unsensical as it's a measure of distance. However since the game is all about distances it kinda makes sense.

[@bardsamok9221]

*nonsensical Try travelling a lightyear without traveling through time. aka: SpaceTime.

[@bardsamok9221]

Einstein showed the absolute MINIMUM time required to travel a lightyear is 1 year, according to the rules of SpaceTime ie: rules of the universe. Therefore travelling lightyears means multiple years of travelling by definition of the laws of the universe (nothing may travel faster than light). Look up "SpaceTime"

[@bardsamok9221]

Also reference minkowski space if interested

[@danthyros]

Tom, you usually beat me in these play-alongs, but I had you this time with 19000something - close to perfect until the last round. One thing I noticed that helped: the description of this Geoguessr map says you will only get rounds in countries without official street view coverage. This means you'll never get a round in Tunisia or Brazil, for example, which helped immediately: (round 1) clearly Roman or Greek ruins, looks like Northern Africa, can't be Tunisia because it has street view coverage and I don't think we're in Egypt. I know the Romans built all along the Southern coast of the Mediterranean, so at this point Libya, Algeria, and Morocco are all candidates, but I think Libya has less area that looks like not-deep-Sahara and so I started with Algeria. It's a big country but most of it is Sahara and the Romans were only along the Northern part. Also you can see mountains in the North in the photosphere, so we're not searching a huge strip of land. In a few minutes I found two ruins sites marked on the map. The first one didn't correlate since it had too much modern city built up around it, but the second correlated well and was marked "Roman Ruins" on the map. Put in my guess, got it right. (2) From the look of the place, the Portuguese signs, and the knowledge I couldn't be in Portugal or Brazil (again, because they have street view coverage) I immediately was thinking either Cabo Verde or Sao Tome. Some map searching led me to focus more on the former because there were more "praia" and "porto" locations there (plus it looked less forested). After a few minutes of searching I noticed the same Baia das Gatos that you noticed at 11:40, and figured that was good enough for me to make a guess and probably be close. Wrong island, but right country and not terrible points. (3) was very easy. (4) Easy to see we're in Iran. Iran is a big country and has many cities large enough to support big hardware stores, and I was not clever enough to try to read the Persian writing on the license plate and conclude we were definitely in Tehran. Still, I zoomed in on Tehran, found a north-south street with lots of yellow shops, and eventually found one marked "tool store." It wasn't the right tool store, but I was only a few miles away, pretty close to where you guessed. (5) I'm over 19000 points by this point, so have a chance to get a really good score if I get this. We're clearly some place warm; there are some fair-skinned dudes wearing shorts near what appears to be an African local who might be selling seashells. There's a dilapidated wooden structure I think might be an old oil rig, so I'm thinking some place such as Equatorial Guinea or Angola that has lots of oil. Trouble is, it doesn't look anything like Equatorial Guinea since there's almost no vegetation in sight, and I don't think it's Angola either because the Sun is slightly in the South. I looked at Cabo Verde again but most of the islands had more tree coverage and inland water than it looks like we have here. I glanced at the Caribbean (too green), the east coast of Africa around Somalia and Djibouti (nothing correlates), and the southern coast of Yeman and Oman before giving up after about 15 minutes. I didn't like any of them, and left the guess in Yemen. Was very wrong. Lesson learned: the southern islands in Cabo Verde look more Mediterranean whereas the two larger islands in the Northeast part of the country look more desert-y.

[@TheKLMfokker100]

I really love your geo videos, keep up the good work! This in fact was my first time to play along, and i got 18.300 point :D About the last picture I think I was a bit lucky. I used the sun for help, and ended up guessing just south of Nouakchott. Keep doing this, good Job man!!

[@barhir2441]

I got 19989. Got 7 miles away in the first round cos I remembered my old Latin teacher telling us they filmed Gladiator in a Roman colosseum in Tunisia. I figured Tunisia wasn't obscure enough so I went with eastern Algeria near some hills.

[@ступид-й8ъ]

Tom trying to match the name of the city from a license plate written "Iran" is so funny

[@hsdg48]

Fr 😂😂 it was just "Iran" in local language

[@Bendrix27]

I knew Praia was the capital of Cabo Verde, glad you got there eventually. Weird to know more about a country than GeoWizard, that doesn't happen often for me lol

[@dariofkxv6829]

tom: knows the map is based in obscure countries also tom: spends like 10 minutes searching portugal and brazil

[@kyleharner3437]

Congrats on 1 mil!

