top 40 most useful geoguessr tips
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
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there is like 1,000 more things i could mention so expect more of these vids dw.
ty to the pros that helped w/ tips:
gelotris: / @gelotris
salvado: / @salvado_geoguessr7660
kodiak: / @kodiakgg
stique: / @geostique
plonkit.net
& many more
edited by: rawcruz (linktr.ee/rawcruz)
chapters:
0:00 intro
0:11 asia
2:20 russia
4:54 europe
7:04 africa
9:01 oceania
11:07 south america
12:44 usa
14:08 canada
15:06 outro - Hry
Bold of you to assume that I know what country we're in in the first place
You could even say it's very BOLT of him to assume that... (so sorry, i love bad puns)
Yeah I though "easy" tips was gonna be how to identify countries lmao, these tips are not useful to me
@@a2rhombus2 fr lmao
Literally bro I’m too high for this
My thoughts exactly
I dont even play geoguesser, i just find it very amusing how a meta can be developed out of anything, even irl
Not really a meta. A meta is a way a game is played. This game is only played one way - trying to guess as close as possible. No style can beat other styles specifically and become meta
@Mark Hall So would you say that language is a meta? I personally think that the only “metas” are camera and car related things.
If you start to say that bollards, and then poles, and then signs and road lines are meta, then eventually language becomes meta and the only things left are architecture and landscape.
I even once saw a comment about how the Lesothoan mountains are “meta”. That is the exact purpose of the game.
@@Babyshark-co8ks it's just Most Effective Tactics Available. Generally finding ways to simplify region guessing with the least amount of learning possible so it can be either car meta or bollard meta etc IMO. Learning an entire language is a very time consuming thing to do when there are usually other ways to region guess that are easier so I wouldn't include that but just memorising parts of languages (like prefecture kanji) is not that difficult and so is also a meta.
yeah, i’ve had to use metas to find where i am in real life. i didn’t know where my own house was located until i noticed the Roof Racks underneath me
@@mooodeuce Bollards are IRL so they aren't meta. Meta is only things you won't find IRL.
"nice" "we'll take that" "keep going"
rainbolt's trademark
"lock in"
Rainbolt meta
6:40 bruh imagine just driving your truck one day and becoming some tip for madlads who speed run the earth
😂😂
it’s really awesome that rainbolt is single-handedly making geoguessr a mainstream game, the community has grown so much since he blew up, super happy to have such a great game with such a great community
Yeah fuck geowizard then... He's also helped
i love rainbolt but when you say "single-handedly" it super dismisses the effort and content that dozens of other people put out there, js
@@apoc7 as someone who joined geoguessr in the wave he’s talking about, it was Rainbolt and Rainbolt alone. After he got me into it I started watching other CZcamsrs but Trevor is solely responsible for last years geoguessr wave
@@colinwilliams3459 as someone who has been playing for years, it wasnt rainbolt and rainbolt alone
good talk
@@apoc7you proved his point. You were playing since long. He isn't talking about people like you
Some Canada Tips:
UPDATE (As of October 8th). THERE IS NOW GENERATION 4 COVERAGE IN THE YUKON AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES THAT JUST RELEASED.
- In Ontario, their province highways are usually trapezoids with numbers, and the big highways use a crown logo.
- In BC, it is very common to see hanging signs off of a post, like the green sign example Rainbolt showed.
- Canada has a checkerboard "end of road" sign, which can't be found anywhere else in the world. (It is in most provinces. Quebec has a different one, which is a large yellow sign with a double-arrowed line normally held up by two metal posts.)
- It is quite common in Quebec for their road signs to be bigger than other provinces like Ontario, and their symbol road signs are commonly have two metal posts holding them up.
- Ontario's plates are mostly blue tinted due to blue text on a white license plate.
- Alberta has exclusive and easy to remember bollards that are VERY common in the province.
- New Brunswick signs are mostly bilingual. Some sections of the province sometimes have only French.
