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Public transport around my city is just 50c per trip, wherever you go (apart from the airport). And multiple trains or buses count as one trip, as long as you get on the next one no more than 1 hour after you get off the last.
So you could theoretically play this game for like a dollar, all up. Absolutely perfect conditions for Jet Lag!
Now I just gotta find someone who wants to play with me.
How does it work?
You can see it shown off in full in the Jet Lag: The Game show. (YouTube link since I don't know if you're a Nebula subscriber. But it's also available without ads on Nebula. Also on Nebula is the after-show podcast where they go through some game design details and other behind-the-scenes.) That's the Japan season of Hide+Seek, which is where they first showed off the home game. There's also a Switzerland season from before the home game with quite different rules. And more recently a UK season with some minor rule tweaks + the expansion pack. And a New York–based one-off mini episode. Search their channel for those if you want. If you enjoy the show as entertainment, there are 12 other seasons with very different (not hide-and-seek) rules. I recommend starting with season 3, because Tag Eur-it is one of their best seasons, and it's after they figured out the format a lot better than seasons 1 & 2.
But the TL;DW is: the hider gets a certain amount of time to use public transport to hide. After the time, their nearest station becomes their hiding zone. The seekers then have to try and find them. They can ask certain questions such as "send me a photo of the tallest building visible from your transit station", "are you on the same transit line as me", and "are you within 5 km of me". The questions let the hider draw cards from the deck. Some cards give a time bonus. Others are "curses", which restrict the seekers in various ways. The hider has a GPS tracker on the seekers at all times, to assist with some of these.
Once the seekers enter the hider's hiding zone, the hider is no longer allowed to move throughout their zone (and questions which would require them to move are no longer allowed). Once the seekers find the hider, their time + any time bonuses are calculated, and the next hider starts their run.
There are rules for three scales. The nation scale that they play in Japan and the UK. The large city/region scale that they play in NY, and the small city/portion of a city option. The hiding time and value of time bonuses change, as do some of the questions available to seekers.
Wahoo! That’s exciting. I haven’t gotten to start playing my copy yet but I am excited to!
I've got my first game scheduled for 25/26 April! A lot of logistics to sort out between now and then!