Your Solomon Islands round really showed that you know your flags. Out of all the flags of the world that were not the Solomon Islands, DRC and Gabon may be the most similar to it. DRC would be indistinguishable from what you had in that round if it were a black/white photo (there's the star, the diagonal band...), and Gabon had the right colours, just in a different arrangement.
@@rastkodimitrijevic8397 I recognized the dark blue flag with white stars and the diagonal line and remembered it was “something islands” but it took me some time to remember which exactly (other thoughts were Marshall, Comoran, random countries that have islands in the name)
Tom: "I cannot work out this flag, youre all probably laughin' at me." Me, Who looked it up in google 5 seconds earlier: "Haha yeah, so obvious tom, come on."
Didn't know where it was but my guess was oceania because there is not a lot of blue in african countries flags, there are more red green and yellow for most of them
Somehow, I actually knew the flag bc I used to love taking small island countries through qualifying in the old Fifa World Cup games. Solomon Islands were one of the teams I would often go with.
@@afsocit It's not like you need to know what the script looks like. Just zoom in and it shows the names of the cities with the native script so it's very easy to spot the differences between the SEA scripts.
I just zoom on the main intersection (it was north-south from the compass so there isn't too many choices) and i said "hey, it looks green and the back looks like there's a river (from the barrier around you are sure there's at least something)
I got 3 perfect guesses, but my first and 4th guesses let me down - that was a lot of fun, loving this format Tom! You missed the Japanese flag on the fourth one which would have put you in the right part of the globe ;)
Same! I got the wrong intersection in Myanmar so I thought it was over. For the 4th guess I went for Fiji as it all looked tropical and the Japanese flag made me go for an island. First time I've beaten Tom!!
I missed the Japanese flag, and I got the wrong intersection in Myanmar. Annoyingly, I saw the right intersection but dismissed it because it didn't look like there were two north-bound roads...
The count I was looking for. My worst nightmare for Tom is him forgetting to record during the time he hits the record for 10 second no moving panning zoom.
"And start, because you won't get far without starting" *- Tom Tzu, The Art of GeoGuessr* If it helps, Vietnam doesn't use a script like Cambodia's . Vietnamese is a Latin script, developed by Portuguese missionaries and further influenced by the French
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 "no weapon formed against you prospers 54:17, from Isaiah. Lay a nigga down and spray 'em. If the dealer dealt a fucked up hands of cards you gotta play 'em."
When he turned around at 10:23 I was like "YUP!!! I have playing Grand Prix F1 games since I was 4 years old, that's the Monaco F1 track!" (It's just weird to see it full of "normal" everyday cars :D)
Tom, French cars used to have a yellow rear license plate! This has come up a couple of times, so don't be scared if you see an old car with a yellow license plate in France (or Monaco in this case)
I visited Rwanda in 2019 and I too was surprised at how wealthy it was! (Compared to countries around it like Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi etc). They're doing pretty well for themselves and it was interesting to hear that they have something like 60% of politicians are women and it's also super easy to start a business there, you can set one up within 48 hours and there's little beauracracy around it like other countries so it encourages entrepreneurialism. Nice place!
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@@gillmonsta cheapest flights are from brisbane, cheapest food is from the markets, so you're gonna want to eat a lot of rice and kasava (tastes like potato). when i stayed there we stayed in people homes, so im not sure what the cheapest accommodation would be like. all in all, avoid any touristy shops cause they are wayy expensive compared to local goods
I felt like a proper tool guessing Sao Tome when it was Solomon Islands. Thankfully you were just as much of a tool as I.. Cheers Tom! (also all time great future Tom appearance that was)
me: is watching monaco grand prix highlights on youtube tom: uploads capital cities playalong me at round 3 after 0.00000000001 seconds: oh thats monaco
I knew the 1st one straight away because of the Top Gear Christmas Special a couple of years ago. They showed the overly large roads for the low amount of cars.
Other slight clues for Honiara guess: you can just see hills to the south (eliminates flat atolls), and there are frangipani trees in the drive, which narrows things down a bit.
22,316 - two perfect scores on Rwanda and Monaco, guessed vanatu for the Solomon Islands bc the architecture looked more Polynesian First time beating Tom!
Years ago I watched a documentary on Rwuanda and it said at that time it had more universities per capita than any other African country and the progress was driven by the past tragedies.
21,623 for me. Only got a perfect score on the last round and yet I score more than you with 4 perfect scores out of 5. Just shows how damaging one bad round can be on GeoGuessr.
