Ep 5 - We Raced To Visit The Most European Countries In 6 Days
Hello and welcome back to episode five of our race to claim the most countries in Europe. Right now it's the morning of day four and the score is 7-7. Ben and Adam finished yesterday at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome after locking down Italy and the Vatican. Their plan today is to fly first thing to Amsterdam in an attempt to steal the Netherlands. But Tom and I are cautiously optimistic.
Even though the Netherlands is vulnerable because we failed to lock it on day one, we think that the Netherlands challenge is nearly impossible, meaning that Ben and Adam might fly all the way there and get nothing if they fail the challenge too. But whether or not they succeed, Tom and I need to move quickly. We scooped up Denmark and Sweden last night, but we haven't locked either country yet. With Ben and Adam making their way north, we'll need to do everything we can to lock down at least one of our Scandinavian territories.
Otherwise, we'll set Ben and Adam up for a devastatingly easy back-to-back steal. So with all that on the line, let's go ahead and see what the Sweden challenge has in store. Oh, let's hope this is good, Tom. The time is 7:33. Go.
Find Amy a "Jungelslog". Find Amy a DJUNGELSKOG. This is actually perfect. I desperately need a DJUNGELSKOG. Could you help me out? Go to IKEA and find a DJUNGELSKOG within 25 minutes of entering the store. You may not look up what a DJUNGELSKOG is, nor may you ask for help from anyone else.
You don't have to buy it, just text me a pic of you and the DJUNGELSKOG so I know it's in stock. Thanks! You don't have to buy it. Just text me a pic of you and the DJUNGELSKOG, so I know it's in stock. Thanks. Oh, IKEA's—
I don't know if IKEA's gonna be open. Oh, it might be too early for IKEA. IKEA Malmö. IKEA Malmö. Doesn't open until 10. Oh, that's brutal! Are there any other IKEAs? 10 am. I think they're all gonna be 10.
I mean, they're not the kind of things that are open early. That is really not good, but... That's not good because that's a very easy challenge for someone who comes here to steal the country. If you can find a "Junkelsvagiv".
IKEAs are pretty big. Yeah, they are. That's true. It's a time consuming one. 'Cause getting to IKEAs on public transit Yes. will take a little bit
'cause they're never in city centers. And then you're gonna have to search the entire IKEA. Not to say, I don't think it's ultimately that difficult, but I think it is time consuming. It's a time was— yes, but that doesn't matter if they're stealing Sweden. No, but yeah.
First impression, it's not worth waiting two and a half hours for that. No, and I hate that! We keep having lousy luck with challenges, Sam. Look, here's what we should do now. We should head to Denmark. Do that challenge. Just accept and throw this one away? Well that's, I guess that's the thing.
We can't come back. No, we can't. Ugh. We can only have one challenge open at a time. As soon as we open the Danish challenge, we have to call them and let them know that Sweden is available. It's really not great, but I think...
I think we've gotta operate on the theory of a single country is not that attractive. It's a two-country pair that's attractive. Yeah, and we've already lost one of that pair. Yes. So, I mean, that means we have to lock Denmark.
Yeah. And in fact, Benjamin, here is our gate. We've made it. We will board this plane to Amsterdam.
Literally no freaking problem at all. Oh, I hate this, Sam! I hate this. Let's at least go one or two blocks into the city there. So it looks like we got meaningfully away from the station. So they look at the tracker and go, "Okay, they didn't just..." Yeah. Okay, and should we...
I think maybe we should be out of breath or something. Yes, yes, absolutely. This is— these are not the circumstances that I would want. No. But I think that a path to victory at this point is that they go to the Netherlands, fail. Then they come to Sweden... And fail.
'Cause again, it's not the easiest challenge. No, it's not. Even once you get to an IKEA. No. Alright. Uh-oh, we are getting a call from Sam.
This can't be good. Hello, Sam and Tom. Hi. Uhh... I think they're messing with us.
Stop looking sad. Are you tricking us? I think they're messing with us. Unfortunately not. Whoa. Sweden challenge failed. Sweden is vulnerable.
Well, well, gentlemen, I'm sorry about that. I mean, I'm thrilled about it, but I am sorry. I hope that you sort of continue to fail throughout the day, but I'll continue to feel sorry about it. Okay, we gotta go, bye. Okay. Okay, well, let's hope... Let's hope that's enough misinformation to get 'em to come here when they're in a rush.
Let's hope that's enough misinformation for them to think that this is a luck-based, quick challenge that requires physical effort and not time. Let's go get over the Øresund Bridge. Yeah. And we're getting on the freaking plane. Because we're unstoppable and we can't be stopped.
This is very, very interesting. This is very, very, very interesting because— For two boys exactly like us, this is one of the most interesting things that you could hear. Because we are heading directly up there. Yes. It is very easy for us to go to Sweden.
And I would say that almost certainly we should. We're doubling down on the risk. Well, we'll see how this goes. We'll see what happens in Amsterdam. Here. Oh man.
Allow me to present to you a theory. They seemingly started the challenge right when the day started. Yes. That is the worst time to start a challenge. It's true.
Because if the challenge is time limited, and it requires getting materials, oftentimes everything is closed. So I think that there is a possibility we would've a better chance at the challenge if going there midday. That is probably— Just to throw that out. That is probably true. I also think that... it could have been just impossible to do for a really long time, and they forfeited it. Yeah. So that they could keep moving.
That's true. I just don't know. They were at a... like basilica when they called us. I don't know if— I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means.
We'll see what they do in Denmark. 'Cause also they could fail the Denmark one. Yeah. Agh, let's get to Denmark. Oh, I gotta hope that the Denmark challenge is doable. Oh yeah. And not too luck-based.
Hey, we can look up what a "Dunkel-skyog" is now. Yeah, and maybe how difficult it was. Yeah. Oh, well let's get on the train and we'll do that. I bet it's one of the plush toys. Yeah, yeah, very possible.
