Sam: The only people who go to this station are train enthusiasts, and confused tourists... Immediately cuts to a confused Ben and Adam getting that same train on accident. that luck is insane
@@spelunkyboy Huh? Screaming? You might be responding to the wrong comment. They didn't go the wrong way, they got off the Airport Express because they wanted to go to...the airport. The average confused tourist isn't near that confused.
@@muhdsyakiib8798 Except they genuinely didn't think he was at the airport even when they literally tentacled him to that small region within a prefecture.
@@mysterioushomoguy Although I Don’t Think They Removed It On The Map Due To The Size Of The Town And Events Of The Episode, In Adams Second Run In Switzerland,He Ran To A Station He Couldn’t Get To In Time Otherwise.
Sam's luck: - 1st question itself is about airport. - Pulls 3 cards of 5-min time bonus - Ben/Adam get massively advantaged by Train delay which is rarity in Japan - They pull into the station that no one even thinks of visiting - Ben/Adam go through the terminal where Sam is situated for no apparent reason.
@@sol_in.victus He copy the travel agent curse so I thought if the curse worked he can send them back and forth to east and west side of the airport and because it's only walking to get there, it can mean more than 20 minutes as the travel agent 1 is located 10 minutes via walking alone
The fact that the train in Japan was late enough for them to narrow down an answer and avoid the slow train that would have put them massively off track is just such bad luck for Sam. I mean, a country where trains being a few seconds late is seen as a major disaster it is just so unfortunate.
@@AnonymousGhostwriter Not only that, but Im assuming they are there over the summer and, especially if it was in August, the Japanese rail system was experiencing a lot of strange issues around that time which just shows how bad his luck was
The airport strat actually *was* succesful. Even when they had narrowed it down to a few miles they still said “I don’t think he would have gone to the airport. That’s weird even for him.” The failure was Sam’s luck or lack thereof. Most of the questions were super useful by coincidence.
@@dennis_duran I mean the tallest building question would’ve given him away regardless, and I think they were bound to either ask that or the 5 building question which also would’ve given him away. So I think they would have figured out he was at the airport easily through one picture. The hard part would’ve been searching for Sam in the airport but you’re right about that, they got lucky there.
@@SpicyCannoli yeah, I see I was in the wrong, but still, most comments are about more silly things or details, not the result of an entire run. But I can't really be upset about it, it's just comments
Tbf he also played it pretty bad imo. His airport idea was good but my man wouldn't use his curse cards until the very last hours of the game, when it was useless for them to be played. He wasn't lucky, but his misplays were what made it very bad.
@@Al3xtheMehAdam had 2 vetos available for the majority of the game and still decided to answer all the questions that he was asked. Adam lost because of his own stupidity.
I love the idea that he decided that his first run was going as the most un-hideable clothes ever, so that his competition would run around the forests looking for a human candycane.
I'm convinced that hiding in a dense urban area is a great strategy. Chasers still need to narrow it down but then when they get to your area, they have so many spots to go through. Even if they use tentacles (which take some time to analyze the response for anyway) that just gives you more cards to mess with them. Sam's biggest mistake was sitting next to a train station....
@@tijmen131 the best spots for the endgame have always been some random place in a forest or suburb. Ben's first spot and the first intended hidding spot for Adam were both good, they both just screwed up. In the grand picture, you ideally need to be somewhere that is very hard to reach with infrequent trains, and then hope to misdirect the seekers. The coast would really have been a much better spot for Sam, landmarks (temple, castle, airport) are just a bad idea
urban areas seem like a good idea because theres soooo much, but a semi-urban location with enough hiding spots, but limited trains, is really the best option. a train line that doesnt run for 12 hours is much better than roaming around even 3 hours in a city to find a specific hiding spot
Sam just won SO MUCH RESPECT from me for doing this. This was an incredible idea and incredible content, he just got SO unlucky with cards and that (1) Ben and Adam took the wrong line and (2) wandered around, and (3) that the one time a train is late in Japan it helps the seekers avoid a terrible mistake. I am now rooting for Sam to win, if that's still somehow possible with this game and the time left.
I've always rooted for Sam in every solo competing season (like tag etc) because he always does unpredictable moves but he always loses to having bad luck sadly.
@rizqhariz Sam is like one of those supervillain characters who has all these incredibly convoluted and potentially genius schemes...only to fall short at the last minute due to some fluke or bad luck! 😅
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Also maybe the control tower can be seen from the end of the line station, so they could've started searching there.
He really sells the moment lmao. Especially considering he wore Wally obvious red in his first run. It wouldn't be that funny if Adam or Sam did it, but Ben with his dopey smile really made me LOL. Funniest moment in Jet Lag that I can remember.
One option I've seen used in other hidden information games would be to reveal the location visually and tell the audience you are going to announce the location beforehand. It would let the audience choose whether they want that info or not.
for me depend on the location, i have almost no idea of japenese regions so i can't guess at all myself but if it's in area i can guess i like more not knowing
I think that the randomize should prevent using the original question for a while. Otherwise it is basically just a draw more cards, at the cost of a random question.
I think the randomize Question has potential, but just poorly executed. This card is probably the strongest when it's in the early game, as it might randomly land on an option that might be really helpful in the late game. If the card would lean more into that, that could spice things up
usually a silent viewer but just had to say this: watching jetlag has made me feel so much more comfortable with the idea of travelling in a completely foreign country. i'm autistic and going anywhere i am not familiar with gives me massive anxiety if not panic attacks even if i've made meticulous plans ahead. but watching you guys travelling around in these countries with the most random places and spontaneous travel choices and it being *fine* and actually really fun in most cases has made me feel more confident in my own abilities and i want to thank you guys for this!!!
I would recommend it if you have the opportunity. I've always been nervous about solo traveling somewhere, mainly where there's a language barrier. But I've been to France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Germany successfully in the last few years. Google Maps and Translate help a lot. And so many places offer cashier-free shopping/ordering that make it easier too. If I may suggest to you or anyone else reading, if you can, learn just 3 words and 3 phrases in the local language that will get a lot of locals to open up and be helpful - "please", "thanks", "pardon" & "I'm sorry", "I don't understand", "I don't speak ".
If you make sure you always have money on you and a portable charger so you dont run out of charge and stay away from super rural areas - you can literally do whatever you want, take any train, even jf you get ‘lost’ you’ll find your way back
Adam choosing his hiding spot and playing his cards like an absolute potato and Sam devising a masterful plan and trying to play his cards in a meaningful way - getting the same result to the minute and a half - so bonkers
@@cooledcannon The card use in general is just terrible this season. There is no incentive to hoard onto the cards because Seekers will rapid fire questions once your hand is full so you can't even use them. Sure there might be alternative questions they can ask to get the same answer but you will still be getting the time from curses whether it is early or late in the run. Especially since early on they are more likely to ask questions which some curses prevent.
47:16 the rules shouldn’t work like this. If they ask a question and you randomize it, the initial question they asked should be spent and they shouldn’t be able to ask it again. Them being able to ask it again defeats the whole purpose of the randomize card because they can just immediately ask you the same question again? That is stupid.
How unlucky is Sam 1. The first question asked was straight about the airport. 2. He got a three 5 minutes bonus cards. 3. In spite of randomizing the question, he had to answer the tallest building question. 4. All three of the curses were pretty much meaningless to the seekers. 5. His strategy of hiding at the least visited railway station did not work at all. In fact out of the whole airport, somehow the guys accidentally ended up in that exact location.
the ENTIRE time i was thinking “man it’s gonna take them at least 3 hours to find him in this airport!” And I was so giddy to see that sam got to 6 hours (6+3 and the 50 mins bonus time) would make him pretty close to ben… And then the confused ben and adam walking the WRONG WAY got me. Pure cinema.
