GeoGuessr Subscriber Series #10 - Germany! (play along) - can I break 20,000?! 

8:43 significant life hack from a southern German: we ain’t got none of that brick house stuff down here 😂 so (with some exceptions of course as always) brown/red houses = north, predominantly white/yellow/bright houses south 😊

Never bother to find roads with 3 digit numbers. There isn‘t really a system. White on blue signs means Autobahn, black on yellow signs are soused everywhere else. Black numbers on yellow are Bundestrassen. The enumeration doesn‘t have that big of a system, as they were added bit by bit over time. You can say the major ones have single digit numbers, but there are still important ones with double digit numbers. If an Autobahn has an even number it‘s mostly going east-west. If it has an odd number it‘s mostly going north-south. Important clues are phone codes, post codes and general architecture.

Thanks for playing my suggestion! I almost missed it, because YT somehow didnt recommend the video.

the UK has 68 million people while germany has 84 million. so quite a bit bigger. and as a german I didn't feel offended at all :)

"naaaah, she won't find it...absolutely no way...never............😯OK WOW!" Astonished german here. It was fun to watch and play along!

21:44 I would recommend you to always look on the back sides of these welcome signs, they are standardized across the country. On the back side they always show the next place on that road. Or in this case where two communities neighbour each other, it shows the name of the other place directly. In that case ut was Hamburg, very easy to find. So you would have instantly known that you are on the border between Hamburg and it's neighbouring town of Norderstedt and you could have checked for all "border crossings"

Our Adresses not only include the Cityname but also a zipcode which is 5 numbers long, which can be roughly positioned by the first number. East-South uses 0, East-North uses 1 (Berlin is at 10), northwest uses 2, middle uses 3, west-north uses 4, west-south uses 5, saarland and hessen (like middle-south) uses 6, South-West uses 7 and Bavaria (like South-East) uses 8 and 9. How this became to be. Up until the reunification of GDR into BRD, BRD used 4 number zipcodes sorted in sort of a clock-wise manner, after that changed to a 5-number zipcode, where they pretty much kept the original idea. So if you see a zipcode. You can do a pretty wild guess "where to look" ;)

12:15 Yes, it's a big place. Jena is the second largest in the State of Thuringia after the capital Erfurt. The University of Jena, or officially Friedrich Schiller University Jena, is one of the best universities in Germany for humanities. Many famous German writers and philosophers such as Goethe, Schiller, Hegel and so on were students or teachers in this university. The Battle of Jena on 14 Oct. 1806 was a decisive failure of the Prussian Army. As a result of that, Napoleon and his army entered Berlin 13 days later, and finally the treaty in 1807 caused Prussia to lose half of its territory. To make Prussia great again, the Prussian Reform Movement began.

The 1806 thing in Jena was commemorating a Napoleonic War battle there.

Looks like architecture is gonna be key in Germany. You can kind of tell the difference between the alpine houses in R2 to the Belgian-style brick houses in R4 to the Dutch/Danish steep black rooves in R5.

It was fun watching your video, loved how you lucked onto a couple of them !!!

Hi, I was looking for people playing Germany on GeoGuessr and stumbled upon this video. I got 24,340 points with 5Ks in rounds 1, 2 and 5. In round 3 I found out I was close to Jena but because the sign I found was pointing west I mainly looked east of Jena and couldn't find the exact place, and in round 4 I couldn't find the exact road, because of the road name Bahnstraße (=railroad street) I was looking near the railroad but it was much further outside of the city centre. You did very well considering you had no idea what you were doing, good job!! In round 2 I didn't actually find the sign pointing towards the Autobahn (the motorway), I only used the bike road sign pointing towards multiple S-Bahn stations. Because the names sounded Bavarian (the -ing ending is a good clue!) and because of the landscape I looked near Munich and found it. Generally speaking, the signs pointing out blue roads (Autobahnen) mention places really far away, while the yellow signs show places that are nearby, so opposed to Lindau and Landsberg you should have looked for Inning... which you accidentally clicked in without realising it, lol. In round 5 I managed to get the 5K within 29 seconds, the fastest time on the leaderboard so I'm quite proud of that. I'm from Hamburg so I immediately knew it was there looking at the road sign because every place in Germany has its own type of road signs and the Hamburg ones are quite distinct (that plus the architecture), and because I'm a local I knew where Ochsenzoll was so that was a nice quick one.

Love seeing people play the new coverage, the big cities are relatively easy, but 80% of Germany is pretty rural, so this makes it way more challenging and interesting, for us Germans too :D Also, Düren is right around the corner where I grew up, as soon as the round started I thought "that looks familiar" xD

I've just watched @beardyblocks complete the new Germany map. Great video!

That was quite a rollercoaster ride of a game. Great video. :D

XD its so frustrating when u know how jena looks and where it is and u struggeling XD

I am so happy to see that People now also can explore Germany over Street View, it was a long time without it 🥲😂