I bet it's the plush bear. I bet you right now that is the plush toy bear. Oh god.
Is it the plush toy bear? Yeah, you're right. (sighs loudly) That might be easy to guess. Yeah. I just took our odds of getting to the challenge to 100%, didn't I, if we waited until 10 am? I don't know where I dredged that from in the depths of my memory. Well... But as soon as the pressure was off, my brain went, plush toy bear is called "Dunkle-skyog". Hopefully they're not as familiar with IKEA plushes. Ohhh!
I'm infuriated I did not realise about the bear earlier. Oh, that sucks! I'm not gonna lie, Tom. That does suck. We can take here. Did we just make the wrong call? Well... As soon as I thought of bear, I'm like, did we make the wrong call? Yeah, my thoughts would've been different if...
we thought we knew, we had a strong theory, what the object was. Yeah. Because I was thinking it would just be any random thing. I remember, Ben wrote, I'm pretty sure it was Ben, he wrote in a joke about the IKEA... dolphin plushie or something? Yeah. In an HAI video once. So I'm pretty sure that... Yeah. Could have been Amy, but I'm pretty sure...
he knows about the IKEA plushies and the... I think we're gonna lose Sweden, Sam. Well... that's Gate A71. Yep. The flight to Amsterdam is boarding out of... You wanna guess?
Gate 71. A71. And the tracker... puts them at Gate A71. Alright. I don't hate this, I mean. I— That's true. Here's what I'll decide to like this, Tom.
Okay. I don't think we have a good shot of catching up to them if we're each just incrementally claiming one more country. I think our best shot is that they waste all this time and budget going to somewhere and not successfully... stealing our country. I think that's a great way that we can catch up.
Yeah. The problem is we just left another one vulnerable. Yeah, we did. Very vulnerable.
Bridge. Bridge. Welcome back to Denmark. Yeah. Welcome to Copenhagen. –Haagen? I wish we could do more planning, but our flight options depend on how long this challenge takes, and we have to take this challenge. 'Cause this is a situation where we need to give this challenge the time it takes. Yeah. And the time it, you know, takes to give it its best shot.
Yeah, absolutely. We can't... If we lose this country, Sam... We leave too much vulnerable.
That's a nice tower thing. It is. That is Tivoli Gardens. That's the theme park.
We may want to position ourself more near a grocery store? I wonder if we want to head to Helsinki after this. There's a 1 pm flight, which I think is likely to be good timing for us. Yeah. Alright, Tom.
Alright. Are you sure we're in Denmark? We are definitely in Denmark. Okay. This has gotta be good. Oh. This has gotta be good.
This has gotta be good. Should I pull it? Pull it. (groans) Build a LEGO set blind. Build a LEGO set blind. Build a LEGO set blind. Denmark, the birthplace of LEGOs.
Build a LEGO set with at least 200 pieces in under 45 minutes, and for some good fun, do it blindfolded! Only one team member must be blindfolded. This team member must do all the assembly. The other team member may use the instructions to guide the blindfolded builder, but is not allowed to assemble the LEGOs himself. He may move and touch exactly one piece at a time as long as he doesn't put pieces together or take them apart. Okay. LEGO. Tough but doable, I think.
Will there be a souvenir store in there that sells LEGOs or is there a souvenir store out there? Do you wanna check the station first? Yeah, alright. Alright, more than that, let's see if there's a LEGO store that opens at 9 am. 200 pieces. I mean, that's... LEGO Store Copenhagen opens at 10.
200 pieces in 45 minutes. That's only... five pieces a minute. That's a piece every 12 seconds, Sam. Yeah. But with LEGO sets, a lot of them are duplicates.
Hopefully we could find a kit... you know, one for young kids, you know. Cosmetics. And this is a big station, so I think... It is. I feel like there should be a tourist shop in here.
Yeah. Lemme look at my phone. Worst case, the LEGO Store opens at 10. Yeah, I don't want to wait that long.
I don't wanna wait that long. But if we do wait that long, we only spend 45 minutes on LEGO. We could still make a 1 pm flight to Helsinki. Yes.
I mean, I was hoping to be somewhere in the station that sold tourist things. Oh, the airport would def— Oh, it'd be past security though. I was gonna say. The airport would definitely have some, but— And we can't do challenges there. It would, yeah. And it would be duty free, and we can't do challenges there. Okay. No tourist shops at the station.
All the department stores are on the main street a little way that way, past Tivoli. But they all open at 10. Mm. They all open at 10. It'd be real neat if this country had Walmarts. Tom and I spent quite a while looking for anywhere that would sell us LEGOs this early in the morning, but kept finding that nowhere would be open until 10. Sure be neat if that was open. Yeah.
We thought we might have a shot at the airport, so we headed there. But had no luck in the pre-security area. No LEGO. Worth a try. No LEGO.
You'd think that the country of LEGOs would have more LEGOs, Tom. (sighs deeply) Haven't seen a single LEGO yet. There was a LEGO Store past security, but we figured that by the time we could buy a ticket, get past security, get LEGOs, and get three miles from the airport, it would be around time for the LEGO Store in town to open. So we headed back to Copenhagen.
Welcome to Copenhagen, Tom. (chuckles sardonically) Yeah. Welcome to Copenhagen, Sam. I love Copenhagen. I just wish they had more early morning stores.
Yeah. Some of us are early risers. Mhm. Some of us wake up at 6 am and... Yeah. decide today's the day to buy LEGO.
Yeah. And build a LEGO. Yeah. And this country is just not accommodating of that.
We still have 14 minutes. Maybe we should stare through the window and see if we can identify what we want. Yeah, alright.
Okay. Is there a bigger LEGO shop within 12 minutes' walk? I don't know. I mean, this has an upstairs, I think. Yeah, it does. These would be complicated. I don't think we want the flowers. They have a mosaic maker.
