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0:00
Zigzag, I've been playing this game for so many years and I'm still so unbelievably terrible at it
0:04
Can you please give me step-by-step instructions on how to be better
0:08
Jack, it would be my absolute pleasure to do so. Thank you. This is way overdue
0:12
There are literally so many clues in this game, it boggles the mind. I can't wait to show you and take you through all this stuff
0:17
Basically, I know about the, like, look for the direction of the sun and then that's about it
0:21
The sun is actually surprisingly helpful, right? Yeah, we can clearly see it's more towards the south
0:26
So, if the sun's towards the south, that means it's northern hemisphere, is that right
0:29
Exactly right, Jack. Exactly right. Well, we've already eliminated half of the globe off the bat
0:33
It's kind of a nice start. But most of the countries are in the north, to be fair. That is true. There are definitely like probably double the countries in the northern hemisphere
0:39
Tell me what you see in this round. Oh, no. And then we'll have a discussion
0:43
Right. Well, uh, they're driving on the left, potentially. Unless this car is just parked
0:48
Is that correct? It's a good observation. I think we're in a right-hand drive country, so I think he might
0:52
Oh, no. Also, I've seen from your videos that stuff like the fact that you can't see the car
0:59
That means things to you. Nothing at the moment. But to me, it does mean things, yeah
1:03
Like, is this a particular type of, you know, thing? Yes, it is. Isn't there something about like a snorkel or something somewhere
1:09
In Kenya, yes. But I don't think this is Kenya. Okay, so do you have any vibe
1:13
Maybe just even the continent, not necessarily a country. Perhaps Europe, maybe? So I think I agree, it is Europe
1:18
Yes. One good rule of thumb is that in Europe, you have like kind of thinner roads, right
1:22
In the US, they like to build them nice and wide. Even on a rural road in the US, they'll kind of like build it, you know
1:28
to be at least five, 10 meters wide. Yeah, that makes sense. This one's kind of like a one laner
1:32
so that's really common in Europe. And then I agree, the trees, the foliage and everything, they kind of feel more European as well
1:38
How about we go over to this yellow car and inspect that because that might help us
1:41
get the country a little bit more accurately. We can see actual text. I know you're meant to look out for the EU plate
1:46
We can see one here, right? We got the blue on the left side. You can just see it kind of peeking there, can't you
1:51
So does that mean it's EU countries? Or does it just mean it's European? It's mostly EU countries
1:56
with some kind of EU candidate countries which put EU plates ready for when they get accepted
2:01
So for example, Turkey and Serbia have EU plates for that being part of the EU
2:04
But we have a big clue on this car actually. Check out the language written on the side
2:08
which is always good to look out for. Oh God, I don't really know
2:13
I don't really know. Read the word written in white. The Olmerta
2:17
Yeah, it's not a Latin alphabet. It's not like the English alphabet. It's a Cyrillic alphabet
2:21
Cyrillic, right. Okay, yes. Does that mean it's kind of more over this area then
2:25
Exactly right. Countries that use Cyrillic on GeoGuessr? Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, and then sometimes in Serbia and North Macedonia
2:34
That's really great. So already we've kind of narrowed it down with the EU strip. That's not going to be Ukraine or Russia
2:39
We've already narrowed it down heavily just to Eastern Europe. Ah, right. Okay. Yeah, that's fair enough
2:43
So Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, that's pretty much the only options
2:47
Yeah, this is where I'd come in and say, okay, that antenna that you noticed on the back of the car, which has a little flag on it
2:52
Yeah, it's got like a bit of sticky tape at the end. That one is only found in some countries
2:55
It's not found in Serbia, North Macedonia or Montenegro, which means we are in Bulgaria
2:59
Oh my god. So a cheeky one to get the final answer here
3:03
So yeah, we can we can guess happily in in Bulgaria here and wouldn't even be surprised if you were
3:07
Closer than me here because I'm not quite sure where exactly this is. All right, you lock it in your guess then. You are. Well, I..
