It hit me somewhat personally. I have been learning geography and history for a lot of time and the best guess of mine for that was Wien or Copenhagen and after tom said that I realised I've never actually seen even a photo of Amsterdam.
If there any chance that Tom reads this, regarding the compass, in the bottom right corner of the screen, near Terms of Use it says who took the "photosphere". If it says someone's name or some 3rd party company name that would mean that somebody most likely took it with their smartphone and there is hardly any chance that compass would be correct on that one. But if it says like "2019 Google" it means that this is taken from regular Google street view and you can trust the compass there.
We're not just numbers for him I think. We are his friends as well, and he wants to show up his creations and adventures for us, because that's what he loves to do. Adventures and videos. I think he's living a good life. It's like that feeling when you really wanna show your friends something that you have created, or you wanna explain an idea to them that you have been thinking about for a while. That is his day to day basis.
@@Andrew-ss7jd M cars are some of the best cars you can buy even if they may be overrated, don’t know what’s wrong with expressing my interests in a profile picture, meanwhile this guy and you can just be straight up rude
Yeah, right away I was guessing Malabo cause of the oil tankers and the hilliness. Was dying when he kept it in Bata, but then Tom and I both ended up being wrong lol
"I believe that I walked on this street" is a bold statement to have in Amsterdam. If you already been there you know that all the streets looks absolutely the same (especially after a few stops in coffee shops)
You said ' without any further ado' twice. That means there must have been some residual further ado after the first time you said it. You better watch that, the ado can get out of control.
That's certainly a pet peeve of mine. When someone says "without further ado", and literally the very next topic or two is yet more ado. Not terribly much of that on this channel though. Tutorial videos are the worst for that type of thing.
You can tell if a city is a capital by looking at the dot next to the city name - if its a double circle (dot with a circle), its the capital (in a country where there are multiple ones, for ex. South Africa, they just use the double circle for all of them)
Yes! This is true of every world map I've ever seen and I can't believe Tom the genius has never in all his life realised that Google Maps has it. Bata and Tel Aviv are soul-crushing blunders.
@@Michael-zf4el Am I not allowed to criticise? Plus his entire RUclips is successful due to geography, you would think he should know if it was a capital city or not.
As someone who has spent hours learning all the capital cities in the world for no reason other than pub quizzes and glory, I very much enjoyed this video and would want more.
I've learned to not trust that coloring on random things in geoguessr. 90% of time it was a random place in Russia using blue and yellow for no reason on houses, huts, fences, cars, etc. Or maybe there is a reason, I just don't know it.
@@Destroy666x if it's in Ukrainian colours it's a safe bet you're in Ukraine. It can be anything really, a randow row of tires near a chop shop, a pole, a wooden fence, you name it. Even the curbs sometimes.
@@pavlo1207 I just said it's not... I had places even close to Siberia that had houses with exactly the same colors as Ukrainian flag. Killed a few of my streak attempts.
xD i literally just said "yeh" then there was a 2 seconds silence before he said "alright simmer down", never been mocked by a pre-recorded video before
Tip about recognizing Jerusalem: the stones you see in the last challenge are really special to the city, you won't see it so often in other places. Buildings in Tel-Aviv have a more early 20th century to modern look to them.
the jerusalem stones are not exclusive to jerusalem at all, but when all the buildings are made of non-processed white bricks or are covered with a non-procesed plaque of a white brick and you know you are in israel, its likely in jerusalem but not guranteed. and buildings in tel aviv have a german architecture(Bauhaus) popularized by german jews fleeting germany and seeking refuge in tel-aviv,palestine during the british mandate which later turned into tel-aviv Jaffo,israel
@@Impossiblegend Because it's funny. That the map says Jerusalem is a capital of something. Even Tom didn't consider it a capital. That's why I said ah yeah Jerusalem the famous capital of Palestine as we all know. Now go cry.
Actually, all this str., sq., ave. and so on in Kyiv appeared before Euro 2012. And before it there was not a big number of Street plates in Ukraine. So, thanks to the championship, they are now :) It is useful for locals too. Greetings from Ukraine ;)
Hint for the future: Capital cities on Google Maps always have the filled in dot when zoomed out. If it has an unfilled circle or no circle at all, it's not the capital. Would've helped in the Sierra Leone and Israel rounds.
@@willcraft9184 yeah but on some island nations and micro-nations they are below the name of the country and thus you don't see the marker. Even though he made mention of that a couple times. He also named multiple city's that were not capitals and we already know how bad he is with UI form the battle royale days.
A tip for next time. A Jerusalem by-law from many tens of years ago requires all buildings to be covered or mostly covered in a limestone which soon became widely known as 'Jerusalem stone' as a way to keep a common look around the city. Tel Aviv (and the rest of the country) is more characterized by the buildings covered in stucco. BUT, in the last couple of tens of years, new urban construction around the country might also be built with 'Jerusalem stone' for design purposes.
