Hey Zig Cyprus tip: You can find yellow plates on the back and white on the front of cars (exactly like UK) all over the unoccupied side of Cyprus since there are thousands of British cars that are imported from the UK and are still being imported every day for reselling/business purposes. Also Cyprus has many yellow plates front and back with the blue strip on the left (exactly like Netherlands and Luxembourg) which are the older style of plates that drivers have not yet updated to the white ones. You can also find red plates front/back with blue strip which are rental cars, so it should be mostly in tourist areas like Larnaca, Limassol, Ayia Napa. Finally, in rare occasions, you can find black plates front/back with no blue strip, which are very old cars that have not updated plates to the standard EU ones.
On the morocco round, the symbol represents the Tamazight (Berber) people native to the Maghreb. You could also get the Nepal round because it commonly uses the Irish style yellow outer lines which would suggest British influence and would be extremely out of place on East Timor. Also you could see the Nepalese red number plate when you panned down to the ground. Glad you were able to get Iran based on the pole and the vibes! But only in the green areas of the map around Rasht it would be that lush, rest of Iran looks much drier than this.
12:02 You missed the red license plate on the motorcycle! Nepal has red license plates like Bhutan, plus there was text on the plate. The cement blocks and tiered houses also heavily reminded me of Bhutan :)
For the Nepal round, at 12:03 you were accidentally panning the camera down when reaching for the map and exposed the plate of the motorbike with non-Latin script, that might have put you off of Timor-Leste again. They use Portuguese, Indonesian and Timorese in parallel, all of which use the Latin alphabet.
9:35 That flag is the flag of the UNITA, an angolan party. The Malawi flag would be black with the red sun in the top third of the flag, then red and then green
I liked this map. I feel like this is how geoguessr is meant to be played, rather than identifying a country from a piece of tape or a google car mirror
That Cabo Verde round did me dirty. There was Ribeira Grande written on the house. I started to scan and found a city in the northernmost part of the country called Ribeira Grande. Started scanning, but nothing made sense. So I guessed in the middle to find out it was 10 km away from the capital.
Got 17991 when I tried the first round myself. Can't believe I did better than zigzag himself, saw the red flag and run down arid nature and was like surely it's not morocco and was happily surprised when it was. I messed up the first round though and went belarus just cause it looked European and I didn't recall ever getting placed there. I'm relatively new at the game and only started playing in the last month, but have loved watching your videos. Very entertaining and always informative. Hi from a fellow Aussie
Still working on my map that hopefully you and some of the more adventurous pro players will really like (as many countries in the world as possible with balanced numbers per country and region, every single location quality and on a road, 100% correct compasses). Give me a couple more months to finish, as I also work full time, and it takes several map generators and loads of searching to help find locations in countries with official coverage. I think it'll be worth the wait, however. On these seeds for me: 22,293 points (making the above-mentioned map helped me get a great Morocco guess) 2nd one: 16,571 points, botched the Iranian round badly, the rest pretty solid
Game 1: 21,148 pts Round 1- 3595 pts: I saw the bollard and immediately thought of bosnia/kosovo. Bosnia was my first thought but i ignored the architecture and decided on Kosovo. Round 2- 4487 pts: Left hand drive + black car. Round 3- 4750 pts: I saw the greek and went middle of cyprus. Round 4- 4599 pts: I used the french-style poles and the red flag to determine its Morocco and I went in the green part in the north. Round 5- 3717 pts: I just went Napyidaw. Game 2: 19333 pts Round 1- 3599 pts: I saw the arabic and I thought the man towards the south-west looked less african and more towards the middle east. It didnt feel like it could be anything but Iran, so I went in the green part to the northeast of Tehran. Round 2- 4902 pts: I recognized the flag and went in the main island. Round 3- 1316 pts: I thought of Angola at first because of the portuguese looking language but for some reason I trusted the sun and went equatorial guinea, convincing myself it was spanish instead. Round 4- 4843 pts: Language on the motorbike coupled with the mountainous terrain. Round 5- 4673 pts: Black car and driving on the left, I went middle of cyprus. 2 really enjoyable games, I love the vids.
That Moroccan round symbol is a character from the Tifinagh alphabet, which is used to write the Berber language family, aka Tamazight. Not strictly Moroccan, but I think most common there?
