Geoguessr - An Urban World - No Moving Around #13 - An Incredible Game [PLAY ALONG] 

Funny British RU-vid Map Man Pinpoints Exact Location of Strange M on Hillside

*deep breath* “look, the Vein clinic” I jump outta my seat “I’m just joking” I get sad again

Nobody: GeoWizard: Sees an "M" on a Hill and zooms straight into Missoula, Montana

When people ask what I'd want with me if I was stranded on a desert island I'm gonna say GeoguessrWizard cos it would take him about 3 minutes to find out exactly where we are

A place in Belgium that looks like a dump is obviously Charleroi

29:16 There's 74RU. So if you see cyrillic and RU (or RUS) somewhere you should choose Russia. 74 is a region of Chelyabinsk for your future guesses.

it's not an m for montana or for missoula, necessarily, it's an m for the university of montana! dude. sick game. and my home town in there no less. rock on.

"Bunbury... We'll start at Brisbane" Me: uh oh

Foreigners must be disappointed when they go to LJ Hooker and all they get is a mortgage lol

I saw Salvador the first time you zoomed in to Brazil and I was screaming at my phone!

Let me know the story of your game. Was it heartbreaking or emphatic? You know where that like button is too chums x

Let's all appreciate that he found that spot in Belgium off of his knowledge of beer companies and one French sign. This guy is a god.

You can learn to read Cyrillic in an hour or so. I did it myself. You don't need to speak Russian but you can then identify and spell places. Please do that.

I'll give you some Brazil tips: - There's a public phone down the street that says "Oi" in it. That's a Brazilian company - Bradesco is a Brazilian bank, they are all over the country. - License plates have 3 letters and 4 numbers and they are gray (although they've changed recently) - Citroen, Honda, Fiat, Ford, Chevrolet, Renault, Peugeot are super common here Well Park, estacione bem, "estacione bem" can be roughly translated to "park nicely" or "well parked", I wouldn't notice this horrible pun if you didn't mention it.

You had me curious so I went to google maps to check out the sign you thought said Medeira. It says "Soc Edade Brasileira De Cancerologia" But yea, impossible to read from angle you had.

When you zoomed into Missoula initially, you overlooked the marker that said "The M" :p

Tbh you should get a patreon. I know you have a lot of loyal subscribers and I think it will help your channel a lot also improving the quality of the videos.

madeira is portugal so it does have the EU plates.

Dude please learn the difference between Ukrainian and Russian letters it will help you in those rounds. If you see this: и, an upside down N it's most likely Russia or Belarus but if you see a normal i or i with two dots mixed with the Cyrillic it's Ukraine. Bonus info: if you see this letter: ъ in most words its Bulgaria.

I appreciate you uploading on a consistent basis... I love all these game modes you do

Ugh, so close to a perfect score this time! I got 5000 points in the first four rounds with pretty much the same thinking as the Wizard, of course along with searching the map quite a bit, especially in the first round! I even managed to get Chelyabinsk correct, as I think the name of the city is barely readable in Cyrillic as the last word on the plate on the side of the truck that is parked nearby (at least you can kind of see the initial "Ч..." and the "...инск" ending, that is...) With the vein clinic nowhere to be seen on the map though, I didn't get the exact location... 24971 points it is, then!

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'VE DONE THIS! your vids alway cheer me up. you got a great personality.

I totally knew the last one. You could see a graffiti on the wall of that VEIN CLINIC which has number 74 painted there. 74 is a region code for Chelyabinsk oblast' where I was born and raised. It's rarely used outside Chelyabinsk city though so it was a safe bet to say it was indeed Chelyabinsk :)

In case you were wondering, that ‘M’ on the mountain is an M for the University of Montana. It is very common for colleges in the US to put there school’s logo on a mountain if it is on campus.

As a brazilian I was freaking out with the idea of Salvador being written in his face and he wasn't getting it

Doing these maps in 2021 makes it quite different, since most of the pictures are updated and don't have the same "hints". Still fun though!

10:14 I spotted that accelerated “Down Under” instrumental, well played ;)

Doing these in 2021 while google has updated their streetview pictures isn't the same. Missing clues makes it a lot harder :(

rd. 1: 4560 I guessed Riems, not terrible by my standard. rd. 2: 5000 i recognized the Holden before i saw the .au very lucky to find the city, easy once found. rd. 3: 49 I was convinced it was the african part of Spain. not enough to go on at least for me. cant believe you got this. rd. 4: 2884 I went for Eugene OR, was thinking Bend also. Very Hard. Haunting to watch you start it after working on it for 15 min. rd. 5: 971 I guessed Crimea because I figured it was southern and not in the eu. fantastic. first time trying hard at this, pretty fun to play along. got a 13464.