3:14
I'll go right there. You've done it. So was there any logic to you going more towards the east then
3:20
Would you be surprised if I told you that the flag on the antenna is more common in the east than in the west
3:25
So that's why I did it. Right, okay, fair enough. I'll remember that. It's cheeky tactic
3:29
All right, this is much more gettable, though. We have a lot going on here. What do you initially think of this round
3:33
Well, northern hem. Oh, nicely done. I even did the little abbreviation because I know that's what the cool geoguessoplas do
3:39
Oh, okay, okay. It looks kind of European again, but more sort of up here would be my immediate thought
3:48
I can see why I say that. I definitely confuse those ones sometimes. I don't think it's the Nordics, though
3:52
It is EU. I think we are in Europe indeed, but not the Nordics. Switzerland is a country where the EU plates don't happen
3:58
so that we can rule out Switzerland here. Okay, and it does look kind of Switzerland-y as well, doesn't it
4:03
Yeah, exactly. It's kind of got an Alps vibe here. Here's a really good one. It's kind of specific, but in Southern Germany and the Alps countries
4:09
so I'm talking Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, and inside the mountains in Italy
4:15
you get these houses which are kind of half white and then half dark wood at the top
4:19
And that's pretty much only found there. You see what I mean about the house you're looking at right now
4:23
Oh, right, okay. That's like Alps architecture, so it's a really good tip. I think we can actually move around to maybe find a bit of language
4:29
because our options left over are Italy, Austria, and Slovenia. So language should really help here if you can find some
4:34
I love a wiggle. Got a sign there. Ooh, okay. So that's kind of more German, isn't it
4:40
Yeah, so the umlaut over the O, the double O, making the surprised face, is indeed German language
4:45
Given that fact, the only options here are Austria and Germany. You know, Germany mostly is flat
4:51
and there's only a small part, which is in the Alps. We do have the .de. Oh, really
4:55
Because we got the Alps architecture, we know exactly where we're going to be, because we're right on the southern border with Austria here
4:59
That's the only places you'd find these houses. Ah, okay. So probably south of Munich here
5:03
That's a really fun round, actually, because I was pretty convinced that this was Austria
5:07
You would think this would be, like, kind of right at the bottom of Germany. Yeah, either there. I think maybe more likely on the Austrian border
5:13
than the Swiss border, but yeah, it could be either one. I think that is enough info for us to make our guesses
5:17
I would 100% agree. We'll send it in. Okay, you've locked one in, and I am gonna lock myself
5:24
Make sure you go in Germany. Yeah, just shush. Wait, I think I may have even seen that place name
5:29
Really? No, must have been a similar word. Do you see the town up here, Bad Totes
5:33
Yeah, I was there three months ago. Oh, really? Oh, this is a fun one
5:38
This is a fun one. I think I'm gonna let you move around a bit here because it's difficult. So this is one of them ones
5:42
where it's kind of hard to see where the sun is because of how overexposed it is. I would say if the clouds are obscuring the sun
5:48
just forget about the sun. Oh, the traffic is on the move, but it is, is it on the left
5:52
Yes, left hand drives. I think you know roughly which countries drive left
5:56
wouldn't you? That really narrows things down. Oh, we may have a flag or something here. No, we do not
6:00
It's just washing. These flags are helpful. These big white ones. These are Buddhist prayer flags
6:06
Oh, these ones here? Yeah. Oh, right. Okay. And often they'll be colorful, but sometimes they'll just be white like this as well
6:11
So this will be Asia then somewhere, I'm assuming. Yes, I don't know if there are any Buddhist countries outside of Asia, so yeah
6:16
We do have some text. Restaurant, it says. Not the most useful word. It's pretty much the same in every language, I feel
6:21
We're in a mountainous place. We know that. Yeah, we have Buddhists. We're in a valley and we're driving left-hand side of the road
6:26
Taiwan is a country that has lots of Buddhists, but in Taiwan, they drive right-hand side of the road. So we know we're not in Taiwan
6:31
Now, let me talk about something which I've wanted to mention. What are the first things I look at when I jump into a round
6:35
When I start in the GeoGuess round, I always look for the driving direction. Even as a pro player, you have to look for that
6:40
And then also looking at the color of the road lines, here we have the white road lines in the
6:44
center. That's something you see more so in Europe and more so in countries that have like close ties
6:49
with Europe as well. I think Eurasia, Africa more so use white road lines, especially in Europe
6:54
Then yellow road lines is more like the Americas, some parts of Asia, and some parts of Africa
6:59
It's great to know, okay, yellow ones never going to be Europe pretty much, and white ones never
7:04
going to be the Americas pretty much, with a couple of exceptions either way. So those two things are
7:07
great things to look at and also the sun and then it's more small details to get the right answer
7:12
Got it. So do you have any idea here then, given everything I've said? Maybe check out this truck
7:15
as well, could be helpful. Yes, let me have a look at the truck. Oh, do we have something on the side of the truck? 4x4. Hmm, interesting
7:26
