Destination X - How to play along at home with BBC One show

Daily Mirror

4 days ago

Destination X has kicked off on BBC One, with Rob Brydon dropping a cast of strangers in various places all over the world - and challenging them to work out where they are
BBC One's brand new reality competition Destination X kicked off this week, with 13 strangers hoping to win £100,000 by correctly guessing where in the world they've been plonked. Hosted by Rob Brydon, the series takes its adventurous cast to a different location each episode, where they must use the show's cryptic clues to work out where they are.
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Whoever's guess is the furthest away from the actual destination is kicked off the show RV, while the others get even closer to that jackpot prize. Fans have been gripped by Destination X since it aired on Wednesday night, with many left gobsmacked by one challenge that required one contestant to abseil out of a gondola that was up 2,000 metres in the air in the Swiss mountains.
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Those watching at home can also play along with the contestants from the comfort of their sofas thanks to the BBC's brand new website. It comes after Strictly's Anton Du Beke shared heartbreak over wife's 'cruel and inexplicable' diagnosis.
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If you would like to know how you can guess along with the Destination X contestants, here's everything you need to know.
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How play Destination X at home
To play along with Destination X at home and have a go at guessing where the contestants are, all you need to do is head to the BBC's Destination X website. You will be required to log into your BBC account or set up one to do so, but once you're in, you can choose an episode to play along with.
In order to narrow down your guessing area, you can answer five trivia questions - if you answer them correctly, the map will become smaller, giving you a better chance of choosing the right location.
You can always play the 'Where Am I?' game, where you're dropped into the Google StreetView of a random location and must guess within a five kilometre radius of the place.
When you're ready, you can place your X on the map and once the episode has aired, the website will reveal whether you were correct or not. For every right answer you get - within 50km of the destination - you earn a virtual badge that you can share with your friends.
So far in the competition, we've seen five contestants be brutally cut from the competition - with three being booted from the show before even leaving the airport for the first destination.