Roll The Dice... An adventure left entirely to chance [TRIAL RUN] [PART 1]

Such a beautiful village to start from. I immediately wanted to move there but rightmove says there is nothing for sale... I think I would have just lain on the grass in front of the church for an hour & then gone up the road to the pub.

Amazing, something to watch while Jet Lag is out of season

I was laughing so hard when the dice kept forcing you to the farm...and forced you back to your starting point. Great stuff!

What about a challenge where you catch bus after bus getting off at random stops and caching the next bus that comes and see how far you go. Could even have a randomised timer or something and when it goes off you have to get off at the next stop

You need to join up with Jet Lag: The Game! This idea is so up their street

Really cool Tom!! You could make it a rule that you cannot take the same road or footpath more than once? In other words if you end up at a junction you've already been (say two options in front of you, for an easier example), you can only go the way you've not been yet (and not roll the dice). If 3 options : you roll the dice only for the two options you've not yet tried. Hope that makes sense. Looking forward the next bit!

I think this format would suit a how not to travel Europe style adventure. Pick your country 1-6, have 3 desirable, 3 less so. Then the dice decides how to get there. If by bus or train for example, how many stops you take into that country before getting off. Then what you eat, where you stay, what you get up to. It could have comedic repercussions like having to eat clotted cream with chutney and frozen peas. Admittedly, this is a little biased as I did something similar to this 20 years ago inter-railing through Europe and to see you relive it vicariously would be amazing. My first roll took me to Italy, which was actually a less desirable option because I had been there before, but did take me to the absolutely stunning Cinqueterre between Genoa and Pisa. The first friend I met was an older guy from Brazil and we spent the day in this beautiful and frankly romantic setting but culminated in getting woken up by him at 5 in the morning in our hostel room asking if he could kiss my penis, he had no clothes on and when rebuffed I could see his shoulder going in the bed. Probably not selling this to you now but this really gave me a strong lesson in understanding what it must be like to be a solo female traveller, how to feel resolute in a dodgy situation and learning to read peoples intentions a bit better. Cinqueterre and the hostel we incredible and the rollercoaster start to the trip and added danger gave a real pep to it and a now a funny story. I saw 9 countries and had an incredible time on that trip, the dice was a big part of that, plus the book that had inspired it - The Diceman by Lucius Rhinehart. A key component you seem to have already picked up on is not to have only safe options, a couple options should be things you may not feel like doing, it really makes it exciting an opens doors you may not be expecting. Definitely one to pursue and many scenarios it can play out in

Maybe you could have custom dice for directions or coin for 50/50 decisions.

How about if you encounter a farmer & he chases you then you've got to roll 🎲 to decide if you're allowed to run away from him or not 🤣🤣🤣

Lots of us with ideas - would this work better in an urban environment? Roll dice for left or right then roll dice on how many block to walk before rolling again. No re- treading over streets already visited. Excited to see the improvements you devise.

OS maps is better if you're going to refer to your phone for public rights of way. AllTrails uses OpenstreetMap for it's basemap and that means because it's open source, people can remove footpaths from it or it's just not been mapped yet. Regardless, when comparing the Ordnance Survey map to OpenStreetMap for that footpath through the farm in Lullington, the OpenStreetMap path stops where you saw it in that field on AllTrails, but on Ordnance Survey it continues diagonally across the field, past Birchington House and back onto the roads towards Netherseal. If you wanted a digital free adventure, that path shows on both the 1:25 and 1:50 scale mapping, a 1:50 landranger map covers 40km2 so 1 or 2 of those would probably cover you for an adventure like this!

Loved the video, but the constant dice rolling was a little too repetitive. I was thinking every 5 minutes you roll the dice and decide which way assuming there are roads in your vicinity to change direction. I would also stay on tarmac or actual footpath so you don't need to go in fields. Just a suggestion

If it were me I would probably stick to established tracks and tarmac as there is far less chance of ending up going round in circles through fields.

Hey Tom I'm not sure if you've heard of it but a show came out here in the US about a decade ago where a guy did this in one of the episodes but instead of dice it was a magic 8 ball controlling all his decisions. It's called Review (season 1 episode 8) if you wanna give it a watch! It's all scripted of course but still funny

I watched. Most anything you do is entertaining, but had a thought. I wonder if you only took a roll at specific intervals. Like roll to get started, but then go in whatever direction for 10 or 15 minutes. Have an interval timer set, then the next choice point after the alarm goes off you do a roll. Because in those places where it's happening every few minutes, I wondered at those times if it allowed you space to reflect and explore and just be. But maybe you aren't concerned about that. I also like the idea of removing a choice if you've already done it or it's going to send you back to a place you've been.