What if we make a custom set? It takes a photo. You just have to put the pieces on the right place. If we get... This is cheeky. Black out the screen? This is cheeky. Get an all-black mosaic. We just gotta make sure it's got 200 pieces.
It will give us 200 tiny dots and a place to put 'em on. I think... surely! They're unlocking the doors, alright. Let's see what we can get. Hello. Hello. Okay, let's have a look. Touch to start.
Oh, okay, we need to buy one. We should ask to figure out how the mosaic thing works. Sign in. Do I need a LEGO account for this? (chuckles softly) Yes. How many pieces do you think this is? Well, hang on, let's have a look.
That is... 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. That is 50 by 50, so that's... Wait, that can't be right. That would be like...
50 by 50 would be 2,500 pieces? I guess. Yeah, that could be right. Yeah. That would be... The alternative is, what's the easiest 200-piece set in here? 200, just 200? Oh, it's gotta be at least 200. But ideally no more than 200. Can you check this one? This one looks maybe... Yeah, okay.
Relatively simple. 252. 252. I don't think— We're gonna waste time if we spend any longer, Sam. Do you wanna get this one? Oh. Oh, this one looks pretty good.
Oh, yeah. No, that's— That doesn't have working suspension. 214. Oh. Bit less. Oh, let's try that one. Let's go – 214. I think this one's pretty good.
Alright, let's do it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's go assemble some LEGO.
Okay. Let's go do this challenge. Welcome to Amsterdam. Now, I had LEGO as a kid, but I've never, ever followed the instructions, not once. How about you? I mean, I've built LEGO sets following the instructions. Okay, so are you...
I think you should read the instructions. You are better at methodical and not panicking than I am in situations like this. So, read the instructions, gimme things to put together. Okay, let's find a nice quiet corner in the station. Alright. Tucked in behind the model railway? Let's do it.
Okay. 45 minute timer is ready. Let me test my blindfolding. Okay, let me try to organize these somewhat. Yeah.
Well that's an effective blindfold. When you lay it all out like that, Tom, it's a good number of... It's a really good number. I don't like this at all. 45 minutes. Alright, well... I can't see anything. Like, I can... (imitates punch) (giggles) You see that? You made a noise. Okay.
So I can sort of see vague lights above... I was testing whether you would flinch when I... Did I? No, tried punching you. No, you didn't. Alright, well, I can't see a thing, so... I suppose this is as ready as we'll be, Tom.
Alright, well you're gonna have to start a timer 'cause I can't use my phone anymore. I'm a little nervous, Tom. Yeah, so am I. I'm a little nervous. This 45 minutes is gonna suck. Gotta stay calm. Gotta be methodical.
Yep. Ready to start? Yep. And we are starting. Give me pieces. Tell me what to do. Okay, first we're doing the mini figure. I'm gonna hand you the legs. Here are the legs.
Yes. Here's the body. Here's the head. Is that the correct way 'round? No, that is. Here's the head. Okay, mini figure, done.
Alright, now I'm handing you one piece of a dolphin. Okay. And this one's gonna be a little tricky 'cause it's non-traditional, but you need to slide this onto the face of the dolphin. It's kind of an articulating face. Rotate by 90 degrees, in front of you. Like that? Yep.
Got it. Okay. Done. Alright, now go all the way to the bottom of the long piece. Got it. Yep. Now put this on centered. Excellent instructions, Sam.
Really excellent instructions. Thank you. Alright, buddy. Let's get three miles away from this place. I think we really want to be situated as centrally as we can.
Yep, for sure. And then we can go ahead, and open this guy. See, I'm so scared. I know.
I mean, I don't know what it is that they failed. What's fun is that you, the audience, you do know what this challenge is. Right, you know exactly what's going on.
And you might have been screaming at your screen for hours, "Don't go to Amsterdam. This challenge is too hard." But we don't know that. We simply don't know. We can't hear you! Okay, now put this... Sorry, feel for the side. What? Feel, where your...
Sorry, this is hard to describe. Down, down. Feel the middle. Here? Now feel for the side. Here? Yes. Now you're putting this at the bottom, one lane of bricks in.
Here? Rotate 90 degrees. Here. One lane in. Here. At the bottom. Go down, go down, go down. There? Yes, that's right.
That is correct. Yep. Okay. Now put this... On the other side just here? Away from you, up. Yep. One lane in. There. Yep. Now you're replicating what we just did on the left side.
There? Yes. Yeah? And here's the next piece. There? Yes. Okay.
Okay. Such good instructions, Sam. Thank you. Thank you, Tom. I will say... it's one of only two challenges that have been failed. Most challenges have been successfully completed.
But guess how many challenges we've completed? All of 'em. Okay, now towards you. This is going to the side. All the way to the side. So, there? Yeah...
I think one up? Yes, that looks right. It's a little bit tricky. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. There? Yep.
Right there, okay. Yep. Same thing left side. Same thing left side. Yep. Alright, we're doing well, Tom. God, I hope the camera's still rolling.
Okay, now this piece is— Hold on, those feel uneven. Oh yeah, sorry. The left one needs to go one towards you. Oh, that was lucky. No, up, up, up. Sorry. Out kind of...
No, no, on top of that kind of bit that you just did. Yep, that's right. Try to lock it down at the top.
This, wait, what the (bleep) just happened? Something just happened. Oh, sorry. I missed a step. I missed a step. Okay, okay. I'm gonna take— I'm gonna be honest, Tom. We need to move quickly.
Yeah, I know. So I'm just saying like... I know, I know, I'm... Okay. Trains. People brought balloons to greet us. Alright.
Off to Amsterdam Centraal. Whew. Oh boy, I hope this goes well. Okay, that's... A little to the right.
