Rainbolt confon Vermont amb Suècia en un GeoGuessr de 40, 10 i 4 segons
Rainbolt encadena tres reptes de GeoGuessr amb límits de 40, 10 i 4 segons. Una carretera rural de Vermont li sembla sueca, i després intenta resoldre un mapa de punts triples.
Una carretera estreta, arbres alts, una marquesina de fusta i cap rètol fàcil de llegir. Rainbolt mira l’escena, la situa amb força confiança a Suècia i confirma la resposta. El mapa revela que era Vermont, als Estats Units.
Aquest error dona títol a «the vermont incident», una partida de GeoGuessr que combina reptes de 40, 10 i només 4 segons amb un mapa especial de punts triples fronterers. El vídeo ensenya fins a quin punt un jugador expert depèn del temps disponible: amb uns segons pot analitzar la carretera i la vegetació; amb quatre, sovint només pot reaccionar a una impressió visual.
Una localització que Rainbolt ja havia visitat
La sessió comença amb una coincidència extraordinària. La primera imatge mostra un camí de Dallas que Rainbolt havia recorregut anys enrere amb Toro, un amic i també jugador de GeoGuessr.
En aquella època, quan encara treballava a jornada completa, el creador feia una sèrie en què viatjava a una localització escollida per un mapa amb un punt de cada estat nord-americà. Una de les destinacions va ser Dallas, i durant el viatge va passejar el gos de Toro exactament per aquell camí.
Rainbolt no recorda immediatament l’adreça, però reconeix la història del lloc. Dubta si aprofitar aquella memòria es pot considerar un avantatge injust. Al final envia la resposta i celebra sobretot la casualitat.
La ronda següent és molt menys familiar. Una combinació de carreteres, senyals i vegetació li fa considerar el nord d’Espanya, Galícia, Portugal, Itàlia i fins i tot Grècia. Aquest encadenament de països no és indecisió aleatòria: cada opció comparteix alguna característica amb l’escena, però cap pista és prou clara per tancar el diagnòstic.
L’«incident» de Vermont
La localització que defineix el vídeo sembla nòrdica. Rainbolt estudia els arbres, el tipus de carretera i el paisatge rural. El seu primer marc mental abasta Suècia, Finlàndia i els països bàltics.
Acaba descartant les alternatives i es compromet amb Suècia. Quan apareix la solució, reacciona amb incredulitat: era Vermont.
La confusió és comprensible des del punt de vista visual. Vermont té grans zones boscoses, carreteres secundàries poc marcades i construccions de fusta que poden recordar Escandinàvia si no apareixen senyals, matrícules o mobiliari viari distintiu. La marquesina o petit pavelló que es veu a la imatge no resol l’ambigüitat.
El moment també mostra un risc habitual de GeoGuessr: formular massa aviat una hipòtesi regional i reinterpretar després totes les pistes perquè hi encaixin. Rainbolt veu un bosc boreal i busca diferències dins del nord d’Europa, en lloc de preguntar-se si el continent inicial era correcte.
El títol no fa referència a cap incident real a Vermont. És la manera humorística de convertir una errada molt visible en el centre narratiu del vídeo.
Què canvia entre 40, 10 i 4 segons
Els tres primers enllaços de la descripció corresponen a reptes amb límits de 40, 10 i 4 segons. A mesura que el cronòmetre baixa, també canvia el tipus de raonament.
Amb 40 segons encara es pot:
- inspeccionar la direcció de la carretera;
- comparar la vegetació;
- buscar línies, pals i senyals;
- revisar la generació de Street View;
- moure el mapa abans d’enviar.
Amb 10 segons, el jugador ha de prioritzar dues o tres pistes. Rainbolt prova respostes arriscades a Amèrica Llatina, considera Mèxic, Colòmbia o l’Argentina i accepta que, en una imatge difícil, una aposta específica pot donar molts punts o destruir la ronda.
Amb només 4 segons domina el reconeixement de patrons. Una sensació de Nigèria, Curaçao, Mèxic, Albània, els Països Baixos, Alemanya o el sud de l’Argentina s’ha de transformar gairebé immediatament en un clic.
