I've once had a location 300m away from my home. Granted, I was playing a Germany map back when only 20 cities were covered. But if you compare the area of that 300m circleto the cocered area, this is still only roughly a 1/15000 chance of such a close location. I'd say I've played ~60 Games on Germany maps back when only 20 cities were covered. That would give a chance of ~2% of such a close location, which actually sounds pretty plausible
played the USA map one time and got dropped in downtown Burlington NC. i was like 'man i recognize this place'...i had an internship there last summer and spent a ton of time downtown, so i was shocked to see it!! never been dropped in my hometown though...
One of the very first times that I ever played Geoguessr I just played the UK map and the very first location it dropped me at was directly on the road outside of the building that I was working at the time don’t even want to think about what the odds are of that happening 🤣
@@SDrtheone cue the typical mx5 owner response of no I had such and such a model which when painted in red and fitted with air conditioning it came with a limited slip diff 🤣
Incredibly the very first place you got (Beckenham) I have been. I used to work there and spent many a lunch break wandering those streets eating my meal deal.
Haha nice! As soon as I saw the green road sign I knew it was near where I grew up. I'd been down the road at the end but never into that particular road
This happened to me once and here's the funny story behind it: About 2 years ago I stayed in Norway for a holiday for 2 weeks and played the Norway map to improve my knowledge on it as I travelled the real country. Well just 2 rounds in I come across a road I not only drove on the prior(!) day but also spawned in the exact location where I decided to spend half an hour and climb up a hill (for the views)... Will never forget that 😂
The odds of that happening must be astronomical. Norway is a really beautiful place. I just visited my brother in Lofoten this summer and hiked the hill behind his house. I met some sheep along the way and cooked some hot dogs at the summit. I rode his e-bike back to my air bnb on the coast by the low light of the midnight sun.
I recognised and have been on the exact train track in Lisbon at 6:05 ish many, many times. Funnily enough, a number of years ago in one of your videos, the exact stop that I used to get off at for university, which is part of this line that was shown in this video, showed up too. Was a very strange moment for me at the time, because although I'm sure Lisbon pops up occasionally on Geoguessr, we're still very small all things considered. Good luck with the upcoming mission Tom, keep up the good work.
Didn't take me long in my geoguessr 'career' to find a place I had been. Just for kicks I tried a US only game with no moving. 2nd location was right next to an apartment I lived in 10 years ago. The initial view was a shopping center right next to the apartment complex and I immediately recognized it. And when I turned there was my old home. And not just 'I can see my building' but I could see the actual apartment I lived in because it was the first building that faced the road. It's the only time I've ever gotten 5000 on no-moving and will probably be the only time I get it in 10 seconds.
Despite me being *far* less well travelled than you, I managed to win round 27. That ride is part of MovieWorld and just behind it is Wet’n’Wild, which are too of the most popular theme parks/amusement parks in Australia. Definitely been down that road before. Loved the idea, awesome video!
@@huwlewis9059Simon and this channel combined would be a match made in heaven. They've both got amazing personality and a sense of adventure although Simon seems like he wouldn't enjoy Tom's challenges.
I want you to know that I was terribly sick for a while in early January and your channel was a life saver. I watched all the straight line missions AND all the Geo Detectives and each one was more brilliant than the next. You earned yourself a new Patreon sub, this is the kind of stuff I want to support!
Great video as always! Originally from Merthyr, first family home is around 200yards from that round. Further down the road you'd have no reason to turn down! Only just about escaped myself. Must have been in that exact spot countless times.
I've had the reverse experience - I remember once being in Arbroath and seeing a street called "Gravesend". It felt vaguely familiar, then I realised I recognised it from the Spoons map video you did...
Hi Tom. Devoured your content since stumbling across your channel this week. Used to live in Tredegar, Wales, so been on that very road in Merthyr going to the lovely Brecon mountain railway, after 10 years of delay and disorder,😅 the A465 will become the road it needed in the '70s. Mum now lives on the Gold coast, so been to all the theme parks there especially Dreamworld, and have been to Dublin, catching the ferry from Hollyhead, so been on the A55. Love watching lots of Welsh stuff, seeing as I live in New Zealand now, where I watched people who did the 'Coast to Coast' challenge arrive yesterday at New Brighton pier. (With a random little aircraft display) Love your stuff, congratulations on all you've achieved and good luck in future endeavours!
