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fun fact: if you follow up a Magnus Archives hyperfixation with binge-listening to Lateral with Tom Scott, Tom Scott's posh RP-accented british voice will overwrite Jonathan Sims's posh RP-accented british voice in your head, which will lead to some very funny mental sound clips
"I'm 70 kilos of asthma, what else am I going to be interested in?"
-Tom Scott (Lateral ep.54, 43:11), about obscure British train facts
The Lateral book is coming soon!
Pre‑order the UK or US edition
We are delighted to announce that the new Lateral game book is now available for pre-order!
100 questions, most of which are brand new, exclusive to the book, and will never appear on the show. Plus there's the best of the questions from the show itself, to play by yourself or with a group. It's great for meet-ups with friends, game nights, road trips and family gatherings.
Each question has all the official clues and background notes — all the stuff that‘s on the question cards but doesn‘t always make it into the show. Plus, there are warm-up questions and bonus articles.
Also, Tom‘s played all the new questions himself, so you can see if you can beat him.
Pre-orders count towards our first week sales which are super important in the publishing trade. So we'd appreciate it if you could pre-order from any of these bookshops:
🇬🇧 UK edition released November 14:
Pan Macmillan
Amazon UK
Waterstones (£4 off with code LATERAL24!)
WHSmith
Blackwells
Bookshop.org
🇺🇸 US edition released November 19:
Union Square and Co
Amazon US
Barnes and Noble
Books-a-Million
Bookshop.org
Both US and UK editions contain the same questions, but with localized spellings and references where needed.
Links for other countries:
🇦🇺 Australia:
The Nile
Readings
Amazon Australia
🇨🇦 Canada:
Amazon Canada (UK edition)
Amazon Canada (US edition)
🇩🇪 Germany:
Amazon Germany
Thalia
KulturKaufhaus
🇮🇪 Ireland:
Dubray Books
Kennys
🇳🇱 Netherlands:
Amazon Netherlands
Bol
🇳🇿 New Zealand:
Fishpond
Mighty Ape
🇸🇪 Sweden:
Amazon Sweden
Bokus
Adlibris
Thanks very much!
— Tom and David
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Transcript:
Comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott.
The Lateral Book is out now!
We are delighted to announce that the new Lateral game book is now on sale!
100 questions, most of which are brand new, exclusive to the book, and will never appear on the show. Plus there's the best of the questions from the show itself, to play by yourself or with a group. It's great for meet-ups with friends, game nights, road trips and family gatherings.
Each question has all the official clues and background notes — all the stuff that‘s on the question cards but doesn‘t always make it into the show. Plus, there are warm-up questions and bonus articles.
Also, Tom‘s played all the new questions himself, so you can see if you can beat him.
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Transcript:
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Transcript:
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