We Played Hide And Seek Across Switzerland - Ep 3

Hello, and welcome to episode three of our four day game of hide-and-seek across Switzerland. Right now, Adam and I are looking for Ben based on a few key pieces of information: He's hiding somewhere in this blob, in a canton that did not vote for the Centre Party, that is near a lake, that rhymes with one of these five words, and has a train station that looks like this. After wasting quite a bit of time last episode looking for Ben in the Zug area, thanks to him sending tricky rhyming words, A

dam and I believe we might have finally tracked him down in the town of Steinen. So, now we're arriving there, hoping to see a train station that matches this photo. Well, already it seems slightly more promising. Although very modern. Yeah, now it's seeming less promising. No. No. No. Alright. Hmm. Oh, man. Where could he be? Okay, I actually think that I might have found the perfect hiding spot. So... If you go through this cute little tunnel... you get spat out in this... very secluded public

pavilion. It's got a playground down here that you can't see from anywhere else in town. It's completely surrounded. I mean, I've been walking around this town for legit hours... and I have not even caught a glimpse of this playground. It's like a secret playground. I think this might be the move. It's not looking great. No. Oh, this, yeah, this... This station is so modern. He's not here. There's no way. I mean, last round felt pretty simple, and now I'm realizing just how complicated this gam

e can be. I keep thinking that they know exactly where I am, and that they're about to come get me. But I am starting to think that they might not know where I am at all. You're fumbling the bag, boys. You're fumbling the bag. This was supposed to be a bad run on my part. This was supposed to be a damn disaster. Look at that little timer graphic. Look at it tick up. That's pretty cool. Hey, that's pretty cool. Is that the high score? Yeah, I think that's the high score. Yeah, I'm thinking that's

the high score right now. Ouch. I think we need a question. I think there might be some logic to a radar. I mean, if we did 25, that would encompass this entire region. I just still think he's here. Well, we should confirm. At this point. I guess. And I agree, it's like, I don't want to spend that much, but... it's much better to spend that much now... than spend the next couple hours looking in the wrong area of the country. Yeah, I guess. Alright. Okay, they've just... deployed a 25-mile rada

r. Which is interesting. It is a hit. They're within 25 miles of me. That makes me think that they're not very confident about where I might be. 'Cause obviously if they have figured out that I am here... then they would just come here. We'll see. Alright, well, he's within 25 miles. Oh, interesting. Great. Well... I mean, I kinda feel like we already knew that, but... I guess good to know for sure. Okay. Where the hell is he? "Rug, Awaken, Boxcar, Again, Clam." After some more looking, we reali

zed the next town over, Seewen, fit all the parameters. It was within the still-viable zone, rhymed with 'Awaken', had no town hall, and was definitely close enough to the lake. So we decided to go check it out. I mean... It's very pretty. Oh yeah. It's the type of place Ben would go. There's gravel on the sides of this. Mm, I don't know. Well, it makes sense to get off regardless. Well, let's check it out. Yeah, maybe doesn't look like it. Doesn't seem like it. Could it be... Does not seem like

it. Okay, well, I'm definitely not seeing anything that looks like that photo. No, it's definitely not here. (growls) It's probably creepy for me to be on the swing. I shouldn't be on the swing. That's not good. Now that it was clear Ben couldn't be anywhere on this lake, we went back to the drawing board searching for other candidates. I'm just trying to figure out... Let me pull up some of my maps. Vitznau[vist-now] wouldn't rhyme. 'Again' and 'awaken' basically rhyme. So it's weird he put 'e

m both in. Mhm. He's not at Walchwil. He's not at Hörndli. Chämleten? Is that on the west side? Yeah. What about Flüelen? Despite scouring the map, we couldn't find anywhere that fit all the parameters. So, faced with no other options, we decided we had no choice but to head back up to the stations around Zug to see if there was something we'd missed. So you think he's... Think he was just in Zug all along? I mean, it seems unlikely. But, I just don't see other good candidates. Are they... Are t

hey going back to Zug? Oh. Boys. Okay, alright, (bleep) it. I'm gonna go get lunch. This is gonna take a while. (whispers) Oh, Jesus. On our way up to Zug, we decided to ask Ben for a picture of the tallest mountain he could see. Our logic was that he'd have to shoot across the lake, meaning by looking at his angle of the mountain, we could determine his position on the lake. Of course, that assumed he was on our same lake. Okay, well, they've just asked me for a picture of the tallest mountain

