tramway shunt

You are the shunter at the tipple. Run a rake of chalked wagons along the incline, lift them into the dead-end sidings and pull them back out until the main line reads the manifest board. Every move can be undone.

Yards cleared: 0/24

Stars stamped: 0/72

Next on the board: 01 · Headland

First trip · +25

Shunting is always free. An ad only starts from a tap on a button badged AD · and never more than one at a time.

yard cleared

Headland

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Moves: 0
Par: 3
Allowance: 7
Best ever: —
Scrip: +9
Wagons: 5

par is the shortest shunt, solved by search

The tipple store

Purse: 0 scrip

Lamp trims only. Nothing on this shelf changes a shunt, a par or a payout. Scrip comes from cleared yards, the first trip, or an optional ad.

How a shunt works

01The main line is a straight run of slots holding one gap and a rake of chalked wagons numbered to the manifest.
02Slide: tap a wagon sitting beside the gap and it rolls into the empty slot. Slides alone never let two wagons pass — only a siding does that.
03Shunt in: press SHUNT at a siding mouth to lift that wagon into the dead-end spur. The spur holds two wagons, newest nearest the mouth.
04Pull out: tap the outer spur wagon to drop it back onto the mouth slot, but only if the mouth is standing empty. Spurs are strictly last-in-first-out.
05While a wagon waits in a spur, others slide past the freed mouth. Drop it back and it lands on the other side — that is how wagons pass on a single line.
06An illegal request — no wagon beside the gap, a full spur, or reaching past a buried wagon — is refused with a reason and costs nothing.
07Read the manifest board: the main line is cleared when it holds the wagons in that chalk order, low slot to high, all spurs empty.
08Every shunt reverses, so a yard never dead-ends. Undo is free and par is the shortest route, found by exhaustive search.

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