That KZN round had a Mexican yucca and Mexican pickup trucks, but the landscape was wrong and even Californicated Mexico doesn't have architecture like that. Somebody in KZN has three identical "bakkies" and a trailer-like house, which I guess could both also be stereotypically South African. And KZN that far inland has bananas? Poland had a very Catholic cross, distinct from Protestantism or Orthodoxy. This is a useful clue in Eastern Europe, where Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant areas meet somewhere around Daugavpils. Then right after it you get the very Malay/Indo mosque. They like blue and green domes like that. The part of Indonesia that is drier is best described as "closer to Northern Territory". I think the main thing is that being farther from the equator gives them a more NT-like climate, with a dry season, which is then more common in the coverage because the weather is better for it. Same for mainland SE Asia north of the Equator- stronger precipitation fluctuation with season away from the Equator. Anyway, in that part of Indonesia, also, Islam makes it less likely that it is Bali (Hindu/Buddhist) or eastern Nusa Tenggara or West Timor (Christianity). The yellow signs are in all of the Yugoslav countries. ć is not used in Czech, Slovak, and Slovene and is much less common in Polish (which tends word-finally to have the "hard" consonant cz (same sound as Serbo-Croatian č) instead) than in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian. There's tall bamboo behind the greenhouse, indicating it isn't very cold. That's not Hokkaido and I was surprised that even northern mainland has it. I know they don't have that around Seoul either. Then on the next round, straight and very white European birches, not the less straight and less white North American kind (and not aspens). The type of lakes in Finland are made in flatter territory from uneven melting of Pleistocene glaciers, but those can be found as far south as Detroit and Chicago in North America and in Belarus and northeastern Poland in Europe. They are oddly absent in Asia, except around Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk and in Tibet. A left-hand drive country with yellow diamond signs has to be Australia, New Zealand, or Asia. African left hand drive countries use the Euro type of warning signs, not the yellow diamond type. Cacti outside the Americas are all non-indigenous and mostly ones with agricultural uses: the prickly pear or nopal (which you had in Malta), which is the one on the Mexican flag, and the agave. The Russian car even has Japanese stickers on the windshield. They didn't take them off. It's like the plumber in Texas that sold his truck and it was used by ISIS. Dresden is near the park "Sächsische Schweiz" which means "Saxon Switzerland" and České Švýcarsko "Bohemian Switzerland". It extends along a valley cut by the Elbe out of sandstone hills.
After 15min watching i realized that my mouth was all the time wide open. im speechless how u figure all that stuff out so quickly and explain it to us!
Laughed a lot @26:12 when you said stuchonfart so casually 😆also yeah that palm tree @30:44 had me guessing south Japan too I had no idea Tokyo had palms
Came over from the GeoPeter collab and have been loving the content since, excited to be part of the under 2k club! Would love to see more play alongs as they're a great way to get involved without needing the subscription. Keep it up!
Fun fact regarding the one near Dresden, Germany: if there's town names that end in -itz, there's an overwhelming probability of the location being set in eastern Germany, specifically in Saxonia. Every other town name and city quarter over here ends in some variety of -witz or -nitz, which I guess stems from the proximity to the Czech border (where it would be -icz or -ic?).
Hi Zig, that Russian "Acko" town you were trying to find isn't supposed to be a town at all. "У Аско" means @ Asko's and such signs usually represent the owner's name. E.g. "Кафе у Ашота" - Cafe at Ashot's - "Ashot" is a popular southern Russian / Armenian name. Asko, however, is a rather uncommon name, but may be specific to the region. After some research, Asko is a friendly form of Askar, a kazakh name. P.S. Also, the car you saw with the steering wheel on the wrong side is a '95 Toyota Corona and back then it was a legal and popular way of getting cars into the country (and actually kind of still is now, gaining back in popularity after all the foreign car manufacturing plants ceased operations). Still, you will more commonly see those cars in the Far East of the country.
Croacian Cars often miss blue strips cause they were the last country joining the eu in 2013, so they often didnt have them when the coverage was created.
I have to say these almost day uploads are very nice. I usualy come home from school to have a fresh zigzag video to see. I almost always learn something new. ( i live in the cet timezon, i wonder which time of day it for you when you upload) i really like the time of your uploads)
Just starting to learn this game, and you've helped heaps, was super proud to get 21,149 in the last game! There was a distant flag in round 2 that I thought was Syrian, but ended up being Palestinian doh!