My two favorite players. Peter is objectively better overall, but he's not as good with US geography in general, and he's significantly worse at map reading when trying to pinpoint precise street locations.
@@JFlatby I partially agree with you. But he is competitive player. And if he'll not use that ability of his, then he's always gonna loose because every player of his league uses those bollards, cars, etc. I respect his remembering and the content that he makes. And GeoWizard also stated that he is great player in the beg of this video. I'm not going against you as I also use to think the same way before they collaborated.
For any future Jerusalem locations, the government requires all houses built there to be built with a specific type of stone (Jerusalem stone) On that last location, if you were to look at the house to the right you could see that it is built with that sort of material and can basically cut down your options to Jerusalem.
My game went almost exactly like yours (apart from going with Jerusalem on the last round). First 3 rounds were easy, and eventually got perfect scores. Fourth round I searched around western coast of Africa, few Pacific islands and couple countries in the Caribbean, but didn't find anything that would correlate, so eventually guessed St Lucia and ended up with 50 odd points. There wasn't much to lose on the last round anymore, so just went with a quick guess in the middle of Jerusalem and got almost perfect score from that too. But because of the 4th round, ended up with couple 100 less than you.
I love that he assumes anyone watching is a geography expert, "... It's Amsterdam for those of you who don't have too many brain cells." (I had no idea) I'm here to learn. The British insults are icing on the cake.
its basically the most recognisable capital in the world due to the canals, you dont need to a geography expert, its like seeing big ben and not knowing its london
@@Gamblebeats I mean, the picture had one canal, and it's not like those don't exist outside Netherlands... it's easily recognizable if you've actually been to Amsterdam, sure (and in any case you should figure it out from the yellow plates and whatnot) but it's no shame if you don't recognize it instantly.
@@Gamblebeats It's not recognizable if you've never seen it. When I think of a city with canals, I think of Venice. There are many cities in the world with canals, just like there are many cities with mountains.
A tip to tell Denmark and the Netherlands apart for Geoguessr: all Dutch number plates are yellow, while in Denmark only commercial vehicles have yellow plates (private vehicles having white plates)
I got 24,982 points. Perfect score in Port Moresby and Kiev, less than 1 km off in Amsterdam, less than 2 km off in Freetown and 1.5 km off in Jerusalem. The key was to actually pick the capital cities by looking at the dot that is different from big non-capital cities.
Watching this in Birmingham Airport at 10am on a Sunday with two pints of doombar, awaiting a flight to visit family for first time in 2 years! Love the vids, keep em coming! A true entertainer you are ❤️💪🏼
I got the Amsterdam one (perfect score) in less than 10 seconds. I just randomly clicked somewhere in Amsterdam, and was 79m away. Still can't believe my luck.
It's been a long time since I beat you. Got all 5 cities right with perfect scores for the first 3. 24,972 in total. Freetown was quite a lucky shot obviously.
I got a perfect score on the Israel one😎, found Hebrew letters on signs, looked for the roundabout and street orientation, and the park across the street confirmed my findings. And I also got very close on the Freetown one, down to 500m, basically using the same method Tom used, looked for similar coastline on west coast African Capital cities. And a total score of 22595. I only messed up the Ukraine one for Russia. I can proudly announce I've beaten the GeoWizzard for once!!!😎 The capital city format helped a lot, really narrowed down the areas that needed to be searched.
Nice you got that one, I had exactly the same idea but got overly excited when I saw a fitting roundabout but right beneath the correct one is another one in a similar grid leading to 4999 points, fuck me
Fun fact: Lauriergracht (the street on the Amsterdam location) was a location used in the Only Fools and Horses episode 'To Hull and Back'. (Van Kleefe's office)
WOOOO 21,509!!! That was such a fun map, some hard and interesting, but not impossible locations. The fact it's only capitals makes the search smaller and overall more enjoyable for people like me who don't want to spend half an hour looking for a 90 degree street.
I love that in a video about guessing between 198 capital cities, Tom picked 2 out of 5 cities that weren't even capitals at all. Jokes aside, this is a great map. Definitely would love to see more of it!
In the Jerusalem round, I first made a picture in my head of the street angles, park and roundabout. Then, I zoomed into the map and saw it straight away, probably luck. Nevertheless, I lost the perfect score in my own capital of Amsterdam... Hint: the capital is shown with a dot within a circle on Maps when zoomed out a bit.