Rainbolt resumeix una de les lliçons amb una idea senzilla: de vegades, menys és més. Quan no hi ha temps per sobreanalitzar, la primera intuïció entrenada pot superar una cadena de dubtes. No sempre funciona —Vermont n’és la prova—, però explica per què alguns resultats ultraràpids són sorprenentment bons.
Un mapa format només per punts triples
Després dels reptes temporitzats, Rainbolt busca un mapa diferent. Escull una selecció de punts triples: llocs on coincideixen les fronteres de tres països i que disposen de cobertura de Google Street View.
Aquí la partida es converteix en un problema de deducció. El nombre de punts triples possibles és limitat, de manera que una pista parcial pot reduir molt la llista.
En una ronda veu aigua, senyalització i un paisatge que li recorda el sud-est asiàtic. Considera el Triangle d’Or, on conflueixen les zones frontereres de Tailàndia, Laos i Myanmar. La presència del riu encaixa amb la hipòtesi.
En una altra, unes muntanyes d’aspecte europeu i una construcció semblant a un mirador o pavelló el desorienten. Intenta recordar quines combinacions de tres països poden tenir aquell relleu i compara visualment el punt amb el mapa.
L’última localització mostra indicis sud-americans: el revers d’un senyal que sembla brasiler, un pont i una frontera difícil de distingir. Rainbolt pensa en l’entorn de Letícia i admet que, quan falten pistes úniques, es pot «forçar» la resposta repassant la llista finita de punts triples.
Aquest mapa premia menys la memorització d’una carretera concreta i més el coneixement de fronteres, rius i geometria política.
La revisió dels resultats l’endemà
La part final es grava l’endemà, quan ja es poden comparar les respostes de la comunitat. Rainbolt obté una dotzena posició en un dels reptes, però treu importància al resultat perquè havia reconegut el camí de Dallas.
La revisió permet veure com altres jugadors van interpretar les mateixes escenes. Alguns s’acosten al nord d’Espanya en la ronda ibèrica; d’altres resolen millor una illa amb cobertura de Street View portada fins allà expressament. En el cas de Vermont, una resposta a Maine queda relativament ben classificada: és el país correcte i un paisatge regionalment semblant, encara que l’estat no coincideixi.
Rainbolt felicita diverses respostes, comprova com evoluciona la classificació de la lliga i observa que només resten sis dies de competició. No es limita a mirar qui ha guanyat: intenta entendre quina pista o quin coneixement ha permès cada encert.
Conclusions
«The Vermont incident» funciona perquè combina competència i vulnerabilitat. Rainbolt reconeix un camí que havia trepitjat personalment, resol ubicacions remotes amb molt poca informació i, alhora, envia una carretera de Vermont a l’altra banda de l’Atlàntic.
Els quatre reptes mostren habilitats diferents: observació amb 40 segons, selecció ràpida amb 10, intuïció amb 4 i deducció geopolítica al mapa de punts triples.
La lliçó no és que una persona experta sempre encerti. És que sap convertir cada error en informació: revisar per què Vermont semblava Suècia, comparar les respostes dels rivals i actualitzar el repertori visual per a la pròxima partida.
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0:00
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Alright, today I played the game of Jueguessor and it's another day to wake up with the privilege to use your non-gant. Wait, I'm gonna reset the seed. Is this a one way now? Let me just see if this is... Do you mean Toro walked his dog? The walked his dog here. So this is this is some incredible lore that I don't know if you have to be like 200 viewer Andy like three years ago. I did this series when I was still working full time and on the weekends I just like to go places I was living in an LA I had like a map of like one location every state and I would fly to wherever Whatever location I got I ended up getting Dallas and at the at that point in time Toro and other geyser player and the friend also lived in Dallas and we walked around that path his dog there That's actually so funny. I mean, I didn't remember where it was so maybe I should just send this but is that cheating? Oh, that's actually that's really funny. I love locations like that. Okay. This is not easy. I mean, it's like Spain I think like northern Spain, the Liccio maybe or like Italy that sign I can't do that's a French sign or like a Spanish sign. I feel like it could be if it's not Spain but would be ever Greece the roads like these trees feel more like northern Spain like north of the Liccio like in the Liccio could be Portugal I really don't know to be fair. That's fine. I think do we know my gosh where is he like the hardest locations? Oh man, okay, I can't believe we got that trail and Dallas. Oh my gosh. That was pretty cool. That was like three or four years ago. Um, okay. What is this though? I'm kind of stalling up. Obviously something in like this area like Sweden to Finland to Baltics. Maybe I just clicked the Baltic Sea. It could be the move here honestly.