We beat you for the first time! Got the same 4 perfect as you, didn't get the Solomon islands but thought that the flag was Vanuatu, for some reason. So that was pretty close, juste enough to get a few points more :) that's a great fun map, would enjoy some more play alongs!
I didn't get the Cambodia one, saw the city but couldn't find the street, although as a flag nerd the Solomon islands one was easy and I'm a big f1 fan so Monaco was instant
I‘m pretty proud to say that I beat him as well this time with 24,998 points. But I farely have to say that the Solomon Islands was 90% luck based and I needed almost 1.5h to finish the challenge 😅.
24978...that was pure luck that i remembered the flag of solomon islands. Sometimes I play a geo game on my mobile where flags have to be assigned to countries. However, well played Tom. It was fun watching you!
Tom, these capital cities game is really spot on. We need more! Great video and great jokes with Abba (although it had only one "B" , but here I am complaining about that). Cheers mate
I tied with you on this one! The same perfect scores and complete mess-up as you did (I went for Antigua and Barbuda). What hurts me the most is that I actually browsed that city on the Solomon Islands earlier today, reading about the Guadalcanal campaign and asking myself what became of the Henderson Field! For what I know, I could actually have visited that very image, as there were almost no images there...
Funny episode, my 4th round was bugged and showed Monaco again so i had 0 points and was annoyed. But then i saw you make 0 points by failing to find the correct spot :D still made 49 points less, i was too lazy to find the exact location in burma and cambodia
You know Tom's a based Brit when he still calls the country Burma in Myanmar, the top of the license plate refers to the city/region it's registered in. In the case of GO (which is actually BGO), it's referring to the Bago Region, a region just south of Naypyidaw. While colonized by the British just like India, Myanmar has been driving on the right since 1970. Why? Well, besides being a decision by the military regime, the answer isn't clear. They just one day decided "Hey y'all, you drive on the right now!" and it happened
I've got the Solomon Islands one with 4989 pts. The star on a blue background made me thinking of island nations near Australia (it's a common feature on the flags in the region I thought), and with a bit of luck, I got in!
the thumbnail made me click the video, because I memorized all 198 flags a while back and I wanted to see if i could get it. I was pretty sure it was the solomon islands but i confuse some of those Oceanic country flags sometimes. Ended with around a 22k score, GG Tom
I recognized the Solomon Islands flag because I've studied every country flag in the world with Seterra quizzes lol. Awesome website and really fun though, I highly recommend it if you wanna up your flag game
I think I could see a Japanese flag as the third flag on the Solomon Islands one which made me think Oceania. Didn't recognize the Solomon Islands flag tho. Also on the Kigali one you could see "-gali" on the front of the building. Keep 'em coming Tom! 🙂
Thanks for the vid Tom. I started playing Geoguessr after watching a couple of your videos which were recommended after your Straight Line Across Scotland videos. Managed 24968 on the UK map after playing the free game for 2 weeks. Keep it up man.
I called napidaw about 30 secs into the first guess! Thanks, top gear burma special :) red and white kerbs, uk style traffic lights while driving on the right, and massive roads with no traffic 👍
18:55 rwanda is becoming the singapore of africa. Its copying a lot from them, for example they have Rwanda Airlines just like Singapore Airlines which is in hands of the government. Also they make sure the streets are really clean
Made the rookie mistake of not looking for the dot and accidentally assumed Mandalay to be the capital of Myanmar and lost 957 points there & also got 0 points on Solomon Islands, but otherwise perfect scores for the other 3 rounds. Love the play alongs. Keep em coming!!
on the bank of Kigali round you could've used the writing on the left curve of the building to finish the word ki-gali but I only know where that is because of the travel vlogger sabbatical
This was so exciting, Thank you Tom! And yes, I was one of them who got four perfect scores and one with 331! I put my luck on Gabon, because there was a japanese flag next to it. Glad I saw that one and you didn't :p
I had two guesses for that flag and tbh they were with no huge confidence. I guessed either Soloman islands or Seychelles. I probably would have just went for Soloman islands since I remembered that the Seychelles flag has diagonal coloured stripes so I would have been right but a very lucky guess at that.
11:27 if you have a nvidia graphics card there’s software you can get that allows for replays up to 5min (may be able to make it longer idk) and save it as a clip if you werent recording btw
1 point away from the perfect store! That driveway in Honiara was near impossible to spot on the map. 70th place overall though, can't complain about that!
