This country borders game is highly addictive [Travle Country Routes]

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6 ай бұрын

There are all sorts of neat geography games on the internet these days but this one has to be one of the best.
Travle is a game that tests your border knowledge by asking you to travel from one country to another in the shortest route possible, i.e. through the least amount of countries. Sometimes the shortest route is not the one that you thought it would be..
Here's the link so you can have a play yourselves: imois.in/games/travle/
There's so many versions of the game too including UK Counties, US States, and states and regions from countless other countries. Great fun!

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@vince8901 6 ай бұрын

I think it gives you a green tick after you get an orange if it's on your new fastest route. In other words, if you've already cocked it up, then both Michigan and Indiana would have been green ticks cause both give it to you in 5 guesses rather than 4. Could also happen in a situation where you went a completely different way and you get green ticks by continuing to go that wrong way rather than getting back to the fastest route because that would put you too far behind

@Zeckenschwarm 6 ай бұрын

In that case you could also say that it gives you an orange box every time you increase the smallest number of guesses you could finish with.

@CiaGuy 6 ай бұрын

its cause indiana shares a water border with wisconsin i think

@MrMianning 6 ай бұрын

That's what happened to you on the first one. Poland and Ukraine were green after you guessed Germany but would have been orange if they were you're first guess

@DadgeCity 6 ай бұрын

"Does Turkey border Greece?" I'll still be laughing at this tomorrow.

@mrsarkey 6 ай бұрын

Quickly checking a history book for Turkey/Greece relations 😅

@DubzyDoodle 6 ай бұрын

"The Greece Trap"

@TheGoodChap 6 ай бұрын

As if they don't hate eachother enough

@Lightkie 6 ай бұрын

I facepalmed so hard..

@user-dd4hi2xm8s 6 ай бұрын

Before WW1, the Ottoman Turks and Greece actually did not have a border. The border was established in the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, which gave western Thrace to Greece from Bulgaria.

@tonypapas9854 6 ай бұрын

Is "Eye-OWE-a" related to "O-RAY-gon"? 🤣😱💀

@kristabrown9019 6 ай бұрын

Being from Iowa, I really enjoyed this part lol

@vegancam 6 ай бұрын

Cousin of "MITCH-iggan"

@LtKernelPanic 6 ай бұрын

I laughed and cringed at the same time.

@aceman0000099 6 ай бұрын

Iowa lot to my friends down at the snooker hall

@DeAngelo-1 6 ай бұрын

I started to laugh at this also from Iowa

@klinsmeier 6 ай бұрын

"Who is playing that football match?" "Austria - Hungary" "Against whom?"

@KGVB757 6 ай бұрын

Hearing you say Iowa was a shock. I didn’t know those syllables could come out like that 😂

@verstarkt2192 6 ай бұрын

Iowa? I haven’t met her!

@DuckOfRubber 6 ай бұрын

Wait until you here him talk about Oh-Ray-Gun

@craigmiller4199 6 ай бұрын

@@DuckOfRubberoh my. That would put him in mortal peril if he did that while visiting. Though vengeance could be had by having Americans try and pronounce Welsh place names.

@EthanNeal 6 ай бұрын

Wait until you hear about Iowa, Louisiana. It's pronounced EYE-oh-way

@dyseskytten1 6 ай бұрын

You should try Satle too. It's guessing the city from a sattelite view and with every wrong guess it zooms out and gives you direction and distance to the correct answer.

@Neamow 6 ай бұрын

That's actually pretty cool, it's a nice variation on geoguessr for me. Though I wish these games allowed you to just keep playing instead of just one/day, don't understand what's the point of that.

@thejoetree 6 ай бұрын

@@Neamowif the game is based on Google Maps, that has to be paid for. So they either limit plays or require a paid sub.

@Karlan_ 6 ай бұрын

Yes please!