To be honest, I am a little stuck because I don't know that many countries here that use the Latin
7:33
script? That's a really good question. Vietnam does, but Vietnam does not have Google Street View
7:37
They actually deleted it there. So we can see like Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, these countries with
7:42
Buddhist majorities I think, but all of them don't really use the Latin script much. All that combined
7:46
I think we're going to be in Bhutan here because that is a country that uses Latin
7:50
script at least quite a lot. And it's mountainous and it has Google Street View coverage. There are
7:55
certain other ways I'm getting this, but also this house here is kind of similar to the Alps
8:00
architecture we just saw where it has lots of white panels on it and it's also made of wood and that
8:04
is what i would call bhutanese architecture combine that with the prayer flags that's how i would say
8:09
okay it's probably not india because india they're mostly hindi rather than buddhist oh that is some
8:13
info that i don't mean to overload i'm sorry it's a lot of stuff that goes into some of these rounds
8:16
Bhutan's a fun one isn't it look at that right well i will make my guess somewhere likewise Nice
8:23
Oh! Wow! Wow, watch out, bro. Right well we got some white lines so we kinda canceling out the Americas for example I will say one country in the Americas and this is not that country but Chile uses the European style
8:39
Right, okay. Every other country pretty much will use the style of the Americas
8:44
This is clearly not Chile, the house doesn't really look Chilean over to the south. I'm not saying it is the UK, but I'm saying that the trees and the fields do look very UK
8:52
100%, we got like a hedgerow on the side of the road. That's pretty typical in Western Europe and the United Kingdom
8:56
I'm not really familiar with these in the UK, but perhaps I'm wrong. Ooh, the bollards
9:00
Always got to talk about the bollards, you know. In Europe, pretty much every country has its own specific bollard
9:06
Okay. And this one instantly gives away the country to me. But let's have a look around first and kind of talk about the rest of the round
9:13
Okay, they are driving on the right. They are. Excellent. And then they've got a house
9:17
Look at their nice roses they've got outside. Mm-hmm. EU. Very nice. EU Strip
9:21
Excellent. Excellent. I mean, it's kind of pushing me towards somewhere like Poland at the moment
9:26
Poland's definitely a reasonable guess. I don't mind it. We have a little bit of text. Kind of..
9:31
Right, so that's German. Excellent. There might be other countries that may use a similar word
9:35
But you know, Polish is a Slavic language, so we know it's not Polish at least. Yes, of course. Polish is a Slavic language. We've got the bollards. Yeah, we've got these brick houses
9:44
It's quite flat. Did you notice that? How there's basically no mountains here. We have German
9:48
language as well. So if we get into the map, here's a nice little rule of thumb, and this this might be easy for you to remember as a Brit yourself. So if you draw a line from West Midlands
9:57
through Northern France into Belgium, into Netherlands, and then over to Hamburg. So if
10:02
you draw a line like between those places I described, that's kind of brick architecture
10:07
Europe. That's where they love the red bricks the most in Europe. Right. Okay. So in England
10:11
Belgium, Netherlands, Northern France, Germany, and Denmark a bit as well. Whenever you see that
10:17
it's pretty good. And it really helps for Germany as well, because you wouldn't see so many brick
10:21
houses down south where they have the Alps architecture or over by Berlin. Instead, it's
10:25
normally near the Netherlands. So yeah, I think with the bike lane, we know they love bikes in
10:28
the Netherlands. I think I would guess near the Netherlands. So you would guess near the Netherlands, but on the German side, you think? Because you correctly identified that we have German language
10:36
And also these are the bollards of Germany, which are the black and white ones. There are several similar ones, so this is kind of one of the less helpful ones, but still, these are the German
10:43
variants, so quite nice. Okay, epic. I reckon that is enough for us to lock something in. I would say
10:48
So let me guess here. I'm going to plunk myself. There. We both went for the border strategy
10:58
But you were slightly closer, fair play. We're getting a really nice variety of rounds, aren't we
11:03
And this one's a pretty spectacular one, right? Whoa. Look how the landscape is
11:08
Look at these mountains. Got a little child waving at us. Okay, so what are you thinking here
11:13
When you see kind of black children walking along the road, that generally symbolizes it somewhere in Africa
11:19
That's a pretty good observation. I mean, like using people in Geoguess that can be very beneficial
11:23
It's no doubt about it. We do have sun action here. There's no clouds in the sky. So that's pretty useful as well, I would say
11:27
Ah, so it is actually Southern Hemisphere then. We've already narrowed down our options quite a lot
11:33
with just that little glance at the sun and glance at the people. Another thing is that in Southern Africa
11:38
and it's quite hard to tell right here, but maybe if we'd move down the road, we can see it more
11:42
They'll use yellow lines on the outside. So when I mentioned like kind of white lines being like really common in the middle in Africa
11:49
they will also sometimes have yellow ones on the outside, particularly in the Southern African countries of Lesotho, South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana
