A Worldboard Publication

The Worldboard Weekly

Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026

Feature Highlights

New in 0.84.0

Auto-Boarding: arm the ticket, catch the train

A train ticket to Étampes with the Auto-Boarding toggle armed — the ON badge lit next to the boarding countdown.

Missing a train you were standing next to is the most avoidable heartbreak in the game. Auto-Boarding fixes it: buy your ticket, walk to the platform, and flip the new Auto-Boarding toggle before the boarding window opens. The moment boarding starts, the game boards you — same rules, same cut scene, zero risk of a mistimed click. The ticket wears an ON badge so you always know it's armed, and you can cancel any time before the doors. One catch, by design: if you get frozen while armed, the arm drops — Auto-Boarding catches trains, not loopholes.

New in 0.84.0

Coverage is the quest-giver now

The moment coverage hits Tier B: "Your coverage of Kortrijk reached Tier B — a new assignment has arrived", the quest panel already showing clue 1.

Travel Journalist quests used to arrive on a timer. Now the world hands them to you: the first time a region's coverage climbs to Tier B, a quest is assigned on the spot — no offer to accept, first clue already on the card — and every further tier your coverage crosses reveals the next clue. Explore, file reports, and the mystery assignments find you; keep pushing the same region and it keeps talking. The reporting loop and the quest loop are one loop now.

New in 0.84.0

Continue your last game from the start card

The Tag start card offering "Continue last game — Paris, France · Just now · with Lucas Moreau" above the new-game button.

Your saved game now meets you at the front door. Each game's start card on the dashboard offers a Continue last game button carrying the essentials — where the game is, when you last played, who's in it — so resuming is one click from the page you land on. No detour through Saved Games, no scanning a list for the right session: the newest resumable game of each mode is just there, above the Play button.

New in 0.84.0

Walking Tours tell you what you just found

During a Walking Tour challenge, registering a visit used to be a counter ticking up — you walked past something remarkable and learned nothing about it. Now every tour visit raises a card naming the place and the region it counted toward, with the Wikipedia photo and article when the place has one. It floats at the bottom of the screen without blocking anything — keep walking and it excuses itself after fifteen metres, or close it when you've read enough. The tour becomes an actual tour.

New in 0.84.0

Route photo clues tell you how far to walk

A route photo clue's thumbnails, each badged with the walking distance from the previous turn.

Route photo clues — the Street View breadcrumbs marking every turn on the walking route to your target — now come with numbers. Each photo carries the walking distance from the one before it, on the thumbnail and under the full-size view, so the trail reads as an itinerary: 90 metres to this corner, 110 to the next. And tapping any thumbnail now opens the gallery scrolled straight to that photo instead of dumping you at the top of a long reel. On a route with thirty-five turns, that's the difference between a slideshow and a map you can follow.

New in 0.84.0

Your train announces itself

The Events feed aboard a train: "Train P8 is pulling into Paris Austerlitz" logged seconds before boarding opened, above the departure warning.

Trains now tell you they're coming. A few seconds before your ticketed train pulls into the platform, the game announces it — "Train P8 is pulling into Paris Austerlitz" — so the boarding beat lands as a moment instead of a surprise. Mid-ride, each intermediate stop gets the same treatment as the train slows in. And the fast-forward that carries you through a long wait now hands the clock back with less dead air before the action: the buffer before departures and arrivals is less than half what it was.

New in 0.84.0

Say hi: chat with the traveler next to you

The pair chat between two travelers' separate sessions: the opening 👋 and a reply across games.

Meet another traveler on the road, tap Say hi, and a private chat opens between your two games — a real 👋 lands on their side to start it. The channel lives exactly as long as the meeting does: talk while you're within 10 km of each other, and when you part, a countdown gives the conversation its last three minutes before the channel and its history vanish from both sides. Meet again and you start fresh — road conversations, not inboxes.

New in 0.83.0

Fellow travelers: other journalists share your world

You're not the only journalist out there anymore. In realtime sessions, other travelers within 10 km appear on your fullscreen map as avatar pins with name plates — hover one for what they're up to, click for their card. And this isn't just map decoration: walk within 75 metres of another traveler on the street and their avatar stands in your Street View panorama, a person in the world rather than a dot on a chart. Two separate games, one shared street.

New in 0.83.0

The freeze respects a head start

The new evader's view moments after the swap: free run already down to 2:47, both taggers frozen for the same shortened window.