The capital of Israel is Jerusalem, Tel Aviv is just a major city and out technology hub city. A tip for you about Jerusalem, if you will look closely on the walls of most buildings in Jerusalem you'll see this sort of stones on the wall that is all over the city. In Israel it's even called Jerusalem Stone, for me its an automatic giveaway. P.S it is forbidden to build a house in Jerusalem without covering the out part of it with this particular atone
I got a 5000 pointer (13m) ahead of watching the video on the Amsterdam round. Perhaps not too impressive but made my day, one of my best, luckiest guesses ever!
On the Amsterdam round I literally just clicked a random street within the first minute of the round and somehow got a perfect score. That's never happening to me again.
Meanwhile, Jerusalem was the only one I got 5000 on :D looked for streets that had the same direction, and the first one I zoomed in on had the park and side-road. Pure luck
Distinguishing Tel Aviv from Jerusalem - you see that building that looks like it's made from white stone? That is very what we call "yerushalmi" in Hebrew. Very Jerusalem.
tom, for in the future, this is a capital only mode, all capitals are marked with a black circle on the map where as all non capitals have a white circle, cheers mate great vid
Jerusalem has very distinct white stone buildings. They were pretty obvious in the video. Then, the buildings on a hill in the distance were likely the city center. I didn’t look hard at the compass or play along but while watching I had a gut feeling it was the southern part of Jerusalem. It helps to have been there obviously.
If Tom reads this: When you are looking for a capital city on the map the marker is actually different if you hover at the right distance. Around 22:03 when you are zooming into Israel you can tell that Jerusalem is the capital and not Tel-Aviv as Jerusalem's marker has a black dot in the middle that Tel-Aviv's marker doesn't have. But as soon as you zoom in too far those city markers disappear. The city names are still there but without the marker and if a city is written in capital letters or not has nothing to do with it actually being the capital or not but only with it's size.
So good to hear a GeoPeter shoutout, I highly recommend checking him out if you haven’t before! Tom and Peter are my all-time favourite content creators and the only two who I subscribe to through their Patreon / YT membership. Love their stuff.
Love these videos having never played geoguessr, but just loving geography. Once I saw your method of finding things when you never looked at it in person is crazy. Cant believe a government agency or big tech monster hasn't reached out yet to use your skills for "security" purposes. Edit: I got Freetown and Jerusalem. But not Papa New Guinea
I went to guinea instead of sierra leone, still lost 500 points even though it's the next one. In my defense there were no hills or mountains in sierra leone in google maps so I cancelled it. ended up with 24k with a less than a mile away guess from my capital at the end.. sort of an unfair advantage
That last israeli place almost surely must have been Jerusalem beacuse of the stone all the buildings were built of. There are few laws that Israel still has ffrom british times. And one of them is a regional law prohibiting covering buildings with anything else than the local type of stone. It was created to cultivate the tradition and preserve the historical landmark of stone Jerusalem. So this is why you can almost certainly pick Jerusalem right away as you see many buildings built of this specific stone. Also Tel Aviv doesn't really have so uneven areas.
I did get the last one in Jerusalem as well as Kiev and Amsterdam. But I got it completely wrong in the stadium and made the same mistakes as you for the one in sierra leone, didn't pay enough attention to Freetown. really nice to play along you!
I felt relieved when Tom also guessed Tel Aviv in the last round, fell for it also and thought I was a dumb ass for not knowing the capital of Israel for a second. :D Ended on 24757, cause I got Freetown right (couple km away). Great map!
Jerusalem is only that stone for buildings, while tel aviv has modern looking buildings and skyscrapers that would be visible from pretty much anywhere
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This man could post “what is in my bag” and I would still watch it religiously.
To be fair, I love the "what is in my bag" series for the record shop in LA.
he posted it
čau tereza
@@leafbelly first thing that came to my mind
you made me laugh, wow, have a like
"It's Amsterdam for those of you who don't have too many braincells"
Tom I'm just watching for entertainment please don't roast me like that T_T
Lmao he completely erased my confidence with that one sentence
I mean if you didnt know it you are probably from the US XD
@@fiflak2000 uhhhh, sorry I’m speaking on the behalf of the entire US we know what Amsterdam looks like
Ahah well its arguably the easiest compared to all
It hit me somewhat personally. I have been learning geography and history for a lot of time and the best guess of mine for that was Wien or Copenhagen and after tom said that I realised I've never actually seen even a photo of Amsterdam.
If there any chance that Tom reads this, regarding the compass, in the bottom right corner of the screen, near Terms of Use it says who took the "photosphere". If it says someone's name or some 3rd party company name that would mean that somebody most likely took it with their smartphone and there is hardly any chance that compass would be correct on that one. But if it says like "2019 Google" it means that this is taken from regular Google street view and you can trust the compass there.
Thank you, sergeysa. 💐
The onboard compass on most smartphones is usually not too our of whack
He usually avoids looking at that as sometimes it can spoil where it is, like "Hawaiian Tour Company" or whatever.
