How would you do it and win this game?? Hide out at an abandoned church or house? Go from neighbor to neighbor in your neighborhood? Lock yourself in a bathroom in a stadium with a do not disturb sign? Hide out in your friend's dog's doghouse? Friend's kids's treehouse fort?
shareInitial Strategy:
1) Use a distant acquaintance (such as former co-worker from 10 years ago, friend of a friend of a friend, etc.) with whom we have no connection on social media to pick us up.
2) Visit the closest ATM to the starting location, withdraw the maximum of $100. Visit ATM right away so as not to give any clues as to initial direction of travel.
3) Acquaintance takes us to scary dive bar 100+ miles away from starting point and drops us off.
4) Find local drunk who will allow us to stay at his country shack for the next 28 days in exchange for $100 to buy booze with.
5) Win!
Or:
1) Run a couple blocks away from your house and hide in the bushes.
2) After the film crew and investigators show up and take all your stuff, head back home.
3) 27 day Netflix binge.
4) Win!
> Hide out in your friend's dog's doghouse?
There are many things you could try. In the UK version, however, there is a rule that you must keep moving and probably have to move maybe 20 miles every couple of days. Otherwise, as you note, a player could just hide in one place and sit there for 28 days. That'd be a boring show.
Plus, in the UK version, they have to make it to a specific location at a specific time to win the money. And they aren't told that location until two days before the end. You can't win if you are still locked in the bathroom. In previews, we saw the winning players getting the money from a safety deposit box. So, they obviously will need to go to a bank probably in Atlanta to get their money.
The best idea seems to be to rely on strangers. Just hitch-hike rides 100 miles at a time from truckers. Meet people in small town bars and diners and ask to camp in their backyard for a couple of days. That saves you a lot of money and you meet nice people.
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What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)?
The best idea seems to be to rely on strangers. Just hitch-hike rides 100 miles at a time from truckers. Meet people in small town bars and diners and ask to camp in their backyard for a couple of days. That saves you a lot of money and you meet nice people.
> No better time to meet nice people than when you're on the run.
Remember, these people are not criminals on the run; they are players playing a game. They look and act like normal people. No one should be worried the slightest bit in meeting such people in a diner.
Plus -- and this is big -- they are being followed by a camera crew. Anyone they talk to or get help from has to sign a release form, allowing the producers to show them on TV and -- for this game -- allow the hunters to look up their records and interview them later.
Most people would gladly talk to these players under those circumstances. TV!
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What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)?
I'd get on the superior reality show Alone (2015) and last at least 28 days. If I won that one it would be $500K on top of what this one pays.
Ignoring politics doesn't mean politics will ignore you.
-Pericles paraphrased in <100 characters
Ignoring any rules that might prevent these tactics.
1. Use the same ATM each time during the 28 Days, arrive and leave the ATM from the same direction which is NOT the same direction you're hiding in.
2. Don't involve family or close acquaintance that can be found on Social Media
3. Find a nice cheap campground within 10 miles of your ATM, with little or no cameras.
4. Don't use ATM in a regular pattern, for instance, same time of day, or same day of the week.
5. Have camping gear before you start (tent, bedding, chairs, fire equipment)
or, the one person who said hang out next door till they come for your stuff, and then Netflix and chill till the last day works too :p
Yes the options are endless
share> Yes the options are endless
And that's the fun of the show; every team will be trying a different strategy. In fact, that's probably part of how the teams were selected. They interviewed potential teams and asked how they might try to stay uncaptured for a month? They selected one team that said they'd camp in the swamp, one team that said they'd couch-surf with friends, one that said they'd hitch-hike, and so on.
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What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)?
Get money from closest ATM. Buy supply of MREs and a burner phone. Use a network of friends to get to a hiking trail. Stay on the trail for the duration. If additional $$ needed network with friends to the $$$ to you. You can live a month with a very limited amount of food, especially if you know what berries/fruit are safe to eat.
The Appalachian Trail starts fairly close to Atlanta and runs about 80 miles until it hits the border with Tennessee. So get to the Appalachian Trail head, hike about 5 miles a day until you hit the border, then turn around and head back home. By the time you get back to the trailhead, the 28 days is up. There are so many ways to beat this game that there have to be rules they aren't telling the viewers about regarding the teams being required to move around and not just hole up in one spot for the whole month.
shareYeah, I've hiked part of the Appalachian Trail. I wonder about rules too.
You could try some things actual fugitives have done:
As quickly as possible fly to a foreign country w/ no extradition to the US. That would pretty much be game over for the 28 days here, so if you did not do this:
1. Dramatically change your appearance- if male and you had hair, shave your head, if bald, wear a normal (not a clown) wig. Females change hair color/style, wig also a possibility.
2. Wear large glasses/sunglasses during the day to avoid facial recognition cameras:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/03/how-funky-tortoiseshell-glasses-can-beat-facial-recognition
3. Obtain source documents (birth certificate, SS card) in bogus identity to allow for employment income and "legal" ID documents. Use a home that has been vacant for an extended amount of time to receive mail until you establish an address. Another option is an offshore fake ID that is of decent quality to fool an employer. Repeat every so often as needed. This was shown being done in the film The Age of Adaline (2015) where the main character changed her identity every so often over a long period of time.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/09/22/2-investigators-china-floods-u-s-with-near-perfect-fake-drivers-licenses/
4. Use the trick shown in Vanishing Point (1997) by placing your tracked cellphone on a bus going the other way from you. Obtain a prepaid phone for cash.
5. Never stay in one place too long.
The above are all a moot point since this is a scripted show with a known (to the producers) outcome.
Ignoring politics doesn't mean politics will ignore you.
-Pericles paraphrased in <100 characters
You really have it out for this show don't you? It's not scripted at all.
shareYou really have it out for this show don't you? It's not scripted at all.
Actually, a lot of the filmed footage is re-enactments of previous events. This is so that during the actual chase, the camera people don't give away the fugitives. They did something similar in the Canadian Show Man Tracker. The Diary Cam shots and the shots of the hunter teams are probably taken in situ, but the rest in re-enacted.
shareDrive away, rob some people, drive to some small town and stay at a motel for 28 days.
What are the rules about money? Couldn't you just borrow some money and then go hide out at a motel for 28 days?
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