When you get tagged in Tag, every tagger freezes for the evader's free-run window. But the new evader isn't always standing at the tag — the game picks whichever nearby tagger is furthest from their own destination, and that player can be tens of kilometres away with a head start already in the bank. Now the freeze accounts for it: the new evader's distance from the tag is converted to travel time and cut straight off everyone's freeze. A runner who starts 18 km out gets 18 km worth less of a frozen field — what matters is where you stand relative to the new evader, not just the stopwatch.

New in 0.83.0

The Weekly gets a contents page — and a sports section

The magazine's tournament recap: the concluded cup's podium, winner and run time, with the course map tucked behind a spoiler.

The Worldboard Weekly reads more like a magazine now. Issues open with a table of contents that jumps straight to each section — and weeks that saw a tournament conclude carry a GeoRace Tournaments recap: the podium with medals and run times, the full standings, the course details, and a link to watch the whole field's synced replay. The course map ships behind a spoiler button, so a reader who's still racing that course doesn't get it handed to them. Your tournament win is now, literally, in the papers.

New in 0.83.0

No spoilers on a live tournament board

The live standings from a still-racing entrant: the leader's run time masked as ••:••:••, the header explaining the click-to-reveal.

On a live tournament board, a finisher's run time is the answer key — see it before your own run and the course loses its secret. So while a tournament is open, everyone else's finished time wears a mask: ••:••:•• where the digits would be. Your own time is always yours to see, and any mask is one deliberate click from the truth — the column header says exactly that, so nobody mistakes a mask for a missing result. Spend the spoiler if you want it; race blind if you don't.

New in 0.83.0

Appear to nearby travelers — or don't

The shared world is opt-out, one checkbox deep. Your profile's "Appear to nearby travelers" setting controls whether other journalists can see you at all — and going hidden is directional: you keep seeing the travelers around you while you vanish from their maps, their panoramas, everything. Blocked players never see each other in the world, full stop, and there's no tell — a hidden or blocked traveler looks exactly like someone who isn't there.

New in 0.83.0

A quit that ends the game for everyone now says so

The destructive quit confirmation: "End the Game for Everyone?" with the red irreversibility callout and the spelled-out confirm button.

Some quits only remove you. Others — in games with a locked roster — end the game for every player in it. The dashboard used to ask the same polite question either way; now it tells you exactly which one you're about to do. When your quit would take the whole game down, the confirmation turns serious: a red THIS CAN'T BE UNDONE callout and a button that spells it out — END THE GAME FOR EVERYONE. A quit that just lets you slip away keeps its ordinary copy. You'll never end three friends' game thinking you were only leaving it.

New in 0.83.0

Replays show the whole crowd

A GeoRace replay's opening frame: both racers on the shared start rendered as one crowd pin with both faces.

Replay maps had a hiding problem: players in this game share exact positions constantly — everyone spawns on one point, stations snap riders to one spot, a train carries its passengers as one dot — and the replay drew one marker on top of another, so a team's rendezvous looked like a lone traveler. Now co-located players merge into a single crowd pin: a row of faces, a +N pill when the crowd outgrows it, and the roster on the plate. Every rendezvous in your replay finally looks like one.

New in 0.83.0

Tag on the same train — before it even moves

Aboard a dwelling train at Paris Austerlitz: the TAG! button live in the corner while the departure board still shows the train waiting at platform 13.

Boarding the evader's train used to be a waiting game: you sat through the departure before the game would let you tag. Not anymore. If you and the evader are on the same train while it dwells at the platform, the TAG! button lights up right there — board early, walk the aisle, and make the catch before the doors close. An evader who boards early is exposed exactly the way they would be in the real world, so getting on first is no longer a safe move.

New in 0.83.0

Realtime mode: the game clock is your clock

The realtime HUD: the game clock reading actual wall time, with no speed-up controls anywhere on it.

Travel Journalist gains a realtime mode where game time IS wall time. No speed-ups, no fast-forward, no night curfew — the clock in the HUD reads the same minute as the one on your wrist, and it keeps running while you're away. Close the game at the station, come back tomorrow, and your journalist has been standing there all night; board a real-length train ride and it takes the real length. It turns the journalist's life into something you live alongside — a long game measured in days of actual exploring, not hours of compressed ones.

New in 0.82.0

GeoRace tournaments

The final tournament board: gold medal, "You won", the winning run time — and the field settled beneath it.