11:56
They're the ones that have coverage. We can't see a side of the road just because there's no traffic
12:00
That's right. I mean, I can tell what side of the road we're driving on because of the Google car here
12:05
That's the back of the Google car. Ah, so this little bit gives away that it's the back
12:09
Yeah. So driving on the left. So that's generally one of the countries that was kind of controlled by the UK
12:13
Is that correct? 100% correct. And all the four countries I mentioned down here were indeed controlled by
12:18
the UK at one stage. So Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, they're all driving left. They
12:23
all have the yellow outer lines. But now it's a case of narrowing it down from these like four or
12:28
five. I don't think we're going to come across any information here that's going to really help us
12:32
that much. I feel like it's more just about knowing the landscape here. The whole country
12:36
of Lesotho, which is where we are, is mountainous. It is very cold looking. The mountains are bare
12:41
in Lesotho. They don't have any trees on them. None of the other southern African countries have this landscape. It's an incredible landscape, isn't it? Oh, it's so beautiful. Look at all the horses
12:49
Oh yeah, a lot of the animals just kind of roam free in Lesotho, which is pretty cool as well
12:52
Oh, that's a good point as well. They're very distinctive yurt huts here, these round huts
12:56
You get them in South Africa as well, but pretty much those two countries, you'll see them most of
13:00
the time. Now that we know it's Lesotho, is there full coverage in this country? Lesotho has full
13:04
coverage for the whole country. All the yellow roads are covered, as well as many white ones
13:08
It's drier in the kind of left side and inside the mountains on the right
13:13
It's quite green. So yeah, it's probably not in the west this time, I would suggest. Although it could be
13:17
All right. Well, I'm going to lock in my guess then. Let's do it. Oh, look at that
13:24
3636. That must have been a tiny, tiny little bit further away
13:29
Right. Okay. We can zoom in and we can see the text that I do not know the name of
13:34
That'll show that we're probably over here somewhere. This kind of area is what I would assume off the bat
13:39
I would definitely agree. I would definitely agree. Good. So I would assume that the yellow registration plate would signify something
13:46
Yellow on the back there. Can you think of another country that does yellow on the back? Does the UK do yellow on the back
13:51
UK is yellow on the back, white at the front. This is the same in this country. But I reckon this is not UK
13:55
No. We also have a very censored out car. That's like overly censored out
14:00
That's also good. Good tip. I like how I know these things are tips, but I don't know what the tips signify
14:04
Geoguester at the end of the day it's a geography knowledge game and it's also a
14:08
memory game about how much can you can remember about the world and about the
14:12
Google cars and all of that kind of stuff. This big blur is kind of what we
14:16
call the crap cam it's like the kind of lower quality camera which they've been
14:19
releasing in certain countries and it's particularly common in this country where we are right now. But I want to zoom in on the language because I think
14:26
you've identified that it's South Asia yeah you can see what the people look like you can see what the landscape looks like let's see if you can match up
14:32
this language with what you can see on the map because google will actually show you the different
14:36
languages in the different regions and they are reliable so for example in bangladesh every name
14:41
of the town has a line at the top right that's sanskrit that is like kind of the north and indian
14:46
and bangladesh language we can see that whatever we're reading here does not have a line at the top
14:50
so we can rule those two out we can head towards myanmar and i mean i suppose it's somewhat similar
14:56
but i don't think it's the same is it yeah in burmese they have these huge kind of big like
15:00
C shapes, which, yeah, we don't have here. Not to mention that Myanmar does not have Street View coverage
15:05
That would also rule that one out. But then we head towards Thailand, and it's starting to look more similar
15:11
Thai definitely does look more similar, but still not quite there. I agree, because the kind of shape of the characters here is it varies much more in Thai
15:20
whereas in the language we're reading right now, it's kind of the same shape every time. So I'll tell you, Jack, we are in India
15:25
We're reading one of the local Indian languages here, which is very helpful to know
15:30
Ah, so different parts of India have kind of different scripts and languages, of course
15:34
So as I said, in the north they have the line on the top. Yeah, that's a rule that out. It pretty much only happens there
15:38
Is it more this kind of language? Not the one you're looking at right now, but yeah, this area
15:42
And they all look fairly similar here. The most distinctive thing about this language is the little flourishes
15:48
Can you see how on the top of like five or ten of the letters in this one, they have like a circle kind of hook at the top that kind of flourishes up into the right
15:55
That is the most distinctive thing about the language. Oh, I see one hook here
15:59
See if you can see any more in that language. Oh, I see some more here. This is indeed the language we're looking for
16:04
