Just incase there was any doubt…

that the newest episode was filmed on the day they took the first teaser photo, the bus that was in shot was running 20 mins after the picture was taken out of Victoria: https://bustimes.org/vehicles/avlo-ltz1817?date=2025-01-06. The bus was also on the day version of the route, not the night one and it hasn’t done the day version since the photo was taken.

So it’s pretty safe to say that they started the game at approximately 7:30am and definitely on that day.