I'm actually pretty disappointed as I wanted to see how tentacles would come into play. Also Narita is so big and confusing, it would have been so fun to see a hide and seek in the area. Though I think Sam might have prioritized watching planes and teaching us about train enthusiast facts.
After several days of much deliberation, I think I'm going to have to go with... now hold on to your socks.. +5 minutes.. I hope I made the right choice..
26:45 I feel like the curse of the frozen dot is _incredibly_ powerful. The hider knows where the seekers are at all times, every episode so far has involved some travel on a shinkansen and one of the two things the shinkansen is know for is punctuality. So the best strategy would be to wait until they're exactly 15 minutes out from a station (which you can know from the train time tables), and just put the dot _on_ the station. The only ways this doesn't work is if they get off the train early, or they encounter an incredibly unlikely delay. But even taking those into account, this strategy makes CotFD _so much_ more accurate and powerful.
If the situation arrives, its god tier, but the setup is fickle. But I think here, the demonstration of the power of the randomize is good. Its like a mulligan on the card that may give the seekers poor info. Of course, when it's played is critical to maximize the chance of poor info and card draw. I think using randomize on the regional question would have been likely pretty good.
it definitely can have its power and the strategy you mentioned would be smart. the thing about the card is they can still strategize and plan in those 30 mins. if the card was an hour instead of 30mins i think it would create a bigger impact on the game and be a more useful card.
@@alexgilliam5144 Yes, but randomize has to deactivate the original question. Them just asking the same question again is bullshit. The card doesn't prevent anything, it's basically just a draw two card in the best case, because they have to pay for the question again, but they also get more information, so it's even worse.
It only works if they intend to get off the train and you force them to overshoot it by freezing them. Because if they are frozen on the train - they are frozen ON the train with exception on when the train reaches its final station (in which case you're allowed to get off and wait the rest of the period on the platform).
The airport was a brilliant move by Sam, sad to see he got so unlucky with some of the events that were out of his influence. The only two mistakes, I think Sam made relate to two curses that imo are absolutely busted. 1) Curse of the endless tumble (05:51): You have to do clear it before being allowed another question. It is impossible to clear while being on a train because there is no 100feet path for you to roll a dice. So it disturbs their journey. Even outside a train I feel like finding a spot that has a clear 100feet way you can roll (not throw, it says specifically roll on the card) a dice is hard. Even if you find something you still have to roll a 5 or 6 and every failed roll takes time to collect the dice and setup the next roll. You don´t want to risk hitting someone to prevent the hider from getting the bonus time. The casting cost is basically nothing. If Sam would have taken that curse and used (assuming he himself did not roll a 5 or 6) it right away he would have prevented them from staying on the Shinkansen and asking all the questions they did. All in all I am 100% sure this curse would have brought him more time than the 15min bonus he took and discarded later. Clear mistake imo. 2) Curse of the ransom note (13:15): Assuming the seekers have to spell the question in english letters this curse has the potential to waste a lot of time. Japanese uses a different alphabet so finding print media that does not use Kanji and provides you with the needed letters can be pretty tricky. Especially if you are not in an urban/international part of Japan. The casting cost for Sam is pretty simple as an airpot is the most international place ever and I am sure there are books and magazine with english letters widely available. At the time of the curse the seekers were on the train, a place which I think does not have the needed materials to complete the curse. As the curse has no time limit it would again completely disrupt their journey and require them to go out of their way if they want to ask another question. Taking the randomize question card also seems like a waste especially knowing that the rules don´t prevent the seekers from just asking the same question again. Would love to hear what everybody else thinks about those two curses.
I like how Sam chose the airport because he figured there'd be a zillion places to hide. Then he got caught less than three minutes after Ben and Adam arrive at the station. That's an endgame record that might be unbreakable.
I just wanted to say I really love this new format of hide and seek. IT'S SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING when someone gets a curse for every clue. My only suggestion is some of the clues are too powerful especially for the reward. The strava map especially seems like a killer over the course of these hide and seek series, and should be like 3 curse cards. It basically tells you their exact location if given enough time.
Agreed. The seekers get to ask too many questions in general. They should be forced to choose between different questions, now they can just bombard the hider with all of them.
@@MermaidTyronein fact they are incentivised to ask many questions before getting hit by curses because of the forced discard when the deck exceeds 6.
yeah, i agree. the way this game is set up, it seems to heavily favor the seeker. i obviously understand that the seeker is SUPPOSED to have the advantage to find the hider eventually so the game doesn't last indefinitely, but currently, the game feels a bit frustrating in it's balance. seekers have every advantage to just bombard the hider with as many questions as possible and as quickly as possible. there is no real reason for them to be reserved since they have so many questions to use, and the faster they can narrow down the hiding spot the less time they need to spend on traveling. like what realistically stops them from exhausting as many questions as possible? Sam even said that certain curses aren't even allowed to be stacked, so this really should just be the optimal strategy for the seekers. whereas the only "advantage" the hider get is a gamble.. they "might" draw a card that is useful, but half their deck just seems to be cards that are dead in the water. 5-15 minute cards is just card filler in a game that is expected to take multiple hours and "randomize question" also seems largely useless with a huge risk of backfiring. you can draw a curse, but the usefulness of a curse will be entirely circumstantial and even has a negative cost for the hider to even cast it in the first place. so far, the strongest card i've seen was the "veto"-card, but beyond that, most hider cards don't seem to come with that many benifits. a more agressive playstyle from the seekers would absolutely crush the hider everytime it seems like
@merlith4650 While I 100% agree Seekers shouldn''t be incentivized to ask as many questions as fast as possible to dodge curses I believe part of the problem is I think all three of them are using their cards horribly. They should be using their curses almost immediately. Both Sam and Adam held onto all their cards for way too long for no reason. The longer you wait there is always less reason for them to need to ask another question. Don't wait for that perfect moment just force them to do meaningless tasks in the early and mid game for those extra minutes.
Hopefully Japan isn't starting to make the scheduling mistakes that have lately made Germany's rail network notorious and America's basically unusable.
The editing never fails to make me laugh. We've got Sam's voiceover saying that the station that he's hiding in is where lost travelers end up or train enthusiasts... and here we have Adam and Ben being lost travelers...
Every instance of "sams luck" i could find in this video: 1.: 3 5 minute bonuses in one draw 3 2.: them randomly rolling the 10 mile radar after the 7 mile radar 3.: A train being late, giving them time to figure out a WAY better and safer route, in the country with the least train delays in the world 4.: Being one mile off from that other train line being the closest to him, which wouldve sent them on a trip farther away and kept the map much bigger 5.: Being at a train station ONLY people who went onto the wrong train go to, and them being on the wrong train 6.: not one good opportunity to use his curses at any point, and not drawing many of them to begin with it is literally INSANE. He didnt play perfectly with his cards, and kinda wasted his curses, but all in all this was a VERY possible first place
"This station tends to be filled with two kinds of people: train enthusiasts and lost tourists who accidentally transferred onto the wrong line." - Foreshadowing
48:38 Shibayama Line is not just for train enthusiasts. It is built to serve workers commuting to JAL, ANA and Delta’s maintenance hangars, as well as NRT’s southern air cargo area. They are located at the southern end of NRT's 16R/34L runway.