I like this video concept Tom! Very promising! Keen to see a future video where you try for places in the world excluding the UK to see what random road you might have ventured down in Europe.
I've never seen a place I've been to appear on world, but while watching one of your videos, specifically the birmingham one, you got a street that is about a quarter mile away from my home, and it was incredibly surreal to see it in a video
I watched all video wondering if a street where I've been pops up.. to my surprise it was the A55 same like yours, and it was also when I went to Llandudno. Not to buy bikes though.. but to spend time in the sun. Cool idea for a video. As always, a pleasure to watch.
Before Google Street View even existed I remember stumbling upon some website that had done something similar with a few roads in the U.S. and one of them randomly started right by my grandparents' cabin
As others said aswell, love the idea of this! I have hundreds of hours in geoguessr and whenever I see something close to a place I know I get excited, especially in a duel. Have to say the best spot ever was an incredibly small road on the island of mallorca that for some reason my brain completly remembered from a vacation. Opponent had to think I was cheating for immediatly guessing that one correctly.
I remember I went to the Gower Peninsula on holiday (we booked a sort of holiday home there) and on our way there we stopped in Bridgend. This was many years ago and recently I played geoguessr and it put me in Bridgend, exactly on the road we went through. I've also only been to Wales once so it was even more extraordinary
Interesting idea! I've had it a few times in my very casual playing, I once got a street that I drove down during my driving test! Strangley I have also been through the same spot that you have too.
I was watching a Geoguessr tourny once and they had two rounds in the two tiny small towns I lived in as a kid. One was right outside my house. The odds were so low, it was crazy. And one of your Photo Challenges (not Geoguessr) was in the town of Grand Forks, BC, outside the movie theater we went to all the time.
Spotted the Merthyr Tydfil one straight away. Used to drive down the “Rocky Road” as that section is called, on my commute to my last workplace. Great vid Tom 👍
One potentially interesting variation on this would be to play a game of Geoguessr where you're only allowed to drop your pin on places you've been irl, so you can only get a perfect score if it's a place you've been (and you guess it right, ofc), and otherwise in order to maximize points you have to figure out what the closest location is that you've actually been. E.g., in this video's rounds, you would get a perfect score for that last one, but for the London one you'd have to click a mile or so away and lose a few points. (And for something like Japan you'd be cursed to get 0 points.) Then you can set a goal of a certain total score and play until you reach it.
Yesterday, no lie your Olive St. Denver but Eugene round came up in the feed. My moms office was next door, it made me feel so connected. Love your content brother. Aloha from the big island.
Last week a hilarious thing happened. I played someone's Åland islands map, and on one round the location was a drone photosphere taken by myself several years ago 😀
Now turn on your recording, do your intro to hype us up, make sure you are recording, promise us that the next game you will play determines the 5 exact places you will visit in the next 5 years, and let's all find out how much of a mistake that was :D
Love this idea, and I’d love to just see the same thing again, hearing snippets of your adventures and the details of what connection you have to each place. I’d definitely watch a whole series of these
Me too! I live in the US but I’ve been on that same road IRL, the A55, on my way to Conwy when I was on vacation in the UK. The only place I’ve matched when I was playing and IRL was a street in Dublin. It was a cool experience.
This is such a fun idea! I believe this has only happened to me twice in this format in all the time I've been playing - once was in North London, near where I live and the other was in Palma de Mallorca where I instantly recognised a roundabout (of all places!).
went to lisbon the other year myself, it's lovely! A cafe had this weird pastry thing that was basically a slice of sweet bread with maybe like syrup or something and some maybe vanilla sauce and like orange on top? It was really good, idk if it's common there. Also very hilly so get a bike taxi thing to the top, driver was very nice!
I remember watching a best guesses compilation from a geo pro called Geography Challenges and he got my small 30k population town about a 2 minute walk away from where I grew up, on an intersection I used to cross every single day going to school. Was insanely surreal.