Really enjoy these play along challenges! As for my performance this time: I was a bit careless in Myanmar and didn't even attempt a perfect score there, ended up 1.9km off, got lucky with the Solomon Islands round, was only about 50% sure about the flag but is was the best guess I had - would have never found the exact spot so chose a random location in the capital and ended 2.2km away. Other rounds where perfect, Cambodia with the full address + the ABA bank on the map made it easy, Monaco was easy and also instantly read Bank of Kigali - didn't even see the Rwanda clue you found since I went straight into the map when I read Kigali - total score of 24983 I'm happy with that.
Finally my pointless flag knowledge came in handy! I would have got that and the Monaco one because I've played enough Gran Turismo to know that's the track
dang, I got 24994 points. I couldn't figure out exactly where we were in the Soloman Islands, so I guessed the American War Memorial. I was shocked that you got the perfect spot in the first guess, but amusingly, when I clicked on mine, I got the perfect score too. you're very good with finding yourself on maps and you know a lot of meta info, but come on Tom, you should study more geography outside from Europe! haha
Fun Fact: As a British colony, Myanmar used to drive on the left. Even after independence it continued to do so till 1970 when PM Ne Win decided to switch to driving on the right for no apparent reason (some say his astrologer advised him to do so). Trouble is most of the cars are Japanese imports which are Right Hand Driven. So RHD cars are driven on the right side traffic making it quite dangerous.
Come for the GeoGuessr rounds, stay for the ABBA jokes and Tom's singing... Listening to ABBA songs is like having potato chips, can't stop at just one
Hey tom, tip for finding jerusalem, in jerusalem you will see everything made from “jerusalem stone” Once you see the type of stone you will notice it is implemented into everything
For once, I actually knew something Tom didn’t know. I love flags, so the Solomon Islands was my first thought. However, looking for an African country was not a bad tactic!
Great map, hope you do more of these! Here's how I did. Round 1 - 5000 points, 5 meters Looked South East Asian, and narrowed it down to Myanmar by the script. Looked at the roads and the way it curved and, to my surprise, got it bang on. Round 2 - 5000 points, 6 meters Literally had the address right there. Round 3 - 5000 points, 5 meters Recognized Monaco after having visited years ago. French language with a large yacht port thingy. Found the road by looking at the proximity to the coast and saw the Casino Supermarchet with the pharmacy the next street over. Round 4 - 4994 points, 1.3 km Was about 78% sure it was the flag of the Solomon Islands (it's a weird hobby, shut up). Tried to find a road that looked similar, but didn't find anything that added 100% up. Didn't see that the road to the south must have been the main road, and didn't think the coast was that close. Went further inland to the south west of the correct location. Round 5 - 5000 points, 7 meters Saw "Bank of Kigali" and figured it was Rwanda. The street names were given on the signs, so found the spot. Total score of 24994
I beat you by one point with 4995 for Honiara haha. Was a tossup between Solomon and Marshall Islands flags for me but the terrain ruled out Majuro. The rest was pretty much the same except me being confused for a moment while I forgot that Monaco existed. Well played
18:45 there's an interesting video somewhere on youtube called something like "How Rwanda is becoming the Singapore of Africa". Despite knowing that I still didn't see the rwanda sign or get the right country though.
1st round: thought it looked like the thai language, eliminated thailand cambodia and laos because it was not official coverage. Correctly guessed myanmar, but on another intersection (pretty similar in my defence, same orientation) 4977 points 2nd round: whole address written on that shop, found the road, found aba bank, 5000 points EZ 3rd round: it felt like monaco straight from the beginning, orientation of the port correlated nicely, found the casino in the corner, 5000 points 4th round: knew the flag, zoomed in the solomon islands, thought it looked like a hotel. Zoomed into the capital clicked the first hotel that showed up, a heartbreaking 4999 5th round: thought i was fucked up, when about to give up and guess anywhere in africa i see the bank of kigali in the distance, another 5000 points. 24976, heartbreakingly close to 25k, great map, just really happy i beat tom
Finally I beat your score on a playalong!!! Managed a respectable 21499, lost a few points in Myanmar then lots on the Solomon Islands! Really enjoy watching you solve them in seconds when I have spent 30 minutes looking at every inch of the screen in zoom to find clues 🤣
15:14 Meet Swampletics, my Morytania locked ultimate ironman. After recently maxing my ultimate ironman I decided to up the ante, and forge my own journey from scratch. No banking, no trading, but this time I can't leave Morytania.
