Parking Jam

Tips for Parking Jam

Parking Jam is about looking before you tap. Every car drives straight ahead in the direction it faces, so follow its lane all the way to the edge of the lot before you touch it. Some lanes look clear until the far end, and a long bus can block an entire row. A blocked car rolls up, bumps and returns to its bay, and the tap still counts, so a wrong guess can cost you a star.

Work from the outside in. The cars around the edge tend to have the clearest way out, and the ones in the middle only leave once the outside has cleared. Par is one tap per car, and three stars need a lot cleared with no bumps at all. There is no clock, so take your time and trace each lane first. If a tap goes wrong, Undo puts the last car back in its bay, and each lot gives you three hints that light up a car that can leave.

How to play Parking Jam

In Parking Jam you empty a packed car park seen from above. Every car faces its own way, and when you tap or click one it drives straight ahead in that direction. If its lane is clear, it pulls out onto the one-way ring road, gives way to cars already on it and heads for the exit. If something is in the way, it rolls up, bumps softly into it and goes back to its bay, and that tap still counts.

The goal of each lot is to get every car out in as few taps as possible. Par is one tap per car. Clear the lot without a single bump for three stars, with two bumps or fewer for two stars, and any finish earns one. There is no clock, so you can study the lot for as long as you like before each tap. If a tap goes wrong, Undo puts the last car back in its bay, and each lot gives you three hints that light up a car that can leave.

The sixty lots are spread over three car parks and grow from a seven-car warm-up to a 35-car jam. There is also a Daily lot, the same for everyone that day, which keeps a streak going. On a computer you click a car, or pick one with the arrow keys and press Enter; U undoes, H gives a hint, R restarts, P pauses and M mutes. On a phone or tablet you simply tap a car.

About Parking Jam

Parking Jam is a logic puzzle in the family of traffic-jam and sliding-block puzzles, where the challenge is working out the order in which things are able to move. Kiloo made it for the browser, and it plays on a computer, tablet or phone with nothing to install.

Parking Jam suits players who like to think rather than hurry. With no clock, Undo and three hints per lot, it is relaxed enough for children and newcomers, while three stars on the larger lots asks for careful planning. The cars are chunky and brightly coloured, from hatchbacks, taxis and pickups to buses, box trucks, camper vans and the odd tractor, and they behave like real traffic, giving way on the ring road on their way out. Every lot was built backwards from an empty car park and proven solvable, so there is always a way out, and your stars, best tap counts and Daily streak are saved on your device.

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