Playing the Home Game seems really difficult without a paper map
My wife and I recently attempted to play the Home Game virtually to simulate it ahead of playing it IRL. We used the Seattle city limits as our game region for a small game, with all modes of transit (bus, streetcar, light rail) available for use. We also eliminated a few questions from the available list of questions that simply didn't make sense given our game area. Our only tools were Google Maps and a simple map app that let us draw custom radii.
Right from the outset, it seemed really difficult to play the game without a physical paper map. For instance, for the question that asks if you're closer to a coastline than the hider, it seems really difficult to eliminate areas if the coastline in question isn't reasonably straight, and without a paper map, there's no way to even approximate it. Matching questions (is the closest X to the seeker also the closest X to the hider) also require eliminating precise areas that would be difficult even with a paper map and impossible without one.
It seems to me that H&S is really ideally built for larger game areas where approximation works well, and with well spaced-out transit stations and a paper map clearly indicating all those stations and points of interest.
I'd love to know how people made the Home Game work for them.