My attempt at drawing obscure countries from memory (didn't go well)

I've probably spent more time staring at the world map than I have the opposite sex, but how well would I fare if you asked me to draw the outline of a relatively obscure country such as Ecuador or Gabon? well, the results are in, and they're mixed..
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[@FoxStar99]

I wonder if anyone else, in the history of humanity has said ever said “I’ve gone with my heart” in relation to drawing an outline of Equatorial Guinea on paint.

[@robertolopezperez8662]

Probably happened when the actual border was drawn

[@nyyankees4296]

LOL

[@IzzyTheGamer]

What a comment 😂😂😂

[@lanceanthony198]

Actually he’s the second British person to say this since the first ones drew all the African borders

[@nathanthornton1382]

My buddy Eric did one time

[@rogueelitecs1229]

Geowizard video checklist: •Apologizing in advance for doing bad and then doing amazing ✅ • Analyzing the hell out of whatever he's doing✅ • "C'mon then" ✅ • "get in!" ❌ •Saying things that would be questionable out of context ✅ •Repeating the name of a country multiple times in a row ✅

[@kicken41]

Don't forget the "Are we actually recording?" at 8:00

[@samuvisser]

- a strong need to score himself and making a completely subjective system for it sound objective ✅

[@clarkkellis3817]

You forgot the "are we recording... Yes"

[@elionmaters9985]

I don't think I can sleep safely without a ''get in!''

[@lordpablo1985]

We need an official GeoWizard Bingo

[@noahr.5515]

WorLdle has a mode where countries are turned in a random direction, and also a mode where there is no picture at all (so you have to guess country by its proximity to other guessed countries). Much more fun. There is also Globle, which is where you keep guessing countries, and the closer the correct country is, the more it turns red.

[@ThePharphis]

ya as someone who doesn't know country shapes but wants to improve my geography a bit, I play worldle without a picture but using google maps to help myself narrow things down. It's very fun!

[@xaxtriii]

Theres also countryle!

[@ThePharphis]

@@HarryStarzec The game does reveal information after every guess. It tells you how far your new guess is away and the closest of the 8 directions (N, NE, E, etc.) to travel in. Of course, perhaps it should also give less information about the shape initially (maybe from blurrier/less refined to more refined)

[@lordofthechimie]

does anyone have link to those games?

[@harrytlynx5715]

@@davidz2690 yeah, i wish it wasnt just one a day

[@RoseJetExhaust]

This little game Tom is playing with himself is excellent in highlighting the differences of *RECOGNITION vs. RECALL,* and how easy the former is compared to the latter. Edit: Tom even acknowledges this at the end, but fret not Mr. Davies, this is not just your brain working strangely, but all of ours as well.

[@marshm3llow467]

It very neatly outlines why reading over your textbook or your notes is far less effective than doing practice problems as a study method. When you read something over you think you understand it when really you recognise it, whereas forcing yourself to recall it doing practice means you’re more effective at recall on the exam.

[@RoseJetExhaust]

@@marshm3llow467 Precisely. Children in school should not be taught to "learn" things the way it is now. They should rather apply their knowledge, which in turn is tested by teachers.

[@Emmet_Moore]

I feel like recognition is potentially the more useful skill in the age of Google? I often know that I know things but can't think of them until I've spent 5 seconds googling it vs. spending probably a lot longer memorising thoroughly

[@RoseJetExhaust]

@@Emmet_Moore True, many things are not really that important to know right off the top of your head without e.g. Google. However this is debatable and I think that not everyone would agree with you. Especially with things and topics that might benefit you in your personal life, really knowing things (recall) is probably better. But I agree that there are many superfluous things we are taught, whereas boomers would disagree along the lines of "eh but we had to learn all this in school and it did not hurt me".

[@mikeyforrester6887]

If I have to find a hotel in a new city I always draw a basic map on a small paper and put it in my wallet. Once I've done that I often don't need to look at it because the drawing process puts it into my brain. Also this is highly useful if my phone run out of battery/credit at a crucial moment.

