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Slide vehicles to free the blue car to the exit
Traffic Jam is a spatial reasoning puzzle where you must navigate a target vehicle out of a congested 6x6 grid. Your performance is measured by the number of moves and the time taken to solve the escape.
Vehicles are constrained by their orientation: horizontal cars only move left/right, and vertical cars only move up/down. This simple constraint creates complex dependencies requiring multiple steps of foresight.
Click or tap a vehicle to select it, then drag to slide it along its orientation. Horizontal vehicles can only move left and right. Vertical vehicles can only move up and down. Vehicles cannot rotate, jump over obstacles, or pass through each other.
The red car must reach the exit on the right side of the board. The exit is aligned with the red car's row. Your goal is to clear a direct horizontal path by moving the blocking vehicles out of the way.
Scoring: You start with a maximum score that decreases over time. The faster you solve the puzzle, the higher your final score. There is no penalty for total moves—only the time taken matters.
Work backwards from the goal. Start by looking at the exit. What's directly blocking the blue car? Once you identify that vehicle, ask what's preventing it from moving. This dependency chain reveals the solution sequence.
Identify the critical path. Not every vehicle matters. Focus on the vehicles in the blue car's row and the pieces blocking them. Ignore pieces that aren't part of the blocking chain—moving them unnecessarily wastes time.
Manage long vehicles carefully. Three-tile trucks are the biggest obstacles because they have limited mobility. Often the entire puzzle revolves around finding a place to temporarily park a long truck so it clears a critical intersection.
Don't be afraid to move backwards. Counterintuitively, moving the target car away from the exit often creates the space needed to rearrange blocking vehicles. If you're stuck, try pulling the blue car back to see if it opens new possibilities.
Test environment for Traffic Jam.