- The transformers on Canada's poles can face different directions. But if they face perpindicular to the driver, those are way more common in the Maritimes, usually New Brunswick, BC, etc. Ontario's transformers normally face parallel.
- It has been mentioned by pros before, but Ontario can have wooden guardrails on the side of their roads, most commonly found in Northern Ontario.
- Vancouver Island has unique vegetation, dominated by pine trees. Pine trees are not exclusive to the island, however.
- Each province has exclusive traffic lights. Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, PEI and the Territories use horizontal traffic lights, while Ontario and the rest of the provinces uses vertical lights.
The thing to remember about Ontario is that most of the time, each traffic light is yellow (sometimes they can be black) and connected to a different streetlight, which separates it from other provinces like the Maritimes, Manitoba, BC, etc.
- Kamloops, BC, and the surrounding valleys are very dry, which look pretty different to the rest of the province. If you see very brown grass and it looks very dry and you know you are in BC, it could be the Okanogan Valley or the Kamloops area.
- Lastly, a bit of a specific hint. There is a town called Inuvik in the Northwest NWT, which has very specific coverage. A white mosque is located in the town, which is very recognizable to know where you are. To confirm, the coverage is taken in Autumn, so the trees are different colours, and particularly short. Other roads up in the Yukon can have short trees, autumn coverage, and Gen 2.
- On Highway 1 in Yukon, you can often see a biker gang on some sections of the highway west of Whitehorse. If you see that, out of my experience you are often closer to the lake along that stretch of road near Kluane Lake.
- The Top Of The World Highway (HWY 2) in the Yukon has specific coverage west of Dawson City near the Alaskan border. It is a very foggy day with black dots on the camera and short trees. It looks very different to the rest of the coverage on that road to the east because of the increase in elevation. (Mentioned by @CanucksFTW)
- New coverage released in Labrador that is Gen 4 and has black spruce trees which are rather short. That coverage is usually on the 389 in Quebec and the 500 in Labrador, which are the same road. (Mentioned by @CanucksFTW)
- Generation 2 Camera is the only coverage taken in the territories. It is very rare to slim that you see Gen 3+ there. If you think you are up North and it is a Gen 3+ camera, you are probably in Alaska.
Hope these tips helped :)
Strange how zigzag mentioned the transformers directions and he said if the transformer was facing perpendicular to the driver, it would always be new brunswick or bc
@@mxrt0 I live in Canada. I learned the transformers thing from ZigZag I will admit, but I know a lot of small metas about the provinces since I grinded the Canada map for quite some time :)
Not all plates are blue, most are white.
@@Cricketvic from what I have seen, the plates when they are blurred kinda look blue due to some blue text, I had an Ottawa round the other day and all the plates looked blue and white
@@piggy5861 Can you share them ahah
revealing my secret turkey metas 😱
ur too good gelotris
why did you tell him
I wonder if GeoGuessr pros feel like everywhere is oddly familiar when they travel. Probably would confuse the locals when you tell them so many random mundane facts you've picked up over the years.
I mean your right, but these guys never touched gras in their life🙂
bold of you to assume geoguessr pros leave their house
The locals won't even know
@@lukash3284 they don’t need too, they’ve seen all the grass on this planet.
"I got off the plane in Senegal but there are no rifts in the sky, what's going on"
Really cool how specific vehicles followed the google car long enough to become a meta in a game
Some Russia tips:
-If you see a blue bus, it must be Moscow or nearby regions
-If you are in a city and you see many small churches it almost always Vologda or Yaroslavl
-Mountains not covered up in anything are usually met right above Mongolia
-If you see a lot of hills in a city that’s almost always Vladivostok
-Poor-looking villages with houses made of wood(not planks!) are definitely in a central part of Russia
-Two-floored building with shops can be met only in Sochi or nearby regions
Every time I see him explain how he guesses, I expect that it’ll make him seem more human… but no. I am in awe
Very helpful, definetly learnt a good amount from that. Thanks for sharing Rainbolt :)
let's go!!