I know this video is old, but the map is slightly different now. The first one is on the next street over, and in the second one, theres a tree blocking the "bunbury" sign.

So I'm watching but mainly listen to this video and I hear him say what's with the M? I look up and I see my home town so I rewind a little to watch from the beginning and not only is that my home town but that me in the black SUV. The M is for the University of Montana

1 - I looked so much for Boulevard Tirou. Charleroi was literally my first thought and the first city i looked at. I even looked at french cities near the border and Luxembourg too. Looked at every major city of Belgium with french named roads. Couldn't find it. Was split up between Charleroi, Mons and Brussels for my final decision, it didn't look as much as a such major city but Brussels had more Boulevards and smaller ones that i could miss so ended up going there. 4825 points. 2 - Found Bunbury literally as i zoomed in for the first time in Australia. Looked for churches in Bunbury but ended up finding it through the Australian Post. 5000 points. 3 - Looking around the south coast of Salvador. Looked better where the direction of the roads correlated. Was looking for Moura (which i thought it was an hotel) and for the bank. Found Tecidos Moura pretty quickly. 5000 points. 4 - No idea whatsoever. Went somewhere in Yukon. 1163 points. 5 - Went for Bulgaria. Completely off xD 593 points Yeah, those last two rounds were rough. 16581 points

I got overly excited when I got dropped into Missoula. I've been there so many time I recognized it right away.

It's such a relief coming back home and having a video of yours to watch

The first round blew my mind, there was only the name of street and some words in French xD It could be everywhere! OK, all these rounds blew my mind xD You are epic! There is nothing around and you have 5000/5000 xDDD 27:30 OK, I'm dead. I'm really now like" WHAT? WHAT THE FUCC? WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT? DA FUCC?"

You can tell the difference between Russian and Ukrainian because Ukrainian uses the letter i, while Russian does not.

GeogessrWizard? More like GeogesserGod

A lot of towns in the western US have a prominent letter on the mountainside. Often it's the high school name (might be named after the town), or a local college. For example, Gunnison, Colorado has a big "W" which stands for Western Colorado University. Golden has a big "M" for the Colorado School of Mines.

Very entertaining video as always. Nice funny details in editing, top quality commentary, incredible geo knowledge, football references. Favourite RU-vidr mate, keep going.

Man.. that Salvador one was amazing.. As a BR I was utterly disappointed when you went to Madeira island but things took a turn. Props for being open minded and not stubborn.

Playing this 3 years later, and half the signs on the Australian one are covered by trees ): Was unable to find it

4:09 i think you mean "incroyable"

That Missoula guess blew me away lmao. Mad lad. For future reference, the whole 'big white initials of the town on the side of the hill' gag is a very Western U.S. thing to do, particularly in the intermountain west (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, etc.). You were dead on lol

the fact that this guy can just pull impossible rounds out of his ass is insane, incredibly impressive. Like this guy isn't even american and he just pinpointed missoula with one clue.

I have a good friend from Missoula Montana! I drove through there once and stayed at his mom and dad's place! It was snowy!

For Australia, the only places you’ll find palm trees in abundance, is mid north and far north of the eastern coast, and lower west coast 😄

21:56 Tom "The Westhand Side" Davies

everyone is blown away by the "m" but if you've spent a lot of time in the western US you'll know how common it is for letters to be on hillsides like that. I guessed Missoula immediately after seeing it.

Of course Perth is further north than Newcastle, it's in Scotland and Newcastle's in England. :P

Rounds 1 & 5 were tough for me, but I still ended up with 20,210 pts. My many trips to Montana payed off finally!

29:23 "She's giving that girl a fronty" XD

So basically, what I was thinking was- ouh 06:36

if you get a location youve been to before, do you just start again or do you take the easy 5k?

"Lots of boulevards here. Well, there's one at least" Cracking stuff mate. Love these vids. 👍

19098 total for me, the best I've done on one of these challenges 1. Guessed Mets, France. 4362 2. City was obvious, didn't spend a lot of time looking for the exact place. 4995 3. Same as above. 4996 4. Had a shocker here. Just had a quick glace and decided on Jordan, with not much though behind it. 2 5. Genuinely didn't have a clue, clicked a random spot near the Kazakhstan border and got very lucky. 4743

I got 21,710 - got the first four rounds dead on (4999 in Belgium, though, which was annoying), but Russia. There’s just too much of it, man. I think I eventually clicked somewhere on the outskirts of Moscow just to get it over with, but I had no idea. Good game! You’ll get 25k one of these days.

Hey let’s go! I am from Missoula, been playing this game for about a month but have never gotten it.. Great job!