Thanks for the idea! I finally decided to pay for Geoguessr pro to do the same. I did Europe only since I haven't been anywhere else. Took me 42 attempts to get a random street in Malta I've been to. The best part is that I have a photo of the exact spot!
I am excited about the straight line mission but i also remember when you were dropped off in a game years ago at my alma mater in innsbruck. Like right there!
Wonderful idea. It's funny that I found somewhere I've been faster than Tom (Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield on the way to Jacob Riis Beach in Queens, one of NYC's few genuine "relax by the water" beaches).
This happened to me once when you were playing a game. It was in Eugene Oregon and I knew exactly where it was in a second due to my job years ago delivering food downtown.
It certainly was an interesting video! Although I think it might be more interesting to exclude U.K locations or play a country map like France or Germany until you pop up in a place you've traveled to, because I think the odds of you being put in London in a place you've been to makes it the most likely outcome. Either way, really enjoyed! I always get excited when I see Florida locations I've been to and have a lot of familiarity with.
I've been playing on and off for about 5 years, and two days ago I got a street that is less than a mile away from where I live and a road I take pretty much everyday. I was mind blown. The second closest I've ever been to my house was about 30 minutes away.
I'm not a very worldly person, so I was very much surprised to have you blast past a place I have been to in this video before you found a spot of your own. I stayed at an AirBnB about a block away from Round #32.
Good luck for your incoming mission ! I also really like this concept and the variations you proposed. You could also do the same "challenge" but on the US map, or in continental Europe only
The reverse happened to me recently, I was playing Geoguessr in the airport before a trip. When I landed and caught an Uber to my hotel I was hit with a sense of déjà vu and realised I recognized the outside from Geoguessr an hour before.
12:13 Brings back memories. Stayed at Four Winds Caravan Park for a week. I remember one day it was so windy someone's grill almost burned their caravan down, and we helped put out the fire. Anyways, I really enjoyed exploring Wales, walking from the caravan park, to Rhyl promenade and back to Ffrith for curly fries and a cider. Conwy castle is also pretty cool, Rhuddlan castle, and the waterfall... Wish I could teleport into these memories from Moscow. I hate being stuck here and Tom's videos always cheer me up, reminding me of carefree vacay times. Can't believe it's been 3 years ago, wish I could visit again... 🏴❤ Guess this week I'll be binging straight line missions. Again 😂🍻
I was watching one of your videos about a month ago and then out of the blue you spawn right outside of my house that was the most surreal feeling ever
Like the vid! Idea for a follow-up that might be a bit more interesting and challenging: pick a selection of interesting holiday/travel pictures with a story. Then geo-detective them (easy for you since you were there) and then start playing until you get to one of them (or another that qualifies as the same type of location).
What a small world, watching a Tom geoguesser video and seeing your hometown. That turn off leads to St Asaph which is the second smallest city in the UK, and my family home is 20 seconds off that turn off, that sign for tweedmill is always my confirmation am nearly home
Sir.. It's about time you did your next adventure. These quizzes arnt as fun to watch. We want to watch your escapades! Try a full circle of Birmingham or something😎
Can't wait for the straight line mission , been waiting all winter and finally one is coming i enjoy them immensely . I hope you looked into the Lowa Renegade , they are waterproof , offer good ankle support and are extremely comfortable .good luck ❤
Great video idea, maybe you could try again and do somewhere you've been on foot so you can't get a road like this. I've seen a couple places near me in your videos before, one in Guildford on a wetherspoons game and another where I knew a road you were on near where I grew up in Fleet
I grew up in a small town. If you took a pic down a random street in that town, very good chance I’d never been on it. I did ride my bike around a lot - in one corner of the town. Otherwise just drove to stores, schools, and activities. Main roads, sure, but a random street? Less likely. I can’t imagine how many years it would take playing geoguesser to come across a place I’ve actually been to!
I've driven that road in North Wales too. Isn't that the one with the badger warning signs? Always reminds me of a viral video from yesteryear. One of your earlier videos (brutalist architecture) featured Liverpool Hospital and it took me a few seconds to realise why it looked familiar - I've passed that spot many times on the No. 10 bus.
