Ep 3 - We Played Hide And Seek Across The U.K.

0:00 Alright.

0:00 Welcome to my round.

0:02 I wanna take you on a little peek behind the curtain.

0:07 All day yesterday when Adam and I were trying to find Ben,

0:10 Adam kept being like, "Sam, you gotta pick a good hiding zone." "You should

0:16 be looking for spots," and I was looking for spots,

0:18 but he was like, "Sam, this is a great time for research." It was,

0:21 "You gotta pick somewhere good." And, you know, I was planning to, but...

0:28 surely if I pick somewhere good and nice and aesthetic,

0:34 that's what he'll suspect me to do.

0:36 So it makes it a bad hiding zone.

0:39 So surely the best hiding spot is somewhere the opposite of that.

0:43 Therefore, I've come to perhaps the most objectively soulless,

0:50 lifeless, just straight up bad place in the UK.

0:55 This place sucks!

0:59 Welcome to episode three of our six-day

1:00 game of hide-and-seek across the United Kingdom.

1:03 Our goal as always is to hide for as long as possible without getting found.

1:08 Right now, Adam is in the lead, having hidden for 12 hours and 28 minutes

1:12 with Ben in second at 7 hours, 17 minutes.

1:15 Now it's my turn.

1:16 Starting at Hebden Bridge, where we found Ben last episode,

1:19 I had four hours to get to my new hiding spot which

1:22 I'm hoping will trip him up with just how boring it is.

1:25 So now, over to the Hiders who need

1:26 to figure out how to start moving in my direction.

1:29 Good morning.

1:30 Good morning.

1:30 Oh, we said that at the same time.

1:31 That's fun.

1:32 That was cute.

1:33 Okay.

1:33 Adorable.

1:34 Well, let's get the heck outta here.

1:36 Let's start movin'.

1:37 There are trains in both directions in about 24 minutes.

1:41 Yep.

1:42 And it's about a 20-minute walk to the station.

1:44 The thing is, this station is right between Manchester and Leeds.

1:49 It's on the line that goes between them, so...

1:52 Sam really could have possibly gone either direction.

1:56 And I think that it'll be good to try

1:58 and figure out as soon as possible which way he went.

2:02 Yeah.

2:02 I think that what we really want is an east-west deal, but that is hard.

2:07 I mean, one option is we could use up our half-mile Thermometer right here.

2:11 But I don't really wanna waste that.

2:13 I would hate to do that.

2:14 I know.

2:15 Uhm...

2:16 Ugh, I don't know.

2:18 So Google seemed to imply there was a path

2:22 right here that goes straight down to the station.

2:25 It's like a blackberry harvesting path.

2:28 Okay, great.

2:29 We could also ask if he's in the same country.

2:31 It's very possible he went to Wales or Scotland.

2:34 Uhm...

2:35 But again, feels unlikely.

2:38 Oh, okay.

2:40 Complicated.

2:41 Does distance to an international border get us anything?

2:43 I don't hate that.

2:44 I think that this is a pretty reasonable place to ask that.

2:48 I think we should go with that.

2:50 I actually think that that is our best option.

2:52 Okay, send it.

2:54 Alright, let's do it.

2:56 Man, what a view.

2:58 God, I love playing this (bleep) -in' game, dude.

3:00 Me, too.

3:01 I mean, this is crazy, wherever we are.

3:03 Look at these sheep.

3:07 Alright.

3:08 They have asked their first question already.

3:09 Distance to a first administrative district border,

3:13 which is country, in this case.

3:15 I am definitely further, 'cause they're only 53.5 miles from Scotland.

3:19 I'm way further than that from Wales, which is closer for me.

3:24 So, that'll narrow it down a good bit for them.

3:27 But it'll narrow it down into the more dense area of the country,

3:30 so I'm not too concerned about that.

3:31 I'll say for starters that my assumption at the present moment is Manchester.

3:36 Yeah, I mean...

3:37 We'd been through Leeds so much, I feel like he would wanna mix it up.

3:41 Hi.

3:41 Is the train station this way or that way?

3:45 Okay.

3:45 Thank you.

3:46 Thank you.

3:47 This is a crazy way to get to the train station.

3:50 Well, I don't think a lot of people start their day

3:52 there and then need to go straight to the train station.

3:54 That's true.

3:56 Frankly, it's nice that they have a way to do it.

3:58 We've got an answer.

4:00 He's further.

4:01 Further?

4:02 I mean, I do think that that actually takes...

4:06 Quite a lot of the map out.

4:08 Quite a lot of the map out.

4:09 Here, we're almost at the station.

4:11 Let's mark this on a map, figure out our next question.

4:14 Although I lean now Leeds.

4:17 Okay, so I get to draw three, pick one.

4:21 One, two, three.

4:25 (chuckles deviously) Ooh, three Curses.

4:28 That's crazy.

4:29 Curse of the 5-Minute King.

4:32 Curse of the 5-Minute King.

4:33 Remove all 5-minute Bonuses from the deck for the rest of your run.

4:37 After doing so, you must reshuffle the deck.

4:39 Casting cost: Discard two 5-minute Bonus cards.

4:43 Curse of the Express Route.

4:45 Curse of the Express Route.

4:47 Seekers cannot disembark any transit for the next 30

4:50 minutes unless they've reached the end of a line.

4:52 Casting cost: Discard at least 15 minutes' worth of Time Bonuses.

4:56 Curse of the Zipped Lip.

4:58 Curse of the Zipped Lip.

5:00 Seekers can only communicate to one another through gestures

5:02 and closed-mouth non-word sounds for the next 30 minutes.

5:06 They can speak to other people,

5:07 but cannot speak or write any message intended for another Seeker.

5:11 Casting cost: Discard a power-up.

5:13 Okay, this is a tough choice.

5:15 I think Curse of the Express Route could be huge to, when they get here,

5:19 force them to continue on or something.

5:21 'Cause I think the next stop after this is London,

5:23 so they have to go all the way to London and then come back.

5:25 That could give me like an hour.

5:27 Okay, I'm gonna keep that.

5:28 So, some history of– struggling not to say the name, but, you know, here.

5:34 So there are actually very few places in the UK like this.

5:37 It's basically a brand new town.

5:40 A town that was— that didn't exist more than 70 years ago.

5:45 In UK terms, that means it's brand new.

5:48 Basically, 70 years ago,

5:50 there were housing shortages and unlike in the US where we just go,

5:54 like, "Sucks," the government actually decided to do something about it.

5:57 Specifically, they were like, "Okay,

5:59 let's build a brand new town "and put it kind of in the center of all

6:04 the most populated areas." That's point number one

6:07 for why this is a good hiding zone.

6:09 It's kind of in the center of some of the most populated regions of the country.

6:15 Rather than kind of emulate what has worked for, you know,

6:19 I don't know, centuries, millennia, in Britain in terms of town design,

6:23 the whole idea was, like, "Okay, it's brand new.

6:26 So we'll make it the town of the future."

6:28 And the future in the 1960s was the automobile.

6:34 And therefore this is like...

6:37 kind of the most American town in the UK.

6:41 Makes me feel like home.

6:43 Look at these wide roads.

6:46 So much room for cars.

6:47 We could ask region now.

6:49 You wanna go for region?

6:51 I don't hate it.

6:52 I mean, 'cause that whole region is also far from borders.

6:56 Let's just try it.

6:58 I'd say now's as good of a time as any.

7:00 Why not?

7:01 I mean, it's gonna be crazy if it's a hit, thought.

7:03 If the first three Hiders all hide

7:06 in Yorkshire and the Humber— It's a big region.

7:09 I mean, it is.

7:11 We'll see.

7:12 How long do we have 'til that train?

7:13 We got ten minutes until the first train.

7:16 Let's try to mark this out on the map.

7:22 Alright, they have asked me whether I'm in Yorkshire and the Humber.

7:25 It'd be funny if I was 'cause that would mean three runs in a row in there.

7:29 But I wanted to get far.

7:31 I've gone far away.

7:33 So that's a clean no.

7:36 One, two, three.

7:39 15-minute Bonus, 15-minute Bonus, draw one, expand maximum hand size by one.

7:43 This early I feel like expanding maximum hand size by one can be big.

7:46 Yeah, so I'm gonna take that, and then I'm gonna play it right now.

7:51 Oh, duplicate.

7:53 Duplicate's pretty good.

7:55 That's a good play.

7:56 That's a good play.

7:57 Okay.

7:58 Nice.

7:59 So let's start by marking the border with Wales, which is this.

8:04 And then the Scottish border— Is right here.

8:07 Pretty good.

8:07 That's actually quite a lot of ground eliminated.

