Is GeoGuessr's new game mode any good?

[@Xeamesh]

It deeply saddens me that we will never see the reaction that Tom gives when he checks to see if he was recording, and it turns out he was not.

[@mikoajnierada7857]

Considering how often he's checking, it may have happened many times before, so he might be used to it and he's reactions aren't very special.

[@danliebster9894]

And yet every time he checks, my dumb brain says, "I hope he is, it would be disappointing if he was not!"

[@arneluyssaert7098]

W comment

[@dominoot2652]

there was a video I was watching recently that starts out where he off camera (obviously) checked if he was recording, wasn't, and then starts the video.

[@YeeSoest]

We did catch a glimpse of how it probably sounded in the first video of the america trip: "oh bugger mmmme"

[@Haleigh_Tortilla]

Sometimes I'm so flabbergasted at how Tom can find or recognize obscure places...and other times there's Tom not knowing Shibuya crossing

[@MarieAvora]

While you were playing Geoguessr, I was watching anime And now that you have Shibuya crossing you come to me for help?

[@RonnieTheRat]

Sometimes watching Tom is like watching your Grandad try and figure out a new TV remote. Fascinating and frustrating in equal measure

[@ChiSoxRox2005]

A key part of why I love his play style. Far more interesting than "this country in 5 seconds because [meta]"

[@RonnieTheRat]

@@ChiSoxRox2005 Oh I totally agree, I got into the channel via the IRL stuff and after watchng a lot of his geoguessr vids checked out some other geoguessr channels, they might be better at the game, but I'm only interested in watching Tom play.

[@jordanpowell1402]

Tom to me is the funny friend that cheers me up when I’m feeling down, just by being himself. And when I say “himself”- I mean a bumbling goose

[@elkju3511]

Perfeclty described

[@Initial80fficial]

This comment made me smile 😊

[@YeOldeManRiver]

Tom: If we don't get this right, we're done for! Also Tom: I am not going to use the powerups I collected for this critical moment.

[@JohnAndJohner]

To be fair, his powerup usage seemed to be a downside for him.

[@LambCurryDotOrg]

Have to admit, I'm surprised that Tom didn't instantly recognise the famous Shibuya crossing.

[@E-A-Z-Y]

For anyone that doesn’t know, you might know Shibuya crossing from Tokyo Drift, the part where they drift through the middle of a crowd.

[@jordanlewis3790]

the moment i saw it and he was struggling i knew he hadnt seen tokyo drift

[@kalags2644]

Learnt about the crossing in a maths class. Kudos to my teacher for showing his Japan adventures

[@bernoworl]

i recognized it was "the famous crossing that's always shown in tv when Japan is mentioned" instantly and thought i was stupid because he didn't even think it was Japan at first

[@joostswg]

He might not be a weeb

[@Photochuk]

Good thing you didn't focus on searching for the Boryspil airport in Kyiv too much. It is actually outside of the city bounds - 30 kms away from the city centre where you actually spawned. The white road signs show directions and distances to streets and objects of interest in the scale of a city (or even a neighborhood). Blue ones (like the one that gave you directions to Boryspil and Chernigiv) give you a general direction to another regional centre (like Chernihiv which in 120+ kms to the north). And yeah, despite the Streetview photos from Kyiv being as old as 2015, those buildings you happened to see in that round are still there and intact - just the shop windows are shielded with plywood and sandbags here and there.

[@TheHoundTheFox]

The Bangkok joke was top-tier and highly underrated 🤘

[@indask8]

One day maybe he'll stumble across "kiek in de kök" (Estonian Tower)

[@SaintPhoenixx]

You join us here for another episode of Tom being bewildered by technology.

[@choiie]

If one word describes Tom it’s definitely ”bewildered” 🥰

[@19994able]

meme comment

[@oren000]

Tom loves not using his powerups even though he's on his last round of a run, or using them poorly (such as not putting the distance and the arrow in the same place).

[@GeniusLad32]

To be fair, I don't like using them unless I really have to.

[@prnzssLuna]

That shibuya round physically hurt. Interesting gamemode though

[@ridingflats]

Of all the niche places he seems to know, it was weird he seemingly had never heard of Shibuya crossing.