[@NL-rd7xl]

> Gives Gabon which was terrible a 5 > Gives Somalia which was pretty good a 4

[@inertialobserver5840]

It would be hilarious if you saved all the drawings you made, and put them together into a world map when you have drawn them all !!

[@DrivingGod21]

Jack loves your content, it's awesome to see you love his! You need to reach out to him to do a collaboration, I think you'll both have a lot of fun. He's too shy to reach out to you 😂.

[@Noises1444]

I was thinking blend two challenges in one. One person has to draw the country from memory and the other has to guess the country from the drawing

[@anttisaarilampi]

@@Noises1444 brilliant!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@Noises1444 Pictionary!

[@damianvandenhaak]

@@Noises1444 amazing idea!

[@damianvandenhaak]

@@Noises1444 the issue is that jack wont know any haha.

[@Sebastian-gp2zu]

(correct me if im wrong please) what i find most bizarre about equatorial guineas' island is not that it's so far north, but that the capital of equatorial guinea is actually on the island

[@SRHCFC]

You're right, the capital Malabo is on the island - they're building a new capital on the mainland at the moment though.

[@Oob144]

@@SRHCFC wow that is strange.

[@rphxx6906]

The most bizarre fact about Equatorial Guinea is that the whole country is actually North of the equator. Except for one Island called Annobon. This island lies even South of Sao Tome and lies South of the Equator. The equator itself does not pass through the country itself though

[@zaixai9441]

Might have been to make it harder to for it to be captured if they were invaded.

[@sneersh9107]

@@rphxx6906 Almost-Equatorial Guinea

[@lesleyvids2610]

For learning the shapes, I can recommend the MapMen-Song on the squarest country. It helps :D

[@aaroncronk1527]

I'm no geography expert.. but I believe the world atlas map people need to take another look at the name of the ocean to the west of Ecuador.

[@zaixai9441]

Yeah I noticed that. Weird.

[@MouseTai1]

It is in German, what's wrong with it?

[@psychoticAjAX]

@@MouseTai1 What, pacific is spelt Atlantic in German? Are you nuts?

[@MouseTai1]

@@psychoticAjAX Sorry, my bad. For a second I mistook it for Ecuatorial Guinea.

[@BeardyGit89]

Thank god someone else noticed lol

[@Riomojo]

LOVE YOU SO MUCH! When you hit Ecuador is was screaming don’t forget the Galapagos!

[@SaintPhoenixx]

Would you ever do more Sporcle quizzes like you used to, like the countries/flags/capitals or the music ones? I loved them back in the day. 18:23 - Bit odd to tell us you've got the horn but fair enough mate.

[@kittykat490]

Omg haha I love playing the daily Worldle, I've been wondering if you play it. I'm not as knowledgeable of countries so it's a challenge even on somewhat more "known" countries but they definitely make it hard most days with extremely tiny obscure island atoll territories and that kind of thing, and I just play with a map open pfff and use it as a learning tool to learn about where these places are and what they look like.

[@ThePharphis]

I play map open but no picture. Much more fun for learning :)

[@kittykat490]

@@ThePharphis that's a good idea! I'll have to start having it rotate the image or turning the image off to challenge myself more because I'm getting way better at finding the shapes on a map hahaha

[@samirdurvasula7702]

Been playing worldle for a while -- it's fun, but continuously getting really obscure territories is such a challenge.

[@decseimate9217]

I have literally nailed every score you gave to yourself, except gabon. That was a bit high for me. Don't mind me, my only skill in life is that i can draw like, vanuatu or kyrgyzstan from memory. Really useful talent we have to say.

[@pete3701]

Watching Tom's videos gave me a bit of an 'unconscious awakening' if you catch my drift ;)

[@CasaVoid]

The Galapagos Islands are part of Ecuador! If you're counting significant islands, that should be a demerit. Because as we all know, the score is the most important part. I thought your Somalia was pretty good, in particular when you didn't know the shape of the north/western border with Ethiopia - no one does, it's undefined!

[@bencraig9479]

we’d love a collab with Jack sometime in the future

[@sclitchmusic]

Jack: copies tom Tom: copies jack

[@GeoWizard]

everyone wins!

