AU$TRALIA: A Travel Game - Ep 2
Summary
TLDRIn the second episode of 'Jet Lag: Australia', the competition intensifies as teams vie for control over Australia's eight regions. The game revolves around strategic money management, with regions captured by monetary deposits and travel funded by spending. Challenges and gambling for multipliers are key to earning more money. The teams navigate through various regions, including Tasmania and Queensland, taking on quirky challenges like calculating boba in a drink or finding Looney Tunes characters. Amidst the fun, the teams must also be wary of steal challenges, which can transfer a portion of their opponents' money. The episode showcases the teams' strategies, mishaps, and the thrill of the game as they attempt to outwit each other in a race against time.
Takeaways
- 🎲 The game 'Jet Lag: Australia' involves controlling regions of Australia by depositing money and earning more through challenges and gambling.
- 🏁 The objective is to control more regions than opponents by the end of four days, with money being a critical resource for travel and challenges.
- 💸 Teams can lose money to 'steals' where a percentage of their budget is at risk to win a portion of the opponent's money.
- 🤔 The strategy involves careful financial management to avoid carrying high balances that could be targeted by steals.
- 🦐 In one challenge, contestants must guess the number of boba in a drink within a 10% margin to win, highlighting the game's unpredictable nature.
- 🎢 The Gold Coast is visited for its amusement parks, which are tied to valuable challenges, showing the importance of location in the game.
- 🕊️ A creative challenge involves getting goosebumps near a goose for a 3x multiplier, adding a humorous and quirky element to the game.
- 🍪 The 'Tim Tam cutting challenge' is a risky gamble where teams must cut a cookie without breaking it, testing their nerves and precision.
- 🌈 The mention of a rainbow and a wish for opponents' misfortune adds a light-hearted, competitive banter to the gameplay.
- 🎯 The 'Mind meld at the Brisbane sign' steal challenge requires intuition and non-verbal communication between teammates, adding a layer of strategy.
- 🕊️ The unsuccessful 'goosebumps' challenge and the lost Tim Tams inject moments of humor and unpredictability into the episode.
Q & A
What is the objective of the game in 'Jet Lag: Australia'?
-The objective of the game is to control more of Australia's eight regions than your opponents by the end of four days. Players win by taking control of regions through depositing money and earning more by gambling on challenges.
How does the team earn money in 'Jet Lag: Australia'?
-Teams earn money by gambling on challenges and winning bets. For instance, Ben and Adam earned over $2,000 by winning big bets on two challenges in Tasmania.
Why did the team decide to go to Gold Coast, Queensland?
-The team chose to go to Gold Coast because it is Australia's amusement park capital, and several of the most valuable Queensland challenges involve going to theme parks, putting them in a prime position to take advantage.
What is a 'steal challenge' in the context of 'Jet Lag: Australia'?
-A steal challenge is a type of challenge where players gamble some of their money to win a percentage of their opponent's money. It's advantageous for the team that's behind financially, as it allows them to potentially take a significant portion of the leading team's budget.
What was the strategy behind depositing money into Tasmania?
-The strategy was to invest money in Tasmania to secure that region and to reduce the risk of having money in their wallet that could be stolen by an opponent through a steal challenge.
What was the challenge that involved Tim Tams?
-The challenge involved cutting a Tim Tam biscuit without it breaking apart. The team had to decide how to cut it and then execute the cut without the biscuit falling apart.
What is the 'Mind Meld at the Brisbane sign' challenge?
-The 'Mind Meld at the Brisbane sign' challenge requires one team member to select a letter on the Brisbane sign without giving any hints, and the other team member has three attempts to guess the selected letter.
Why did the team decide to go to Canberra via Sydney?
-Direct flights to Canberra were too expensive or poorly timed. Since Sydney has cheap and quick transportation options to the Capital Territory, the team decided to fly to Sydney first and then head to Canberra.
What was the challenge involving a bottle?
-The challenge was to flip a bottle and land it right side up on its lid. The team had to find a bottle with the biggest lid and then attempt the flip.
What is the 'Predict market flow at Adelaide's Central Market' challenge?
-The challenge requires a team to pick a stall at the market and predict how many customers will visit it within the next 10 minutes. The prediction must be within a 40% margin of error to succeed.
Outlines
🎲 Jet Lag: Australia Game Strategy and Concerns
The script introduces the second episode of 'Jet Lag: Australia', a game where players aim to control more regions than opponents by spending and earning money through challenges and travel. The narrator and partner Toby are worried after losing a challenge in Sydney and seeing opponents Ben and Adam earn over $2,000 in Tasmania. The duo has now arrived in Queensland with a focus on theme park challenges. They consider various challenges, including guessing the number of boba balls in a drink and finding a Looney Tunes character, but a promising challenge at Movie World is thwarted by time constraints. The script ends with a discussion about the risk of 'steal' challenges, where players can lose a percentage of their money to opponents.
