Had a blast with this one but definitely didn’t have my best day at the office. Never played along before and always wondered if you could beat me? Now’s your chance! Drop a like and subscribe so you don’t miss any Geoguessr or upcoming adventures…

Shame we'll never see when Tom is NOT recording😢

"The destructions down in the inscriptions", great quote.

Gotta say, Tom not going too pro in Geoguessr is what makes his Geoguessr videos the best on KZfaq, the hunt that he does and truly trying to solve it methodically is what got me into Geoguessr to begin with and it’s refreshing that it’s basically the same as it’s always been with Tom. The pro Geoguessr stuff is cool i guess and impressive, but the meta game and car knowledge and all that just takes away some of that charm that we see on the Geowizard channel

For your border mission try the Canada and Denmark border. Getting there will be the actual mission.

there is 3 things guaranteed in life - death - taxes and Tom checking to see if he's recording in every video

The "border mission" idea is gold! 👌

Starting with a "we are recording" does take some of the suspense out of the video... I am always on the edge of my seat waiting to find out if Tom is indeed recording!

Always love the local music during the speed ups, it’s a nice touch 🎶

The Finland - Russia border is definitely more heavily guarded. There's not a fence everywhere, but there definitely isn't just a road that passes from country to country without a checkpoint.

On the first round, Me: Ahh nice, Niagra falls, I get one at last. Tom: It can't be Niagra falls obviously

I know it's been out a couple years now, but I just recently realized that you created all the music for your straight line and how not to travel videos, wow! You are really talented! Love this channel and everything you make. Cheers from Michigan.

Would never have had the patience to guess the Norway Sweden one. The Iguazú falls one was easy to me because I'm close-ish to it.

The Slovakian music you found was incredible! Loved it!

Got my first perfect score on the Thailand/Myanmar round playing along, looked at how wide the river was, I'm shit at flags, saw the road running straight south east for ages. I can't read or distinguish individual SE Asian scripts, so I checked all along every border in the Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand area for maybe 10 mins with a wide river until I found one that looked suitable and got it at 21 metres away and absolutely wowed myself, chugged the rest of my Hobgoblin Gold to celebrate too! 🍺

In the Sweden-Norway round you could immediately exclude it being Sweden-Finland because the 12t sign was red and yellow and the 80kmph sign was red and white. Sweden and Finland both have red and yellow whereas Norway has red and white. So it was either Sweden-Norway or Finland-Norway.

Thanks for the content Tom! A "follow the border" mission would be an epic adventure btw

+10 Internet points for the sped up "Take On Me".

Let's get carried away All The Way, please. Country Border Mission is inevitable now, honestly.

First time playing along ! 🙋 I got 16,354 points, I'm from Argentina so got a perfect score for that one, and the Northern Ireland which was a freebie. Just impressed that I got all the borders right, even if it wasn't quite the correct road or place, apart from the Norway one, which I thought I was being clever for thinking it was Canada after seeing the sign in Km/h. Can't wait to see you play more of these, Tom ! (whoever wins the next one gets the Falklands)

Hey Tom, Slovakian speaking. The Slovak round had all information there on those 2 signs - Žilinský kraj (Žilina region) and Okres Námestovo (Námestovo county). So any border crossing around Námestovo should work. Also the vibe is definitely north Slovakia, the border with Hungary is mostly flat and no trees and there is basically never snow there. Cheers.

We need you to record your room with an extra camera so we can finally see the moment you realize you’re not recording

15:11 the signs in the front tell you in which region and county you are and the sign in the back tells you how you should drive on the roads when you come in slovakia (Zilina kraj (Zilina region) and Okres Namestovo (County Namestovo))

Gotta appreciate the Slovak songs in the background haha, nice Tom

Ilearned a valuable life lesson. Your thumbnail made me think of Victoria Falls so Inever even did my due deligence to make sure it wasn't.

I did the play along for the first time, it was really fun spotting Iguazu faster than Tom did since I've actually visited there! But of course my final score was lower, I'm not patient enough to scour the map the same way you do. Thanks for the content, looking forward to the next geodetective!

i did indeed follow the destructions in the inscription below

Glad I chose to play along for this one, I got a score of 16,999. I am happy with it being my first ever GeoGuessr game. Thanks for the commentary, really helps me rationalise my thought process as well.

loving the playalongs and geoguessr content :))

My toxic trait is thinking the first one was Niagara Falls

I have been waiting for Tom to do some sort of mission in Belgium. This border idea seems kind of perfect

i love that you leave obs bit at the start XD

"just gunnna have a quick gander...". ... "bugger"... I hope the non English viewers are enjoying the idioms and speech of the English from Tom's brilliant narration.