@sebastiangudino9377 6 ай бұрын

@@thejoetreeYup. But games like sattle could probbaly use something like openStreetMap since they don't rely on street view

@stefanomorandi7150 4 ай бұрын

tried it... ponte vecchio pic, clear as day... yep, thats florence alright - first try, im italian LOL will check out again tomorrow

@eedeneel 6 ай бұрын

Indiana was marked as the shortest route, because it was the shortest route after you had already incorrectly guessed Illinois. If you had guessed Indiana first and then Illinois it would have been the opposite

@nicolasspray 6 ай бұрын

but it makes no sense, it should not be green after you fail the route

@eedeneel 6 ай бұрын

@@nicolasspray it's green if it's the shortest way to get there from your current route, not for the perfect beginning route. Indiana and Michigan were both the shortest route after he picked Illinois

@steve5x565 6 ай бұрын

Both routes were the same amount of states

@marrs3312 6 ай бұрын

No there was another route to the south that skipped Illinois

@barmetler 6 ай бұрын

@@nicolassprayit's like follow up mistakes in a maths test

@paddymulvey4421 6 ай бұрын

Indiana's green because you'd already submitted Illinois, which means the shortest possible route (including Illinois) now includes Indiana. And top 78% means your score was amongst the highest 78% of players - i.e. 78% of players scored either the same or higher than you. If you were in top 1% it would mean only 1% had the same or better score than you, if you were in the top 100% it would mean everyone scored the same or better than you.

@nileprimewastaken 4 ай бұрын

swap indiana and illinois and you are right

@Dan-gc7is 4 ай бұрын

there's also a practice mode if you want to do more than one a day. You can also choose the hard mode which doesn't show the name of the starting and ending states but only the shape

@tonypapas9854 6 ай бұрын

Appreciate your trying to mix things up to keep from becoming stale. Well done!

@Hemigoblin 6 ай бұрын

10:14 “the Greece trap” - excellent pun!

@angrycharizard 6 ай бұрын

The games with restrictions through certain countries are the Saturday games, by the way! Great video

@calmurray2385 6 ай бұрын

I dont know why but its so funny to hear Tom say Iowa like I-owe-ya compared to I-owe-uh

@spacebar1111 6 ай бұрын

I think Denmark -> Sweden counts because there's a bridge connecting the 2 countries.

@Oznej 6 ай бұрын

A bridge and some ferry routes, but what really unites us is poking fun at Norway.

@_LukiS_ 6 ай бұрын

or Denmark - Germany - Poland - Russia - Azerbeijan - Armenia. Don't forget about Kaliningrad territory that belongs to Russia and share a border with Poland

@rebatnaath8790 6 ай бұрын

@@_LukiS_the game doesn't allow jumping from Kaliningrad grad you can read it on the games FAQs

@88porpoise 6 ай бұрын

@@_LukiS_Exclaves don't count as it is establishing a route from a to b, not just a list of bordering countries. Kaliningrad would would require you to pass through two more countries to reach Russia. For water, if there is a fixed crossing (bridge or tunnel) it counts (so the UK goes to France and Denmark goes to Sweden) and straights or archipelagos within a country that don't require travelling massive distances or close to other countries. So Malaysia is considered to connect Indonesia and Thailand (or Turkey and Michigan you can cross the two portions) but France doesn't connect to French Guiana.

@run_sun 6 ай бұрын

@@88porpoiseso basically the game can't make you go from New Zealand to South Africa by choosing New Zealand-Australia-Madagascar-South Africa? Since Australian and Madagascar is too far away?

@PerkyBird 6 ай бұрын

“Sometimes I just wish I was landlocked” -Tom, 2023

@verdiss7487 6 ай бұрын

The Turkey-Greece border is definitely one to remember, because those two countries have a long and also fairly recent history, and despite both being in NATO they have a whole lot of tanks and artillery near that particular border

@lukecameron9230 6 ай бұрын

Appreciate your videos, thanks for keeping them coming

@kilianbalter 5 ай бұрын

Can't believe nobody is mentioning that he completely missed the massive border making Buckinghamshire -> Hertfordshire another 2 county connection between Oxfordshire and Essex lol

@paveladamek3502 6 ай бұрын

"I know Austria borders Hungary because I have been to the border" -- I feel like a British guy should know that without having been there.

@bladdnun3016 6 ай бұрын

I'm fairly certain half the population of the UK do not know that.

@RobinClower 6 ай бұрын

@@bladdnun3016you're probably right, but a kinda big event happened because of the country named Austria-Hungary, which gives some indication that they share a border

@bladdnun3016 6 ай бұрын

@@RobinClower Yeah, if that wasn't the case, I would raise it to over 70 %. Gotta love WW1, purveyor of knowledge and reason.

@yaidendejong5913 6 ай бұрын

There is also an unlimited version of this game!!! You’ll find it if you look up unlimited travle. It also allows you to change the minimum and maximum amount of countries that are between the 2 countries so you can make it really hard for yourself and put like 14 and then you have to do from Indonesia to Albania for example! It’s such fun game !!!