that I can see from where I am. And that's an interesting one. I don't really know why they asked that. So, these are basically all the mountains you can see from here. And, though that mountain is definitely the tallest... what we're supposed to do, the point of this question is, what mountain is highest up on your skyline, basically. So I have to send a picture of this one. And hopefully that doesn't give away too much. (camera clicks) Okay, let's go ahead and send that picture to them and see

what they make of it. Is this our third time here? Yeah, I think so. That's tough. Alright, well, the photo of the mountain is useless. Because it's from his perspective, and seemingly there's a mountain behind him. Alright, well, let's research to see if we can find any other candidates. Yeah. Because we might just be missing one. Yeah, it's certainly possible. Okay, it's lunch time. I don't know what this is, but... it looked good. (full mouth) Oh my god. Oh my god. That's so good. What is th

at? Tell me in the comments. Please tell me what this is. Because it's so good. Oh my god. This is so exciting for me. I love this. Clock is tickin'. I'm starting to think he's not on this lake. (full mouth) Well, there's only two other options. After some more looking, we did find something we'd missed. You might've noticed this earlier, because you have this neat little map. But we hadn't realized that while almost all of Lake Lucerne is in the Lucerne Canton, which we'd ruled out because of i

ts political party, a very small part of it poked into the still eligible Schwyz Canton, meaning it was possible that was the lake Ben was on. Okay. The road pattern of... Merlischachen kind of fits. But... it's not close enough to feel like a slam dunk. Okay, but one second. Küssnacht am Rigi doesn't rhyme. "Merli-shanen" does. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait... wait...! I assume you're looking at this thing here. Wait. No, I think this does match. Look... this thing. That totally matc

hes that. Look at the bottom part. Look at these next to each other. What is this place called? Melis, whatever. "Merlis-chanen." I mean, we would need some— To go all the way out there, we would need something ...much more conclusive. No, this is the— I think this is it. I really think this is it. Wait, wait, I'm gonna trace it. Mm-kay. That's gotta be it. Mmmmnnh... Come on! I mean you can clearly... mm. It's pretty close. That's it! Okay, well, let's figure out whether or not there is somethi

ng in that town that can confirm it for us before we go there. And look, how about you do that? This just confirmed it for me. I guess I hadn't thought about orientation yet. Orientation fits really well. Look at that. It's exact. Yeah, actually, yeah. It's a perfect match. Now that I think about orientation, yeah, that is pretty clear. Okay, seems like we have about ten minutes until the next train option there. What platform, Sam? I think 2? He's... I'm confident that he's there. The road patt

ern matches way too close. No, I mean, I agree. The road pattern feels like a slam dunk. The road pattern is a slam dunk. The road pattern's a slam dunk. Doesn't have a town hall. And, wait, do we know what it rhymes with? Yeah, it rhymes with 'awaken'. Yeah, no, feels good. Merlish— Mer— Merlischachen[mer-le-shaken]. Awaken. Yep. Alright, well, it looks like Sam and Adam have left Zug once again, and they are heading back south. So, maybe, finally, they have figured out where I am. Or at the ve

ry least, they have figured out the area that I'm in. Does seem like they're... not wasting any more time up in Zug. Now, I just have to see if they do end up taking that rail line towards Lucerne. Because if they do, they'll be heading towards me. (slurps loudly) So, this is the lake ...that we believe he sent a picture of. And, I mean, I gotta tell you, that water looks like the picture he sent. It's the same color. It's the same clarity. It's the same— It does match. No, I think the mountain'

s gonna be... Oh, is that it? I think that might be it. We have to round it more. This is looking good. Yeah, see, now we're at more of an angle. Now it fits. It feels... Yeah. That feels definitive. That's the same mountain. Alright, well, Sam and Adam are finally on their way. Which means it's time... to go back to my hiding spot. Because if they get off their train here, then we enter the endgame, and I want to be in my secret playground. So, now I just have to remember how to get back there.

I'm gonna go ahead and hide under the... slide, because it's raining. Okay, they're just about to pull into my station. Now the question is, are they gonna get off? Alright, I think really quick before he can curse us, Sam, ask for a photo. Okay. I don't know why he hasn't cursed us. Yeah, I'm kinda surprised by that. Hopefully we're in the right spot. Let's see if we can find... something that matches the photo. Is it the back of this thing? No... There it is. Is that it? That's it. Let's get

his ass. Ladies and gentlemen... We got him. We got him. Okay, they've just requested a... the photo of my face. Which means that I think they know that I am here. I gotta take a nice, good photo of my face. I guess let's head into the town, you know? Yeah. Oh, wait, that feels pretty useful. (chuckles) What is that? I don't know, but that feels like something that we would be able to find. Yeah, we can probably find that. Almost looks like, I don't know, like a playground slide, or I don't know