As a resident of Madeira, I was kinda happy to see you zoom on it, but what a relief that you finally gave up on that train of thought and went back to Brazil, phew! I was thinking "don't do it, man, don't do it" the whole time.

A tip to distinguish between Ukrainian and Russian: Ukrainian has the letters i, ї, and є (and I mean in cyrillic - if you see a "vein aesthetic clinic", none of those i's matter at all); Russian has э, ъ, and ы, which looks like two letters but is actually one letter (in the scenario that you'll see Ukrainian writing containing ьї - two separate letters btw - you can tell it apart by the dots). Ukrainian is also far more likely to contain the ' symbol inside a word.

In the last round, can one tell me why the ‘L’ is shaped like a Greek lambda? Is that another way to write Л?

Doing play-alongs 2 years later is a bit of a trip. The sign with Tirou was taken down, as was the beer thing. I guessed France :(

Excepting the fact that you are the GOD of this game , gotta say that i love your choices of music while you speed up the game , very region appropriate

8:00 this is your second vid iv watched I found you after the crossing wales part one, I clicked on this video and the second location IS THE SAME BLOODY CITY THAT I LIVE IN. It actually made me take a step back I don’t know why it’s that amazing to me but it really has thrown me off

Haha funny I’m sitting in Bunbury Western Australia watching this down the road from the post office the street view is my view right now. Crazy

first round just guessed paris because of French, had no clue, how the fuck you got that I have no idea second: read .au and saw bunbury and figured it out from there, 5000 points third: saw the brazillian flag down the street and saw Salvador on van, originally thought el Salvador but checked brazil and saw Salvador, guessed round that area and got 4978 4. saw the m and guessed great falls montana, 4292 points. how the fuck you got that is insane 5. stuck it in middle of kazan, Russia and got 2877, got 21938, pretty proud to beat tom with only one perfect score tbh

i'll come back when i get more pixels :D 360p club? :D

Salvador is the 4th largest city in Brazil. Seeing the word Salvador along with Portuguese text, the connection should be as immediate as seeing "Manchester" when you're in the UK. I'm glad you finally got it, but if that round were timed you would've been smoked there... BUT THAT MONTANA ROUND!!!! I seriously call hijinks...

I'm kicking myself for giving up on round 1 early. I vaguely remembered Duvel as a Belgian brand and was actually considering Charleroi, but didn't search thoroughly enough and eventually went for Liege. Bummer. I did get Salvador, though, which makes up for most of the disappointment. For me, the standout guess of this round is the one in Missoula. I never would've found that. Absolutely insane.

Salvador, Brazil.... been there for one month... I was working in Angola 1991, month on - month off.... that was one of my month off.... they both speak Portuguese, and it is a shorter flight across, stuff Europe.

Well played. My score: 20429. The imagery for rounds 1 & 3 has changed, making them more difficult to get.

I got 2 of 5 perfect, mixed up the bridge in Missoula. Had no good guess for the Belgian one, and honestly, what the hell were the English words Vein Aesthetic Clinic doing on the side of a building near Kazakhstan?!? 19840 total.

He's only gone and done it.

That first one was insane, that beer is just as popular in France I imagine. I know they have a lot of Belgium beer there

Clicked on this video because I saw Missoula on the thumbnail. Gree up my whole childhood underneath that M, (for the University of Montana) So I had to see the video haha.

It's really unfortunate that three years after this got posted the images/places in the challenge are not 100% the same any more and often vital clues are missing or something written is out of focus. Like the picture taken on another day where the car with the citys name on it is missing (3/5).

1- Saw the french writing, didn't know about the beer however I did get Belgian vibes, however i still went France, lol. Went to Lille, so was only 63 miles away, ( how did you find this, so dumb) 4652 points 2- Knew we were in Aussie bc of the website, and driving on the left, but couldn't find 'Bunbury' anywhere. Obvs didn't look hard enough smh. Went in Sydney because of that cool building lol, got 486 points, 50/50 chance of the coasts really! 3- Saw the Spanish/Portuguese writing, and the coast, but nothing else but the 'Salvador' on the van. Might as well go for El Salvador even though I didn't think we were there, what else is there to go by lol. Might as well risk it even though i HIGHLY doubt the google van can even goes there hahaha. Went south of the capital and yeahhhh was 4000 miles off. Did NOT know Salvador was a place in Brazil, 🤷‍♂️ 55 Points! 4- Literally, NO idea here. I'm not good at this, could be america, spain, scandinavia in my head, literally anywhere tbh, had USA vibes so should have with my instinct, just because of the Baseball stadium. Went Spain and got 0 points surprisingly 5- Saw cyrillic writing or whatever its called and didnt want to go Russia, might as well risk it and go somewhere else. No clues as to what city so went near Kiev and got 1.3k points fair to say you beat me tom, you're just fucking dumb good at this, FROM AN 'M'?????????? fuck this game lool

It took you too long to get salvador on the truck. I saw it in just under 30 seconds, sadly I went for El salvador as a state not a city... :/ 🙁. Anyways great job 👍

This guy just narrowed it down to a single country by recognizing a foreign beer on a blurry sign. He’s the next Sherlock, I’m telling you.

