Does Rainbolt Cheat at Geoguessr? 

Oscar when he fails the geo rainbolt daily challenge:

I think of it like watching a magic show. The reason the audience can believe that it's magic is because they can't put into perspective the insane amount of hours the magician spent on that one trick they just saw over a few seconds.

Please get a 25k for your 25,000th game!

i think it really cannot be overstated that his clips are just that, clips. these aren't just random games he posts. he's playing over and over again until he gets a good seed that is worthy to post.

zi8gzag is the first and only youtuber that i know of to have a warning for youtube’s addictive algorithm in the description. 🙏

In short, any average person would obviously think it’s cheating, but once you learn you simply get the vibe by seeing the landscape, how the road looks, road lines, trees, grass, camera generation, colors etc all at the same time

5:51 For all the talk about banning TikTok, its true crime was the normalization of portrait video.

The editing is really good, great editor and great zi8gzaG

WELP I'd imagine the short answer is, no 😆great editing btw!

The Vivaldi remix in the intro is a thing of beauty

bro just put the hardest classical drill remix in the intro for no reason at all

I replied that Rainbolt is NOT cheating and a guy claimed I "must not understand the scale [of Earth]." Bro thinks Google is omniscient and mapped Somalia or North Korea.

Ok now explain his black and white, inverted, scrambled, blurred, blindfolded, no monitor, sitting in the other room, across the world, whilst holding his breath under water tik toks

That is some great editing! Keep going

Love to see how your channel has grown lately. Good for us, cos you'll be motivated enough to create new content=)

the editing in this is BONKERS

Great video, great editing! Very entertaining!

I actually forget, that when people are watching it on tiktok, they just see 30% of what he sees because of the sites design. Seems even more insane to those who dont realize hes looking at it on a full desktop computer screen, and not a 3X1 inch screen

Nice editing for this video dude

Poisoned went hard af on this one

The black tape is actually present in réunion too, but it's on the back of the car.

W zigzag aura intro (also the rainbolt trap music was fire 🔥)

Minecraft background music 🔥🔥

zigzag got that Rainbolt haircut.

Thank you zig8zag, great video and great editing as well! :)

You are defiantly an underrated youtuber man, keep up the mad content, love from a fellow Australian

5:55 cracked screen protector spotted.

The way you structured and ‘marketed’ this entire video is SO fucking clever. What a genius 👏 legend

That Vivaldi remix was a banger

love the new style of editing

Great editing in this one :)

that edit is fire wth

this editing is fire

GREAT choice of background music!

based vivaldi drill enjoyer

Edit is fire, music is fire, video is fire. This should end up being a top 5 viewed video on the channel

Any recommendations for guides to getting better at Geoguessr? Ones that will give you very particular information like you did - for example, the black tape on the end of the roof rack being unique to only Ghana. That's all so fascinating to me. Do you all figure it out individually by trial and error and just a huge amount of exposure through playing games, or is there a database of clues that can be learned right away? Great video.

2:25 You have Yellow City signs in Germany as well.

nice editing oscar! you're insane

Dude, nice work on the editing here. Did you edit this yourself? From one RU-vid video editor to another, major props. 🙌

Amazing music choices!

here before the title makes the video blow up

Ur daily uploads are a blessing

Great Video! i think you deserve way more views and subscribes!

Man your teeth are so perfect. Not sure what you gonna do with this information but I had to say it. Anyway I love when your breakdown other persons guess like this video, very informative.

The fact that you played together while sitting next to each other is enough evidence that he does not cheat tbh.

Commented this on an older video, but thought it might be more useful on your newest one: I dig the style you're doing with these videos. Maybe just a wee tip, you might want to mimic the style Wirtual uses with his main channel (would definitely take more editing but it will grow your audience exponentially, and I'm all for that)

great video, I just think you should change the thumbnail to say "cheater?" with a question mark. plain "cheater" sounds like an accusation

I think this questioning of .1 second gameplay is typical for a broader problem. Many people (I guess myself included, at times) try to explain away things they do not think they can achieve themselves. Be it saying that Usain Bolt or Magnus Carlsen are superhuman or that .1 second Geoguessr is likely cheated. The huge problem I have with that is that it completely discredits the hard work and dedication of others. Be it the tough training routine (including intense work on your own mental) by Bolt or Carlsen, or the 100k games played by Rainbolt. Give these people some actual respect for what they do! Of course, your video wonderfully demonstrates how to properly question outlandish achievements: trying to understand and emulate them.

I always find it hard to explain to people how it's impressive what geoguessr players do, but that it's not the same as if you just dropped them in a genuinely random location, and how there are lots of photo metas, location metas, and vibes based on likelihood of a location. This is a good video to explain it, great job 😊

Bro cooked with the intro.

whoa i guessed Iceland too, its quite distinctive :)

whaaaaat? you are friends? I just waisted 16 mins of my life hoping for drama! No, fr, keep up the great content and all the best for the WC qualifier! I would really love an explanation for the pixelated black white stuff, especially with things like only looking at the sky. I don't think it is cheated of course, but having played around 400 games, I really cannot fathom how that would work

I need that violin bass at the start name

Mustachiolo punching the air rn

also insane editing

intro music is heat

As someone who has streamed Geo. My heart sank slightly when I read the title. I’ve never suspected Rainbolt as I know. If you are that good. You can be that good. I’m so glad this video didn’t go the way I feared. Keep up the great work 💪❤️

And it's not just tens of thousands of games played, it's also countless hours of studying maps, metas, others' gameplay, and community knowledge, etc. Someone else likened it to to sleight of hand magic: skill, practise and knowing your audience.