@@spelunkyboy A lot of unusual things built around NRT will relate back to the Sanrizuka Struggle (a series of land disputes between local farmers and central government in Tokyo on building the airport), which is still ongoing until today. However it’ll be another one-hour episode to explain. Serving workers (and a number of remaining residents) is the most easy understanding purpose for the average guy.
This has to be the unluckiest hider run of jet lag. It felt like at every turn Ben and Adam had a higher power pushing them toward Sam 😭 Would’ve been so fun to see them running around the airport or midway through a 5hr train ride realizing them went the wrong way
The USELESS card luck (Seriously, 3 5 minute bonuses in a row??) The unlucky behavior of Ben and Adam SOMEHOW taking the abandoned trainstation directly to Sam, completely avoiding the big airport Sam refusing to use his Randomize questions, so Ben and Adam managed to severely narrow down his spot Despite such a positive start, this might be the most unfortunate run of Jet Lag I've ever seen. Sam is technically in 2nd place, but it sure doesn't FEEL like it.
the randomize question cards were pretty useless though, its his curse usage I have a problem with. two useless ones that I must assume he just misunderstood given what he thought would happen, didn't use the one where you predict where they'll be, and waited way too long to use the tourist one. but yeah super unlucky as well, ben and adam even massively benefitted from the train delay
There's a comment talking about how they've begun to feel immensely more comfortable with traveling after watching you guys, i can't express just how many people are likely in a very similar boat. though these episodes are made purely for entertainment, i think there's a serious ripple effect with these videos, not only showing how beautiful these desolate towns are, but the ease and comfortability of you guys traveling there without hiccups presents a much larger answer to a wide variety of questions most often asked by those feeling insecure about traveling.
Spoiler: I gotta admit that was super unlucky for Sam. I genuinely think they could've been like 2 hours looking for him at such a massive airport. Still, maybe less since they kinda expected the 'special terminal or station' hiding place, but still that would've taken them a while. Well, I guess that's how the jets lag
Well they did know that Sam would hide in a weird spot, but you can also see that they are leaned towards it being some kind of terminal, which is wrong + it took Sam a whole hour to find the entrance to the station when he knew he was going to go there. He didn't just wander until he found it like ben and adam would, which would waste a lot more time.
Seeing where the hider is actually keeps me more engaged in the events unfolding! Keep up the great work Sam, Ben, Adam, and everyone behind the scenes!!
yeah same! it would be great if they could just visibly tell us where the hider is and announce it so that the people who want to know can, and those who would rather not can just close their eyes.
Sam had the same issue as Adam last episode where he wanted to prioritise a powerful card (veto for Adam, random question for Sam) and he just… didn’t. A random on the 50 mile radar could’ve decreased the radar size, and that woudve sent Ben and Adam across 4 hour long trains scouring the east coast. And a random of the prefecture probably woudve confused them and disrupted their flow by giving them something completely random. But instead he held onto the cards and did a curse combo first (something he should’ve done sooner before they started B lining on the Shinkansen)
Definitely the most frustrating part is them holding their cards that could be super impactful. Sam described his spot as high risk, then didn’t proceed to use his cards in a high risk manner.
I agree for Adams case but the "Random Question card" allows you to answer the same Question again as seen in when they asked for the tallest builing again.
It's an interesting dilemma, for as the viewers we are able to see everything unfold. While Sam had no idea the duo were considering the coastal option. It's one thing to think the randomize question would be good to avoid a question, however I don't think they know how powerful it is to play mind games instead with changing the 50m radar. They don't get the graphics as we do so I'm sure it's much more complicated when they're trying to navigate foreign language included.
i cant believe how many questions you asked, you should be given 5 minutes for every question asked like you guys would barely wait 10 mins to ask another question, made it easy asf to find him
Sam should have started doing math immediately once he got the curse of the frozen dot, with how precise shinkansen schedules are hitting it should be easy, since he can just time their arrival in a station
A couple hundred feet would be tough to hit without knowing exactly where IN THE TRAIN they were, but I guess it could be doable by looking at where they land at one station and placing it in the same spot at a station he doesn't expect them to get off at
I've been cooking for the last 18 hours to make sure it will be a memorable Christmas Dinner. There was no sleep for the past 26 hours. When I saw this video I nearly shat myself because I thought it was the 25th. Bless and curse you all! Merry Christmas
Sam got so unlucky, 10 miles in the first radar, a couple miles for the shinkansen question, either those 2 questions going the opposite way would've secured him the win
Sam should get a tattoo that reminds him to not hide in airports, so he doesn't get so giddy about airplanes he's not even paying attention to what he's doing and forgets he has to strategize 🤣
Happy Holidays everyone! Thank you Jet Lag for such an amazing year! Japan, Tag Europe 3, Australia, Hide + Seek Switzerland and most of Arctic Escape. We love you keep it up!
The cheapest shipping for the Hide and Seek cards to Australia is $84, excluding the price of the game. I really wish I could get them but I just can not justify that egregious shipping fee.
It's not really their fault, it's very difficult to offer cheap worldwide shipping as a small business. They said they first needed to make sure that they break even on the production cost and are working on getting a distributor in Europe. Unfortunately I doubt they will get a distributor in Oceania because it's probably a much smaller market than Europe,
@@RusNad If they simply had an online copy of these things, in a format that cant be pirated. They could share this and let buyers print them. Although we already know the cards haha
A format that cant be pirated doesn't exist. Even the paper copy can be high resolution scanned and a cgeap version made for 10 bucks in china i guess@@noneyourbussiness5879
5:35 I like to think Sam chose his hiding spot just to have a nice place to relax to! 😅 I mean its kinda on brand honestly, Ben hides under a bridge, Adam hides by a castle, and Sam goes to the Airport!
He talks about how he hates the heat and wanted to chill out and relax. The airport in general though, even with character analysis, is definitely not an obvious choice due to how quickly you could get caught.
I personally disagree, it would make randomize question a buffed version of a veto, you don't need to answer the question that you don't want to, while still answering a different question and getting the card. I think having a card just be a buff of a different one would make for uninteresting balance.
@@MaxAethon In hindsight yes, answering a question is almost always bad for the hider, buty point still stands. Veto is just an unconditional buff of randomize, and I personally don't think it's good game design to have 2 seeming different cards be upgrades of each other
@@AsiccAP randomize and veto still are very different as the randomize could land on a question that is equally or even more revealing. It could be something the hiders weren't even thinking of asking that could be detrimental. As is, randomize feels a little weak. Maybe it is just being used wrong though. If used on some of the early probing questions for narrowing area down, it could just give extra cards and waste the amount of time it takes to reply to the question
SPOILER… Ben and Adam accidentally taking the train line that nobody uses and it took Sam an hour to find the entrance to simply bc they didn’t understand the signs, and then taking the perfect exit for his hiding location, is the biggest L of all time. It also took right away from the big reveal that Sam had gone to the airport of all places. I’d have been livid. I’ll bet Sam felt like that guy from Come Dine With Me: “Dear Lord, you ruined my end game so you could have more run time…” 😂
Commenting spoilers after watching it on nebula before the episode has been out on RUclips long enough for people to watch it all the way through is a s*** thing to do.