Are you referring to round 4? How could that have possibly been taken by the Google car lmao
@@kevinfree1181 hes referring to the fact that he said the compass might be wrong on an official round
I like how Tom addresses his viewers. Think we get just as many shut ups, fuck offs and simmer downs as we do thanks for watching
We're not just numbers for him I think. We are his friends as well, and he wants to show up his creations and adventures for us, because that's what he loves to do. Adventures and videos. I think he's living a good life. It's like that feeling when you really wanna show your friends something that you have created, or you wanna explain an idea to them that you have been thinking about for a while. That is his day to day basis.
@@Bismarck-S yeah
honestly his delivery is kinda cringe even if he may mean well
@@bvedant mans got a bmw M badge as his youtube profile pic talking about cringe lol
@@Andrew-ss7jd M cars are some of the best cars you can buy even if they may be overrated, don’t know what’s wrong with expressing my interests in a profile picture, meanwhile this guy and you can just be straight up rude
Fun fact: the capital of Equatorial Guinea is not Bata, it's Malabo, which is located on an island!
Some verified bloke stole your comment and got more likes.)
They're building a new city inland, btw, to be the new capital. I'ts called Ciudad de la Paz
Yeah, right away I was guessing Malabo cause of the oil tankers and the hilliness. Was dying when he kept it in Bata, but then Tom and I both ended up being wrong lol
As an Englishman not knowing the capital of the country Mark Thatcher tried to invade is just bad.
@B.I-S incorrect it's the capital of both countries (west and east Jerusalem that is)
"I believe that I walked on this street" is a bold statement to have in Amsterdam. If you already been there you know that all the streets looks absolutely the same (especially after a few stops in coffee shops)
You said ' without any further ado' twice. That means there must have been some residual further ado after the first time you said it. You better watch that, the ado can get out of control.
That's certainly a pet peeve of mine. When someone says "without further ado", and literally the very next topic or two is yet more ado. Not terribly much of that on this channel though.
Tutorial videos are the worst for that type of thing.
David Mitchell is that you?
@@mikealbraden7412 The worst thing is when they say "Without further ado" and then start with an advertisement.
I read this and started laughing and then he said it a third time
@@tesstrogen Without further ado, let me explain our business model in 17 simple steps.
Tom got the video idea from GeoPeter, then gets the exact same first round as him yet completely didn't realise it. Love ya Tom, never change.
Also love that he completely missed the PNG part under the stadium name
This is why when I see the first round I felt that I've watched it
I did Peter's playalong too and I was worried it was gonna be the same locations. Weird how they got just the first one identical.
@@TheIkhsan7 i felt i was going insane
I was thinking the same, but maybe he did not watch the video and only took the idea from the title
You can tell if a city is a capital by looking at the dot next to the city name - if its a double circle (dot with a circle), its the capital (in a country where there are multiple ones, for ex. South Africa, they just use the double circle for all of them)
Yes! This is true of every world map I've ever seen and I can't believe Tom the genius has never in all his life realised that Google Maps has it. Bata and Tel Aviv are soul-crushing blunders.
It’s painful to watch, sometimes he can be so stupid.
@@leviticus6591 you do better then
@@Michael-zf4el “you do better then” 🥸
@@Michael-zf4el Am I not allowed to criticise? Plus his entire RUclips is successful due to geography, you would think he should know if it was a capital city or not.
As someone who has spent hours learning all the capital cities in the world for no reason other than pub quizzes and glory, I very much enjoyed this video and would want more.
I used to know them all but am probably down to about 70% now.
I swear tom is obsessed with Gabon. He should go there for a video.
Gus1thego was recently there.
It's a very interesting central African coutry imo
Straight line mission across Gabon
@ they dont use protection in Africa
It's possible but hard because it's africa
“Get in!” Count: 0
Wuddup brother Ben and cousin Johnathan.
First
9:50 his body language really screamed "get in". Alas, no get in was had on this day...
@@Gameboygenius i bet he said it in his head. Also shoutout to the homies Ben and Jonathan
In Kiev round
"I can't see the flag"
the whole fencing is a big flag :D
I've learned to not trust that coloring on random things in geoguessr. 90% of time it was a random place in Russia using blue and yellow for no reason on houses, huts, fences, cars, etc. Or maybe there is a reason, I just don't know it.
I didn't notice it too.. Also, my ex wore an all red dress for our first date. I guess I never learn :(
@@Destroy666x if it's in Ukrainian colours it's a safe bet you're in Ukraine. It can be anything really, a randow row of tires near a chop shop, a pole, a wooden fence, you name it. Even the curbs sometimes.
@@pavlo1207 I just said it's not... I had places even close to Siberia that had houses with exactly the same colors as Ukrainian flag. Killed a few of my streak attempts.