This is Kannada. Kannada, right, okay. So it pretty much only goes in the state of Kannadaka
16:08
so we know where they're. Ah, right, okay, yes. And then you can just follow the borders
16:12
around this whole area. Exactly. Like, the language in India is the number one tip. Yeah, I definitely did not take too long to spot that at all
16:18
Okay, so we basically know that from that, it's somewhere around this whole region here, isn't it
16:22
Exactly right. It looks kind of outskirts of a city area, doesn't it
16:26
I could agree. I'm honestly not quite sure where in Kanatika this would be so your guess is probably about as good as mine at this stage
16:32
Well in that case, good luck to you. Yep. Okay. Let's make our guesses. I was thinking maybe around here. Oh
16:36
I guessed in the wrong state. You guessed in the wrong line. Oh my gosh
16:45
Hubali that's the first place that I spotted with the correct little air symbols. That was a good fortune. Okay, here we go
16:51
Oh, this is a difficult one. We are in the middle of nowhere here So let's just move around here because there's not too much to say off the bat. I'll try going
16:57
this way because, uh, yeah, we've got some more action going on. Okay. We have cows walking about
17:02
So that would suggest to me perhaps somewhere around India again That actually a good inference Like in India you always just see cows chilling around the place but this is not India
17:12
Oh, we have two things here. Two great tips. Number one, we see a yellow license plate on this truck
17:19
which we'll come back to later. Number two, and the bigger thing here, is we have a yellow diamond sign on the right-hand side of the road here
17:26
and it is set up for right-hand drive. So we know the drive on the right
17:30
So we'll keep that yellow plate in mind, and let's keep moving down the hill. Oh, here we go. Ooh, wait
17:34
This could actually be quite a good clue. Almost certainly have the name of the city
17:38
on that license plate there, but can't quite read what it is. TBL
17:42
But we might be able to get the language here, potentially. Oh, and then there's something on the top as well
17:47
It also says TBL there. Can you zoom in on the top? Maybe it has the town name
17:51
It does. Palermo. That's a big city in Italy, but this is not Italy. Look at this guy, by the way. No
17:57
God, they just vanished. Why do they just keep disappearing off to so quickly? They are whizzing up that hill
18:02
Whoa, look at that little thing there. I don't know how much I want to get you into the antenna stuff
18:06
because this one's a very useful one. So maybe I should. Do you want me to drop the law on the antenna here
18:11
Yeah, drop the law. This one is called the stubby antenna, okay
18:15
So you're going to have to get used to a few antennas. If we do this again, I'll introduce you to a lot of them
18:18
This guy, he always has like a ridge on it. So if you zoom in all the way, you can see that there's kind of like a thing wrapping around him
18:24
Yeah, it'll always kind of look like this. This stubby antenna guy is the Latin American antenna
18:29
and it's only found in Latin America. Specifically, our options here are
18:33
Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil. They're the four countries that have the stubby
18:38
Okay, so it's quite a fair distance between those. Yeah, that's true, but at least it's something
18:42
Yeah. But there's only one country out of the four that uses yellow license plates like we saw
18:47
So do none of these smaller Central American countries have the little stubby antenna
18:51
Yeah, that's right. So most of them don't have coverage. Guatemala, Panama, and soon Costa Rica and Nicaragua will
18:57
but they don't have the stubby. Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil. Well remembered. I wonder if I will remember that in 10 minutes time
19:03
I think I will, you know. Right, well, I'm heading down here, but I feel like I don't know how much more info
19:07
I'm going to stumble upon in this kind of region. Well, we could get the language because in Brazil, they speak Portuguese
19:12
and I could tell you how to distinguish those two. Okay, yeah. Let's find a sign and then we'll make our guess
19:17
Ah, that's not a very helpful sign. Every single sign has been like shot at
19:21
If it wasn't for the little stubby antenna, I would have been tempted by somewhere like Bolivia here
19:26
I think. there's places in Bolivia that look almost exactly like this. Shall I just reveal where the yellow plates are found
19:31
Yes. I'll reveal that the yellow plates are easily most common in Latin America
19:35
easily most common in Colombia. It's pretty much the only plate in the country that has yellow license plates
19:40
That might be helpful to remember because obviously the Colombian flag has that big chunk of yellow
19:44
So that might be the new monarch that I can use to remember that. Very good. I like that. I think you're actually going to remember that one, Jack
19:49
Next time you film a Gio Sevilla outside of this, I think you're going to remember that
19:52
I think you're right. So we were near a city called Palermo. I have no idea what that is, but I will just make my guess and find out where Palermo is
20:00
I will guess, uh, up here. You've gone up. I'm going to go a little bit further down
20:09
Oh, and it was the right move. Nice. Yeah, there we go. There's Palermo
20:13
So yeah, Yellow Knight, License Plates, Darby Antenna. Two great ones to remember there. Ooh, I'm very glad this came up
20:19
I'm very glad this came up. All right, we've got some white lines. Nice. Driving on the..
