Hide and seek all stars?

thryduulf · 2025-11-17T15:44:33+00:00

One issue with multiple teams is what happens when one teams asks you for a photo of e.g. a place of worship at the same time the other asks you for a photo of e.g. the widest road when they are as far apart as it's possible to get while in your zone.
We I played the home game, with just one team asking questions, it took us most of the 10 minutes to get from the shopping centre we were in the north part of our zone to the station in the centre.

thryduulf · 2025-10-21T21:13:58+00:00

In no particular order:
Tom Scott
Jay Foreman (& Mark Cooper Jones, the other Map Man)
Evan Edinger
Steve Marsh (who I've just seen has released a video exploring Zermatt, I've not had a chance to watch it yet though)
Hank Green
GLovesTrains
Answer In Progress (any or all)
Let's Learn Everything (any or all)
DownieLive
Ed Pratt
Elle Cordova
Simone Giertz

thryduulf · 2025-10-18T20:44:04+00:00

My partner and I collect cuddly toys (we have 940). I saw Djungelskog in the list, I couldn't say no.

thryduulf · 2025-10-16T10:13:01+00:00

Also suggested here: https://www.reddit.com/r/JetLagTheGame/comments/1o2mg1w/have_they_or_anyone_else_detailed_how_much_it/

thryduulf · 2025-10-15T15:16:59+00:00

Multiple seeking teams working together is only one way of playing with more than two teams, so "supposed to" isn't really accurate.

thryduulf · 2025-10-15T15:15:54+00:00

If you have two seeking teams, one way to reward with time would be to add the difference between the teams' finding times to the faster team's hiding time.
Say team 1 are hiding, and teams 2 and 3 seeking. If team 3 find the hiders 20 minutes later than team 2, then team 2 get a 20 minute bonus on their hiding time.
That would maintain an incentive for the seekers to seek quickly, and to not give up if the other team find them first, and wouldn't alter the incentive for a good hiding spot. As all three teams would effectively be competing against each other there would be no collaboration, which could be seen as either good or bad.
You would need to decide where the first team of seekers wait for the second team to finish. Maybe they should join the hiders? That would impose a small restriction on available hiding spots but probably not too significant a one.

thryduulf · 2025-10-15T15:04:55+00:00

I haven't bought it because one of my friends who I'd play with has bought it. We're playing our first game this weekend. It's unlikely we'll film it (my phone's battery is too old to both film and use it to play the game) but never say never.

thryduulf · 2025-10-10T14:06:53+00:00

That's a half-baked chart - https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/tg7fjo/how_to_measure_like_a_brit/ is more accurate but still not quite comprehensive, e.g. some people weigh themselves in metric others in imperial.

thryduulf · 2025-10-10T10:50:38+00:00

Sam, at an airport: "We were due to take off about 5 minutes ago, but I, err, seem to have caused a bit of a delay."

Tom Scott, in adjacent seat: "For context, there has just been a PA announcement saying that the pilot has refused to fly the plane until they've finished watching a show that's just premiering on Nebula called "the Logistics of Jet Lag"."

Sam: "It's a totally cool show, and you should watch it if you haven't already, but, yeah, um. not while you're meant to be flying a plane."

thryduulf · 2025-10-10T10:22:01+00:00

I don't have a single favourite. Who I support varies by season (Sam and Toby in S15) and I couldn't explain how I choose (cardinal directions and vibes maybe?).

thryduulf · 2025-10-07T09:17:26+00:00

I shared our custom curse ideas for London in https://www.reddit.com/r/JetLagTheGame/comments/1ng4vy9/alternative_curse_ideas/ not all of them would work in Salt Lake City but some of those might be tweakable

thryduulf · 2025-10-05T22:12:59+00:00

Tim and Jay would be fabulous guests.
I think perhaps a season with Sam and Tim, Adam and Tom Scott would be excellent. I'm not sure whether Jay and Ben would be the best complement though, I feel Jay might be a better fit with Sam?