🛍️ Creative Challenge Strategies and Brisbane Relocation
The video segment details the players' strategies for tackling challenges without prior communication. One involves buying an identical item to a teammate's at an Apple Store, which is considered a high-risk, high-reward strategy. The team successfully completes this challenge, earning $900. As they travel to Brisbane, they attempt another challenge involving cutting a Tim Tam biscuit with a sharpened card. Meanwhile, Ben and Adam are shown preparing for their own challenge, but the script ends with the narrator and Toby deciding to abandon the low-value challenges in Brisbane and head to Adelaide for better opportunities.
🍵 Boba Challenge and Tasmanian Investment
The script describes a challenge where the team must guess the number of boba pearls in a bubble tea, with only a minute to examine the drink before drinking it. The team uses a mathematical approach to estimate the number, but their confidence is low. In parallel, Ben and Adam decide to invest more money in Tasmania to secure their position there, aiming to make it unattractive for other teams to challenge. The segment ends with the narrator and Toby at the Hobart Airport, reflecting on their day and planning to take on the 'swan' challenge, despite the difficulty of generating goosebumps.
📝 Brisbane Sign Challenge and Team Strategy
The team faces a new set of challenges in Adelaide, including a 40% steal challenge involving the Brisbane sign. The strategy involves depositing money into Queensland to minimize the risk of the steal. The team successfully completes the steal challenge, which requires guessing a letter at the Brisbane sign without prior communication. Meanwhile, Ben and Adam are seen reacting to the steal and planning their next moves, including a challenge at Adelaide's Central Market and a meal-tossing challenge.
🕊️ Tempting Meal Challenge and Flight Strategy
The script follows the team as they consider various challenges, ultimately choosing to 'toss a tempting meal' for birds to eat within 10 seconds. They place a significant bet on this challenge, hoping to earn enough money to leave Adelaide. The team also strategizes about flights, considering Canberra as their next destination but opting for a route through Sydney due to better connections and costs. The segment ends with the team attempting the bottle-flipping challenge and planning their approach to minimize the risk of a steal from Ben and Adam.
🦆 Market Prediction Challenge and Central Market Strategy
The team decides to predict market flow at Adelaide's Central Market, where they must guess the number of customers visiting a stall within 10 minutes. They choose a stall based on past observations and place a bet of $600, hoping to win enough to cover their expenses. The challenge is tense, with the team anxiously counting customers and hoping to meet the minimum requirement. The segment ends on a cliffhanger, leaving viewers in suspense about the outcome.
🎉 Promotion and Behind-the-Scenes Podcast
In the final segment, the script shifts to a promotional tone, encouraging viewers to watch the next episode on Nebula and subscribe for early access and exclusive content. The team discusses the Layover podcast, which provides behind-the-scenes insights and recaps of each episode. They also mention other Nebula Originals and emphasize the affordability and value of a Nebula subscription, highlighting its importance in funding the show. The segment ends with a playful exchange about the challenges of flipping a bottle and a commitment to getting it right in the future.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Jet Lag: Australia
💡Control
💡Challenges
💡Multiplier
💡Steal
💡Budget
💡Tasmanian Challenge
💡Gold Coast
💡Movie World
💡Brisbane
💡Adelaide
Highlights
The game's objective is to control more Australian regions than opponents within four days.
Winning depends on strategic money management through deposits, travel expenses, and gambling on challenges.
Opponents Ben and Adam earned over $2,000 in Tasmania by winning challenges.
The team flew to Queensland to be closer to valuable theme park challenges.
Challenges include estimating boba quantity and getting goosebumps near a goose for a 3x multiplier.
A failed challenge at Movie World due to closing time resulted in missed opportunity.
Investing money in Tasmania is a strategic move to protect it from being stolen.
Steal challenges involve gambling your money to win a percentage of an opponent's budget.
A successful 'Match your teammate' challenge with an Apple MagSafe charger earned them money.
The team's confidence in their strategy paid off with a correct guess in the 'Match your teammate' challenge.
A risky Tim Tam cutting challenge was attempted with a $1,000 wager.
The team's successful execution of the Tim Tam challenge earned them an additional $900.
A failed boba challenge in Adelaide due to incorrect estimation led to a loss of $206.
Strategic investment in Tasmania secured the region with a high monetary value.
