The "Blindfolded and Stranded" review video - all the right and wrong decisions (+ more)

Copying my comment from YouTube: "Tom, in the future you could grade these types of challenges Platinum, Gold etc depending on how far you have to walk down a main road. Then you'd have 25m to 50m of grace where you can follow a road briefly to get to a footpath or field entrance for example. Then you don't have a blanket ban but also it stops you just walking down a main road for miles."

I’d love to see this except your given a map and compass in an area you don’t know and you have to find yourself on the map and get to a destination. Same rules with roads. Maybe some areas where information is artificially missing on the map to make things interesting.

Top notch as always

Hey Tom! Any chance you and your brother Ben do an adventure again? You guys' joined attempt at Wales way back when remains one of my favourites from you - it was just too wild and funny!

That prisoner orange jumpsuit is crazy :D If you get spotted that would be insanely alarming for the farmers or any other private estate owners. I don't really think you'd want that :)) One more thing, pardon me if this question was asked a billion times before, but I'm not quite familiar with the UK's/England's law and I'm curious about this: have you ever had any problems with your YouTube missions? Like, had any angry farmer accidentally found your channel and noticed you trespassing their property and decided to take some legal action about that? Is that a thing? Thanks!

The fugitive idea sounds quite interesting! Perhaps something like starting at Dartmoor Prison and trying to get to the sea before sunset? Although, I don't think you should wear an orange jumpsuit. Maybe just a hi-vis jacket while trying to avoid being seen?

Love the amazing analysis. I wonder if you did fugitive mode whether you could allow yourself a limited number of country road passes… maybe scaled by the number of miles from home base. So if you had 30 miles of fugitive mode, perhaps you could use 5 country roads to help you on your fugitive journey through fields and woods?

FYI you got an (unexpected) mention from Scotty aka Strange parts on his other channel 😄 https://youtu.be/fVLLpTf3PXA?si=U2z-t25ubb_2_QUF

Idea: start from home and see how far away (on foot) you can get in a timeframe (6hrs, 12hrs etc)

Absolute success - I agree!! Great analysis video 👍

Your videos are a great help with my annual winter depression and motivate me to keep exercising and hiking! Thank you very much for that! I'm looking forward to your next videos. The Yorkshire Dales or the Lake District would be very interesting areas for future adventures.

I assume people have already asked for this, but I would love to see some geocaching videos. Either doing a ridiculous number in one day, or doing some of the hardest ones in the UK, or sitting in your new garage solving puzzle cages and then going out in location to find them.

Tom, great series of videos! Me and my partner live in Telford, so we loved seeing you use the Wrekin to help you find your bearings!

I liked the no main roads rule, and after about the first quarter it felt like you knew where you were. Maybe a version a bit like Race Across The World where you start somewhere you don't know and get a name of a little village you don't know for the next one.

I see this as a success! Good job! Really enjoyed the adventure!

As someone who’s never been to the UK, I love these little local adventures and how they let me see the English countryside from such an intimate perspective. Loved the video and your commentary as always!

Love it Tom , keep it up

Great video Tom really enjoyed it and love the new concept 👍 Sorry if this is a dumb idea (I'm sure someone will point that out if so) but could you mark a smaller straight line on a paper map perhaps just a few miles and then try and follow it but only using the map? You'd keep a GPS in your pocket so that you could review your actual journey after. Maybe for added spice you can only check the map a certain amount of times overall? Obviously it's impossible to get a perfect line without the corrections from the GPS but you could set a deviation limit for success?

Slightly off topic, but something I've wanted to write for ages. I noticed you put a comment on Robbie Knox's video where he tried to drink in as many countries as possible in one day. When I saw that video I thought the idea had Geowizard written all over it. Is there any chance you could take on his challenge and try to beat 6 countries? Or even collaborate with Robbie, or have a competition? I'd love to see any of those ideas. Great mini series by the way, may I suggest trying a similar idea in Scotland, since they care less about trespassing??

I like the fugitive idea. Me and my friends did a similar thing as children, trying not to be seen by anyone and basically sneaking through our village. But be careful wearing a prison outfit. Maby call in the police station and explainwhat you are doing. Thatwasepic did some pranks in an orange jumpsuit. Just don't get shot...

As much as I'd love to suggest starting outside a prison at 6am in an orange jumpsuit I do feel you would just be immediately arrested. Still worth a shot in my opinion...

In the spirit of taking online ideas offline, would street view bingo work in the real world? We give you a list of (fairly) realistic things to find and you have 48 hours to find them.

Have you ever considered doing the coast to coast walk (St Bees to Robin Hoods Bay) in the straightest line possible? Obviously you’d have to make bigger deviations than a normal straight line mission. Not even sure if it is doable?

Nothing gets me going like a notification from the wizard himself. Wonderful video as always. By far my favorite content creator on the Internet—have been for years! Excited for the adventure you've got coming in the next week! :)

A point to point rude road names could be a hilarious addition, knowing it's somewhere within a certain radius. Running away from a prison in an orange jumpsuit would be crazy though 😂

Fantastic little mini series, greatly enjoyed it!

Love it Tom, perhaps especially as my stomping ground too. Like the idea of 'Fugitive' and you live in the right place for it, apparently there are more prisons in Lichfield Diocese than any other in the UK. nd sorry to get churchy again but I wonder if one fun idea for you might be 'Ride and Stride' - charity thing of running/cycling between as many Staffs churches as you can in one day? https://staffordshirehistoricchurchestrust.org/rideandstride/rideandstridedocsthisyear/

I loved this mission adventure and would love to see more of them!🤩👏 The prison fugitive idea sounded really fun!😂

What I would really love to see, is you painstakingly working out the absolute best route for this mission, adhering to all your rules and regs, but knowing what the start point is. (I haven't watched the vid yet, you may have done this). BUT next, DO THAT LINE! Burdell that line (not sure if its only applicable to straight lines, or if you can apply it to any set path). Then compare distance, time, effort... Is it too much to ask for it to be done exactly a year to the day, so we can compare condition change in 365 days. I mean its a big ask, but it would be absolutely sick!

Tom, are bananas still the “only fruit you can’t stomach”?

Are you able to calculate the Burdell (sp?) score for this? I know it wasn't a straight line mission but it would be interesting to see how efficient your route was.

Nothing better then excluuusive content

Another awesome adventure from The Wizard himself!🤘🏻Goes without saying, the big adventure ones are goldust, but these little 2-parters are really great! As a hiker myself, it's cool to be vicariously living/hiking through your videos, and seeing places I've never been too. Awesome stuff Tom! Much love from Ashford, Kent! 🌲😎🤘🏻