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@@georainbolt perhaps another video for real beginners which enables us to guess even the country right, with much simpler and more basic tips
Drive left/right, roads, traffic signs, bollards, perhaps climates,landscape/geography/natural structures etc
That would be more useful for me and robably mny others as well
It's like those perfectly prepared school presentations but this time it's actually about something interesting.
True, but then again, I never thought I'd be interested in shit like the shape of Turkish water tanks and the colour of Alaskan license plates.
@@aithon358 well, anything can be interesting to you if put in the right context. one as a god beasting through geography and how to do it, to force feeding you trivia you'll never need. that's why the shape of the sign in rural area of a vague country is more interesting than school.
It's wild how much I learn about places I have actually lived from videos like this . . . Like the "totally normal telephone poles" I saw every day for 20+ years turn out to be found nowhere else? WILD.
if the speed sign says "MAXIMUM" you're in canada. if it says "SPEED LIMIT" you're in the united states.
and if the sign is in german you’re probably in neither
Someone should make an interactive map with all these tips. Would be a great website
I have one :)
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1sPQ5hs_vUAaY0mBb9OsZSpJYIiedNDg&usp=sharing
geotips is just this!
Million dollar video idea: Diverse world but you get 25 pins to put around the world map before the game starts and you can only guess on those pins so you try to figure out where the most geo guessing happens and try to predict it like a heat map
awesome idea
100 players connect.. 😆
except everyone who isn't trash would all choose the exact same and it'd be easily predictable
One tip I like is that Finnish has vowel harmony whereas Estonian doesn't, so if you ever see one of {ä, ö, y} in the same word as {a, o, u}, then you know it's Estonian
Beautiful, the Baltics are super difficult for me and I've lost out on a few rounds for misinterpreting road signs. Thanks for the tip!
Not entirely true, because there's no vowel harmony across compound words, which might throw you off. Poikaystävä (boyfriend) is one example.
Not always true, mut might save you yes. One tip is to memorize the specific letters; in finnish there's a swedish letter Åå, this one mostly only on the west side of the country, around the capital and in the islands. In estonian there's Õõ and Üü, which are not found in finnish language.
that patreon in the description looking epic
NEDERDRAAAT
I bet pros like Rainbolt don't even look at signs. There could be like this huge sign saying "WELCOME TO BRISBANE" and they'll be like: "Yeah, these bollards are very specific for the Brisbane region, so I'm gonna go there." *destroys space bar* Nice.
"If I see a blue sky, I think Earth" is pretty much as far as my geo guesser knowledge extends.
Yeah but sunsets on Mars are blue
I guess northern Europe is a different planet
i joined the patreon
i cant wait to get to know you guys better, i really look up to you
We all know the Turkish Pro is Gelotris
I dont
i do
@@boi1613 this dude don’t watch the tourneys 🤦🏻♂️
@@ryenpacino9793 fr 😭
@@ryenpacino9793 He has a life
Started playing Geoguessr recently, so fun and challenging! Definitely gonna watch more of your videos, super helpful
The editing and polish on your videos has gotten so good over time, nice work ❤
Tip for Italy. If you find a lot of holes in the streets then you are clearly in Roma.
Helpful Tip for CANADA:
Only the provinces of Ontario, B.C., Manitoba, and New Brunswick require license plates on the front of vehicles. Therefore if you see most vehicles with a license plate on the front, you are in one of these 4 provinces.
If you see most vehicles with only a license plate on the rear you must be in the remaining 6 provinces or 3 territories.
Thank you so much for this helpful information.
At, 8:43, only the snowy parts of Australia have yellow outer lines, usually near Kosciuszko National Park on Alpine Way in NSW.