[@sclitchmusic]

@@GeoWizard lmao

[@z3pHyRx3]

to spice things up while playing the game for myself i always tried to add neighbouring countries and determine where the ocean was.

[@maybenodyarg]

"Oman is on the right, Yemen is on the left... 'cause there's a crisis in Yemen... and it's on the left, because Oman is Muscat... okay." Good work Thomas

[@timgoff8500]

I’d love to see you complete this series, and then try to fit together all the drawn countries in an edition of Tom’s atlas 😂

[@Adam13Chalmers]

South Korea might be a 4, but Somalia should be a 5 or 6 I think. Even with the errors, I think someone (like you and your Geo peers) could guess the country given your drawing. Cool idea for a game...Jack!

[@quantumfootball]

You were right about that that border of the two Koreas was once 38 degrees north, however later on it deviated from that based on what each side could conquer during the negotiations in 1953.

[@astragalusson]

I hoped you've got Turkey, not only because it's where I'm from but also because it's at somewhat memorable place on the map with distinct shapes around. Hopefully next time. :)

[@jayidunnowho]

if you could make it so like we could know what it looks like before you draw it and it’s just sitting there in the corner i think that would add to the game love ur videos man so calming

[@blogtwot]

"I've got the horn", never expected a Derek and Clive moment on your channel. 😂😂😂

[@wcft_]

I'm doing a project in school about Equatorial Guinea!!! Someone finally acknowledged the country!!!

[@zee7.]

Try Globle! It is a Wordle inspiration game. It is Worldle without the outline, but you guess on a Globe. When you guess, the darker the color (dark red being the darkest) and green being the correct. The farther you are from the mystery country, the wighter the colour. Try it on your next video! I really enjoyed this video! Keep up the great work.👍

[@leivangel4977]

You should consider turning on territories next, as territories are also on Worldle, not just countries. It makes the whole thing a lot harder, as your repertoir increases significantly and they have you guessing places you've never seen before.

[@bioLarzen]

For Equatorial Guinea - yeah, that island is, indeed, weirdly far north to the mainland area - but maybe even more interesting is the tiny volcanic islet called Annobondown south - it's even futher away from mainland Eq. Guinea - and, more interstingly, that little piece of rock is the only "land" territory of Equatorial Guinea the equator actually passes through.

[@gitsurfer27]

With the struggle you have to recall images you might have mild Aphantasia? It would be mild because you were still pretty good at this.

[@feliciatingsborg1924]

Love this! Just watched a video from "Jack sucks at geography" (not sure that he does any more) drawing countries this morning. Perfect collaboration for us following you both 😁

[@Andrew_Gregg]

I’d really enjoy one drawing the 50 states in America. Your Naming American cities challenge was fun to watch as well

[@ColinvanWaardenberg]

Have a live stream with this then let chat rate your efforts, it won't be accurate but it's more interesting than rating oneself probably.* *Just popping in with an idea, thanks for the video!

[@max5183]

The way you gave yourself 5 for that Gabon thing (which has equatorial Guinea as a neighbor which you had minutes before) and then only 4 for Somalia is beyond me 😂 No hating, I would be way worse, but Gabon was wrong on so many levels, just drawing a kind of circle is not 5 Tom :D Let's be honest and compare it to the equatorial Guinea round both 5 points. There you got 3 boarder right, they are just straight and you knew it has an island to the top side. The coastline not so much. That was a very good 5. But Gabon not the coastline, no inland boarder really, the before mentioned neighbor Guinea cuts a rectangle out of it top left. I guess you knew it had no island? :D However I absolutely love the format, it's so engaging, otherwise I wouldn't have written this comment ig, great video!

[@jasonharding9490]

Here's an idea for a video: a combination of the 'worldle' format and the drawing countries from memory; and would require collaboration with someone you know, perhaps one of the ones you mention if they are up for it? So the other person gets a randomly generated country, has to draw it from memory, then the other person has to identify the country just from the drawing. Could be done 'live' or the drawing part done beforehand, and either way then pass it across to your editing guy to deal with the carnage! Obviously you could then flip it and do it the other way around.