[@pwoper_fish]

I got a perfect score on the first Cabo Verde round because I recognized praia as the capital (although I think that's just portuguese for beach), and spent a few minutes searching the islands. Interestingly I also guessed Syria for round 1 and Namibia for round 5, I remember seeing abandoned mining building on the coast of Namibia in a top gear special or something.

[@sy_2227]

while I watched São Tomé e Príncipe and saw like 15 praias there :DDD

[@PrevailingFreedom]

When he mentioned a gold mine in the fifth round, I immediately thought of Kolmanskop in Namibia. I can only assume that’s what he was referring to.

[@Spray_UK]

Looking forward to your next Wales straight line mission!

[@lianadoom]

sameee

[@jlt131]

me too! i hope they succeeded this time!

[@lhnakamerseyboyred]

Enjoy your playthroughs of this & the capitals map. Definitely vote for more games from different types of maps. 1st round: Saw the Roman-esque ruins & landscape and thought somewhere not far off the Atlas mountains, settled on Algeria in part due to the photographer's name but selected a wrong landmark a couple hundred miles away. 2nd round: Saw Portuguese, went to Cabo Verde initially because of it being obscure, saw Sal Rei so got the island, took a little bit to orient the three sets of signs but got it. 3rd round: Saw snow, checked the photographer name, was confused, panned, saw Kabul University. Fortunately Kabul University was a big landmark when zoomed out. Took a while because of the labelling of the building as social sciences so was second guessing myself! 4th round: Saw Iran on the number plates, but had to guess Tehran and tried to find a street with the similar shape. Went 5 miles too far out of the centre. 5th round: Also has Namibia vibes at first but decided to go the southern part of Western Sahara because of the rocky deserty coast and thought it may have been Mauritania. Could've been worse! Looking forward to Wales reloaded!

[@piddy2]

The Cape Verde one was insane. Watching KZbin on the TV I go to my wife, that looks like the place we went in Cape Verde on that tour, and then you mentioned it. Insane. The only place I've ever been correct about on your channel. I reccomend going here. The beaches are fantastic

[@ValekHalfHeart]

I also guessed in Namibia on that last one. Feels validating to see Tom make the same mistake. For what its worth, I think Namibia was on my mind that round because the Skeleton Coast there is famous for lots of destroyed ships and I was trying to think of desert places where there would be lots of broken down stuff.

[@TheFurnessFlyer]

Love the play along video's, Tom. I actually managed to beat you for once with an Algeria guess on the first one. Interestingly I also went with Namibia on rd 5. Plenty of perfect 25000 point scores on that leaderboard... Which I'm struggling to believe!

[@spanzotab]

First time beating Tom! 1. Went for Algeria off the bat because of the roman looking ruins and the guy's name sounded French. Also it looked very north African to me with regards to terrain. Didn't want to look for the ruins, thought it would take way too long and I wasn't even so sure on Algeria. 4,320 points 2. Saw Portuguese, ruled out Brazil and Portugal based on the map and went looking for islands in the Caribbean. Couldn't find any there, knew there were some in the Atlantic and found Cape Verde. Learned that "Praia" probably means beach, which makes sense cause I knew "playa" was beach in Spanish. Boa Vista was the second island I found, looked at all the street signs and confirmed. I got the right town too just by ruling out the places that were listed on the signs, and confirming the inland-looking environment. 5,000 points. 3. Kabul University. Looked for the arts building, couldn't find it. Saw the social sciences building looked very similar but I second guessed myself and went a little further up the road. Heartbreaking 4,999 points. 4. Saw the iconic Iranian license plates and hedged for Tehran considering how built up it looked. There was a mountain to the north, which confirmed the city in my eyes. Went a bit far north on a wild guess. 4,994 points. 5. First thought was Mauritania because it sort of reminded me of that one bald guy doing the train across the Sahara. Compass was pointing southward to the sea though, so it couldn't be. The rock looked black, which I associate with volcanos, so I looked for an island off the coast of Africa. Sadly went for the wrong coast and guessed one of the less inhabited Comoros islands (had no idea what they looked like). 58 points. Total of 19,371. Not too bad at all imo, that last guess really hurt though.