There you go. There you go. Now this is going on top on the little nubs. There? One to the right. Ugh, sorry, the piece I just did was wrong. Rotate 90 degrees to the left.
There. Yes. Down, down, down. Up, up, up, up, up. Down a little bit. Up a little bit. Up, up, up, up, up. One more. One more down towards you.
Yep. There, okay. Oh, sorry, no, one up. Left. One to the right. Like that? Yes. I can't see how that la— I can't see anything. I can't feel how that latches.
I— There. No. What? One to the right. There. Yep. Got it. Alright, now put the car down.
Yep. We're going to put... this on the top right. Yep. Actually, did I get that right? Yep.
And... (phone timer rings) Aaaggh! (sighs) We couldn't have done that any faster, Sam. I, we... We could not have done that any faster. We gave that our best shot. I mean, look.
How close were we? It's not that much, which I honestly wish it was more because then Ben and Adam would have a harder time. That's not good, Tom. No, it's not. That's not good. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not— that's not good. It's not good. The short of finding a LEGO set that was just clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, we could not have done that any faster.
At least it's far from a sure shot, because I do feel like... we assembled that as well as we could. Maybe Ben and Adam, you know, they've done a lot of these together. Maybe they can figure out how to communicate. They are, unsurprisingly, in the Netherlands.
We've gotta give 'em a call and then we've gotta get in a plane. Well, let's be sure not to show them Yeah— wall. what the thing is. Oh, they look happy. Gentlemen. No, they don't look happy. It is...
Not gonna lie. We're not doing well. Denmark has not been locked. Oh my god. Denmark is vulnerable. Oh, boys! That is a— That's tough news for you. Enjoy the Netherlands. We gotta go. Bye.
Bye. Oof. I feel like I was really excited to gloat last time. That one, you feel a little bad. That one, you gotta feel a little bad.
Oh, boys. I feel bad. In another way... I feel amazing. I feel really...
In another sense. I feel really good. Okay, Tom. We don't have too long. No. Are we going to Helsinki? I think we have to.
I don't think we have any other options, Sam. I think it's their best option. And then... And then when we get there, we decide... if we're booking on a flight onwards once we get to the airport.
But we can't book a connecting flight because that means we won't claim Finland. Yeah. We need a single ticket to Finland. We can only hold one ticket at a time. We go to Helsinki, Sam.
We have nothing else! Okay. Well that flight leaves in an hour and 45. So we can make it. We can do that.
We can do that. We can do that. But we need to go quickly. Alright! Let's go quickly. This is really strange, but this is— We just had to try and complete this. If the kid would like a LEGO set, you are welcome to it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
It's mostly assembled, but... It's mostly assembled. But you know what? She's a parent. She's had to deal with bigger messes than that. Let's get to the train.
At the very least, that's a really difficult challenge. There's a chance they lose Sweden. There's a very strong chance they lose this and waste a lot of time doing it. Yeah, there's even a chance they lose both and waste a ton of time doing both.
Yes. So, I mean— There are two adults, now. I don't love that as our best shot, but... 11:30, can we make— We can make 11:30. We can make that.
Honestly, there's some weird version of the plot of the next couple days... Where they follow us and fail. Where they foll— where they fail the Netherlands, follow us here, fail both, waste a ton of time, and in that time we've caught up. It'd be a weird plot. Here's the thing, it's still, despite all our grumbles, what's the score? 7–7. 7–7.
Knowing that Jet Lag: The Game is scripted and the most improbable scenario always happens, I think that they fail all three and that gets us in the lead and we win, Tom. I think the moral of the season is gonna be the downfall of hubris, Tom. They're gonna have hubris.
Here... I will say though. Just because they failed the challenges doesn't mean that we will succeed at the challenges.
Doesn't it? But we're gonna. ♪ But we're gonna ♪ Alright. Alright. Please tell me the flight hasn't sold out. Nope, it's available.
Alright, how much? However many 3,278 Danish kroner are. Alright. That's for both— Wait, for one or both of us? Both.
Okay, yeah, that's affordable. We can do that. There's our train. What time is our flight? One.
We can make that. It'll be a bit of a rush, but security shouldn't be too bad this time of day. I imagine that there is one perfect LEGO set out there that would make that possible. Probably. But if there is, we didn't find it.
Okay. Alright, Ben. Let's get out. Yes, let's get out of the train station. Into somewhere accessible. Yep. And then, we'll pull our challenge. And here we are.
You can definitely set up a full shot. Okay. Alright. Welcome to Amsterdam. Beautiful Amsterdam. Let's find out what the Netherlands challenge is that Sam and Tom failed. You ready? Yeah.
Build Jason his dream bouquet. Build Jason his dream bouquet. The Netherlands are known for many things.
It's not just bikes. Indeed, the Netherlands are the flower shop of the world. So please assemble the bouquet of Jason from Not Just Bikes' dreams to his precise specifications. Complete and send Jason a picture of your bouquet within 30 minutes, or you fail this challenge.
Your time starts the next time you touch a flower. You may not do any research, flower acquisition, or assembly until then. Okay, let's watch that video. Okay. Oh, it's Jason. Welkom in Nederland. Thanks for helping me out here.
Okay. I always wanted a flower bouquet with at least six carnations Six carnations. of three different colors, Three different colors. two orange gerberas, Two what? a Christmas Rose, and an Alstroemeria. Christmas Rose? What the hell is a Christmas Rose? And all filled out with some Mimosa.
That was so many things, Jason. Oh, he had a lot of flowers that he wanted. That sounds hard as(bleep) That sounds impossible. I've never— I've all, I've— The only one of those I've heard of is a carnation. And I guess I've heard of roses, but I don't know what a Christmas Rose is.