[@LB-bu5mr]

You've just reminded me of Map Men's mystery of the squarest country video!

[@Andy-413]

I wish you actually did end the video after guessing Tajikistan, and just left the rest of the 22 minutes a blank screen, LOL! I would've loved that. But this video is good too.

[@jackholmes225]

Fiji the classic example of an island. Words to live by.

[@MrSharkFIN]

Equatorial Guinea's capital is on the island btw. It's quite bizarre, but I do believe they are building a new capital on the mainland

[@osirun6572]

God I would be terrible at this. I probably couldn't even draw something like France well from memory even though I can instantly recognize a picture of France. Pure recall memory is so much harder to train compared to recognition.

[@stevenboelke6661]

Laos looks to me like a kind of stone axe facing upward with a curved handle and a chip in the head. Your drawing was about as good as mine would have been, and I actually live here.

[@TheThunder165]

Its a super cool concept to do this. Love Jacks channel, love your channel.

[@joshuadavis7425]

We definitely need a GeoWizard JackSucksAtGeography collab!!!

[@abhimanyumoral]

You are so great yet you seem to undermine yourself a lot. I think you were a straight 7 in most of them barring 1 or 2. Keep up your great work.

[@tomcarter15]

Worldle is fantastic. For a video though you either need to do a bunch of days and edit them together or do a KZbin short everyday that's just you talking over a screen recording of your phone.

[@PityMeofDurham]

You should play Globle Which is a bit more challenging compared to Worldle. If you've looked a lot at maps then Worldle is easy (unmodified), you'll probably get most on your first try. In Globle you need to find the country which you don't know how it looks or where it is!

[@Covingsworth]

are we actually recording

[@M159852]

Hey Tom, I wonder if you maybe have aphantasia because you said you forget basic things like colours of things. Because I have it and I can relate. You could look it up and do a little test to see if you have it as well.

[@BlkTm]

This format is a lot of fun and i think it has many other possibilities! Like draw a Formula 1 circuit or a Football Club Badge. I know you like both because of the Sporcle videos way back!

[@David_Trowbridge]

I think your brain is pretty normal. I'm the same and so was jack, especially when he tried the flags. I myself can recognise most of the countries flags, but ask me to draw the dragon on the Bhutan flag and I won't have a clue where to start

[@surfexcel9178]

Tom, you should play city geoguesser. It's geoguesser but in video format. Its really fun and there are a lot of new areas.

[@beechy006]

‘Thanks for watching, that was shit’ 😂😂😂😂😂 that cracked me up!

[@barmetler]

I couldn't draw the outline of the country i live in, so i think you did well XD

[@mikolajpetryczenko299]

"Fiji - that is the classic example of an island!" Brilliant.

[@builderbbob]

Try GLOBLE! It doesn’t have an outline so it makes it more pinpoint-focused!

[@chrissessions6108]

Tom is truly doing God's work here, making sure that we all remember for the rest of our lives that Socatra belongs to Yemen.

[@matteogreiner7295]

Interestingly enough Equatorial Guinea‘s current capital, Malabo, is on that weird island

[@Andrew-sr3dj]

This would work great as a competition between you and another youtuber. You both try to draw countries as accurately as you can and then have someone judge who is closest.

[@607]

I think it would've been interesting to see you try Yemen again! See if you remembered the islands, and which corners you got wrong. :)

[@preemmorbius1442]

wow, you are literally too good to play Worldle lol

[@george5954]

I'd like to see him try on a day when it isn't an actual country. I'm good with the 197 countries but they keep throwing out random islands and it messes with me lol

[@CharlesMansonVEV0]

Equatorial Guinea’s island territory does look a bit too distant for it to make sense that they’ve held onto it, but I have to say, it’s a little jarring to hear that observation made in an English accent!

[@jasonharding9490]

Regarding the South Korea border, you may have been thinking how the countries were divided after the second world war, when I believe the border was for a time on the 38°N lattitute line, before the Korean war changed things radically. This assessment is admittedly generous, it may just be that you got it wrong!

