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Chowk Jam: Truck Art Escape

A bus adda packed tight: painted coaches with a charpai roped to the roof, a Karachi W-11 shining with chamak patti, Hiace vans and a Suzuki Bolan carrying milk churns, every one of them parked nose to tail. Somewhere in the middle is a little pink chingchi that needs to get out. Shuffle the traffic until a lane opens, then drive it through the gate.

How it plays

Think, then move

Slide them out of the way

The lot is six by six with the gate on the right. Every vehicle slides only along its own direction, forwards and back, never sideways. Drag one and it snaps to a cell when you let go; sliding any distance counts as one move. The short vans and the long buses are the whole puzzle: a three-cell coach blocks a lane that a two-cell Bolan would have cleared.

Every level proven solvable

Nobody drew these boards

Each lot is generated, then a solver searches every position it can reach and proves it can be cleared, twice over, before you ever see it. The fewest moves it can be done in is shown on the MIN plaque, beside your own count and your best. No timer and no lives: take as long as you like, undo as much as you like.

Play it now, free, in your browser

No ads. Not a banner, not a pop-up, not a “watch a video to carry on”. No download, no account, nothing to install, and nothing to buy. Once you have opened it once with a connection it plays with no connection at all: it never needs the internet to play.

It runs in any modern browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer, upright or on its side. Every vehicle has its own horn, and one button switches them off. On a keyboard, Tab picks a vehicle, the arrow keys slide it and Z undoes.

The painted art in the game was made with AI, drawn by Claude on Claude Design.

Questions, ideas, or something not working? Write to fawaz_ahmed@live.com.

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