8:11 Oh, we got an answer.

8:13 Okay, not in Yorkshire and the Humber.

8:15 Okay.

8:15 Well, so that also eliminates quite a bit.

8:18 It sorta makes you wanna go to London, almost.

8:21 To go towards London, at least.

8:23 If we take this train to Leeds,

8:25 we have a good opportunity to do a Thermometer, maybe.

8:27 I think a Thermometer's good 'cause it could cut off all of this.

8:30 I guess if it was at the right angle.

8:32 Yeah.

8:32 Yeah.

8:33 Okay.

8:33 We need to get on our train.

8:35 It leaves in one minute.

8:37 Gotcha.

8:37 Platform two.

8:40 I think Thermometer.

8:41 Yeah.

8:42 If we start a Thermometer here and we end it just,

8:45 like, basically a little bit before we get into the station— Okay.

8:47 In Leeds, I think we get a good angle that slices– Okay.

8:52 diagonally through our remaining area.

8:54 So, start the ten mile here.

8:56 Okay.

8:57 End it before we get to Leeds.

8:59 And here comes our train.

9:01 (train wheels screeching) So, rather ironically,

9:15 apparently this hunk of metal is the National Operation

9:20 Center of Network Rail which is UK's rail infrastructure operator,

9:24 who I guess have decided to build their headquarters

9:28 in the most car-centric town in the UK.

9:31 I mean, it is right next to the station,

9:33 which is also a lovely piece of architecture, but, um, yeah.

9:37 Anyway, shout out to Network Rail.

9:38 They've been actually good to me so far.

9:41 No major delays.

9:42 Okay, they've gotten on a train I think,

9:45 or they're about to get on a train, 'cause they just started a Thermometer.

9:48 The key question is do they go west or east?

9:51 The most direct way to here is west to Manchester.

9:55 I'm hoping, therefore, that they go to Leeds.

9:58 Leeds makes more sense because it's closer.

10:02 So let's see if I can figure out— Oh, wait, okay.

10:06 I have a location.

10:09 (chuckles) Let's go.

10:11 They've gone east.

10:12 They're going to Leeds.

10:14 Ah, that's awesome.

10:15 Okay.

10:16 Nice.

10:26 Alright, is it time?

10:28 No.

10:29 Hold.

10:30 Hold.

10:31 Okay, now.

10:32 Alright.

10:33 I sent it.

10:36 We are getting advertisements for New— the state of New York on this train.

10:41 Oh.

10:42 I love that place.

10:44 Oh, it's everything I love.

10:46 Alright, well, I lost audio for a few minutes here,

10:48 but the Thermometer was warmer.

10:49 I drew a 10-minute bonus and Curse of the Gambler's Feet, and kept the Curse.

10:53 Ben and Adam arrived in Leeds and got the answer.

10:57 Warmer.

10:58 Okay.

10:59 Good.

11:00 Pretty manageable map.

11:03 Then they decided to do a 100-mile Radar.

11:05 100-mile Radar!

11:08 I answered, then drew a discard one, draw two,

11:10 and Curse of the 5-Minute King, kept the Curse,

11:12 and then ate a Greggs bacon roll and talked about how crazy it is that Britain

11:15 will literally just put a piece of bacon into bread and call that a sandwich.

11:18 And back to the show.

11:20 We've got an answer.

11:21 You wanna check?

11:21 Ooh!

11:22 Miss.

11:24 Okay.

11:25 Okay, that's...

11:28 interesting.

11:29 This is a pretty manageable area.

11:31 Yeah.

11:31 I mean, it's super dense.

11:33 I think that means that we might wanna just head down to London.

11:37 The thing that we need to know next is

11:39 should we get off at "Petersborough" and head this way,

11:41 or should we go all the way to London?

11:43 That's what we need to have an answer to.

11:44 Yeah.

11:45 Alright.

11:46 Platform eight.

11:49 I've spotted it.

11:51 I've spotted platform eight.

11:53 Let's go to London.

11:55 Or maybe not all the way to London.

11:57 We'll figure that out on the way to London.

12:02 We should have a Photo just in the hopper for right now,

12:05 because we're not doing anything.

12:07 Let's get body of water.

12:08 Let's get body of water.

12:10 I'm curious about body of water.

12:12 I do think it'll be helpful to know if he's on the coast or not.

12:15 Oh!

12:16 Here we go.

12:18 Alright, I've got a mission.

12:20 They want a photo of the largest body of water.

12:23 And it seems to be...

12:27 sort of a pond on the other side of the tracks.

12:30 It's gonna take a minute to get there.

12:32 I actually gotta hurry to get there

12:34 in my 20 allotted minutes but Google says 18 minutes.

12:39 My walking speed, that's, like, 10.

12:41 I got this.

12:47 With my little cup of coffee and my raincoat,

12:50 I feel like a hard-boiled detective.

12:52 Feel like we're on the case.

12:54 You are.

12:55 Tracking down the infamous...

12:59 child murderer.

13:01 Sam Denby.

13:03 Okay, that's an interesting thing to call him.

13:05 That's— in my head, I do that so that I

13:09 feel like I really gotta— You really gotta find him.

13:11 I gotta get this guy.

13:13 Yeah.

13:13 Totally.

13:14 Thank you.

13:15 Thank you.

13:17 Heh, well, well.

13:19 Look where we are.

13:21 I've seen this place before.

13:24 It would appear...

13:26 ...that we've entered the Snack Zone.

13:36 Welcome to The Snack Zone.

13:38 And they've given us some free food on this train.

13:41 I've got a plowman's grazing box.

13:44 This is, uh, crunchy and toasty, potentially is what they called it.

13:48 I'm not sure.

13:49 They've given me the littlest onion in the whole world.

13:52 Ooh.

13:52 Yeah, are you gonna try that?

13:59 Ooh.

14:01 Oh.

14:03 Was it good?

14:04 It's also the most pickled onion in the whole world.

14:17 I've yet to actually encounter a pedestrian crossing.

14:19 Only these underpasses.

14:23 So you never get in the way of cars.

14:26 But I—I guess that's good?

14:27 I mean, the Netherlands has stuff like this and it's good for bikes and stuff.

14:32 Here we go!

14:33 Let's go!

14:35 Let's go.

14:36 I love highways.

14:39 Hell yes.

14:41 Okay.

14:42 Despite all the very loud highway sounds, this is actually a little bit nicer.

14:47 A perfectly nice park.

14:49 Alright, here's the largest body of water.

14:51 And I'm actually— I'm likin' how nature-y it can kinda look.

14:55 Could really mislead away from this sort of area.

14:59 Here's a dock, I guess.

15:01 Alright, so I gotta get both sides.

15:04 Okay.

15:04 I think that's pretty good.

15:06 That doesn't tell a whole lot.

15:06 Let me send this.

15:09 Alright, now, I think I just draw one.

15:15 Curse of the Soothsayer.

15:18 Curse of the Soothsayer.

15:19 For the rest of the round,

15:20 you may choose to predict the next question after each question is asked.

15:23 If you are right, you earn triple rewards.

15:26 If you are wrong, you earn no reward.

15:28 Casting cost: Discard a Curse.

15:30 Ah.

15:31 I don't love that Curse.

15:34 I remember when we were designing it and I was like,

15:36 "I dunno if I'd even play that." But, you know,

15:39 some Curses require you to discard Curses.

15:41 So, you know, not bad to have.

15:43 Let's do a tracker check.

15:45 Alright, so they've definitely gotten on a train south out of Leeds,

15:48 which is what I expected, to be honest.

15:50 I don't see why they would have gone north.

15:52 So I imagine what they're gonna do now is ride that train,

15:55 you know, 100 miles to the south and then ask, like, a 50-mile Radar.

15:58 So, could be a little while until they ask another thing.

16:01 Photo time.

16:01 We got a photo from Sam.

16:03 Well, that is not the ocean.

16:05 What is it?

16:06 But it is quite a large lake or river.

16:09 You know...

16:10 I mean, it looks like a big pond.

16:12 So, here's what I'll tell ya right off the bat now.

16:16 We can eliminate all of the coast.

16:19 So that eliminates, you know– it's not any of these places,

16:22 which I guess is sort of good to know.

16:24 Okay.

16:25 If we did a big ass Radar right now...

16:29 If we did a 150...

16:31 What's that cut through?

16:32 It would basically just tell us, is he north of London or south of London?

16:35 I mean, look, if something chops the map in half,

16:38 you know my ass is not gonna oppose it.

16:40 I think that it roughly chops the map in half and so

16:43 I think let's just— I think any time we can chop, we chop.

16:48 Look at that.

16:49 I see a swan.