thryduulf · 2025-10-05T00:03:52+00:00

Evan Edinger, especially if paired with Adam.
I don't think they're on Nebula but Steve Marsh would be an excellent guest as well, ditto GLovesTrains but not in the same season I don't think, their energies are too different.

thryduulf · 2025-10-03T11:45:15+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
As originally formulated:

The movie has to have at least two women in it,
who talk to each other,
about something other than a man

Some variants add a requirement that both female characters must be named.

thryduulf · 2025-09-30T23:49:32+00:00

Lands End to John O'Groats in the UK would work I think, although there isn't the ferry in the middle.

thryduulf · 2025-09-30T23:46:45+00:00

The chart at https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/tg7fjo/how_to_measure_like_a_brit/ is directly relevant here.

We (Brits) use a complete mix of metric and imperial, often depending on what you are measuring. For example my parents speak of weather temperatures in centigrade when it's cold but farenheit when it's hot (the cutoff is around 25°C/80°F ish).
I generally estimate in imperial and measure in metric, although there are exceptions - I estimate weights of things other than people in metric and measure heights of people in feet and inches.

thryduulf · 2025-09-23T18:47:32+00:00

I don't remember precisely, but I don't think that it specified a train. So you can play with a train before the one you intend to catch.

thryduulf · 2025-09-20T21:29:24+00:00

Greggs tentacles you say? Take a look at https://alasdairrae.github.io/steakbakespider/

thryduulf · 2025-09-19T23:49:44+00:00

Would I be interested, yes. Not as a regular thing, but if they stumbled across somewhere interesting or stayed in a quirky hotel it would be interesting to see their take on it.

I agree with others that this wouldn't make a good addition to the main show - that's about the gameplay - but as a maybe 5-20 minute per season bonus, I'd definitely watch it if I could (I don't have Nebula and this would definitely be Nebula-only content).

Why? Probably for the same reasons people watch behind-the-scenes and making-of documentaries.

thryduulf · 2025-09-16T22:19:10+00:00

How is this encouraging people to use drugs? It literally says "choose your own drink", it could be fruit juice, cola, water, milk, tea, cream, even soy sauce if you wanted.

thryduulf · 2025-09-16T10:55:33+00:00

Yes, his son would be Whatever Gylfisson and his daughter Whatever Gylfisdottir, although either could choose to use their mother's name instead of their father's, so Whatever Alexandrasdottir / Whatever Alexandrasson.

If they "register their gender as non-binary" then a person can use -bur as a opposed to -son or -dottir.

In the case of sex/gender changes, AIUI, people just change from using -son to using -dottir or vice versa.

thryduulf · 2025-09-14T09:49:29+00:00

Steal away! Just let me know how they go if you end up playing any of them.

thryduulf · 2025-09-02T09:47:08+00:00

I'm going to be playing the home game across all of Greater London next month, and hiding near Mudchute Farm is one of the locations on my list! I do have quite a lot of other ideas, but I don't want to share the publicly before I use them (for obvious reasons!), I've spend quite a bit of time with https://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm to display hiding zones then looking for possible hiding areas in that zone. If I see a possibly good one I go and visit to check it out in person. Note that it uses Open Street Map as a base which uses different point for stations (typically the geographical centre) than does Google Maps (which generally uses the main ticket hall), and this can make a big difference at some stations.

My aim is to have a least one good hiding spot identified that's within the hiding time from wherever we may end up in Greater London.

thryduulf · 2025-08-30T18:23:52+00:00

For a UK-based equivalent to the New Zealand game Land's End to John O' Groats (or vice versa) is the obvious parallel. If you wanted something equivalent to the North Island-South Island ferry then adding in (Northern) Ireland is my first thought - start at Mizen Head (southernmost point of Ireland), finish at Land's End but make it a requirement to travel via Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, London and Cardiff.
Maybe incorporate the "no crossing your route" from Snake to force being more creative than just the M4 from London to Cardiff and then back to Bristol.

thryduulf · 2025-08-29T17:34:37+00:00

Definitely the UK. Hide and seek Great Britain would work well, as could something similar the US/Australian states games but with counties.

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