[@jakedemedeiros9978]

I’m from the Açores and I’ve yet to actually have a round there, I sort of like that nobody knows about it though because it’s stopped them from becoming a tourist trap

[@svitkramarros471]

Hey Tom i'm so stoked you've found the Boa Vista one. I've been to that island 15 times and recognised it immediatly. Even my pfp is from there. I was literally yelling at the screen haha. You are insane

[@ngwoo]

I like the rounds that challenge my preconceived notions about places so the snowy Kabul photosphere was excellent

[@leob4403]

I remember a swedish newspaper a few years back writing the Afghans probably seeing snow for the first time in Sweden, pretty ignorant on their part thinking that part of the world is all hot desert like Iraq etc

[@MelonPython]

6:15 The first guess was a good guess, See, one thing with romans was they loved Corinthian style columns. You were really close Tom. The trees reminded me of Greece but Greece has no desert. What really gave it away were the amphi theatres. They were only seen on Roman colonies of that size. The answer was Carthage. Cato the Elder really loved Carthage. Sikes. Syria had no amphi theatres either. Only logical answer here would either be Egypt or Carthage(Algeria)

[@kamil.g.m]

Except Carthage is in Tunisia ..

[@malthejensen7826]

I got the last one because I have been in that exact location a couple of years ago! Me and my mate were driving around the whole Island of Sal by ourselves on four-wheelers and stumbled upon this place, we had the same reaction as Tom! I love your videos my man, cheers from Denmark!!

[@mrvy]

Hey, my first comment on your channel , this is the map (first time around) that made me subscribe to your channel, you just reminded me :)

[@minijimi]

Tom, I love you man! I got 16,104! We played the exact same game aside from the last round, I click on an area near Salton Sea in California. I am feeling pretty good about my score now! Thanks for the game!

[@cleverchesytm9723]

I would love to sre more uplaods, bench watched your whole channel! Great content mate the best to watch when laying in bed falling alsleep! Keep up the good work!

[@dude157]

The Klondike Gold mine Roller coaster still exists. It was bought by Funland Hayling Island, in Portsmouth. I remember it at Drayton mannor, didn't feel safe which was why it was good.

[@biggiemac42]

Really enjoyed playing along this one. Got Kabul and was in Tehran but further from the spot than you were. Wrong portugese island (saw a single familiar word in the azores and just guessed there). The other two I was totally lost, and since I clicked the challenge link without seeing the restrictions of the map I also made some dumb placements in geoguessr-street-view countries like Greece for the last round.

[@almostframps]

17,493 for me, first time doing one of these and not realising it was locations typically covered by Geoguessr. Round 1 - Thought it looked like site I saw in Libya once, so assumed it was a Roman site in North Africa. Scoured Libya for a while but then I picked a location close to the Algerian border in Tunisia. Round 2 - Did exactly the same as you, searched the Portuguese and Brazilian coasts, and then Madeira and the Azores, but forgot Cape Verde existed, so picked somewhere on the south coast of Portugal. Missed the Tui vans though, great spot. Round 3 - Bang on, same as you Round 4 - Pretty much the same again, around the streets of Tehran for a few minutes before picking a street that was 3 miles away. Round 5 - Open sea to the south and the dryness made me think it was one of the Canary Islands. I remember hearing Fuertaventure is the most arid, so chose a location on the south coast, so managed to get 2000+ points in that last round.

[@nathanlong5185]

I actually recognized the third location thanks to the signs. Based on the island look, the mix of races, and a sign that said Praia, I thought immediately of Cabo Verde because Praia is the capital. I cannot believe I'd have gotten that one

[@dabossyt5666]

Definitely some wizardry and coincidence on the Iran round. the word on the registration plate was Arabic for Iran, the name of the country. Well done mate!

[@simonisenberg4516]

I dig the music choices. Makes me look forward to you going for a detailed search.

[@jeremyaks69]

I've never actually played a single game of Geoguesser, but I watch all your videos!

[@shipwreck9146]

His description of Top Gear "Jeremy, James, and Hamster." HAHAHAHAHA also "those buggers, ISIS." Hahahaha, the best descriptions I've ever heard.

[@ObsidianHoax]

still willing to sponsor you on a straight line trip across Utah

[@y-yyy]

I need to see Tom trying to strike it up with mormon landlords

[@jageiosjgaeiojg]

Tom is especially good at geoguessr considering how he excels despite ignoring readily available information, like "obscure countries" in the name of the round, or spending about two hours looking at the topography of some Canadian mountains and shit in a geodetective round as dozens of people screamed "just Google the name of that shop" in the comments section.