20:24
Ooh, well, it might be a dual carriageway. I don't know. No, we're driving on the right. I guess sometimes you have to be careful of them
20:29
like, overtaking the Google car. But we can see off to the northwest that there's the yellow car and the white car
20:34
They're driving opposite directions. So yeah, it is grand driving. We've got the sun in, ooh, kind of just in the west
20:40
If it's just in the west, that probably means it's around midday. So I wouldn't really trust it
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And it's also behind a cloud. So you know what I said, don't trust the cloud. Kind of ignore it unless you can see it directly
20:48
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm just going to teach you exactly how to recognize this country. There are several countries
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where they've done all kinds of different coverage. Like in America, they've driven like 20 different types of Google car
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right there, right? However, in this country, there is only one type of Google car
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and it will always have a cheeky tip. So if you look down at the Google car here
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you can see it's got the rear view mirror at the front and everything, blah, blah, blah. And then there's a roof rack that's holding up the camera
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and on the roof rack, there is a black tape. It's always on the right front black tape
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that you only get that in this country and it's always Ghana
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That's an incredible little clue, with that little bit of black tape. It is honestly one of the strongest clues
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in the whole game. I don't really need to use it anymore because I know what Garner looks like. But for a new player
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it is completely overpowered. Black star on the flag. Black tip. Oh, Jack, you're cooking
21:35
I've never even heard anyone say that, but that's great. I got to get you along for when I'm training
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so you can give me more mnemonics. I really hope Garner comes up again. Okay, I'm going to get stuck here
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Right, I'm going to go. I'm going to go right there. Oh, nice
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more so towards the middle of the country, but yeah, Ghana, super free. You just have to remember to check the card
21:56
Okay, this one off the bat, once again, looking kind of, it looks recognizable to me
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in terms of it being United Kingdom. So it's going to be kind of that area that we hopefully discussed previously
22:07
in maybe Northern Europe. So these hedgerows, these, I would say, particularly Ireland, UK, and France
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are the three countries where you're going to see them the most. Right, so you're right. This is a very familiar landscape
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because it's one of those three countries. I can say that for certain. As soon as you come to some clues, you're going to know what country it is
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I'll have a look about it. Do we have the house? It's not made of red bricks, which is interesting. Yes, I need to remember that one
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Well, at the moment, I would kind of just think about maybe Southern France, but I will look for more clues first
22:33
We have a little bit of text. Can't quite make it out, though. It's very rural here
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Not much going on. Yeah, a lack of signage. Okay, stop at the gate. Stop at the gate. Stop at the gate
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There are two countries. I know that there should be one of two. The shape of the gate is actually different between the two countries
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but it's not quite visible here. Shape of the gate. We could probably find another gate, to be honest
22:51
We'll probably pass by one down here. Oh, I see a gate. Does gate mean anything to you
22:54
It does. Okay, that's interesting. I think I'll drop it. We should be in UK or Ireland here
22:59
Right, okay. As you said, it's a familiar landscape. The houses, as well, don't really look French
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In France, you have a lot of stone in the houses, whereas these ones were kind of... They were kind of more smooth-looking, which is more something you see a lot in Wales, Ireland
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Northern Ireland, Scotland as well. Sometimes England, too. And then we have this gate, which doesn't have any rounded edges
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It's perfectly rectangular. Yeah. So that is more the British style. So I think, in theory, and it works most of the time
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this should be Britain. I think we should go and find a license plate because in Ireland, they have white rear license plates
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whereas Britain uses- Yellow, there you go. Yellow ones. Hey, the gate did not lie
23:34
That's good. Looking around, it is very kind of English looking, isn't it
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Oh, final one. Stay exactly where you are and look at this pole with the yellow sticker. This is a great one
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This is such a great tip. The danger of death sign. Yeah, the danger of death sign. In the United Kingdom, they always have
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or most of the time have a guy getting struck by lightning, which you can vaguely see here. Yeah
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And in the Irish version, there's no guy. It's just lightning bolt. Ah, okay
23:55
The UK one is more morbid. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess we can guess then
23:59
We've probably got enough to lock something in. At this point, your guess is probably better than mine
24:03
Yeah. This is going to be embarrassing if you get it closer than me. Okay. My thought was here
24:07
I'm going to guess right about here, but I'm not too sure. I am going to try for..
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Oh, I'm going to try for... here and i'm gonna guess oh look at that i mean they're both good guesses but as i said another
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one that i mentioned earlier england has more red bricks whereas wales and the celtic countries have
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less they have more just like kind of stone or concrete walls okay this is the last round before
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i'm on my own for a round and we see how much knowledge has stayed in my brain okay for this
24:39
round i'll go antarctica so it's about whether you can do 2 000 points of damage to me or not
24:43
Right, okay. Well, we've got the classic double car. Which country do they have double cars with six wheels in
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We've got HR at the bottom, which perhaps means something. I don't really know what that means at all
24:54
I think this is pretty obviously Europe. Yeah. The white lines in these houses. So in Europe, they'll stick these stickers on cars that don't have a blue strip
25:01
so that they can travel internationally. So that is the country code. This little sticker, a round sticker with two letters, will be the country code
25:07
Ah, so does that literally mean that we're in, what's that, Hungary? Well, it literally means we're in the country with HR, but Hungary, I think is HU, so..