16:50 One thing I know is that British people

16:54 are terrified of the overly-aggressive swans in this country.

16:58 Okay, they've done a 150-mile custom Radar.

17:02 I think I'm for sure in that.

17:04 So I don't think that that actually narrows things down a whole lot more.

17:10 I was just looking at the map

17:11 and my best theory is they're trying to exclude London,

17:14 because London is just 150 miles outside of where they are.

17:18 And I did check yesterday.

17:19 I could have gotten to, like, London King's Cross.

17:21 I could have basically just gotten to London.

17:23 I couldn't have gotten much further.

17:25 I kinda feel like that's pretty wasteful from them to use a 150-mile.

17:28 I'm not convinced that that one was worth it.

17:30 Anyway, draw two, pick one.

17:32 Curse of the Archaeologist.

17:35 Curse of the Archaeologist.

17:36 Send the Seekers a photo of a building or structure

17:38 whose age you can verify to within a century.

17:41 The Seekers must find a building or structure whose age they can

17:44 also verify from the same century or earlier before asking another question.

17:48 Casting cost: A standard photo of a building or structure.

17:51 And discard one, draw two.

17:53 This is, like, the most ironic Curse to get here where

17:56 this town literally did not exist until, like, 60 years ago.

18:02 So I don't think that that's gonna be useful.

18:04 I guess I'll just take discard one, draw two.

18:06 That's not bad.

18:07 Okay, I'm gonna check my hand right now.

18:09 I don't like Curse of the Soothsayer.

18:10 I think that that's just not worth it.

18:12 So I'm gonna discard that and then draw some more.

18:16 Okay, one, two.

18:19 5-minute Bonus, 5-minute Bonus.

18:21 Okay, well, I need some bonuses to play other stuff, so actually,

18:24 let me go ahead and play Curse of the 5-minute King.

18:29 I need to discard two 5-minute Bonuses.

18:32 So this way I will never get 5-minute bonuses again.

18:35 Which is good.

18:36 These are bad.

18:37 These are the worst cards in the deck.

18:38 So...

18:39 Great, now I'm gonna go through the deck and remove all the 5-minute Bonuses.

18:47 Okay, so our Radar was 150 miles from Hemsworth.

18:51 Help me find Hemsworth on this map.

18:52 Oh!

18:54 Oh, he already answer?

18:55 'Tis a hit.

18:57 Yeah, well, that's what I thought.

18:59 I would have loved for it to be a miss.

19:01 Hit is less useful.

19:03 Okay, Ben, I was just looking at something.

19:05 Let's assume that he left Hebden and went to London.

19:08 He would have to end in London.

19:10 He would get to London and be done.

19:13 Like, at 10:00?

19:14 At 10:00.

19:15 He would have been at King's Cross Station.

19:19 Which makes me think that he did not— He definitely didn't go to London,

19:22 then, 'cause he's not in London based on that picture.

19:24 No, and also, yeah.

19:27 So then it's like, is any of this even in play?

19:30 Like, is Milton Keynes even in play?

19:31 If he got off in Peterborough or somewhere earlier and transferred down,

19:36 there are plenty of places, but when would he have— Okay,

19:38 well actually, you know what's interesting?

19:41 He could have gone down and then over into this stuff.

19:46 He could have gone...

19:48 Hebden to Manchester.

19:51 And then he could have gone down.

19:54 And then he would have had access to all of this.

19:57 Pretty cleanly, actually.

19:59 Okay.

20:00 So, I mean, the question is,

20:03 I don't think Peterborough gets us to any of that stuff faster.

20:06 Right?

20:07 So I think we do go to London.

20:09 Okay, that's fine.

20:10 Off to London, then.

20:12 Okay, Ben, we've got a little bit of time.

20:14 I think just go ahead and use this time, get the Strava map.

20:17 Yep, sounds good to me.

20:19 I mean— We know we're gonna want it.

20:21 Let's just get it now so that we aren't waiting around for it.

20:23 That's always useful.

20:25 Sam, your child-murdering days are over.

20:29 You can't do this bit.

20:30 This is a crazy bit.

20:32 You will not murder any more children on my watch.

20:34 This is an insane bit to do and it's gonna be really crazy

20:37 in the edit when we have to decide whether or not to include this bit.

20:40 I think we're including it.

20:42 Okay.

20:42 I've got my lunch.

20:44 But first, I just received a text.

20:47 They want a Strava map.

20:48 I've kinda been debating what to do 'cause I knew this question would be coming.

20:53 On one hand, I could do a super generic grid pattern,

20:57 but the problem with that is that generic

21:00 grid pattern kind of is iconic for here.

21:04 Okay, yeah, on second guess, I think I am gonna do a non-grid pattern.

21:08 'Cause the problem is I think a grid pattern,

21:11 it's so quickly identifiable on the map,

21:14 and only some places have a grid pattern.

21:16 So they can just power through a bunch of stations and be like,

21:19 "Does it have a perfect north-south grid?

21:20 Yes, no, yes, no." There's other stuff

21:22 that you've gotta stare at it for a while.

21:24 It's a risk either way, I think, but yeah,

21:26 I think I'm gonna go for just some random curved streets.

21:29 Okay, that is sent.

21:33 So now I get to pull a whole card.

21:37 Curse of the Bird Guide.

21:39 Curse of the Bird Guide.

21:41 You have one chance to film a bird for as long as possible,

21:43 up to 15 minutes straight.

21:45 If at any point the bird leaves the frame, your timer is stopped.

21:49 The Seekers must then film a bird for the same

21:51 amount of time or longer before asking another question.

21:53 Casting cost: Film a bird.

21:55 Once chance to film a bird for as long as possible, up to 15 minutes straight.

21:59 Oh, there were some swans napping over there.

22:02 (snickers) Mm.

22:06 That could be huge.

22:09 Oh, that could be devious!

22:11 Devious!

22:14 Napping swans.

22:17 Curse of the Bird Guide.

22:21 I could just film them for 15 minutes straight.

22:24 They were just hanging out in the grass over there by that other pond.

22:27 Ben and Adam, they are not gonna like that.

22:30 Oh.

22:31 We've got our Strava map.

22:34 Oh, nice.

22:35 It's interesting.

22:37 That obviously could be a lot of things, but...

22:41 I mean, it's definitely way too early to look.

22:44 There's way too many possibilities.

22:47 But once we get it narrowed down, we can start.

22:50 Yeah.

22:50 So we're just trying to figure out how we wanna chop this area up.

22:54 We're doin' math.

22:56 I think that the chop that we really want is, like, here.

22:59 Is he in all of this density here with these lines that go up from London,

23:04 or is he out here on this peninsula?

23:07 We've identified a section of rail that we're gonna pass through,

23:13 a little beyond Peterborough where the rail kind of curves

23:17 this way and it allows us to– Do that chop.

23:20 do that exact angle that we want.

23:22 Yeah, which is quite good.

23:23 Little did they know when they made the rail curve like that for about

23:28 15 miles between London and Peterborough

23:31 that they were destroying Team Sam– Yeah.

23:36 in Jet Lag: The Game season 16.

23:38 Alright, we're starting our Thermometer now.

23:42 You mind if I...

23:43 Yeah, go for it.

23:48 No, I don't see him.

23:51 Keep lookin'.

23:52 He's out there somewhere.

23:53 Alright, I'm going to find the swans.

23:56 Hopefully they haven't moved.

23:57 But in my experience, the swans in the UK, they just kinda stay put in one spot.

24:03 I think the swan method might be OP.

24:08 If I can get, like, a five-minute continuous bird thing,

24:13 that could be really tough for them

24:15 to match without knowing the strong— the swan strat.

24:19 There's them swans.

24:21 Let's go.

24:22 Alright, I'm gonna wait for a bit to make sure the swans are settled.

24:28 They're all coming towards me.

24:29 Are they gonna attack me?

24:31 Uh-oh.

24:32 Uh-oh.

24:33 You good?

24:35 You good?

24:36 Okay, I think I'm too close.

24:38 I'm disturbing them.

24:39 Okay, I think they're chill now.

24:42 They're a little more active than I would like.

24:46 Okay, I'm gonna give them a few more minutes to settle.

24:50 Ten seconds.

24:53 Nine.

24:54 Eight.

24:56 Seven.

24:57 Six.

24:58 These are not seconds at all.

24:59 You're taking way too long for them.

25:01 Well, that's because I said ten was the wrong number so, just, it's cool.

25:06 It's cool that I'm counting.

25:07 Five.

25:08 (wheezes) Four.

25:12 Here, I'll linger on four for a couple...

25:16 moments.

25:17 You had to figure out a word that wasn't seconds?

25:20 A moment can be whatever I want.