What's a Christmas Rose? I don't know the answer to that. Okay. We are not allowed to do any research or anything. We gotta touch a flower, and... I think that scoping out Amsterdam would be research. So I think we just have to touch the next flower we see. I mean, look, 30 minutes, I bet— We're in Amsterdam! There's got— There's— Theoretically there should be no city in the world that you have a better chance of finding a bunch of flowers.
Let's find a flower, I guess. Oh man, I can see why they failed this. Yep. Okay. Okay.
So we gotta go touch a flower, and then our 30 minutes can begin. Sam, I have news. The lads are in Amsterdam Centraal.
Mhm. They're at the main station. That is a logical place to pull a challenge. Yep. I have bad news, which is that... there are a lot of florist shops within easy walking distance and running distance.
Well, only some of those are actually that close to Centraal. Yeah. There's at least one, two, three, four they could rea— Yeah.
If they really put the hammer down, and they run and they sprint and they desperately go into florist shops... Mhm. To be honest, I thought there would be even more than that.
They get to roll the dice a lot of times. They do. They do. And our guy in Maastricht said that maybe somewhere would have it in Amsterdam. Yeah, it certainly is a lot easier of a challenge in central Amsterdam than Maastricht. Those are flowers. Those are definitely flowers.
They're definitely real. Okay. Alright. Alright, you ready? I'm ready. Three, two, one, go. Okay, florists. Alright, let's look up florists. Let's start walking this way while we look.
This place, Jemi, it's open. Okay, it's a seven minute walk. Let's move. You've got it? You've got— Yeah, I got it.
You know where it is? Okay. I think there's no jaywalking in this country, so... No, (bleep), no. We actually need to cross here. Oh, come on! Aaaaahhh... Come on, come on, come on, come on. Okay. Here we go.
We have unwittingly and unwillingly laid a trap for them. It's not a good trap. It's really not a good trap. But at least they are failable challenges. If luck decides to swing on our side. If no one in Amsterdam has Christmas Roses in January.
Ohh. I guess they're about to find out. Oh! Look! Maybe these are just common flowers in the Netherlands. I certainly hope so. Oh yeah, okay, it's right here.
Here? Okay. Alright. Let's see what they got. Hi. Hello.
We are doing... a scavenger hunt and we need to get these flowers. I might have spelled some of them wrong.
I only have the... the two Gerberas. Only those? Yeah. Okay, can I have— Can we get those please? Yeah. You have no carnations? Yes. Okay, we need six carnations, three different colors.
Well, I've got two colors. Okay, then we'll take two of each, please. Two of each? Yes, please. Do you have any mimosas? No.
Do you have a Christmas Rose? Uhh, no. No. Do you have— Christmas is... Yes. Yeah. Two weeks ago. Any ideas where we could find those? Nearest flower shop is closed until Monday. You can try the new market.
We're the only florist in the neighborhood. Okay, okay, thank you. Just need to start to figure out the back— How much time do we have left? We have 20 minutes left. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Okay.
Okay, so the nearest one... Is Flower Design. that's open is Flower Design. But the question is, does that look like it's gonna have more flowers than Florist 't Lievertje? I think we're— Here's what I think. We should go... There's three all next to each other up there. So we should go this way. Okay, you know the way?
Yep. We really gotta move. Tom, do you want to know what the weather's like in Helsinki? What's the weather like in Helsinki? Snow! Is there any risk of us getting snowed in? No. Oh, welcome back to Copenhagen Airport, Sam.
I love Copenhagen Airport. There are worse airports. Alright, "låts gätes". I don't know the Swedish for "let's go". This airport is like... an eight outta ten.
Yeah. Oh, it's a solid airport. I just— You know what'd make it a nine outta ten? A LEGO Store? A pre-security LEGO Store. Yeah. Every—
Oh, oh. Sam, Sam. We're gonna get through security, and there's gonna be a LEGO Store just taunting us. I— We cannot look in that LEGO Store because it will— we— I just know it'll have an easy 200 piece puzzle in it. Yeah, I bet it will have a 200-piece block. Yep. Helsinki, go to terminal two. 13:00 to Helsinki, right? Yeah. Terminal two.
What are they up to on the tracker, Tom? Heh. Well, they're still... I don't know if it's running, but I can see Adam's dot moving down the street. So they haven't found all the things yet. At speed. We're definitely gonna make it to the second florist, okay? Yeah.
And there's two other ones right next to them. Maybe there's... Because a Christmas Rose, he was like, "Well, it's not Christmas." Well, I live in enormous fear that the Christmas Rose is because we were supposed to be playing this in December. Oh (bleep), yeah. Tom. Good news.
The lads are still on the move. Tom, look at this. Still moving fast. Bad news. Tom. We found the LEGO shop. Tom, look at this one. This one would've been doable. And that one would've been doable.
Aw no. Awwh. Yeah. That's annoying.
That's annoying. Oh, that's not good. It's not good. Hopefully they're not... they don't think to go to the bigger one. I hope they're panicking about florists.
I think they're at this florist, apostrophe-T "Leeverche". Oh good, yeah, okay. Yep. That's almost certainly not how you pronounce that, but yeah. But it does, it looks like, I don't know if that's actually a florist that... Oh, I guess... It's a little florist stand. Yeah, but that's selling...
That's not flowers. Those are seeds. Oh, no, that's selling seeds. Huh. That's a plant shop, not a florist.
Maybe, yeah. Oh, they do not have a lot. That's very limited. Let's take a look here. Let's just ask this lady. Hello. We're doing a scavenger hunt.
We need to get... two carnations, a Christmas rose, and mimosa. I don't have the Christmas Rose. None of those? Do you have— no mimosa? No. No Christmas Rose? Maybe they have it at the flower market.
Okay. Maybe. Okay, which way? Okay. She says to go to the end of the street. Okay. Yeah, there's another one right down there.
Okay. Maybe this place will have what we need. Oh, man.