@somebodyelsesguy3798 6 ай бұрын

Just seen the guy who makes this game in the comments so I’m gonna feel bad if I play his stolen game :( wish I’d of seen your comment when I still had a clean conscious 😂

@j6154 6 ай бұрын

You've done it! This is your best ever video

@MikeWoot65 6 ай бұрын

Iowa will forever be known as i-OH-a

@michael2636 6 ай бұрын

Portugal is extreme legendary hard mode. Over 270 municipalities! That's more than the number of countries on Earth!

@vxyngeorge2728 6 ай бұрын

love your videos mate❤

@EspMaster 6 ай бұрын

This was really fun, more please!

@miallo 6 ай бұрын

12:50 I am pretty sure that the shortest route (so Indiana) is also considering all the countries you have previously guessed. And with Illinois unlocked it did not matter if you chose Wisconsin or Indiana

@skylerwilliams5466 6 ай бұрын

states mate

@zavtparticles6828 6 ай бұрын

idk what human would driver aalllll the way around in Michigan to get to wisconsin

@adoramay9410 2 ай бұрын

@@zavtparticles6828I mean if you were actually planning a driving route from Rhode Island to Wisconsin, no, you definitely wouldn't go through Michigan. But you also probably wouldn't go through Connecticut either because who the heck wants to drive through NYC?

@cosmicreciever 6 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this, I hope you do more videos of this game

@Ziaphy 5 ай бұрын

Oh my god you literally got me addicted to this I’ve been playing for the last five hours

@Nooticus 6 ай бұрын

More Travle please!! As an administrative borders nerd I love this

@tommygomez6298 6 ай бұрын

They should post a new one every 4 hours or something

@iandeikun3307 4 ай бұрын

really enjoyed this, would love to see more

@vince8901 4 ай бұрын

Hi Tom, I'm sure you've already had other comments about this, but they added a new practice game mode to travle - I've just been playing for a bit and it's pretty good. You can pick two countries to go from or just randomise it, you can also change it to Hard Mode, which only gives you the outlines and not the country names. I think it would make for an interesting video especially as you can do multiple in a day rather than having to switch to the other regional game modes.

@AaronSof 6 ай бұрын

Watching you playing any game is worth you uploading.

@user-lr4nd2kg5q 6 ай бұрын

16:52 "whereas here it was three" Tom where is your mind bruv.. you wouldnt have to pick Bedfordshire 😂😂😂😅

@DANDIIDAY1111 6 ай бұрын

Great video and can't wait for the new mission

@tillbuschmann7222 6 ай бұрын

Would love to see more of this!

@DWxGhoSt 6 ай бұрын

Been playing those 3 games every day for a couple months - I made my goal to get all 3 perfect scores AND in the right order, you should make that your goal on the channel - I’ve done it 4/5 times so far

@lolfert 6 ай бұрын

This is great, love a bit of Geowizard on a Thursday

@bkuker 6 ай бұрын

American here, I love the way you pronounce some state and city names!

@_phiaa 6 ай бұрын

love this game, super interesting take for the daily games!!

@katiebrennan7 4 ай бұрын

hi tom! love your videos! just so you know-right under the other maps option it says practice and if you click on that you can play unlimited games!!

@johannilsson5913 6 ай бұрын

Been following you for about 7 years. This is one my favourite challenges you have ever done. I loved this, like A LOT. Great job Tom!

@pokeguideable 6 ай бұрын

Tom! I'd love to see you play The Password Game. I just found it today and it looks right up your alley. It's not fully map related but there are some Geoguessr aspects of it. Love the video!

@KoSXxPotatisbarnetXD 6 ай бұрын

Would love more videos on games like this. There's more daily Geography games online you might wanna check out. Worldle, Globle, Statele are a few examples.

@jlt131 6 ай бұрын

at 13:00 ish - I think Indiana comes up as green check because at that point you're already off track, but on your NEW track it is the best choice.

@Michael-kp4bd 6 ай бұрын

If you want the MOST accurate description, red means you’ve added +1 to the number of your guesses compared to the most optimal route. For example, if there are now 5 ways to get to the destination optimally (without adding yet another +1 to the route), that guess will appear green because you have not added YET ANOTHER unnecessary step. Other people’s descriptions are semi-correct but only in certain situations. I think understanding what makes a guess *red* is more comprehensive and accurate than explaining all the cases that make it green. (If it doesn’t fit my single definition of red, it’s green 🙂)

@juliehuczek7687 6 ай бұрын

Fun video! Would love to see more Battle Royale 🎉

@KennySC 6 ай бұрын

I try to play travle every day. It really tests your knowledge of where countries actually are and the surrounding countries.