Great video Tom, had a lot of fun playing along! :)

I think you could tell which way the river flows by looking at the boats' bows pointing upstream when moored.

This is written on the day of the World Cup finals and I want to remind everybody that GeoWizard is the true goat of geoguessr content making ❤

Love the idea of a border mission!

My favorite part is getting to see a general idea of what the different regions look like in person

An Extraordinary World is my go to map now. Great combo of street view and photospheres all in neat places!

The flow of the river is indicated by the direction of the moored boats; they'll be facing up stream.

Tom, the vast majority of the Canadian/US border is not surveilled or guarded. It’s simply there. Forests and wood for miles and miles.

I actually did a border mission this year: Germany / Belgium. It was a great adventure, altough I did not stick as close to the line as Geowizard on his Straight Line Missions. Would love to see Geowizard do it too!

A giveaway of the Norway-Sweden border is that road signs on one side (Norway) have a white background and on the other a yellow background (Sweden). Signs in Finland have a yellow background like in Sweden. It's also funny how Sweden and Norway care so little about their border that the logging company just casually put their log pile in two countries.

You're getting so good at engagement bait with that misspeech at the start. Clever!

Well played Tom. My only truly bad guess was the waterfall one which I was sure was Victoria falls.

Like most of your videos but love the geo detective ones! I'd be for really long uncut geo detective videos in return for you taking as long as you need on them. Same for strait line missions! ^^

That Norway / Sweden one was extremely close to my home! Awesome, well done getting that as well.

Been watching the geoguessr world cup and kept thinking it's all possible due to you. You're a legend, Tom.

Finding out that he’s recording right at the beginning of the video really breaks the suspension

Love all of your content but I can't wait for the geo detective it's my favourite series

Wonderful! Ace!

The border mission is a genius idea and I hope you get to do it one day

Sweden-Norway border was the only one I got, driven past it many times. You could see the yellow road signs that the swedes use and the white norway use, and the classic cutout of the trees

That 2nd guess was nuts!

Tom edged me out on this one (partly but not entirely because I made much more hurried guesses today) but it's funny how similar our guesses were despite wildly different thought processes to get there: I knew Iguazu Falls pretty much straight off but also thought I was looking at the island across the water and guessed in about the same spot as Tom. Then I was correctly on the Sweden-Norway border right away but guessed a crossing much further north and lost lots of points. I spotted and recognized the Slovakia crest right away but convinced myself staring at the blurry signs that they were town names in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts and one of them started with a Z, which led me to guess at a crossing on the Slovakia-Ukraine border which lost me more points. In the Thailand round I also went near Vientiane, never bothering to check out the Myanmar border much further south. Then the last round was an easy 5k, although on this one I think I actually spent more time than Tom double-checking if there were other highways crossing the border that correlated before clicking the green button. Thanks as always for the challenge!

There are no lasers or cameras along the Norway-Sweden border (well, there are cameras at designated border crossings on major roads, but not in places like this).

I´m from Argentina, as soon as you started the game i yelled "Iguazu Falls"! So glad you found it!

i knew exacly where the 3rd location was cause i was crossing it many times in me life :D im glad that u got it SO wrong

17:17 "What are we driving on?" Silly Tom, this is SE Asia, we drive wherever there is just enough of a gap to not have a fatal accident.

Hey Tom. Stationary Boats always point against the stream in rivers.

In settings there is an option to use the Original compass i personally prefer it for road angles and directions

love the "something about mary" hair doo ;)

15:06 The second word on the upper sign says "KRAJ" which is slovakian (and czech) for district and the first word starts with Z and isn't too long. Did quick search for big cities starting with Z and found Žilina. Just a way to narrow down the border section.

definitely do a border mission!!

16,575 for me...I couldn't find Iguazu Falls so clicked stupidly at another waterfall far away, which killed my score. Got the easy 5K between Ireland and NI in 30 seconds, and got the other 3 border two countries right, although at the wrong spots. I'm a bit disappointed Tom that you didn't immediately think Norway-Sweden, because the western sides were white filled in and the eastern yellow.

Yeah, you definitely beat me. For some reason I got it in my head that the second one was on the Canada/Alaska border and didn't even consider anywhere else. Needless to say, not a great result. The rest I did pretty well on. I had gotten that golden turtle round just recently and remembered the exact location.