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1:37
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Um, I do think I should commit Sweden though. Fairly, really confidently I think. Oh no. The only thing that... No, I mean like I get it. I get it. Don't give me a wrong. I get it. But like I also don't, you know. We'll cut. I'm sure it's a great town. I resist the urge today. I resist the urge. Did I just go Sweden on Vermont? Yes. They have a nice little pavilion. That makes up for me getting the the repeat the ira le repeat okay, we're on the way on for okay. Well, that's helpful. This is Jin three and that's Jin four so we should wait is it? Yeah, let's go somewhere over here. I guess it's weird though the water is like east That makes sense see the reason why I was asking if it was Jin through Jin four was because I was like okay I was like it's probably an island but like typically islands like this are just like that these virgin two every three islands so
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3:15
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That's a cop, that's fine though, I can't really cope with that. What the heck? Oh, this is a cyclocation. Holy crap. What do you do here? Wait, do you go in the one deathlord in Argentina? Oh, no, this is not good, I don't think. I mean, this is a very difficult obviously, so I'm not even... I have a crazy guy. So I mean, obviously, like you might just want to go co-loers and be like this on this, but I kind of like go for something more gibberish. Because it's probably more likely Mexico, co-lo. Safe is best here, probably is due to Mexico or co-lo. But there's like roads up here that I think that... There's like a random world where it can be so I'm just gonna risk it because just for the biscuit yeah Listen listen I accept my fate I accept my fate I accept my fate um That's a very cool rhythm. Okay, what's the next one? I'm just glad I got that first location is actually crap. I did not even know the ad street because there What does this can but oh, now this is like Nigeria or something what that's crazy You could go curcure to be fair with the winter like that. Oh, I'm gonna do it
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4:53
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Don't know if that's a good guess but it could be yeah, wow It's a great pool 2-2 and 3-0 I don't know what this is again you could go Mexico or like a bany or something I'm to go bany of it. That was a great guess I'm playing really well at way of shit. I mean I could pull out a pretty good score here. I'm gonna go It's either Netherlands or Germany. I think that tree in the bad looks weird This again looks like those trees in southern Argentina. I can be in gas left though. I guess not okay The mice was my score on leafguessor just better than my score on Yes, it was classic actual classic moment right there sometimes the less is more sometimes the less is just more You have to just come in while here. I think if it's not yeah great soil what is that? Or will guess it's not really that bad very loci's great is it Kimbra? No, I'm sitting like a pool Wow
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6:30
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I'm playing great. And people are probably thinking how like there's always okay. Never mind, they're probably not thinking. Carfax, show me? Nope. Yeah, that's a pretty big game. Pretty consistent game I'd say. I mean, the European Turkey's pretty free with the like the landscape was ballad ballad, but yeah, I'm gonna do a fun map to the other one play indoor. I could do airports. What's another fun map to play? This could be, I think after yesterday's incident, this would be a good fun map. Contains all tribe points that Google Street view. Okay. What's the record for him to do? You're absolutely nothing. Okay, so if I finish it map or I finish it, I will look at it. This looks like the tripoint of true. This is Sweden nor A Finland, right? Am I missing something? This is the golden triangle. I mean, it could be the golden triangle. If it's not, then it could be like, okay, so I mean, I mean, obviously says last right here. So I'm thinking the golden triangle, which is on a river, which is why I think that. We can't trust the compass here because it's Or it could be maybe the one with lauvian nomin China, so that I'm thinking which is new of Ruby there, okay? So maybe we already set the golden triangle. Yes. Okay. Well, that's actually we're going pretty well here. I think Bruse is doing pretty well. It seems like it's worth it. Okay, never mind. What? Bruse almost said New Zealand. Brother, you were playing a tri-point map. Hey, to break it to you. Okay. Let me think.