[@tigrecito48]

7:54 i know you're thinking Brazil & Portugal, but they also had colonies in Africa & India (Goa) - those cars look like the sort of thing you'd take on safari...

[@tigrecito48]

i was kinda right.. cape verde off the coast of africa

[@unluckygamer692]

27:20 just FYI light years are a measurement of distance, not time :p

[@JacksonCarson]

Love your little semi-local/ethnic folk music you play while speeding up your searches. LOL

[@gwts1171]

Geez, a kind of all-or-nothing round for me. I ended up with about 12,700. #3 & 4 I got perfect scores, #2 & 5 I got about 100 pts each. #1 was right in the middle, around 2500. All beautiful locations, though. Thanks for the video & challenge, Tom! Edit later: Yes, my perfect score on the Tehran one was 75% luck. I was sure of the city, but I really just got frustrated looking and threw down a marker that happened to be very close.

[@iansmall5785]

round the start of the video you went to Palmyra, I was interested because over where you were guessing was the baths of Diocletian. What's funny about that is the fact that I worked with a group to make a replica of it in minecraft of all things for a latin project. It didn't turn out great, but it was pretty interesting. Palmyra was a desert oasis and a good spot for trade which is why the romans were interested in it, If I remember correctly

[@michaelwisniewski6047]

Beat you! I got the first Cape Verde one nearly right because I've been there, and I thought the first round was Palmyra although I've been there (to Palmyra) - looked exactly like it. I got the second Cape Verde right as I've been to that exact location by the old salt mines in Sal.

[@pwndnoob4937]

I believe we have had Afganistan before and it was one of the better out of the blue plonks ever, with a curvy road and turbaned guys eating lunch near the road. Nothing with buildings like that Kabul round tho.

[@michaelwisniewski6047]

Yes, I remember that one. Possibly the first video from Tom I ever saw. I remember him saying "they look Arab" and he started searching in Oman. And I thought - no, they don't look Arab at all, they look Pashtu, how come this guy is good at Geoguessr. Now I know better.

[@bewareoftheginge]

I remember that, but I thought it was Iraq.

[@tonnnn86]

Maybe time to invest in a second monitor so you can easily see if you're recording, as much as we enjoy the check and infinity screen :) Looking forward to the straight line mission!

[@tigrecito48]

15:40 I'm thinking this could be a trick photo... if Afghanistan has had lots of war & refugees escaping it, there could be large communities in other locations that set up things like a Kabul University in another country. Also... there are universities in England that have the name of a town that they are not in. Could be anywhere cold like Canada. For example there are lots of Tibetan places in India since the Chinese invaded and many Tibetans fled...

[@eddiester]

“Jeremy, James and Hamster”, this is so British to me 😀😀

[@paulschmit1461]

“It’s a Roman amphitheater, so it’s not… BabylonIan?” Ottoman or Byzantine Tom hahahaha

[@wangflop]

Very interesting map. great video, Tom. Love you.

[@onepiecebarca]

Jeremy, James and HAMPSTER LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Idk about Timgad, but I really dig Steve Gadd, that's for sure. Helluva drummer! 😜

[@rustyshackleford4918]

That last round totally reminded me of the klondike ride as well, and yeah, that thing was mega rickety 😂

[@pyrokinetikrlz]

I dont know... so few clues, no reliable compass... it is a miracle to get perfect score in this map

[@dennismurphy6116]

Great video! Here's how I did. Round 1 - 4305 points Looked like either roman or greek ruins, so I was torn between Lebanon, Turkey (Anatolia) and Tunisia, mostly based on the arid climate and where roman or greek ruins might have been. Decided on Tunisia, relatively at random of the three choices. Clicked near Tunis but further inland, cause there are some mountains there. 269 km away. Round 2 - 5000 points Noted the portugese language, but it didn't look like Portugal. I figured it had to be Sao Tome or Cape Verde. Scoured the map for the places on the signs, beginning with Sao Tome. Moved on to Cape Verde, and found Praia de Gatas. Then found Porto do Canto. Pretty sure we were in the right place. Found an intersection that somewhat matched the image and got 15m away. Round 3 - 5000 points Went straight in to Kabul and found University of Kabul. Scoured the map for the faculty of arts, but couldn't find it. I gambled by putting the marker down on the building that looked like the correct shape, even though it said faculty of social science on the map. All in all pretty similar to your game. 15m away. Round 4 - 3733 points Unsure of which city in Iran, could have picked any of the large ones. I went for Tabriz based on the name of the photographer perhaps being armenian. 525 km away. Round 5 - 519 points Not much to go on. I went for the Caribbean, and picked Martinique because of the french name. I realise in hindsight that the climate was maybe more arid, but I got 4069 km away. Total of 18557 points