THIS WAS CRAZY(Spoilers): So the first question was so perfect! Imagine if the answer to the closest shinkansen was no(it was off by 1 mile), but they thought he was in Niiagara(sorry for most likely wrong spelling). That would be soo confusing! Idea for a crazy card next season. Imagine a card that lets you lie to a question, but in the next 30min you would need to confess, and the next question, would force the hider draw 1 less card(so tentacles would be 1, else 0). Like good, but ig it could be balanced.(but it would create so much confusion) AND A GILLIE SUIT??? I thought Adam's the one with crazy disguises!
Happy christmas to all of you! It's been amazing to see how the show has developed since season 1. I look forward to seeing what this and future series have in store!
The stupid tallest building question is sooooo OP. It’s not just that it was good here but it literally gets asked every run. If it is good in nearly every scenario it’s just too strong, maybe a new category of strong photos worth at least a draw 3 take 2
33:33 i agree. Nothing beats sitting at the airport on the grass next to the runway in a sunchair, drinking simething cold. Even better if it smells new cut grass or jetfuel
A lot of people mentioned the fact that randomize question should spend the question that it was used on, but nobody has mentioned how they were only randomizing within the same category. That is absolutely not how the card should work. It defeats the point of it so immensely.
Broooo it's 2:30am on Christmas Day, I was just about to go to bed AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S A NEW JET LAG EPISODE??? MERRY CHRISTMAS JET LAG FANS!!!
Sam: The only people who go to this station are train enthusiasts, and confused tourists...
Immediately cuts to a confused Ben and Adam getting that same train on accident.
that luck is insane
Is it luck? "Confused tourists" is literally what they were. It's not rare to miss stops when you can't speak the language lol.
@@spelunkyboy They got off the "Airport Express" because they wanted to go to the airport?? Even confused tourists aren't THAT confused.
@MrLarrypaige ? Screaming doesn't make you correct. They went the wrong way. That's a confused tourist. Maybe watch the video before you comment.
i couldnt fucking believe this you literally couldnt even script this to be funnier
@@spelunkyboy Huh? Screaming? You might be responding to the wrong comment. They didn't go the wrong way, they got off the Airport Express because they wanted to go to...the airport. The average confused tourist isn't near that confused.
“The only people who come here are train enthusiasts and lost tourists.”
Sam: Train enthusiast
Ben and Adam: Lost tourists
Sam: They’ll never expect me to be at the airport
The first question: which is your nearest international airport
@@muhdsyakiib8798 Except they genuinely didn't think he was at the airport even when they literally tentacled him to that small region within a prefecture.
In reality though, that only just splits the country in thirds.
@@thany3 pretty funny though
@theiaraine it was quite ironic
And on the train after the first curses Ben said “our first question referenced the airport”
Seeing the map get shaded with the areas that the hider isn't in is sooooo satisfying. It never gets old
The only thing more satisfying is seeing the seekers make a mistake and accidentally shade an area that the hider is in
@@AetherBoye Wait did that happened?
@@mysterioushomoguy Although I Don’t Think They Removed It On The Map Due To The Size Of The Town And Events Of The Episode, In Adams Second Run In Switzerland,He Ran To A Station He Couldn’t Get To In Time Otherwise.
@@AetherBoyehas that happened?
@@mysterioushomoguyI think it happened in Switzerland while they were looking for Ben, though I may be misremembering
Sam's luck:
- 1st question itself is about airport.
- Pulls 3 cards of 5-min time bonus
- Ben/Adam get massively advantaged by Train delay which is rarity in Japan
- They pull into the station that no one even thinks of visiting
- Ben/Adam go through the terminal where Sam is situated for no apparent reason.
And the closest Shinkansen Line 🥲
the cards he pulled in general was insane 😭
@@MrSharkFIN I dont understand why he didnt duplicate the 20 extra minutes, anyone know???
@@sol_in.victus He copy the travel agent curse so I thought if the curse worked he can send them back and forth to east and west side of the airport and because it's only walking to get there, it can mean more than 20 minutes as the travel agent 1 is located 10 minutes via walking alone
@@sol_in.victus He still wouldn't win, he could only get second place which means nothing.
Nothing describes Sam's luck better than getting three 5 minute bonus in 1 pull
Yea, I feel like Sam made good choices but just had the worst luck like at the end they used the weird train station.
@@Rejinx and the train that would've delayed Ben and Adam's time by hours got delayed 💀
@@Rejinx Yeah Sam is much better at the game but always gets unlucky.
literally the worst possible pull
I feel those cards shouldn't even be in the deck
What a pity, would've loved to see Adam and Ben struggling through the airport for multiple hours 😂😂
Yea
That would have been the coolest part of this spot! The final search. Though it is very funny that they cut it short on a fluke
And Sam struggling staying in one place :D
Any picture in the spot would've easily shown where he was, the only struggle would be to find the entrance.
@@0Clewi0Would it though? How?
The fact that the train in Japan was late enough for them to narrow down an answer and avoid the slow train that would have put them massively off track is just such bad luck for Sam.
I mean, a country where trains being a few seconds late is seen as a major disaster it is just so unfortunate.
From my experience, the rural trains that come once every few hours tend to be late by a few minutes
@@AnonymousGhostwriter Not only that, but Im assuming they are there over the summer and, especially if it was in August, the Japanese rail system was experiencing a lot of strange issues around that time which just shows how bad his luck was
Honestly didnt matter. They discuss this someehere. And they problely could have jump off before to long
That and Ben & Adam taking the wrong train by accident
The lion share of the reputation of punctuality comes from the shinkansen, and the limited express trains.
The airport strat actually *was* succesful. Even when they had narrowed it down to a few miles they still said “I don’t think he would have gone to the airport. That’s weird even for him.” The failure was Sam’s luck or lack thereof. Most of the questions were super useful by coincidence.
@@dennis_duran I mean the tallest building question would’ve given him away regardless, and I think they were bound to either ask that or the 5 building question which also would’ve given him away. So I think they would have figured out he was at the airport easily through one picture.
The hard part would’ve been searching for Sam in the airport but you’re right about that, they got lucky there.
55:54 sam beating adam by 1 minute 33 seconds is comedy
Can’t wait for 1 milisecond differences in season 246
uhmmmmm... a spoiler warning maybe?
@NicoAshKurz dont read comments until you finished then thats what
I did
@NicoAshKurz why would you read the comments?? Like to comment without spoilers you cant talk about ANYTHIGN in the video, thats insane
@@SpicyCannoli yeah, I see I was in the wrong, but still, most comments are about more silly things or details, not the result of an entire run.
But I can't really be upset about it, it's just comments
The fact that Sam went to Higashi-Narita to yap about planes and relax on the massage chairs is the Samest thing i have ever seen.
he went to narita airport to yap about planes, he only went to higashi-narita to hide.
@@SystemSmortnah,he went to higashi-narita to yap about trains instead
@londegel TRUE
I respect Sam so much for that. Would have gone to Tokyo myself despite it being a popular destination just so I could watch the trains.
It’s not Jet Lag if it isn’t Sam getting the worst luck
Reall……
I think Adam had worse luck last episode. At least they didn't accidentally find Sams exact location just by looking on Google Maps.
Tbf he also played it pretty bad imo. His airport idea was good but my man wouldn't use his curse cards until the very last hours of the game, when it was useless for them to be played. He wasn't lucky, but his misplays were what made it very bad.
He already used up his moment of insanely good luck last episode.
@@Al3xtheMehAdam had 2 vetos available for the majority of the game and still decided to answer all the questions that he was asked. Adam lost because of his own stupidity.
