Confirmed: this game is ALL about navigational math.
You have XX minutes to travel XX km, at a speed of XX km/h, and a penalty is given for coming in sooner OR later than the alloted time.
D=distance S=speed T=time
D=S x T
T=D/S
S= D/T
And know how I keep saying I hope we learn more about it? Found out why we don’t.
My teacher Robert told me, “that’s like giving you a lesson on the transmission, or how your engine works”… as in… you should know this coming in, and that’s what separates competitors.
Here’s the formula:
(photo from BBC.uk)
We also learned that past winners have performed all this math using only an egg timer, and figure it can’t be that hard then.