@darius2640 6 ай бұрын

They should name this game "illegal immingrant training simulator"

@noitallmanaz 6 ай бұрын

i am always going to pronounce iowa exactly how you are doing it from now on.

@jdcool13 4 ай бұрын

would love to see more of this, and satle as another commenter mentioned, satellite views of cities zooming out with each guess till you get it

@hugequiz 6 ай бұрын

This is giving me new quiz ideas 💡💡

@MemesNick 6 ай бұрын

As a mexican who doesn't have a ton of knowledge about GB's geography, man you really like your shires hahaha

@shazeus 6 ай бұрын

Played this for about 2 months and it is indeed addictive

@johnjohnsson9903 6 ай бұрын

Enjoyed this

@KontaktReddox 6 ай бұрын

Fun game, more of this please

@CutePoliwag1 6 ай бұрын

I wish this game has an unlimited mode

@finlandtaipan4454 6 ай бұрын

You can't jump across water but there is a bridge/tunnel system connecting Denmark with Sweden. Then, either Finland or Norway can connect you to Russia, and either Georgia or Azerbaijan to Armenia. These were initially tricky but you can learn them quickly.

@yoriisoet 4 ай бұрын

Does it account for technicalities like a shared land border on a tiny uninhabited rock in the ocean? Or a shared border in an Antarctic claim?

@ElliottP2009 6 ай бұрын

Saturday has the restrictions, looking forward to it!

@kgsonly 6 ай бұрын

this was a fun video

@emjaybee1993 6 ай бұрын

can't wait for the new adventure!

@Content_filter 6 ай бұрын

Used the right map of Serbia on the thumbnail, gotta respect that❤

@galaktoza 5 ай бұрын

Tomislav Geomagović u ♥️

@felixsahlen1836 3 ай бұрын

Yeah Norway boarders Russia, my favorite border is where Norway, Finland and Russia all meet. It's in such a remote location, it's probably really hard to just travel there. And I have no clue what else to do other than see the boarder. Norway aren't really a target for Russia, since the border is too far up north. But the Russian Finland border is pretty well guarded by the military. So you can just walk from Norway to Finland and even if there is a guard they wouldn't really care. But if you walk over to the Russian side you will get shot.

@jonc4712 6 ай бұрын

Tried it a bit with France. I got a Pas-de-Calais to Finistère map. The fun thing is there are a few possible routes between the two departments.

@toolng1798 5 ай бұрын

13:00 i think it checks the shortest route from each guessed state, so from illinois the best route was indiana -> you get a checkmark for it

@PuNicAdbo 6 ай бұрын

Cool game. Gerne mehr davon.

@albevanhanoy 6 ай бұрын

"Sometimes I just wish I was landlocked." - Tom Davies

@nirfz 6 ай бұрын

As you said sea borders are valid, i think you could get a "shorter" route from Lebanon to Liechtenstein: If you go from Turkey to Greece, from Greece to italy and from Italy either to austria or Switzerland you shorten it by 2 countries.

@SaintAugustineTheRighteous 6 ай бұрын

I’m from Michigan and I can tell you Michigan and Minnesota do border each other through Lake Superior

@idkvwad 6 ай бұрын

14:15 Essex looks like an outline of ludicolo and now I can't unsee it.

@dizzy_jump 5 ай бұрын

12:28 "Oh, goodness me! I've buggered it up!" 😂😂😂

@shalooob8472 6 ай бұрын

Just love you man

@mytube001 6 ай бұрын

I'm pretty good when it comes to the English counties, but suck at the other three bits, so I'd love to see an England-only map. My route was Newport, Monmouthshire (that one required the use of hints), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Straight line...

@MagicBaking 6 ай бұрын

This was fun

@sachasover-evong4790 6 ай бұрын

Love it!!

@TheRealMrMackey 6 ай бұрын

Tom I’m just happy to let you know that your “Illinois” pronunciation is flawless

@MikaTarkela 6 ай бұрын

You activated my Homepod's Siri hahah!