My biggest whiff was the Iran round. It was a tossup between that region and Himalayan Pakistan for me. I had it in the back of my head that those northern Pakistani hills would be a bit drier, but I still wasn't sure and ended up losing a lot of points. Lesson learned!
19527 on the first link, 19655 on the second one. Confused Bosnia for Liechtenstein which is pretty stupid :D and Angola for Equatoreal Guinea thinking about the spanish speaking country in Africa.
The very first one threw me off with the sunset. Must've got something wrong, as it looked southern hemisphere. Went Paraguay when it was Bosnia and Herzegovina - I should have recognised it, as I've been there a few times!
Got a bit higher scores here - the first seed only because I got closer Cyprus guesses - I also went Cape Verde on Morocco there 😂 In the second seed my Nepal ended up in Myanmar - well, closer than Timor!
Game 1: Outhedged you both cyprus rounds, the myanmar round and the bosnia round. Thought the red flag was kazakhstan so messed that up but beat you by about 700 points. Game 2 was laughably bad, I pretty much 5ked both sao tome and cyprus (cyprus found the town and cape verde was if im being honest a bit of a lucky guess, had no stable idea) and then went mauritania on angola, algeria on nepal and lebanon on iran (really disappointed about that one, was 50/50 on which country it was and wouldve guessed correct region of iran (edited to add that on that first round i spent the first 2 minutes thinking caucasus and then saw arabic)
The "russian" car was actually french - Peugeot model 405. Friend of my father's had one of these, I loved it so much. Better then the German "premium" cars
I got the Nepal one because the Motorcycle had the language lol. I don't know if its cheating to use that meta but yea thats how i knew lol. Love playing this map , my only complaint is that it has too much Cyprus. I wish google would just go to cyrpus already lol.
Like 13k on the first map. Second map started horribly. I finished third round with under 3k in total. Finished with 8k just because the last round had the same car as the cyprus guesses from first map I'm a real geoguessr noob so not too bad. Btw, totally unrelated buy where did my duels go? I don't find them in the web version anymore :(
Ziggy, do you think Google Meta is fair in this game? Bollards, street signs, road markings and all makes sense. But short antenna, white car? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of this game?
Not Zig but I get your questioning. What is the purpose of the game to you? I think to non-casual players it's to get the 5k or best score possible whilst exploring the world. I personally enjoy seeing the game and knowledge be pushed endlessly - that is only possible if we use all tactics available to us. I want to see the skill level keep rising. I think that car meta is less crucial of a factor into guessing for pros because they know landscapes so well and play so much. It's just always mentioned to help newer players. I do agree that the ideal endgame would be where no car, camera and other external metas would take such a huge role in the game. But it seems almost wasteful to not use all the knowledge that we have as a community? Really interested in hearing more from your perspective :)
@@arrowheaded I have always had this question about this game, this video was the perfect for me to ask. I strongly believe this game was made to Geo"Guess" and I repeat "GeoGuess" but yeah the competitive players have to have an advantage
@@ashleysam1971 Ahhh I get what you mean. I think playing the game like that should always be respected and included in the same way as playing with meta. It would be really interesting if I could 'unlearn' all the meta I know, though I would definitely find rural rounds to be significantly more difficult. Much respect to how you and others play this amazing game.
@@arrowheaded, doesn’t mean no disrespect. Geogussr when I used to play riding have competitive modes or it wasn’t even paid, rather than the content creators, I blame Geogussr to be make it a competitive game, I have made a lot of friends back in my days, ie, 2019-, which I can’t make now
So i am VERY new to the geogussr community and i was wondering if everybody in the comments could give me there number 1 tip. i know small things like to look at the sun for hemisphere im learning tags and i know alot of the flags. please let me know your tips!
It is usually quite dry but the area around Rasht has a humid subtropical Cfa climate similar to France or Japan and on some photospheres it can look extremely European or East Asian
on your thumbnaail rwanda is green but rwanda has google coverege so bad thumbnail and obviously one minor mistake that 99.9999% of viewers wont notice makes this a bad video
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The symbol on the tractor is the symbol of the Amazigh people, who live in Morocco and Algeria
that is truly amazigh, i will say
Hey Zig Cyprus tip:
You can find yellow plates on the back and white on the front of cars (exactly like UK) all over the unoccupied side of Cyprus since there are thousands of British cars that are imported from the UK and are still being imported every day for reselling/business purposes.