This is probably an extremely, extremely niche tip, but Ohio can also have yellow license plates. They're given here to indicate that someone has a DUI on their record
And Jersey is lighter yellow meanwhile ny and Alaska are more saturated
I really enjoyed the indo tips! Cant wait to use them :^)
hehehehe
Can't believe you didn't include the totally consistent Java helmet meta 😮💨
Thank you Rainbolt!! Started really getting into Geoguessr because of you and your tournaments, getting better and actually starting to win most duels has become so much fun, one day hope to duel the man himself! Or to have you featured in a stream (When I'm powerful enough)
bro is using the tomatoanus pfp
I'm in awe of your knowledge, thank you for sharing! In the future, could you do more general tips about identifying the country in the first place? I think a lot of us struggle with that and get it completely wrong so we don't end up applying the regional tips very well...
Only way is to play isnt it
In Australia you can sometimes see yellow plates in WA as well since the old style of WA plate is yellow, but it’s being phased out and increasingly less common. Also there’s a new style called the “European” style that literally looks identical to the eu plate (blue strip and everything), plus there’s a lot of custom plates that can be all sorts of colours so I just tend not to rely on plates in Australia.
Awesome video. Thanks so much for your tips! I know I have to go through them 100x to memorize, but stuff like this helps a lot!
The black border on the bottom of speed signs occurs in parking lots and reserve land in Manitoba as well 🗣️
My guy still killed the space bar even on a tips video haha great work as usual
I'd say I'm above average at Geoguessr with my best regions being western europe and africa. I struggle a lot in South America and Asia so this video helps a ton, thanks Rainbolt
ye but west Europe and Africa are easy cuz Africa is just meta, really distinctive and Western Europe have major differences with reg plates
@@oneshotkid_jh1895 Agreed for Africa, though for Western Europe it could be tricky at times, although I would agree with you on the most part. Eastern Europe is really tricky tho, I have to say.
For me North America and Eastern Europe is extremely difficult. I always mix up Hungary/Poland with
the Baltics and sometimes even with something like France.
@@helenzhao2926 North America can be difficult but even though ive only been to the south for a few weeks I find it relatively easy to region guess, the vast majority of the locations are on the east coast and the further south, the more it looks like northern Argentina and then it looks more tropical near florida
@@helenzhao2926 the Baltics are very difficult but learning their poles and bollards can help. I also use the fact that often (def not always) wide gravel roads are Lithuania and thinner ones the more north you go. you can use the Mao to find the greener and higher up places which a surprising amount of people don't use. most underrated tip imo
Imagine blindfolding this dude and throw him at very random place in earth, give him 30 seconds and he will guess exactly in which country he's in and city lol.
These are literally so helpfullll I've been trying to get better at geoguessr and this video will definitely help
Many of these I didn't know, great tips! 👍
Also some tips:
-Colombian Cars have yellow plates on both sides of the car, vehicles in Colombia that carry out specific tasks, for example trucks also have a license plate o the side of the vehicle.
-Puerto Rico has no front plates
-(Not Sure) Malaysia or Indonesia doesn't require Motorbike riders to wear helmets.
-Poland is the only country to use these letters: Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ś, Ź, Ż
-If in Europe, and you see a lot of umlauts (two dots above letters), and single dashes above letters you will be in Hungary.
-If the country looks British/Irish and u have English language but also as a different language in a different font, you are in Ireland, potentially Wales.
-When seeing rifts in the sky in a European-climate country you are in Montenegro or Macedonia (someone correct me)
-Yellow filled circular signs in Europe-climate are found in mainly Sweden and Finland.
-European (Union) license plates have a blue strip on the left of the plate.
-If you appear on an ISLAND with a flock of birds, you will be on Midway Atoll, especially the Eastern Island
To find Midway Atoll, I just go to the Time Difference line on the Pacific, and at the height of Hawaii, just zoom in slightly and you'll see it
-A Town ending in -owo will be in Northern Poland (There is one exception but compared to the other 1000 towns that are North you probably won't get it)
-When in Taiwan, the telephone numbers are organised so that Taipei begins with 01 or 1, and then the numbers go up, as you go down the western coast, so that the town at the south (Kaohsiung) begins with 06 or 6, then beginning with 07 or 7, you will be anywhere on the western coast.