@tomnorman6165 6 ай бұрын

If you change the date on your computer you can play the game from past or future dates. Might be useful for filming stuff like this all in one go

@vinnydefrancesco5655 6 ай бұрын

I love how you pronounce Iowa 😂

@bjormika9 6 ай бұрын

13:10 It counts the green checks from the last Orange. So once you went with Illinoise, the game went "Okay, the best path for you now, will be through Indiana"

@LilyWangLoifavl 6 ай бұрын

I think Indiana is green is because the green checks are based on what youve already typed. And because you had already typed Illinois, Indiana is the shortest route. In your first game instead of going to Sweden (the shortest route), you went to Germany (which was orange), but from then on Poland and the bunch were green ticks. Because for the germany route that is the shortest route. Hopefully I make sense.

@davidgjam7600 6 ай бұрын

It's so annoying how these games put themselves behind paywalls and timers. If this were 2006, this would be a free flash game on Newgrounds

@alexanderf8451 6 ай бұрын

Hearing Iowa as "eye-OE-wuh" just shows me how I must sound trying to say British place names.

@SlutForInstantNoodles 6 ай бұрын

Really cool game, would love to see more

@excyruss 6 ай бұрын

You can press down on the arrow key and then enter to select your option rather than using the mouse. Much quicker.

@freshsmilely 6 ай бұрын

this is one of those game modes i think everyone goes "oh it cant be that hard" but when you play you just cant imagine a map.

@yusonbir 6 ай бұрын

All these games use a weird way to deliver the daily puzzles, which means they are all there in thebrowser before the day changes. So you can disable internet time and set your date time to play the upcoming days’s games. Just dont forget to enable internet time afterwards

@Moolers 6 ай бұрын

You should do these daily like Cracking the Cryptic does daily Wordle.

@neilflood6508 6 ай бұрын

There are three ways from Oxfordshire to Essex in two counties. The middle route would be Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, missing out Bedfordshire.

@ShhhhhNow 6 ай бұрын

i-O-wa 🤭 Love your vids

@Housecathst 6 ай бұрын

The pronunciation of Iowa makes my teeth itch 😂

@elin_ 6 ай бұрын

Same.. and I'm not even american

@jakusthekingpakus1 6 ай бұрын

I love this game, wish there was a version where you can play as many times as you want.

@rebatnaath8790 6 ай бұрын

There is, you can search for unlimited travle

@arnoldmmbb 6 ай бұрын

7:37 lol im dying 😂

@ChetMcSheply 3 ай бұрын

Tom, did you see that this week's Travle weekly challenge is to go between two countries "in a perfectly straight line?"

@Matticitt 6 ай бұрын

I love travle so much. It's a shame it's just one a day and you can't solve past ones.

@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 6 ай бұрын

Geo "does Syria have a coast?" Wizard. Amazing.

@AlfaGiuliaQV 6 ай бұрын

"Sometimes i just wish i was landlocked" I´m gonna go ahead and use that more often..

@andyjohnson4907 6 ай бұрын

Green shows the best place you could have chosen on your current route. Even if you made a mistake.

@Michael-kp4bd 6 ай бұрын

There may be multiple options, or your previous error now has multiple new options for optimal route (now including your +1 score). Truly, red just means you’ve added an unnecessary step, and green means you can still get there with your current score (+0, +1, +2, etc)

@andyjohnson4907 6 ай бұрын

@@Michael-kp4bd But when he got red in Wales on his first guess, then all green, he didn't get 100%.

@Michael-kp4bd 6 ай бұрын

@@andyjohnson4907 yes, he made a misstep on the 1st guess. Now, any remaining path is AT BEST one extra step from par (+0). His remaining guesses never ADDED to his +1 over par. Hence they are green. In other words, you are essentially correct, however there isn’t just one “best place you could have chosen,” there may be many routes that continue your performance of getting a score that is just 1 over par.

@andyjohnson4907 6 ай бұрын

@@Michael-kp4bd Cool. We're saying the same thing.

@wo262 6 ай бұрын

1:33 quite faithful rendition of the goofy aah snore

@barb0za0 6 ай бұрын

first thing i thought of lol

@waynegray2284 6 ай бұрын

Thats was a very cool game play more

@stijnpeeters19 6 ай бұрын

Once you guessed Illinois, it calculates the fastest route with Illinois included. Could have been just Michigan but Indiana also gets you there in 1 go. Same goes for Kentucky as it borders both Ohio and Illinois. For every 1+ it wil give you an orange tick I play the same maps everyday except for the UK I play the Dutch/Belgium map since I am dutch.

@hydrocharis1 6 ай бұрын

Did you also wait for the thumbnail that never came?