In your last geodetective video I had been and have a picture from almost the exact spot the Verona picture was taken. Then in this video, G1 R1, is the street my Aunt used to live on. 🤯
I like how the place you've been is also a place I've been - the only time I've ever been to the UK in fact. Went to visit my friend in Birmingham and we drove to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch together. Reminds me of a time I played GeoGuessr Worldwide and I ended up in Birmingham before I'd ever been there. I told my friend where it was and he told me it was super close to his house. I ended up seeing that exact place with my own eyes later when I went to visit him. The bus we took dropped us off right near where I landed on GeoGuessr that one day.
![Geoguessr but the famous place is behind you [PLAY ALONG]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qdd6lqQTsTI/mqdefault.jpg)
Leave a like on the vid if you’re excited about the upcoming straight line mission!
Super excited to see a new mission!
I am but what's happened to all the vjds you posted weeks about on Patreon?
Aaahhhhh cannot. Wait.
YES A NEW MISSION I WILL WATCH THIS ONE EVEN MORE!!!
Straight line missions are the best adventure content on youtube
Once Geoguessr spawned me outside my apartment building. That was scary for some reason lol
this happened to me with my childhood grade school 😂
Ive never beem put within 15 miles of any of the places ive lived. Maybe one day
That’s scary af 😂 would be wild if geoguessr asked for your location and then prank everyone like this
got in the same round, 15m away from my parents house and a street in the same city which i knew
@trini8042 It would be even scarier if geoguesser _didn't_ ask for your location, but still "pranked" people like this. Keep yo data safe!
Seeing a place I have visited IRL in a Geoguessr game always brings me joy, love this one!
I got put 2 streets away from where I used to live once...
I've once had a location 300m away from my home. Granted, I was playing a Germany map back when only 20 cities were covered. But if you compare the area of that 300m circleto the cocered area, this is still only roughly a 1/15000 chance of such a close location. I'd say I've played ~60 Games on Germany maps back when only 20 cities were covered. That would give a chance of ~2% of such a close location, which actually sounds pretty plausible
played the USA map one time and got dropped in downtown Burlington NC. i was like 'man i recognize this place'...i had an internship there last summer and spent a ton of time downtown, so i was shocked to see it!! never been dropped in my hometown though...
One of the very first times that I ever played Geoguessr I just played the UK map and the very first location it dropped me at was directly on the road outside of the building that I was working at the time don’t even want to think about what the odds are of that happening 🤣
What's even weirder is seeing one /in this video/. Round 23 is right around the corner from my old apartment, I've walked by it a million times
Liked at "woken up in a graveyard" but I love the personalisation of this format.
So many places to go to, is it even possible in a single life.
4:20 "and i dont have a lot of recolection of either tbh, for different reasons" The implication is so beautiful
This made me laugh so hard
I love how casually you drop "woken up in a graveyard in Norburry" LOL
this concept is genius tom 🌎
Real youtube lmao
RUclips😂
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Anyone else surprised how many little channels like this seem to get attention from RUclips?
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I've only played Geoguessr a hand full of times, and the first time I ever played it put me on the end of a street I used to go do donuts at 😂
Geotastic put me in front of the cathedral in Cologne 3 times in a day once ^^
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Could you see your MX5's 1 wheel peels?
@@SDrtheone cue the typical mx5 owner response of no I had such and such a model which when painted in red and fitted with air conditioning it came with a limited slip diff 🤣
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Incredibly the very first place you got (Beckenham) I have been. I used to work there and spent many a lunch break wandering those streets eating my meal deal.
Haha nice! As soon as I saw the green road sign I knew it was near where I grew up. I'd been down the road at the end but never into that particular road
I grew up in Yankton! So I knew the house and street shown. Let's see if we can get connections to the other locations in Round #1
I live on that street ha....I was like woah would have been a quick game@@ScottBrown1
I used to go to Kelsey Park all the time! not for tom but for us easy game haha
That's why what are the chances eyy a watcher of geowizard is from yankton wooo blows my mind@@dralthoff1
It would be cool to do this and pin the closest place you've been. That way the more you travel, the better you can do
The legend himself
There he is :D
The ONE and ONLY
You’re my favourite celebrity x
This should be his next video
This happened to me once and here's the funny story behind it:
About 2 years ago I stayed in Norway for a holiday for 2 weeks and played the Norway map to improve my knowledge on it as I travelled the real country. Well just 2 rounds in I come across a road I not only drove on the prior(!) day but also spawned in the exact location where I decided to spend half an hour and climb up a hill (for the views)... Will never forget that 😂
The odds of that happening must be astronomical. Norway is a really beautiful place. I just visited my brother in Lofoten this summer and hiked the hill behind his house. I met some sheep along the way and cooked some hot dogs at the summit. I rode his e-bike back to my air bnb on the coast by the low light of the midnight sun.
