Let's Guess Together - In-Depth Geoguessr Round Explanations + Play Along!

[@hbowman108]

(Geofessr in game) 2:46- One way to differentiate Ireland from the UK is phone numbers. All UK phone numbers had the prefix "01" added in 1995. Geographical phone numbers that do not start with "01" start with "02". The "01" numbers have equivalents of letters after the 1 indicating the geographic area. Remember 1 has no letters. 01X1 is Birmingham (B=2), Edinburgh (E=3), Glasgow (G=4), Liverpool (L=5) and Manchester (M=6). 01XX codes where XX are the first two letters of a town with the letter "O" represented by zero instead of 6. 020 is London. In addition, that Irish phone number has only nine digits, and UK phone numbers with area code typically have ten digits. 8:39- Oil palms. They have to be deeply tropical- the Brisbane area is too cold for them and in Australia they are only grown in Far North Queensland. They are grown in enormous plantations in some places, notably Sumatra and Borneo. In North America they are mostly in a single enormous stand around the oil palm refining town of Sayaxché in Petén province of Guatemala. In US grocery stores, palm oil products tend noticeably to come from Guatemala, which I think is the result of US trade incentives. 10:01- The metal pole in the distance is the Israeli Pole of Death, which in a closeup has a yellow sign in Hebrew, Arabic, and English saying "Risk of Death". 14:15- None of the signs has the more angular Tamil script- they are in Sinhala alone. This tends to indicate that the location is not in the north or on the east side of the island, or in Colombo. Tamil script samples can be seen on the map in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which is the mainland next to Sri Lanka. 16:23- Zakarpatska province ("Transcarpathia") looks like Slovakia or Hungary because it was never part of the Russian empire until annexation by the Soviet Union in World War II. Similar architecture is found in other western areas of Ukraine, especially around L'viv (more Polish) and Chernivtsi (more Romanian). These areas also are the part of Ukraine where there are a lot of churches are Catholic and not Orthodox. Similarly, Kaliningrad (Russia) has German architectural influence and Protestant churches. 21:22- New York has gone to a white plate beginning in 2021 but these yellow ones are found on almost all coverage. New Mexico also has yellow plates but obviously from the architecture and trees you know it's not New Mexico. I knew it was Albany because in the background you can see the New York state capitol building. 24:11- "göl" means "lake" in Turkic languages and in Mongolian. The Kyrgyz for this is "Көл". Also the signs' style is found throughout Turkey. 25:42- "Skopje" in Cyrillic contains the "Cyrillic J", pronounced like English Y. This is only found in Serbo-Croatian, Montenegrin, and Macedonian. Other Cyrillic contains a double set of "hard" and "soft" vowels to indicate this instead, with "й" representing the sound after a vowel. 28:30- Those blue Russian bornes have a single sequence for the entire road and so can have very large values of km. I think numbers in the thousands are only found in the road to Vladivostok. The only place where I have seen "bornages" with four digits outside of Russia is in Chile, but they are reported to also exist on some roads in Ontario (11 and 17), Quebec (138) and the Alaska Highway. The USA has no states other than Alaska with roads long enough to have values over 1000, with the largest one on Interstate 10 in Texas near the Louisiana border marking 880 miles (1416 km). 31:52- "Sklep" is "store" in Polish. There is a W in a Slavic language, which is only Polish. It is even seen on that sign as a word by itself, which I think is unique to Polish. The only significant Geoguessr languages where W is commonly seen are English, Dutch, German, Malay, Indonesian, and transliterations from other alphabets such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic. Hungarian does NOT have W. "Rz", "cz", and "szcz" are also markers of Polish. "Sz" before a vowel can be either Polish or Hungarian, but "szi" is Hungarian and "szy" is Polish.

[@winterforlife]

Is this your school essay. Anyways good job, it was very interesting

[@tomward2130]

Amazing

[@nicholasoxaal2518]

Getting into GeoGuessr lately and watching some of these older ones that show up on the youtube recommended. The Albany one was insane, because I grew up going to the church on the right side of the street. That was the easiest 5k of my life and then of course you somehow also pulled it off too out of nowhere. Love these play along videos

[@dmixdup]

"The top of this pole is interesting for sure." 🤣😂😂😂

[@SupermaxLaFrom]

Guessing the same wrong country as you makes me feel better

[@AlexeiWatson]

These videos are so great. Managed to beat you by a handful of points in round 3 (24,061). That being said, you're obviously going for general areas where I was searching for 5k (got 3). The little into section you have on your videos is something that I try to skip because it's almost always some kind of a spoiler for play along videos. Keep these up please, they're helping my game heaps!

