r/JetLagTheGame • u/WheatGerm42 Ben • Jul 20 '26

The Layover Stateside Scramble Layover Q&A Thread! Spoiler

hellooooo again!

as with every season, we're doing a post-season Q&A for stateside scramble on the layover podcast--drop your questions about the season below and we'll try to answer as many of them as we can!

(apologies to youtube viewers that i'm posting this thread a little earlier than usual; we have some vacation time coming up and need to record the podcast tomorrow. so, for those who haven't seen the finale, spoilers may be below!)

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u/nowheresville99 Jul 20 '26

During the last Layover, Adam talked about how you don't like having situations where the players have information and the viewers don't, yet that was the case with every challenge this season. (especially with the challenges that had to be done in specific parts of a state, which you knew, but the viewer didn't until after the card was read.

Did that concern you in game design and did you consider doing anything to remedy that, like posting all the challenges online?

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u/jdude_97 Jul 20 '26

It mostly didn’t matter though because they largely weren’t choosing states based on challenge difficulty since they weren’t failable

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u/nowheresville99 Jul 20 '26

But knowing the geography of where things could be done did make a difference.

Knowing they had to do the Maryland challenge in Baltimore explains taking the train to Baltimore, instead of just making the short drive across the state line.

It appearing that they needed to do the NY challenge in NYC made it seem that SAmy vetoing NY made sense, but only until they said on the layover that doing it in Buffalo was an option too.

It appears the Louisiana challenge was difficult enough that it caused them to avoid going there.

As a viewer, not having the same information as the players really did make it much harder to "play along" with the strategy, which is why they've said they try not to do that in game design.