25:22 Of course.

25:23 And we're almost at three.

25:24 (giggles) Three.

25:27 You were so far off!

25:29 Shhh!

25:32 You weren't close at all!

25:35 Two, one.

25:37 Sent.

25:38 Okay.

25:38 God, I hope that it's...

25:41 I mean, it'd be great if— I hope that we're colder.

25:43 It would be great if we were colder, but I think we're warmer.

25:45 If we're colder, that's gonna be great.

25:46 I think we're almost certainly warmer,

25:47 but it'll be good to just get that chunk of the map...

25:51 Yeah.

25:52 taken out.

25:53 Okay, they've started and ended a 3-mile Thermometer.

25:57 So I'm gonna answer that while observing the swans for a few more minutes.

26:01 On their Thermometer, I am definitely warmer.

26:04 Which means I get to draw two, pick one.

26:06 One, two.

26:08 Discard two, draw three.

26:10 Time Trap.

26:11 I think I'll keep the Time Trap.

26:13 Yeah, Time Trap can be good.

26:16 Dunno when I'll play it.

26:17 Yeah, I'll do it after this bird thing to try to throw 'em off or something.

26:20 I don't know.

26:21 We'll see.

26:22 Alright, I think I'm gonna pick...

26:25 ...let's say this guy.

26:27 And I'm gonna start my time now.

26:30 (birds chirping) Stay calm.

26:39 Oh!

26:39 What is it?

26:40 Hotter.

26:41 Yeah, it figures.

26:42 Yeah, figures.

26:43 Alright.

26:44 That's good.

26:45 We can exclude much of that and that does mean

26:48 it was good for us to continue past Peterborough, I think.

26:51 Yeah.

26:52 Means that we have done well so far.

26:53 Let's get to London.

26:55 I'm thinking probably a Radar in London.

26:58 Yeah.

26:59 It is gonna be tricky.

27:01 I mean, there's a lot of stuff up there.

27:03 And still no Curse.

27:05 Still no Curse.

27:06 Maybe once we get to London.

27:08 Yeah.

27:09 Gotta make sure it's a wide frame in case of any sudden movements.

27:12 The swans technically can fly, but they don't often fly.

27:17 That's I think the deal.

27:19 Oh, he's moving fast.

27:21 Calm down.

27:22 Calm down.

27:22 Calm down.

27:23 Calm down.

27:24 Calm down.

27:25 Please?

27:26 Please, please, please, please.

27:29 Okay, we're at a minute 15 already.

27:30 That's pretty good.

27:31 I don't know if we've ever had one that was that long.

27:38 There's a person.

27:39 Oh, she's feeding them.

27:42 Okay, but luckily it's all very much in the frame.

27:47 Come on, don't— don't— don't hide.

27:51 Don't hide.

27:52 Uh-oh, uh-oh.

27:55 Oh, there's still a tiny bit.

27:56 I can still see a tiny bit.

27:59 Still there.

28:03 Still there just barely.

28:05 Do we want...

28:08 another Photo?

28:09 I think we have 20 minutes.

28:11 Let's grab...

28:12 Let's grab a Photo of the tallest building from the train station?

28:16 Might be useful.

28:19 Gosh, still no Curses.

28:21 I mean, we've asked, what?

28:23 I mean...

28:24 Seven questions?

28:25 And not a single Curse?

28:27 Surprising.

28:28 It's surprising.

28:30 Alright, we're up to almost nine minutes.

28:34 They're gonna crash out, surely.

28:36 Surely.

28:40 My arm is getting tired.

28:44 Uh-oh.

28:45 Uh-oh.

28:47 Uh-oh.

28:49 Oh.

28:49 Just the back of that swan.

28:53 It's still there.

28:55 Yeah, there we go.

28:59 That's ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

29:08 And that's 15 minutes.

29:10 Thank you, swans!

29:12 Oh, that is a Curse maximized.

29:15 Alright, I've sent them the news.

29:17 That one's gonna sting, I think.

29:21 It'll buy me, well, at least 15 minutes.

29:24 Probably a little bit longer.

29:26 I hope there's not some swans outside of wherever they're going.

29:29 I think they might be going to London, actually.

29:31 I dunno.

29:31 But I gotta hurry back to the station here

29:34 'cause they just before I finished that, they asked,

29:37 tallest building visible from the station, which I don't love.

29:42 But there's nothing we can do about it right now.

29:44 And that'll give them certainly a vibe check.

29:46 But I think this is a two steps forward, one step back kind of situation.

29:50 Feelin' pretty good.

29:51 Got a text from Sam.

29:53 Sam has said, "Gentlemen,

29:54 some regrettable news for you." What is he about to say?

29:58 Then he didn't follow it up.

29:59 Okay.

30:00 Oh.

30:02 Curse of the Bird Guide.

30:05 Fifteen minutes.

30:08 (snickers weakly) That is rough.

30:17 Oh, boy.

30:19 Alright.

30:20 15 minutes?

30:24 Yeah, that's gonna be tough.

30:26 (laughs) That's gonna be tough.

30:27 I'm not gonna lie.

30:29 Okay, at the train station, and I need the tallest building,

30:32 which I think is this one,

30:35 which I don't love 'cause it's kind of— it's pretty unique.

30:40 And it's pretty modern.

30:43 There's a lot of places where that couldn't be.

30:46 But, the game's the game, so I'm gonna send that.

31:00 Welcome to London.

31:03 Okay.

31:04 I think we could be in big trouble here.

31:07 Alright, Adam.

31:09 There's pigeons there.

31:11 Yeah.

31:11 I don't think we're gonna have— Do we trust 'em?

31:14 I don't think we're gonna have any trouble finding a pigeon,

31:16 but the question is, can we stick with a pigeon for 15?

31:19 And we would have to select one pigeon.

31:21 There are some right here.

31:23 You wanna just— Let's start off and just try

31:26 with one of these pigeons and see how hard it is.

31:29 Okay.

31:29 Which one do we pick?

31:31 I wanna find a kinda (bleep) -ed-up looking

31:33 pigeon that looks like he's not gonna go anywhere.

31:35 'Kay.

31:35 What about this guy?

31:36 Alright, let's go for it.

31:37 He looks a little scruffy.

31:38 I'm gonna start the time.

31:41 Let's go.

31:41 I've got him.

31:42 Alright.

31:43 Alright, buddy.

31:46 He seems like a chill sorta dude.

31:49 (distant car horn honks) Oh!

31:54 Did you keep him in frame?

31:55 Yeah, but he's...

31:58 Yeah, we're donezo on that one.

32:00 Okay.

32:02 What about the pigeons hangin' out up there?

32:04 So for starters, that did not go well.

32:06 No.

32:06 We did not even get one minute.

32:08 But we got close to one minute.

32:10 Alright.

32:10 Station photo done.

32:13 That, I don't love.

32:14 I mean...

32:16 It really gives them a good vibe check

32:18 in a way that eliminates basically anywhere small.

32:23 However, the bird Curse is huge.

32:25 If this ends up being a winning run,

32:27 my hot take is that that will be what gets it for me.

32:31 That bird Curse, it could go for hours.

32:33 Luckily, they're at King's Cross.

32:36 If they're gonna come here,

32:37 they need to go to Euston which is about a 15-minute walk away.

32:40 So I should have a good ability to know whether

32:43 they have it kind of narrowed down to here, potentially.

32:48 And my audio cut out again, but for my Photo,

32:50 I pulled a Curse of the Prosperous Home.

32:52 Now back to Ben and Adam.

32:53 Okay.

32:54 What about the pigeons hanging out up there?

32:56 Okay, so for starters, that did not go well.

32:58 No.

32:59 We did not even get one minute.

33:00 No, but it's like, these pigeons up here, they're, like...

33:05 They're in the absolute chill zone.

33:07 Okay, you wanna pick one of those?

33:09 I'd say that's a— Let's pick the one all the way to the left.

33:11 That pigeon looks like it might be sleeping.

33:13 Or dead.

33:14 Yeah, okay.

33:16 Let's start on that one.

33:17 There's our pigeon.

33:19 Now don't zoom in too much.

33:20 Right.

33:20 Never leave the frame.

33:22 Alright, we're filmin' him.

33:24 I would not shoot in 2.4, either.

33:26 I'd keep that guy in one.

33:28 Alright.

33:28 We can crop in if we need.

33:30 Alright.

33:32 Yeah, that pigeon's chillin' up there.

33:35 That pigeon's having a really chill time.

33:37 Oh, he's walkin'.

33:39 Oh.

33:40 Uh-oh.

33:42 It's okay.

33:43 It's okay.

33:44 Stay chill.