That is freaky as hell but also amazing
@@zackrog1270 Such an amazing place, you are absolutely right!
That’s a good idea. I would like to travel to Norway by bike and to get some knowledge of the country before I go there
Love this idea! I'd been planning out a similar concept video myself and you've beaten me to it hahaha
you can still do it! you guys have been to different places 😃
@@danielsmith6494 I still am! my idea was slightly different than this. Maybe Tom would be down to collab for it though??
yes please, we need this
@@ChicagoGeographer A collab would be epic.
@@ChicagoGeographer We need this collab so bad lol
I recognised and have been on the exact train track in Lisbon at 6:05 ish many, many times. Funnily enough, a number of years ago in one of your videos, the exact stop that I used to get off at for university, which is part of this line that was shown in this video, showed up too. Was a very strange moment for me at the time, because although I'm sure Lisbon pops up occasionally on Geoguessr, we're still very small all things considered.
Good luck with the upcoming mission Tom, keep up the good work.
Didn't take me long in my geoguessr 'career' to find a place I had been. Just for kicks I tried a US only game with no moving. 2nd location was right next to an apartment I lived in 10 years ago. The initial view was a shopping center right next to the apartment complex and I immediately recognized it. And when I turned there was my old home. And not just 'I can see my building' but I could see the actual apartment I lived in because it was the first building that faced the road.
It's the only time I've ever gotten 5000 on no-moving and will probably be the only time I get it in 10 seconds.
Despite me being *far* less well travelled than you, I managed to win round 27. That ride is part of MovieWorld and just behind it is Wet’n’Wild, which are too of the most popular theme parks/amusement parks in Australia. Definitely been down that road before.
Loved the idea, awesome video!
Was gonna say the same thing! any QLDer would know!
My first thought was that Tom will get location in Geoguessr and travel there. And that sound epic for me 😅
That would make for an insane adventure!
That sounds like a Geowizard/Simin Wilson collaboration 😀
@@huwlewis9059Simon and this channel combined would be a match made in heaven. They've both got amazing personality and a sense of adventure although Simon seems like he wouldn't enjoy Tom's challenges.
Great idea!
I want you to know that I was terribly sick for a while in early January and your channel was a life saver. I watched all the straight line missions AND all the Geo Detectives and each one was more brilliant than the next. You earned yourself a new Patreon sub, this is the kind of stuff I want to support!
Great video as always! Originally from Merthyr, first family home is around 200yards from that round. Further down the road you'd have no reason to turn down! Only just about escaped myself. Must have been in that exact spot countless times.
I've had the reverse experience - I remember once being in Arbroath and seeing a street called "Gravesend". It felt vaguely familiar, then I realised I recognised it from the Spoons map video you did...
"I'm doing it, I don't care I'm too curious" is pretty much your life motto
I love this so much!!! Please do this again, would be fun to see you get a place obscure you’ve been with your travels! Good luck this weekend!!
So crazy, round 29 is right around the corner from my university house in Ottawa! Would walk down there every day. Such a nice memory :)
My mom worked there, the hospital, crazy
I love the straight line missions! Some of my favourite viewing on RUclips.
That Ottawa round... I used to live RIGHT THERE. So actually this video works for me too because I've walked that street a million times hahaha
This format is fun, please do more of it! Perhaps on other maps as well, such as UK for a short video, Netherlands, Norway...
Hi Tom.
Devoured your content since stumbling across your channel this week.
Used to live in Tredegar, Wales, so been on that very road in Merthyr going to the lovely Brecon mountain railway, after 10 years of delay and disorder,😅 the A465 will become the road it needed in the '70s.
