Jet Lag The Game - Blog Posts
JET LAG: THE GAME - SCHENGEN SHOWDOWN (2025) TWO OF THESE PEOPLE ARE LYING (2019)
nothing but pretty woman by roy orbison playing in my mind
jet lag made me turn back to tomposting. bro
Jet Lag News Update
#1. Ben Threatened To Break His Legs If He Doesn't Get His New Switch Soon
"Our sources say this indicates the ever approaching filming date of s15, with the release of season 14 just around the corner."
#2. Breaking News: Adam Chase Asked The Public For Travel Tips Instead of Sam
"Trouble in paradise? Or was Adam Chase just not in the mood for Sam yapping about planes for three hours? Sam wants to know. No, really, Sam wants to know."
#3. Jet Lag The Game Turns Three
"Sam Denby, founder of Jet Lag the Game, diagnoses his child with developmental problems, co-founder Ben Doyle disagrees: 'It has drawn sooo many circles, Sam!' - co-founder Adam Chase remains suspiciously silent on the issue."
new zealand !!! sorry theses are taking so long lol
I feel like I need to share my favourite Jet Lag outake, that, afaik, was only uploaded on Scotty's twitter. It's so fucking funny. Adam looks like he's having an actual brain aneurism while Ben is just like đ I don't like it
im not the first artist to give this a go but this scene is sooo pretty
watching every season of jet lag vs my responsibilities as a college student
average ben outfit: what if an old timey strong man was harry styles was a cabbage patch doll was a bus seat
average sam outfit: randomized sims townie using only tech bro athleisure and novelty t-shirts in poison dart frog colors. in a contest with himself to see how many patterns he can clash at one time. when he wears a bucket hat he looks like a baby in a splash pool
average adam outfit: literally a normal guy
little piece from the schengen showdown finale. appreciate your surroundings :)
22 hours and a couple of jet lags laterâŚ
season 13 jet lag the game poster !!! i absolutely loved this season, one of my favorites, so i wanted to make some art based on it
Mini-Review: Jet Lag: The Game
An American travel competition series, each season features a contest that sends players to achieve a geographical objective in different parts of the world, some of which are inspired by board games. Whether it's teams traveling to to US states to claim a Connect Four-style row or column, circumnavigating the globe via air travel, playing tag across western Europe, or driving the vertical length of New Zealand, players will race against each other and the reliability of transit to get the win.
Imagine: you are an adult, collapsing into a hotel bed after a long day of getting lost on the public transit of your vacation city. You're about to stream something funny and not difficult to followâmaybe Nailed It!, maybe Taskmasterâwhen you companion interjects, says they've been watching this really fun travel race show, and starts a playlist where a quartet of people in predawn darkness run away six seconds into the video, and suddenly you're watching people race to circumnavigate the world?
That was my introduction to Jet Lag: The Game.
Each season is a self-contained game, and they mix it up: the first season (which, for some reason, is the second playlist on YouTube) is a game of "Connect Four" across America, where teams must "claim" four states in a horizontal or vertical row by traveling to each one and completing challenges, while the second game is a race to circumnavigate the globe, and the third season is a game of tag across western Europe, primarily using train systems.
Sidequest-like challenges are an integral part of these games. In most of them, players must unlock coins or money (as in a video game) to have the in-game balance to buy tickets, or unlock information about opponents, etc., so the series is never a straight race. The challenges vary by season and location, but include things like:
Logic or trivia challenges
Go to a museum for half an hour and tell the camera 5 fun facts you learned
Eat a menu item at McDonald's you can't get in the US
Get 1000 feet from any building
Get a hole in one in mini golf
Find [animal] at [local attraction famous for animal]
Make cheese
Cursed! Listen to Tom Lehrer's "Element Song" on repeat until you reach the next city [over an hour away]
Cursed! Only take trains that leave at odd-numbered times
Acquire any food produced in your current state and mail it to your family
Explain the birds and the bees to a bird or a bee
Ride a horse
Get goosebumps while at least one goose is in the camera frame
Because the challenges are random (usually drawn from a shuffled deck of cards), it adds tension to the games: the player or team needs money/coins/points in order to travel, or thwart their competitors, and there's a real risk that they'll fail because it's physically impossible or there's not enough time to complete.
If you, like me, are wary of YouTubersâ˘, worry not. The focus here is the game, and the players do a decent job trying not to bother other people: most faces of passers-by are blurred, players try to set up in out-of-the-way corners when filming, and when they need to interact with people, like at a customer service desk, the camera is usually pointed at the player. There's also a lot of being very polite to customer service, drivers, and others they interact with. You can see them get strange looks sometimes, but overall they do a good job of trying not to be Social Media Personalities⢠disruptively.
And the players themselves also seem to be nice people to watch; they'll send "curses" or other interruptions when the game allows for it, but there's no out-of-game interpersonal unpleasantness that makes it into the show. Also, one player, Ben, consistently wears the brightest, most funky clothes. He has no camouflage in a crowd, but who cares.
Final comments: Highly recommend. It's fun, safe for most agesâswears stronger than "damn" get bleepedâand you can tell that a lot of planning and thought has gone into game development to balance things. If you like the idea of race-type reality shows combined with good attitudes and sportsmanship, you'll probably enjoy this.
Subtitle availability: English closed captions are available and very well-done, sometimes including different font colors to indicate different people in conversations, and some excellent phonetic spellings of mispronunciations! However, for the first two seasons (Connect 4 and Circumnavigation), only auto-generated captions on YT are available.
Where to watch (USA, as of December 2024): YouTube (playlists link [X]) and Nebula (which was partially founded by the game's creator)âwhich also has recap/discussion podcasts, and series outtake video tarting with season 8, and the service gets new episodes a week early.
Start watching with: The friend who introduced me started me with the first playlist that shows up on YouTube, Circumnavigation, so I feel like if it worked on me, it'll work on others. But if that doesn't appeal to you, starting with either the next playlistâConnect Four Across America (which is actually the first season) or the third season, Tag Eur It, would be good. I started my parents on Tag Eur It, a game of tag across multiple European countries, because I think it's got one of the strongest hooks of any early series, explains the rules very quickly, and the immediate urgency (runner must run; chasers start to follow soon after) draws you in very quickly.
But really, starting anywhere will work. However, because the creators sometimes reference outcomes from earlier games, especially when they are playing near the location of previous games, I recommend watching any similar-geography games in order (Tag 1 before Tag 2 or Hide and Seek, and New Zealand [Race to the End of the World] before Australia).
Status/Frequency: There are currently 11 complete seasons on Youtube (12 on Nebula), and so far new seasons premier roughly 3-ish times a year, with most seasons lasting 5-6 episodes, and episodes tend to be 30-45 minutes each. As of this review, there is no indication that this is likely to change anytime soon, and the 12th season premiers this month.
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