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8:08
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These mountains are like the only thing throw me off. I really cannot think of anything. I mean like it looks European I would say I don't know so if it's European and it's the tripod it's not like spain and door of France obviously with the water not it can't be anything over there It's not France it can't be it's never over here so no not this tree. No, that's the freaking out Is it like crease north out of the area or something? Or like I'm gonna try and do some deductive reasoning here and like I can't read anything on there I really I'm just gonna scan I really don't know that this not so range we like oh parent view maybe is there a gazebo? Wait is that the gazebo? Wait imagine wait that could actually be the gazebo yeah, it's a maybe it's oh that's awkward
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9:46
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Okay, but like hear me out. That's so counts, right? Like we still count that right? There's no gazebo even mapped here, bro. Well, that gives you a way. Wait. I mean, the back of the sign looks Brazilian. So I'll read you just like somewhere near Latissia or are we like, but let me pair my Brazil. Don't think so. But let me a pro Brazil. There's a bridge there. Kind of makes sense. I mean this is the this is the final round too. I feel like I've been I've been doing pretty good, but this is just such a deductive game Which is why I kind of like it and there yeah like it's You can really you can brute force your way into it. Good guess. You know like there's only so many tri points So you just can't think about it could be a very bad guess Yeah, I didn't know. Oh, it's not a bad guess wait let me let me let me look now let me go see what this little this border looks like come on spot the difference ready you literally can't tell them that image is changing
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11:23
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Let's see how everyone else does. Alright, it's the next day. Let's see how we did shall we? I'm only like a six day circuit in placement. I think today's where it ends. So definitely on the first one here. I message Toro and he's like out of town so I don't think he was able to play the daily's. But, okay, I'm game 12th place here. Okay, yeah, that's just, that doesn't count guys. It doesn't count. I mean, I didn't place. I get in the vanage like that. I mean, I really wish Toro was able to play this. That's so fun. It's so fun. Okay. Yeah, it's a treasure. James Kagan first place, Gorka and River. A couple of us in northern Spain lots Eastern. No, that's a, yeah, I mean, did it probably play there? I don't think it probably played, but, oh, Gorka didn't he? Yeah, he guessed. Yeah. Makes sense. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Okay, shout out to Mipz, Ziggy Trickter, Axel, CG, Finn, Aiman, Maccom.
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13:01
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That's our money to pot it and chumming. Yeah, you know what? And insane guesses by Lemlin, Tractor. Lemlin, I was trying not to say Lemlin, er, Tractor isn't Lemlin. Yeah, lots of them. I gave a based. Maybe to great guess further. Great guess. I even get this island. Yeah, lots of us right here. The fact that this has ging 4, like they had to ship the boat over. It just worked to drive like three roads here. I mean, shut the Google. Okay, I mean this is nothing that really was the real I was probably thinking that way I didn't know where was but yeah, I'm in a great guess my fin assumingly knowing the road Yeah, nice again. I'm doing well again apparently it's the exact plane on his phone these and he might have more vision But we don't know he doesn't know if he maybe he can watch it with us now. Okay Wait, Salto Maze is a bass guest, but wait, guessing Salto main getting fifth place is maybe the most giga chat I think I've ever seen Maybe even arguably fourth it become Oscars phone screen Because sometimes when you play on phone it and it's like a zoomed in map it shows more location or a different view of the location Curgh, yep nice, but maybe not maybe it's just go with it Yeah, being nice This is a pretty this was a pretty senior as they as seen though
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14:39
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Great guess here like everyone and then um yeah again no one going chilly though so oh nice dude oh my gosh I'm playing so well with that again yep classic Perilusia game perilusia there is insane. We have like only six more days left in the release so getting is best yeah this is pretty soon getting the best points I can here the jk showing the car effects Oh, God, it gets too river, it gets too limi-gits 11 and I think it's more nice 6 out of gets 10 stuff by the gets. Right at orange, nice, we're catching up. Alright, I'll see you guys tomorrow.