[@love1love3love]

As someone who lived in Oman, this was immediately painful

[@Frostythefiremage]

you should do this again, but paint the accurate shape again in another color around ( inside ) it !after you guessed ! Just to see the diffrence

[@FakeGoogleName]

11:56 - "It's got a big rear end to it, it's got a big rear end that comes out and it basically forms a heart shape"

[@jonwallace6204]

S Koreas northern border shocked me too. I thought for sure it was just the 38th parallel.

[@laurenceforsyth11]

Worldle can be played from previous days on the web archive, there’s a thread on Reddit regarding it.

[@laurenceforsyth11]

On the way back machine just put in the url for worldle

[@dorothynemeth9675]

Loved this video! I’ve been watching your videos for a little while, and just discovered this game, and now the two worlds collide! You could also give globle a try if you ever get the chance!

[@RyanMawhinney94]

It's about time that you and Jack play geoguessr together

[@jaredf6205]

You should look up pictures of Socotra island. It’s one of the craziest looking places on earth. The plants there look like they’re alien.

[@effo4384]

I’m here to support the idea of you drawing the World map from memory in Paint ! Also, the Gabon round was at best a 3.5 !

[@DoiInthanon1897]

It’s one thing to draw well known/large countries from memory, it’s another when the country is small and you don’t find yourself looking at the outline often. The more you look at the outline of a country, you’ll likely draw it more accurately. I think Jack needs to see this for comparison purposes! 😂

[@Raghy07]

Look up the Worldle archives and you could play all of them. Would love to see you give it a go.

[@GuidoHaverkort]

9:00 if you turn it 90° clockwise and then mirror it vertically, it's spot on

[@sebsio]

The description made me chuckle lol

[@husslys7777]

Great video really liked it had a laugh aswell more of this would be really nice!

[@Prophecy_Boy]

Tom: Draws a ballsack Also Tom: "Don't ask me what that is" 🤣🤣🤣

[@nikostube5809]

Jack won’t be mad. He will be excited

[@kittykat490]

"How many times have I looked at this goddamn country" "... Don't ask me what that is" absolutely rolling 😭

[@fleek6319]

anyone else thought he's really hard on himself with the points? I think you did amazing! South Korea was at least a six man

[@axelsureda6054]

Best KZbinr, love from Argentina

[@francisdorval2533]

This was a very pleasant play-along video

[@nerdishlive]

the description 💀 also jack will be so excited and probably flex a lottttt that he inspired this. i’ve also not really played wordle, but i do my daily worldle and globle instead :)

[@danielsecrest5018]

Would love to see you do this once for every country and then piece them all together into “Tom’s World”

[@lukebowlby530]

If you give Jack a compliment you could probably take his life savings tbh

[@rhettlanders920]

mate i loved the videos, but any chance you could give that future tom bloke a call? I miss the lad

[@tanyalloyd8455]

Have you played Globle? That's a similar one to Worldle but only 1 a day x

[@harrysworld1172]

This was so fun. I’m playing along with you

[@ornamentalboxes]

I think this is a similar phenomenon to people who can understand a language fully when listening to other people, but can barely speak it themselves, it's a weird but common brain thing!

[@brandongreenwald4997]

Play Globle!! It’s a little more complex and way more fun!!

[@DaveWossum]

I have been to S Korea 7 times and you did better than I did.

[@l.j.9031]

Loved this!

[@MattMlcc]

saying how much he wished he got somalia and then getting somalia and dropping a 4/10 on it was gold

[@Derek-Walker]

I feel like you were way too hard on yourself on some of these! Somalia looked like a solid 7 to me. Nice work!

[@kirin2d265]

one idea further, have someone try to guess the country by looking at your drawings

[@Plarofly]

I skipped ahead and I tried to guess from your drawing which country you actually drew. I got somaliaand equatorial guinea right away, so to me, these would be more like an 8/10. For Laos, I think that 7 is a bit much though ;).

[@mhpaul6751]

I like to turn the country outline off on Worldle, and make my guesses based purely on the distances and directions. It’s made it more challenging and fun for me!

[@xvgm24]

You better give Kiribati a go at some point.....was excited to see it...