The team's attempt to generate goosebumps for a challenge was unsuccessful.
A successful steal challenge by the opposing team resulted in a significant monetary loss.
The importance of timely investment in regions to minimize risk during steal challenges was highlighted.
A wrong bus ride and subsequent loss of money put the team in a difficult position.
The team's strategy to flip a bottle for a challenge and the challenges they faced.
A decision to predict market flow at Adelaide's Central Market as a way to earn money.
The tension and pressure during the market flow prediction challenge and the outcome.
A reminder of the support provided by Nebula subscribers and the impact on the show's production.
An advertisement for Nebula's content and the exclusive benefits for subscribers.
A humorous attempt to flip a bottle as an advertisement stunt with a playful disagreement.
Transcripts
Hello, and welcome to episode two
of Jet Lag: Australia.
The goal of this game is to control
more of Australia's eight regions than your opponents
by the end of four days.
Winning is all about money.
You take control of regions by depositing money in them,
you have to spend money to travel between regions,
and you earn more money by gambling on challenges.
All of which is why me and my partner Toby
are pretty concerned right now.
Last episode, our opponents Ben and Adam
went to the difficult-to-reach region of Tasmania,
where they earned over $2,000
by winning big bets on two challenges,
including landing a shrimp on a Barbie.
Meanwhile, Toby and I lost our bet
on winning a carnival game in Sydney.
Now we've flown to a new region: Queensland.
Specifically, we've flown to Gold Coast,
Australia's amusement park capital,
because several of the most valuable Queensland challenges
involve going to theme parks.
If any of them pop up,
we'll be in prime position to take advantage
and get back in the game.
Alright Toby, challenges are generated.
What are they?
First one, calculate boba.
We've gotta guess within 10%
how many boba are in the thing.
Two, get goosebumps near a goose.
3x multiplier, but I don't know
where we're going to get a goose around here.
Match your teammate.
That's where we have to buy the same item
without coordinating at a store.
Challenge four: Movie World.
We have to find a Looney Tunes character
in the wild within an hour.
When does Movie World shut?
But it's a 3.5x multiplier.
I don't think for a while. Let's check.
There's a rainbow.
Sam, there's a rainbow.
Sam, get the rainbow.
Make a wish, and you better wish—
I wish Ben and Adam's plane derails.
No!
Okay, Movie World closes at... five?
(grimaces) Let's calm down.
Let's calm down. Oh, that's bad.
Oh my god.
That sucks.
That would have been really good for us.
That sucks!
No!
That would have been really good for us.
Because we're here at the Gold Coast.
So, we're in a good spot.
We've got our flight.
I don't think there's any chance we're gonna miss it.
I shouldn't say that, but I think we're...
yeah, not under a crazy amount of time pressure.
No. Got a lot of money.
Yeah, so...
I think first thing is,
we should just invest some of our money
in Tasmania now.
Because anytime you have money in your wallet,
it is vulnerable to a steal.
Yes.
I don't know if we've explained this yet.
If we haven't, here's a little explanation of what that is.
While most challenges involve gambling some of your money
to win a multiple of your money,
steal challenges involve gambling some of your money
to win a portion of your opponent's money.
Each steal is set at a percentage of a team's budget.
A 40% steal, for example, would risk 40% of your money.
If you won, you would get your money back,
and you would take 40% of your opponent's money.
You might notice that this means
that if one team's budget is very low,
and one team's budget is very high,
a steal would be highly advantageous
to the team that's behind.
And yep, that's the point.
The risk of steal means teams should be very careful
about carrying a high balance.
I think we want to put in at least $1,000
up to $1,500.
But we can start with $1,000
just to get it out of our wallet.
Boom, graphic.
Okay, now, it's really a question of,
do we want to do the Tim Tam cutting challenge?
I feel okay taking a risk right now.
So maybe we just put $1,000
into the Tim Tam thing and try it.
And if it— if we're really careful and we make it work,
then there's another $1,000 in the bank.
Alright, I'm willing to put in $1,000.
It's scary. Scares me.
But I think we should do it.
Okay, so now we have to go get Tim Tams.
And we have to figure out what we want to cut them with.
So, let's go do that.
Oh, that's really unfortunate.
What sort of theme park closes at 5 pm?
Disney World's open until like midnight.
We're not in America anymore.
As Ben and Adam went to buy their Tim Tams,
Toby and I decided to cut our losses
and head up to nearby Brisbane, where we could do
some of the day's lower value challenges.
Brisbane, conveniently, also has an access point
for Queensland's Challenge Board.
So we'd be in a good position to check it tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Adam and Ben grabbed their Tim Tams
and were ready to do their challenge.