GeoRace goes competitive. A tournament is one frozen course — same start, same secret destinations — that every entrant races solo against the clock, on their own schedule, before the deadline closes the board. The lobby lists what's open with a live countdown; joining starts your run immediately (one attempt, ever — the confirmation makes sure you know), and your race plays as an ordinary GeoRace wearing a small tournament chip. When the deadline passes, the standings settle: podium medals for the finishers, honest distances for everyone who didn't reach the end, a personal callout with your result, and a notice in every entrant's inbox. Nothing left to argue about except who books the rematch.

New in 0.82.0

Every player on the map, named

The live map's player markers now carry name plates — a pill under every avatar with the player's name, opening to the full name on hover. And when players share a spot, which in this game is the normal state — everyone spawns together, every station snaps riders to the same point, every train carries its passengers as one dot — they merge into a single crowd pin: overlapping faces, a +N pill for the rest, and a hover roster naming everyone standing there. No more guessing which of ten identical robots is your teammate.

New in 0.82.0

The whole tournament, replayed as one race

The synced tournament replay: every entrant's run composed on one map with the live leaderboard alongside.

Tournament entrants race the same course on completely different days — but the replay shows them side by side. The synced tournament replay composes every entrant's run onto one shared game-time axis, as if the whole field had left the start line together: one map, every racer's marker moving through their own run, a leaderboard tracking who's ahead at this point of the course, and a run picker to spotlight any single entrant. It turns a week of solo time trials into one watchable race.

New in 0.82.0

Name your own team

The Race lobby with the team's name freshly changed by a member — the field editable in their own column.

Team names in the Race lobby belonged to the host; everyone else raced under whatever they were given. Now you can rename the team you're in — your column's name is an editable field for you, a label for everyone else, and the host keeps the power to rename any team. Renames are also polite now: a new name no longer resets anyone's ready check, so christening your squad at the last second doesn't un-ready the room. Names must be distinct, and the change lands on every player's screen as you commit it.

This week’s destination

Hamburg

Submissions across Hamburg

Where in the world

Pingstkyrkan

Selected

Smart Snorkel

From Wikipedia

Pingstkyrkan är en kyrkobyggnad i Stenstan i centrala Sundsvall. Den tillhör Filadelfiaförsamlingen i Sundsvall. Framför kyrkans entré, som inte visar mycket av själva kyrkobyggnaden som är byggd på kvarterets innergård, ligger Hedbergska parken.

Feature Highlights

Auto-Boarding: arm the ticket, catch the train

Coverage is the quest-giver now

Continue your last game from the start card

Walking Tours tell you what you just found

Route photo clues tell you how far to walk

Your train announces itself

Say hi: chat with the traveler next to you

Fellow travelers: other journalists share your world

The freeze respects a head start

The Weekly gets a contents page — and a sports section

No spoilers on a live tournament board

Appear to nearby travelers — or don't

A quit that ends the game for everyone now says so

Replays show the whole crowd

Tag on the same train — before it even moves

Realtime mode: the game clock is your clock

GeoRace tournaments

Every player on the map, named

The whole tournament, replayed as one race

Name your own team

Hamburg

Pingstkyrkan

Reports this week

Sunday, August 9

Art & marges musée - Art & marges museum

Musée de la Porte de Hal - Hallepoort Museum

Museum of Croydon

La Résistance de 1814

Croydon Town Hall

Arc de Triomphe

Fairfield Halls

Eiffel Tower

Luxor Obelisk

Virgin of Paris

Saturday, August 8

Fotomuseum Hilversum

Pancras Square Library

Musée de la Porte de Hal - Hallepoort Museum

National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium

Friday, August 7

Helsinki City Hall

The Shipwrecked

The Lantern Carriers

When Friendships are Made

Welders

Merchant

Hälsinglands Museum

National Library of Finland

Tampere Theatre

Rathaus

Thursday, August 6

Kortrijk 1302 Groeningemonument

Wednesday, August 5

The Kortrijk Theater

Monday, August 3

Stadtkirche

Maison communale d'Anderlecht - Gemeentehuis Anderlecht

Frihedsstøtten

Église Notre-Dame Immaculée - Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Onbevlekt-Ontvangenkerk

Belgian Comic Strip Center

Aufgehender Mond

Focke-Windkanal

Sewer Museum

Leihverkehrs- und Ergänzungsbibliothek

Museum of the Gueuze

From the Community

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