As always let me know how you got on today. Any perfect scores? Next videos will be the (less choppy) road to 10,000 part 2, followed by the epic trailer for How not to travel America...

Always makes me laugh when tom puts music from the country he's searching when doing a time lapse

Correction on Kazakhstan, it’s capital city hasn’t changed, the name of the city has. Astana has also been known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and Nur-Sultan. I believe this is the second time that it has been named Astana.

I like when he speeds it up and plays local music for like 4 seconds

6:43 Genuinely looks like he's stumbled into a Sim City game. All those different and unique buildings full of colors and the way zoning is mixed and how such a dense city just stops into barren country, which looks awesome btw.

*These videos are the ones people fell in love with your channel mate. Don't change it.*

Honestly the geodetective series was my favourite where you were trying to pinpoint the location of your fans

“That is some bloke from Taiwan” excellent detective skills there Tom 😂

I feel like a lot of people largely because of Rainbolt (I love him and watch his weekly tournaments so not saying it’s bad) have put more focus on metas, speed, and country/region guessing but I fell in love with this game for detective games like this and really taking the time to try and place yourself as exact as you can.

"The compass is never wrong" says the map maker and then queue round 3 with the compass inverted lmao

That round 3 in astana with the wrong compass took several years off my life

Yes a play along, these are still my favorite videos

On the second round, when you turn away from the turning torso building there's a yellow and red road sign on which you can very faintly read "Malmo." I wouldn't have gotten it if it wasn't for that!

Spent way too much time trusting the Compass on Round 3 before I realized the sun was the wrong way.

When Tom gets dropped in my city (SF) and he zooms over my house, it's like a celebrity calling you out by name :')

This video was real good fun for me, because Tom spent time on talking about the images, the countries and cities and his thought processes much more than usual.

What about the series where you work out where your fans are based on their photos? That was my favourite 👍

Hello from Almaty 🇰🇿 Glad you've got Astana, it is indeed a very beautiful and unique city. I've recognized it immediately) Also, the capital hasn't changed since 1997 when it was moved from Almaty to Akmola. But the capital has changed its name several times: From Akmola to Astana in 1998, then to Nur-Sultan in 2019 and then back to Astana last month.

Because of this video, I learned of the Manx language spoken on the Isle of Man. Always an educational (and entertaining) time with Tom.

11:35 I figured the compass was wrong immediately when the sun was to the north

The new thumbnails are clean man. I’ll never get tired of your classic geoguessr content

I had Astana directly because of the giant tent. It's the biggest tent in the world

As a promotional tie-in for your upcoming tour of America video, please consider doing a round of Geoguessr in America, perhaps the state streaks map. Would be fun to see how well you recognize each state. As an American I think that would be really entertaining! ✌🏼

Detective map: so let's have one with American flags, a Taiwan flag, and the name of the city, just in case.

I used to commute through SF Chinatown on my way from Embarcadero Bart Station to my work near Stockton and Green in North Beach. Gave me a lot of nostalgia remembering that daily commute from 13 years ago.

Dude, you just missed roasting the socks + flip flops combo guy at 26:46

I feel bad that Tom puts out this awesome video but so many people keep asking about the fan hunt videos. Thank you for this video, Tom. I love the detective work you do on these maps. This was a lot of fun and I learned quite a bit.

The motorcycle sign on the Isle of Man round was a big clue for me.

Hey Tom, i just recently discovered your "Straight line" series and have been absolutely loving it, can't wait for your next series.

Got the first one spot on because Oostende is my home town. Never thought I'd see the day! By the way, the "Oo" is pronounced like the letter O in English, like in 'over' or 'home'

My favorite combo is a mix between the fast paced challenges and the detective maps this way I can cheer for you and also learn more about geography as a map fan

never stop making these videos man, love the interactive challenges

You can tell that the third one was a soviet country by the giant building next to it. Stalin commissioned 7 giant buildings in Moscow called the seven sisters and they all look like that. Following this, other Eastern Bloc cities then ended up with similar buildings. Warsaw has one, for example.

Love your videos mate. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Belgium.

The monent when Tom commented the blonde guy's haircut reminded me how much I enjoyed the Twitch streams and especially Street View Bingo. It is even a bit nostalgic. This was really one of my favourite things to do during the quarantine. Thank you, Tom!

I love how almost Every car is a Volkswagen, doesnt matter if it's a Opel or BMW, all Volkswagen 😆 Enjoying the video as always 👌

Took a break from studying to watch this, ty for the relaxing and amazing game Tom!