Mum now lives on the Gold coast, so been to all the theme parks there especially Dreamworld, and have been to Dublin, catching the ferry from Hollyhead, so been on the A55.
Love watching lots of Welsh stuff, seeing as I live in New Zealand now, where I watched people who did the 'Coast to Coast' challenge arrive yesterday at New Brighton pier. (With a random little aircraft display)
Love your stuff, congratulations on all you've achieved and good luck in future endeavours!
Late night geowizard. Oh we are blessed
It's mid day for me
I like this video concept Tom! Very promising! Keen to see a future video where you try for places in the world excluding the UK to see what random road you might have ventured down in Europe.
I've never seen a place I've been to appear on world, but while watching one of your videos, specifically the birmingham one, you got a street that is about a quarter mile away from my home, and it was incredibly surreal to see it in a video
I rewatched his Birmingham geoguessr video the other day and it dropped him on Dyas Avenue that was right around the corner from my old house
Excited to see Beckenham come up! I've heard so much about it from Matthew Crosby on his Sunday morning radio show on RadioX.
I live right near that theme park on the Gold Coast, was very cool to see that road come up. I'm on it a couple times a month :)
Nice one! I hadnt been to any of the places either until the one you finished on, guess that might be the same for a lot of people 😃
I like how he's trying to push through the answers quick and still gets the country right every time lol
I watched all video wondering if a street where I've been pops up.. to my surprise it was the A55 same like yours, and it was also when I went to Llandudno. Not to buy bikes though.. but to spend time in the sun.
Cool idea for a video. As always, a pleasure to watch.
Before Google Street View even existed I remember stumbling upon some website that had done something similar with a few roads in the U.S. and one of them randomly started right by my grandparents' cabin
As others said aswell, love the idea of this! I have hundreds of hours in geoguessr and whenever I see something close to a place I know I get excited, especially in a duel. Have to say the best spot ever was an incredibly small road on the island of mallorca that for some reason my brain completly remembered from a vacation. Opponent had to think I was cheating for immediatly guessing that one correctly.
Good luck on the straight line mission I hope your path is fairly tree free, as we have had a few blown over up here 👍
I remember I went to the Gower Peninsula on holiday (we booked a sort of holiday home there) and on our way there we stopped in Bridgend. This was many years ago and recently I played geoguessr and it put me in Bridgend, exactly on the road we went through. I've also only been to Wales once so it was even more extraordinary
Yes, amazing. Best channel in existence. Looking forward to the straight line mission :)
Interesting idea! I've had it a few times in my very casual playing, I once got a street that I drove down during my driving test! Strangley I have also been through the same spot that you have too.
I was watching a Geoguessr tourny once and they had two rounds in the two tiny small towns I lived in as a kid. One was right outside my house. The odds were so low, it was crazy. And one of your Photo Challenges (not Geoguessr) was in the town of Grand Forks, BC, outside the movie theater we went to all the time.
Spotted the Merthyr Tydfil one straight away. Used to drive down the “Rocky Road” as that section is called, on my commute to my last workplace. Great vid Tom 👍
8:33, Hey that's Ottawa, I've been there!
Ive also been on that road to go to Anglesey and see Conwy Castle on the way. What a great castle it is btw.
That straight face at 11:53 had me, lmao.
One potentially interesting variation on this would be to play a game of Geoguessr where you're only allowed to drop your pin on places you've been irl, so you can only get a perfect score if it's a place you've been (and you guess it right, ofc), and otherwise in order to maximize points you have to figure out what the closest location is that you've actually been. E.g., in this video's rounds, you would get a perfect score for that last one, but for the London one you'd have to click a mile or so away and lose a few points. (And for something like Japan you'd be cursed to get 0 points.) Then you can set a goal of a certain total score and play until you reach it.
I love how Tom just nonchalantly chucks pins down not even trying to be accurate and gets better scores than me
Yesterday, no lie your Olive St. Denver but Eugene round came up in the feed. My moms office was next door, it made me feel so connected. Love your content brother. Aloha from the big island.