First time playing along with you, Mr. Wizard. 1st guess was way off, didn't spend enough time on it and thought the text on the car/billboard looked Greek so hastily chose Athens! Managed to get 3 perfects but the 4th one got me, too. I noticed the Japanese flag, however, so guessed somewhere in the south pacific and was only about 1100 miles off.
This is a great format! Somehow got the capital of Burma wrong and found a spot that looked perfect... 156 miles away. Never would have guesses the Solomon Islands!
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1am and I feel I have to watch this. Entertaining as always Tom.
Lol we in this together 1 am ukt gang
What a fantastic crossover
Love it Jim
My favorite crossover episode
Let’s get Kitboga here.
As an F1 fan, you just get the Monaco straight away, dont even need to look around, just bang on in the road
right when he clicked you can see a church named MAX MAX MAX SUPERMAX
@@ramonwinters8989 saw that too XD
when i played it, i saw a green orange white flag on the building next to the road and a french roadsign and clicked in cote d'ivoire :(
felt so good instantly recognizing start finish straight! haha
exactly, no heroics into saint devote
"You won't get far without starting." -Tom Davies, 2021
We get our daily motivation and daily scolding from Tom
Best line on YT, ever.
That's quite deep actually
One of the great philosophical minds of our time
420th like hehe
Your Solomon Islands round really showed that you know your flags. Out of all the flags of the world that were not the Solomon Islands, DRC and Gabon may be the most similar to it. DRC would be indistinguishable from what you had in that round if it were a black/white photo (there's the star, the diagonal band...), and Gabon had the right colours, just in a different arrangement.
it's quite similar to the christmas island flag
You simply have to appreciate Tom singing ABBA
I'm going to have that song in my head for a thousand years.
One does not simply...
AᗺBA 🤔🍻🥰
He earned my like for that
As a swede, I'm very proud.
"You won't get far without starting" Unintentional deep quote.
me who learned all the capitals and flags as a teenager for no reason at all: finally, an opportunity to flex something silently inside my head
treat yourself, you can yell it at the screen
lmao me too
Same here lmao
Did you really guess Solomon islands?
@@rastkodimitrijevic8397 I recognized the dark blue flag with white stars and the diagonal line and remembered it was “something islands” but it took me some time to remember which exactly (other thoughts were Marshall, Comoran, random countries that have islands in the name)
Tom: "I cannot work out this flag, youre all probably laughin' at me."
Me, Who looked it up in google 5 seconds earlier: "Haha yeah, so obvious tom, come on."
I got this place when I played it earlier, so, instant recognition. But when he said that line, my smile froze.
@@zhuofanzhang9974 what is the flag
Didn't know where it was but my guess was oceania because there is not a lot of blue in african countries flags, there are more red green and yellow for most of them
@@leohpr9620 solomon islands
@@returddll5438 o I knew it
As a Swedish person I can confirm that yes, that is Sweden. Stockholm in the winter is scary.
@@kidneyfailure6612 cambodian round
@@_r1czz that was so funny
Pfft... Stockholmare
i read ur comment and then saw the full video and i was really expecting to see sweden in winter, fuck you
hej hej!!
Somehow, I actually knew the flag bc I used to love taking small island countries through qualifying in the old Fifa World Cup games. Solomon Islands were one of the teams I would often go with.
I love them and plan to visit plus they qualify for FIFA futsal WC every time
That’s where I knew it from!!
I just do a ton of sporcle quizzes lmao so I had it memorized
Phew! I was scared it was going to be a normal intro today. You never disappoint, Tom!
@S O F I A lol the bots aren’t even subtle anymore
“Get in!” Count: 0
Surprise Future Tom appearance
I love you
That first guess is amazing. No one else has quite the right combination of luck and incredible skill Tom!
I was a little surprised he didn't recognize the burmese script, it's so distinctive and beautiful
@@afsocit It's not like you need to know what the script looks like. Just zoom in and it shows the names of the cities with the native script so it's very easy to spot the differences between the SEA scripts.
I just zoom on the main intersection (it was north-south from the compass so there isn't too many choices) and i said "hey, it looks green and the back looks like there's a river (from the barrier around you are sure there's at least something)
That was mental haha
if you play the map enough times you remember where they are
I got 3 perfect guesses, but my first and 4th guesses let me down - that was a lot of fun, loving this format Tom! You missed the Japanese flag on the fourth one which would have put you in the right part of the globe ;)
Saw the Japanese flag too, was wondering why he wasn't paying attention to the other two. Loved the video, keep up the good work Tom :)
Same! I got the wrong intersection in Myanmar so I thought it was over. For the 4th guess I went for Fiji as it all looked tropical and the Japanese flag made me go for an island. First time I've beaten Tom!!
