Lunch at the office with colleagues.

"What did you do at the weekend?"

"I played hide and seek with some friends"

"Where?"

"Germany"

"Where in Germany?"

"All of it"

What do we call this?
#jetlagthegame

With almost 4 hours on the train, we're using the time to do a deep analysis of the curses in the deck. There's quite a few that only work if you're using the game to make a video. It's entertaining for us to watch Sam being tortured by curses. It's really not fun to have it done to you by your friends.

Conversely, the hangman curse doesn't make great video, but playing with your friends, it can be enjoyable.

Self-OH: This game… is intense. Really intense. You won’t believe how vastly, mind-bogglingly intense it is. I mean, you may think that there’s a lot of frenetic emotion in tents in Glastonbury, but that’s just peanuts compared to this game… #JetLagTheGame #JetLag

100m from the station for the train to our hotel for the night it starts to spit with rain. It's so hot we don't care. A few mins after we've got to the station and are sat in a waiting shelter the rain hits big time, and the petrichor is amazing.

The weather this weekend has been fantastic. I'm glad this rain didn't arrive earlier. It would have made things suck a lot.

The three bags we were carrying for our game of #JetlagTheGame hide and seek. Mine is the small one on the left. The black bag strapped to the outside is my food, the green dry bag my waterproof coat. I've used everything in there except the towel and my ereader.

Definitely glad I didn't have anything else. Tho I'm also the only player who isn't going on to some other travelling. Which makes life a lot easier.

And *that* is how you finish a 3 day run of #JetlagTheGame hide and seek. Hot raspberry sauce poured over vanilla ice-cream.

Yum.

We have found a Bavarian restaurant. Now the Layover begins...

Hider found.

6 hours 41 + bonuses.

Bonus:

30 mins total.

Plus a 60 from a curse fail.

Plus 2 x 10% on all, including bonuses.

594 minutes.

9 hours 54 mins.

@moof wins.

The lesson we learn today is don't play "curse of the bridge troll" when you are currently hiding next to a bridge.

Hider: "you must ask your next question from under a bridge!"
Seekers: "blessed shade. Somewhere to sit. It's so much cooler here"
#JetlagTheGame

We have entered. The end game.

Well, well... #jetlagthegame

We have been cursed by a bridge troll. Our next question can only be asked under a bridge.

So we beat go find a bridge...

I'll say this much. This game is a great way of seeing the country. I would never have come down these tiny rural branch lines that are served by single car diesel trains. And they are really pretty.

We're lucky DB navigator doesn't have a limit on number of route searches you do in a day...

"ask this?"
"Yes if for no other reason than it makes the map look really funky"

Goooood morning, we are so back - at Erfurt Hbf. This place feels a bit groundhog Day now.
Notionally, @moof@cupoftea.social left Bad Blankenburg at 8, and the lovely @quixoticgeek@social.v.st and I will leave there at 11; however, for logistical reasons, two of us have spent the night in Erfurt, and my fellow seeker will make her way here shortly as well - however, we are not allowed to take another train until the 11:19 departure from Bad Blankenburg reaches Erfurt, obviously.
#jetlagthegame

It's 11am on day 3 of our 4 day game of #JetlagTheGame Hide and Seek across Germany, and we are so back. Time will tell if that's a mistake...

Yesterday @moof and @darkphoenix found me in 8 hours 29 minutes, with 50 mins to time bonuses. Today @moof is the hider and set off at 0800 from Bad Blankenburg this morning. Now we need to go find them. All we know is they are somewhere in Germany. Or possibly the snack zone. Time will tell.