@@pavlo1207 one of good examples is Lenta store. Not much related to Ukraine, but uses its colors
tom: how we doin everyone? we all good?
me: *yawning*
tom: alright, simmer down
me: *snaps my mouth shut, as if scolded*
Was that supposed to be funny
@@kenno6741 would rather be unfunny than a dick a week late to a comment
xD i literally just said "yeh" then there was a 2 seconds silence before he said "alright simmer down", never been mocked by a pre-recorded video before
Tip about recognizing Jerusalem: the stones you see in the last challenge are really special to the city, you won't see it so often in other places. Buildings in Tel-Aviv have a more early 20th century to modern look to them.
the jerusalem stones are not exclusive to jerusalem at all, but when all the buildings are made of non-processed white bricks or are covered with a non-procesed plaque of a white brick and you know you are in israel, its likely in jerusalem but not guranteed. and buildings in tel aviv have a german architecture(Bauhaus) popularized by german jews fleeting germany and seeking refuge in tel-aviv,palestine during the british mandate which later turned into tel-aviv Jaffo,israel
"What is the capital of Israel?"
Welcome to the eternally controversial question with no answer that won't piss someone off
As an Israeli that lives in Tel Aviv it’s really not, the capital is just Jerusalem no arguing about it…
@@thehotguy 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
@@frief7406 wow ur so smart and original
@@thehotguy 👍
Its weird to have your capital be in an entirely different country..
I love how Tom goes back on what he said at 10:13 a couple of seconds later. 😂 He knows. 😏🍁
LMAOO deadass
That demoralizing feeling when you get within 2 yards of the marker, and yet Tom still beats you by a yard 🤪
you mean by 50% xD
Jerusalem has these white bricks which are called Jerusalem Stones plastered all over, plus all of the pine trees. Tel Aviv looks much more modern
In fact city law requires all buildings to be covered with those stones
Jerusalem - capital of Palestine
Why are you adding unnecessary drama to this
@@bibisings6120 ayo bibi
@@Impossiblegend Because it's funny. That the map says Jerusalem is a capital of something. Even Tom didn't consider it a capital. That's why I said ah yeah Jerusalem the famous capital of Palestine as we all know. Now go cry.
When he said Straße in Ukraine, I almost pissed myself
To be fair Str. over St. is the way it's usually abbreviated in German rather than in English.
Sorry for that. Didn't know. I'm fellow slav so it was so funny for me
Yes that was hilarious
I came for that comment. He's literally British and yet he pronounced Str. as Straße
Actually, all this str., sq., ave. and so on in Kyiv appeared before Euro 2012. And before it there was not a big number of Street plates in Ukraine. So, thanks to the championship, they are now :) It is useful for locals too.
Greetings from Ukraine ;)
Waiting to see Tom's reaction to the geoguessr update
What changed?
@@tomyoung8523 visually a lot, and a few new modes and a new elo/ ranking system.
Wow just opened the site and feel totally lost
@@randomizednamme WOAH! Yeah. I thought I was on the wrong site even. Looks like some scammy cheap something or other company now. Not my style.
@@thewiseturtle It looks really weird, I already miss the old design... and I haven't seen many positive comments about this change.
Hint for the future: Capital cities on Google Maps always have the filled in dot when zoomed out. If it has an unfilled circle or no circle at all, it's not the capital. Would've helped in the Sierra Leone and Israel rounds.
I was screaming through my phone screen at him
Thank you for the shoutout, Tom! Great video as always! 😊
GoatPeter
Love that he is playing a capital city map and on round 4 doesn't even guess a capital 😂😂😂 never change Tom
To be fair to Tom, he doesn't know the African capitals (nor do I expect him to).
@@MagiSwag they all have a special marker on the map!
@@willcraft9184 Equatorial Guinea is kinda weird tought since their calital is literly on an island far away from the mainland
@@Jizanthapus Exactly
@@willcraft9184 yeah but on some island nations and micro-nations they are below the name of the country and thus you don't see the marker. Even though he made mention of that a couple times. He also named multiple city's that were not capitals and we already know how bad he is with UI form the battle royale days.
FINALLY! Tom has gotten a location near my house. In Amsterdam, on the opposite of the canal is my Kickboxing Gym!
Cool!
see u next time😈
Dutchie
A tip for next time. A Jerusalem by-law from many tens of years ago requires all buildings to be covered or mostly covered in a limestone which soon became widely known as 'Jerusalem stone' as a way to keep a common look around the city. Tel Aviv (and the rest of the country) is more characterized by the buildings covered in stucco. BUT, in the last couple of tens of years, new urban construction around the country might also be built with 'Jerusalem stone' for design purposes.
