🚂 Railroadle

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Tap tracks to claim them. It locks the moment every ticket connects, so before making the last connection, check whether your tickets can share tracks. Pinch or scroll to zoom, drag to move.

The daily railroad-routing puzzle

Railroadle is a free daily puzzle game played on real geography. Every day you get a new map of a real region, a network of railroad tracks, and a hand of destination tickets: pairs of cities to connect. Claim tracks to link every ticket using as few trains as possible, then compare your line against par, the provably optimal solution.

If you enjoy daily games like Wordle, route-building board games, or geography quizzes, Railroadle sits right at the intersection: one puzzle a day, the same for everyone, with a shareable spoiler-free result. Cities sit exactly where they belong on the map, so every solve quietly teaches real-world geography, from the Great Lakes to the Baltic.

Puzzles ramp up through the week: gentle three-ticket boards on Monday, and by Sunday five tickets with hidden stations beyond the edge of the map. Free, no account needed, no tracking by us. A single unobtrusive ad after you solve keeps the trains running.

The goal: you get a hand of tickets (3 early in the week, up to 5 by Sunday): pairs of cities to connect by rail. Build one network of tracks that links every ticket's two cities, using as few trains as possible.

Your tickets are shown at the top of the screen. A ticket turns green the moment its two cities are connected through your tracks. Any path between them counts.
Claim tracks by tapping them on the map; tap again to un-claim. The number on a track is how many trains it costs.
Getting around: pinch the map (or scroll with a mouse) to zoom in and out, and drag to move around. On harder days some stations sit beyond the edge of the view; amber chips at the border point the way.
Strategy: one track can serve more than one ticket. Route your tickets through the same stretches of track. Reusing tracks is what saves trains. And plan ahead: the instant every ticket connects, your network locks and is scored, no undo.
Scoring: fewer trains is better. When you finish we reveal par, the fewest trains today's puzzle can possibly be solved in. 🥇 matched or beat par · 🥈 within 3 trains of par · 🥉 connected. Puzzles ramp up through the week: Mon easiest → Sun hardest.

Share symbols: 🥇🥈🥉 medal · 🟨⬜🟫 squares in the medal color, one per ticket · trains used and how far from par · ⏱ your time.

Railroadle is a daily routing puzzle on real geography: every city sits where it belongs on the map, so you learn the world while you optimize. It is made by Alvaforge, a tiny independent games studio.

Privacy: your results and progress are stored only in your browser (localStorage). No account, no cookies, no ad trackers of ours; the only thing we receive is a tiny anonymous play event so we can count players (see the Privacy policy).

Sign-in to sync your streak across devices is coming soon.

See also: Privacy policy · Terms of service

Last updated: July 9, 2026

1. Acceptance. By using Railroadle (railroadle.com, "the Game", "we", "us"), an Alvaforge project, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the Game.

2. Eligibility. You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your jurisdiction). If you are under the age of majority, you need permission from a parent or legal guardian.

3. The Game. Railroadle is a free daily puzzle. No account is needed. Your progress, results, and statistics are stored only on your own device (see the Privacy Policy). Clearing your browser data erases them, and we cannot restore them.

4. Announced features. Features described as "coming soon" (for example, sign-in to sync progress) are not commitments. If we add accounts or paid content later, these Terms and the Privacy Policy will be updated first.

5. Intellectual property. The Game's code, design, artwork, and puzzle content belong to Alvaforge. Maps are derived from public geographic datasets; city names and locations are factual information. You are welcome to share screenshots and your results (that is the point of the share button). You may not copy the Game wholesale, republish its puzzles as your own, or use its content commercially without written permission.

6. Fair play. Scores and times are computed on your device and shared on the honor system. Play nice.

7. Acceptable use. Do not attempt to disrupt the service, access systems you are not authorized to access, scrape at abusive volume, or use the Game for unlawful purposes.

8. Availability and changes. The Game is provided free of charge and may change at any time: we may add, modify, or discontinue features or content without notice. The daily puzzle is the same for every player on a given calendar date.

9. No warranties. The Game is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted, error-free operation.

10. Limitation of liability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss of locally stored progress, service interruptions, or any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. Your use of the Game is at your own risk.

11. Termination. We may restrict access to the Game where reasonably necessary for legal, security, or operational reasons, including abuse of Section 7.

12. Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms; the date above will change when we do. Continued use after changes means you accept them.

13. Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of Canada, without regard to conflict of law principles.

14. Contact. contact@alvaforge.com

Last updated: July 10, 2026

The short version: Railroadle runs entirely in your browser and we do not collect, store, or sell your personal data. No accounts, no cookies of our own; just minimal anonymous play counts (section 2). To keep the game free, a single ad may appear after you finish a puzzle; advertising is provided by Google (see section 3).

1. What stays on your device. Your progress, results, streaks, and settings are stored in your browser's local storage. They are never sent to us. Clearing your browser's site data deletes them permanently; we have no copy and cannot recover them.

2. What we receive. When the game loads, when you press Play, when you make your first move, when you finish a puzzle, and when you tap Share, your browser sends us one anonymous event: the puzzle number, trains used, routes claimed, par, medal, solve time, whether the device is a phone or a computer, the kind of place the visit came from (a search engine, a social site, a shared link, or typed directly; the address of the referring page itself is never stored), and a random anonymous device ID. That ID is a meaningless random number your browser makes up the first time you play; it contains nothing about you, is never linked to your identity, and exists only so we can count unique and returning players. Clearing your browser data resets it and permanently disconnects past results from your device. Beyond that, nothing. The Game is static files delivered by Cloudflare's content delivery network. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical request data (such as IP addresses) transiently to deliver content and protect against attacks, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. We see only aggregate, anonymous request counts, never profiles of individual players.

3. Cookies and advertising. We set no cookies ourselves. Ads are served by Google AdSense, which may use cookies or similar identifiers to serve and measure ads, under Google's privacy policy. Where the law requires it (for example in the EEA and UK), Google's consent tool will ask before any advertising cookies are used, and you can decline. You can also control ad personalization at adssettings.google.com, and read how Google uses data from partner sites at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Ads appear only after you finish a puzzle, never during play.

4. Sharing. The Share button opens your device's share menu, or copies your result to your clipboard where no share menu exists. Nothing is posted anywhere by us; you choose where it goes.

5. Children. The Game collects no data from anyone, including children, and is suitable for general audiences.

6. Future features. If we ever add optional accounts (for cross-device sync) or paid content, this policy will be updated before launch. Payments would be handled by a payment provider; card details would never touch our servers.

7. Your rights. The anonymous events we hold cannot be tied to you: the device ID is random and unlinkable, and we could not identify which rows are yours even if asked. Your progress and settings live on your device, under your control; clearing site data removes them and orphans any past events for good.

8. Changes. We may update this policy; the date above will change when we do.

9. Contact. contact@alvaforge.com