A ghillie suit? A ghillie suit?! What a wild move after running around as Waldo’s fashionable cousin.
Benjamin Doyle is the gift that keeps giving.
I love the idea that he decided that his first run was going as the most un-hideable clothes ever, so that his competition would run around the forests looking for a human candycane.
I'm convinced that hiding in a dense urban area is a great strategy. Chasers still need to narrow it down but then when they get to your area, they have so many spots to go through. Even if they use tentacles (which take some time to analyze the response for anyway) that just gives you more cards to mess with them.
Sam's biggest mistake was sitting next to a train station....
Tentacles are to OP, I don't think hiding in an urban environment is a good idea. A semi-Urban place with less trafic could be better
@@tijmen131 the best spots for the endgame have always been some random place in a forest or suburb. Ben's first spot and the first intended hidding spot for Adam were both good, they both just screwed up. In the grand picture, you ideally need to be somewhere that is very hard to reach with infrequent trains, and then hope to misdirect the seekers. The coast would really have been a much better spot for Sam, landmarks (temple, castle, airport) are just a bad idea
urban areas seem like a good idea because theres soooo much, but a semi-urban location with enough hiding spots, but limited trains, is really the best option. a train line that doesnt run for 12 hours is much better than roaming around even 3 hours in a city to find a specific hiding spot
@@tijmen131 Tentacles are a genius game-balancing to nerf dense urban environment. Legit genius idea.
Especially japan has restaurants on like 7 floors in the same building. Hard to find people even if you know the building
Sam just won SO MUCH RESPECT from me for doing this. This was an incredible idea and incredible content, he just got SO unlucky with cards and that (1) Ben and Adam took the wrong line and (2) wandered around, and (3) that the one time a train is late in Japan it helps the seekers avoid a terrible mistake.
I am now rooting for Sam to win, if that's still somehow possible with this game and the time left.
with 7 days each person can run twice at least
I've always rooted for Sam in every solo competing season (like tag etc) because he always does unpredictable moves but he always loses to having bad luck sadly.
@rizqhariz
Sam is like one of those supervillain characters who has all these incredibly convoluted and potentially genius schemes...only to fall short at the last minute due to some fluke or bad luck! 😅
Also maybe the control tower can be seen from the end of the line station, so they could've started searching there.
No. As Sam has mentioned in the video, any station in Narita Airport will have the control tower as the tallest building.
"The next day..." followed by Ben on some cliffs in a GHILLIE SUIT was DIABOLICAL
He really sells the moment lmao. Especially considering he wore Wally obvious red in his first run.
It wouldn't be that funny if Adam or Sam did it, but Ben with his dopey smile really made me LOL. Funniest moment in Jet Lag that I can remember.
I fucking *wheezed* seeing this beautiful landscape, then Ben in the ghillie suit looking *miserable*
@@Ghiaman1334 🤨
@@Ghiaman1334 stay still, let 'em pass
How do you get those blue words in your comment?
I actually love knowing where the hider is. it makes everything so much more tense
One option I've seen used in other hidden information games would be to reveal the location visually and tell the audience you are going to announce the location beforehand. It would let the audience choose whether they want that info or not.
I like that they switched it up a bit, but I definitely prefer not knowing.
for me depend on the location, i have almost no idea of japenese regions so i can't guess at all myself but if it's in area i can guess i like more not knowing
Ben is here maps.app.goo.gl/UnuXfQnGeTGhCqqHA
Ben is at
Tajima Falls, Itō
I think that the randomize should prevent using the original question for a while. Otherwise it is basically just a draw more cards, at the cost of a random question.
Agree.
Yes highly agree! I was very surprised that it didn't when Ben and Adam asked the photo of the highest building question again
Or alternatively it should double the cost like "Veto question" does.
@@Shkiperkirit doesn't?
I think the randomize Question has potential, but just poorly executed.
This card is probably the strongest when it's in the early game, as it might randomly land on an option that might be really helpful in the late game. If the card would lean more into that, that could spice things up
usually a silent viewer but just had to say this: watching jetlag has made me feel so much more comfortable with the idea of travelling in a completely foreign country. i'm autistic and going anywhere i am not familiar with gives me massive anxiety if not panic attacks even if i've made meticulous plans ahead. but watching you guys travelling around in these countries with the most random places and spontaneous travel choices and it being *fine* and actually really fun in most cases has made me feel more confident in my own abilities and i want to thank you guys for this!!!
I feel this so much! It's so nice watching them and realizing that all these places are just... normal places, after all.
I would recommend it if you have the opportunity. I've always been nervous about solo traveling somewhere, mainly where there's a language barrier. But I've been to France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Germany successfully in the last few years. Google Maps and Translate help a lot. And so many places offer cashier-free shopping/ordering that make it easier too. If I may suggest to you or anyone else reading, if you can, learn just 3 words and 3 phrases in the local language that will get a lot of locals to open up and be helpful - "please", "thanks", "pardon" & "I'm sorry", "I don't understand", "I don't speak ".
If you make sure you always have money on you and a portable charger so you dont run out of charge and stay away from super rural areas - you can literally do whatever you want, take any train, even jf you get ‘lost’ you’ll find your way back
Adam choosing his hiding spot and playing his cards like an absolute potato and Sam devising a masterful plan and trying to play his cards in a meaningful way - getting the same result to the minute and a half - so bonkers
Sam underused his randomises almost as badly as adam underusing his vetos.
@@cooledcannon The card use in general is just terrible this season. There is no incentive to hoard onto the cards because Seekers will rapid fire questions once your hand is full so you can't even use them. Sure there might be alternative questions they can ask to get the same answer but you will still be getting the time from curses whether it is early or late in the run. Especially since early on they are more likely to ask questions which some curses prevent.
@@orionknight4803 And yes curses drop in value sharply over time so you really should default to using them asap/when you get them, like Ben did.
"Adam, are you sure that none of these other stations have an air traffic control tower?" Funniest line of the season.
To be fair, the next closest station to the airport would probably have a view of the same tower
47:16 the rules shouldn’t work like this. If they ask a question and you randomize it, the initial question they asked should be spent and they shouldn’t be able to ask it again. Them being able to ask it again defeats the whole purpose of the randomize card because they can just immediately ask you the same question again? That is stupid.
agreed.
Absolutely agree
Yep that seems really unfair
Yeah I agree, if anything it just tells the seekers that it’s an important question
@@J3dotggUnfair isn't the word. But poor design is correct.
Their first question being an airport related question is too good!😂😂
spooked him real good
The irony!
😂
How come man haha
dramatic irony!
How unlucky is Sam
1. The first question asked was straight about the airport.
2. He got a three 5 minutes bonus cards.
3. In spite of randomizing the question, he had to answer the tallest building question.
4. All three of the curses were pretty much meaningless to the seekers.
5. His strategy of hiding at the least visited railway station did not work at all. In fact out of the whole airport, somehow the guys accidentally ended up in that exact location.
he only randomized tallest building once, the other time was for 7mi radar
the ENTIRE time i was thinking “man it’s gonna take them at least 3 hours to find him in this airport!” And I was so giddy to see that sam got to 6 hours (6+3 and the 50 mins bonus time) would make him pretty close to ben… And then the confused ben and adam walking the WRONG WAY got me. Pure cinema.
I'm actually pretty disappointed as I wanted to see how tentacles would come into play. Also Narita is so big and confusing, it would have been so fun to see a hide and seek in the area.