25:15
Oh no! Not Hungary. Well, I'll keep looking while I try and work that. Okay, so they do have the blue strip
25:19
And look, another HR here. And they do have the HR. Look at the double thing again. I guess it's not so easy to take 360 degree photos
25:25
There's lots of glitches. It's quite a flat looking country, this one as well. It is very flat
25:29
This country is not always so flat, but yeah, this part is. Whoa, look at that house
25:33
That's really modern. And look at the pink one, Lannis, as well. Oh I like that one I have no idea what language that is Yeah not an easy one Off the bat But we know they like football Yep and we know they drive on the right as well which I don think we pointed out yet They drive on the right Good observation We have another sign to take a look
25:47
at. Oh, it's the same thing again. All right, what we got here? Oh my goodness. I don't know if we're
25:52
going to get to anything more useful than this. Yeah. If you had infinite time, Jack, you could
25:56
always just go in ahead and kind of compare the languages and find which ones kind of line up here
26:00
Obviously, we know it's probably not Bulgaria or Russia or Ukraine because they would be using
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more Cyrillic, but it could still be one of any of those countries in Eastern Europe which doesn't
26:08
which is most of them. Well, I guess the big lesson here is that knowing the domains of countries
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so like the equivalent of .co.uk, is really useful because obviously in Ireland, it's IE
26:19
in France, it's FR, and in this country, it is HR. That's probably the hardest one to learn in all
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of Europe. Just because it doesn't match the English translation particularly well. In the
26:29
native language, the country I think is called Hrvatska, but it starts with a C in English
26:33
So I'll probably let you guess from that potentially Croatia then you head's correct. All right, cool
26:37
The west of Croatia is kind of hilly so I would suggest Maybe the other side I'm gonna guess here, right
26:45
I'm gonna go right there Ah, yes, you guess that's okay Wow, you saw that coming right there and look at that
26:59
Check out that skin as well available in the description The dance was just disrespectful
27:05
Yeah, there's no need for that for me. I'm sorry about that. I took in a lot of information there
27:09
I think some of it will stick and I think I'll also miss some really obvious stuff that you have taught me
27:13
I am interested to have a game where I don't get any help
27:17
Okay, let's do that. I would say the main things to remember, driving side, line color, and find the language
27:23
We'll make it one minute per round or one and a half. Yep, okay. And I'll stand still and watch how you go
27:28
but I will not pass judgment. Right, right. I am on my own. I am muted. So, sun, clouds, maybe don't worry about it too much then
27:37
in that case. Oh, this is an interesting one. So, it's not a country we've come across together yet
27:42
I feel like Jack's gonna struggle with getting this. It's Philippines. No lines on the road
27:46
Oh, no. Okay. We have people and motorbikes, though. It's looking kind of South Asian off the
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bat, is what I'd say. UK's thinking Asia. I like it. He suggested find the language. Let's try and
27:57
move around and hopefully do that. Cleamax looks kind of partly English. It is Latin though. Oh my
28:03
God, I can't handle this kind of pressure. Yeah, a lot of it is English, I think actually. Right
28:07
Vietnam's not covered. I remember that. Vietnam, I'd mentioned, does not have Street View, but it's
28:11
a good option because it does use Latin text. I'm stressed about this, you know, I've only got 28
28:15
seconds. So potentially somewhere like Malaysia? I don't know. Malaysia has the Latin script that
28:20
potentially works. I've only got 90 seconds. I mean, Malaysia's a decent guess here. But yeah
28:24
The big thing here is that Philippines drives on the right-hand side of the road and they have concrete roads as well
28:29
I've got 10 seconds left license plates. I can't see I guess we'll just have to go with that
28:34
But i'm not sure how great that's gonna be at all. Let's try it. All right, let's see I mean, that's not too bad. It was philippines philippines and malaysia. They've got similarities. Okay, we have yellow lines in the middle
28:45
Uh, we have a sign down there that I think is definitely going to be worth looking at yellow lines in the middle
28:51
suggests, what's this say? St. John's Historic Church. Belfast Mini Mills Yarn Store. Belfast
28:58
This really looks a lot like Canada to me. It feels really cold. Somewhere in the eastern
29:01
part of Canada here. I wouldn't have thought this was Ireland. It's got the big wide
29:05
roads. Surely he doesn't get spooled by the Belfast here. Nah, don't get sucked into Belfast
29:09
and Ireland. I would have said this was somewhere in the Americas with the big yellow line. And this
29:13
looks American too. Right, fuel service. Oh, this is gonna be a nightmare, isn't it
29:17
Right, I need to look at the plates, don't I? Okay, they don't have a front plate
29:21
So yeah, it's presumably USA or Canada somewhere, right? This is just so much stuff in Geoguester
29:26
He's come across a lot of great clues, but not stuff we really covered because I don't think we had any rounds in North America
29:31
Okay, he's got the single yellow line. That's a really great clue for Canada. Macbeth braw's roofing
29:36
I've got nine seconds. So let's lock in. You'll actually go in the right area here