[@orktv4673]

Pony pfp chad

[@kiiturii]

@@ridingflats lol yeah, I've never been to the shibuya crossing or even really seen it in pictures that much but I recognized it in a split second, though I did for a sec think it might be a smaller crossing somewhere and not the actual big one

[@Grisu.]

@@ridingflats hes based and doesnt watch anime or degenderate stuff related to japan.

[@leon9785]

I mean you don't have to be anywhere near that weeb stuff to know about the shibuya crossing

[@crispycleanerboi]

21:27 recognized the "Deutsche Museum" immediately since I'm from Munich, it's a museum for pretty much everything: aviation, astronomy, biology, technology, mining and so on. Your pronunciation of "Die Entstehung des Segelschiffs" is actually pretty good, it translates to "the origin of the sailing ship".

[@TBH_Inc]

Ya, it really helps getting a good guess when you know the place lol. It's one of the few German museums I've been to (one of the few non American museums even), so when I recognized it, I remember it's probably in Munich since I spent the majority of my time in Germany there. Pretty cool museum!

[@fubini_yt]

I've been there once, and immediately recognized it. And I've been confirmed by the colored directional Symbols

[@hagbardceline9866]

I am always amazed by how tom finds the moste remote and lost places on earth by details like how the water looks like, markings on the street, the color of rooftops. But it physically hurts, him not A) instantly recognize shibuya crossing and B) not finding shibuya ward that is printed in the biggest letters ever! :D

[@Cubeforc3]

I feel like he's super knowledgeable about Europe and the States but that Asia might be a weaker area. Even if you don't know much about Japan surely most people with even the faintest interest in geography will have heard about Shibuya being one of the main centres of Tokyo.

[@costakeith9048]

@@Cubeforc3 Subdivisions of cities are pretty niche trivia for people who don't live in those cities, especially when there are so many as in Tokyo, it's one thing to know the five boroughs of New York, knowing the 23 special wards of Tokyo is quite a bit more of a time investment. The islands of Japan, the rivers of Japan, the mountains of Japan, the major cities of Japan, even the 47 Prefectures of Japan, sure, I can see knowing those, but knowing the 23 special wards of Tokyo? Obviously that would be well down the list from memorizing the 47 Prefectures and I doubt he's even got around to that. Maybe you'd know it if you'd visited Tokyo, there is a lot of touristy stuff in the area, but I don't think he has.

[@ayatollahlalalola]

@@costakeith9048 Shibuya Crossing is surely the most famous place in Tokyo; it's iconic like Times Square or the Eiffel Tower. You don't need to know anything about the wards to be familiar with it.

[@AdamFaruqi]

Mate, Shibuya crossing is the most famous intersection in all of Japan!

[@ecMonify]

i'd say all of the world :D

[@hannalot_]

Probably the most famous in the world XD

[@henry_b1230]

It's the japanese Abbey Road

[@nayman2801]

​​@@ecMonify well Times Square is pretty famous as well. Top 2 for sure though

[@UloPe]

And has been used in about a thousand movies…

[@TanmaiKhanna]

The powerups reset each time so you can use them more liberally, especially when you want to confirm if it's Hamburg, or Bhutan :P

[@AurinneA]

Yeah, I'm constantly getting those two mixed up. (Hehe 😉)

[@TheSwagger009]

Hamburg🖤🤍💙

[@RetsamX]

​@@TheSwagger009 Always 2nd Bundesliga :)

[@KarrantulaCollects]

Tom finding out about his avatar was actually funnier than it should've been

[@zSanityz]

Would love to see Tom speed run into the later levels (like 40+) where it actually gets challenging. It's pretty hard to lose early on

[@joostverra9130]

Classic tom not getting shibuya crossing, maybe the most famous place in tokyo or japan even haha. It's okay tom we love you.

[@mikoajnierada7857]

Well, you can know the place, but not know where it is on the map. There are people out there that can't tell where is their home city, or even a country when pointing at the map. Not knowing an exact location of a famous place on the other side of the world is not that bad.