6:20 and Reunion but Reunion have it on the bar facing the back compared to ghana facing the front :)

All of the pro-player probably have some form of eidetic memory. Furthermore if you look at how they play 0.1sec its almost always by looking at the middle of the screen, its just peripheral vision. The images lingers inside the short term memory for a couple of seconds and its possible for them to remember details without actively looking at them. Anyway I think its great that Oscar is honest about them grinding for hours sometimes to get that highlight. Its not like they get that every single round. Still not sure how blinky is doing that, remembering millions of small details, locations, phonecodes, etc. must be one insanely gifted human. Would be interested to see a video of oscar explaining some of the 25k blinky got.

petition to get zigzag to 100k

Get Zigzag’s editor an Oscar ASAP

We _all_ (most of) know that Rainbolt isn't cheating, but we still clicked on video :D

The video we have all been waiting for

this video goes crazy bro 🎉🙏😎

Here's how I'd describe it. He really is incredibly good, but there's a lot that makes it seem a lot more impressive than it is if you don't already know about it.

Nice video this, should push you up to 100k subs I reckon

I used to immediately assume he was cheating, especially when he was first releasing those shorts where he finds shit in like .2 seconds or used the dumbest tricks. And then he started doing it live, and I finally understood this dude had skills.

more educational content mr zigzag 💪💪

Can anyone link that map coverage at at 3:58

7:30 it is actually west

i think the more you play the easier it gets. some countries are ridiculously easy as well though, like iceland. even i got that and i am a noob. thank you for your videos mate

I already knew the answer was no but you know i clicked the clickbaity title anyway. Glad i did because i actually learned a lot (like I normally do on a zi8gzag video). 👏

Deserves more love 😢

We need this 1vs1

With a little bit of knowledge about the game (locations and how maps work), it's very clear he doesn't cheat lol. Good explanations.

He sometimes displays images with coloured boxes/lines overlayed. That is a military imint ai.

2:11 is from Slovenia where i live lol :)

thank you zigzag for exposing this cheater. i have called the cops on him

Very well made video

You forgot to mention that alot of his clips are on ADW, an easy map. And he also zooms out instantly to make the guess look better than it was.

People just forgot how a lot of people put a lot of effort to study this kind of thing and also memorize and internalize geohints.

This is gonna be a good video.

Amazing video again

I see Rainbolt not entering competitions or being competetive top Geoguessr player like, those guys who make "throw the ball into the cup" vines with 1000+ takes aren't faking it. There's no sneaky trickery going on, but they're not going to join a live competetive 'accurate ball throwing' competition

This is the most explaining youve done in a long time, and its not even on geoguessr explained...

2:15 bro said the first thing he sees are the HOUSES

Mentioning the bestie bias, iconic

using the shadow on this car... XDDD

100k subs before 2025 🤞

Ayo!! Rainbolt making videos about Rainbolt cheating in Geogessr!!!!

beat in the intro goes hard i dont care bout nothin else

Interesting vid, but it needs a brief intro explaining actually why people think Rainbolt might have cheated and if there are any genuine major accusations against him. From the title and without a proper intro I was expecting this vid to then be news of some recent accusations or controversy that has just appeared and made zi8gzag weighing in with his thoughts necessary. Also, someone viewing this video for the first time without any prior knowledge of who Rainbolt even was would have been completely lost and confused for the first 5 mins of the vid as well as who he is and what he does is given scant mention.

Was not expecting his most viewed video to have 5m views

13:38 I think the raw probability is a little better than that. Firstly, the first one of the 5 doesn't really count as you wouldn't play through the game if you got it wrong on the first one you would just start again immediately so it's really just about getting 4 in a row which is something like 1/400,000. Each go would take about 30 seconds so this would take over a year to get if you did it for around 8 hours per day and you had literally no skills whatsoever. It's not hugely relevant however (other than setting a kind of worst case scenario, maximum length of time) as he is not making a random choice as he is actively trying to achieve 5/5 so it depends more on how good can someone get at identifying mud. An analogy: For example, if I had a bag with 96 blue balls and 4 red balls and you could look in the bag, you could easily identify a red ball 5/5 times every time even though the random odds are 1/400000 of getting 5 in a row. This is because you would be able to identify a red ball every time without fail. Seeing a picture of mud is like looking in the bag and it's just a question of how good can you get at identifying the country and the better you get the more massive the changes. If he gets to being right 1/10 times (as opposed to random chance 1/24), that massively improves the overall chance to 1/10000 and the required time to about 10 days (working 8 hours per day). If he gets to being right 1/5 times, it would take about 5 hours. You managed to get 4 in 5 when playing so I think it is very realistic that he did that 5/5 identifying countries by the mud legitimately and I think if you wanted to get 5/5 then you would get it comfortably in under 5 minutes (if you reset after you get the first one wrong).

Great video

Just that two locations are on the same latitude doesnt mean that they have the same climate

Obviously not.

5:16 Fun fact: i live in Rome and that place guessed wrong near rome actually looks like a narrow road next to a lake called "Lago di Nemi". Very impressive