Okay.
So I think the question is, what do we cut it with?
I think the first place your head goes
is a credit card.
We could always sharpen a credit card.
I have my Lego VIP card.
We could sacrifice that.
Why don't we get a knife...
and sharpen the card...
and then cut the Tim Tam?
While they sharpened Ben's Lego Rewards card,
on the way to Brisbane,
we tried to salvage our bad challenge pool.
And I came up with what I believed
was a surefire way to nail one of them.
The challenge requires one person to buy something at a store,
which your teammates may inspect with their eyes closed.
They must then go to the store and buy the exact same item.
Other than revealing I wanted to go to the Apple Store,
I couldn't tell Toby my plan,
but I managed to convince her to trust me
that we should bet big.
I feel good.
As long as— You seem very—
You seem more confident than I've seen you in a long time.
I'm confident, and I think if you...
you think it through, you evaluate as much as you can.
I'm confident.
I don't love the phrase "think it through", but...
I think we want to do $900.
Lock it in? I'm happy with it, yeah.
I'll be right back. See ya.
This should do it.
So, we've got our cookie here.
And we're just going to leave a little bit of it exposed.
So, just, you know...
We're just getting acquainted with the cookie here.
Wow, this is actually incredibly nerve wracking
to watch happen now.
Yeah.
It's okay.
Actually, I'm feeling worse now...
that I'm sort of seeing it happen.
Alright.
You ready?
You got this, I'm sure.
Alright, while Toby examines the item,
let me explain my strat.
I bought an Apple MagSafe charger.
It's got a big round end to it,
it's the only thing like it that Apple sells,
and it only comes in one cord length
with one type of port.
This should be foolproof.
I think...
Yeah, no, come on.
I probably looked insane doing that.
You ready?
As ready as I guess I'll be.
Excuse me.
Oh, you're really going now.
As you can see, the cookies are starting to pry apart.
But I actually think that's...
Dangerous.
That's where we start to get dangerous,
'cause if there's too much leverage...
Yeah. applied...
This, I think, is sort of a danger zone situation.
Yeah.
Hello, Sam.
Hello.
How are you feeling?
Let's see what you got.
Got something in my pocket here.
That sure looks right, Toby.
(laughs) Nice job. Amazing!
Nice job.
That's great.
Great, amazing. That just gets us
900 extra...
dollarydoos.
That's what they call 'em here, right?
I think we're close.
I see the cookies separating.
Yeah, but we just don't wanna...
make it—
My biggest worry is stickage.
Oh.
Just move the one, I think.
We've done it. (sighs heavily)
We have two intact sides.
That actually, I think, was a lot riskier
than we thought it was.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Okay. Uh-huh.
Okay.
Let's go to the airport...
and go to Adelaide.
Yeah.
Hi.
Just going to the airport.
So...
I reckon we want to go get some boba.
Uh-oh.
Calculate boba.
Bubble tea is a popular snack all across Oceania.
Order one bubble tea at any bubble tea vendor.
From the second you pick up your drink,
you have one minute to examine it
and determine the number of boba inside.
Drink the tea and empty out the boba
to check your answer.
If you were more than 10% off,
this challenge is failed.
Let me just tell you,
or let's just think about what we think
a boba-sized cup is.
You could calculate the volume of a cylinder,
which is, you have a radius and the height of the pearls
that you think it goes up to.
Then you take that volume, you times it by 0.74,
which is if you have tightly-packed spheres,
how much space they can possibly take up
from the cylinder.
Then you divide that number by the volume of the bobas.
Well, if you can try that while I'm doing it,
and then I'll just do kind of the gut check.
My confidence level is not great.
Neither is mine.
I think it's a real crapshoot.
My confidence— Should we put...
$206?
Just to get rid of that and have nice easy numbers?
Yeah. I'm happy with $206.
Yep, let's do it. Okay, let's go to boba.
Okay.
Alright, here's the thing, Ben.
I kind of think we should put down another $1,000.
Yeah, I mean, we just got another $1,000 pretty quick.
I think, just saying.
You know what, throw that down.
There's $2,000 on Tasmania.
I don't think they'll touch it.
I think that sends a clear signal.
Because my strategy is,
I don't want to have to come back places.
Yeah, I agree.
I don't think we want to go halfway on a region,
leave, and then come back later.
I've enjoyed our time in Tasmania.
I do not want to have to come back here.
No.
I want Tasmania to be locked up,
and I want it to have a number on it,
where it's like...
"Oh man, it would really not be worth it to go there."
Right. We've got the money to put down another $1,000.
I think we should just do it.
Yep.
