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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
48:38 Shibayama Line is not just for train enthusiasts. It is built to serve workers commuting to the maintenance hangars and air cargo area, located at the southern end of NRT's 16R/34L runway.
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.
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 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...
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
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
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!!
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
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
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
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 UA-cam long enough for people to watch it all the way through is a s*** thing to do.
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
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!
for anyone who is thinking about getting nebula… i highly, highly recommend it. not only do you get the layover podcast but you get a week early access, which isn’t the biggest of deal but it’s a nice to have. i just watched episode 4 (no spoilers). the getaway is awesome, if you have nebula it’s a need to watch. i’m not sponsored, i just love nebula.
@@ettelewenAgree! I once payed for access, but then I lost the whole fun of reading yt comments😢 If I got the whole series I might consider it again. And I don’t mind supporting you! Best show there is!
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
"This station tends to be filled with two kinds of people: train enthusiasts and lost tourists who accidentally transferred onto the wrong line." - Foreshadowing
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!!!
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!
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 odds of them finding Sam immediately after entering the airport, wow. Also Ben, that ghillie suit is ingenious. I can’t wait to see how long you lasted with that. I just found this channel by chance in my recommendations last week, I’m loving this! I’m watching the old episodes in order while I wait for the current ones.
I have 2 suggestios. 1. Go to South Korea 2. If a card from the seekers deck is used more than one time in one season (regardless who are the chasers), then that card should be taken out of the deck in the next hide and seek season. Because that would imply that, that card is too powerful. Maybe, it's stupid and wouldn't work, but I think it is an idea that is worthwhile to think about and fine tune.
Yeah exactly, because they actually USED the question up and it doesn't matter it was then cursed by randomization. Hopefully they read these comments and change the rules
This has to be the most infuriating catch of all times. 1) The first randomize is not used for the tentacle question. 2) They randomly take the wrong train that goes exactly to the correct hidden station. 3) Instead of taking the correct exit that the employee showed them, they just randomly meander through the station and walk past Sam. Sam could have easily hid for another 1-3 hours if they went to one of the termimals, asking questions, getting cursed, walking around. Insane episode. ❤
I feel like for Japan it is much more entertaining if all seekers start in Tokio. Or in Tokio for the first run and Osaka for the second. This way we see a lot more spread and don’t get stuck in the same regions.
Petition to change this series' title to hide·seek, as Japan's flag doesn't have the swiss +, however, the dot is used as a denominator for multiplication. Also Japan's flag inverts the colors of the Swiss one, it's perfect!
All else being equal,* I think Sam would have gotten into first place had Ben and Adam entered the airport normally as they intended. Such bad luck lmao, his strategy was legitimately very good. *Yes, even Sam's blunder with the double curse cards (effectively discarded 4 cards with zero gain lol), and even the strategic misstep of not using the Randomize card earlier (I wouldn't call that a blunder; not using what you have is an extremely easy trap to fall into. Also the Randomize card really ought to remove the question from play).
Is it just me or does the randomize question feel kinda useless if the seekers can just ask the same question immediately after? I get that it maybe stalls a little bit, but it doesn't seem by enough time to really matter.
It is currently christmas morning for me in Australia, 4:00 am as I cannot sleep well. I go onto UA-cam to see Jet Lag has posted a day early. It is a christmas miracle
SPOILER: Damn, was looking forward to a great airport endgame, kinda funny how Adam and Ben taking the wrong line to the airport itself dropped them right in Sam's lap.
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 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.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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?
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 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
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.
Their first question being an airport related question is too good!😂😂
spooked him real good
The irony!
😂
How come man haha
dramatic irony!
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.
JetLag a day early? Now THATS a amazing christmass gift! Thank you team!
reall
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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 :)
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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.
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.
17:54 _"+5 minutes,_ _+5 minutes,_ or _+5 minutes"_ ah yes, the illusion of choice
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.
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.
Early Christmas present? Thank you Jet Lag! Love from Poland 🇵🇱
POLSKA‼️‼️
Wesołych świąt! 🇵🇱
Polska, 🎉
IM ALSO FROM POLAND!!!!!😝
Miłych świąt
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 :(
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 ua-cam.com/video/ZBgUP81d-GA/v-deo.html
@@gummyb426 i prefer "we're in silly"
or "what does this ball do
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this guy makes sexy teeth"
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.
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
48:38 Shibayama Line is not just for train enthusiasts. It is built to serve workers commuting to the maintenance hangars and air cargo area, 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
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.
"Adam, are you sure that none of these other stations have an air traffic control tower?" Funniest line of the season.
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
55:54 sam beating adam by 1 minute 33 seconds is comedy
Can’t wait for 1 milisecond differences in season 246
@@SurvivebritanicII the whar
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
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...
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
Greatest Christmas present we could wish for
That entire round is the worst luck in any Jet lag season from Sam of all time
Nope
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 😁
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
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!!
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
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.
Wow, those Randomize cards have so much potential, I'm sure Sam will use them to great effect!
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.
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!!!
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 UA-cam 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 :)
all 3 being so likeable that i root for the hider no matter who it is
Out on Tuesday instead of Wednesday??? Love some good early Christmas gifts
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
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!
for anyone who is thinking about getting nebula… i highly, highly recommend it. not only do you get the layover podcast but you get a week early access, which isn’t the biggest of deal but it’s a nice to have. i just watched episode 4 (no spoilers). the getaway is awesome, if you have nebula it’s a need to watch.
i’m not sponsored, i just love nebula.
Crime Spree!
