Road Rules

🚦 Road Rules

Drive, walk and ride around town and do the jobs. Stop at the signs, wait for the lights, let people cross, and look before you cross. Every sign you obey goes in your Sign Book.
βš™οΈ Settings
Sound
Which way is up
Where you look from
Steering in free drive

Car up turns the town so your car always points up the screen, so its left is your left. North up keeps the map still. The driver's seat shows the road as a driver sees it; a stop that goes wrong is still played back from above.

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The park

⏸️ Paused

The town is waiting.

βœ‹ Oops!

πŸŽ‰ You made it!

Who goes first?

Tap it.

πŸ“– Sign Book

Obey a sign and it goes in your book. Tap one to watch it.

🟒 Go and πŸ›‘ Stop

Hold 🟒 to go. Hold πŸ›‘ to slow down and stop. Let go of both and the car slowly rolls to a stop. On a keyboard: ↑ goes, ↓ or Space stops.

⬅️ Blinkers ➑️

Your car keeps to its lane by itself. To turn, tap a blinker before the corner: the car turns the way the blinker points. Turn it on early, so other drivers know. Keys: ← and β†’.

🚢 Walking

Hold 🚢 to walk. At every curb you stop. Tap πŸ‘€ to look left, right and left again, then tap 🚢 to cross when the cars have stopped or gone by. At a light, cross only on the walking person, never on the hand. ⭐⭐⭐ needs a look at every curb.

🚲 Riding

Put your helmet on first. Ride on the right with the cars, and keep the same rules a car keeps: stop at stop signs and red lights, wait your turn. Your arm is your blinker: tap βœ‹ before you turn.

πŸ›£οΈ Main Street

Main Street has two lanes each way. To move over, turn your blinker on toward the other lane, tap πŸ‘€ to look over your shoulder, and the car moves over when you have signalled. The dark patches beside your car are where the mirrors do not reach: look before you move. There is no left turn off Main Street: go past, move to the left lane, turn round at the gap in the middle when it is clear, and come back. That is a Michigan left.

πŸ›£οΈ The freeway

The freeway is north of town: 55 mph, and 45 at the least. Speed up on the ramp, turn your left blinker on, tap πŸ‘€, and move over into a gap: the cars on the freeway go first. Keep to the right lane, and use the left lane only to pass. To leave, turn your right blinker on, move into the exit lane, then slow down. Miss your exit and the job ends: on a freeway you never back up or turn round. At the end of an off-ramp, stop, then turn when it is clear. To turn left onto an on-ramp, let the cars coming the other way go first. The road over the freeway is a bridge.

πŸŒ™ Night

At night, tap πŸ’‘ to turn your lights on before you go. Tap again for high beams πŸ”† on an empty road, and again to dim them when a car comes or you are behind one. Keys: H.

πŸ…ΏοΈ Parking

In the Park tab you steer yourself. Hold ⬅️ or ➑️ to turn the wheel; let go and it goes back to straight. 🟒 goes and πŸ›‘ stops. Tap D to change to R and go backwards, but only when the car has stopped. Park inside the blue lines without touching a car. You can steer yourself in free drive too: in Settings, set Steering in free drive to πŸ›ž I steer. Keep on the right side of the road, and slow down before you turn.

πŸͺͺ The Driving Test

After the big trip comes the test: round town and back. Pass with no big mistakes and three small ones at most, and you get your Road Rules licence. It is kept in your Sign Book.

🚌 Buses and πŸš‘ sirens

When a school bus stops with its red lights flashing, stop 20 feet back, whichever way you are going, and wait until the lights go off. When you hear a siren, pull over and stop until it goes by. Driving the fire truck? Cars pull over for you, but you still slow right down at red lights and stop signs.

πŸ”’ Buckle up

Every drive starts with the seat belt. The car will not go until you buckle up.

πŸ—ΊοΈ Jobs

Each job sends you somewhere in town. Follow the blue line and stop at the πŸ…ΏοΈ. Do a job to open the next one.

⭐ Stars

⭐ for getting there. ⭐⭐ if you kept every rule. ⭐⭐⭐ if you also kept the drink πŸ₯€ from spilling: no hard stops, and slow round corners.

βœ‹ Oops

Some mistakes stop the job: going through a red light or a stop sign, not waiting for people, or not waiting your turn. You see what happened, then try again. Small mistakes are shown at the end.

🌫️ The grey shade

The shade is where your car's driver cannot see: behind houses and round corners. Cars can come out of the shade, so go slowly where you cannot see.

πŸ“– Sign Book

Every sign you obey goes in your book. Tap a sign there to watch it being obeyed.

πŸ”Š Sound

πŸ”Š at the top turns it off, and it stays off in every other game here too.