33:45 Stay chill, dude.

33:47 I don't like that it's raining.

33:48 I feel like that might— No, I think the pigeon's gonna— I think he's gonna get

33:51 freaked out by the rain and find a better covering.

33:54 Alright, we're at five minutes, Ben.

33:56 We're one third of the way there.

33:58 Damn.

33:58 It's actually really raining now.

34:00 If we get wet in the rain for nothing on this pigeon, that's gonna be tough.

34:04 Yeah.

34:06 Seven minutes, Ben.

34:06 Almost at the halfway point.

34:09 No, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

34:10 Oh.

34:10 Oh, just pulled up right next to him.

34:13 Oh, he's getting— Oh, oh, (bleep) Oh,

34:15 no I think he's just gettin' the water off.

34:17 But you saw it?

34:18 See that?

34:18 He started flapping.

34:19 It's gettin' crowded up there!

34:21 I think our bird just had a bowel movement.

34:24 Oh, did they?

34:25 I think so, but it means he's relaxed.

34:27 Is this a good thing to have in a video?

34:30 You just stare at a pigeon?

34:32 I think it is, sort of.

34:33 Come on, baby.

34:35 Oh!

34:35 Oh!

34:35 Whoa.

34:36 Whoa!

34:37 (exhales sharply) That other bird freaked him out.

34:40 Yeah.

34:41 Chill.

34:42 Chill!

34:43 Chill, dude!

34:44 Two minutes left, Ben.

34:46 Oh my god!

34:47 He's walkin'.

34:48 This is the most movement we've seen the whole time.

34:51 There's one minute left, Ben.

34:53 The pigeon has a great sense of narrative tension.

34:55 Yeah, I knew we picked the right one.

34:57 50 seconds.

34:58 Come on, buddy.

34:59 Chill out!

35:00 30 seconds.

35:03 Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

35:11 Let's go.

35:13 (exhales loudly) (groans) Nice.

35:18 Nice.

35:19 Nice, okay.

35:20 That Curse could have taken hours.

35:21 Yeah, that could have been really bad.

35:23 Somehow they cleared the Curse already!

35:27 The (bleep)?

35:29 I thought it was going on forever.

35:31 That's some bull- (bleep)!

35:32 How can they know the swan strat?

35:34 This absolutely sucks!

35:35 It was, like, barely more than 15 minutes.

35:38 That's crazy.

35:40 Okay, Curse cleared.

35:41 25-mile Radar.

35:43 We got a Photo from him, too.

35:45 That's a big boy.

35:47 Oh my god.

35:48 His tallest building is huge.

35:50 And he did not successfully blur that there is a Santander in that building.

35:57 Okay.

35:57 That is gonna be quite useful.

35:59 I mean— Oh, Sam!

36:02 Sam!

36:03 Sam, you missed that little blur!

36:06 Just a little sign in the corner of the photo.

36:08 Uh-oh!

36:10 Whoopsie!

36:11 Okay, that is gonna be useful intel.

36:14 I mean— Super useful intel.

36:15 How many Santanders can there be?

36:17 I mean, lots, but still.

36:20 Okay, let's get in from the rain.

36:22 This building is very distinctive.

36:25 It's extremely distinctive.

36:26 And it's huge.

36:27 And it's big.

36:28 It's not somewhere super, super rural.

36:30 He is not somewhere tiny.

36:32 Okay, this is good.

36:34 I mean, we've got our 25-mile Radar cookin'.

36:38 Part of me just wants to look at the map of Santanders.

36:42 We still need to narrow things down

36:43 a lot more but that's gonna be extremely helpful.

36:46 I do think it'll be a lot easier once we get

36:47 this 25-mile Radar 'cause especially if the 25-mile Radar is a miss...

36:52 Yeah.

36:52 We start to get into a much sparser area where I

36:55 think searching for a specific bank might be a little easier.

36:58 Yes.

36:58 Alright.

36:59 The gents have asked a 25-mile Radar.

37:01 That's a miss.

37:03 Let me make a pull.

37:04 I really would like some actual Time Bonuses now,

37:07 actually, mostly to be able to use my Curse.

37:10 I can't believe they got the bird!

37:13 It's so annoying.

37:15 (sighs) Okay.

37:18 Draw two, pull one.

37:22 Discard one, draw two.

37:23 10-minute Bonus.

37:25 Is there a discard I would want to do?

37:27 No, 10-minute Bonus for sure.

37:29 10-minute Bonus actually isn't that useful because there's no 5-minute Bonuses

37:32 so I wouldn't be able to combine with a 5-minute Bonus.

37:35 I need a 15-minute Bonus to rebuff.

37:37 I mean, removing the 5-minute Bonuses could...

37:40 could actually be counterproductive for the Curse of the Express Route.

37:45 'Cause yeah, the bigger than 5-minute Bonuses are actually rare.

37:49 Huh.

37:51 Oh, well.

37:52 Alright.

37:52 I've got a stupid idea.

37:54 But it just might work for the Time Trap.

37:57 Basically, you normally have a situation where

38:00 you either have to use it for sort

38:04 of strategic disinformation or you have to use it to actually get a Time Bonus.

38:09 I think, however, I have a way that I can use it for both.

38:13 I think when they come here,

38:15 that's when I'm gonna play Curse of the Express Route.

38:18 That's gonna force them past this station,

38:20 assuming I have enough Time Bonuses to play that.

38:22 So I think I'm gonna place it past this station.

38:27 Like, north of the station.

38:28 And I think that's gonna really confuse them.

38:31 And the reason it's gonna really confuse them is 'cause

38:32 I actually don't think that there's anything else on this line

38:36 past here– at least the high-speed line– that could be

38:40 still in my zone based on the information they have.

38:45 So I think what's gonna happen is they'll

38:46 think that I just messed up or something.

38:49 I don't even know what they'll infer from it,

38:51 but I think they'll just be confused.

38:53 And I will also probably get the Time Bonus

38:57 from that when I send them past this station with that Curse.

39:00 It's a little bit of a risk, 'cause I'm gonna put it on this slot.

39:02 But I think let's give it a shot.

39:04 See what happens.

39:05 Eh, it would be fun.

39:08 We have an answer.

39:09 It is a miss, so he is further than 25 miles.

39:12 Okay.

39:12 Which I think is good.

39:13 I think that's good.

39:15 I mean...

39:15 we still have not had a hit on anything yet.

39:19 He has also placed a Time Trap.

39:22 Oh, interesting.

39:23 Where?

39:24 He's placed a Time Trap in Rugby.

39:26 Where's that?

39:29 It's like— it's quite far, actually.

39:32 It's towards Birmingham.

39:35 If I were him at this point, we're moving fast enough that I would be...

39:40 I would be playing a high variance game,

39:42 and I would place it actually really near me.

39:44 I would either place it basically on top of me

39:47 to guarantee a bunch of extra time or— Very far away.

39:50 Or very far away in— Trying to throw us off.

39:53 I actually think that Rugby might not even be on the map, though?

40:01 Oh, yeah.

40:02 It's eliminated.

40:02 I think it's, like, maybe just barely eliminated.

40:05 I don't think he realized that Rugby was in the eliminated zone.

40:09 I think he misplaced his Time Trap, actually.

40:11 He didn't know it was in the eliminated zone,

40:12 and he was trying to throw us off, but that's fake news.

40:17 I personally am inclined to not worry too much about that Time Trap for now.

40:22 'Cause I think that he's most likely trying to trick us.

40:25 I think we might be able to get him just based on the Santander thing.

40:28 I knew it.

40:29 We just checked every line.

40:31 A lot of them don't have Santanders.

40:32 If they do, you can see on a satellite if it's in a giant building or not.

40:36 Well, it's like, it's in a giant building that is

40:40 also directly next to a national rail station, right?

40:44 So it's so easy to check.

40:45 Yeah.

40:46 I'm starting from the east and working my way in.

40:49 Okay, I've eliminated another line.

40:51 You're just going line by line?

40:52 Yep.

40:52 Okay.

40:53 Again, this is not a perfect system.

40:55 No, but it's— But I think it's worth trying it for a little bit.

41:04 What about this place?

41:05 Milton Keynes.

41:07 Milton Keynes.

41:07 I'm aware of Milton Keynes.

41:09 There's a Santander ATM in a building that looks

41:12 like it has roughly the right dimensions from the satellite.

41:16 Ah.

41:16 Right across from the station.

41:19 Santander.

41:20 Santander ATM.

41:22 Oh, dude, that's it.

41:24 How many?

41:25 One, two, three things.

41:27 So it's got the, like— (mimics blinking sounds) It's gotta be this place.

41:31 That's it.