-My biggest tip when playing Geoguessr is to look at the billboards, or advertised boards the most out of anything, as they supply you with a two letter code at the end of a link, or email, giving you the exact country you're in.
wow a geoguessr tips video thats actually helpful 🤯
no but seriously so many tips videos are outdated or barely go into any detail so this is super good for any new players
id say this is advanced, not for new players, he briefly covers why it would be that country, but new players most likely wont always know that, if you couldnt tell, all of the tips were about region guessing in countries, not just guessing countries. thats why i think is more pointed towards the more experienced players who already know how to recognise the country, but struggle to region guess within it.
After watching a ton of these videos…i have a really good one for the US that is havent heard mentioned yet. This one really helps more so for move games, and it may seem obvious…but if they plop you in the middle of nowhere near small town USA with no info…start scanning the horizon for the town’s water tower. This will at least give you a direction to start heading for info and if you get close enough to the tower it will have the name of the town or maybe sometimes the county/township on it. Great vid RB…thanks for sharing brother. Keep up the good work.
absolutely love learning the tiniest details about every country. im an artist and am getting into this to add a holistic sense of global knowledge to my work. thank you for all the tips!
i love the way he talks i could literally listen to him explain stuff for hours
Imagine city planners decide to use these landmarks randomly just to mess up geoguessr players-
Thank you very much, not many videos on advanced tips like these
Actually perfect timing. Just started to try to get good at the game
Thank you, I watched this video, and I now have beaten Stique, and I am ready to win your tournament this weekend
Although I can't remember all of them at once, they're really really helpful. I enjoy it!
NZ's Blenheim does have a lot of vineyards but the other place it can be commonly found is in Martinborough, a smaller town on the lower North Island, east of wellington.
I have a tip for Northern Kentucky. They have way to much La Rosa’s, and they have a lot of coral like cliff sides
Please make more. Enjoyed a ton!
wow i wasnt expecting to learn so much from this! i only knew about 50% of the stuff in this video - great video rainbolt!
Awsome tips as usual!
Very, very helpful but definitely something that has to be watched a bunch of times to work on remembering. A much appreciated video for someone brand new (me).
REALLY good tips... lots I've never seen before. Now I can go play and get them all mixed up. Cheers!
Wowzers, these are going to help a ton!
i was hoping for this, thankss
It would be really cool for the geoguessr community to make like a big Google document where people can add their local quirks.
Like Berlins distinct street signs and orange trash cans for example.
Extra tip for Canada: Every speed limit sign in BC will say km/h on it using the same colour text as the rest of the speed sign, contrary to Ontario, which uses the black bar. As far as I have seen, it is the only province that does this, and I have never seen a speed sign that doesn't (as someone who is from BC)
10:00 Acutally, the black marking is only found between gold coast and sunshine coast. Very helpful.
much LOVE ❤❤❤❤ Great content!
every single video you make makes me laugh and learn more ur the greatest!!!
this helps alot thank you
Very helpful; Thanks for the tips!
would be interesting to get a video of 'the lore behind the geoguesser tips' some other youtuber can make - like why is the road surface in texas grainy? a technical explanation of that, might me interesting, also the water towers distinct shapes in south turkey. Its interesting how the countries policies affect its appearance.
actual goated content and patreon 🙏
This is amazing, thanks dawg
That's helpful, ty for doing this video
He should do videos with an eye tracker set up so we can see what he's actually looking out for to guess a location
2:02 it’s not the only Mongolia city with sunset coverage but it’s the most common by far. another way to tell is that the tent is loose on the left side of the tent. It’s only found in that city. if you ever were to get sunset coverage without the meta i just said you are most likely in Arvaikheer or some other rural roads that you'll memorize over time.
ratio + im better at mongolia
@@flickshotzr1852 DUDEEE!