Omg the round in Israel is literally outside where I used to live when I was very young!
I still pass there on the way to my grandparents!
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Wow, that Amsterdam guess was so well done!
"it's better than being stoned, believe me... Ah, well, I dunno" 😂😂
That 1 yard guess was absolutely insane.
I really love the skills of GeoPeter and I really love the humor of GeoWizard (They're both really really good player and content creator)
My two favorite players. Peter is objectively better overall, but he's not as good with US geography in general, and he's significantly worse at map reading when trying to pinpoint precise street locations.
@@JFlatby But bollards are part of the architecture.
@@JFlatby I partially agree with you. But he is competitive player. And if he'll not use that ability of his, then he's always gonna loose because every player of his league uses those bollards, cars, etc. I respect his remembering and the content that he makes. And GeoWizard also stated that he is great player in the beg of this video. I'm not going against you as I also use to think the same way before they collaborated.
@@bunpeishiratori5849 agreed
For any future Jerusalem locations, the government requires all houses built there to be built with a specific type of stone (Jerusalem stone) On that last location, if you were to look at the house to the right you could see that it is built with that sort of material and can basically cut down your options to Jerusalem.
This is an awesome map for sure! I love exploring places around the world that aren't part of the usual Geoguessr grind 🙂
My game went almost exactly like yours (apart from going with Jerusalem on the last round). First 3 rounds were easy, and eventually got perfect scores. Fourth round I searched around western coast of Africa, few Pacific islands and couple countries in the Caribbean, but didn't find anything that would correlate, so eventually guessed St Lucia and ended up with 50 odd points. There wasn't much to lose on the last round anymore, so just went with a quick guess in the middle of Jerusalem and got almost perfect score from that too. But because of the 4th round, ended up with couple 100 less than you.
Same, I went for Port Au Prince. Also botched the Amsterdam round because I picked a larger canal and got 8 points off. 20,010 points.
My round also went very similarly. I spent a lot of thinking the fourth round was one of these island nations in the Indian ocean. 19,999
I love that he assumes anyone watching is a geography expert, "... It's Amsterdam for those of you who don't have too many brain cells." (I had no idea)
I'm here to learn. The British insults are icing on the cake.
its basically the most recognisable capital in the world due to the canals, you dont need to a geography expert, its like seeing big ben and not knowing its london
@@Gamblebeats i didn't know it either
@@Gamblebeats I mean, the picture had one canal, and it's not like those don't exist outside Netherlands... it's easily recognizable if you've actually been to Amsterdam, sure (and in any case you should figure it out from the yellow plates and whatnot) but it's no shame if you don't recognize it instantly.
@@Gamblebeats It's not recognizable if you've never seen it. When I think of a city with canals, I think of Venice. There are many cities in the world with canals, just like there are many cities with mountains.
@@Gamblebeats Not in the world, in Europe. You Europeans sometimes forget that Europe is not the only place the exists.
“It’s Amsterdam, for those of you who don’t have many brain cells”
Me, thinking it was Copenhagen :(
thats okay, his 4th guess was a low brain cell guess, we all have low brain cells
honestly same, i was actually suprised when it wasn't
Me thinking it was venice...
A tip to tell Denmark and the Netherlands apart for Geoguessr: all Dutch number plates are yellow, while in Denmark only commercial vehicles have yellow plates (private vehicles having white plates)
@@tastybiscuit7922 same...
I got 24,982 points. Perfect score in Port Moresby and Kiev, less than 1 km off in Amsterdam, less than 2 km off in Freetown and 1.5 km off in Jerusalem. The key was to actually pick the capital cities by looking at the dot that is different from big non-capital cities.
I only figured out there's a different dot for capitals while playing this map... helps a lot narrowing down the search.
Or you can just know the capitals...
@@AlexeiWatson bruh how do you not know that
@@gillmonsta just hadn't noticed it. I haven't been playing geoguessr for long.
Watching this in Birmingham Airport at 10am on a Sunday with two pints of doombar, awaiting a flight to visit family for first time in 2 years! Love the vids, keep em coming! A true entertainer you are ❤️💪🏼
I got the Amsterdam one (perfect score) in less than 10 seconds. I just randomly clicked somewhere in Amsterdam, and was 79m away. Still can't believe my luck.
I wasn't playing along and he hasn't picked yet but it looks like he is right near amnesia coffeeshop lol
@@schnapgrap thats amsterdam for ya
It's been a long time since I beat you. Got all 5 cities right with perfect scores for the first 3. 24,972 in total. Freetown was quite a lucky shot obviously.