41:31 Okay.

41:32 Let's get there.

41:32 How do we get there?

41:33 We gotta go— We gotta get to Euston Station.

41:36 There's a train at 3:16.

41:38 There are no subways to Euston because of the rail strike, but we can walk.

41:43 It's— It is close.

41:43 So let's go.

41:45 Alright, let's get to Euston.

41:47 You gotta scrub those photos for any text!

41:51 And, this is a good opportunity to tell you...

41:55 to scrub your photos of any text if— You are

41:58 allowed to blur any text or logos in that photo.

42:01 If you are playing the wonderful Jet Lag: The Game Hide+ Seek game...

42:05 Yeah, yeah.

42:07 Because as you can see,

42:08 if you leave in those text or logos, we can get your ass.

42:14 And if you do it, we will get your ass.

42:16 That's true.

42:16 If you play the home game bad, if you buy it,

42:18 and you do a bad job, we're gonna come after you.

42:21 Oh my gosh.

42:21 You gotta imagine he's gonna be freaked out when

42:23 we go straight at him with this much left.

42:28 Alright.

42:29 Not awesome.

42:30 It looks like they're walking to Euston Station in London.

42:35 Euston Station is where the trains to here leave from.

42:39 There are some other lines that they could get on from there, but...

42:43 (sighs) I...

42:44 I don't love that.

42:46 So I'm gonna trend towards potential hiding spots and what

42:51 I also don't love is I actually don't have enough...

42:54 Time Bonus to be able to play the Curse of the Express Route yet,

42:57 which is— would be awesome,

42:59 especially if it was a duplicate so I could do it twice.

43:03 I don't love this.

43:05 I mean, I've been saying it for all this morning, and I still think it's like,

43:09 if anything is gonna be my downfall,

43:12 it's this building being the tallest building visible from the train station.

43:16 Not many places have a building this big,

43:19 and it's one of these things that you can tell from the satellite map.

43:22 (groans) I was feeling so good an hour ago after the swan strat.

43:27 Ben, welcome to Euston Station.

43:29 Feels good.

43:30 Train in 16 minutes.

43:33 No problem.

43:35 Next fastest train to Milton Keynes is the 15:16.

43:39 Track 14.

43:41 Track 14.

43:42 You know, Sam's probably already freaking that we're at Euston.

43:45 If he even sees that we're here.

43:47 But as soon as we get on that train, he is going to be unhappy.

43:51 Whoa, this is cool.

43:54 This is a cool train.

43:55 What's going on here?

43:56 This train is popping off.

43:57 Alright, thank you.

44:01 We're on our way.

44:03 Better hide, Sam.

44:03 Milton Keynes.

44:05 Here we come!

44:07 You gotta imagine he's not gonna be happy when he realizes what train we're on.

44:19 Alright.

44:21 They just left Euston.

44:23 At the exact time as the next train here.

44:26 This might be it.

44:27 (groans) Man.

44:31 I think it's that freaking tallest building photo.

44:35 I know that that's what did me.

44:36 I knew that tallest building photo would be a problem.

44:40 I was just sort of banking on getting

44:42 a Veto or a Randomize in time but I didn't.

44:45 And they're not asking any more questions so I won't

44:47 be able to use my Express Route card, I don't think.

44:50 This sucks.

44:51 This sucks.

44:52 Okay.

44:53 I mean, for a hiding spot...

44:55 I'm kind of intrigued by one of these guys.

44:58 'Cause for some reason, these are just all over the place.

45:02 I don't even know what they are.

45:04 I guess they're crossings for across the road or something.

45:11 Yeah.

45:12 But every road seems to have them.

45:15 Like, you see?

45:17 They go all the way down.

45:19 So they might be able to identify I'm under one.

45:21 But once they do, it would take them forever to search all of them.

45:26 I mean, all I need is just five minutes more

45:29 of Time Bonus and then I could send them past this station.

45:32 Ooh, and I discarded five minutes of Time Bonus

45:36 earlier to remove the Time Bonuses from the deck.

45:42 (grumbles) I just thought I had so much more game left.

45:46 (groans) Alright, well,

45:49 I'm gonna post up here and hope that how generic it is saves me...

45:56 a little bit of time.

45:58 I dunno.

46:00 At least I have Gambler's Feet.

46:01 That'll be annoying.

46:05 If I can't win, at least I can annoy them.

46:08 Ben, what could you possibly be looking at?

46:11 Just a couple of locations.

46:14 Don't worry about it.

46:15 What kind of stuff would you be looking up at this point?

46:18 I'm just looking at pornography.

46:30 Wait a minute.

46:31 Wait a minute.

46:31 Wait a minute.

46:32 I've been stupid.

46:32 I've been stupid.

46:33 I've been stupid.

46:34 I have a Duplicate.

46:35 I duplicate my 10-minute Bonus— And, sorry, another audio issue here,

46:39 but basically what I realized here is that I actually did

46:41 have a way to play that Curse of the Express Route.

46:43 All I had to do was use my Duplicate on my 10-minute Bonus,

46:46 thus giving me enough to pay for the 15-minute casting cost.

46:49 Oh my god.

46:50 I can't believe I didn't think of that earlier.

46:51 Y'all would have flamed me in the comments!

46:53 Okay, I gotta play it as close as possible when they get here,

46:57 'cause then they might actually have to skip two stops.

46:59 That would be awesome.

47:00 But I didn't think of it because it's like,

47:02 why would you use a duplicate on a 10-minute Bonus,

47:04 but this will give me way more than ten minutes,

47:06 and I won't have anything else I can do with it right now.

47:08 So normally I wouldn't consider this, but in this situation,

47:11 you know, dire circumstances, right?

47:14 Oh, come on.

47:15 Come on.

47:16 Come on.

47:16 Send.

47:16 Oh.

47:17 Hope you enjoy the ride, boys.

47:19 I'm gonna go for a little bit of a walk.

47:21 See if I can find a better hiding spot.

47:32 Adam.

47:33 Yeah?

47:34 We've got a text.

47:45 Well, that's clever.

47:47 (sighs) It's gonna buy him some time.

47:49 We will shortly be arriving at Milton Keynes Central.

47:52 We will not be arriving at Milton Keynes.

47:54 We will be arriving...

47:56 That's 30 minutes from here.

47:59 Where does this train stop?

48:00 Guess we'll find out.

48:01 The next stop is in 24 minutes.

48:06 Son of a...

48:07 gun.

48:08 It's 3:46, so we'll be free at 4:16.

48:11 Now we'll get to Rugby...

48:13 We're gonna hit the damn Time Trap now.

48:15 He's sending us into the Time Trap?

48:18 Yeah.

48:20 We'll get off in half an hour.

48:24 That's— Okay.

48:26 I don't know if that— I don't know if he had set that up,

48:28 but that's— that is kind of 4D chess.

48:31 That is sort of a 4D chess situation.

48:34 Alright, well, maybe we should order food.

48:38 Yeah.

48:39 I'm thinking that might not be a bad idea.

48:43 It's very good.

48:44 It'll give him quite a lot of time.

48:46 You do gotta hand it to him on that one.

48:56 Okay, I just did the math.

48:58 That's gonna buy me hours, and that's gonna make me pass Ben's run.

49:03 Oh, I'm glad I thought of that move.

49:07 Ah, this is cool.

49:09 It's probably frustrating for them 'cause they— they

49:11 probably knew they were about to get me.

49:22 Shoot.

49:23 We have hit Sam's Time Trap.

49:25 I thought that was a really silly place to place a Time Trap,

49:29 and yet, it was actually a little clever.

49:42 Alright.

49:43 (alarm tones) Curse cleared.

49:45 Ugh.

49:46 But it has already done its damage.

49:49 That is tough stuff.

49:51 You have a little chickpea on you.

49:54 No, you got it.

49:57 Tough stuff.

49:59 Okay...

50:00 I'm searching for a hiding spot.

50:03 I think one advantage...

50:05 is how generic certain spots look.

50:08 It's obviously, the whole thing about this place is...

50:11 how homogenous it is.

50:13 So maybe...

50:15 the homogeneity...

50:16 can work in my favor.

50:20 Like, where is this?

50:21 Could be anywhere, right?

50:30 Ben, we're at Coventry.

50:31 Exactly where we wanted to go.

50:33 I do not want to be here.

50:35 We have known where Sam is for like an hour.

50:41 Whoa!

50:42 Well...

50:43 we gotta find the train back.

50:47 Yeah.

50:48 The 16:45 to London/Euston, platform one.

50:52 Well...

50:53 good news.

50:55 Not for us.

50:57 But some good news for Sam.

50:59 Our train is delayed.