They're moving. They're moving. They're not finding the seasonal things. They are moving so fast! Oh, this— This is— oh, this— I can't. Oh, they're moving more now.
They've left that shop. They've realised it's seeds. Okay, they're still on... Yeah. Okay, where are they going next? There are a bunch of florists there, so they're gonna have a lot of options. They can't have that much time left. No, I don't think so.
We didn't clock when they started it, but... Alright. We still got 11 minutes, Ben. It should be right around here, right? Is it that across the street? Oh, the flower market. Is that it? Oh, that is a flower market. That is several.
Yeah, that... I mean, if they can make it there... If they can make it there in time... That will have probably a shot. Let's hurry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's hurry.
Oh, they have so many flowers there! Okay. Go quick, go quick. Oh, come on. Come on, baby. Oh, they've gotta have 'em here. Okay, okay, okay, okay. We need to find somebody. You work on finding somebody. I'm gonna look.
They have— Those are Gerbera. Excuse me. Do you have mimosa? No? Do you have Christmas Roses? Hi, do you have a Christmas Rose? Any Christmas Rose? No. No? Okay. You have carn— We are done with Christmas.
Okay, okay. No, no, okay, next one. No, this isn't really flowers.
This is like... Flower themed stuff. These are bulbs. Yeah, let's just keep looking maybe.
Everybody, when we ask them for a Christmas Rose, goes, "No, we are done with Christmas. You dummies." Those are just seeds. These are all seeds.
Do Christmas Roses have any other name? They do. Six minutes. They're Helleborus, black hellebore. I mean, there's more. Yeah, these are all, yeah. It's all flower themed stuff. It's like mocking us.
How are they doing? So they're in an area that's called "the Flower Market". Okay. As in like... the address that shows "Flower Market". Okay. So... But they're still moving? They're still moving down this line.
So they haven't found it yet, I don't think. Okay. Are they just yelling, "Has anyone got Christmas Rose?" Yeah, Adam would totally do that.
To vendor after vendor after vendor? Yeah, that sounds exactly right. Are they making a scene in Amsterdam? That's their specialty. Hi, do you have any Christmas Roses? No. Do you have Mimosa? No, okay. This is crazy. This is all...
It's all flower themed. But no one has a Christmas Rose! This— Wait, oh, this is plants. This place has some... Okay, this has some stuff, but there's nobody here. Look for labels. Well... Helleborus. Helleborus?
That's Christmas Rose. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So let's see if they have the other stuff. Christmas Rose there. So then we just need mimosa and two more carnations. Why is there nobody here? Why is there nobody here? Okay.
Oh, hi. Hi. Do you have mimosa? No, we don't have— No, okay. Do you have carnations? No. No, okay. Anything else?
No, no. No, that's okay. Okay. Okay, if we could find mimosa and carnations somewhere else— Those are so much more common. we could bring it back there. But the first place didn't have those? Carnation is easy. The mimosa is the problem.
One minute, 20 seconds. I mean... Yeah, I think that's it. No. These are all dried. (phone timer pings) That's it.
That's it. That's it. Man! Okay. Okay. Incoming call. What do you think it is, Tom?
Moment of truth. Let's see if they got a bouquet. Lads. Yeah, they... Christmas Roses are outta season, it turns out. Yeah. We found one though. We learned that, actually.
Yeah, we learned that the hard way. Yeah. So, I assume you're not just baiting us. No, we're not messing with you.
That'd be too much. You guys have had a hard day. We have not stolen the Netherlands. That's tough. That's tough. That's your first challenge failure, isn't it? It is. Yeah. Sorry, gents. That's tough.
Bye. There we go. That's what we needed. It's still 7-7. (chuckles) You know what'd be nice? They fly here, they do the Sweden challenge first.
And they pull the Sweden challenge at about the same time we did. Oh yeah. Because I feel like if you come here, the intuitive thing is, oh, you're in Denmark.
Do Denmark first. Yeah. And then head over to Malmö for the morning. And if you get there first thing in the morning, you're not gonna be able to do it for a couple of hours.
Yeah. So here's the thing. It's 12:30. Yeah. It's halfway through the game day. And they have made zero progress. That's true.
They've made negative progress, Tom. 'Cause they've spent flight budget. It's still 7–7. I still kind of think, I hope they come here, because... It's the obvious play for them. There's a lot of flights to Copenhagen.
There's a lot of flights out of Copenhagen. I still think it's our best shot. And they have... if they boss both challenges, they go up by two, we go down by two. But I think simultaneously them wasting the time of coming here...
Yeah. and failing them is our best shot of getting in the lead. Alright, well we gotta get back to the airport 'cause there is still time for us to challenge Denmark That sucks. and Sweden today, okay? I mean, here's what I'll say this really proves. The failed challenges... Are hard. Are hard. That's why they were failed.
Yep. Let's just get to the airport. I think that we need to go to Copenhagen. Yeah. Oh, Ben!
I can't believe you found a Christmas Rose. (laughs) I know! That was the one I thought we were never gonna find. How you feeling, Adam? Really bummed out. Yeah. 'Cause here's the thing.
They've failed challenges... but they haven't failed a steal. If you fail to challenge in a country you claim, you might keep it, as we just saw. They failed the Netherlands challenge. Actually, that has ended up to be great for them because they still get the Netherlands and we wasted half a day coming here.
Hopefully the same does not go for Denmark and Sweden. We will see. We have to get at least one of them. Yeah.
Oh, Ben, that's such a bummer! I look so sad with my sad bouquet. I know. It's like... It's tough to look sad with a bouquet. I agree. Because then it looks— One of the saddest possible images.
Then it looks like you were scorned by a lover. A lover, yeah. And in a sense we were, but our lover... was Lady Luck. Okay, well, you know, game remains tied. Not for long.
But you gotta imagine that they are about to fly somewhere. Probably to Helsinki. Screwed that, shut up.