, but... (sighs) I mean... he's gotta be cursing us any minute. Why didn't he? No, I mean, I think that that's just a mistake. I've gone ahead and sent them that photo. And now that we are in the short game, I think that it may finally be time ...to cast a curse. And we can afford ...three dice. So, let's see what we get here. Okay, that's a four, a one, and a three. That is eight. Cheese rolling curse. Before you ask your next question, in a single roll, roll cheese a distance of 30 feet. The c

heese roll curse. Okay, well, you know what? That is probably pretty good, because that's gonna take 'em a little while to do it. And I think that they're gonna have to ask at least another couple of questions before they actually find me. Go ahead and roll that cheese, boys. So I'm kind of trying to look out for those trees, along with whatever this yellow— It's like an orangish, semi-rusted... Okay, he cheese roll cursed us, but I think we just ignore it. That curse is that we have to do that

before asking another question. I think it was a huge mistake for him not to do a curse earlier before we were in his zone and before we asked a precision question. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What? I've been here. Wait, you've been here? Yeah. I thought you found where he was. Why have you been here? I came here on my run from Lucerne, on Sunday. Okay, and here's what I was noticing. Okay, okay. I noticed— You ran here from Lucerne? Yeah. How far is this from Lucerne? It was 7.5 miles out. I

was running by, and I was thinking, I wish we were filming right now, because... What are these? Oh, yeah, I don't know. I cannot for the life of me figure out what these are. And I want the comments section to tell me. Still not the right spot, guys. No secret playgrounds there. Don't dilly-dally. Every minute matters. I have truly no idea. Even a little bit. It's so baffling. They have these little spinny things at the top? They're certainly not windmills. No. With the spinny things. I was thi

nking maybe lightning rods or something? Oh, that could be it. Maybe for this construction, but I've never seen that anywhere else. I would buy lightning rods. Anyway, comments section, please tell me. I'm so confused. Anyway. I remain a little bit skeptical that we can find him with just that info. Well, I think— Let's do— Let's kind of give the town a once over. Yeah, it's not big. Alright, well, they're working their way towards me. But I think they are no match for the secret playground. You

know, you've gotten this far, but your hardest test still awaits you. Can you find the secret playground? I think the thing that I'm looking at is there are some pretty clear trees behind him that are only in some areas. So we know that he's not here. Yeah. Because we don't have trees like that. And it seems like the two options are... that he's down by the water, or up a bit. Yeah, I mean, that thing that's above him looks pretty distinctive. Yes, once we see it, I think we're gonna be able to

tell for sure. I think let's head down towards the water. And if it doesn't seem like it's like that, then maybe head up a bit. There's a playground here. 'Cause we thought it could be a playground. Okay, it looks like they're by a school. They're probably checking out if I'm at the playground by the school. I probably should've picked a less creepy hiding place than under a child's slide. But it's all about strategy, okay? I'm trying to win here. I'm trying to win a very important game. We can

't worry about the way that this might look to... strangers, okay? I need... to not get found by two boys. No. Slide is green. Well, we might be able to get a good view from here. Yeah. Unless are we... Are we infiltrating a preschool? This might be a preschool. I think it's a preschool. Yeah, it's a preschool. It's fine. Oh, there are kids, okay. There are kids, there are kids. Let's... Nope, nope, nope. I think that they're trying to do this without asking another question so that they don't h

ave to get rid of their curse, which is a bold strategy. And I would argue, probably... not gonna work? I think they're gonna have to ask another question to find me, but we'll see. I think let's check out the water view. But I feel good about the ability to identify this tree. 'Cause I'm— All of these trees I'm immediately looking at and being like, it's not this tree. 'Cause this tree is uniquely pointy. I don't know, I mean, look. A circle with a mile in diameter is still pretty big. Do you r

emember what exactly the parameters of that one is? 30 feet. 30 feet? Yeah. That's a lot. 30 foot roll. Ah, no, I want to keep looking, personally. Well, the grocery store's closed until 2:30 anyway. Uh-oh. I still feel like this will be quicker. Okay. 'Cause... Look, there are only so many trees. Again, the tree I'm less convinced by. I'm more convinced by that we can find a big orange rod. That too, the combination. But this tree... Look how pointy and upwards this tree is in comparison to all

of these trees. Sure. It's a quite distinctive shape. Okay. You keep your eye out for the trees, and I'm keeping my eye out for the orange thing. Well... I don't have a keen eye for trees. I think let's head up. Okay. Okay, they are getting closer. They're going up the right street. That worries me a little bit. Uh-ooh. Turn the wrong way. Turn the wrong way. Turn the wrong way. Turn the wrong way. Turn the wrong way. Turn the wrong way. Please turn the wrong way. Don't go towards me. Okay, oka