51:01 (groans) So annoying because we know exactly where he is.

51:06 He's right there!

51:09 Nothing we can do about it.

51:20 The delay just went up.

51:22 Okay.

51:25 Still not here.

51:26 Yeah, you see it, Ben?

51:27 I'm looking.

51:30 Uh, no.

51:30 It's not coming.

51:31 This is so dumb.

51:33 But I can see by looking at the sign from here that it's delayed another minute.

51:38 Perfect.

51:42 Oh, delayed again.

51:44 One thought I had is just to hide in a car park.

51:47 'Cause, like, that's the whole town.

51:50 It's all car park.

51:52 They would never be able to figure our which one.

51:53 The problem is I think if they do tallest structure,

51:56 one, there's a lot of structures visible.

51:59 So, I dunno about the car park.

52:00 Oh?

52:01 Is that it?

52:02 Look, Ben.

52:03 Look for it.

52:04 I see it.

52:06 I think that's our train.

52:07 It's going real slow.

52:09 That explains why it was so delayed.

52:11 It's going one mile an hour.

52:12 You see it?

52:13 I see it.

52:14 Whoa.

52:15 You spotted it.

52:28 Alright, Sam, we are coming for you.

52:30 End of the line.

52:32 It's gonna be— You're gonna be sorted.

52:34 We're gonna see you, we'll say it, and then that'll be sorted.

52:37 Then it'll be sorted.

52:38 Ben, we're approaching Milton Keynes.

52:40 And if I get a text that that card's been duplicated— No, no.

52:44 That's not gonna happen.

52:45 Let's go get him.

52:56 Benjamin, welcome to Milton Keynes.

53:00 Home of Sam.

53:02 (groans loudly) This is a...

53:05 dense place.

53:06 Unfortunately, it does not have the things

53:09 we would need to do the one-mile Tentacles.

53:11 No, the Tentacles don't seem to be very helpful at all.

53:14 What is always helpful is the nearest path or street tracer.

53:18 Yeah, let's ask for nearest path or street right now.

53:20 So let's just get that straight off the— Get that goin'.

53:23 They...

53:24 have arrived.

53:26 First thing: Curse of the Gambler's Feet.

53:29 Alright.

53:31 Three.

53:32 Okay.

53:33 Sorry.

53:34 I know it's annoying.

53:37 I gotta do it.

53:38 I'm sorry.

53:39 Alright, actually...

53:41 Well, no.

53:42 That's not the photo.

53:43 He sent a Curse.

53:44 That's a Curse.

53:45 Gambler's Feet.

53:46 We know that Curse.

53:48 Are you good at rolling?

53:50 Uhh, no.

53:52 Six.

53:53 Nice.

53:58 Five.

54:00 Okay, they've asked for a trace, which will not be very helpful,

54:04 but that's part of why I selected here 'cause it'll be a very straight street.

54:08 And there's a lot of those.

54:10 And I'm also gonna take my sweet time to send this back.

54:14 Five.

54:15 Wait.

54:21 What?

54:22 Bikes are legal.

54:25 And this has actually been specifically done before.

54:29 We did this years ago.

54:32 Okay.

54:32 You lead the way.

54:34 We're not walking!

54:36 Bye!

54:37 That's a little cheeky.

54:39 You wanna do it?

54:40 Let's get scooters, I think.

54:41 Yeah.

54:42 Okay.

54:43 Okay, let's download the Dott app.

54:46 Putting Sam's credit card on it.

54:48 This is his fault.

54:49 It's making me take a quiz?

54:51 What?

54:52 Okay.

54:52 You have to take a quiz?

54:54 I'm stuck.

54:56 Okay, let's just go straight.

54:58 Let's go get him.

55:00 Unfortunately they've randomly picked pretty much the right direction.

55:04 So they're really not far away.

55:06 I haven't even sent the photo of the street yet.

55:08 Either they knew me really well or they

55:10 were just lucky with what direction they went.

55:12 If they come straight here, they'll probably be here in like four minutes.

55:15 That's not awesome.

55:16 But, eh.

55:18 What can you do?

55:19 What can you do?

55:22 Oh!

55:23 My hat.

55:25 Here?

55:25 I lost my hat.

55:27 Oh.

55:28 You take this.

55:28 I'll go grab it.

55:29 Give me the dice.

55:32 Four!

55:32 Good luck.

55:34 Three!

55:36 One.

55:38 Okay.

55:38 Lemme send them their photo.

55:40 It is time.

55:41 And I get to draw one card.

55:43 Let's hope it's good.

55:45 Eh, 10-minute Bonus.

55:46 We'll take it.

55:48 Four.

55:49 Two.

55:52 Five.

55:53 Thank you for getting my hat.

55:55 Ooh!

55:55 I just got a text.

55:56 Okay.

55:57 So we've got our segment.

55:59 It looks uninteresting.

56:00 Yeah, but...

56:01 It's something.

56:03 It's something.

56:04 Okay, let's hit the half-mile Radar.

56:05 Yeah.

56:07 I'm sending.

56:08 They're at the end of this block.

56:10 They really just came straight here with basically nothing to go off of.

56:14 Alright.

56:14 They've hit me with the half-mile Radar.

56:17 They're only a block away from me.

56:18 They don't know that.

56:19 So I'm well within a half-mile.

56:21 Draw two, pick one.

56:24 Curse of the Plagued Word or Randomize Question.

56:26 Curse of the Plagued Word is irrelevant 'cause they

56:28 have to be at least 25 miles away from me.

56:30 I guess I'll do a Randomize,

56:31 and if they ask a really good question, I guess I will randomize?

56:36 We got an answer, Ben.

56:37 Hit.

56:38 That's actually useful.

56:39 'Cause it's less than half the area now.

56:42 Yeah, that's what— so— Do we now just analyze?

56:44 I'm gonna walk over to you.

56:46 One sec.

56:47 Three.

56:48 Okay.

56:49 That looks like it's the angle of that middle road, Grafton— Yeah.

56:52 I mean, it could be this, this, any of these.

56:56 All of these are at the exact same angle.

56:59 Yeah, 'cause this whole place has got that angle.

57:01 Let's get Photo of tallest thing you can see.

57:03 In the meantime, I think we just have to go

57:06 around to the different streets that are shaped like this...

57:11 and see if we see him.

57:13 Problem is that there's also these roads under here.

57:15 Yeah.

57:16 There's, like— it's so dense.

57:18 Alright, let's walk, one, two.

57:20 I'm gonna try to roll us a good one.

57:22 Okay, we got six now to play with.

57:44 It says they're right here.

57:47 I don't know how I didn't spot them.

57:49 It says they walked right past there.

57:51 I imagine they missed me.

57:53 I think they just decided to turn this way.

57:55 It says they're literally right here.

58:07 They're going up the street.

58:09 They're over there somehow.

58:12 I don't understand how they missed me.

58:14 Is he on the road?

58:15 How is he on the road?

58:17 Do you think they got a scooter?

58:18 If he got a scooter...

58:20 (giggles) it means he literally went right over me.

58:23 Oh, that's hilarious.

58:24 If they got a scooter...

58:25 and the scooter's their downfall.

58:28 'Cause they're on the street or something.

58:29 I dunno.

58:30 Ben, I think you gotta be on the right side, man.

58:32 You can't just be in the middle of the lane.

58:35 That's not the right side.

58:37 They asked for tallest thing you can see.

58:40 I can't really see many tall things,

58:42 so I think I would just have to stand that way,

58:45 but then they would see I'm under an underpass.

58:47 Might as well use the Randomize I guess now, 'cause I dunno that there's...

58:51 (sighs loudly) that many devastating questions here.

58:54 Okay, we got our photo, Ben.

58:55 No, we did not.

58:56 We got Randomize Question.

58:58 Awesome.

58:59 Well, let's see what it is.

59:00 11.

59:01 11.

59:02 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

59:06 Grocery store aisle.

59:08 That is going to receive a null answer, I really think.

59:10 Gonna get us a whole lotta nothin'.

59:12 Adam, I wanna point something out to you.

59:14 This Randomize— Yeah.

59:17 And the last card he sent as well,

59:19 they're both, like— they look like they're in the dark.

59:23 Yeah?

59:24 That's interesting.

59:25 There are all of these tunnels around here.

59:28 Okay.

59:29 That is at least a theory.

59:31 I think it's an interesting theory, Ben.

59:33 Okay, they've randomized a grocery store aisle, which...

59:36 I can't do, so I give them a null answer.

59:39 Okay, let me pull my card.

59:41 Ooh, 20-minute Bonus.

59:43 That's pretty good.

59:45 Let's go.

59:46 Oh, he answered fast.