I missed the Japanese flag, and I got the wrong intersection in Myanmar. Annoyingly, I saw the right intersection but dismissed it because it didn't look like there were two north-bound roads...
'Are we recording?' count: 1?
11:12 - a tangent about how many times Tom had not been recording.
@S O F I A wtf
@@yjfnfgy bot, don't click that link lmao
originality count: 0
@@kiiturii pipe down blud nobody likes your jokes
The count I was looking for. My worst nightmare for Tom is him forgetting to record during the time he hits the record for 10 second no moving panning zoom.
"And start, because you won't get far without starting"
*- Tom Tzu, The Art of GeoGuessr*
If it helps, Vietnam doesn't use a script like Cambodia's
. Vietnamese is a Latin script, developed by Portuguese missionaries and further influenced by the French
It's also easy to recognize by the loads of diacritics on each vowel
Tell us more about your script supreme leader.
That 'ABA' joke was pure gold Tom
ABBA Gold, if you will.
@@MrJackHopey aha
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 "no weapon formed against you prospers 54:17, from Isaiah. Lay a nigga down and spray 'em. If the dealer dealt a fucked up hands of cards you gotta play 'em."
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 god ain't real my g
haven't listen yet "must be funny"
When he turned around at 10:23 I was like "YUP!!! I have playing Grand Prix F1 games since I was 4 years old, that's the Monaco F1 track!" (It's just weird to see it full of "normal" everyday cars :D)
wow i didnt noticed, cool!
Yep, F1 is obviously not an interest of Tom's. I recognised it as the start/finish straight immediately.
The “ABA” joke caught me off guard definitely.
Tom, French cars used to have a yellow rear license plate! This has come up a couple of times, so don't be scared if you see an old car with a yellow license plate in France (or Monaco in this case)
5:09 in Asia they always use very light models in adverts regardless how dark the native population is.
That's just sad
I visited Rwanda in 2019 and I too was surprised at how wealthy it was! (Compared to countries around it like Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi etc). They're doing pretty well for themselves and it was interesting to hear that they have something like 60% of politicians are women and it's also super easy to start a business there, you can set one up within 48 hours and there's little beauracracy around it like other countries so it encourages entrepreneurialism. Nice place!
solomon islands! love that country. spent 2 months there just hanging out with the people!! most gorgeous souls ive ever met
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@Uncumbersome “living paradox” is the perfect description
Same love that place give me advice to budget
@@gillmonsta cheapest flights are from brisbane, cheapest food is from the markets, so you're gonna want to eat a lot of rice and kasava (tastes like potato). when i stayed there we stayed in people homes, so im not sure what the cheapest accommodation would be like. all in all, avoid any touristy shops cause they are wayy expensive compared to local goods
I felt like a proper tool guessing Sao Tome when it was Solomon Islands. Thankfully you were just as much of a tool as I.. Cheers Tom! (also all time great future Tom appearance that was)
my first thought was são tomé, too, but then i realized it was the solomon islands
He really edited Future Tom in just to make an Abba joke 😂😂
ABBA fanatic here. This is the second ABBA reference in a few months time. Keep it up, Tom.
me: is watching monaco grand prix highlights on youtube
tom: uploads capital cities playalong
me at round 3 after 0.00000000001 seconds: oh thats monaco
Fellow Cuber?
I knew the 1st one straight away because of the Top Gear Christmas Special a couple of years ago. They showed the overly large roads for the low amount of cars.
Everytime, I hit the like button even before watching the video because all of your videos are GOLD. Keep up the great work!
The Salad fingers at the beginning made me go insane for a few minutes wondering where I had heard it.
imagine being so good you DONT want a sign to give away the country
Other slight clues for Honiara guess: you can just see hills to the south (eliminates flat atolls), and there are frangipani trees in the drive, which narrows things down a bit.
22,316 - two perfect scores on Rwanda and Monaco, guessed vanatu for the Solomon Islands bc the architecture looked more Polynesian
First time beating Tom!
i got 21,616 with three perfect scores and also guessed Vanuatu for the Solomon islands one and its also my first time beating him!
Years ago I watched a documentary on Rwuanda and it said at that time it had more universities per capita than any other African country and the progress was driven by the past tragedies.
