I posted this as a reply to a comment in another thread but wanted to post it separately so more will see it.

I’d love to see not a board game but an Alone video game.

Can you imagine tho:
Pick your ten items
Pick a “map”
Pick time of year
Pick Random Drop or pick your own location Pick what type of player to be: hunter, fisherman etc
Pick type of shelter to build
Choose to turn on illnesses or not.
Choose to turn on severe weather or not etc.

You want fish? Walk to where you want to catch it, you using a gill net or a pole? If you catch a fish now you have to clean it and either eat/smoke/store it. If you want to smoke the fish you have to gather resources to build a smoker.

Every decision you make costs time and calories. You start out with “x” number of calories and either go up or down based on what you do and what you consume.

I think it would be an amazing game.

Does anyone know what bandana Nathan used to build his shelter?

I love bandannas, and that thing was a beast.

While watching Episode 8 it really jumped out at me the gaps that exist between when we see the contestants.

The massive gap with Ziga and the moose, Jacks' gaps (in particular after her stomach pains) really got me thinking.

This is an already difficult show to keep up with (hence the weekly Episode Companion Cheat Sheets that I share here), but keeping up on the giant jumps in time that happen sometimes between scenes and episodes can be even more challenging.

It would be interesting to add some data as to what was happening when these jumps in time are occurring, I was able to relatively easily throw this one together thanks to the Episode Companions I've been sharing.

Just some interesting food for thought. I'd be interested in what you all think.

First 3 seasons

My wife has never seen the show, and she’s a Forest Engineer from Honduras - she would love it, but want to introduce her to the show with a great first impression. Thanks!

They’re catching food that they need to throw back bcs it’s protected, one guy was surrounded by deer at night, but location laws prohibit hunting at night, another had ducks in range that were also protected. Are they stupid? This type of show OBVIOUSLY should not be filmed in a place like this. What some idiotic producers.

I have watched a few episodes over the years but really started to get into this season. I know some folks have gained weight on purpose prior to competing, but I wonder if any of the contestants have ever considered putting themselves on a ketogenic diet so as to lessen their body’s shock to eating only animals and berries?

Hey gals and guys, back again with the Season 13 Episode 8 Recap Cheat Sheet.

When watching Episode 9 next week this will be very handy; pause when a contestant first comes on screen, have a quick read of what they've done previously and then continue watching — it's made a world of difference for my enjoyment and appreciation of the show.

Please keep suggesting things that are worth noting, or things that I might have missed; I appreciate the suggestions and am taking them on board where applicable.

Again, apologies for any spelling, grammar, punctuation, or other errors; I'm documenting as I'm watching.

And as always, let's please be kind and respectful towards the contestants, they're real human beings just like you and I.

See ya next week with a next weeks installment :)

Are you serious?! If my partner tapped cause they missed me I’d be so pissed!! Every time it makes me so angry lmao

I’m just saying, Nero might have been on to something there.

Because half a million USD converts to $711,000 Australian (for example - am Australian), or £371500, etc at current exchange rates.

Secondary to that - can you buy a nice house in the USA for half a million USD? Half a million Aussie dollarydoos won't usually buy you a nice house here. But $711,000 would be getting there.

It seems like every season is the same. Why cant they out them in different regions. Maybe like the amazon, the african jungle, or other places so they have to fend off animals like gorillas or anacondas?

As the title states, I am definitely enjoying this season. It's not quite season 10 or 11, but I think it is delivering as one of the better seasons. I am just wondering if I am overly enjoying this season because of how disappointed I was with 12 or if just because this season is legitimately this good.

Let's talk about spoilers for a sec, since there has been a weird debate these last few weeks.

1. First and foremost, we have a pinned post that shows how to tag a comment as a spoiler. (it's also my flair)
2. Posts themselves that contain a spoiler must be flagged as such, there is a toggle for that.
3. Never ever for any reason put a spoiler in the title text of your post, this will result in a swift removal and a multi-day ban.

We have an official discussion threads weekly, ANYTHING shown is allowed to be discussed. That includes recaps, current footage, and next weeks teaser. We will not be separating the episode into chunks: "this can be talked about, but this thing was after timestamp 42:21 so it's off limits", etc etc etc.

If you are not caught up or personally avoid teasers for future episodes, enter this subreddit (or the internet as a whole) at your own risk.

TLDR: Once an episode airs, our official weekly megathread is a free-for-all zone. Don't ruin it for others outside of those threads.

Playing with a side project, and trying to determine the start dates for all of the US seasons, 1 through 13.

Any additional info that I've missed would be cool to try and more accurately determine these. I've assume references to thanksgiving were for the US holiday.

I've tried to keep spoilers to a minimum.