y. Okay, they went the wrong way. Actually... You like this path? This little path. It's a publicly accessible path, which would make sense for him to be on. Oh wow, this is interesting. It looks like they are checking the hiding place that I was gonna hide in before I found this playground. Okay, so I've been looking around town, trying to find... a good hiding spot. And as far as I can tell, the best hiding spot would be to lodge myself in that bush there, nice and good. Just really get up in

there. Are you going to find me in that bush? I don't think so. There's a slide. Yeah, but it's not that. I know, I'm just... pointing it out. You know, honestly, just... This playground here is not a crazy hiding space. This is pretty far up and pretty far out of the way too. I think if I hid here, it would take them a decent while to find me. But I'm gonna keep looking. Let me Google parks and playgrounds. Yeah. Nothing comes up for playground. I assume probably not this one either, right? Not

hing comes up for park. Yeah, it's too small, I think. Yeah, okay. So what's down this way? Well, I think we want to go this way. Okay. We have just passed hour seven, and they are still wandering aimlessly in the hills. One thing to also point out is that you can see the playground from Google Maps. So, if they really scour Google Maps, the satellite, they should be able to figure out where I am. The one thing that I keep thinking is there are all these little cut-throughs and paths and stuff.

Uh-huh. And that would make a lot of sense as somewhere to hide. Uh-huh. Actually, you know what we haven't done? What? We haven't just looked at the satellite map for a big yellow thing. That's true. You can look— You can see that slide. But, okay, this is interesting. The Google Maps satellite shows a different slide here. It's actually outdated. So if they use that, they might think that this isn't the playground. Ooh. Ooh. That's an area we haven't looked at. Although I don't see trees. No,

but the trees could be behind him. I bet it could be those trees. Yeah, it's kind of far though. How far is it? Well, it's not too far. It's the area we want to check out anyway. Let's head that way. Yeah. It doesn't look like there's anything that would match. No. But you'll notice... You start to see the trees manicured in the right way. It's all in the trees, you see? The trees, what? The trees. No, I know. It's all in the trees. Now that we're getting mostly by trees, and with the grocery st

ore still closed – preventing us from clearing our curse – we continue to wander with less and less luck. In retrospect, I really should have picked a spot that I was willing to actually stay in for more than five minutes. Because the ground is so cold. And I look so stupid. And if anyone shows up here... I mean, frankly, I don't know what the laws are here, but I feel like... if you see a fully-grown man just sitting under a slide, you should be able to kill him. So... Hopefully that doesn't ha

ppen. At a certain point, we should ask a local. Yeah. We should be like, "Do you know what this is?" Okay, they are getting closer. I mean, Sam is... directly in front of that building. But I don't think that he can see the playground from there. I don't think that there's a way— In ten minutes, we can get our cheese and ask another question. So, I think let's poke this way and then get the cheese. Yeah. No, it seems like they have passed me. Okay. Oh, that was a close call. They were this clos

e. They were literally... They were just in front of these two buildings here. If those buildings weren't there, they would've caught me. Well, we have now taken long enough that the grocery store is back open from its lunch break. So we can probably clear our curse and ask some additional questions. Which seemingly we're gonna need to. Yeah, I mean— How have we not found him?! This place is not big! Alright, Sam. Cheese. I mean, this is a wheel. Yeah. That makes sense. Want that? Yeah. Let's do

that. Alright, how do you feel about your cheese rolling ability? I feel pretty good about mine, for what it's worth. Here, this is pretty good. This would work. Yeah. Let's go with this. I feel extremely confident. Do you want to do it? I'll do it. You got to do the apple. I feel extremely confident. Okay. Here we go. Well, that was easy. Wait, get the cheese! Get the cheese! (giggles) No! No! I think now we just flood him with stuff. Which one would we want to do next? Let's get the letter th

at his nearest street starts with. Is that going to be useful? Most of the streets start with 'S' or 'R'. But I do think it would be useful. I mean, if you think so. Yeah, I mean, it would exclude a lot. So, it seems like they have finally gotten rid of their curse. 'Cause they just asked me for my street letter. We'll see what they do with that information. It's an S, okay. There's a lot of Ss. Well, there are a lot of Ss. Okay, do we want to fire another one? Maybe, well, let's look. Okay, wel