Very very very helpfull! thank you so much king!
Mate, I'm from Spain and have traveled around Extremadura 20+ times. Never noticed the green bit you mentioned at 6:30. Ty!
definitely not going to forget all of this as soon as i play:)) thanks
One of the best tips I got from a friend is if you see asian letters and you dont know if its Japan, Taiwan or South Korea then if the letters have alot of circles then its 99% South Korea.
nice video! its really cool that you're able to pursue this as a full time thing, and i'm looking forward to everything in the future- GL :D
Super helpful! I can only hope I remember some of these as they show up lol
That was amazing at the 14:00 mark. I Haven't seen those gas prices in forever. Lol. This is awesome what you do sir, along with your community.
Amazing video. I would appreciate another tips video for more beginner-ish level. You know - basic stuff. Poles, lanes etc
Great help, lad. My thanks.
This was very informative thanks
So much undiscovered alpha in geoguessr, I was watching a pro tournament and they all hedged a country while I knew the region instantly being from the country
thanks for the tips!
I don’t even play geoguessr but this video was fascinating and seems very useful
Thank you very much, mister bolt!
Also I have geo tips for California as someone from there
If you see rolling hills of brown grass and giant oaks spaced out quite a bit you are either just outside of the Bay Area or near the sierra mountians
If you see a snowy volcano that is near Redding in Northern California
Snowy peaks in general are either the Sierra’s or north cali
If you see (the wine plants forgor how they were spelt but it started with a v) that is near Napa
If you see farmland your somewhere in the valley
If there is desert your most likely in southeastern cali
If you see giant cliffs and giant trees your on the northern cali coast
If there is fog your on the northern coasts of cali
If you see black sand your in humbolt county
Big pines = redwoods area
Medium pines = sierras
Another useful Indonesia region guessing tip is almost all houses in Bali have ceramic tiled roofs with a shrine on them.
This was really helpful u should make another
Omg the chances lmao. I just finished watching this video and got the Wellington sign on a 4x damage round of duels. Thanks Rainbolt!
Hi I'm kabul from discord
This is the first comment I've found from you on a rainbolt vid
Look at my cringe vladivostok speedrun
High effort content. Love it
the cabbage meta always makes me chuckle I dont rly know why :D
Really interesting ! 🙏
idk if you'll see this, but if you do i've just got something for you to think about. (loved the vid btw)
there's an overwatch creator called KarQ who has a tried and true format of "1 tip for every x" or "one fact for every x" etc. where that x is overwatch related stuff for him of course
but i think a
"1 tip for every country in geoguessr", "1 niche tip for each country", "1 tip for each US state", "1 tip for each south american country", "1 meta tip for each x", "1 landscape tip for each x", "1 NMPZ tip for each x", "1 rapid guess tip for each x", "3 tips for each gamemode"
could do well on your channel. obv just do the content you like, but that video format has proven to be really popular elsewhere and is exactly the kind of title to draw in and get interested new people who dont already know about geoguessr rather than just the people already in the community to build up the playerbase and fans of the tournies.
keep it up man
His pattern recognition skills is beyond godlike. Rainbolt should consider a career in medicine. I'd reckon he'd be the best pathologist in the world.
No, he wouldn't. 😊 Medicine and geoguessr are very different. (I'm a medicine student.)
Some people may have a capable mind for it but not enjoy it tho..
Thanks for making this video!!! Needed to improve my elo hahaha
Damn I'm surprised you didn't cover the roof rack tape meta in Ghana! If I'm not mistaken the Ghana coverage features a car with black tape on one of the roof rack corners, has helped me a lot!
this video was great, time to use these tips when i do some team duels 😈
One little tips for guessing indonesia, if you see clay roof tile, you are probably gonna be in central or east java. If you see iron sheet than you will be in other part except in that region.