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Railroad Ride
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About the game
Railroad Ride is a ride through a toy factory in 3D, on rails that bend between giant candy-striped columns, stacks of presents and cheering snowmen. You do not steer the train; you are the elf standing in the front car with a present in your hands, and your job is to deliver them to the elves who wait beside the track.
Click or tap an elf and yours throws a present at it. An elf that catches it is worth 100 points and is shown holding the present; one that already has a present does not count again. The train stays at the station until your first catch and rolls on after it, so the clock only starts to matter once you are moving, and the elves keep passing, so you have to pick targets quickly.
The scene is rendered with three.js (WebGL), so it needs a browser with WebGL; on an old computer it may run slowly.
Playing it here
Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. It works with touch: tap the elves. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Click / tap an elf | Throw it a present |
| Click / tap elsewhere in the scene | Throw a present there (it scores only if an elf catches it) |
A few things worth knowing
Pick elves without a present. An elf that is already holding one scores nothing; go for the ones who still have empty hands.
Keep throwing. A throw takes a moment but you can throw several times a second, so do not wait for the first one to land.
Credits and licence
Railroad Ride is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.
FAQ
The train does not move. It starts after your first successful throw: click an elf.
Does it need a fast computer? A modern phone or laptop is fine, but WebGL must be enabled.
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