Parking Escape

About the Game

Parking Escape is an original sliding-vehicle puzzle with 50 handcrafted levels. Each level is a packed city car park seen from above: cars and box trucks are parked nose to tail, and your red car is stuck somewhere in the middle. Every vehicle can only roll forwards or backwards along its own lane, so you have to shuffle the others out of the way, one slide at a time, until the road to the exit is clear. The lots get deeper as you go: concrete barriers, painted one-way lanes that vehicles may only cross in the arrow's direction, boom gates that only lift while a vehicle sits on a pressure pad, bollards that rise and sink with every move, and parking bays where a marked vehicle has to be parked neatly before you leave. The final chapter is pure gridlock on bigger lots. Every level has been solved by a computer search, so the par shown is the true fewest moves, and the solution is checked on the game's own rules.

How to Play

Your goal is to drive the red car out through the gap in the car park wall. Drag any vehicle forwards or backwards along its lane — vehicles never turn, so cars lying across the board slide left and right and cars lying lengthways slide up and down. A slide of any distance counts as one move. Clear a path to the exit and slide the red car out to finish. Concrete blocks never move. Painted arrows are one-way lanes: a vehicle may only cross them in the arrow's direction. Boom gates stay down unless a vehicle is sitting on a yellow pressure pad. Bollards rise and sink after every move, so the order of your moves matters. On parking levels the vehicle wearing a blue P badge must be parked inside the blue P bay before the red car leaves. Some later levels have a move limit. Use undo freely; finishing in the par number of moves earns three stars.

Controls

• Drag a vehicleSlide it along its lane
• Tab / [ ]Choose a vehicle · ← → ↑ ↓ — Slide it
• U / Ctrl+ZUndo · R — Restart
• Esc / PPause

Features

• ✓50 handcrafted levels in five chapters
• ✓Par proven by computer search for every level
• ✓One-way lanes, boom gates, rising bollards and parking bays
• ✓Drag, tap-and-slide or keyboard controls with unlimited undo
• ✓Up to three stars per level, saved in your browser
• ✓Big 7×7 gridlock lots in the final chapter

Gameplay Tips

• •Work backwards: find which vehicle blocks the red car, then what blocks that one.
• •A long slide counts as one move — slide vehicles as far as they need in one go.
• •Trucks are three cells long, so they need more room to get out of the way.
• •Before using a gate, park something on a pad and leave it there.
• •On bollard levels count your moves: the posts rise on every other move.

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