Yessss I finally beat you! I got 17232, barely winning by about 100 points on your third challenge. Round 1 - Guessed Ukraine. I should've seen the 'bl' character and realized it was Russia. Round 2 - Guessed Eastern Latvia, just a random potshot. I thought it felt somewhat right, but my biggest weakness is always Russia. 435 points lol. Round 3 - Guessed Western Iceland. Just FYI, there was a white sign on a building that said "Iceland". Thought it were the Faroe Islands at first, but then I realized there weren't bars. Round 4 - Guessed Berlin. Looked somewhat weird to me, sorta Austrian but not really, so I went Germany, hedging in the capital as always. :) Round 5 - Guessed north of Lima. I found somewhere that looked somewhat tannish on the map and fairly mountainous. I had the help of the black car, so I was able to narrow it down to Peru, Chile, and Argentina. I was just lucky to have guessed the right area. Also, I saw a yellow diamond sign that helped. Overall, not a terrible round in my opinion, but now I know that I need to get better at Russia :)
I managed to beat you on the last challenge but that was the only one. The round in Germany had a blurred building and I got lucky and actually picked Dresden.
If I guessed Austria and it was Germany, I'd be stoked :-D Thanks for content - these coaching videos are great.... I've never understood the Camera Gen stuff until now....
It's not illegal to import Japanese cars with right-hand drive in Russia. Only passenger vehicles (more than eight seats), trucks and special vehicles were banned in 2020. These cars are widespread in Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai and Sakhalin Oblast. Because these regions are the closest to Japan, buying a right-hand drive car is way cheaper. Many of these cars are used but still very reliable because they were assembled in Japan. They are so cheap in comparison - people order them from all over the country, not in the exact quantities as in the regions mentioned above. But still, you can spot them from time to time. That's why I don't recommend it as one thing in determining the location. This cafe's name translates У (at the) Аско (Asko - It's a man's name, not a city, I heard this name the first time, actually. It may be fictional).
17:20 - yep watching a bit later on :) Very helpful and fun! 27:28 - that makes feel better about myself - I also got baited into Austria on that one :D 36:45 - I must watch waaaaay too much cycling, particulary italy racing because this one was italy for me straight from the get go. One of those weird vibe rounds I think and lack of experience might also have helped me there xD
It is not illegal to import left wheel cars into Russia. You can't do that commercially, but privately it is not a problem, those cars are officially imported and registered.
I think it's legal to drive a car with the wheel on the wrong side even in the USA, but I think almost all examples of that are postal vehicles, where the driver can reach those USA rural mailboxes without even getting out of the car.
Really nice that you do these educational videos for new players, i think there are really helpful. Also how did you confuse Germany with Austria? 🤣 There was a giant blur in the building and also crap 2011 gen 2 camera i think it was obvious this was Germany :P Keep it up :D
about the car in the russia round - I dont know about russia, but In poland, which is where I live, it is completely fine to register and drive a car with the steering wheel on the right hand side. I'm sure it is the case for many other countries as well.
hey Zig, on a third round in Indonesia I could see big indonesian flags on both sides of a road, and in your video I cant see them, why are they gone? :D
ROUND 1: I was like, how the hell is he going to get the first one, and ofc it's the camera, I'm really good at languages, geology, geography, etc... in general. But I hate the rounds where the meta is the only clue. I just don't want to learn it, I don't want to have this annoying knowledge that you have to remember like a robot. It defeats the game a bit for me... But I guess learning where gen 2 is since is rare isn't that bad... ROUND 2: Ugh, I'm so annoyed at the first round I was 99.9% sure that it was Japan, but that yellow, black stripes on poles made me think it could be S. Korea... ROUND 3: Did average 18k ROUND 4: Pulled a crazy 24k
That KZN round had a Mexican yucca and Mexican pickup trucks, but the landscape was wrong and even Californicated Mexico doesn't have architecture like that. Somebody in KZN has three identical "bakkies" and a trailer-like house, which I guess could both also be stereotypically South African. And KZN that far inland has bananas?
Poland had a very Catholic cross, distinct from Protestantism or Orthodoxy. This is a useful clue in Eastern Europe, where Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant areas meet somewhere around Daugavpils.
Then right after it you get the very Malay/Indo mosque. They like blue and green domes like that. The part of Indonesia that is drier is best described as "closer to Northern Territory". I think the main thing is that being farther from the equator gives them a more NT-like climate, with a dry season, which is then more common in the coverage because the weather is better for it. Same for mainland SE Asia north of the Equator- stronger precipitation fluctuation with season away from the Equator. Anyway, in that part of Indonesia, also, Islam makes it less likely that it is Bali (Hindu/Buddhist) or eastern Nusa Tenggara or West Timor (Christianity).