21,623 for me. Only got a perfect score on the last round and yet I score more than you with 4 perfect scores out of 5. Just shows how damaging one bad round can be on GeoGuessr.
i got 21,616 with three perfect scores!
I played along and my Solomon Islands view was completely different from yours. I didn't even have a flag
We beat you for the first time! Got the same 4 perfect as you, didn't get the Solomon islands but thought that the flag was Vanuatu, for some reason. So that was pretty close, juste enough to get a few points more :) that's a great fun map, would enjoy some more play alongs!
“We” ??
I didn't get the Cambodia one, saw the city but couldn't find the street, although as a flag nerd the Solomon islands one was easy and I'm a big f1 fan so Monaco was instant
I‘m pretty proud to say that I beat him as well this time with 24,998 points. But I farely have to say that the Solomon Islands was 90% luck based and I needed almost 1.5h to finish the challenge 😅.
scarily similar, except i went for Kiribati
I had the same thought about Vanuatu but wasn't patient enough to find it and went for French Polynesia, giving away tons of points there :/
24978...that was pure luck that i remembered the flag of solomon islands. Sometimes I play a geo game on my mobile where flags have to be assigned to countries. However, well played Tom. It was fun watching you!
Tom, these capital cities game is really spot on. We need more! Great video and great jokes with Abba (although it had only one "B" , but here I am complaining about that).
Cheers mate
Didnt play along, but recently did some practise with flags, so recognised the flag. Class video mate, always a joy to watch you!
The abba joke actually made me laugh lol
I tied with you on this one! The same perfect scores and complete mess-up as you did (I went for Antigua and Barbuda).
What hurts me the most is that I actually browsed that city on the Solomon Islands earlier today, reading about the Guadalcanal campaign and asking myself what became of the Henderson Field! For what I know, I could actually have visited that very image, as there were almost no images there...
As and ABBA fan, I must appreciate all the jokes... absolutely adorable... :)
Especially future Toms interjection 🤣
Funny episode, my 4th round was bugged and showed Monaco again so i had 0 points and was annoyed. But then i saw you make 0 points by failing to find the correct spot :D still made 49 points less, i was too lazy to find the exact location in burma and cambodia
You know Tom's a based Brit when he still calls the country Burma
in Myanmar, the top of the license plate refers to the city/region it's registered in. In the case of GO (which is actually BGO), it's referring to the Bago Region, a region just south of Naypyidaw. While colonized by the British just like India, Myanmar has been driving on the right since 1970. Why? Well, besides being a decision by the military regime, the answer isn't clear. They just one day decided "Hey y'all, you drive on the right now!" and it happened
myanmar drives on the right as seen in the video, which is why tom knew it wasn't india
The military regime deemed their countries political views to be starting to lean left so they made everyone drive on the right to counteract it
Hi again
@@rogan6947 you're joking right?
@@leob4403 Nope...
DOPPLEGANGER ALERT
Tom - you look exactly like the spokesperson for the Israeli ambulance service - look him up "Uriel Goldberg"
JackSucksAtGeography be like: "Oh boy I waited a long time for this!"
What happened to this comment section 👀
@@matdb806 I went and reported them. Not sure if YT actually does anything about it, but it's annoying to see those spammy comments everywhere.
@@AmyAnnLand Yeah it's very annoying... Thank you for reporting them!
I had a nice lunch at that restaurante Italiano in Monaco!! Lovely panini it was.. didn’t bode well at the casino afterwards…
I've got the Solomon Islands one with 4989 pts. The star on a blue background made me thinking of island nations near Australia (it's a common feature on the flags in the region I thought), and with a bit of luck, I got in!
It's strage doing better than Tom this time. Flag knowledge actually saved me
the thumbnail made me click the video, because I memorized all 198 flags a while back and I wanted to see if i could get it. I was pretty sure it was the solomon islands but i confuse some of those Oceanic country flags sometimes. Ended with around a 22k score, GG Tom
loved this video it's refreshing somehow
"Abba bank-.... though it might've been Sweden"
I laughed hard as I am a swede myself...
10/10 so far on this series, great fun. It's not often my obscure knowledge of all the countries' flags comes in handy.
"ABA Bank" "Thought it could be Sweden!" fuck sake i laughed so much
I recognized the Solomon Islands flag because I've studied every country flag in the world with Seterra quizzes lol. Awesome website and really fun though, I highly recommend it if you wanna up your flag game
I think I could see a Japanese flag as the third flag on the Solomon Islands one which made me think Oceania. Didn't recognize the Solomon Islands flag tho.