29:42
Let's go up there. Okay, not too bad. Yeah, it was Canada
29:47
It was all towards Nova Scotia. I mean, do you know, that's okay
29:52
I'm just glad I didn't go with Ireland when I saw Belfast. Next one here. Very interesting
29:56
We're in Japan. Okay, we have white lines, but we do have a yellow line in the middle
30:00
Uh, ooh, look at that script. We're over in Asia somewhere. We're by the sea
30:04
I need to try and match this script with one of these countries. Oh, gosh. I think Jack's gonna get it right
30:09
I think Japan's pretty recognizable. We know China doesn't have coverage. Indonesia is the wrong kind
30:15
So, could it be Taiwan? Is that quite Chinese? Is it more Korean potentially
30:20
I want him to go down the road a bit here and check it out a bit more. Let's keep looking around and let's have a look at the plates too
30:25
Right. We've got white plates. We're driving on the left. They drive on the left in Japan
30:30
Any clues around here? Okay, I've got 20 seconds. So I need to kind of work out
30:33
Are we going to say that's Korean or are we going to say that's Japanese
30:37
Yes, a Korean has lots of circles inside the characters. Japanese doesn't
30:41
So he's finally looking at the right country here. I like it. No, it doesn't really have the circles
30:45
So I'm going to go with, I'm gonna go around here towards Tokyo. Goes Tokyo
30:49
Beautiful guess. And it was Japan. Good. Okay, we should have one round before Zigzag dies
30:55
because he's not playing. He's just spectating. Oh, this is a different one
30:59
Right, I've got... Oh, where's me bit of black tape for Ghana
31:05
Perfect jack and good student. Very dry and barren in this country
31:09
This kind of, to me, looks like Chile with this kind of crazy landscape
31:13
Where is the sun? The sun's over in the south. Is that the south? Yeah, the sun's in the south, so it's northern hemisphere, so I guess that means it isn't chilly
31:22
Look at the mountains. We have got, like, proper full-on mountains over there with snowy peaks on the horizon
31:27
Are we gonna get any signs? I'm potentially thinking we are not getting any signs
31:31
We might be in trouble, and I might just have to guess based on what I've got so far
31:34
What do we have here? We have horses. I don't know where this is. Look at it
31:38
The sun's definitely in the north, so I don't want to go with chilly
31:42
We don't have any road lines as well, so that kind of throws me off. Well, Jack's screen chair has died here
31:48
I'll tell you guys a little bit here. We got this gray silver car with the rear view mirrors and with the roof rack
31:53
That one is specific to Kyrgyzstan, which is, you know, quite a unique country to have a Google Street View car for it
31:59
I don't know where to go. I'm really not sure. We got horses. Go Mexico
32:03
Dry bit of Mexico. Where was it? It was. Where is it
32:07
Ah, it was Kyrgyzstan. Right. Oh, I've still got another round. Because I did so badly, it's because I didn't lose enough health
32:14
Cool. Uh, we have yellow lines in the middle with white lines
32:19
That was a specific rule. I think that means it's the Americas. Yes, it does, because there's a US flag
32:24
That car is epic. It looks like Dwight's car from the office. Yeah, this feels like the American South
32:29
Maybe I'll have a bit of fun and guess Alaska. And if he's closer than me, he might eliminate me
32:32
I wonder if we can find anywhere that'll take us somewhere specific in the US
32:36
Because obviously the US is so massive that you can still lose a lot of points. Well, look at all that rubbish
32:41
What's that about, guys? Yeah, that's sorted out. We find a sign, do you think, in time
32:45
Step. Cool. But yeah, I mean, this is like very typical Southern US
32:53
These pine trees, especially. They have lots of pines in the South. 20 seconds
32:57
Obviously, we know it's USA. I'd probably go similar region to that other one
33:01
like around here, but I don't know. I will go Anchorage, Alaska here and see if Jack can get a better guess within the US
33:09
Oh, Zigzag's guess somewhere. Interesting. All right, let's see. I don't know. uh oh he went up in alaska but it was down in mississippi
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i had a few okay guesses there you did actually i was particularly happy with the japanese because
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you used one of the techniques we talked about yes compared i did you came to the right conclusion
33:31
you're like a proud father watching over me and i also saw you check for the garner tape which is
33:36
great yeah i was really sad it wasn't there i mean i'm so glad when i saw the belfast one that i
33:42
didn't go to Ireland. I did mention that you might do that. It was just the Kyrgyzstan one that I just
33:46
felt totally unprepared for. I did not know what sort of things to look out for. I very much
33:50
appreciate all of your assistance there. I definitely did take some stuff in. It's kind of
33:54
about, like you say, just ruling a few things out off the bat with looking at colors of road lines
33:59
and the type of text. So that is definitely going to help me and I will keep practicing. Thank you
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very much for your help, Oscar. Do appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me, Jack. It's been
34:07
a blast. I'm glad I could teach you some things. Just remember the white road lines and the yellow
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ones that's what i want you to take away from today okay that's what i'll focus on
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