The Worldboard Weekly

• Curse card boxes now spawn around where players actually are, so they show up near the action — and they have a new treasure-chest marker on the map.
• The in-game chat panel now docks cleanly against the right edge of the screen, above the HUD, with a collapsible toggle tucked into the edge. Fullscreen map tools were repositioned so the chat no longer overlaps them.
• Improved database connection resilience to prevent rare transit lookup hiccups after idle periods.

• Fixed a bug that hid many scheduled trains in several regions — including Norway (Oslo Airport), Czechia, Dijon, Bordeaux, Irish Rail, Nice, Germany, and Slovenia. These trains now appear correctly in departure boards, timetables, and route finding.
• Route-based clues now measure distance along the actual route instead of straight-line distance, making them more accurate.
• Fixed a bug where quest clue reveals could stall permanently in GeoRace and Travel Journalist games.
• The GeoRace map now shows additional point-of-interest categories.
• The in-game chat panel has moved to the left edge of the screen.

• GeoRace: hovering a tool in the tools menu now shows its price, price escalation, and cooldown up front — so you can weigh a tool before selecting it.
• Quests: revealed photo clues no longer repeat a Street View shot you've already seen — every reveal shows something new.
• Easier to learn the games: Hide & Seek and Tag now have "Learn more" links on their start cards and the home page, linking to a full explanation of each mode.
• More reliable start page: fixed an issue where the starting-location map could appear empty ("no starting locations"); it now loads reliably and offers a Retry if something goes wrong.

• New public intro pages for Hide & Seek and Tag, so you can share what the games are about — and sign-ups drop you right back where you started
• Take Photo challenge: photos can no longer be reused across challenges, and a 1 km radius now governs rank scoring
• Geo-guessing: rank bands rebalanced so higher ranks are easier to reach
• GeoRace now shows the Hide & Seek–style progress bar while a tool resolves
• Speed-up: the custom duration input now sits right next to the confirm/cancel buttons
• Travel Journalist: the word "magazine" in the solo card now links to the magazine

GeoRace

• Every race quest now starts with a baseline distance clue, giving you a sense of how far the target is.
• Curse durations have been retuned for better balance, and the oldest curse box is now recycled when the map is full instead of skipping the new one.

Hide & Seek

• The hider's avatar appears in StreetView once you're within 75m. The find radius has been tightened to 25m.

Transit & tickets

• You'll now see a warning when buying a ticket to a transit-only destination you can't reach on foot.
• Added a manual "speed up to arrival" option while you're boarded and waiting to depart.

Magazine

• The Magazine is now front-and-center in the main navigation, with a new weekly release-notes section.

Fixes

• Fixed a compatibility issue on older browsers that could block game creation.

• Team play comes to GeoRace: pick your team composition right on the start page when you set up a GeoRace, and tool prices now scale with team size for balanced play.
• GeoRace: economy was tuned such that less challenge grinding is needed. Long distance trains are significantly cheaper.
• Curses arrive in GeoRace — play curse cards to sabotage your rivals with some new curses:
  • Frozen Solid: freezes a target in place for 5–15 minutes
  • Tourist Prices: hits a target with +50% transit costs for 45 minutes
  • Pickpocket: instantly steals 40% of a target's cash
  • Curse cards now play a video notification when they land
• Travel Journalist: your first quest now arrives faster, and a new hint helps you find markers when you haven't made any submissions yet.
• Hide & Seek: tidied up the start-screen copy.

• Fixed a bug where a quest's photo clue could get stuck on the loading placeholder and never display the image.

• GeoRace (Alpha)
  • New start options: choose the number of legs and how far the destination sits.
• Clues
  • Photo-based clues now render noticeably sharper.
  • Quest photo clues now blur giveaway text, so signage in the target photo won't hand you the answer.
• Map
  • The timetable explorer has a new time-of-day filter to narrow departures to a chosen window.
  • The minimap now auto-hides Street View coverage shading when you zoom out, reducing clutter.
• **Travel Journalist (Alpha) **
  • The solo start button is now "Start a Career".
• Reliability
  • Auto-walk and the taxi ride now correctly pause while your game is paused for reconnect, instead of drifting on while you are offline.