Let's do it.
Alright. Cue the graphic.
Graphic, graphic, graphic, graphic.
Good job, graphic.
Alright.
I think we did an incredible job in Tasmania.
I agree. I think we cleaned up.
And I think that we can do the same thing
in South Australia.
Yep, yep.
Hi, could I please have
a regular green tea with the tapioca pearls?
Thank you.
Number 8.
Alright, Toby, come on.
Alright, Toby, Toby. Our time starts.
It's cloudier than I hoped.
I feel like in one layer, I counted about 22, 24,
and it looks like there's about four layers tall.
So I'd be comfortable going 80, maybe 82.
85.
Okay, we got five seconds.
85, you wanna say 85?
Lock it in?
Lock it in, okay, 85.
You wanna get sippin'? (snickers)
Doubts loading.
Doubts loading.
Whew. Alright.
Adam, you're about to enter the hug zone.
Whoa.
Just make note of that.
What do you reckon? Is this the kind of park
where they let you count your pearls?
(shudders) Everybody out.
Alright, make groups of ten.
Eight, nine.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight...
Nine, no!
No... no... No.
Naur.
No. Naur.
We need to be better.
Well, we're here at the Hobart Airport.
You know, we're just, we're about to board.
But we've still got all of those Tim Tams.
Yeah, the problem is that I left the Tim Tams somewhere.
Oh, (bleep), really?
Yeah.
They're in the Snack Zone, baby!
We're going to predict some Snack Zones.
If they've already eaten a Tim Tam,
do Adam's reaction to the Tim Tam.
Well, I think everyone's reaction to the Tim Tam,
including Adam's, would be like...
"Oh, this is... fine."
This is...
one of the most medium tasting things I've ever had.
Alright, I'm going to stay on the ground
because I feel like this is where I belong.
But what should we do now?
We have a bit more than an hour left.
And the only challenge we could reasonably do is the swan.
I just don't know how we would possibly get goosebumps.
The internet said that
you can rub the hairs on your arms very lightly.
Well, we can try.
We should— We can try here
to see if we can make it.
The internet also said you can just manifest them
in your head, at the back of your head.
Can you? Here, let me try.
We're (bleep)-ed.
Alright, here we go.
Wheee! Goodbye, Tazzy.
Let's walk to the river
and see if there's any geese there.
Because we're obviously not going to make it to a lake.
Yeah, no, and we want to be
at the Brisbane sign tomorrow morning.
Let's start walking.
I don't see any geese.
So...
Should we go to the sign?
So that's what we need to do to generate challenges
in the morning anyway.
Yes, oh, let's go to the sign.
It is a good sign.
It's nice, yeah.
It's got good colors.
I think this is the end of our day one, right?
I think so.
We're not massively behind.
We are certainly not ahead.
I mean, I think we're doing okay.
Let's just do better tomorrow.
Well, hopefully, you know,
luck swings more onto our side tomorrow,
because it seemed like it was
pretty firmly on their side today.
Alright, good night, everyone.
Good night.
Okay, welcome to Adelaide, South Australia.
Thank you.
I think it's time for bed.
Alright, see you tomorrow.
Mwah.
Alright, now it's the end of day one,
and time for the first rest period.
From 8:30 pm to 7:30 am Sydney time,
both teams must stop what they're doing
and go to a hotel for some much needed rest
before restarting the game
at the exact same spot the next morning.
And just like that, through the magic of editing,
it's time to start day two.
Alright, good morning, Toby.
Hi, good morning. It's 6:30, and day two is now on.
Good morning. Good morning.
From South Australia.
We need to get to the Challenge Board,
which is where, in the park?
We're going to Victoria Square.
Yeah. But we—
I think we gotta get on a bus.
'Cause the trains are not connected to the airport.
Which, I think, is a bad idea.
But also that's how it is in New York, so...
Can't judge. Can't judge.
Our challenges are generated.
Should we take a look?
Yeah, what are they?
First one: Brisbane sign.
That's a 40% steal. Oh, would you look at that?
Okay, cool.
We might want to act on that quickly.
In case they try to put away some of their budget.
Yeah.
Second one: land a bottle right side up.
Third one: Dreamworld. That's interesting.
Fourth one: Wheel of Brisbane. That's right there.
Okay, but let's think about the steal.
We have about the same amount of money right now.
We both have like 22, 20-ish, hundred-ish.
We could invest a bunch into Queensland right now
so that our 40% is a lot less than their 40%...
and then go for the steal.
Yes.
I think we need to decide pretty quickly
so that they hopefully don't also drop money onto their region.