Also on the Kigali one you could see "-gali" on the front of the building.
Keep 'em coming Tom! 🙂
I thought to myself that the minutes just melted away watching this, and then you mentioned it yourself. Great video.
it went from “15k explored this map” to “51k explored this map” 😭😭
@S O F I A really? on GeoWizard?
@S O F I A shut up
@Uncumbersome ppl use the crying emoji as a laughing emoji
@Uncumbersome oh the crying emoji is something i use for laughing crying ! a lot of people use it like that on twitter and tiktok
@Uncumbersome You’re bothered about a stranger’s emoji preference, grow up
Thanks for the vid Tom. I started playing Geoguessr after watching a couple of your videos which were recommended after your Straight Line Across Scotland videos. Managed 24968 on the UK map after playing the free game for 2 weeks. Keep it up man.
I called napidaw about 30 secs into the first guess! Thanks, top gear burma special :) red and white kerbs, uk style traffic lights while driving on the right, and massive roads with no traffic 👍
18:55 rwanda is becoming the singapore of africa. Its copying a lot from them, for example they have Rwanda Airlines just like Singapore Airlines which is in hands of the government. Also they make sure the streets are really clean
Tom Davies, you are a true madlad
Made the rookie mistake of not looking for the dot and accidentally assumed Mandalay to be the capital of Myanmar and lost 957 points there & also got 0 points on Solomon Islands, but otherwise perfect scores for the other 3 rounds. Love the play alongs. Keep em coming!!
on the bank of Kigali round you could've used the writing on the left curve of the building to finish the word ki-gali but I only know where that is because of the travel vlogger sabbatical
By far the most entertaining series in a while.. lovely to see the notification in my inbox of this video. Great going!
This was so exciting, Thank you Tom!
And yes, I was one of them who got four perfect scores and one with 331!
I put my luck on Gabon, because there was a japanese flag next to it. Glad I saw that one and you didn't :p
I had two guesses for that flag and tbh they were with no huge confidence. I guessed either Soloman islands or Seychelles. I probably would have just went for Soloman islands since I remembered that the Seychelles flag has diagonal coloured stripes so I would have been right but a very lucky guess at that.
Oh I can tell this will be a good video!
I loved that the Myanmar one was like an actual guess, and a freaking insane one too
11:27 if you have a nvidia graphics card there’s software you can get that allows for replays up to 5min (may be able to make it longer idk) and save it as a clip if you werent recording btw
I think it goes up to like 15 minutes but the file sizes are really large
AMD also has that built in so it should work regardless of what graphics card he has! (you may need to enable it for Google Chrome though idk)
You can just use OBS with replay buffer, and set whatever fps/bitrate, and thus filesize you want, at any recording length
1 point away from the perfect store! That driveway in Honiara was near impossible to spot on the map. 70th place overall though, can't complain about that!
woah. nice!
Really enjoy these play along challenges! As for my performance this time: I was a bit careless in Myanmar and didn't even attempt a perfect score there, ended up 1.9km off, got lucky with the Solomon Islands round, was only about 50% sure about the flag but is was the best guess I had - would have never found the exact spot so chose a random location in the capital and ended 2.2km away. Other rounds where perfect, Cambodia with the full address + the ABA bank on the map made it easy, Monaco was easy and also instantly read Bank of Kigali - didn't even see the Rwanda clue you found since I went straight into the map when I read Kigali - total score of 24983 I'm happy with that.
Yes, the first part of 'Kigali' was on the front of the Bank building and the last part was on the side.
Finally my pointless flag knowledge came in handy! I would have got that and the Monaco one because I've played enough Gran Turismo to know that's the track
dang, I got 24994 points. I couldn't figure out exactly where we were in the Soloman Islands, so I guessed the American War Memorial. I was shocked that you got the perfect spot in the first guess, but amusingly, when I clicked on mine, I got the perfect score too.
you're very good with finding yourself on maps and you know a lot of meta info, but come on Tom, you should study more geography outside from Europe! haha
Fun Fact: As a British colony, Myanmar used to drive on the left. Even after independence it continued to do so till 1970 when PM Ne Win decided to switch to driving on the right for no apparent reason (some say his astrologer advised him to do so). Trouble is most of the cars are Japanese imports which are Right Hand Driven. So RHD cars are driven on the right side traffic making it quite dangerous.
Come for the GeoGuessr rounds, stay for the ABBA jokes and Tom's singing...