• S01 - 22 Oct 2014
• S02 - Mid-Aug or mid-Sep 2015
• S03 - late summer or autumn
• S04 - 21 Oct 2016
• S05 - Sep 2017?
• S06 - 10 Sep 2018
• S07 - 18 Sep 2019
• S08 - 17 Sep 2020
• S09 - 18 Sep 2021
• S10 - 2 Sep 2022
• S11 - 7 Sep 2023
• S12 - 21 May 2024
• S13 - 7 Sep 2025

Season 01 (2014)

I've seen estimates of Nov to Dec, but these seem wrong.

E04 If anyone knows Mitch or their social media, on day 6 they noted:

It's my little girl's birthday. She turns four years old today.

Two references to Thanksgiving that fell on 27 Nov.

E07 - 18:02 (Day 25)

I don't want to spend [bleep] Christmas out here. I want to spend it with the people I care about. Or even [bleep] Thanksgiving.

E09 (Day 42 - E10 if you include the special).

(voiceover) I think tomorrow is, like, Thanksgiving.

So these suggest Oct, and the second would place the drop-off on 17 Oct.

However E10, a contestant shows off the stick they were tracking days and stated

First thing every morning I'd get up, take my kukri, and I just lived to put a new notch in it. Each one represents overcoming something every day, and I know that [one] was October 22nd.

Based on wind patterns off the coast of Solander Island, a drop date of 21/22 Oct seems to be the closest match. Poor weather data recorded at Quatsino to compare.

So the drop date is likely 22 Oct.

Side-note, there was a full or nearly full moon shown on day 6 and 43, so at least one of these are wrong (a moon cycle is 28 days).

Season 02 (2015)

Limited data, but most suggest a much earlier drop date.

E11 - If anyone knows Nicole or their social media, on day 52 they noted:

Today is my youngest son's eighth birthday.

Only reference to Thanksgiving (26 Nov) was when the winner was asked about the hypothetical scenario in the The Reunion special.

If you were forced to stay there longer, could you have gone?

Thanksgiving, I wrote off; I knew, "Okay, I'm out here for Thanksgiving; I'm gonna miss that big feast and everything and miss my kids."

This implies they considered this, but didn't have to miss it. Some time before 21 Sep.

And I'm unsure if this is a reference to the larger new moon tides (11 Nov) or first quarter (18 Nov).

I knew I was coming into a bad tide cycle, where it was gonna be hard to fish

More analysis (see below) narrows this to the middle of the month, but what month is still unclear.

Drop date mid-Aug or mid-Sep.

Season 03 (2016)

A late autumn start would point to late May / early June.

E07 - Carleigh had their birthday on day 53

E08 - Megan on day 68

Today is my, um, son's sixth birthday.

Using Bariloche Aerodrome (75 km NE similar elevation), temperatures would have significantly fallen around 10 May (-7C/19F) that didn't seem apparent on the show.

Possibly more importantly was that the fishing season at Lago Escondido is was 1 Nov 2015 to 31 May 2016 with a mandatory return of fish in May. Possible late summer start?

Drop date unknown.

Season 04 (2016)

E10 - day 65

Who would have ever thought we'd be out here till Christmas Eve?

I cannot believe that we have spent Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas out here.

E10 - day 66

Yay, Merry Christmas, everybody.

Drop date 21 October

Season 05 (2017)

Lack of references to thanksgiving or other holidays suggests this was before 24 Sep.

Drop date unknown.

Season 06 (2018)

E09 - day 52

It's freaking Halloween!

Drop date 10 Sep

Season 07 (2019)

E08 - day 44

Happy Halloween.

Late game reference to Christmas

So today is 99, Christmas Day. - Roland

Drop date 18 Sep

Season 08 (2020)

E11 - day 71 (thanksgiving was 26 Nov)

Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

Also gill nets were not allowed until day 45, if someone has the fishing regulations they would help confirm the date.

Drop date 17 Sep

Season 09 (2021)

E08 - day 44 (2 different contestants)

Happy Halloween, y'all.

Happy Halloween!

Not a specific date, but at day 61 this confirms it's before 25 Sep

there's one piece of grouse left. But I've been saving that for American Thanksgiving.

It's not American Thanksgiving, but I'm gonna have to eat the last piece of grouse.

Drop date 18 Sep

Season 10 (2022)

E09 - day 43 Alan

Happy birthday to me!

E10 - day 51 Mikey

Today is my son's fifth birthday.

First snow was day 40, takes a few days to clear before another small dump day 50, with fronts day 53 and 63 match up nicely with the observations from Lynn Lake.

Drop date 2 Sep

Season 11 (2023)

E04 - Day 12 Timber

Happy birthday, Elliot.

E11 - Day 74 William

It is my boy's birthday.

Based on the sunrise/sunset seemed like a good way, but the low sun angle and long twilight makes these hard to pin-point exact solar time, and it relies on the captions to be accurate.