6:37 i can’t believe you’ve done this

THE WAY I WAS SCREAMING AT MY SCREEN AT THE SALVADOR ONE... the brazilian in me died a little but when you finally went there i was relieved lmao. i wish you knew more about brazil! would love to see you explore my country 😊 nice video, 6:36 made me laugh you sounded just like the vine

Can't believe the Missoula one. I never thought I'd see my hometown, let alone be right on my commute. I'm glad you at least got that one.

24240 - Kinda wish I'd tried harder on the first round now. 1) I just went for northern France, didn't have a clue. - 4277 2) Easy one. - 5000 3) Searched for agggges. Convinced myself it was central/south America, but Spanish-speaking. Searched the south-east coast of a lot of places. Then remembered there's an area/city called Salvador in Brazil. Took some searching. - 5000 4) Dropped in, thought 'Ooh that looks like Montana'. Span around 'Hey there's that giant M in Missoula' Thanks to a Hank Green video many years ago. - 5000 5) Searched around for a LOT for cities in/around Russia that had trams. Settled on Chelyabinsk because it had the best fit, and loaads of tramways. Then got frustrated and picked somewhere in the north of the city. (Looking at the map afterwards, it's pretty much impossible. The roads are different, and that clinic I kept searching for wasn't there) - 4963

Well, as a fan of automotive things, the mark 1 vw van looked new because it was produced in Brazil, theyve preduced those until 2010.

I guess on that last one you were..... Searching in vein?

A couple of things - "Madeira" is Portuguese for "Wood" and Funchal looks nothing like that street in Brazil, Funchal is actually very beautiful, typical city centre view in this moveable webcam www.madeira-web.com/en/webcams/ritzmadeira-livecam.html

21721 pts. I was quite proud of my rouund and in fact we had similar ones :) 1. 5000. Saw the french writing, the Duvel sign, the run-down buildings, I immediately thought Charleroi or Namur (I am French), found Boulevard Tirou easily from there. 2. 5000. Looked for Bunbury all around the coast... thought just like you at first that it was in Queenland or on the sunshine coast. Took quite some time but easy enough. 3. 5000. Saw "estacione bem" which is portuguese, and Salvador, went for Salvador de bahia and looked for the something-Moura hotel on the south-east coast. 4. 5000. Instantly had that Spokane vibe, but it looked like a smaller town. That with the 'M' that looked like a university logo, I went upstream from Spokane into Montana, stopped at Missoula because it may have been what the M was for and it had mountains all around, and found that perfectly fitting bridge :) 5. 1721. Gutted when there were no real clues to go by... clicked somewhere in the suburbs of Moscow because the tag with "RU" suggested russia at least. Real interesting round altogether !

As soon as I saw the derelict buildings I said it was Charleroi -- most depressing place I've ever visited

I would really like an episode of you "cheating" your way to a perfect score like using google and etc.

Cars are a great identifier. Pickups etc, America Canada. New European cars, Northern Europe, older Skodas etc Eastern Europe. Holden etc Australia/NZ.

In the Oz round when he sped up the search was the banjo music "Down Under" by Men at Work?

14946 - Did quite poorly on the Russian one, but really screwed the pooch on Salvador - Assumed it was El Salvador / San Salvador. Other than that, pretty happy.

I've been to Missoula, as soon as you dropped there I was like LOOK FOR THE M!!!! and you've gone and done it. Well done mate.

You said run down and Belgium and I though Charleroi . Sorry about that

Having just done the challenge, I'm certain you must have accidentally moved slightly for the Bunbury one. The post office sign is slightly covered from the starting position (which is why I spent an hour scouring through all the Australian towns for correlation), but if I move forward one click, it has the exact view you had

As soon as the second one came up and I saw Bunbury Tower in the background I was set!

I got 2,3,4 right, but guessed 1 as Northern France and 5 as central russia. Barely broke 20k.

New impossible challenge:try and get as close to the location with out zooming the map from the default zoom (Can enlarge the map just no scroll wheel)

The use of "Land Down Under" during the Australia round did not go unnoticed, my friend.

Omg I live in Missoula MT I was yelling the whole time saying where to put your point😂

9:37 That's where I live Caboolture. Look on the map.