[@mandel94]

​@@mikoajnierada7857true, but he clearly didn't know the place

[@Charlie1776_]

Weeb

[@metalswifty23]

​@@Charlie1776_It's one of the most famous places in the world, certainly in Japan. You don't have to be a weeb to recognise it, especially when it's used famously in movies like Tokyo Drift. No need to be an ignorant moron.

[@YouTube]

the pink hair is definitely a look

[@swiftcactus1675]

who the hell are you

[@zamooti4505]

Hello KZbin

[@builderbbob]

KZbin?!

[@TheGeladoo]

Oh wow KZbin's SMM watches GeoWizard, that's cool

[@davidhenderson9707]

Everything has to be woke this month :)

[@MrkyMoo22]

When you saw the Lithuanian flag and jokingly said it was Latvia, my eyes widened for a second out of pure shock and confusion

[@leandrometfan]

ikr!

[@Smirnaffskiy]

And I thought it was smudgy Russian flag

[@Glotttis]

2 Lithuania rounds in one video, yay!

[@Sklounst_Actual]

I was skeptical of this mode at first but I've come to quite enjoy it!

[@jellyfishwii]

Hey Tom! I grew up in Phnom Penh, so I instantly recognized the street you were on during that round as it's super close to the city center. Its crazy to see a street so familiar to my childhood (my family often frequented the tall 'Kids City' building) featured in one of your videos. It made me smile when you instantly thought it was Bangkok-- Cambodia is certainly looking more and more like it these days! A quick small tip for distinguishing between Thai and Khmer (Cambodia's language) scripts: Khmer tends to have these 'zigzag'-like strokes that do not appear in Thai at all. They are super common in Khmer and look like this: ៊. Love the content as always, looking forward to Birmingham!

[@madebyjo_l]

funny thing is he had this location before in another video where he played the country capitals map and he got it right there

[@ErinLastNameRedacted]

@@madebyjo_lI was wondering if anyone else noticed that.

[@politta]

Oh man that Argentina round was very difficult to watch 🤣 I was yelling at my screen haha

[@CarMedicine]

I thought Dia was only in the Iberian peninsula like Mercadona so I was completely lost on where else it had stores :v

[@danielgrubman5178]

Man, apart from recognising La Casa Del Dulce de Leche (which is in San Telmo's turistic zone), the freaking gift shop had nothing but bright blue and white flags! I was trying so hard to send a message to past Tom...

[@_Just_Someone]

Oof, that one hurt lol

[@lukasz-dg5rn]

25:31 "Barcelona, Palma di Mallorca" while seeing south american "E" sign and then surprised it's 6000 miles away. :D Geowizard never ceases to entertain, uses all difficult meta while skipping the beginner one. :D Shibuya was also kinda easy but only if you watch japanese tv series or anime, otherwise it's understandable what you tried to do there.

[@caldasReport]

You've gotten that exact Phnom Penh round in a play along before!!! That's unbelievable!

[@lglams8827]

19:36 peak humor right there 😂

[@nightmaregirl06]

The instant he read "La Casa del Dulce de Leche" I guessed it was Buenos Aires. That round really hurt, even though he ended in my home city

[@claudiddle]

Geowizard with the superhuman ability to post a video right as I’m looking for something to watch during my lil lunchy lunch

[@conor3657]

At 19:30 you actually had this exact location in Capital Cities of the World #2. Either that or there's a second Canon store in Phnom Penh with it's address on the front.

[@UloPe]

I was just about to write that. The canon store instantly stood out to me.

[@NunoSalvaterra]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKS4m4N4nKt9fdkm10s

[@margaretgeorge3903]

My kittens Miso and Luna love these videos, they sit right in front of the telly and chase your cursor 😂

[@AnxiousMo-Fo]

aww bless them

[@B4byl0ni4]

Can't wait to see more of this, it's gets pretty challenging later on

[@jakobaugustin6436]

Just so you know: This museum in Munich was a museum about sailing ships in general. And in the most northern parts of today's germany were indeed some Viking settlements. Why is everyone always thinking about WW2 immediately...

[@philgoodinc2]

Im surprised he didnt instantly remember the Cambodia one. He had that exact (yes, EXACT) spot in a previous game about a year ago. plus the address is on the canon building.