[@PoisonedArrowGR]

Love these long videos where you analyze everything possible in the locations, and even though i already know most of the things, it is still really fun to watch. Keep it up!! Once again, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Turkey but not a round in Greece, I'm still waiting xD

[@zi8gzag]

Still waiting on some proper Greek rounds

[@TheKingFadez]

I feel good about myself that we both got Brazil instead of cambodia 😂

[@zi8gzag]

That one was such a toss up

[@inigocollins961]

Seeing you so definitely guess Brazil as I did felt good when you were so shocked it was cambodia as well ! Love the videos, playing a year later and I didn't get exactly the same images! Your bulgaria in the snow round had zero snow for me !

[@doishid]

Great video, first time doing a play along, and I'm finding that it helps me analyse my mistakes and learn new tips! I'm glad to know that we both went brazil game 1, becuase I was stunned I was so off.

[@winterforlife]

I really like these educational videos. Its mostly the small/specific tips you know that are very nice Also 14:38 best moment, zigzag line meta 24:00 i think the lack of trees in eastern turkey is because its extremy elevated on a plateu

[@zi8gzag]

Thanks man! I'll try to put even more of those in the next one!

[@UD1330]

This is my favorite kind of videos ! Keep it up buddy, learning a lot on those

[@larswalther1902]

Just found your channel, this is awesome! I'd love another video like this whenever you've got the time or motivation!

[@zi8gzag]

i have one filmed!

[@JacksonPriceSonder]

When I played along I tried so hard on that Albany round, took me like 5 mins but I got the 5k, then I watch the video and see what you did🤦🏼‍♂️💀ur cracked mate, I love it👏

[@zi8gzag]

Cheers Jackson heheh

[@Stefanlol11]

Really loving these types of videos. Keep it up!

[@zi8gzag]

Shall do!

[@ondezkhrushchevsky-nk7bq]

i like your explanation its so easy to understand

[@jeremiplourde302]

love these type of vids, common zig W

[@originalname6225]

These videos make me feel like I'm getting better and then I play streaks and keep losing in Latin America or central Europe countries

[@zi8gzag]

Keep it up man, practice makes perfect

[@mikevallelyrulez8]

Insane seed in Game 3! Got a 24,277 which is my best ever score for no moving ADW. Thanks for doing these.

[@zi8gzag]

Sick!

[@vasilisnakkas]

Man when you take your time to analyze the location you do really really good Better skills than me for sure Gg zig

[@reggaeinstrumentals0]

I immediately found one of the light posts you mentioned were only in Thailand and it was in fact, 2000 miles from Thailand lmao

[@TheOnlyVipey]

Love your videos man keep it up.

[@zi8gzag]

Thanks!

[@markuusss]

In the Canadian round, you can see a street sign "Rang 5", which is French-language terminology used for generic numbered rural roads used in Quebec, so that would be a big giveaway for that round as well.

[@cherrycolouredshades]

After so many videos and tips I still find the red dirt distinction the hardest one and it can also cost you the whole 5000 (the Brazil-Thailand/Cambodia distinction)

[@BolzplatzFC]

I got 23k on the round u got 24k. I’m so proud of me 😂

[@sovietspy749]

Another thing for the round at 5:00, the stubby antenna in Cambodia, Indonesia, and LatAm is different. Cambodia has a very tight spiral around the antenna (usually 3 or 4 rings visible), Indo has no spiral, and LatAm has a smaller spiral (usually only one or two rings visible).

[@zi8gzag]

Great tip! didn’t know that

[@hanswoast7]

The rooftop feature at 32:00 is a dormer. It is also popular in Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormer

[@christopheroxaal1989]

21:21 I went to church there that’s St Mary’s in Albany NY

[@janseinwill2842]

Thanks! Had a lot of fun :)

[@Leviathan1132]

First time ive ever beaten you, lets goo, 22574 on game 2

[@stevensoon4025]

Damn, so proud that i got a 2 km away guess on the 17:00 ukraine round. Arhitecture seemed like north Romania to me, but no EU plates.

