Playing a 72 Hr Game of Tag Across Europe - Ep 4
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Edited by Adam Chase, Ben Doyle, Henry Ariza
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Love how the delay actually helped Ben because it masked the real departure time of his train 😂
@beyond your imagination yes potato wedges
@@tupacamurushakur8512 was it the finale?
@@skylarsa no, it ended right before the rest period, I think theres ganna be 1 or 2 more episodes
@@skylarsa probably ganna be 1 episode though
Chad move
I love how Ben outsmarts Adam and Sam by being dumber xD
I loved how he didn't just go to a supermarket & buy bad profitterolles from the frozen goods aisles
It's like in poker where the worse player sometimes win huge because they play "wrong".
Yeah lmao so many games where making dumb moves works because of sheer unpredictability
Love how he might actually take the train Sam and adem were on, because he thought they could only get there at 13:30 instead of an hour earlier
The greatest swordsman in the world does not fear the second best. He fears the worst because he can't predict what the idiot will do.
Sam and Adam - ‘He’s playing mind games, he’s gaming the timetables, we’re playing 4D chess, there’s too many variables!!’
Ben - ‘European towns are so pretty’
tbf they are
I think the most important part of the game is appreciating the scenery. It's not going to affect who wins, but I think it's what really matters.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 the real treasure is the scenery you saw along the way
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The most painful part for me was looking up all of the supermarkets in Saint-Quentin on Google Maps where Ben could have bought profiteroles and seeing the Lidl 3 minutes from the station that he could have gone to instead of vetoing the card. It worked out for him in the end, but he gave up too quickly.
Same :D
Though he did bring his best French to the patisserie
Problem is, he was looking for pro fitter rolls
That's a good point. I don't think the guys were realizing they could buy pastries in the supermarkets.
@@user-mu5sl4vh7m needed to lower his expectations
Also, he could've asked for another traditional desert at the place he visited.
After this is over, you HAVE to do this again. It's so fun to watch
I'm all in for a championship formula, wherein the winner of this round gets to defend his centurion against two new challengers across other European areas
They should do it around Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Czechia and Germany next time. Those are some of the best and most unique railways in Europe imo.
@@sqrtof81 with trains that sometimes get big delays. Even more interesting!
It would be cool if they did it but in Asia or something.
Maybe in east asia, north America or even like mainland Australia
Ben has insane population guessing skill!
Far better than Sam's, that's for sure!
He cheated u npc u can see it from his reaction
@don't be surprised i will not thank you later
U a psychologist by chance?
@@cHrised_01 r u high
Ben's strategy of taking trains to smaller towns seems to be paying off.
Sounds like he may be going somewhere they didn't even consider. May not be Brussels or Amiens!
The problem is they can track through the entire wait period. All pressure is on the runner. They should only have the last 5-10 minutes to track and plan. They can plan every possible route when the runner can't
@@KNR90 Can they really? I didn't realize that.
@@zachgreen250 Seriously? It clearly shows them predicting where the runner is going during that time in order to cut them off
Yeah, that's such a simple strategy but it makes the game so much more complex.
I love how every “disadvantage” is always an advantage
Except for the squads. His legs must be burning while running around europe
like when Adam couldn't use his phone?
@Leducano life lessons.
but also, Lol @@timnelson8656
Ben’s blind luck is top tier content lol
it took an incredible amount of internal strength to not name this series "Geo-tag"
Or Euro-Tag (Europe tag)
Maybe I'm missing something here, but you guys know that the official name for this is "Tag eur it", right?
@@lunied yeah
I mean tag eur it is better in my opinion lol
@@omygoodyneyt8238 ye like the watch brand
Pro tip for next time: you definitely could have found that dessert in a grocery store!
oh yes, the joy of eating industrial dessert rather than little shop ones...
@@florianbasier in this case I’m sure he wouldn’t have minded store pastries 😂
@@florianbasier They mean for a future challenge.
The PROFITTER ROLLS?