[@medore13]

AND Thailand would have been driving on the left side, not the right side...

[@NunoSalvaterra]

I just posted about this as well, I knew it he had it in another video! Thing is, we only see a small fraction of the immense time he spends on Geoguessr over the years, so it's easier for us. Would love to find the video again though

[@6root91]

That Viking museum looks so incredibly interesting.

[@kerstin3267]

It's not actually a Viking museum. The Deutsche Museum in Munich is a museum about technology. I recognized the room right away 😁 It's partly under construction right now.

[@coops3633]

@@kerstin3267 Yeah it was very clear to see other boats and other times. That was just a nautical room and he happened to focus on the one description he looked at and assumed the entire room was that.

[@6root91]

@@coops3633 Thanks for the info lol. General nautical museum, with a focus on sail boats? Even better.

[@freekshow]

A deep bow for that Bangcock joke, sir

[@FireCandy_Lt]

i loved that we got 2 times Lithuania. On first guess immediately my guess was either Trakai or something near coast like near Klaipeda (i guess i was kinda wrong) and on second immediately knew it was Lithuanian bus and just slight move and knew the bridge (now study in vilnius)

[@lewisinho]

very cool that you study in vilnius, fun city!

[@x785]

Popped up on my recommendations this fast

[@Alex-to8es]

Hey Tom, just to say I think KZbin has downgraded the quality of their 1080p uploads so they can push KZbin premium while not adding anything of value on it. Might be a good idea especially for videos such as this to record them in 4K. Probably be a lot harder for your mission video though.

[@PeakbaggersForCancer1]

Loved this gamemode -- more of this please Tom :) Looking forward to No Road mission!

[@hyanide2480]

2:13 i literally saw this exact location on a chicago geographer video not even 10 minutes ago

[@notmyname327]

I liked this one, even if it was too easy for you. I live in Buenos Aires so that round hurt a lot, I immediately knew you were way off

[@sseppel]

The most painful thing about this run is that you have never tried Dulce de leche. One of the most delicious sweet treats out there imo. Tom, do yourself a favour and give it a try.

[@petosorus]

I'm French and we call it milk jam, jam like strawberry jam. Is there an english word for it?

[@porkinsdlx5764]

@@petosorus I've usually only heared it called Dulce De Leche, but that's mostly b/c I was introduced to it by my Brazillian Brother in Law. But carmelized milk is what my dad called it which is much less fun than Milk Jam

[@paulovictorbarros3822]

@@porkinsdlx5764 If your brother in law was brazilian he wouldn't have called it "dulce de leche", he would've said it in portuguese: "doce de leite" or "ambrósia".

[@porkinsdlx5764]

@@paulovictorbarros3822 he uses the spanish version of the name when speaking in english I guess? I like using Ambrosia for it as well! truely it is the food of the gods!

[@CoxaBranca]

@@porkinsdlx5764 Ambrosia in Brazil is a dessert dish, not the same as Doce de Leite.

[@thor-ericsson]

This is one of the best Geoguessr videos in a while. Love it

[@Olsen_21]

The Bangkok joke got me, nice video as usual!

[@rjmcompsci]

Really enjoying the frequency of videos these days!

[@bellini9374]

5:13 classic Tom

[@jmi5969]

13:00 - fantastic place. A fairytale world on a narrow strip of sand dunes and pine forest. I was there once, almost 50 years ago, and believe it or not, it didn't change much since then.

[@bw469]

You know it's a good day when Tom posts a GeoGuessr video

[@danieljohnonson9354]

As a German I would like to tell you that Vikings where actually living in Germany, on of their biggest sttelments was in Haitabu near the Kiel-Kanal, which they used a a trade route across the land from the Baltic to the North sea

[@cheesepleese_]

I would watch a 5 hour unedited video of this. It'd be a good one to fall asleep to if it were longer

[@dariellobaina1470]

I was extremely surprised at tom not knowing shibuya crossing

[@AdamKrukowski]

I was smiling when you came to Poland, I'm from Krakow and I was even in this scenic spot from the map a few days earlier :D Its called Kosciuszko mound

[@samueljacobson470]

I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen a single comment about the Bangkok joke... it surprised me more than Tom not knowing Shibuya

[@nightSkyacc]

with the distance markers you can trilangulate the position

[@davidhenderson9707]

Note to Tom: Traffic in Thailand is on the same side as the UK. Opposite side in Cambodia and Vietnam :)

[@christopherburot1309]

It gets quite hard when you keep playing, longer runs, harder maps etc.., quite fun to play !