Just to clarify,
because steals risk a set percentage of your budget
to win a set percentage of your opponent's budget,
you want to do steals when your budget is low
and your opponent's budget is high.
So before starting it,
Toby and I deposited $750 into Queensland,
lowering our budget and our risk.
Then, before Ben and Adam
could dump any of their money into South Australia,
we informed them that the steal was initiated,
locking up 40% of their budget until it was complete.
This steal challenge, to be clear, is as follows:
Mind meld at the Brisbane sign.
One team member must,
without giving any prior hints or information,
select one letter in the Brisbane sign.
The other team member then gets three attempts
to guess which letter their partner selected.
They just invested in Queensland.
How much?
I'm trying to figure that out.
Uh-oh, Ben.
What?
They have activated a steal.
They've activated a steal, okay.
(sighs) Yeah, I feel stupid.
I feel like we should've invested money
the second we got to Adelaide.
I just didn't wanna...
lock up too much of our money
before we knew what was gonna happen.
I just didn't realize the timing would be that sensitive.
But, okay, okay, look.
Here's the thing about steals.
Whatever it is that they're doing, it's risky.
Do you want to guess...
or do you want to pick a letter?
Do you have a preference?
I don't have a preference.
I'd like to pick the letter.
Okay, well then we'll do that.
You better get on my brain wave, Sam.
I'll let you know when I'm done.
Okay, I think there is only one letter
that makes more sense than the other ones...
and that's the first one.
Why would you pick anything but the first one,
is my thinking, if we're trying to pick the same one.
So I'm just gonna take a photo of the first B.
(camera click) B.
Toby!
Okay, we wanna take the...
yeah, the J2.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I hope this bus is going the right way.
Okay.
Look, it's not great.
No.
I think in the future, when we get somewhere,
we should deposit immediately.
It's true. I mean, look. That's the thing with the steals.
They just are really risky.
Yeah, I mean,
we just have to hope that they fail.
I can't tell you anything.
I can't.
Okay, well, I'm just gonna psychically get on your brain wave.
If I was the person taking the photo of the letter...
I would think,
which letter has something distinctive about it?
So finding something that I guess
both team members would in their mind
think is special about one letter.
And so for that reason, I'm going to pick
the first letter, which is the first B.
Because that's special.
You're not reacting.
Am I right or wrong?
Yes!
That was the perfect logic.
No other letter makes sense.
Adam says, "Good luck with the steal,
hope you fail, kiss emoji."
You can send him
"40% of your money, please, kiss emoji, kiss emoji."
Ben, I have bad news.
They succeeded at the steal.
I also have further bad news,
which is that we got on a bus going the wrong way,
and now we have to get off and get on a different bus.
So it's not a very good start to the day.
No, we are 11 minutes in,
and thus far...
this has been atrocious for us.
Well...
I went in today feeling so good.
I started the day with a lot of confidence.
And then we got on the wrong bus,
and then they took half our money.
Nice, alright, we're doing well.
Woo!
Okay, so, let's find a good place to sit and chat.
This is a nice little pocket for strategy talk.
Okay, so...
So, Toby and I weren't too compelled
by the rest of today's Queensland challenges.
So we decided to look for a flight to a new region.
Ideally, we wanted to go to Canberra,
in the Australian Capital Territory.
It's a territory that's actually
completely surrounded by New South Wales,
but it counts just as much as any other region.
The trouble was, all the direct flights there
were too expensive or poorly timed.
But there was a cheap flight to Sydney in a few hours,
and Sydney actually has cheap and quick
flights, trains, and even buses to the Capital Territory.
So we decided we'd fly to Sydney, shore up New South Wales,
and then head to Canberra in the afternoon.
So we booked that flight,
and with the time before we needed to go to the airport,
we figured we might as well complete this challenge,
which requires you to flip a bottle and land on its lid.
It didn't seem too tough, so we wagered $500 on it
and got the bottle with the biggest lid we could find.
Finally, we also deposited an additional $596 in Queensland
in order to further reduce our budget
in case Ben and Adam,
who had finally gotten on a bus going the right way,
got access to a steal.
Alright, Ben.
Let's go to the Challenge Board.
You know, it took us a little longer than anticipated,
but we're gonna make it there.
(groans angrily)
Things were going so good an hour ago.
The ducks here are very polite.
That's not a duck, though.
What is that one?
What are you?
Okay, they don't like me.
Let's see what the challenges in South Australia are today.
Adam?
Predict market flow at Adelaide's Central Market.
You have to pick a stall at the market
and guess how many people are going to go to it.
40% margin of error.
Toss a tempting meal.