@@florianbasier I mean it beats a veto, I wouldn’t recommend it as your first shot lol.
Sam and Adam are so stressed
MEANWHILE
Ben: "Okay little gameplay update. I got a little Pan au Chocolat" ahahhahhaha Cracked me up
Sam’s brilliant knowledge of trains is massively offset by his overthinking
You could see the adrenaline rush go through Ben’s body when he got that population card right. Just pure elation
He took a big risk and it paid off huge in the end! LFG #TeamBen
@@shrumrii1648 he really did!
Nice to see him with a big smile and having fun!
I love how Ben says "I'm not that smart," proceeds to do super-dumb thing (get on the train that Adam & Sam should have been arriving on), and makes a stunning escape because of it.
Yeah this is some 5D chess with multiverse and time travel level stuff!
I love this show so much. It’s become a part of my Wednesday routine
yess!!!!
Same, GO TEAM SAM.
Sameziezz
For me to XD
@@guarami1 team ben!!
There no shows on TH-cam, on other streaming services, or on TV that I anticipate more eagerly than this one.
Thats so true, I discovered this channel literally a week ago and this week for this new episode seemed to last for fucking ever
I look forward to the nebula notification every week
@@jaredcostello9782 It's literally like one of two reasons I subscribed to Nebula.
@@DarkBraveStuff that and real life lores modern conflicts series
It's the Not-So-Amazing Race that we wanted in the first place.
i like how ben just randomly took a guess at the population and nailed it and the other dude who tried to researched it missed by a mile
More of an educated guess, he knew it was a small-ish town because that's what he selected from the train station in the first place, as per his new strategy.
20:02 "It's like three levels of game theory." Trouble is Ben is only operating on one level of game theory!
This episode was literally “A fool is sometimes harder to read than a wise man.”
“Your enemy can’t know what you’re doing if you don’t know what you’re doing” - Sun Tzu, the art of war
Im being 100% honest when i say this, Jet Lag is the best channel on youtube right now, you guys are living the dream, i really want to play these games one day with a group of friends it seems so damn fun. thank you guys for making such amazing content
Could be fun to try this on a smaller scale. Get a day pass for public transport in a major city and see how it goes.
@@Steinchen43 thats a really good idea actually, much more budget friendly
@@Alessio-Zinna There is actually a company called "Eurail" (or "Interrail" if you are from the EU). For around 200$ (or 200€) you can get a pass that allows you to take pretty much any train within Europe.
The only thing you need to pay extra are reservations on some high speed rail and some local transport if the local transport company does not partner with Eurail/Interrail.
@@Steinchen43 my friends did this in Sydney when we were teenagers. We also wanted to go for the record for fastest through the network
@@Steinchen43 Tom Scott did something similar on his second channel (Tom Scott+)
Week 2: Sam overestimates Adam and Ben's ability to catch up to him.
Week 3: Adam underestimates Sam and Ben's ability to catch up to him.
Week 4: Ben doesn't estimate Sam and Adam's ability to catch up to him.
This must be the first time in history that a delayed train has actually helped someone
Also Ben getting the population guess that close is brilliant!
If you are late to show up at the station it can help you. I'm sure it already helped a lot of people
I think the pop guess was overall mathematically more reliable.
its not a big city, it wont have huge numbers, and 60k is just in the middle, which covers smaller and bigger pipulations of small towns..
Looks like luck, but I feel like its math sense B)
@@alexeystulevich3744 Yeah I feel that way too. 60k was my guess for the previous episode where population count game up, but the answer was a few hundred over 75,000.
i cannot overemphasize how much i am on team ben after watching this. he is a treasure and he must win.
So excited for this! This is your best series yet imo.
I think so too! It’s so intense!