Also Cyprus has many yellow plates front and back with the blue strip on the left (exactly like Netherlands and Luxembourg) which are the older style of plates that drivers have not yet updated to the white ones.
You can also find red plates front/back with blue strip which are rental cars, so it should be mostly in tourist areas like Larnaca, Limassol, Ayia Napa.
Finally, in rare occasions, you can find black plates front/back with no blue strip, which are very old cars that have not updated plates to the standard EU ones.
This is actually 5k-able... (fiddle fiddle fiddle)... 7 points! 😂 Great vid, thanks!
On the morocco round, the symbol represents the Tamazight (Berber) people native to the Maghreb. You could also get the Nepal round because it commonly uses the Irish style yellow outer lines which would suggest British influence and would be extremely out of place on East Timor. Also you could see the Nepalese red number plate when you panned down to the ground. Glad you were able to get Iran based on the pole and the vibes! But only in the green areas of the map around Rasht it would be that lush, rest of Iran looks much drier than this.
more of this map please!
loved seeing you in a good mood
12:02 You missed the red license plate on the motorcycle! Nepal has red license plates like Bhutan, plus there was text on the plate.
The cement blocks and tiered houses also heavily reminded me of Bhutan :)
The text were numbers in Nepali script (which is like Hindi)
For the Nepal round, at 12:03 you were accidentally panning the camera down when reaching for the map and exposed the plate of the motorbike with non-Latin script, that might have put you off of Timor-Leste again. They use Portuguese, Indonesian and Timorese in parallel, all of which use the Latin alphabet.
Nice video. Yeah this map is challenging. There are so many countries without Google street view. So exploring the unexplored is interesting!
9:35 That flag is the flag of the UNITA, an angolan party. The Malawi flag would be black with the red sun in the top third of the flag, then red and then green
I liked this map. I feel like this is how geoguessr is meant to be played, rather than identifying a country from a piece of tape or a google car mirror
That's the amazigh/berber sign in the morocco round . greetings from morocco ☺☺
That Cabo Verde round did me dirty. There was Ribeira Grande written on the house. I started to scan and found a city in the northernmost part of the country called Ribeira Grande. Started scanning, but nothing made sense. So I guessed in the middle to find out it was 10 km away from the capital.
If you disable feedback in settings it turns off the confetti, if you didn’t know by now
obsessed, unexplored world is super cool
Got 17991 when I tried the first round myself. Can't believe I did better than zigzag himself, saw the red flag and run down arid nature and was like surely it's not morocco and was happily surprised when it was. I messed up the first round though and went belarus just cause it looked European and I didn't recall ever getting placed there. I'm relatively new at the game and only started playing in the last month, but have loved watching your videos. Very entertaining and always informative. Hi from a fellow Aussie
Thanks for the continued content. I lost 100 elo on duels tonight trying to guess based on your 2 poles videos, more work to do still 😅
Keen grinding, after a while it will be worth much more than 100 extra elo for you
Still working on my map that hopefully you and some of the more adventurous pro players will really like (as many countries in the world as possible with balanced numbers per country and region, every single location quality and on a road, 100% correct compasses). Give me a couple more months to finish, as I also work full time, and it takes several map generators and loads of searching to help find locations in countries with official coverage. I think it'll be worth the wait, however.
On these seeds for me: 22,293 points (making the above-mentioned map helped me get a great Morocco guess)
2nd one: 16,571 points, botched the Iranian round badly, the rest pretty solid
message me on discord when you finish it david
@@zi8gzag will do, I'm daw on there
Game 1: 21,148 pts
Round 1- 3595 pts: I saw the bollard and immediately thought of bosnia/kosovo. Bosnia was my first thought but i ignored the architecture and decided on Kosovo.
Round 2- 4487 pts: Left hand drive + black car.
Round 3- 4750 pts: I saw the greek and went middle of cyprus.
Round 4- 4599 pts: I used the french-style poles and the red flag to determine its Morocco and I went in the green part in the north.
Round 5- 3717 pts: I just went Napyidaw.