Though I think Sam might have prioritized watching planes and teaching us about train enthusiast facts.
17:54 _"+5 minutes,_ _+5 minutes,_ or _+5 minutes"_ ah yes, the illusion of choice
After several days of much deliberation, I think I'm going to have to go with... now hold on to your socks.. +5 minutes.. I hope I made the right choice..
Morton's fork
JetLag a day early? Now THATS a amazing christmass gift! Thank you team!
reall
ikr
just means we have to wait 8 days for the next one 😔
@@user-fc6xn6zb9y ik but its like 12 am for me and i get to have a hour of nothing but fun :)
I'm the 1,000th like!
26:45 I feel like the curse of the frozen dot is _incredibly_ powerful. The hider knows where the seekers are at all times, every episode so far has involved some travel on a shinkansen and one of the two things the shinkansen is know for is punctuality. So the best strategy would be to wait until they're exactly 15 minutes out from a station (which you can know from the train time tables), and just put the dot _on_ the station. The only ways this doesn't work is if they get off the train early, or they encounter an incredibly unlikely delay. But even taking those into account, this strategy makes CotFD _so much_ more accurate and powerful.
If the situation arrives, its god tier, but the setup is fickle. But I think here, the demonstration of the power of the randomize is good. Its like a mulligan on the card that may give the seekers poor info. Of course, when it's played is critical to maximize the chance of poor info and card draw. I think using randomize on the regional question would have been likely pretty good.
it definitely can have its power and the strategy you mentioned would be smart. the thing about the card is they can still strategize and plan in those 30 mins. if the card was an hour instead of 30mins i think it would create a bigger impact on the game and be a more useful card.
@@alexgilliam5144 Yes, but randomize has to deactivate the original question. Them just asking the same question again is bullshit. The card doesn't prevent anything, it's basically just a draw two card in the best case, because they have to pay for the question again, but they also get more information, so it's even worse.
It only works if they intend to get off the train and you force them to overshoot it by freezing them.
Because if they are frozen on the train - they are frozen ON the train with exception on when the train reaches its final station (in which case you're allowed to get off and wait the rest of the period on the platform).
This is what I've been thinking. Just put it on a station where you know the seekers will be to get a train.
The airport was a brilliant move by Sam, sad to see he got so unlucky with some of the events that were out of his influence.
The only two mistakes, I think Sam made relate to two curses that imo are absolutely busted.
1) Curse of the endless tumble (05:51): You have to do clear it before being allowed another question. It is impossible to clear while being on a train because there is no 100feet path for you to roll a dice. So it disturbs their journey. Even outside a train I feel like finding a spot that has a clear 100feet way you can roll (not throw, it says specifically roll on the card) a dice is hard. Even if you find something you still have to roll a 5 or 6 and every failed roll takes time to collect the dice and setup the next roll. You don´t want to risk hitting someone to prevent the hider from getting the bonus time. The casting cost is basically nothing. If Sam would have taken that curse and used (assuming he himself did not roll a 5 or 6) it right away he would have prevented them from staying on the Shinkansen and asking all the questions they did. All in all I am 100% sure this curse would have brought him more time than the 15min bonus he took and discarded later. Clear mistake imo.
2) Curse of the ransom note (13:15): Assuming the seekers have to spell the question in english letters this curse has the potential to waste a lot of time. Japanese uses a different alphabet so finding print media that does not use Kanji and provides you with the needed letters can be pretty tricky. Especially if you are not in an urban/international part of Japan. The casting cost for Sam is pretty simple as an airpot is the most international place ever and I am sure there are books and magazine with english letters widely available. At the time of the curse the seekers were on the train, a place which I think does not have the needed materials to complete the curse. As the curse has no time limit it would again completely disrupt their journey and require them to go out of their way if they want to ask another question. Taking the randomize question card also seems like a waste especially knowing that the rules don´t prevent the seekers from just asking the same question again.
Would love to hear what everybody else thinks about those two curses.
I like how Sam chose the airport because he figured there'd be a zillion places to hide. Then he got caught less than three minutes after Ben and Adam arrive at the station. That's an endgame record that might be unbreakable.
I just wanted to say I really love this new format of hide and seek. IT'S SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING when someone gets a curse for every clue. My only suggestion is some of the clues are too powerful especially for the reward. The strava map especially seems like a killer over the course of these hide and seek series, and should be like 3 curse cards. It basically tells you their exact location if given enough time.
Agreed. The seekers get to ask too many questions in general. They should be forced to choose between different questions, now they can just bombard the hider with all of them.
@@MermaidTyronein fact they are incentivised to ask many questions before getting hit by curses because of the forced discard when the deck exceeds 6.
yeah, i agree. the way this game is set up, it seems to heavily favor the seeker. i obviously understand that the seeker is SUPPOSED to have the advantage to find the hider eventually so the game doesn't last indefinitely, but currently, the game feels a bit frustrating in it's balance.
seekers have every advantage to just bombard the hider with as many questions as possible and as quickly as possible. there is no real reason for them to be reserved since they have so many questions to use, and the faster they can narrow down the hiding spot the less time they need to spend on traveling.
like what realistically stops them from exhausting as many questions as possible? Sam even said that certain curses aren't even allowed to be stacked, so this really should just be the optimal strategy for the seekers.
whereas the only "advantage" the hider get is a gamble.. they "might" draw a card that is useful, but half their deck just seems to be cards that are dead in the water. 5-15 minute cards is just card filler in a game that is expected to take multiple hours and "randomize question" also seems largely useless with a huge risk of backfiring. you can draw a curse, but the usefulness of a curse will be entirely circumstantial and even has a negative cost for the hider to even cast it in the first place. so far, the strongest card i've seen was the "veto"-card, but beyond that, most hider cards don't seem to come with that many benifits.
a more agressive playstyle from the seekers would absolutely crush the hider everytime it seems like
@merlith4650 While I 100% agree Seekers shouldn''t be incentivized to ask as many questions as fast as possible to dodge curses I believe part of the problem is I think all three of them are using their cards horribly. They should be using their curses almost immediately. Both Sam and Adam held onto all their cards for way too long for no reason. The longer you wait there is always less reason for them to need to ask another question. Don't wait for that perfect moment just force them to do meaningless tasks in the early and mid game for those extra minutes.
The fact that the train was late, in Japan, is such bad luck, Sam should really bring a horseshoe or something with him next season
Hopefully Japan isn't starting to make the scheduling mistakes that have lately made Germany's rail network notorious and America's basically unusable.
The editing never fails to make me laugh.
We've got Sam's voiceover saying that the station that he's hiding in is where lost travelers end up or train enthusiasts... and here we have Adam and Ben being lost travelers...
Every instance of "sams luck" i could find in this video:
1.: 3 5 minute bonuses in one draw 3
2.: them randomly rolling the 10 mile radar after the 7 mile radar
3.: A train being late, giving them time to figure out a WAY better and safer route, in the country with the least train delays in the world
4.: Being one mile off from that other train line being the closest to him, which wouldve sent them on a trip farther away and kept the map much bigger
5.: Being at a train station ONLY people who went onto the wrong train go to, and them being on the wrong train
6.: not one good opportunity to use his curses at any point, and not drawing many of them to begin with
it is literally INSANE. He didnt play perfectly with his cards, and kinda wasted his curses, but all in all this was a VERY possible first place
"This station tends to be filled with two kinds of people: train enthusiasts and lost tourists who accidentally transferred onto the wrong line." - Foreshadowing
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ben stepping in front of the camera in full cameo is the funniest thing I've ever seen
Fr. It's the funniest jet lag moment for me (remind me if I forgot some other funny thing).