"close the door and look anti social"
story of my life😭
12:52
Ben's first run was a bust but the second one is really showing how he learnt n is now playing smart . I guess all the Bad luck of going first is now paying back with good luck
Ben is just the most relaxed man on Earth if he was running from the law he would be as chill
this is the best series ever, i hope you guys never stop!
evrything stops at some point, so.... what u are asking, is surrealistic. at some point we all die :D
@@johansoons8413 ok buddy
@@johansoons8413 the fuck
This would have been SOOO much better starting is Switzerland, one person ending in Italy, one in Germany and one in France!
This would have been SOOO much better starting is Switzerland, one person ending in Italy, one in Germany and one in France!
Ben is so chill and relaxed as a runner, its so fun
I love this tag game. And with trains it's much more exciting than the flying challenges (and less bad for the climate, too!). Would love to see more seasons of this, maybe even with more teams.
Yeah, I first found this series and found about the around the world one afterwards. The climate issue was the first thing I thought about when I started watching it. I know they took a plane to go to France in this one but at least they don't promote travelling by plane and they take 2 planes, not 15.
Yes! That would be amazing!
@@noefillon1749 to be fair they always offset all of their emissions, 10-fold
@@Ingenius_ Honestly, not emitting in the first place is always better than offsetting their emissions. But that's way better than doing nothing.
@@Ingenius_ offsetting emmisions is IMO often misleading, even if 10 fold. Especially without transparency which projects are being invested in with the offset money. It has been proven that many climate offset programs don't capture the amount of CO2 that they claim, even if they don't do it on purpose. Tight control and regulation is almost impossible.
7:45 Even I - a native French speaker - am not sure if the announcement really was in French 😂
Same for me. Maybe the audio is just bad.
"(...)sont effectué(e)s sur un quai et à l'arrêt. Ne tentez en aucun cas de descendre lorsque le train est en mouvement."
Mais j'ai dû écouter plusieurs fois pour comprendre ...
@@lannoylouise613 What, maintenant que tu me l'as dit j'entends que ça c'est limpide ! C'est comme les hallucinations auditives dans les chansons, une fois qu'on te le dit tu entends que ça, sauf que là on a obtenu les vraies paroles merci 😂
right i’ve learned french fo 15 years & could not decipher that announcement
To be fair, French is a difficult language to decipher aurally, what with all the silent letters, elided pronunciation, and homophones.
That impromptu Nebula drop from Sam mid-video was smooth.
I love how chill and wholesome Ben is when he's the runner XD
I love the dynamics of this series. All of the players have to cooperate with one another as teammates at some point to find the runner, but they also have to quickly switch their mindset as opponents when they’re the runner. It’s great and makes for some interesting interactions.
Ben was so unlucky with the delay yet so lucky because that delay masked his real departure time because when Sam was looking for possible departures, Ben's train had technically already left 20 minutes ago! 😂
16:00 - French here, you could probably get some Profiteroles in any supermarket big enough to have a dessert section
Mad props to Adam for how composed he is immediately. Honestly if I’d forgotten to put on my disguise like that it would have killed me all week
Sam and Adam, one stop away: It's over Ben, we have the high ground!
Gare du Nord: You underestimate my power!
Considering how much of a maze Gare du Nord is, it's no wonder Game Freak made Lumiose City in Pokémon XY even more of a maze (at least Lumiose City's station is much easier to navigate with only one train service to Kiloude City). After this series, France might as well make pain au chocolat their national dessert (or, dessert breakfast). As for the profiterole, Ben should've went to a supermarket like Lidl. I mean American supermarkets have bakeries and European supermarkets are no exception.
I really think this is you best series yet, just because there are so many more tense moments than there were in Jet Lag for example
Would love to see a Scandinavia/Northern Europe version of this series!
or easten europe
or balkan
or adejkwdkwjdwiefwe
@@mrnecrotic yeah.
more areas in Europe would be great
Yes, but defo stay in Europe. A series like this would never work in America, lol.
Bens unpredictability is his true weapon. Adams is his evasion and sam is his knowledge of trains
I love this series! The editing is perfect, the game is awesome to watch, the suspence is intense... Thanks for making Jet Lag, guys!
OMG What a wild move by Ben! Powerup + Very accurate guess of the population!