[@zi8gzag]

Nice guess! I should have gotten closer, you could hear in my voice that I wasn’t confident about Serbia

[@ЕвгенийГолубь-х2щ]

13:31 This phrase could be deciphered as 'ВЫСОКОЕ НАПРЯЖЕНИЕ ОПАСНО ДЛЯ ЖИЗНИ', which means 'DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE' translated from.. Russian! So that's a little bit tricky actually, because Russian language can be seen as common as Ukrainian in southern or eastern regions, sometimes even being dominant, like in Crimea

[@Narutoshi]

Amazing video, thank you veru much 🥳

[@zi8gzag]

[@Kolket1389]

In every game I do near perfect but there is always one round that I fuck up somehow

[@kimbakken8752]

We havet double Yellowstone lines in Norway too, and it's very Commodore. Not Just Finland 😊

[@TheMrGazoline]

In game 2 the biggest upset was that I tried to use the sun trick on the Sri Lanka. I would have guessed Sri Lanka had I not looked at the sun, but the sun forced me to guess Indonesia and I didn't like it, as that martial art or military symbol reminded me about Sri Lanka or borderline Malaysia. I guess the sun isn't always that reliable. By the way, seems like the position of the google car in my guesses are a bit misaligned from yours. And yours had some censoring that I didn't have.

[@samlee4958]

You mentioned at 5:51 that a single yellow line indicates it's Canada rather than America. What would America have instead? Sorry I am a new player

[@branthebrave]

7:42 There's Thai language on the white canister thing on the pole Actually it may have been updated? The spots are slightly different

[@fireworker8205]

05:49 Whoops that is not so obvious to me ;) So is a single line in the center of the road just more common in Canada or does it hardly ever occur in the USA and is it almost a certainty when deciding between Canada and USA?

[@zi8gzag]

Yeah just vastly more common in CA

[@fireworker8205]

@@zi8gzag Ah okay thanks! that is very useful to know, I always have a hard time with deciding whether it is northern USA or CA

[@joshe-k3865]

@@fireworker8205 bear in mind that you can also see double yellow in Canada, especially on larger roads

[@BabyL3mur]

on that albany guess, (i was playing along too) the first sign on the post to your right said albany on it lol but still good guess

[@SmithCS]

i went brazil on the 3rd round too

[@RolandTschiah]

dude's from australia but knows what an umlaut is, wtf

[@zi8gzag]

I have a video in German, if you're curious

[@RhondaH]

Those windows you couldn't remember are called dormer windows.

[@kraenk12]

Thx!

[@zi8gzag]

Most welcome!

[@solamano7239]

LOL! Anyone who's been to Cairns Table Tennis Centre has to buy us all a drink! Edit: Very enjoyable! Thank you :)

[@zi8gzag]

Word 🤣

[@Gaba_oter]

ZIGZAG you are more good-looking in longr hair !!!

[@screambmachine]

game 3 only 9th with 4x 5k lol. pretty satisfying turkey after i found Caykara way too fast :D almost perfect seed.

[@zi8gzag]

Nice work! Quite the unique ADW seed

[@screambmachine]

@@zi8gzag yeah thanks, pinpointing is so much fun. no way i could've just plonked it in cairns like you hahaha

[@zi8gzag]

@@screambmachine thats my style hahaha

[@Jimshair46]

How fun

[@akuma7616]

23:00 Cheatah 26:54

[@zi8gzag]

No cheats my friend! Just a bit of luck on the first one

[@NERD._.946]

I got 5K on Poland because I were in that shop

[@ScottishMan123]

The two official languages of Sri Lanka are Tamil and Sinhalese.

[@zi8gzag]

That’s the one

[@cultoftyler9045]

FinLAND lol

[@zi8gzag]

Finlnd

[@cultoftyler9045]

@@zi8gzag Finlnd

[@anilogo682]

N1

[@LuigiLuigi6666]

way too fast for a first time player. but still impressive tho.

[@buda4510]

first bois

[@winterforlife]

Second

[@zi8gzag]

👑

[@buda4510]

@@zi8gzag zig the zagger legend here