l, there's two key— There's— Stutzerstrasse?[stoot-strah-tz] Which we did look a good bit. And then there's... this whole thing here. Which, we didn't— Seeplatzweg? Okay. Maybe let's just go check that out, since we're so close. So wait, Seeplatzweg? Yeah, we're so close. Okay, let's go check out Seeplatzweg. Doesn't seem like this fits, but I just want to be 100% sure. Sure is pretty. I mean, I don't see how he could be here. So let's check out that other one. I think we checked here. Did we ch

eck this path? Yeah, but that would be a different road. Because this is a different road. So that wouldn't hit here. Okay, it seems like they're going down the right street. But are they gonna see the entrance to the playground? Because you can't see the playground from the street. I don't know. Maybe they'll try it? We'll see. This might— This might be about to be the end of my round. I think it's either this, or there's another one here. Yeah, well, there's also little poke-outs over there. S

o let's circle back up and come down these. (anguished) I think we looked here. I'm pretty sure. No, we already checked here. We already checked both of those. And this is the end of Stutzerstrasse. They went right past it. I mean, they went right past the entrance. Oh my god. I don't, I mean, I don't know how they're gonna find me. They're just gonna have to go back and notice it. Wanna sit down on the bench for a second and figure out what next? Yeah. We're sure there's not just a very little

Ben under there? Right? He's not the tallest guy in the world. We sat down to thoroughly scour Google Maps, but after 15 minutes of looking, came up empty. So, we decided to buy some more information. We could ask how many minutes would it take for you to walk to your nearest train station? That's interesting. Let's ask that. The answer is only eight minutes. So now they know that I'm not up in the hills. You'd think that this would have helped us more. But it turns out, not so much. So we sat d

own on another bench and asked another question. I just don't understand. I agree. I totally agree. Do you want to photo up, just to see if that gives us anything? Maybe there will be a building. I guess. But, I mean, we have a pretty good upward angle. But I guess. The picture gave us some info on what Ben's nearby buildings look like, which got us close. (wheezes) He's not in a magical place. It's just a place. We should be able to find him. He's in Gringotts. But, we once again missed the ent

rance by a few hundred feet. Maybe he just... like we said, found a really unintuitive path somewhere. Yeah, he must've. Ben must be getting bored. (slow ticking clock) So, for a third time, we sat down on a bench to try to figure out what we could be missing. Maybe... (sighs) Well have we looked, Sam... Have we looked here? I can't tell what that is. That's... there. I'm not sure. I think we have, but maybe not? Maybe. Maybe we should go check it out? Yeah. That's eight minutes. Look. That path

says it's eight minutes. Okay. I think it might be that path. You want to check it out? Yeah, yeah, ugh. We must just... This way? I think we might've missed it. It's down this street. It's down and then it's over there, I think. That has to be it. Well, I feel like we've said that a lot of times. Here, we can cut down this way. Actually, look, cut down the other way. You know what's gonna be awesome is the... motion graphic map that shows us walking within 100 feet of it six times. You're gett

ing awfully confident. So it's this one here? No, it's to the right. It's around this bend, and then it's a left. Oh, I see. There's the hedge. There's a hedge. This. We haven't been down this. I don't think we've been down this. Oh, (bleep) I think I might fit. Smoke stacks. I think it might fit. There's the damn slide. Oh my god. That (bleep)-ing guy. Hi. This sucked! (growls crazily) Alright, Ben, give me the dice. Yes. Right now. Yes. I need more. You need more? I need more. That's ambitious

. This sucked. Yes. This sucked so much. It sucked for me too. I was sitting under that slide for so long. Ben, what's the fastest way to the train station? I think you... Through one of the— Down and around. Alright, see you guys. Good luck, Sam. We— I mean, oh my god, dude. Hated this! Yeah, well, that's the score to beat. Congratulations. Thank you. I have a little surprise for you. Goodness. Look what I got. Glühwürmchen! I had really good fondue last night. This is awesome. Let's go right n

ow. There's also one restaurant in town, and it serves really good fondue. Let's go there, and then let's go to the hotel. Okay. We got fondue. We're talking about the plan. Okay, so we've been talking about tomorrow. The situation is we really need to find Sam. If we don't find Sam tomorrow, then we both lose, because... That'll mean that his run is longer than my run. And that Adam won't get another run, because in order to get a longer run than him, we wouldn't be able to nab him before the e

nd of the game. So the game will just be over. The game is four days. So we have to find him. Well, I've arrived in what I think is going to be quite the annoying spot for a bunch of reasons. All of which I will explain in the morning. Good night! Caption+ by JS* caption.plus | @caption_plus Alright look, the stakes are simple. If we don't catch Sam tomorrow, the game ends and he wins. Is that what's gonna happen? You could find out right now on Nebula, because next episode is up right now on Ne

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