The "a week early" never seemed that useful, other that shortening a week of wait once. Then its again a week apart. :D And ends a week sooner.
@@ettelewenAgree! I once payed for access, but then I lost the whole fun of reading yt comments😢
If I got the whole series I might consider it again. And I don’t mind supporting you! Best show there is!
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
JET LAG TUESDAY!!!!! i was rewatching eps 1 and 2 this morning and wishing for the next episode to drop!
This is either going to be one of the greatest runs or biggest flop for Jet Lag history
"This station tends to be filled with two kinds of people: train enthusiasts and lost tourists who accidentally transferred onto the wrong line." - Foreshadowing
Question idea for future seasons of this game - "5 (or whatever) minute long audio recording of hider's location".
Ben:”Sam is not gonna be pleased about this”
Sam:”Ooh it’s getting my butt now”
Sometimes jet lag is soo funny😭
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
Seriously, this video made my day!
I like how this episode was just Sam calmly plane watching
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!
THIS IS THE MOST UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER, THANK YOU JETLAG!!
17:34 “closer or nearer from the coast” -sam
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!
Wait, ain't it a day early? Is this the Christmas miracle of the year?
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.
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
Sam used all of his luck last episode to randomly find the station Adam was at, so for his run he was completely destitute in the eyes of fortune
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 odds of them finding Sam immediately after entering the airport, wow. Also Ben, that ghillie suit is ingenious. I can’t wait to see how long you lasted with that.
I just found this channel by chance in my recommendations last week, I’m loving this! I’m watching the old episodes in order while I wait for the current ones.
last videos map at 21:20
best episode of this season so far. Sam as a hider is hilarious
Love the series. Thanks for everything
I have 2 suggestios.
1. Go to South Korea
2. If a card from the seekers deck is used more than one time in one season (regardless who are the chasers), then that card should be taken out of the deck in the next hide and seek season. Because that would imply that, that card is too powerful. Maybe, it's stupid and wouldn't work, but I think it is an idea that is worthwhile to think about and fine tune.
48:53 When Sam said "It's also home to Japan's shortest independent railway operator", my mind went immediately to Stationmaster Tama.
57:27
Omg I can't- that is hilarious. I really hope that this disguise helps him win.
hour long episode literally the best present
THANKS FOR THE CHRISTMAS GIFT JET LAG TEAM!!! HOPE YOU GUYS ALSO HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND A NEW YEAR!!!!!
I feel like if you asked a question but then it gets randomised, the seekers should still be blocked from asking the same question again.
agreed
Yeah exactly, because they actually USED the question up and it doesn't matter it was then cursed by randomization. Hopefully they read these comments and change the rules
Or put a time delay before the same question can be asked again so that it at least buys you some amount of time
Sam had me cracking up the whole episode 😂
This is the best Chanukah present ever! Jet Lag a day early?
I was genuinely rooting for you Sam, I also thought hiding in the airport was an excellent idea, sad their luck found you faster than expected
What happened to the map here??? 21:18
48:38 Sam knows this episode was gonna be short, he slips in an HAI video inside this 😂
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?
This has to be the most infuriating catch of all times.
1) The first randomize is not used for the tentacle question.
2) They randomly take the wrong train that goes exactly to the correct hidden station.
3) Instead of taking the correct exit that the employee showed them, they just randomly meander through the station and walk past Sam.
Sam could have easily hid for another 1-3 hours if they went to one of the termimals, asking questions, getting cursed, walking around.
Insane episode. ❤
The first question being so close already
2:42 AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS MASSIVE THE LOOOOOOWWWW TAAAAAAPEEEER FAAAAAAAAAADEEE
I feel like for Japan it is much more entertaining if all seekers start in Tokio. Or in Tokio for the first run and Osaka for the second. This way we see a lot more spread and don’t get stuck in the same regions.
Jet Lag Tuesday whattttt? Watching episode 4 on nebula now 😎
The number of times Sam said delightful during the whole video has to be more than the number of seasons jet lag has.
Petition to change this series' title to hide·seek, as Japan's flag doesn't have the swiss +, however, the dot is used as a denominator for multiplication. Also Japan's flag inverts the colors of the Swiss one, it's perfect!
i imagine the episode is out early as of christmas and honestly thats so sweet
My man really just pulled up in a f'n GHILLIE SUIT
All else being equal,* I think Sam would have gotten into first place had Ben and Adam entered the airport normally as they intended. Such bad luck lmao, his strategy was legitimately very good.
*Yes, even Sam's blunder with the double curse cards (effectively discarded 4 cards with zero gain lol), and even the strategic misstep of not using the Randomize card earlier (I wouldn't call that a blunder; not using what you have is an extremely easy trap to fall into. Also the Randomize card really ought to remove the question from play).
48:38 Sam randomly thought he is in a Half As Interesting video😂
I mean he is the owner of Half as interesting
very funny how things ended up - I do feel robbed of the narita endgame I was *really* excited to see that play out.
Is it just me or does the randomize question feel kinda useless if the seekers can just ask the same question immediately after? I get that it maybe stalls a little bit, but it doesn't seem by enough time to really matter.
Yeah, not you alone
It is currently christmas morning for me in Australia, 4:00 am as I cannot sleep well. I go onto UA-cam to see Jet Lag has posted a day early. It is a christmas miracle
SPOILER:
Damn, was looking forward to a great airport endgame, kinda funny how Adam and Ben taking the wrong line to the airport itself dropped them right in Sam's lap.
Almost cried because life’s been hard but seeing this show appear to enjoy 1h makes my day