59:48 Okay.

59:48 Shall we try again?

59:49 He's not in a grocery store.

59:50 Try that question again?

59:51 Yeah, I think we still want it.

59:52 Yeah, 'cause it was randomized, so technically it was never asked.

59:54 It's still eligible to be asked again.

59:56 Yeah, tallest building again.

59:57 I like the idea of checking the tunnels.

1:00:00 I don't think we can ride these in the tunnels, can we?

1:00:03 No.

1:00:04 They're not streets.

1:00:05 'Cause they're like sidewalks.

1:00:06 You wanna just dump these things?

1:00:08 They're sort of not very useful anyway.

1:00:10 No.

1:00:11 Yeah.

1:00:12 Wait, wait, Ben.

1:00:12 I gotta roll for you to walk it.

1:00:14 They've asked for tallest building again.

1:00:16 I'm gonna stay— take my sweet time to answer this, because I,

1:00:21 you know, I have nothing to get rid of it again.

1:00:23 Let's see if we can find those tunnels.

1:00:25 Look, it's all we got right now.

1:00:27 Okay.

1:00:27 'Cause there were— they were over that way, right?

1:00:31 I saw at least some.

1:00:32 Whoop.

1:00:32 (dice clatters) Uh-oh.

1:00:34 Six.

1:00:35 Yay.

1:00:36 One...

1:00:36 two, three, four, five, six.

1:00:40 Please tell me another six.

1:00:41 Four.

1:00:44 Two.

1:00:46 They're still searching, a block and a half away.

1:00:49 But they're moving away from me now.

1:00:51 They were right on top of me,

1:00:53 and they were just on the other side of this block for a while.

1:00:56 Now they're headed back to the station.

1:00:58 This is good.

1:00:59 This is time.

1:01:00 And time is good.

1:01:01 Okay, it's time for me to send the photo that they want, finally.

1:01:06 It's not gonna be that helpful, to be honest, but it'll be a little helpful.

1:01:11 (hums) It is...

1:01:13 Curse of the Egg Partner.

1:01:15 Nah, I can't do it, 'cause it's discard two cards.

1:01:23 So...

1:01:24 I would say this picture is very helpful.

1:01:26 Yeah, I mean, he's definitely under one of these.

1:01:32 He had— The building he can see has steel columns.

1:01:37 Like those.

1:01:38 And it's the same— I mean, it's the same vibe.

1:01:41 Kind of late post— That's a lot to work with.

1:01:45 I think let's hit him with a quick quarter-mile

1:01:48 Radar just to help chop up the area further.

1:01:51 Yeah, I think with that, we should be able to do it.

1:01:54 'Cause there are only so many of these.

1:01:56 The problem is we just don't know where they all are.

1:01:58 Oh, that's tough.

1:02:00 That's tough.

1:02:01 I'm just outside of their quarter-mile Radar.

1:02:04 Ohohoho!

1:02:06 I mean, if they interpret it right, it actually could be helpful.

1:02:08 But, I dunno, that could be— that could be confusing.

1:02:15 Curse of the Gilded Inquiry.

1:02:16 And a 10-minute Bonus.

1:02:18 (inhales sharply) Ooh, this is a tough call.

1:02:20 I dunno if they're gonna ask more questions, 'cause...

1:02:23 they should know I'm under an underpass now, from that photo.

1:02:26 And with the Radar, they should be able to process-eliminate to here.

1:02:29 So I think I'm gonna keep the 10-minute.

1:02:32 I think that could be more worth it.

1:02:34 This is turning into a much better endgame than I expected it to be.

1:02:38 Our Radar's a miss, so he's not within a quarter-mile of here.

1:02:40 It is very limited.

1:02:42 It looks like an eye.

1:02:43 Yeah.

1:02:44 Alright.

1:02:44 Three.

1:02:47 Three.

1:02:49 When does this expire?

1:02:53 Oh, it's over.

1:02:55 Yay!

1:02:55 It's been over for eight minutes.

1:02:57 (laughs) Well, now I feel a little stupid.

1:03:01 Okay, let's go get him.

1:03:03 Eh— That's not him, is it?

1:03:05 No, that's not our guy.

1:03:06 Let's get up here.

1:03:07 We should be able to find the building, surely.

1:03:09 Yeah.

1:03:10 Like, what color is the building?

1:03:12 I mean, it's mostly metal.

1:03:14 With like a sort of brown.

1:03:15 We should be able to just find the damn building.

1:03:17 It's pretty distinctive.

1:03:18 Maybe we need to explore the area up

1:03:20 here to the right that barely is not excluded.

1:03:24 Okay, I think they finally figured out.

1:03:26 They're on their way here.

1:03:27 They're comin' up this street.

1:03:30 This could be it.

1:03:31 Or they could just go over me again.

1:03:33 I dunno.

1:03:33 I dunno.

1:03:34 This is I think— we're around the area where the sea parking is not as crazy.

1:03:39 Look.

1:03:39 I told you.

1:03:40 A bridge.

1:03:41 He's not under there, is he?

1:03:43 Almost here.

1:03:45 Almost here.

1:03:46 Looks like it could be the building.

1:03:48 You know, I think let's walk down this way.

1:03:51 See if we can find...

1:03:53 Right under this other underpass.

1:03:55 There's that pink sign!

1:03:57 Yeah, yeah.

1:03:58 I think he might be around the corner.

1:04:00 (softly) Oh, I hear him.

1:04:01 I hear him.

1:04:02 Oh, there's the building.

1:04:04 Oh, he's in there.

1:04:06 He's in here.

1:04:09 Alright, there's the sign and compartment windows.

1:04:12 I think we'll find out in a second.

1:04:14 And we find Sam.

1:04:17 There he is.

1:04:19 Hello.

1:04:21 Hi, Sam!

1:04:34 What do you think of Milton Keynes?

1:04:37 I think that it's really lame and annoying to navigate.

1:04:40 It all looks the same.

1:04:42 Yeah!

1:04:43 Did you know that?

1:04:44 Apparently you thought this place is really

1:04:46 cool and it's gonna look great on camera.

1:04:48 Kind of the exact opposite.

1:04:49 Oh my god.

1:04:50 You guys, like, went right over here.

1:04:53 I'm sure we did.

1:04:54 Yeah, I know.

1:04:54 Were you on scooters for a bit?

1:04:55 We were probably on our scooters.

1:04:56 We were on scooters.

1:04:57 Were you on scooters on the road?

1:04:58 Yeah.

1:04:59 Yeah.

1:04:59 Well, that was your mistake.

1:05:00 A valiant run, Sam.

1:05:02 Some excellent card tech.

1:05:04 Thank you.

1:05:06 (claps hands) So do we want to explain why Ben is going next?

1:05:10 Yeah, we should explain why Ben is going next.

1:05:12 In this game, each player is guaranteed at least one attempt to beat the Hider.

1:05:16 But if we go into more than three rounds– as we're

1:05:19 about to– the next Hider will be chosen at random.

1:05:22 The thing is, the person in first place is not eligible to be the next Hider,

1:05:26 nor is the person who just hid.

1:05:27 Which means by default, it's Ben's turn.

1:05:29 Alright, Ben.

1:05:30 Good luck.

1:05:31 Hide good.

1:05:32 Thank you, Sam.

1:05:32 Here's the cards.

1:05:34 Adam, Sam.

1:05:35 Bye!

1:05:36 Good luck.

1:05:37 Bye.

1:05:37 See you tomorrow morning!

1:05:39 No, you are not!

1:05:40 He's running.

1:05:42 Think of his knees.

1:05:43 (grunts) Caption+ by JS* Captioning: Kaylyn Saucedo Alright folks,

1:06:07 I'm all cozy in my second hiding spot of the game.

1:06:11 And if you want to see how that run goes,

1:06:15 you can go ahead and watch that episode right now.

1:06:17 Episode four, up right now on Nebula.

1:06:20 I think you're in Gibraltar.

1:06:22 That's where I am.

1:06:23 Go ahead and go to Gibraltar.

1:06:25 You nailed it, Sam.

1:06:25 Good work.

1:06:26 Speaking of colonization, (wheezes) I'm gonna— It's relevant.

1:06:29 No, good segue.

1:06:30 No-no-no.

1:06:31 It's relevant.

1:06:31 I know where you're going.

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1:06:49 because colonization destabilized the regions.

1:06:51 Yeah, yeah.

1:06:51 And all that.

1:06:52 They made perfect thematic sense.

1:06:53 No, you nailed it.

1:06:54 Joseph, who makes RealLifeLore, who makes this show,

1:06:56 he was the guest on season two of Jet Lag.

1:06:58 So true, where we went all around the world.

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