r/JetLagTheGame

With season 17 coming to a close, season 18 coming hopefully soonish and season 19 likely starting filming today, I wanted to share my updated season rankings. Thoughts? I have changed my mind about some seasons since last time, happy to justify any placements in the comments

From the Jet lag instagram!! Japan this time!

The station there at is at the bottom of Japan so I think they're gonna have to the top like in New Zealand

A funny coincidence but I'm not gonna go hiding under a bridge. Been on a 3 week Japan trip and unfortunately I see the crew is far away from where I am currently... But now I have a strong majority of the stations from S12 with only Izu Kogen and Tobiyama castle missing, but I've been to Utsunomiya for the latter.

We're running a World Cup of Jet Lag moments! We'll eventually choose our favourite 32 moments as we enjoy reminiscing over the 17 seasons so far, before whittling them down in a World Cup format until we have our absolute favourite moment from Jet Lag: The Game!

This is Season Two's qualifying round. Please comment with your favourite moment(s) from Circumnavigate (one "moment" per comment, please - and let's try to avoid duplicates) so that we can upvote to find the most popular. The two most popular comments after 24 hours will go through to the first round of the World Cup of Jet Lag moments in a couple of weeks' time.

Voting is closed now for Season Two, and you can check out qualifying for Season Three here!

The top two from the Connect 4 qualifying round were
🥇Both teams ending up on the same flight
🥈OG Drunk Ben

Is Adam related to Mr Chuck E. Cheese?

(Continuing my off-season exploration of ideas for games that are impossible for one reason or another.)

Four players, two teams. Joseph from RealLifeLore returns to help Sam with his geopolitical knowledge. The game area includes all of the 20-ish nations and nation-like territories in the Sahara or the Arabian Peninsula. The players are dropped off in Bir Tawil, the small region between Egypt and Sudan, that each country insists belongs to the other. They can travel by dune buggy, camel, or sandworm.

Each team accumulates Desert Power by claiming territories within the game area. The amount of power they get from each territory will be based on a Call Your Shot challenge, each of which spotlights the rich cultural heritages of the region. Either team can steal power from the other team by visiting a territory they've claimed and beating their score on the local challenge. Whoever has the most Desert Power at the end of the fifth day... wins.

The reasons this game is impossible are many – and most of them obvious. White boys playing a region-claiming game in Africa and Arabia is never a good look, especially with active armed conflicts going on as we speak. This is a region where even drawing borders, or claiming territory no one wants can still get people angry with you, to the point that I decided not to even name all of the countries included. Then there's the tiny fact that the terrain itself is often deadly – impassible without specialized equipment, local expertise, or both.

I created a little software that shows the map of any city and the most relevant Points of interests. You can specifically check for zoos, mall, town hall etc.
You can also draw a radius or measure distance and angle. In the Berlin map I added such a line and also Malls+Stations+Town hall. In the Oldenburg map you can see some radii (1km and 2km) and the ZIP-Codes (German word "Postleitzahl") and some hospitals.

Let me know what you think about it. It runs on any machine that runs a webserver (any server will do, I am using the cheapest possible 99 cent server I found).

I am very open for suggestions. The obvious one is PDF-Export to print the most needed maps.
So far I didn't manage to get bus-lines to work. The busstops are fine, just the line itself is making technical problems.

I you want a picture of your city just to get a feeling if this would be useful for you as well I can quickly create it for you.