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Station Swap

Puzzle · Phone & PC · 20 languages · Free

Little steam trains driven by animals are parked at the wrong stations. Roll them one at a time into the empty station until every train is home, and find out why the long loop is the only way to swap two trains.

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How to play

Station Swap: Choose a level
1Choose a level
Station Swap: In play
2In play

Controls

TapKeyboard←→↑↓ Space Z
  1. Tap a train next to the empty station to roll it in.
  2. Get every train to the station of its colour before the coal runs out.
  3. Keys: arrows pick a train, Space moves it, Z undoes.

About the game

Station Swap is a calm sliding puzzle on a toy railway. A fox, a penguin, a frog and their friends each drive a little steam engine, but they have all parked at the wrong stations. There is only one free station, so every move is a train rolling along a track into the gap, and the map decides what is possible.

On a single loop, trains can only go round in a circle. Two trains can never trade places that way, unless the loop has an odd number of stations, and in these networks that is always the long one. Learning when to take the long way round is the heart of the game. Twenty-five levels grow from a three-stop line to figure eights, ladders and a busy hub, each with a par worked out exactly. Every move burns a lump of coal, undo is free, and a hint shows the best next move.

Free to play in your browser. No download, no sign-up. Works on phones, tablets and computers. Your progress is saved on this device.

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