I love the themed time lapse footage, always makes me laugh

When someone gets to 1.15m subs and doesn't have insta you know the content is top top tier. Doing it right. Good lick with taking the channel further

love how much you’ve been posting lately!!🙌🏼🥳

Knew the map was wrong when I saw the Kazakh flag and the sun in the north

Turkmenistan tip: Ashgabat is largely made of gold - there are many statues, fountains and buildings of Soviet architecture (constructivism, empire style), parks, and at the same time there are few people. People live in poor houses, similar to communal apartments, dormitories of the times of the Soviet Union. All because of the dictatorship. By the way, if you need advice on how to set a point relatively accurately in Russia, I can give a couple of tips (one message cannot fit everything). Like your videos very much!

First play along Ive done! Got all but Kazakhstan - so mad because I hovered over the city too but didnt recognize it

The third city looks like something you would build on Sim City!

17:25 memorial hall right on top of the cursor "Can't see the memorial hall" Oh, never change Tom

18:35 Acktually 🤓, that's a Renault Megane Coupe, I think a pre facelift with rear lexus lights too.

That Astana round was so frustrating, as I relied on the compass being correct and couldn't match the streets to anything so I just clicked somewhere, ended up being 10 points off of a perfect score because of that Other than that, a really cool map and a great video as always Tom

When the lakes were to the west, and river to the east, and the photosphere showed the exact opposite, I figured it wasn’t a coincidence. Unfortunate Tom spent so much time looking.

I finally got a perfect score. This was easier than I expected. Hopefully you do more of these :D

For those of you wondering what the Kazakh song was at 11:12. It's Jalghan Ay (Yalan Dünya) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/at2jmbZkzKy3cas.html

In Astana the giveaway with the compass is Sun in the north.

Pretty happy with myself. I'm absolute shit at geoguesser, but I grew up near San Francisco and guessed that it was San Fran china town in about half a second. I've not been there often, but it's nice to know that I'm pretty familiar with where I grew up.

I live on the Isle of Man and love your content, it makes me happy beyond relief that you finally got a round based here! Great job on the guesses! I did indeed know exactly where you were straight from the getgo.

That tunnel in San Francisco has a building with an interesting story at the south entrance. Before there was a tunnel, Stockton Street just went over the hill. To build the tunnel entrance they had to lower the street for the block between Bush and Sutter. There were already buildings standing there and they were left with their old front doors opening into thin air and their basements suddenly at street level. You can still see one of these today, west side of the street, building that today houses the Palihotel. Obvious old front door (now a window) on the left side of the facade one story up from the street.

Great to see you do more and more Geoguessr stuff again. Haha, in Kazalhstan it's not the capital they've changed a few times, but the name of the capital ;)

23:22 "St. Marks is straight up there" Literally looking at a sign pointing to where St. Marks is and you get it totally wrong lol. Don't worry, I still love you.

Got 25k! The second one was the most difficult for me, it's good that I found a hint at the very end. The rest were simple, with very clear clues. Well, maybe except for the last one.

6:55 “what are they” was so funny to me 😂 idk why

I got the San Francisco one in a about 5 seconds. You could see the transamerican building poking its triangle head just over the top of the buildings when you spawn in. Then it took another minute to get exactly where it was. It helps that I grew up about an 45 min to an Hour or more away from San Francisco.

The wrong compass on round 3 really confused me a for a few minutes, despite knowing that it must be Astana.

4 out of 5 were doable (you need pretty good eyes to pick up Malmö as it is written on a sign rather small and it is rather blurry). However, for the Isle of Man location I simply wasn't bothered to look around for on the map, haha. Pretty good Map nonetheless !

Bathroom attendants and life guards are literally the same job, mate. They save peoples lives when they’re bringing their kids to the pool.

I live on the Isle of Man! Was hoping you'd notice Castletown when scrolling across to Scotland - glad you got it in the end

Got the Malmö one straight away (it helped that not only had I visited if before but a picture of it I took showed up in my Facebook memories today)

your geo guessr videos i find very relaxing and soothing and help cope with my anxiety so thank you

Love your videos Tom, keep them up

Old school wholesome GeoWizard content. Very comfy.

the detective maps look really fun would love to see more of them

those buildings in astana looked insane damn. also, this was a fun map! i wouldnt be opposed to seeing more from it

These are my favorite videos. This is how I discovered your channel

would love to see another 0 point challenge, but to make it a bit more difficult, you have to find the antipode of the correct location and try to get the furthest distance from it

I love how Tom analyzed the license plates, but completely ignored that the name of the building next to him was clearly shown and shown on the map. Also, the compass on the Astana round is wrong despite the intro blurb saying the compass is never wrong

Tom we love your content please never stop

I'll admit it was a massive hunch, maybe I'd heard it somewhere before, but I did instantly know the Isle of Man and feel very proud.

18:39 that's an old Renault Megane :) Funnily enough there is one at 4:57 too :)

I love how you embrace the difficulties - like we all should, in GG, but in general as well!

My favorite part of old geoguessr videos was Tom picking out people on the map and going off track for a bit...

that compass being wrong stumped me for ages. Felt sure it was Astana but kept second guessing myself.