I got a perfect score on the Israel one😎, found Hebrew letters on signs, looked for the roundabout and street orientation, and the park across the street confirmed my findings. And I also got very close on the Freetown one, down to 500m, basically using the same method Tom used, looked for similar coastline on west coast African Capital cities. And a total score of 22595. I only messed up the Ukraine one for Russia. I can proudly announce I've beaten the GeoWizzard for once!!!😎
The capital city format helped a lot, really narrowed down the areas that needed to be searched.
Nice you got that one, I had exactly the same idea but got overly excited when I saw a fitting roundabout but right beneath the correct one is another one in a similar grid leading to 4999 points, fuck me
I got a perfect score, 3yds away, and it was just a random click in Jerusalem! 😂
I just watched the video first, so much easier. I get a perfect score every time.
Believe it or not some people actually do this for some reason.
It looks hilly of course it's Jerusalem
quick tip all buidlings in Jerusalem are covered in bricks called "Jerusalem stones"
I met you outside my house in Lichfield a few weeks back, you're a legend!
I'm amazed you found the one in Amsterdam, those canals and places all look so similar!
Excellent episode - please continue the “capital”-series
Fun fact: Lauriergracht (the street on the Amsterdam location) was a location used in the Only Fools and Horses episode 'To Hull and Back'. (Van Kleefe's office)
‘It’s Amsterdam for those of you who don’t have too many brain cells’ lmao love you Tom
The cars parked on the canal edge in Amsterdam make me so nervous to look at 😰
1:25 Tom: I'll be amazed if I can get two
3:08 Tom: The perfect score is on here
It broke my heart that Tom didn't know his Malabos
WOOOO 21,509!!! That was such a fun map, some hard and interesting, but not impossible locations. The fact it's only capitals makes the search smaller and overall more enjoyable for people like me who don't want to spend half an hour looking for a 90 degree street.
I love that in a video about guessing between 198 capital cities, Tom picked 2 out of 5 cities that weren't even capitals at all.
Jokes aside, this is a great map. Definitely would love to see more of it!
"I wonder if it was named after Joanna?"... I'm dead!🤣🤣🤣
In the Jerusalem round, I first made a picture in my head of the street angles, park and roundabout. Then, I zoomed into the map and saw it straight away, probably luck. Nevertheless, I lost the perfect score in my own capital of Amsterdam...
Hint: the capital is shown with a dot within a circle on Maps when zoomed out a bit.
but kiev doesnt look like kiev anymore o.O 11:48
That’s scuffed
As a traffic engineer, I noticed the “turn left ahead” sign in Amsterdam and could tell straight away that Tom’s initial guess was incorrect.
This was my first ever time doing a geo guesser properly, and trying to beat you, that african one was amazing to get. 417 metres, what a feeling!
The capital of Israel is Jerusalem, Tel Aviv is just a major city and out technology hub city.
A tip for you about Jerusalem, if you will look closely on the walls of most buildings in Jerusalem you'll see this sort of stones on the wall that is all over the city. In Israel it's even called Jerusalem Stone, for me its an automatic giveaway.
P.S it is forbidden to build a house in Jerusalem without covering the out part of it with this particular atone
Love this format - would love more of those ❤️❤️
btw the capital of equatorial guiena its located in Malabo which is an island its not Bata
Oof you posted 3 years ago
Stolen comment
interesting tip, In Ukraine the fences and small bridges are often painted in national flag colours (blue(top) and yellow(bottom)
11:00 imagine this picture today.. such sadness
Cry more. Z
Sad to see the kiev one, considering right now that exact street is just rumble now
I got a 5000 pointer (13m) ahead of watching the video on the Amsterdam round. Perhaps not too impressive but made my day, one of my best, luckiest guesses ever!
Congrats on a million!
Just a tip, in tha last round, this kind of stone that was used in the house is only used in Jerusalem :)
"It's better than being stoned... Ahh well I dont know..."
On the Amsterdam round I literally just clicked a random street within the first minute of the round and somehow got a perfect score. That's never happening to me again.
Got perfect scores on the first three and then didn't even put it in the capital for the last two, thanks for giving us a chance Tom
Meanwhile, Jerusalem was the only one I got 5000 on :D looked for streets that had the same direction, and the first one I zoomed in on had the park and side-road. Pure luck
I also got a perfect score, but I live literally five minutes from that spot, so it was kinda obvious to me 😂
I’m quite impressed that he managed to zoom straight in on Volodymyrsk church in Kiev without really trying.
Distinguishing Tel Aviv from Jerusalem - you see that building that looks like it's made from white stone? That is very what we call "yerushalmi" in Hebrew. Very Jerusalem.
Building with limestone siding is the law in Jerusalem
@@boazshaf And as such, you see it a lot in Jerusalem. :)
Get in! Looking forward to watch your next adventure - it will be awesome!
