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The Worldboard Weekly

Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026

Release Notes

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April 26, 2026

Custom markers and new event videos

  • Custom markers: drop personal pins with notes on the map during a session — visible only to you
  • Hungary expansion: 18 new regional routes covering Budapest and the rest of the country
  • New Animations for hide and seek game events.

April 24, 2026

Crowdsource tools, smoother taxis, and restore Hide & Seek questions

  • New crowdsource homepag with a new street entrance report page and a duplicated station merge suggestion page so that players can help improve the world.
  • Improved Hail Taxi: Now you can go any POI marker within 3km with better visual.
  • New Leap button, no more stuck in street view islands.
  • Hide & Seek seekers can now restore asked and vetoed questions
  • Rewritten curse names and descriptions for a fresher feel
  • Metro/Tram category added to the POI picker (with repositioned panel)
  • Better POI photos answers: Wikidata photos are blurred with a Street View fallback for photo questions
  • Fixed Sevilla Metro Line 1 missing terminal stations
  • Better transit data for Slovenia, Czech and Hungary feeds switched to the national Spojenka GTFS
  • Fullscreen map auto-dismisses on scene change; double-click the minimap to expand it

April 21, 2026

Route Finder, Revamped WALK, Faster UI, New End-Game Questions, and More

New Features

  • New Route Finder UI in the fullscreen map, with route shapes displayed
  • "Surprise me" starting-location option for hide-and-seek
  • Chat: quote-to-reply and message recall
  • Revamped WALK: more responsive, with effective speed gated by stamina
  • Higher game refresh rate for smoother UI
  • New clock speedup: 80x
  • Stations are now displayed with city names when applicable
  • New matching question: Church and McDonald's (2 km tier); Airport / Amusement Park range extended to 300 km
  • Faster, more reliable, and more comprehensive POI lookup
  • Expanded transit data: Ukraine added; Hungarian, Romanian, and Taiwanese rail coverage improved
  • Per-topic notification settings
  • Hide-and-seek start page now displays the playable area
  • Smarter AI hider: prioritizes Express Train and randomizes in later phases

Minor UI Improvements

  • Several new curated starting locations
  • Restyled action buttons with cleaner labels
  • Dashboard revamped with real-time session updates
  • Taxi meter scales to fit your viewport

Bug Fixes

  • Rest cooldown measured from when you start resting; curse time restores if rest is cancelled early