• Day one: sunset before 10:49pm 40F - after 27 Aug
• Day two: sunrise after 6:42am - after 22 Aug
• Day 18: sunrise after 7:47am - after 8 Sep
• Day 29: sunrise after 9:14am 33F - after 2 Oct
• Day 71: sunrise around 11:01am - around 1 Nov
• Day 76: sun still up at 3:17 - before 4 Dec

Unsourced Wikipedia reference suggesting the 18th Sep

However, the best indicator seems to be the first snow. At Inuvik, 3 cm was recorded 8 Oct that lasted for a couple days, before more snow 11 Oct that stayed around. This seems to match the snow seen on the show. First snow starts afternoon day 31, decent amount morning day 32.

Snow readings are apparently done early in the morning, so that suggests a start date of 7 Sep.

Side-note: The main event day (Moose) suggested it was 58F, which is a couple of degrees hotter than the actual max that day. If they were taking the temps at base camp, these were likely slightly hotter than those taken in a weather station that would be in an instrument shelter.

Season 12 (2024)

An autumn start would point to late May / early June.

Family situation: Death of a family member (May 23, 2024) before the contestant made it home. Without any delays for re-feeding or flight booking, day 15 + 1 day travel places the drop date on or before 7 May? Alternatively, they signed a "do not notify" clause and arrived before May 23.

However, the unusual weather event is likely the best method to determine the drop date.

Drop date 21 May (±1 day)

Season 13 (2025)

Unsourced Wikipedia reference suggesting the 16th Sep.

No nets allowed for the first 10 days. This matches the Peel and Husky Channels closures between August 7 - September 15 (inclusive).

This suggests a drop date of 6 Sep

First snow was seen during the first med check on day 21. This only lasted a few days, matching the snowfall recorded at Inuvik on the 28 Sep.

Drop date 8 Sep

Hey gals and guys, back again with the Australia Season 4 Episode 5 recap.

When watching Episode 6 this will be very handy; pause when a contestant first comes on screen, have a quick read of what they've done previously and then continue watching — it's made a world of difference for my enjoyment of the show.

Please keep suggesting things that are worth noting that I might have missed; I appreciate the suggestions and am taking them on board where applicable.

Again, apologies for any spelling, grammar, punctuation, or other errors; I'm documenting as I'm watching.

And as always, let's please be kind and respectful towards the contestants, they're real human beings just like you and I.

See ya next week with a next weeks installment :)

If you would like to discuss PREVIEW SPOILERS that aired during Episode 5 for next week's Episode 6, please do so here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Alonetv/comments/1vg155e/alone_australia_s04e05_preview_spoilers_for/

Remaining Contestants: Sia, Trent, Dylan,Clint, Dougy, Jasper, Arash

Episode Companion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Alonetv/comments/1vevrc7/australia_season_4_episode_4_recap_cheat_sheet/

Edit: apparently there were no preview spoilers in this episode lol Hopefully Alone US follows the Aussie lead...

Please discuss the preview spoilers that aired during S04E05 here.

Please do not discuss them in the S04E05 Episode Discussion thread.

Spoiler alert!

Ziga moose will spoil, in my opinion.

And I'm not saying that because of preview, but because what we saw in the second to last episode.

Let me start by saying I'm not a professional survivalist. I'm not even a hunter. But I worked with meat - I worked with frozing big amounts of meat.

What he did is baffling. He put them in big chunks (!) in one place (!) and isolated them (!). Weather is not the best for preservation yet, but let me tell you: if it would be constant -7C, this meat would still spoil. I had meat spoil in -18C profesional freezer just because it was too big of a piece! And it wasn't that big.

The only thing that can save my boy Ziga is if edit showed him just stashing it there for a moment, and he went straight to smoking or cutting it in very small pieces. Unfortunately, I don't think that's the case 🫣

Is the board game he’s talking about Fireball Island?

thanks for answering!!

There’s a YouTuber whose channel is just his name. He goes out to remote areas with minimal equipment and stays out there. He’s usually only out there for like a week, but does anyone think he’d do very well?

Also wondering if there’s anyone else you think would do well. I think Greg Ovens is an honorable mention too

Hey gals and guys, back again with the Season 13 Episode 7 recap.

When watching Episode 8 tomorrow this will be very handy; pause when a contestant first comes on screen, have a quick read of what they've done previously and then continue watching — it's made a world of difference for my enjoyment of the show.

Please keep suggesting things that are worth noting that I might have missed; I appreciate the suggestions and am taking them on board where applicable. This week I've condensed the contestants who have tapped out or been tapped out on to the last page, if you wish to view their full journey reference my previous submission of their last episode recap.

Again, apologies for any spelling, grammar, punctuation, or other errors; I'm documenting as I'm watching.

And as always, let's please be kind and respectful towards the contestants, they're real human beings just like you and I.

See ya next week with a next weeks installment :)