Absolutely loving this series.
I think you guys should try doing something like this in South/South-east Asia. You'd not have consistent network coverage, most of the online time tables would be ridiculously inaccurate and nothing would ever leave on time. That would definitely add to the fun 😂😂😂
Each week I always forget this series exists and each week I'm pleasantly surprised with a new episode
when Adan realized Ben was going north, we all felt that.
Lmao
Yeah, but let's face it: We're all rooting for Adam and Ben… Sam's too damned smart about this travel stuff.
@@knghtbrd at first i loved Sam but after watching the previous cities i'm always rooting against his big brain plays
The editor emphasising the fact that Sam and Adam got the wrong wrote in mind is really funny! Thanks editor. 🤣
Great work, one suggestion. I don't think the chasers should be able to follow the runner's location until the 45min lead time is up. They get to formulate a plan while watching them run away. Kinda unfair in my opinion. :)
I think once they buy a ticket; they have to go on that route. They had already bought a ticket to the wrong city before they saw he was going elsewhere. The Chasers have the ultimate advantage of the location and presumably infinite budget to chase. Either limit how much they can spend or make them stick to their purchased tix.
You're forgetting that's the point. Its meant to be a fun competition. The rules are specifically designed to make it extremely hard for a single runner to escape and just win on their first time as a chaser. The rules are designed to create as many close encounters as possible because its more fun that way.
@@toddfayne7957 To be fair, when Adam and Ben set off for Dunkirk they still thought that Sam could also go to Dunkirk - they only found out he wasn't doing that while on the train.
@@toddfayne7957 the only way to "outsmart" the chaser is going somewhere that has few and infrequent connections, or taking the last train/bus/ferry of the day
I lost my phone at Gare du Nord!
Ik that’s not how you spell it.
I love they the delays and setbacks have been the most effective at helping them
I guess the master strat is to get away cheaply then amass so much coins for one or two rounds then gun for whatever.
I love how Ben inadvertently has become the: "You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted you outsmarting me" meme
Ben is such a Himbo and I'm so here for it
This has been the best parody of the game tag I've seen in a while but one change I think would make it fairer is the taggers not being able to see the runner's location during the 45 min the runner has to run. you can check trains and all that stuff but they can't check the runner's location, but other than that, This is really fun to watch.
was too lazy to write my own comment, so I just searched yours ! :)
Idea: City Alphabet
You have to get to a city starting with every letter in alphabetical order
This one can be completed in Ohio
You know what? I've decided that Ben is my favorite. I'm rooting for Team Ben.
This channel is incredible man, the commitment and dedication that they have I am surprised you aren’t at a million yet!!
I like how they might well have gotten even MORE screwed had they just barely made that Persan train. Missing that train by a minute turns out to have been a really lucky break.
This game is so wonderful. Please continue the series!
Love this series and the other series on this channel.
So well made
I can proudly say this is the channel I get most hyped with when a new video come out.
I really think the strat for this would be to spam the "double value" power up waaay more, especially early on. They didn't use it even when they were just trying to farm coins
Unless you know they aren’t behind you it’s a big risk. Risking one hour not being able to do anything other than walk is a big deterrent.
@@qwerty112311 most challenges are meant to be a time tax more than a veto risk, especially if you're in a large city where you have access to a variety of shops/restaurants/all the other things challenges are based on.
Plus, that bonus is basically free money if you draw a curse card.
I love this channel so much. Its becoming a part of my calender on Wednesday evening.
“Close the door and look anti-social” good advice for any situation
By far the best series so far
This series is really amazing with all the suspense, and strategy. In the future, I think the players will get better at determining outcomes due to things like veto periods.
I think an interesting variation would be if the chasers can split up. It would allow the chasers to cover multiple options, but also potentially allow the new runner to get a bigger head start.
My suggestion: When a player gains coins, don’t use the same noise as when they lose coins. Use a low to high pitch effect. P.S. I love your show.