Nailed the first and the last. Went a bit too far north on the second, but was fooled by the compass being a bit off. For the third, I confused the two countries that Tom mentioned in the beginning of that round after seeing the coat of arms, and I picked the wrong one. For the fourth, I had no real clue other than the country the picture was taken in, and I placed my marker on the same country border as Tom, only more to the SE but roughly as far from the correct location. For a score of just under 21 000.

Take on me stuck in my head all day now.

8:00 “I’ve got something in mind here for this” *alien disguise glitches*

Great video again Tom! "Good" to hear you couldnt get the satellite view to work, because I'm havibg problems with it also since a couple of weeks. Now i know it's not me😅

Do a lap of a country... that would be incredible!

lol! missed the same thailand round. Went for a spot a bit more north of your guess that felt even better, the hills on the other side even had the little break in the middle with the hill behind...

Going around Scandinavia a lot I could tell the seccond one was Sweden and Norway based on the speed limit signs. And the lack of montains told me it was quite far south.

You beat me on the second round… love your videos, I’m terrible at GeoGuesser though.

Thanks for having us Tom! The Challengae link didnt work though. Looking forward to the border mission! Luxembourg could be possible in two or three days I suppose

a border mission would be so fun

Got to love the down to earth commentry, Guy looks like kitchen staff at Toby Carvery. Baltic.

Would love to see you attempt to get a perfect score on this map!

FYI tom there is a setting to revert to the classic compass if you prefer it, I do

A border mission is now a must!

Tip for Nordic search: Norwegian & Danish signs are black letters/icons on white. Finland/Sweden, black on yellow.

Border mission is a fantastic idea

If you prefer the old compass I do believe you can switch back to it in your settings!

1:16 “the destructions down in the encryption” 😂😂

Had a really underwhelming round on this, GG Tom! I did almost exactly the same thing as you in round 4, but I was on the Thai/Laos border! Totally messed up the scandi round, went for Finland/Russia and kicking myself, because the place with the white signs had to be West of the place with yellow signs! Was 1000 miles away in Brazil/Peru. But had to finish it off with 5000 on that almost patronising 'gimmie' round at the end!

To determine direction of the flow of the river, the bow of the boat when anchored will point in the opposite direction to the flow of the river.

i love you tom. always a good day when you upload

i watched your vid first, then played the game and you still beat me.

2nd one is just next to my hometown! Cool!

I wasn't expecting this to work so well, without the satellite view!

inb4, tom will still check if he's recording despite checking in the beginning. And im disappointed; he actually remembered.

A border mission does sound sick tho

Border mission would be so sick!!

Regarding the Norway round it did look like the border between Norway and Sweden. At 8:20 there's a kind of stone structure with yellow on top. I've seen those when hiking on the Bohusleden trail near the Norwegian border and it did look like that sort of terrain to me (the southern tip of the Swedish-Norwegian border). When it comes to the Slovakian-Polish border, I immediately thought that it looked like the border between Slovakia and Poland. It looked familiar. I'm not sure if crossed at that border crossing but it looked quite similar to other border crossings between Poland and Slovakia that I have crossed.

I was slightly worse, giving up the Norway-Sweden one too quickly, but with a shockingly getting perfect score in Thailand. Iguazu and Ireland were easy, but I could not find the one for Slovakia even though I realized the compass must be wrong.

The destructions down in the inscriptions?!

i looooove the border mission idea!! please do it!!

17:15 We're drivng on... what are we driving on? hahahah this was the best moment for me!

16:40 Lol, I crossed the PL/SK border at this particular crossing this summer when going to Slovakian Tatras for vacation :). However, I don't know why it is supposed to be "famous". Łysa Polana or Jurgów are used more frequently. This one is pretty empty.

1st. I couldn't really figure out the shape of the river and ended up guessing along the border of Bolivia and Brazil. :2,400 points. 2nd. I didn't think it would be with Russia as there were no border guards and such. I noticed the river between Sweden and Finland and went with Sweden and Norway. There was a road sign 120 that I guessed was the number of the road. I found a 126 and some in the 200s further north and something like 106 to the south. From that, I assumed it had to be a road between those and 840 was the only one that looked similar. :5000 points 3rd. I spent a really long time looking on the southern Slovak border as the Slovak flag is on a building to the north. Luckily the south is largely the Danube and other smaller rivers and none of the others made sense so I switched to the Polish border and found the correct one pretty quickly. :5000 points 4th. Clearly Thailand. With how populated it was and the river to our northeastish, the border with Myanmar to the south made the most sense. This one took a really long time as I thought it would be a further bit up the river but I eventually got the right city, but a road or two over. :4998 points 5th. It says Welcome to N Ireland. Took about a minute to settle on the right one. :5000 points