Listening to ABBA songs is like having potato chips, can't stop at just one
Hey tom, tip for finding jerusalem, in jerusalem you will see everything made from “jerusalem stone”
Once you see the type of stone you will notice it is implemented into everything
It's my first time getting such a high score, 24890!!! I am so happy!!!
I spent my summer learning off all country flags and their capitals, glad it paid off with the Solomon Island one in Honiara
For once, I actually knew something Tom didn’t know. I love flags, so the Solomon Islands was my first thought. However, looking for an African country was not a bad tactic!
This is a great series! Please upload more of this!
Great map, hope you do more of these! Here's how I did.
Round 1 - 5000 points, 5 meters
Looked South East Asian, and narrowed it down to Myanmar by the script. Looked at the roads and the way it curved and, to my surprise, got it bang on.
Round 2 - 5000 points, 6 meters
Literally had the address right there.
Round 3 - 5000 points, 5 meters
Recognized Monaco after having visited years ago. French language with a large yacht port thingy. Found the road by looking at the proximity to the coast and saw the Casino Supermarchet with the pharmacy the next street over.
Round 4 - 4994 points, 1.3 km
Was about 78% sure it was the flag of the Solomon Islands (it's a weird hobby, shut up). Tried to find a road that looked similar, but didn't find anything that added 100% up. Didn't see that the road to the south must have been the main road, and didn't think the coast was that close. Went further inland to the south west of the correct location.
Round 5 - 5000 points, 7 meters
Saw "Bank of Kigali" and figured it was Rwanda. The street names were given on the signs, so found the spot.
Total score of 24994
I beat you by one point with 4995 for Honiara haha. Was a tossup between Solomon and Marshall Islands flags for me but the terrain ruled out Majuro. The rest was pretty much the same except me being confused for a moment while I forgot that Monaco existed. Well played
Tom, these capital cities challenges are very entertaining. Like you said theres so many that it keeps it fun and we all learn.
10:00 and me sitting here recognizing the start/finish straight from F1 games :D
I really enjoy watching your videos, especially the old ones maybe because it has a different vibes compared to this present time.
18:45 there's an interesting video somewhere on youtube called something like "How Rwanda is becoming the Singapore of Africa". Despite knowing that I still didn't see the rwanda sign or get the right country though.
1st round: thought it looked like the thai language, eliminated thailand cambodia and laos because it was not official coverage. Correctly guessed myanmar, but on another intersection (pretty similar in my defence, same orientation) 4977 points
2nd round: whole address written on that shop, found the road, found aba bank, 5000 points EZ
3rd round: it felt like monaco straight from the beginning, orientation of the port correlated nicely, found the casino in the corner, 5000 points
4th round: knew the flag, zoomed in the solomon islands, thought it looked like a hotel. Zoomed into the capital clicked the first hotel that showed up, a heartbreaking 4999
5th round: thought i was fucked up, when about to give up and guess anywhere in africa i see the bank of kigali in the distance, another 5000 points.
24976, heartbreakingly close to 25k, great map, just really happy i beat tom
Finally I beat your score on a playalong!!! Managed a respectable 21499, lost a few points in Myanmar then lots on the Solomon Islands! Really enjoy watching you solve them in seconds when I have spent 30 minutes looking at every inch of the screen in zoom to find clues 🤣
get yourself a streamdeck, so can configure an indicator right in front of you where you can see if you're filming or not!
Excuse me, but are you proposing something that will end the legendary "am I filming" checks?
How will we ever know if Tom is recording if he doesnt check though?
15:14
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Well played!
*he says 30 seconds after the video was released*
First time playing along with you, Mr. Wizard. 1st guess was way off, didn't spend enough time on it and thought the text on the car/billboard looked Greek so hastily chose Athens! Managed to get 3 perfects but the 4th one got me, too. I noticed the Japanese flag, however, so guessed somewhere in the south pacific and was only about 1100 miles off.
Nobody:
Fifa players , knowing who Aubameyang is and what Gabon’s flag is: 😭
I very much enjoyed the ABBA Tom, made my day :)
I got 18,466. 3 perfect scores and guessed Laos for the Burma one and Marshall Islands for the Solomon Round. Great vid fun as always
This is a great format! Somehow got the capital of Burma wrong and found a spot that looked perfect... 156 miles away. Never would have guesses the Solomon Islands!
That's funny. Played today, and the footage is different. Idea for episode maybe? Revisiting those challenges. :D
20:43 Which, in a way, is also perfect, since it could not be any lower.
Congratulations on 1 million subs. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. To many more..