[@destinodk]

the face you pull after the first guess.. Priceless

[@Bismarck-S]

I beat you. It was because of the first round. On the middle rounds we were equal, but on the last round I guessed horrible as well. I thought it might have been Kazakhstan or a country by the Caspian Sea in general, because of the surrounding terrain. The lads didn't really add up with the guess, but I said screw it. I reckoned you would fail on that round as well, so I felt confident over all.

[@MusicDJ36]

6:30 I was there! When I first saw photosphere i knew the place! Beautiful Cape Verde

[@isaach2991]

I got the first one as it seemed like roman architecture in a potentially north African landscape and the person who took the photo was french. I went straight to Algeria as french is one of its national languages and was occupied during the roman empire. The lady wearing the head scarf then further solidified my thoughts that is was north African .

[@ishikapachori6524]

i knew the first Algeria roman round because i saw a video on yt by lexi limitless . she is the youngest person to travel every country in the world. in one of her videos she went to Algeria and went to a similar place like on the map of geo guesser . i remembered seeing the huge pillars and a lot of small things on the ground from her video that i thought was similar. then did some detective work near algeris and found it . also great video and waiting eagerly for mission across wales .

[@rangrcakes-gaming618]

Congrats on 1mil Tom

[@cmcmcmcm2354]

I got Timgad. Saw it on a youtube video about old world architecture you had never heard of. Instantly recognized it but couldn't remember the name. Had to peruse North Africa a bit before i eventually stumbled across it.

[@obhmusic]

Steve Gadd.. a name I never thought I would hear on geoguessr youtube!

[@matheusrofficial]

I cracked at the song choices to each guess 😂 very on point

[@Ncitbgihem]

i got super lucky on the Iran one. Zoomed right into Tehran and immediately saw the merci mama building XD

[@rafaelsodre_eachday]

"I wanna be _convinced_ by you that you knew that"! L O L That is almost as good as "Am I recording this?" His wife should have a channel where she posts his face when he is NOT recording, that would win the internet.

[@DunqaunMcQuan]

The drummer in me did a double take when you mentioned Steve Gadd!

[@obhmusic]

Lovely stuff!!

[@XiSparks]

"Are we recording? We are!"

[@papaquonis]

16,268 points for me. All my five rounds were virtually identical to yours. I also went with Syria in the first and Namibia in the last.

[@matthewpreston7761]

Investigates Portugal despite the "obscure countries" theme. Legend! 😀😎

[@dannyraede3974]

Got Timgad, Algeria immediately. I'm a sucker for roman temple ruins and have explored the area in Google Earth VR before.

[@kamakiriad]

Proud of myself for knowing the 2nd one was Cape Verde quickly! Went to high school in an area with a high population of people from Cape Verde, most of them black or tanned, and a lot of them knowing Portuguese.

[@JeffKogut]

Round 1 - I guessed Batna near Timgad, so close by dumb luck, but based on the French name and the 'obscure' title. I got 4,921 points. I'll admit Syria was a decent guess as well. Round 2 - First thought was Albania, then the Portuguese and 'obscure' caught up in my brain and I focused on the 'island' vibe and found it in 5 mins. 5k. Round 3 - All I can say is Kabul Univ. had to be the national university, so I held off zooming in too much and it took all of 10 seconds to find and another minute to eliminate by building shape as you did. 5k. Round 4 - I guessed Tehran and just north on a main road based on the compass and a bend in the road. 4,996. Round 5 - real tough one, but I ended up guessing Western Sahara based on 'obscure' mostly. 1,612 pts. 21,529 total and the first time I've gotten a better score than Tom.

[@tigrecito48]

1:20 i'd say that's probably somewhere in North Africa like Tunisia, or Morocco or Libya.. some old Roman/Carthagian ruin... Just from looking at the pic..

[@tigrecito48]

oh look i was correct - im better at this than you lol

[@ArcTV.]

The french photographers name of that first photosphere gave it away a bit that it could be algeria

[@alexhardcastle9014]

mood improves at least 40% watching a tom video