[@bobbytabernacle]

19:17 "calamitous" killed me

[@BodywiseMustard]

"I bet you weren't sure then if I was recording" Yeah, the fact that we're watching the video doesn't give it away at all...

[@mikelombard21]

What a fun vid. Loved every second. Great game mode. The buffs, the time choices, it makes it so you can play how you prefer and have maximal fun. Something everyone can enjoy regardless of skill.

[@_coffeebean_]

I think the game wants to tell you with that avatar that it's time to embrace the KZbinr livestyle by colouring you hair pink.

[@golasticus]

19:46 I don't know if this is something to be proud of but I recognized this place immediately from Tom's older videos. I'm pretty sure he guessed it right back then too, though granted there weren't any time limits then. I don't remember where the place is exactly of course, just that it looked familiar.

[@xplorerF]

“Not that there’s anything wrong with either of those things” 😂😂 good save

[@JohannesWiberg]

"I did't really zoom out". Well there's a first :D

[@andrachirnicinii4846]

22:40 omg... I have actually been to that museum in Munich 😅 I went there for the nanotechnology exhibit and I saw the huge boat on the way out.

[@woutie]

This is your 500th video. Congratz! 🎉

[@zka77]

Not sure if they have tuned the gamemode or it gets harder as you play multiple games but I'm at ~20 games and it is much harder than the first 3-5 times. For example it started giving me rounds based on my country. And these rounds must be near 5K or you lose a TON of energy and some of the rounds are non moving, middle of nothing places... great :D Original difficulty was trivial - kind of an introduction mode for absolute beginners. Most maprunner games were played by my wife who is an absolute beginner in GG :D But currently I have to fight some of the locations as a very seasoned player. The map is definitely getting longer over replays, it's double the size compared to your video.

[@emmaslow]

I am soooooooo happy that you seem to have about as much 'gaming' skill as I do 🤣I'm enjoying this geoguessr mode myself - it's like a safe space for people who've done a fair bit of world travel but absolutely no gaming!

[@ethano8225]

"not that i have anything against those things, but it doesnt really represent me..." got me chucklin

[@mda2894]

I hope you have the time to do more of this game mode. The early rounds aren’t really much of a challenge, but around run 20 or so it actually started getting interesting (for me at least).

[@rohan7486]

19:10 Awesome bro

[@doge9347]

its like you knew i just made lunch. love the vids as always!

[@Ice-Berg_]

2:21 loved the hagrid reference

[@thelegend2776]

Funnily enough, even though the México guess was actually in Buenos Aires, it was in México street! (Intersection of México street and Defensa street)

[@mrbullmrbull]

14:15 as a Polish dude i'm impressed you nailed not only cracow, but exactly kopiec kościuszki

[@papaquonis]

One of the largest Viking cities was Hedeby (or Haithabu) in Schleswig-Holstein, which was ruled by the Danes for centuries, but is now in northern Germany, so it's not really that much of a parallel universe.

[@snackplaylove]

He’s not HistoryWiz for a reason 😂

[@FrankieTheSquealer]

You've actually had that exact same Phnom Penh spot before, in the 197 capitals of the world map you played in one of your other videos ;)

[@LaurenceMosca89]

That second to last round was clearly not Mexico since everyone was wearing jackets due to the cold. lol, excellent video

[@leeterrell4114]

Killer of a video, can't wait for Birmingham!

[@andrei1996]

I'm now at 35th run and it is getting really hard, I'm using all the given powerups and still fail from time to time. Hope you'll give it another go!