This is funny as my uncle is Russel harris from the diceman! I will tell him to watch this.

Don’t know if it’s been said already but I don’t think a map would be bad, even if you knew the area, paths and roads, the dice still makes the decision for you, right? And with a map at least you can see wether or not a path is a dead end before you take it

I love the concept and I enjoyed the video, but I think the dice rolls were a little bit too frequent. It takes away the impact of a roll when you're gonna roll again 100 metres later. Just my two cents :)

Enjoyed the video mate but did find the constant dice rolling made it flow a little worse than usual. Not sure how that could be improved - perhaps only using the dice for larger decisions like interactions, what to eat, where to sleep and other non-route related things? You could also add a rule to prevent you from taking the same path more than once, just to make things more interesting!

Couldn’t help chuckling watching you shaking the dice in your hand😂let’s hope those clips don’t get taken out of context…

We played a similar game on our summer trip. Not walking, just how we spend the day. But it was funnier with a few more people and random questions for the dice. To be also fair, it escalated very quickly (we asked the dice if we should buy breakfast or a box of Eristoff ice things) but it was a very fun day. So maybe for another trip, take a 2nd person with you. Like Uncle Ed,...

Love the dice idea. Rather than 1-3 and 4-6 could you decide direction by saying odd or even instead. It’s more easily recognisable. Works both ways though.

Given the fact I got a tatoo of ''Fate goes ever as she shall'' in old english (ive always been fascinated by chance/randomness) I approve of this idea lol

Now I have the big dilemma whether to get straight into the Dice journey or continue with watching you try locate the Amish folk in the States 😂 This sounds fantastic though. I think some fancy dress might go down well! Possibly Dungeons and Dragons related!!

Thank you for keeping this great content so affordable! Especially for a uni student like me

Hey Tom, there's a mathematical concept analogous to what you're doing which is called a random walk. A key concept in a random walk is that the distance you travel is proportional to the square root of the number of decisions you make. e.g. if you do 1000 dice rolls you should expect to only be on average 30 decisions away! I think you should disallow loops, or bound yourself to a specific direction in order to make sure you actually make progress. For example, maybe allow rolls for north and east but not west and south. This way there's still rolls to be made but forcing you towards a path that does not meander. Have a think on it.

If it’s a shitty decision, it’s a shitty decision. Just be careful near safari parks mate…

My thoughts would be an Ordnance Survey map so you don't end up down dead ends. And a no circle rule so you don't go round and round.

Could it be that Tom has had an encounter with... Dr Chance? Three Bean Salad x GeoWizard was not on my bingo card for this year.

This is a good opportunity for me to say what it looks like when you roll dice off-frame. But instead I'm just gonna say this was a great idea! Serious suggestion: Perhaps if you end up in a loop, you could forego rolling on junctions you've already visited, and just take them straight. Or remove the direction that you've already taken from the roll outcomes? Just spitballing.

This is 100% my jam. When I was a kid my dad and I would drive around exploring our very rural surroundings, me flipping a coin every time we reached an intersection or a turn-off. We ended up in some very interesting places, and the feeling of not knowing what’s next can’t be beat. So excited to watch this!

Love that you’re doing this. I’ll watch later. Buzzing.

I think this type of adventure has really great potential, but maybe you can expand it a bit more. Not just dice, but maybe also chance cards that you have to pull after every x amount of dice rolls or ever x amount of miles. Like a chance card could be: "walk the next mile in as straight as a line you can", or "ask a stranger for directions to the nearest village in an american accent" or you can have an x amount of money to your disposal and a chance card could be "the next piece of food you buy is free" And you could make them yourselfs, or you can have verity do it or us the viewers.

This is exciting! I used to love the Dicemen when I was a kid.

Always look forward to the uploads 🔥👏

This sounds so good, Tom! Can’t wait to watch it tonight 👍

Really cool insight into the inner workings of your brain when having ideas! Thanks for sharing, Tom!

Something to look forward to after work :) sounds like a fun idea.

Right, that proves it. You watch Jet lag don’t you. Mate, please get yourself on that show as a guest.

This sounds like fun! Can't wait to watch it later ☺️

Have you ever tried Toughest Viking?

What a pleasant surprise this is! Will watch later, thank you!