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Jet Lag: The Game is an American travel competition web series produced for the streaming platform Nebula and also released on YouTube. Created in May 2022 by Sam Denby, Adam Chase, and Ben Doyle, 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. As of March 2024, the show has been streamed for over one million hours on Nebula. It has also amassed 630,000 subscribers on YouTube and has received over 53 million views on the platform. Background Jet Lag was created by Sam Denby, the founder of Wendover Productions and chief content officer of streaming platform Nebula, with writers Adam Chase and Ben Doyle, all of whom compete each season. The first season was released on May 26, 2022. Jet Lag's format was partially developed during a previous Wendover show, Half as Interesting's Crime Spree, which had Chase and Doyle pursuing Denby as he attempted to break obscure state laws across the United States. Denby has also cited The Amazing Race as "a point of inspiration" and the British panel show Taskmaster as inspiration for some of the show's various challenges. The show is created primarily for streaming on Nebula, whose paying subscribers support its relatively expensive per-video budget. Episodes are released first on Nebula and a week later on YouTube. Format Each season features a game structure unique to the geographic area and transportation modalities available there. The first official season required teams to travel to U.S. states in order to claim a Connect Four–style row or column. Later seasons had the contestants circumnavigate the globe via air travel, play tag across western Europe, drive the vertical length of New Zealand, compete in a game of capture the flag across increasingly large portions of Japan, race from the northernmost to southernmost towns in continental America, and compete in a game of hide-and-seek in Switzerland. Players must complete challenges in order to earn coins or currency, which provide the ability to continue traveling as well as, in later seasons, purchase power-ups. Most of the seasons have involved challenges that result in players, usually Doyle, becoming drunk. Players may also be subject to curses, which restrict the player's travels (e.g. only being permitted to take transportation leaving on odd minutes of the hour) or adds an undesirable element to the game (e.g. requiring the player to listen to Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" on repeat until they reach the next city). Beginning in season five, Chase and Doyle introduced a recurring segment, "The Snack Zone", in which they offer short reviews of food items unique to their location. The following season, Denby and his guest, Strange Parts creator Scotty Allen, spun off a competing snack-based segment, "Choo Choo Chew". Team format changes across seasons. In the Tag Across Europe and Switzerland (Hide + Seek) series, two of the trio form a team, while the other member is on their own, rotating out when the objective has been met. In other seasons the trio are often joined by another internet personality, often other Nebula educational content creators; Chase and Doyle compete as their own team while Denby allies with the guest. The series has featured YouTubers Brian McManus, Joseph Pisenti, Toby Hendy, Scotty Allen, and Michelle Khare as guests. Production Filming locations are chosen based on the availability of "strong, frequent, reliable, or semi-reliable, public transportation", according to Denby; while seasons have taken place partially or completely using cars, the team felt they lacked the strategic intrigue of public transit. Jet Lag is filmed using iPhone 13 Pros and Røde lavalier microphones, a configuration that Denby says allows the competitors to focus on creating content rather than cinematography. To address the climate impacts of the show's use of air travel, Wendover purchases Gold Standard carbon offsets worth ten times the show's estimated emissions. "We knew from the get go that we would get some criticism for what is clearly somewhat frivolous travel", Denby told The Globe and Mail. Aside from the series itself, the Jet Lag crew also produces additional series-related content exclusively available to Nebula subscribers. Two companion videos titled The Layover were released after seasons 3 and 4; these later gave way to a companion podcast, likewise named The Layover, which started concurrently with season 5 of the series. The companion videos and podcast both serve to discuss game design and production details from a behind-the-scenes perspective. Videos containing outtakes have started being released on Nebula since season 8. Reception The show was nominated in the editing category of the 13th Streamy Awards. As of October 2023, the show has been streamed for more than 1 million hours on Nebula and has accumulated 630,000 YouTube subscribers. Seasons Jet Lag: The Game has released nine full seasons, with a tenth in production. Season 1: Connect 4 Starting at Chicago O'Hare Airport, Denby and Brian McManus (host of the YouTube channel Real Engineering) compete against Chase and Doyle to claim U.S. states from the 22 west of the Mississippi River in a game of geographical Connect 4, the goal is to claim 4 states in a row on a direct east-west or north-south line. Teams must travel to their target state's capitol building, draw a challenge card at random, then successfully complete it within the state to claim it for their team. By the end of the game, Chase and Doyle had claimed Colorado, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming, whereas Denby and McManus had claimed California, Nevada, and Idaho. Both teams ultimately converged at Helena, Montana to complete their line of four states, with Denby and McManus drawing a card that allowed them to claim the state immediately, thereby connecting four states and winning the game. Season 2: Circumnavigation Starting and finishing at Denver Union Station in Denver, Colorado, Denby and Joseph Pisenti (host of the YouTube channel RealLifeLore) compete against Chase and Doyle to be the first to circumnavigate the world. In order to count as a circumnavigation, each team must travel at least 22,859 mi (36,788 km) and cross all meridians. Teams started with a $1,000 travel budget and could earn more by completing challenges selected from a deck of cards. Once a team completed a challenge, the same challenge cannot be completed by the opposing team. To encourage onward travel, the second challenge completed within a 300 mi (480 km) radius is worth half the stated value, and any subsequent challenge is worth one quarter of its stated value. During the game, though the two teams took different routes across the world (Denby and Pisenti via Cancún and Amsterdam; Chase and Doyle via New York City and Milan), they both reached Singapore on the same day. 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