TheTransitTrail

You get dropped at a real place, handed a destination on the far side of the world, and you have to get there by picking connections that genuinely leave where you are standing. Each stop opens a dropdown of its flights, some stops list a bus in a dropdown of its own, and the puzzle is working out which field chains onward rather than which one looks closest on the map.

1. Pick Easy, Medium or Hard from the selector, then hit New Game.
2. Read the header: your current location sits on the left, the destination on the right, and the map points toward it.
3. Open the Flights dropdown, which shows the number of outgoing connections, and choose one. Some locations also offer a bus dropdown.
4. After every leg, compare the new current location, updated outgoing-flight count, route drawn on the map and accumulated TIME, then choose the next connection until you reach the destination.

Anyone who enjoys planning a route the hard way will get this immediately. You are not guessing a place, you are working a network: every stop hands you the connections that actually leave it, so a leg that looks like progress on the map can strand you at a regional field with two flights out. The difficulty selector, the clock readout and the leaderboard push it toward a speed exercise rather than a knowledge quiz, and since New Game deals a new pair of cities on demand, there is nothing to wait for.

A chosen connection immediately becomes a visible leg of the route. Once a flight is selected, Current Location switches to the new stop, the Flights count becomes that stop's own number of outgoing connections, the place you left appears as a return marker, and the map adds the route while continuing to point toward the destination. TIME advances by the duration printed beside the flight taken.

Easy, Medium and Hard

A difficulty selector sits next to New Game and the current setting is badged on the board. What actually changes between the three is not spelled out on the page.

• The number badged on the Flights button is your read on the place before you open it. A single digit means you are on a spur and may be stuck with the way you came in, a two-digit count means you are in a hub and can afford a detour.
• When the flight list is thin, look for the bus dropdown underneath it. It only shows up at some stops and it is easy to miss next to the plane icon.