History WebVideo / JetLagTheGame

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Being a travel show done by a ragtag group of guerilla documentations there are a lot of situations a higher budget show wouldn't encounter:
** In the first ''Tag Across Europe'' season Adam runs into considerable trouble when his bank dings his activity as fraud and locks his card. Since he is under a curse preventing him from using his phone and he'd forgotten about the exception for important matters such as this, the setback causes him great difficulty when he has to do... anything.
** ''Capture the Flag'' features a curse that forces you to catch a late train in Japan. Anyone familiar with Japan's rail system knows that nothing short of a mechanical failure or serious threat to safety can cause that, [[spoiler: and as a result it becomes quite a horrific run-ender for Ben and Adam]].

* FreezeFrameBonus: In Season 9's finale, [[spoiler:the train that Sam and Ben boarded to get to Bergdorf is bound for Thun as shown by the LED displays briefly visible inside the train. In the next scene, Adam sees them going south and wonders if the chasers have figured out his location. While Adam was not in Bergdorf as the chasers thought he was, he did disembark at Thun to get to Steffisburg, his hiding place.]]

** Spending coins on dice to roll for curses in ''Hide + Seek'' seems like it'd add intrigue and risk, especially since it's the deterrent to the Seekers asking too many questions, but in the final game the randomness far outweighs the dramatic benefit. It doesn't help that the very low valued curses are practically useless, and since it's always possible to roll 1's on every die it becomes incredibly hard to actually get one that will help. Comes to a head in the finale, where [[spoiler:Adam]] manages to win the entire game without spending a single coin on curses.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In Season 9's finale, [[spoiler:Sam and Ben get off a train at Bergdorf in order to try and locate Adam. If you look at the LED display of the train they just got off, you can see that it's bound for Thun, which is where Adam got off the train and made for Steffisburg on foot.]]

* RunningGagged: Season 8 ends the running gag of Ben getting drunk in every non-Tag season, as when the task requiring someone to get drunk appears, it is Adam, not Ben who completes it.

** [[spoiler: Ben and Adam spend most of episode 6 of season 6 just trying to get enough distance to reach their far Flag. After an incredible sequence towards the end where a careful use of evasion and tower placement allow them to escape Sam and Scotty and assure certain victory, they decide to pull a challenge to make up the last coins they need for their plan to work. They immediately pull a curse that allows them to travel only on a late train (a serious problem on Japan's famously precise railways), and the only train they could take to win leaves on time. They're so dejected from the experience that they place a tower just to spite Scotty and then wallow in their defeat.]]

** [[spoiler: This proves to be a major contributor in their defeat in Season 5, with major ones being underestimating how long a cream trip in the Bay of Islands would take and overestimating how long it takes to make serviceable cheese.]]

--> '''Ben:''' Well, we could call in a bomb threat?

** In the first ''Tag Across Europe'' season Adam runs into considerable trouble when his bank dings his activity as fraud and locks his card. This causes him great difficulty when he has to do... anything.

** In season four, Sam and Brian are way behind in a challenge to see who can spot the most birds, and a loss would have put them too far behind in states to catch up. At the last minute, [[spoiler:a massive flock of birds takes flight, shooting their count into the hundreds.]] Justified, of course, since this is an unscripted reality show.

** Episode 6 of Season 7 has the season basically conclude with one. [[spoiler:Ben realizes that he can change to an infrequent train in order to get Adam stranded away from his territory if the chasers catch up, but only discovers this as his train is pulling into the station he needs to change at, completely forgetting that he doesn't have enough coins to take the new train. He draws a challenge, and it's basically one of the best he could get: a curse that instantly gives him 1500 free coins but triples his challenge veto period for the remainder of his run. Those coins are enough to get him to his new destination so far out of the way that he's won by the time Sam and Adam actually catch up to him.]]

** One gambit was present in Season 9 Episode 6. [[spoiler:After having ran to Steffisburg from Thun to hide, Adam's strategy relied on Sam and Ben asking the "five words, one rhyming with your town" question early on the run, this question also having been asked early in the previous two runs. This question allowed Adam to send hints that are detrimental to the seekers, who discarded Thun due to it not rhyming with any of the words he sent and Steffisburg because he couldn't have arrived in its station on time.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: In the European tag game, the rules technically allowed for a player to board an airplane, which would likely make them impossible to catch. However, affording it would have required so many challenges that the player would almost certainly be caught.

** In Season 9, [[spoiler:much attention is drawn during Sam's run to Ben and Adam not wanting to let Sam get over 250 coins as it drastically increases his chances of pulling one of the best curses in the game, that being the one that allows him to move his hiding spot. Their aggressive playstyle leaves Sam with 205 coins and nowhere near pinning down his location, but he panics when Ben and Adam get into his area and rolls the dice early. The curse that Sam gets is to fill in the holes in Swiss cheese, which is one of the worst he could possibly get for that value (rolling a 9 on 4 dice) - not only is it an incredibly easy challenge to do, but Ben and Adam were across the street from a cheese shop at the time - meaning that Sam wastes all his coins for nothing.]]

** In season 9, episode 3, Ben hides in a playground that can't be seen from the main streets and the side path to it is very easy to overlook, which leads to Sam and Ben repeatedly walking right past his hiding location for over an hour of searching.

** In Season 9, [[spoiler:much attention is drawn during Sam's run to Ben and Adam not wanting to let Sam get over 250 coins as it drastically increases his chances of pulling one of the best curses in the game, that being the one that allows him to move his hiding spot. Their aggressive playstyle leaves Sam with 205 coins and nowhere near pinning down his location, but he panics when Ben and Adam get into his area and rolls the dice early. The curse that Sam gets is to fill in the holes in Swiss cheese, which is one of the worst he could possibly get for that value - not only is it an incredibly easy challenge to do, but Ben and Adam were across the street from a cheese shop at the time.]]

** In Season 9, [[spoiler:much attention is drawn during Sam's run to the hiders not wanting to let Sam get over 250 coins as it drastically increases his chances of pulling one of the best curses in the game, that being the one that allows him to move his hiding spot. Their aggressive playstyle leaves Sam with 205 coins and nowhere near pinning down his location, but he panics when Ben and Adam get into his area and rolls the dice early. The curse that Sam gets is to fill in the holes in Swiss cheese, which is one of the worst he could possibly get for that value - not only is it an incredibly easy challenge to do, but Ben and Adam were across the street from a cheese shop at the time.]]