We have to throw food on the ground,
and within 10 seconds, an animal has to eat it.
I think we could do that here.
I think we could do it here.
Face Tim Tam.
That's where you gotta do a face cookie with a Tim Tam.
And there's a steal.
There's a steal, okay.
You have to go to the National Wine Centre
and, blindfolded, distinguish between a white, a red, and a rosé.
Which would be easy for a normal person,
but we don't know anything about wine.
No, we don't drink wine at all.
Okay.
Definitely gets you going.
I'm gonna take this off. More friction.
Is this attempt one? I don't know.
Well, let me give it a first go.
Give it an attempt.
See how it goes, and let's adjust from there.
No. Okay.
I think we need to try to earn...
$2,000 here.
You also have to keep in mind,
we need to have enough money to get out of here.
What we've been seeing
is that the flights out of here are pretty expensive.
The safest one is the meal.
Yeah.
But it has a low return.
It has a low return.
But maybe we just put a ton of money into it.
I think we can do the birds.
Okay, how much money are we putting down on it?
A decent amount for it to be worth it.
Yeah, it's only 1.5.
What do you think? I think half, $850.
Okay, $850.
Toss a tempting meal.
Throw a single piece of food.
Within 10 seconds of it touching the ground or water,
something besides you must eat it.
If the food is not eaten after 10 seconds,
this challenge is failed.
Alright. Let's go find a bird food.
They're still just in downtown Brisbane.
I have no idea what challenge they're possibly doing right now,
but, I don't know.
I hope they fail it, I guess.
(grimaces)
(grunts)
Okay.
I'm getting a little stressed.
Just calm down, actually.
Take a five minute breather.
What is ducks' favorite food?
Ducks enjoy berries, melonseed, and pitfruits.
What about a blueberry?
I like blueberry best,
because I think a blueberry is like a treat.
Yeah, it's more tempting.
Okay, let's get some blueberries.
Oh, now I'm scared.
Thank you.
I think...
this ground is pretty slippery.
Yeah, I think let's find some more coarse ground.
Maybe over there.
(rapid scraping)
Oh, you're roughening it up?
Yeah.
(giggles)
I don't know what this is.
(grumbles)
I want to watch a video.
We're going to take our time with this.
I'm so scared now.
Okay, don't be scared.
Alright. Ducks?
Okay.
I think I'm more approachable to ducks.
Yep.
Ducks, how about a little blueberry treat?
Is this interesting to them?
We're going to get on their level.
(duck quacks)
Okay. He's yelling about it.
(duck quacks)
What are you saying?
What about, there's several ducks over here.
Why don't you let me try with the ducks this time?
See, they're walking away.
You're going too fast.
They really don't trust us.
No, they don't like us at all.
The ducks don't care about this at all.
Okay. Ready?
Yep.
What happened there?
It just... it landed like this...
and then kinda careened that way.
Is that, yeah, look at that.
That bottle's always going to fall over.
We're not using that bottle anymore.
I think we need a new bottle.
Okay, let me just, I'll quickly go run and come back.
I mean, we could try a different food.
Well, I just think we need to get closer to the ducks.
Wait, look at this.
There's a girl feeding the ducks.
Oh, this is huge news.
Oh, they love being fed.
Okay, this might be our chance.
They're all around looking for food.
They're in the mood.
Do you want to go for it?
I think this is our chance.
Okay.
Go for it.
There it is. There it is.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Find it. Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
No.
Ugh.
Ugh.
That's so stupid.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe we blew that.
That is terrible, Ben.
Okay.
This is not good news!
I think we want to go to Melbourne.
Well, we need $1,300 for that.
Right, we don't have enough money to go to Melbourne.
So we gotta do Face Tim Tam,
Adelaide's Central Market, or...
But the thing is, if we try another challenge and fail,
I struggle to see how we'll ever get enough money
to leave Adelaide today.
Yeah, I agree.
But we've gotta do something.
I know.
I mean, the truth is,
we're just in a very bad position now.
Yeah, no, we are.
It's just, the question is,
how do we get in a less bad position?
Flip it one and a half times.
Or even—
(grunts)
This isn't going to work.
We need to solve it somehow.
I just don't know how,
and I know that if we want to make our flight,
we don't have infinite time.
But this is really important to get right.
I know, but to be honest,
I just kind of regret staking this much.
It's a lot harder than I thought it was.
Can I run and get another bottle?
I mean, sure, yeah.
I'm going to leave you here unattended for a minute.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean, we can definitely get one,
but I'm not sure it makes sense to flip.
Hello, we've been really just going back and forth
trying to figure out what is the best thing to do here,
because the fact of the matter is,
we just, we don't have great options.