I do like being in the... in Scandinavia. Jet Lag Scandinavia has been highly requested. But it's so nice in these countries. Yeah.
Maybe do it in summer. In fact, ideally, do it in the three weeks between snow season and mosquito season. These are flowers. Look, flowers. I don't even want to know if they— No, I don't want— Let's not look, let's not look. It's gonna do psychic damage. Don't look. Do not look at those flowers. I have to ask.
Excuse me. Do you have mimosas? Yep. Yep. They've got mimosas here. I think those are mimosas. I told you not to look. Let's go get you a cone of fries.
Time is valuable at this point. Which does bring us to the other strategy that you've thought about. Just speedrunning.
Just keep flying. Well... How much budget do we have? I almost have it worked out. Almost $2,500 left. It's pretty generous.
For two more game days after this. I mean, I think we could take pretty much any flight we want with that. Mind you, so can they. So the question is, Sam... if we change strategy so that we are just bouncing between countries as fast as we can, clock up every single one, we need to reach countries twice as fast as they can claim them.
I don't know how crazy that is. I don't either. There's an argument for just using the budget Because again, keep in mind. and bouncing. They don't need it. The precise order that we go... To steal the countries back, they have to go in the precise order we go.
But they can't take the connections because they need to get out the airport. Right. Do the challenge, head back. And as we've seen, the flights only happen every once in a while. Anyway. It's a plan. Let's research more.
Oh, that is pretty. We got consolation fries. Mm, that's a fun phrase. Consolation fries? Oh, it's like consolation prize. Oh my god, okay. We invented a new thing.
Consolation fries. They look— I guess they— I already ate mine, but they were really good. They're not the most beautiful object, but they do taste good. Look, Ben. This has been an enormous setback. But we got two more shots. Two more shots.
And then we'll be okay. Off to the airport, then. Let's go. We got some countries to steal.
I got the moving one. Mine doesn't work. Oh, the legs are starting to... Starting to feel it? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Seems like security is quick once again. Okay, well, Sam's tracker actually just got pinged right over the central Baltic Sea there, so...
It would appear that he and Tom are in fact going to Helsinki. Yeah, I mean, that's what we expected. My hope is, my deep hope is that they... will only get to Helsinki and then they'll have some dead time at the end of the day that they can't use for anything helpful.
I think that that may be, in fact exactly what is about to happen. That's the hope. We'll see. Meanwhile, all they can do is sit by and watch as we snatch up two of their countries. God, I hope we snatch up two of their countries. At least one of their countries. Yeah. We need at least one of 'em. We gotta get one of those two.
We gotta get Denmark or Sweden. Oh boy. It looks like the lads are at gate B17. That puts them on the 2:55 to Copenhagen.
Okay. That's flight 548. That gets them in at... 4:15 local. Either way, they can't achieve either of those challenges before...
11 local tomorrow? Well, they can't complete them, yeah. Yeah. They'd have enough time to get anywhere. They could get to either Malmö or here, but... Yeah. Actually, they couldn't—
I don't think they could get to Malmö and all the way to IKEA. No, they couldn't. That would be funny. Oh. That would be funny. But if they pull it off, it's worth effectively two countries to them.
Yes, but let's just say it wastes a lot. It would still be funny, yes. It wastes a lot of their time. Yeah, it definitely is a lot better for them if they go into Copenhagen first. Yeah.
Alright. Off to Copenhagen. So I think that we are gonna go straight to Malmö. Yeah, because our leading theory as to why they failed the Sweden challenge so early is that it was so early in the morning, and whatever it was they needed to do, they couldn't do 'cause it was closed.
Yeah, I mean, that's all we have to go off. All we know is that they did it first thing. And so we figure probably best to not try it first thing. The last thing you should do is exactly what they did. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Snow on the ground, Sam.
Oh wow, that is not much visibility. No, I'm surpris— Honestly? The camera can't focus. I'm surprised we... Oh, that is, wow. The camera is slightly out of focus, but that's also just... a lot of fog. This one I feel like definitely deserves lasers.
Yeah. Sent. I think I need to remind 'em of the score. Yeah, yeah, you do. Okay, well...
Well, we're on our plane to Copenhagen. Just before we were about to take off... they have claimed Finland. Which does Puts them in the lead.
put them in the lead. Look, all we have to do is focus on stealing Sweden and Denmark. Yeah. If we can steal Sweden and Denmark, it would put us in a really good position. If we fail both of them, I would say it would put us in kind of a horrible position. Then we are in a lot of trouble. But that'll— That won't happen.
Score's 8–7. We're winning. That is— Stop the count, Tom. That is 15 countries. Stop the count. Welcome to Helsinki, Sam. Cool. It is properly snowing. It is properly snowing.
You know what the Finnish word for airport or airfield is? Flughafen? No, no. That's German. Lentokenttä. Okay, that's a fun fact. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Should we... find the train? Yeah, I think the only option here.
We've got, there's no... There's no flight we can take that gets us anywhere with good onward connections for the game. Yeah. We can't reasonably get to Riga or Vilnius or Tallinn or anywhere tonight. And I think... I mean, we can get to some of 'em.
There just isn't anywhere to go from there. And I think we've decided that... the ferry is not as efficient as we maybe originally thought. No, because you've gotta check in early. Yeah. And then...
And then it's two hours. It's just as slow as the flight. And it takes you, you know, out into not downtown. Yeah.
So let's try and lock Finland. Yeah. And then research where we want to go to tomorrow. Any guesses what the Finnish challenge is? Surely we have to Finnish something, right? Oh yeah. Moomins.
Okay, yeah. I could see Moomins. We've already had a challenge involving a cute teddy bear. I think we're gonna have to finish eating a Moomin. Well, let's get tickets into town. Okay. This is a long ass escalator.
It's a long ass pair of escalators, Sam. I've been down here before. This is so peaceful.