Love your GeoGuesser content...I would also love to see more interesting photospheres and tracking down your patreons pictures. I swear if you gave me 4 hours of content a day I'd watch it all. There is something very theraputic and relaxing in listening to you narrate your thought processes. Cheers from across the pond!

Castletown is a famous spot for the motorcycle race held there, The Isle of Mann TT. Had me face palming lol

First round I instantly knew because I live closely to that spot. I was dying of how Tom pronounced those words

7:45 - You´d better take that back!! NOBODY in Norway has a blue roof!!! No green either! Red or black are the only options here. Those wide roads also point towards eastern Europe or some kind of -stan-country. You finally got around to it, but never ever suggest that Norwegians have blue roofs! ;) Nice job getting it all together in the end though - I guess this is why we worship you!!!

18,068 points for me! It's one of my best scores. Your videos have helped me more than I realised. :) Kazakhstan dropped my score significantly. I saw the blue and yellow flag and reddish buildings so I guessed Sweden.

This was great! I've been really enjoying rainbolt's stuff recently but it's no substitution for this style of play that pinpoints where you based on knowledge gained through a genuine interest in the world as opposed to an interest in the meta (these aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, just to be clear!). It's one thing to know you're in Luxembourg because the car is lower down, you're in New Zealand because of its distinctive bollards or you're in Sweden because the small white dashes on the edges of the road, but it's another thing entirely to know you're in Belgium because you cycled through that very town or in Malmo because you recognise a specific interesting building you have some criticisms of. It's good that both styles exist and are appreciated by the community

The capital of Kazakhstan is Astana, has been since 1997. Before that it was Almaty (formerly known as Alma-Ata). But what I think you're thinking of is the name changes. Astana has gone through multiple name changes during the relatively short time it has been the capital, and also couple times before that too. It was known as Akmola when it was founded in 1830 and shortly after that named Akmolinsk when granted its town status. In 1961 under the Soviet rule it was renamed Tselinograd. After the dissolution of Soviet Union the name was then again changed back to Akmola. Shortly after it became the capital in 1997 it was renamed Astana (which literally translates to "Capital city"). In 2019 it was renamed Nur-Sultan after Kazakhstan's first and only president of the time. The last name change happened only a bit over month ago back to Astana, which I wasn't actually aware of until checking my facts today.

Tom: hovers his mouse cursor over Memorial Hall also Tom: Can't see the Memorial hall. immortal classic.

I actually live in Astana and the second I saw that Stalinesque 'people's palace' I knew where it was, it was fun to watch you figure it out though!

The sun being in the north + Cyrillic writing made it quite obvious the compass was wrong

right when san francisco came up i was like "stockton street". i went to uni in san fran and lived nearby, used to pick up shui mai from a dim sum joint really near there. miss it over there.

15:55 he got lucky 🤣🤣 socks and sandals don't deserve a free pass 😉 That was a renault megane not a luguna. The laguna was the bigger 5 door competitor to the mondeo, cavalier etc.

Loved the vid, these play along geogussr vids are the best, just mixing up the maps you've already done, and then some new ones too, love it

Tom, I for one would absolutely love to see a "let's take the piss out of people" segment.

Looks as though a lot of us got 25k on this one; it was one of the easier play-alongs you've done. I also took by far the longest on the 3rd round, but for a different reason: I spotted the Cyrillic and the sun in the north and concluded straight away that the compass was wrong, but somehow it took me 10 or 15 minutes to notice the flag, and then another 10 or so to find the right spot on the map. On the last round I knew right away where we were (mostly from "Castletown") but felt lucky to guess the right intersection on the map. In the 2nd round I did not recognize the building but the city name was indeed visible on one of the street signs.

I have a decent idea for you if you wanna do a straight line challenge in the future, but it might be hard to implement Basically: Play a round of geoguessr in any country you find best, and use whatever rules you may need to hinder yourself, or help. Because whichever point you guessed farthest from the correct direction is the one you would walk! I think it'd be a good twist, and since I think custom rounds can be made, it doesn't have to be complete chance so you can avoid illegal parts. Or make a rule to go along the border of illegal property instead. If you think it's a good idea let me know in some way! I would love to see it happen

I pretty much only play geoguessr to do your play alongs these days. Thanks for making them!

7:50 they do look very icelandic!

you literally bring happiness into my sad life. lots of love for you Tom 🖤

Love that car knowledge😂 Opel = Volkswagen, BMW = Volkswagen, Renault Megane = Renault Laguna. Funny for me😁

5:33 me just screaming its right there over and over lol

The red bars at the left and right of the number plate are the IoM giveaway. I initially though N Ireland too but then happened to scroll across the Isle of Man on the way and saw Castletown. Perfect score for me but the Kazakh one took me a long time.