This series is so much fun to watch, and the production and editing is very well done. Thanks for the quality content 👍
Your first episode was the first time I stumbled upon your channel, and I’ve been binging these episodes for the past hour! They are so good!
Keep it up , love the series
This has been one of the best series i've ever seen.
This is a great series, keep up the good work!
Rewatching this for the 4th time, and wanted to compliment yalls editing. The juxtaposition between Ben's light hearted music and the chasers' tense music was perfect.
As a french person, I am very pleased that Ben finds our small french towns beautiful :D
Literally wishing it was next week so I could watch episode 6. The suspense!!
Did you know you can sign up for a Nebulizer, for just $149 per month and not have to wait?!
@@timnelson8656 $150 a month?
They better ship me a Ferrari for that price.
@@pokedude720 14.99
@@timnelson8656 a year
Noticed I said “so I can see episode 6?” Yeah I have nebula. Episode 5 is up there right now and we’re commenting on episode 4
I love this series, its epic and creative idea. Cant wait for the next part!
i've been watching all your content forever. decided id finally support via a nebula sub. great job guys. some of my favorite youtube content.
Sam: I think we have a good shot of catching him right away
Morgan Freeman: *They didn't catch him right away*
Gare du Nord fun fact: It is the busiest station outside Japan, serving 700K passengers per day. It's also the third largest station in the world (hence it being a maze). Great to see Ben using his noggin this time around! Going to smaller cities is a solid strategy. Using up his coins to go right to Lille in the first episode was a poor choice instead of going south from Charleville to Longwy and Luxembourg.
This is an awesome series : )D great idea
omg this is the best channel i found on youtube, keep the series up! cant wait to the next episode! so hyped
One thing I love, and absolutely appreciate about this channel, is the fact that the subtitles are different colours for each person, and they are done very well so it's easy to knowbwho's talking. Especially since I am almost completely deaf?... Just makes this channel much more enjoyable since alot of videos/channels don't have subtitles at all...
I just wanna see a tracker of everyone's paths so far I bet it's crazy
I love this series! But I wanted to give my 2 cents for a potential season 2:
I feel like the tracker is a little bit overpowered. Of course I wouldn't want to remove it, but I think it should come at a cost, or at least have some kind of drawback. Like for example:
-Catchers have a budget too. Using the tracker costs a certain amount, if the catchers run out of budget, they too would have to complete challenges to refil it.
-Every time the tracker is used, the runner gets a certain amount of coins.
(Could work on its own or in combination with the first)
-The tracker has a cooldown and can only be used every X-Minutes
-the tracker can only be used in certain locations, like, for example, the station
I feel like one of these or a combination would make it even more interesting
no
yes
I love these videos so much! Can't wait for episode 5!
Underrated channel, puts so much effort onto one video
This series honestly just makes my wednesdays better, thanks!
i love how there keeps being situations that should theoretically put the runner at a massive disadvantage, yet they do the exact opposite of that
Amazing show!!!
Continue making contact like that you are awesome!!
best concept ever, absolutely ove this show
One thing I like about this series is that Ben is uploading videos as he is travelling. It makes it look more professional to me
I was trying to remember the P-destinations from Gare du Nord and thought you would end up in Pontoise. Persan-Beaumont is even worse. I grew up there. That's the closest thing to Iowa that Ile-de-France has to offer.
Why do they call it that when it's not an island?
I love this series. Keep it up!
I have been binging this channel for hours, so good!
Came for John Green, stayed for the train adventure
Along with Colin Furze‘s tunnel dig, this is my absolute favorite content coming out on TH-cam atm! Keep it up!
ohh I love this channel it´s so exciting and I eventually want to do this myself.
This show is too good, I'm so glad I'm a nebula sub for that extra episode early
I just started watching your channel a few days ago... love the unique content you make, exactly what I needed!
Same
Same
i love that 4 episodes in ‘across europe’ so far has only been within France
Dude the editing makes this feel like a TV show! This is amazing!
beautifully told story. love this series.