Last week a hilarious thing happened. I played someone's Åland islands map, and on one round the location was a drone photosphere taken by myself several years ago 😀
Can’t wait for the straight line mission!!! Hell yea! Been rewatching old straight line missions and no-roads missions lately. They’re so great
Now turn on your recording, do your intro to hype us up, make sure you are recording, promise us that the next game you will play determines the 5 exact places you will visit in the next 5 years, and let's all find out how much of a mistake that was :D
One of my favorite videos you've made in a long time.
Love this idea, and I’d love to just see the same thing again, hearing snippets of your adventures and the details of what connection you have to each place. I’d definitely watch a whole series of these
Me too! I live in the US but I’ve been on that same road IRL, the A55, on my way to Conwy when I was on vacation in the UK.
The only place I’ve matched when I was playing and IRL was a street in Dublin. It was a cool experience.
Did you like the castle?
@@sami2503 in Conway? Yes, very much. Stayed at a B&B just outside of the castle walls.
This is such a fun idea! I believe this has only happened to me twice in this format in all the time I've been playing - once was in North London, near where I live and the other was in Palma de Mallorca where I instantly recognised a roundabout (of all places!).
So excited about another straight line mission. These are honestly about my favourite RUclips videos. 😊
went to lisbon the other year myself, it's lovely! A cafe had this weird pastry thing that was basically a slice of sweet bread with maybe like syrup or something and some maybe vanilla sauce and like orange on top? It was really good, idk if it's common there. Also very hilly so get a bike taxi thing to the top, driver was very nice!
I love stumbling upon locations I've been on while playing competitive duels. good luck on your mission!
Grave yard in Norbury?? Do tell!!! 😂 I just zoomed in on Beckenham, I’ve parked on that road for the park next to it. Keep up the great work!!
I've been to round 17. Possibly have been to the rail in Portugal as well
I love this concept!! Doing more specific maps or discounting highways and/or even the whole uk eventually? could be super interesting!
Do it again until you find a non motorway round! I would love to see more of this to get another glimpse of where you have/haven’t been.
I remember watching a best guesses compilation from a geo pro called Geography Challenges and he got my small 30k population town about a 2 minute walk away from where I grew up, on an intersection I used to cross every single day going to school. Was insanely surreal.
Thanks for the idea! I finally decided to pay for Geoguessr pro to do the same. I did Europe only since I haven't been anywhere else. Took me 42 attempts to get a random street in Malta I've been to. The best part is that I have a photo of the exact spot!
All the best for your preparations on the straight line challenge. Good health and happy trails
peace.
I just love all your videos even if few and further between. Carry on mate.
I am excited about the straight line mission but i also remember when you were dropped off in a game years ago at my alma mater in innsbruck. Like right there!
Wonderful idea. It's funny that I found somewhere I've been faster than Tom (Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield on the way to Jacob Riis Beach in Queens, one of NYC's few genuine "relax by the water" beaches).
A road outside Bar, Montenegro which I had walked along on my most recent holiday came on the daily challenge 😆
Ahh. The road the you ended on was the first place I'd been to as well! A55, I couldn't even tell you how many times I've driven that!
This happened to me once when you were playing a game. It was in Eugene Oregon and I knew exactly where it was in a second due to my job years ago delivering food downtown.
It certainly was an interesting video! Although I think it might be more interesting to exclude U.K locations or play a country map like France or Germany until you pop up in a place you've traveled to, because I think the odds of you being put in London in a place you've been to makes it the most likely outcome. Either way, really enjoyed! I always get excited when I see Florida locations I've been to and have a lot of familiarity with.
I've been playing on and off for about 5 years, and two days ago I got a street that is less than a mile away from where I live and a road I take pretty much everyday. I was mind blown. The second closest I've ever been to my house was about 30 minutes away.
I'm not a very worldly person, so I was very much surprised to have you blast past a place I have been to in this video before you found a spot of your own. I stayed at an AirBnB about a block away from Round #32.
As a New Yorker who’s been to Paris those were my 2 closest rounds to places I’ve been before, but no cigar. Very fun video!
I’m from Pant in Merthyr Tydfil which is 2 minutes away from that spot! There’s always some Welsh related content, love it 🏴
Good luck for your incoming mission ! I also really like this concept and the variations you proposed. You could also do the same "challenge" but on the US map, or in continental Europe only
Good luck on the mission mate. Looking forward to the video when I comes out
I was out on Round 30 with that Aussie Rollercoaster. Goodluck with the mission Tom!