Game 2: 19333 pts
Round 1- 3599 pts: I saw the arabic and I thought the man towards the south-west looked less african and more towards the middle east. It didnt feel like it could be anything but Iran, so I went in the green part to the northeast of Tehran.
Round 2- 4902 pts: I recognized the flag and went in the main island.
Round 3- 1316 pts: I thought of Angola at first because of the portuguese looking language but for some reason I trusted the sun and went equatorial guinea, convincing myself it was spanish instead.
Round 4- 4843 pts: Language on the motorbike coupled with the mountainous terrain.
Round 5- 4673 pts: Black car and driving on the left, I went middle of cyprus.
2 really enjoyable games, I love the vids.
ive seen alot of discourse about the geoguessr confetti but it makes me feel special when i click singapore so i approve
The embassy in luanda was from szech republic
Anyone else notice the Angelo location was next to the Czech embassy, which is basically an inverted Philippines flag, visible in the round?
That Moroccan round symbol is a character from the Tifinagh alphabet, which is used to write the Berber language family, aka Tamazight. Not strictly Moroccan, but I think most common there?
It was fun seeing new countries and you having to guess with no metas
5.19 That is the symbol of the berber people
It would be nice if they did the confetti for a 5k instead or do something else for a 5k
As soon as I saw the buildings, I was repeating Nepal Nepal Nepal. Happy to see Nepal finally being featured in a geoguessr video
My biggest whiff was the Iran round. It was a tossup between that region and Himalayan Pakistan for me. I had it in the back of my head that those northern Pakistani hills would be a bit drier, but I still wasn't sure and ended up losing a lot of points. Lesson learned!
19527 on the first link, 19655 on the second one. Confused Bosnia for Liechtenstein which is pretty stupid :D and Angola for Equatoreal Guinea thinking about the spanish speaking country in Africa.
For the flag of Malawi 🇲🇼, and Angola 🇦🇴.
I don't know what flag it was on the video, but confusing...
for me these are really hard cause if it doesnt have Google coverage then i have no idea which country it is.
The very first one threw me off with the sunset. Must've got something wrong, as it looked southern hemisphere. Went Paraguay when it was Bosnia and Herzegovina - I should have recognised it, as I've been there a few times!
Best of luck with the job zig!
Got a bit higher scores here - the first seed only because I got closer Cyprus guesses - I also went Cape Verde on Morocco there 😂 In the second seed my Nepal ended up in Myanmar - well, closer than Timor!
That Morocco round hurt.
10k then 9k
First game i thought cyprus but forgot it didn't have coverage so went Caribbean 😭😭
Im new so still learning a lot
I would love to see this map in a rainbolt tournament
Have you made a vid on the Stunning Photospheres map? It's my absolute fav
Game 1: Outhedged you both cyprus rounds, the myanmar round and the bosnia round. Thought the red flag was kazakhstan so messed that up but beat you by about 700 points. Game 2 was laughably bad, I pretty much 5ked both sao tome and cyprus (cyprus found the town and cape verde was if im being honest a bit of a lucky guess, had no stable idea) and then went mauritania on angola, algeria on nepal and lebanon on iran (really disappointed about that one, was 50/50 on which country it was and wouldve guessed correct region of iran (edited to add that on that first round i spent the first 2 minutes thinking caucasus and then saw arabic)
Myanmar is actually pretty easy even without language because they drive on the right but they cars are still set up for left hand drive👍
the flag in Angola might be the UNITA flag, which is the largest political party (im not sure though, i just search it on flag of the world)
UNITA is the main opposition party, the largest party is MPLA.
The "russian" car was actually french - Peugeot model 405. Friend of my father's had one of these, I loved it so much. Better then the German "premium" cars
i knew it was french but i do associate it with that part of the world
this map should be in geoguessr tourneys
I got the Nepal one because the Motorcycle had the language lol. I don't know if its cheating to use that meta but yea thats how i knew lol. Love playing this map , my only complaint is that it has too much Cyprus. I wish google would just go to cyrpus already lol.
Using language is in no way cheating. It is a crucial part of Geoguessr haha. I agree that we really should have Cyprus coverage :)
The Angola round was in front of the Czech Embassy
No clue what that other flag was
Like 13k on the first map. Second map started horribly. I finished third round with under 3k in total. Finished with 8k just because the last round had the same car as the cyprus guesses from first map
I'm a real geoguessr noob so not too bad. Btw, totally unrelated buy where did my duels go? I don't find them in the web version anymore :(
Nice video!