The yellow signs are in all of the Yugoslav countries. ć is not used in Czech, Slovak, and Slovene and is much less common in Polish (which tends word-finally to have the "hard" consonant cz (same sound as Serbo-Croatian č) instead) than in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.
There's tall bamboo behind the greenhouse, indicating it isn't very cold. That's not Hokkaido and I was surprised that even northern mainland has it. I know they don't have that around Seoul either.
Then on the next round, straight and very white European birches, not the less straight and less white North American kind (and not aspens). The type of lakes in Finland are made in flatter territory from uneven melting of Pleistocene glaciers, but those can be found as far south as Detroit and Chicago in North America and in Belarus and northeastern Poland in Europe. They are oddly absent in Asia, except around Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk and in Tibet.
A left-hand drive country with yellow diamond signs has to be Australia, New Zealand, or Asia. African left hand drive countries use the Euro type of warning signs, not the yellow diamond type.
Cacti outside the Americas are all non-indigenous and mostly ones with agricultural uses: the prickly pear or nopal (which you had in Malta), which is the one on the Mexican flag, and the agave.
The Russian car even has Japanese stickers on the windshield. They didn't take them off. It's like the plumber in Texas that sold his truck and it was used by ISIS.
Dresden is near the park "Sächsische Schweiz" which means "Saxon Switzerland" and České Švýcarsko "Bohemian Switzerland". It extends along a valley cut by the Elbe out of sandstone hills.
After 15min watching i realized that my mouth was all the time wide open. im speechless how u figure all that stuff out so quickly and explain it to us!
Hahah thanks D Moos! So glad you enjoyed:)
Laughed a lot @26:12 when you said stuchonfart so casually 😆also yeah that palm tree @30:44 had me guessing south Japan too I had no idea Tokyo had palms
Came over from the GeoPeter collab and have been loving the content since, excited to be part of the under 2k club! Would love to see more play alongs as they're a great way to get involved without needing the subscription. Keep it up!
Thanks! Ill try to do more
Fun fact regarding the one near Dresden, Germany: if there's town names that end in -itz, there's an overwhelming probability of the location being set in eastern Germany, specifically in Saxonia. Every other town name and city quarter over here ends in some variety of -witz or -nitz, which I guess stems from the proximity to the Czech border (where it would be -icz or -ic?).
I had my best score so far in my geogusser games on this video! that last round I got 22,600 which is my personal best to date. Fun and useful video
Even for a descent player like me, i realized that there are plenty of new things to learn. Good tips man loved it
Also i freestyled once on the beat behind the video 🤣
lmaoo
Hi Zig, that Russian "Acko" town you were trying to find isn't supposed to be a town at all. "У Аско" means @ Asko's and such signs usually represent the owner's name. E.g. "Кафе у Ашота" - Cafe at Ashot's - "Ashot" is a popular southern Russian / Armenian name. Asko, however, is a rather uncommon name, but may be specific to the region. After some research, Asko is a friendly form of Askar, a kazakh name.
P.S. Also, the car you saw with the steering wheel on the wrong side is a '95 Toyota Corona and back then it was a legal and popular way of getting cars into the country (and actually kind of still is now, gaining back in popularity after all the foreign car manufacturing plants ceased operations). Still, you will more commonly see those cars in the Far East of the country.
Croacian Cars often miss blue strips cause they were the last country joining the eu in 2013, so they often didnt have them when the coverage was created.
Ah that makes a lot of sense, I didn’t know
I have to say these almost day uploads are very nice. I usualy come home from school to have a fresh zigzag video to see. I almost always learn something new. ( i live in the cet timezon, i wonder which time of day it for you when you upload) i really like the time of your uploads)
Thanks Winter! I upload when I go to bed, around 1am Adelaide time
i managed to beat you somehow and got so happy haha , good video man. i definently learned a lot from this, thank you!
well played!
Just starting to learn this game, and you've helped heaps, was super proud to get 21,149 in the last game! There was a distant flag in round 2 that I thought was Syrian, but ended up being Palestinian doh!
Yessss I finally beat you! I got 17232, barely winning by about 100 points on your third challenge.
Round 1 - Guessed Ukraine. I should've seen the 'bl' character and realized it was Russia.
Round 2 - Guessed Eastern Latvia, just a random potshot. I thought it felt somewhat right, but my biggest weakness is always Russia. 435 points lol.
Round 3 - Guessed Western Iceland. Just FYI, there was a white sign on a building that said "Iceland". Thought it were the Faroe Islands at first, but then I realized there weren't bars.