The flights out of here are all really expensive.
I don't know why, and it's just today.
I think we want to predict market flow.
How much should we bet?
We have $1,064 at the moment, Ben.
If we bet $600...
then we would have $464 left.
If we failed. Yeah.
That's probably our safest option.
Okay, $600.
It's big, big epic win time.
Here we go. Okay, $600. We're going in.
Predict market flow at Adelaide's Central Market.
Adelaide's Central Market is one of the largest produce markets
in the southern hemisphere.
Select any market stall and make a prediction
about how many customers it will get in the next 10 minutes.
A customer is defined as any person who spends money at the stall.
If your prediction is more than 40% off,
this challenge is failed.
If no one visits the stall in the 10 minutes,
you lose automatically.
I think that...
the key to this is simple.
High volume...
reduces variability.
So we just need to find the busiest stand we can.
Observe it for like a half hour,
put in our guess,
and then as long as nothing drastically changes,
we'll be fine.
I think that that first place when we walked in,
that's our best option.
Let's observe.
I'm gonna go get a custard tart.
Do you want one?
Uh, no.
Iced latte?
Yeah.
Okay, I might have gone a little bit crazy,
but I think this is the best shot,
because I think it's better than that one.
Mm-kay. And then I got this one
in case we can find a video of Logan Paul flipping it,
because I feel like that's possible.
Okay, we have about 10 minutes to be able to comfortably
That's okay. ...make it to the airport.
Yeah, this one doesn't seem a whole lot better.
Okay, if it's not going to work, just discard it.
Hello.
Okay, so...
We've been watching this market stall
for what, 30 minutes?
Yeah, super normal behavior.
At this food market,
we recorded three different periods of 10 minutes.
The number of customers were 10, then 20, then 14.
Which is a wider range than I would like.
I think that the 10 is the biggest outlier
in that we were doing that earlier.
So if we guess 20,
our range of 40% on both ends
would be 12 to 28.
And I think the real concern would just be getting over 12.
I think we'll hit 12.
Okay, do we want to guess 20?
Do we want to lock that in right now?
Okay, the market looks busy.
I think we're going to start now.
Are you ready, Adam? Yep, yep.
Ten minute timer starts...
now. You count people when they pay.
If it's a group of two, they only count as one.
Yep.
So that's one person's paid.
That's two people have paid.
Great.
Okay, new woman.
That's three.
Three.
That's four.
Four. Okay, we're at four.
Okay. Is this another customer?
This looks like a duo.
Oh my god. I am...
I'm freaking out. (laughs) I'm gonna die.
Alright, we have three attempts left.
You've got this.
I'm gonna give it my all. I believe in you.
I don't think the odds are good.
Doesn't matter. You can do it.
Oh god, Ben.
No one's coming. It's emptying out.
More than I'd like. Why did it empty out?
Why did it empty out?
We guessed too high, Ben. It's okay.
These people are another customer.
We've got a woman buying grapes in front of us.
Okay, so they'll get us to six.
I'm freaking out.
So this lady will be five, right?
Yep.
Oh no, the people who were looking over there have gone.
They've left, Ben.
Wait. Oh no, they're back.
There's more, there's more. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, that's a duo. So that's five.
These people will be six.
Once they've paid, they'll be six.
(shudders)
Alright, two more. This is it.
Okay, you've got the feel for it.
You've got the feel for it.
That was all practice. I mean, I'm confident
that I'm giving it my best shot.
Yeah, you got heaps of practice.
Okay, they've paid.
That's six.
That woman is seven.
We're at four minutes, and we're at seven.
I think that's pretty good.
This guy's eight.
Okay, and we've got this woman with a watermelon.
Yeah, she's at nine.
Look, we have four minutes and fifteen seconds
to get three more purchases.
Uh-oh, now there's no one manning the cash register.
No, go back to the cash register.
We have four minutes. We need three more purchases, Ben.
Three more purchases. A lot of people, I feel like,
abandoned the stand.
Alright, this is it.
You've got the feel for it.
That was all practice.
This is it. This is it. You've got this.
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Oh, god dammit.
Okay well, I mean,
if you want to see how that goes,
I guess you can watch the next episode
right now on—
You're getting worse at this. Oh god dammit.
Stop pressuring me!
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It's not very expensive.
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And we're gonna get it right. We're gonna get it right.
Here we go. It's gonna be so good.
Not even close. Not even a little bit.
No, we're gonna VFX that.
You know, VFX team is gonna do it. I said I can do it.
No, you're not gonna do it.
That was close though. No it wasn't.
Okay, bye.
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