[@TBH_Inc]

Damn, I had a feeling I had been to that German museum at 22:00, and considering I've only been to a few in the Munich area, I was really hoping I'd be right that it was Munich (and I was!: ) I couldn't remember the museum name off the top of my head, but I probably could've found it on a map). One of the few times I've seen a place I've been on geoguessr, pretty cool!

[@michaellee7313]

I certainly wasn't sure whether Tom was recording. The fact that I'm watching the video didn't give it away

[@vekst]

19:46 have you had this location before? The Canon store seems familiar but maybe they just build those anywhere

[@PrepsTexas]

24:30 .. Tom, that is one of the more popular spots where the Pan American Highway crosses from Panama to Colombia to avoid the no mans land known as the Darien Gap.

[@boogiedaddy3434]

This looks really fun and would be great to gently introduce people into geoguesser. I think I'll give it a shot later. Would love to see you do more as well.

[@MozzaBallBill]

At 19:36 Im 99% positive you have previously had that exact location and guessrd it correctly in a recent video. I remember the Canon building and Aba Bank

[@TomBroenink]

Yeah he did! I believe it was in one of his 'capital cities' videos. I also recognized the location from 1 of his previous videos!

[@eircK]

For sure, I think it was a play along video too, I remember playing the round myself too I think

[@xDefender11]

Thanks Tom, seeing a new GeoWizard video today made my day! 😊

[@andrewengelken5448]

Wouldn’t be a geoguessr video if Tom didn’t check if he was recording

[@jentehoquet704]

Wow the end had me cracking up so much. Epic lolz 😂😂😂

[@HeisenbergFam]

Bro spent so much time analyzing maps he could recognize a country by the colour of your house

[@BlameItOnGreg]

The trees, along with the architecture, were what made me immediately think Mongolia on that last one. The foliage in general just didn’t seem right for the Bhutan/Nepal/Tibet area.

[@Pebphiz]

Yeah, that Bhutan guess was... odd. Not only did he recognize and point out the Mongolian truck, it was way too dry and not nearly mountainous enough to be Bhutan. I really wonder what made him go for that.

[@TheSpeedrider123]

Oh my god I live in Munich, Germany and I've been to exactly that spot in that museum quite a few times. When that came up I couldn't believe my eyes. The museum is stupid level gigantic, I feel like it's possible to spend a week there and not be able to see everything. From every science department to full sized planes and ships, they have (literally) everything. Highly recommended of you ever visit munich!

[@JakobDeluxe]

Boryspil is actually one of Kyivs two main airports, and you can see it on the map at the end (to the south-east of Kyiv)! :)

[@mathu8]

That was fun! Feel free to do more of this

[@Mikey_AK_12]

If you're using both the distance and arrow, put them on the same spot. That way you have a single intersection point and can theoretically get the spot exactly if you can estimate the distance accurately.

[@testypresidentgaming]

that lucky ending lol great video i like this game played a couple times now. gets hard after like 3 runs

[@casey45334]

Tom: "That's is Latvia" Me: "Yep" Tom: "I'm joking it's Lithuania" Me: "Haha yeah I definitely knew that..."

[@kryptoniterazor]

Having lived a few blocks from than Buenos Aires location, I have never yelled louder at my screen during a round. Strange new gamemode.

[@r.h.5288]

Where was it? San Telmo? It was pretty embarrassing to watch...

[@NunoSalvaterra]

I am 95% sure the Cambodja round is featured in another one of his videos. I remember Canon and the Bank

[@IslandInteractions]

-Me: watching a video that Tom recorded - Tom: But you weren't SURE then, were you, whether I was recording or not. 'Cause I wasn't sure; that probably threw you off. - Me:

[@Obmelg]

as a filthy casual geougessr player i love that game mode, it's like a very basic roguelike

[@SteveBrandon]

I think the first couple of "Runs" are the same for everybody with curated locations that are either super-obvious or easy to pinpoint but, yeah, after the first few "Runs", the locations seem to be random. I enjoy Map Runner but I also enjoy playing the regular uncurated "World" map for the most random locations.

[@samjohnson3368]

At 19:32 Ik it was Phnom Penh. Tom has had that exact location before. Surprised he didn’t realise from the side of the road they were driving on