The reverse happened to me recently, I was playing Geoguessr in the airport before a trip. When I landed and caught an Uber to my hotel I was hit with a sense of déjà vu and realised I recognized the outside from Geoguessr an hour before.
Wow I've been to that spot in Ottawa several times; cool video idea!
Me too! Didn’t expect to get one let alone faster than him.
12:13 Brings back memories. Stayed at Four Winds Caravan Park for a week. I remember one day it was so windy someone's grill almost burned their caravan down, and we helped put out the fire. Anyways, I really enjoyed exploring Wales, walking from the caravan park, to Rhyl promenade and back to Ffrith for curly fries and a cider. Conwy castle is also pretty cool, Rhuddlan castle, and the waterfall... Wish I could teleport into these memories from Moscow. I hate being stuck here and Tom's videos always cheer me up, reminding me of carefree vacay times. Can't believe it's been 3 years ago, wish I could visit again... 🏴❤
Guess this week I'll be binging straight line missions. Again 😂🍻
I was watching one of your videos about a month ago and then out of the blue you spawn right outside of my house that was the most surreal feeling ever
It would be really fun to see you have a go again at ranked duels. I remember your old videos with that and i always really enjoyed them
Like the vid! Idea for a follow-up that might be a bit more interesting and challenging: pick a selection of interesting holiday/travel pictures with a story. Then geo-detective them (easy for you since you were there) and then start playing until you get to one of them (or another that qualifies as the same type of location).
What a small world, watching a Tom geoguesser video and seeing your hometown. That turn off leads to St Asaph which is the second smallest city in the UK, and my family home is 20 seconds off that turn off, that sign for tweedmill is always my confirmation am nearly home
omg I used to live on that street in Ottawa in Round #29!! How utterly wild that THIS is the Geowizard vid for it to pop up in. 😂
Great, classic Tom content! I'd love to see one where you play until you find a spot that appeared in your adventure videos.
Sir.. It's about time you did your next adventure. These quizzes arnt as fun to watch. We want to watch your escapades! Try a full circle of Birmingham or something😎
Can't wait for the straight line mission , been waiting all winter and finally one is coming i enjoy them immensely . I hope you looked into the Lowa Renegade , they are waterproof , offer good ankle support and are extremely comfortable .good luck ❤
Great video idea, maybe you could try again and do somewhere you've been on foot so you can't get a road like this.
I've seen a couple places near me in your videos before, one in Guildford on a wetherspoons game and another where I knew a road you were on near where I grew up in Fleet
I grew up in a small town. If you took a pic down a random street in that town, very good chance I’d never been on it. I did ride my bike around a lot - in one corner of the town. Otherwise just drove to stores, schools, and activities. Main roads, sure, but a random street? Less likely. I can’t imagine how many years it would take playing geoguesser to come across a place I’ve actually been to!
Good luck Tom! Love a good straight line challenge
I’m excited for your straight line mission!! I love all your videos
Good luck on your mission! Can't wait to watch it
Looking forward to seeing your straight line mission 😂. The ones you set Storror were brutal but so entertaining 👍🏼
Very interesting idea. It was round 43 for me too but I've been down the A55 there many, many times :)
I've driven that road in North Wales too. Isn't that the one with the badger warning signs? Always reminds me of a viral video from yesteryear. One of your earlier videos (brutalist architecture) featured Liverpool Hospital and it took me a few seconds to realise why it looked familiar - I've passed that spot many times on the No. 10 bus.
In your last geodetective video I had been and have a picture from almost the exact spot the Verona picture was taken. Then in this video, G1 R1, is the street my Aunt used to live on. 🤯
I like how the place you've been is also a place I've been - the only time I've ever been to the UK in fact. Went to visit my friend in Birmingham and we drove to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch together.
Reminds me of a time I played GeoGuessr Worldwide and I ended up in Birmingham before I'd ever been there. I told my friend where it was and he told me it was super close to his house. I ended up seeing that exact place with my own eyes later when I went to visit him. The bus we took dropped us off right near where I landed on GeoGuessr that one day.