Round 4 - Guessed Berlin. Looked somewhat weird to me, sorta Austrian but not really, so I went Germany, hedging in the capital as always. :)
Round 5 - Guessed north of Lima. I found somewhere that looked somewhat tannish on the map and fairly mountainous. I had the help of the black car, so I was able to narrow it down to Peru, Chile, and Argentina. I was just lucky to have guessed the right area. Also, I saw a yellow diamond sign that helped.
Overall, not a terrible round in my opinion, but now I know that I need to get better at Russia :)
sounded like "Terrorist farms"😂 31:48
I'm still learning a lot and improving my region guesses. Thanks for sharing the challanges, lucky I 5K @26:00 a place which is quite familiar to me.
Fantastic video, thank you :D don't worry about Austria guess, you are amazing!!
Thanks as always man:)
I managed to beat you on the last challenge but that was the only one. The round in Germany had a blurred building and I got lucky and actually picked Dresden.
in the croatia round i clicked somewhere random and was 1.6 km away
I love how you Australians say “Curious” when I would probably say Interesting being American. Love the vid 👍🏻
hahahahha, yeah that is a bit of an aussie thing aye
@@zi8gzag You betcha
If I guessed Austria and it was Germany, I'd be stoked :-D Thanks for content - these coaching videos are great.... I've never understood the Camera Gen stuff until now....
You’re welcome mate hahahaha, I have a camera generations guide in my tutorials playlist btw
Thanks man im a beginner and this really helps
Most welcome Kevin!
In the Germany round around 27:00 minute mark, I thought the blurred out building was a pretty big clue.
A bad guess on my part for sure hahaha
It's not illegal to import Japanese cars with right-hand drive in Russia. Only passenger vehicles (more than eight seats), trucks and special vehicles were banned in 2020. These cars are widespread in Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai and Sakhalin Oblast. Because these regions are the closest to Japan, buying a right-hand drive car is way cheaper. Many of these cars are used but still very reliable because they were assembled in Japan. They are so cheap in comparison - people order them from all over the country, not in the exact quantities as in the regions mentioned above. But still, you can spot them from time to time. That's why I don't recommend it as one thing in determining the location. This cafe's name translates У (at the) Аско (Asko - It's a man's name, not a city, I heard this name the first time, actually. It may be fictional).
17:20 - yep watching a bit later on :) Very helpful and fun!
27:28 - that makes feel better about myself - I also got baited into Austria on that one :D
36:45 - I must watch waaaaay too much cycling, particulary italy racing because this one was italy for me straight from the get go. One of those weird vibe rounds I think and lack of experience might also have helped me there xD
It is not illegal to import left wheel cars into Russia. You can't do that commercially, but privately it is not a problem, those cars are officially imported and registered.
Oops, thanks for correcting that Alex
I think it's legal to drive a car with the wheel on the wrong side even in the USA, but I think almost all examples of that are postal vehicles, where the driver can reach those USA rural mailboxes without even getting out of the car.
Really nice that you do these educational videos for new players, i think there are really helpful. Also how did you confuse Germany with Austria? 🤣 There was a giant blur in the building and also crap 2011 gen 2 camera i think it was obvious this was Germany :P Keep it up :D
Yeah I was quite tired when I filmed this...... lmao terrible guess
You’re already close to 2k :D
True! So close
about the car in the russia round - I dont know about russia, but In poland, which is where I live, it is completely fine to register and drive a car with the steering wheel on the right hand side. I'm sure it is the case for many other countries as well.
Yeah, I was actually wrong there I think. It's still a good clue tho
love these :)
That place in Western Australia has the "broccoli trees" behind the dirt road. Do you know what those are actually called?
Nice scores :)
hey Zig, on a third round in Indonesia I could see big indonesian flags on both sides of a road, and in your video I cant see them, why are they gone? :D
ROUND 1: I was like, how the hell is he going to get the first one, and ofc it's the camera, I'm really good at languages, geology, geography, etc... in general. But I hate the rounds where the meta is the only clue. I just don't want to learn it, I don't want to have this annoying knowledge that you have to remember like a robot. It defeats the game a bit for me... But I guess learning where gen 2 is since is rare isn't that bad...
ROUND 2: Ugh, I'm so annoyed at the first round I was 99.9% sure that it was Japan, but that yellow, black stripes on poles made me think it could be S. Korea...
ROUND 3: Did average 18k
ROUND 4: Pulled a crazy 24k
10:41 I went Taiwan cause the black and yellow strip on bottom of pole
2nd one i didnt do to bad on 12k other 3 were rough
Here shiws experience i went Chile instead of Australia
GeoGuesser should block view of the gglcar for all users automatically!
yeah i’d be into that
Better
yeah that last round looked way too nice to be albania lmao
True
i beat u on the last round