Why is it so deep? Give us some tunnel facts, Tom. Gimme some what? Gimme some tunnel facts. Tunnel facts? Yeah. Why is this so deep? I dunno. I believe it's...
they're definitely taxiing. Okay. Assuming they're on this flight. If anyone was thinking, oh, you know, sunset.
Must be near the end of the game day. It's 4 pm Finnish time. It is 3 pm Central European Time. There are still two and a half hours left in this game day.
Let's lock Finland, Sam. Let's do it. Alright. Helsinki, Sam. A light dusting of cold sleet... I think is the weather. It's lovely here. How you feeling? Amazing. I love Helsinki.
I've been here a few times. Alright. I love Finland. Big Scandinavia fan. One of the best areas of the world. Especially 'cause I blend in so well. (cackles) The problem here is that when I talk to people, sometimes even when I respond in English, they'll still respond in Finnish or Swedish Yep. or whatever.
Because I so look the part. It's crazy to think that until a couple years ago, you could take... I think it was a three or four hour, high-ish speed train from here all the way to St. Petersburg. Wow! And that was only a couple years ago. Yeah.
When they left from this station. Yep. Very different world now. I think this train station is awesome.
This is a good train station. I've been here before. Big fan. Yeah. Simple, but cool. Pull it, Sam. Alright. Win level one of Angry Birds. Win level one of Angry Birds.
Win level one of Angry Birds. Did you know Angry Birds is from Finland? In this challenge, you must construct and pass the first level of Angry Birds IRL. That means you must create/acquire birds, a slingshot, a pig, and the 14-block structure the pig is in. You must knock the pig to the ground/floor by firing each of your three birds at it/the structure. If you do not do it after firing all three birds, you fail. You get one attempt, but may practice.
I think this is one that's good to take our time on actually, so... Yes. We don't have to knock all the blocks down. Just the pig. That's doable, okay. Okay. I reckon we should look for the closest hardware store.
Yeah, agreed, let's do that. Because I think that's gonna have the highest likelihood of the blocks. And I think the blocks we want to be pretty blocky. 'Cause to be able to build this structure... Yeah, it needs to be able to support a pig. Look for a toy store as well.
Yeah, a toy store could be good. Lot of lovely lights. So it looks like they should be landing any minute now.
Alright. What we can hope for in terms of logic is that they knew that we did the Malmö one pretty quick, whereas it took us a while to do the Copenhagen one. So they might figure, "Oh, that's one that we can complete by the end of the day. Great, let's go over there."
And then they get there and they find they can't get to an IKEA before the end of the game day. And they can't go back to Denmark without losing the challenge. Yeah. Yeah. So then they're stuck there for...
three hours of game day. Yeah. And then they have to go back and do the time waster in Denmark. Oh, here's hoping, Sam. Here's hoping. All the stars are going to align, Tom. (laughs) Welcome to... Denmark. I already forgot where we are.
Alright, let's get our bags so we can get off the plane early. Yep. Okay, we have four minutes. When's the next train? Well, there's one in 15 minutes. My worry is if we have to take that one, what if we don't have time for the challenge? Three minutes. We gotta go to the Tog. Ooh, yeah, okay.
"Hesing-board" C. Or no, that's flights. That's flights. Sorry, sorry. This is track one.
I know, but I can't figure out what track this is on. It says Malmö. Malmö? Okay, great. Let's assume it's this. The 16:14, track one? Perfect. Alright, nice work. We'll have plenty of time to do the challenge.
Yeah. And they failed it in just 15, so... Right. We'll have about 50 minutes if we go to Central, which we probably should.
How much time do we buy ourselves if we didn't? About 10 minutes. It's probably not worth it. Let's go to Malmö Central. Once again. Audience, is this— You know! Is the Sweden challenge too hard? We don't know. Maybe.
Or maybe they messed it up for some stupid reason. I think we'll find out soon. We need this one. Yep. What's it gonna be? I'm just really hoping that...
They just biffed it. They just biffed it super hard. Yeah. Alright. Clas Ohlson. We— (gasps in fright) Sam! What? Sam, they're in Malmö! They've gone to Sweden. Oh. Oh, Ben, Adam.
Oh! No, hold on, hold on, hold on. They still have how long left in the game day? They've got less than an hour. They won't make it all the way to IKEA. Are you sure? Okay, let's just get up here.
Let's just see what the deal is. All we can do is see what the deal is. Okay. Hej. Welcome to Sweden.
This country has suffered greatly over the last 24 hours under the iron fist of Sam and Tom Scott. But we are about... to put an end to that with a steal. Okay. Are you ready?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Find Amy a DJUNGELSKOG. Find Amy a DJUNGELSKOG. This is actually perfect. I desperately need a DJUNGELSKOG. Could you help me out? Go to IKEA and find a DJUNGELSKOG within 25 minutes of entering the store. You may not look up what a DJUNGELSKOG is, nor may you ask for help from anyone else.
You don't have to buy it. Just text me a pic of you and the DJUNGELSKOG so I know it's in stock. Thanks! Okay, but IKEA won't be open tomorrow morning, which means we need to get there really fast. Take a look. That must be why they failed.
Please, please tell me that IKEA's easy to get to. (bleep bleep) It's gonna take 28 minutes to get there. It's back where we were before. We can get there.
Okay, let's hurry. There's one in two minutes. What platform? It's hard to tell. It's to... Pågatågen.
Track 1B, 1B. We need to get to 1B. How do we do that? Uh-oh. That's not good.
When does the train leave? In one minute. Okay. Sorry, in two minutes. Okay, let's see if we can get that. Better than one. Sorry. 1A, 1A. 1A, over here, over here, over here, over here.
Amy, we're gonna get you that "Jungle-skok" or whatever it's called. What is that? That doesn't seem right. Malmö. Okay. 1B.
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