"those of you who dont have too many braincells"
Please never change, Tom!
tom, for in the future, this is a capital only mode, all capitals are marked with a black circle on the map where as all non capitals have a white circle, cheers mate great vid
Tom: "Let's see if we can find a flag!"
Also Tom: Completely ignores the blue and yellow painted fence in the exact same second
Amazing. Love this channel
Btw Bata isn't the capital of Equatorial Guinea. Capitals are marked with a dot inside the circle marking the city
Jerusalem has very distinct white stone buildings. They were pretty obvious in the video.
Then, the buildings on a hill in the distance were likely the city center. I didn’t look hard at the compass or play along but while watching I had a gut feeling it was the southern part of Jerusalem. It helps to have been there obviously.
If Tom reads this:
When you are looking for a capital city on the map the marker is actually different if you hover at the right distance.
Around 22:03 when you are zooming into Israel you can tell that Jerusalem is the capital and not Tel-Aviv as Jerusalem's marker has a black dot in the middle that Tel-Aviv's marker doesn't have.
But as soon as you zoom in too far those city markers disappear. The city names are still there but without the marker and if a city is written in capital letters or not has nothing to do with it actually being the capital or not but only with it's size.
Love how unique and therefore recognisable Amsterdam is
I thought it was Italy at first lol. Haven't really seem a whole lot of pictures from there but does sound like fun from all the stories you hear lol
Tom: "If you don't immediately recognize Amsterdam, you're literally too stupid to insult."
Also Tom: "dO ThEy HaVE BiG ShIpS ON AnY LaKeS???"
To be fair, they often do
salty baby online
"It's Amsterdam, for those of you who don't have brain cells" that felt like a personal attack ahahha
So good to hear a GeoPeter shoutout, I highly recommend checking him out if you haven’t before! Tom and Peter are my all-time favourite content creators and the only two who I subscribe to through their Patreon / YT membership. Love their stuff.
Love these videos having never played geoguessr, but just loving geography. Once I saw your method of finding things when you never looked at it in person is crazy. Cant believe a government agency or big tech monster hasn't reached out yet to use your skills for "security" purposes.
Edit: I got Freetown and Jerusalem. But not Papa New Guinea
Well I’m pretty proud with myself to have gotten 4 perfect scores! Just missed the Sierra Leone round. Ended up going for Libreville...
@Érik haha t’as raison, j’avais pas fait la connexion
20:57 even if it ended up being Equatorial Guinea, its capital is on the northwestern island (Bioko) near Cameroon. The capital is Malabo
I went to guinea instead of sierra leone, still lost 500 points even though it's the next one. In my defense there were no hills or mountains in sierra leone in google maps so I cancelled it. ended up with 24k with a less than a mile away guess from my capital at the end.. sort of an unfair advantage
haha ya gever. wanted to see if anyone got it
@@danielmizrahi9629 I did! I live super close to the location lol. I was in absolute SHOCK when it popped up on my screen 😂
@@jonahs92 haha same😂
זה עולם קטן מאוד
@@jacobsacks6764 מאוד מאוד
been watching tom for to many years, still love ya
That last israeli place almost surely must have been Jerusalem beacuse of the stone all the buildings were built of. There are few laws that Israel still has ffrom british times. And one of them is a regional law prohibiting covering buildings with anything else than the local type of stone. It was created to cultivate the tradition and preserve the historical landmark of stone Jerusalem.
So this is why you can almost certainly pick Jerusalem right away as you see many buildings built of this specific stone.
Also Tel Aviv doesn't really have so uneven areas.
Great map, great video! I love how many formats you have, and this will be among my most liked for sure.
Pretty sure kyiv doesn't look like that anymore 😬
I did get the last one in Jerusalem as well as Kiev and Amsterdam. But I got it completely wrong in the stadium and made the same mistakes as you for the one in sierra leone, didn't pay enough attention to Freetown. really nice to play along you!
I felt relieved when Tom also guessed Tel Aviv in the last round, fell for it also and thought I was a dumb ass for not knowing the capital of Israel for a second. :D
Ended on 24757, cause I got Freetown right (couple km away). Great map!
First time I beat you, gotta love these play alongs!
Got all five :D
Tom:" couldn't be easier"
Me:" yup thats londo..."
Tom:" Amsterdam"
Me: " ...amsterdam yea obviously "
Jerusalem is only that stone for buildings, while tel aviv has modern looking buildings and skyscrapers that would be visible from pretty much anywhere
"I'll be happy if i get two or three right"
One perfect guess later...
"ok so we're going for a perfect score"
Wow you are good. I can guess from flags, I know all the flags, but looking at the patterns on sidewalks and number plates is next level.
Me: Ahh yes that must be Venice!
Tom: It's Amsterdam for those of you who don't have too many braincells
Me: :(
loved your amsterdam call.. been there, done that