@@spelunkyboy 32:52 in this one is probably the funniest I remember ruclips.net/video/ZBgUP81d-GA/видео.html
@@gummyb426 i prefer "we're in silly"
or "what does this ball do
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this guy makes sexy teeth"
@@gummyb426 Haha thanks
48:38 Shibayama Line is not just for train enthusiasts. It is built to serve workers commuting to JAL, ANA and Delta’s maintenance hangars, as well as NRT’s southern air cargo area. They are located at the southern end of NRT's 16R/34L runway.
And it's also for lost tourists too!!! ... And for Sam to hide in as well.
Interesting to know though! Thanks for the info! :D
I love when people share the niche info that corrects the already educational content here
@@spelunkyboy A lot of unusual things built around NRT will relate back to the Sanrizuka Struggle (a series of land disputes between local farmers and central government in Tokyo on building the airport), which is still ongoing until today.
However it’ll be another one-hour episode to explain. Serving workers (and a number of remaining residents) is the most easy understanding purpose for the average guy.
@RicciChoi1109 Oh I know about this dispute!
For more than two years this series has been the absolute top tier of what RUclips has to offer. Bravo gentlemen and Merry Christmas!
This has to be the unluckiest hider run of jet lag. It felt like at every turn Ben and Adam had a higher power pushing them toward Sam 😭 Would’ve been so fun to see them running around the airport or midway through a 5hr train ride realizing them went the wrong way
Not at all mate. Badam made 3 wrong guesses on 50/50 chance in a row.
The USELESS card luck (Seriously, 3 5 minute bonuses in a row??)
The unlucky behavior of Ben and Adam SOMEHOW taking the abandoned trainstation directly to Sam, completely avoiding the big airport
Sam refusing to use his Randomize questions, so Ben and Adam managed to severely narrow down his spot
Despite such a positive start, this might be the most unfortunate run of Jet Lag I've ever seen. Sam is technically in 2nd place, but it sure doesn't FEEL like it.
exactlyyyyy omg sam is cursed for real :(
the randomize question cards were pretty useless though, its his curse usage I have a problem with. two useless ones that I must assume he just misunderstood given what he thought would happen, didn't use the one where you predict where they'll be, and waited way too long to use the tourist one. but yeah super unlucky as well, ben and adam even massively benefitted from the train delay
Barely in second place too.
I thought he had potential for a generational run. Instead he barely squeezed into second with his time bonuses.
That entire round is the worst luck in any Jet lag season from Sam of all time
Nope
Greatest Christmas present we could wish for
Love the midroll break where Sam shows us his special interest in plane XD
There's a comment talking about how they've begun to feel immensely more comfortable with traveling after watching you guys, i can't express just how many people are likely in a very similar boat. though these episodes are made purely for entertainment, i think there's a serious ripple effect with these videos, not only showing how beautiful these desolate towns are, but the ease and comfortability of you guys traveling there without hiccups presents a much larger answer to a wide variety of questions most often asked by those feeling insecure about traveling.
Spoiler:
I gotta admit that was super unlucky for Sam. I genuinely think they could've been like 2 hours looking for him at such a massive airport. Still, maybe less since they kinda expected the 'special terminal or station' hiding place, but still that would've taken them a while. Well, I guess that's how the jets lag
If they did not find Sam in this Station, this could 100% be a winning round. Urban environment seems to be pretty good hidding spots!
Well they did know that Sam would hide in a weird spot, but you can also see that they are leaned towards it being some kind of terminal, which is wrong + it took Sam a whole hour to find the entrance to the station when he knew he was going to go there. He didn't just wander until he found it like ben and adam would, which would waste a lot more time.
just want to add, nice of you to put *Spoiler* , not that I look at the comments anyway before watching video
you know what else is massive?
@mixa711 The snack zone?
Seeing where the hider is actually keeps me more engaged in the events unfolding! Keep up the great work Sam, Ben, Adam, and everyone behind the scenes!!
yeah same! it would be great if they could just visibly tell us where the hider is and announce it so that the people who want to know can, and those who would rather not can just close their eyes.
Sam had the same issue as Adam last episode where he wanted to prioritise a powerful card (veto for Adam, random question for Sam) and he just… didn’t. A random on the 50 mile radar could’ve decreased the radar size, and that woudve sent Ben and Adam across 4 hour long trains scouring the east coast. And a random of the prefecture probably woudve confused them and disrupted their flow by giving them something completely random. But instead he held onto the cards and did a curse combo first (something he should’ve done sooner before they started B lining on the Shinkansen)
He didn't know the coast route existed
Definitely the most frustrating part is them holding their cards that could be super impactful.
Sam described his spot as high risk, then didn’t proceed to use his cards in a high risk manner.
hoarding mentality is very strong
I agree for Adams case but the "Random Question card" allows you to answer the same Question again as seen in when they asked for the tallest builing again.
It's an interesting dilemma, for as the viewers we are able to see everything unfold. While Sam had no idea the duo were considering the coastal option. It's one thing to think the randomize question would be good to avoid a question, however I don't think they know how powerful it is to play mind games instead with changing the 50m radar. They don't get the graphics as we do so I'm sure it's much more complicated when they're trying to navigate foreign language included.
“pretty ducked up” to the cut of the long obscure hallway may possibly be the greatest cut cut ever had me in stitches 50:20
i cant believe how many questions you asked, you should be given 5 minutes for every question asked like you guys would barely wait 10 mins to ask another question, made it easy asf to find him
Sam should have started doing math immediately once he got the curse of the frozen dot, with how precise shinkansen schedules are hitting it should be easy, since he can just time their arrival in a station
A couple hundred feet would be tough to hit without knowing exactly where IN THE TRAIN they were, but I guess it could be doable by looking at where they land at one station and placing it in the same spot at a station he doesn't expect them to get off at
I've been cooking for the last 18 hours to make sure it will be a memorable Christmas Dinner. There was no sleep for the past 26 hours. When I saw this video I nearly shat myself because I thought it was the 25th. Bless and curse you all! Merry Christmas
wow! don't overwork yourself too hard!!!
Wow, those Randomize cards have so much potential, I'm sure Sam will use them to great effect!
28:03 “this what many would call a blunder” SAYS ADAM 🤣🤣
I was disappointed to see that the snack zone didn't pop up when Ben was eating mysterious food.
OMG JET LAG DAY AND ITS ONLY TUESDAY
it's wednesday (christmas!) here in japan! :D
It means we have to wait a week and a day (tomorrow, Wednesday) for the next one, instead of the usual week 😔
@@xijinpig8982sorry your not a sigma
@@pro-11-brawlstars68 huh?
@@elipandamanhere in India too it's Wednesday rn 😁
Sam got so unlucky, 10 miles in the first radar, a couple miles for the shinkansen question, either those 2 questions going the opposite way would've secured him the win
Wasn't.
Also that Ben and Adam missed the Train Station which let them go directly too Sam. It's Sam he either has incredible bad Luck or Luck.
@@wiesor1613 if they didn't miss the train station they would have simply arrived earlier and caught Sam earlier as well
Best christmas gift by the Jet Lag crew!!!!
To quote the ep “so dumb it might just be genius!”