Loved the haircut!
What is the Philippines flag in the Czech Republic embassy doing there? 😅
xD
The flag in Angola was the flag of UNITA, an Angolan political party.
Challenging map - well played.
Dang, bosnia aint covered
Ziggy, do you think Google Meta is fair in this game? Bollards, street signs, road markings and all makes sense. But short antenna, white car? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of this game?
Not Zig but I get your questioning. What is the purpose of the game to you? I think to non-casual players it's to get the 5k or best score possible whilst exploring the world. I personally enjoy seeing the game and knowledge be pushed endlessly - that is only possible if we use all tactics available to us. I want to see the skill level keep rising. I think that car meta is less crucial of a factor into guessing for pros because they know landscapes so well and play so much. It's just always mentioned to help newer players. I do agree that the ideal endgame would be where no car, camera and other external metas would take such a huge role in the game. But it seems almost wasteful to not use all the knowledge that we have as a community? Really interested in hearing more from your perspective :)
@@arrowheaded I have always had this question about this game, this video was the perfect for me to ask. I strongly believe this game was made to Geo"Guess" and I repeat "GeoGuess" but yeah the competitive players have to have an advantage
i don’t know if unfair is the right word for it, but it would certainly be a more fun game without any google meta
@@ashleysam1971 Ahhh I get what you mean. I think playing the game like that should always be respected and included in the same way as playing with meta. It would be really interesting if I could 'unlearn' all the meta I know, though I would definitely find rural rounds to be significantly more difficult. Much respect to how you and others play this amazing game.
@@arrowheaded, doesn’t mean no disrespect. Geogussr when I used to play riding have competitive modes or it wasn’t even paid, rather than the content creators, I blame Geogussr to be make it a competitive game, I have made a lot of friends back in my days, ie, 2019-, which I can’t make now
So i am VERY new to the geogussr community and i was wondering if everybody in the comments could give me there number 1 tip. i know small things like to look at the sun for hemisphere im learning tags and i know alot of the flags. please let me know your tips!
Know driving side for countries, language, and road lines
@@JramLisztfan Thank you! i just found out that malta is very easy to tell because of it driving on the left and its portlike architechure!
@@nugget_man1821 yes! Valletta was a cruise stop for me a few years ago and we did a Jeep tour around the island so I will always recognize it.
This is a fun map!
Work night? You do all these videos and keep a job? 😳
i started full time work this week
@@zi8gzag good to know, hopefully you are doing well brother and im sure you will manage to keep putting out great content. Much love from US
The coverage in the 4th round from my 1st game was completely different to yours, not sure how
edit: anyways, scored 21.6k and 12.2k
6:55 what was that a reference to?
A GeoGuessr pro,GeoAlok,is known in the GeoGuessr community for singing a song called „Road to Mandalay“ and it’s kind of a meme in the community
@@pinkdragon4830 Lol I know this reference now after watching Alok singing that song after the world cup!
The symbol you seen was the indigenous Berber/Amazigh symbol who are native to North Africa
5k on cap verde but the rest i was shite
🐐 Zigzag 🐐
poor rwanda not in the thumbnail :(
Morocco
Cape Verde
got 21k on first seed
Cyprus
MOLDOVA
Algorithm comment
Malawi
CAPE VERDE
Nepal
MALAWI
MOZAMBIQUE
Iran
CYPRUS
PARAGUAY
ANGOLA
INDONESIA
Myanmar
BHUTAN
CROATIA
MOROCCO
how is iran that green
It is usually quite dry but the area around Rasht has a humid subtropical Cfa climate similar to France or Japan and on some photospheres it can look extremely European or East Asian
Most of it is quite dry, but that area around the Caspian Sea is as green as Google Maps shows it to be.
GREECE
Bosnia and Herzegovina
SLOVENIA
KOSOVO
MYANMAR
KAZAKHSTAN
NEPAL
PHILIPPINES
TURKEY
IRAN
SERBIA
.
Yo
on your thumbnaail rwanda is green but rwanda has google coverege so bad thumbnail and obviously one minor mistake that 99.9999% of viewers wont notice makes this a bad video
first
RUSSIA