@@user-dv4gh4oq5vwhy is it dumb? Dropping a day early means the episode doesn’t get forgotten because of Christmas plans.
48:53 When Sam said "It's also home to Japan's shortest independent railway operator", my mind went immediately to Stationmaster Tama.
Sam should get a tattoo that reminds him to not hide in airports, so he doesn't get so giddy about airplanes he's not even paying attention to what he's doing and forgets he has to strategize 🤣
Happy Holidays everyone! Thank you Jet Lag for such an amazing year! Japan, Tag Europe 3, Australia, Hide + Seek Switzerland and most of Arctic Escape. We love you keep it up!
The cheapest shipping for the Hide and Seek cards to Australia is $84, excluding the price of the game. I really wish I could get them but I just can not justify that egregious shipping fee.
The world focus in the US, at least annoying shipping disuades being an impresionable consumer.
It's not really their fault, it's very difficult to offer cheap worldwide shipping as a small business. They said they first needed to make sure that they break even on the production cost and are working on getting a distributor in Europe. Unfortunately I doubt they will get a distributor in Oceania because it's probably a much smaller market than Europe,
@@RusNad If they simply had an online copy of these things, in a format that cant be pirated. They could share this and let buyers print them. Although we already know the cards haha
A format that cant be pirated doesn't exist. Even the paper copy can be high resolution scanned and a cgeap version made for 10 bucks in china i guess@@noneyourbussiness5879
European here. €35 for the game + €42 shipping. The logistics of shipping a game could be a Wendover Productions video.
Out on Tuesday instead of Wednesday??? Love some good early Christmas gifts
5:35 I like to think Sam chose his hiding spot just to have a nice place to relax to! 😅
I mean its kinda on brand honestly, Ben hides under a bridge, Adam hides by a castle, and Sam goes to the Airport!
He talks about how he hates the heat and wanted to chill out and relax. The airport in general though, even with character analysis, is definitely not an obvious choice due to how quickly you could get caught.
I see Ben's taste and sense of fashion will continue in the next episode. Perfect.
Question idea for future seasons of this game - "5 (or whatever) minute long audio recording of hider's location".
I feel like randomize question should also block the original question. If they can just ask it again it defeats the purpose
or at least put a timesink on the question where if it is asked again, the hider gets Time added to their clock
I personally disagree, it would make randomize question a buffed version of a veto, you don't need to answer the question that you don't want to, while still answering a different question and getting the card. I think having a card just be a buff of a different one would make for uninteresting balance.
@@AsiccAP The fact that you still have to answer a question makes it a nerfed version of the veto...
@@MaxAethon In hindsight yes, answering a question is almost always bad for the hider, buty point still stands. Veto is just an unconditional buff of randomize, and I personally don't think it's good game design to have 2 seeming different cards be upgrades of each other
@@AsiccAP randomize and veto still are very different as the randomize could land on a question that is equally or even more revealing. It could be something the hiders weren't even thinking of asking that could be detrimental. As is, randomize feels a little weak. Maybe it is just being used wrong though. If used on some of the early probing questions for narrowing area down, it could just give extra cards and waste the amount of time it takes to reply to the question
JET LAG TUESDAY!!!!! i was rewatching eps 1 and 2 this morning and wishing for the next episode to drop!
all 3 being so likeable that i root for the hider no matter who it is
57:27
Omg I can't- that is hilarious. I really hope that this disguise helps him win.
SPOILER…
Ben and Adam accidentally taking the train line that nobody uses and it took Sam an hour to find the entrance to simply bc they didn’t understand the signs, and then taking the perfect exit for his hiding location, is the biggest L of all time. It also took right away from the big reveal that Sam had gone to the airport of all places.
I’d have been livid. I’ll bet Sam felt like that guy from Come Dine With Me: “Dear Lord, you ruined my end game so you could have more run time…” 😂
Commenting spoilers after watching it on nebula before the episode has been out on RUclips long enough for people to watch it all the way through is a s*** thing to do.
I was rooting for Sam and was very livid at how unlucky he got.
@@LevaOrel atleast they said it was a spoiler
God hates sam
@@LevaOrelit said spoiler in big bold letters, you could've scrolled :)
Wait, ain't it a day early? Is this the Christmas miracle of the year?
THIS WAS CRAZY(Spoilers):
So the first question was so perfect!
Imagine if the answer to the closest shinkansen was no(it was off by 1 mile), but they thought he was in Niiagara(sorry for most likely wrong spelling). That would be soo confusing!
Idea for a crazy card next season. Imagine a card that lets you lie to a question, but in the next 30min you would need to confess, and the next question, would force the hider draw 1 less card(so tentacles would be 1, else 0). Like good, but ig it could be balanced.(but it would create so much confusion)
AND A GILLIE SUIT??? I thought Adam's the one with crazy disguises!
6:40 "sam is not gonna be pleased with that right now"
cuts to sam being the most pleased he could possibly be
Happy christmas to all of you! It's been amazing to see how the show has developed since season 1. I look forward to seeing what this and future series have in store!
2:40 And you know what else is massive?
I was thinking the same thing lol
Imagine
The low taper fade meme
dude I was gonna comment this the moment I heard it
THIS IS THE MOST UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER, THANK YOU JETLAG!!
This is either going to be one of the greatest runs or biggest flop for Jet Lag history
Thanks for giving us something nice to watch on Christmas day!
One of the best Jet Lag episodes ever, hands down. The amount of wild twists and turns here are WILD
Ben and Adam fining Sam because they took the wrong train is too funny
Love the series. Thanks for everything
Now the question here is, with Ben being in the best position of the game to do so, did he take a flight to his hiding spot?
I’m watching on Nebula but just wanted to drop by to say I’m loving these longer episodes. And I hope Ben wins.
The stupid tallest building question is sooooo OP. It’s not just that it was good here but it literally gets asked every run. If it is good in nearly every scenario it’s just too strong, maybe a new category of strong photos worth at least a draw 3 take 2
hour long episode literally the best present
33:33 i agree. Nothing beats sitting at the airport on the grass next to the runway in a sunchair, drinking simething cold. Even better if it smells new cut grass or jetfuel
Really wanna see this played in the UK. Could create a lot of really interesting hiding places
Thank you for making one of the most entertaining things on this app! This app is filled with slop ai content and this is a breath of fresh air
I actually really liked how it showed where Sam was while hiding. I was able to tell how well the seekers were doing and it was super great.
Knowing the location from beginning is better in my opinion, it's more immersive than not knowing who is in the lead.
Sam spent his run getting massages while Ben spent his run fleeing killer monkeys.
top comment!
A lot of people mentioned the fact that randomize question should spend the question that it was used on, but nobody has mentioned how they were only randomizing within the same category. That is absolutely not how the card should work. It defeats the point of it so immensely.
the color grading for this season is soooooo good. props to the editors.
I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you for making such great content!
Broooo it's 2:30am on Christmas Day, I was just about to go to bed AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S A NEW JET LAG EPISODE???
MERRY CHRISTMAS JET LAG FANS!!!
you in australia? me in uk :DDD
35:11 we know why it's called tentacles
The fact that they only introduced the tentacles into this specific game that's in Japan makes it even better 😭😭
The craziest thing? Apparently octopus' tentacles do have a mind of their own. So it's not wrong xD
Jet Lag Tuesday whattttt? Watching episode 4 on nebula now 😎
best episode of this season so far. Sam as a hider is hilarious
36:06 "Guess who just got tentacled." A fitting Question for a season set in Japan.